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Learn about recent research on the Florida Keys Reef Tract, an underwater volcanic eruption in the Pacific, seafloor mapping in Cape Cod and beyond in...
Dr. Madelyn Mette will travel to Norway to collect clam shells that can provide records of North Atlantic Current system
Dr. Mette of the St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center will work with partners in Norway to collect shells from clams (Artica islandica) to...
New collaborative project on geochemical boundary fluxes to West Florida Shelf funded by the National Science Foundation
A team of researchers, including Dr. Christopher G. Smith of the U.S. Geological Survey St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, received a...
Coral Reef “Oases”: New Study Provides Clues to Locate Resilient Reef Communities
New models developed by an international team including USGS researchers could predict and explain the locations of resilient coral reef communities...
Drs. Emily Wei and Jennifer Miselis published a manuscript describing the controls of geology, human modifications to the shoreline, and waves on shoreface morphology
SPCMSC Research Geologists Emily Wei and Jennifer Miselis published a new paper titled, “Geologic Framework, Anthropogenic Impacts, and Hydrodynamics...
SPCMSC scientists publish a database of lidar derived topo-bathy cross-shore profiles and characteristics for the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico sandy coastlines
A manuscript describing the generation of this profile database was published along with a USGS data release that includes the latest available...