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USGS Scientists Participate in Gulf of Mexico Habitat Monitoring and Mapping User Workshop and Mapping Summit

USGS Scientists Participate in Gulf of Mexico Habitat Monitoring and Mapping User Workshop and Mapping Summit

USGS Scientists will participate in the Gulf of Mexico Habitat Monitoring and Mapping User Workshop and Mapping Summit at the NOAA Disaster Response...

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New Coral Reef Study to Begin at Buck Island National Monument

New Coral Reef Study to Begin at Buck Island National Monument

Research Marine Biologist Ilsa Kuffner, Research Oceanographer Lauren Toth, and Oceanographer Anastasios Stathakopoulos, will travel to Buck Island...

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USGS Researcher Invited to Brief Representative Ben Diamond

USGS Researcher Invited to Brief Representative Ben Diamond

Cheryl Hapke will meet with Florida State Representative Ben Diamond on Friday, March 30, in his District office in St. Petersburg to brief him on the...

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CMGP Lidar Coordinator selected to serve as USGS Federal Point of Contact/Coordinator for 3D Nation Elevation Requirements and Benefits Study

CMGP Lidar Coordinator selected to serve as USGS Federal Point of Contact/Coordinator for 3D Nation Elevation Requirements and Benefits Study

Xan Fredericks, Lidar Coordinator for the Coastal and Marine Geology Program and Chair of the USGS Lidar Points of Contact Working Group, was selected...

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USGS Scientist Attends Oceanology International as part of Xprize Delegation

USGS Scientist Attends Oceanology International as part of Xprize Delegation

Christina Kellogg (SPCMSC Research Microbiologist) will attend Oceanology International in London, England, March 13–15, in her capacity as a judge...

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New Study Links Salinity Changes in the Gulf of Mexico to Changes in Rainfall Patterns in the Western Hemisphere

New Study Links Salinity Changes in the Gulf of Mexico to Changes in Rainfall Patterns in the Western Hemisphere

The project is part of a collaborative effort to better understand how sea surface temperature and salinity have varied over the Holocene, or the past...

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Recent Coastal and Marine Fieldwork - February 2018

Recent Coastal and Marine Fieldwork - February 2018

In January and February 2018, USGS scientists visited more than 15 coastal and offshore locations studying mineral crusts, a subduction zone trench...

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The USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Data Catalog

The USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Data Catalog

The USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Data Catalog makes research data easier to find by offering a preselected collection of metadata (“data about data...

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Researchers from USGS attended the 2018 Ocean Sciences Meeting

Researchers from USGS attended the 2018 Ocean Sciences Meeting

Scientists from St. Petersburg presented a broad array of research subjects.

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USGS scientist travels to Pacific Panama to complete study on the impacts of climatic and oceanographic variability on coral reefs

USGS scientist travels to Pacific Panama to complete study on the impacts of climatic and oceanographic variability on coral reefs

Research Oceanographer Lauren Toth will travel to Pacific Panama from February 26th–March 15th to collect data on the growth, erosion, and...

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Recent Coastal and Marine Fieldwork - January 2018

Recent Coastal and Marine Fieldwork - January 2018

Last month USGS scientists visited more than 15 coastal and offshore locations studying tsunami deposits, shoreline change, a giant coastal landslide...

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