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Recent Coastal and Marine Fieldwork - June-July 2017
USGS scientists visited more than 26 locations in the last two months, studying the ocean floor near landslides, collecting coral cores to study land...
Seafloor Erosion in Coral Reef Ecosystems Leaves Coastal Communities at Risk
A new USGS study of changing sea depths at five large coral reef tracts in Florida, the Caribbean, and Hawai'i, found the seafloor is eroding in all...
A number of Coastal and Marine Geology researchers have completed the Unmanned Aerial Systems certification classes held by the Department of Interior...
Sea Floor Erosion in Coral Reef Ecosystems Leaves Coastal Communities at Risk
In the first ecosystem-wide study of changing sea depths at five large coral reef tracts in Florida, the Caribbean and Hawai’i, U.S. Geological Survey...