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For nearly a century, two dams on the Elwha River blocked the natural flow of sediment and wood, leading to a highly altered river environment...

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News Briefs - featuring coastal and ocean science from across the USGS.

USGS news on tropical storms and hurricanes throughout the 2024 hurricane season.

The Coastal Science Navigator Companion Guide is now available. It highlights 64 USGS coastal change hazards-related products in total. 

The USGS developed a workflow for creating 3D models of the deep seafloor from archived video images. The study, “Photogrammetry of the Deep Seafloor...

Marine ferromanganese crusts and phosphorites can be enriched with valuable minerals, and are therefore targets for seabed mining development. These...

As Hurricane Francine approached the US Gulf of Mexico coast, the USGS Coastal Change Hazards team produced a series of forecasts for impacts on the...