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USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center geologists Bruce Richmond and Ann Gibbs flew hundreds of kilometers along Alaska's Arctic Ocean coast...

Landslides are common along the rugged Big Sur coast in central California

Sand on the seafloor is rarely flat, particularly close to the shore. Currents and waves interact with bed sediment to produce bedforms: ripples...

Researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center recently conducted two cruises aboard research vessel Pel...

Jodi Eshleman has recently joined the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)'s Western Coastal and Marine Geology Team as an oceanographer who will be working...

Meadows of eelgrass (Zostera marina) provide essential habitat to a wide range of fish and wildlife in the nearshore parts of Puget Sound, Washington...

List of recent USGS publications and data releases based on coastal and marine research.

The American Geophysical Union (AGU) Chapman Conference on "Salt Marsh Geomorphology: Physical and Ecological Effects on Landform" will be held in...

“Mentoring provides a unique opportunity to change lives—a child's and your own. I encourage everyone to mentor. In this complex world, it is a simple...