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Shoemaker Awards for “From Icefield to Ocean” and the Coastal and Marine Geology Program Web Site
The Eugene M. Shoemaker Award for Communications Excellence recognizes USGS products that demonstrate extraordinary effectiveness in communicating and...
Learn how USGS mapping solved a 50-year-old mystery, how coastal scientists study El Niño, the science behind an award winning interagency team, new...
USGS Educates K-12 Students, Public at Fifth Annual St. Petersburg Science Festival
More than 10,000 attendees visited the festival, held October 16–17, 2015, at Poynter Park, adjacent to the University of South Florida St. Petersburg...