Global Marine Mineral Resources
Providing stakeholders with best available science regarding potential resources and environmental impacts associated with accessing those resources
Providing stakeholders with best available science regarding potential resources and environmental impacts associated with accessing those resources
Major Update to Satellite-Based Datasets Used to Assess Salt Marsh Vulnerability Nationwide
Seafloor Seismographs Rapidly Deployed Following Major Earthquake Offshore Northern California
Coral reef restoration
Cost-benefit study confirms coral reef restoration could be a cost-effective way to save lives and money
Cost-benefit study confirms coral reef restoration could be a cost-effective way to save lives and money
Ocean
USGS science improves our understanding of ocean processes, marine resources and submarine geohazards.
USGS science improves our understanding of ocean processes, marine resources and submarine geohazards.
Coasts
USGS provides critical science that informs risk reduction, protecting people, businesses, infrastructure, and resources along our coastlines, where 40% of our population lives.
USGS provides critical science that informs risk reduction, protecting people, businesses, infrastructure, and resources along our coastlines, where 40% of our population lives.
Meet the Coastal Science Navigator
Learn more about this new product to help you find useful USGS coastal data and tools
Learn more about this new product to help you find useful USGS coastal data and tools
Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program
Scientists and staff study coastal and ocean processes, from shorelines to the deep sea, to identify hazards and provide critical information on our nation's resources. This work supports preparedness, emergency response, and the protection of people and resources in coastal and ocean environments.
Sound Waves Newsletter
Sound Waves Newsletter
Coastal and marine news from across the U.S. Geological Survey
News
Get Ready to Explore the Deep Sea: SEABOSS 3.0 is Coming
Get Ready to Explore the Deep Sea: SEABOSS 3.0 is Coming
SPCMSC Team surveys Madeira Beach
SPCMSC Team surveys Madeira Beach
Characterizing Organic Carbon Cycling at a Seafloor Spreading Center
Characterizing Organic Carbon Cycling at a Seafloor Spreading Center
Publications
Model sensitivity analysis for coastal morphodynamics: Investigating sediment parameters and bed composition in Delft3D
Numerical simulation of sediment transport and subsequent morphological evolution rely on accurate parameterizations of sediment characteristics. However, these data are often not available or are spatially and/or temporally limited. This study approaches the problem of limited sediment grain-size data with a series of simulations assessing model sensitivity to sediment parameters and...
Vortex trapping of suspended sand grains over ripples
Coastal hydrodynamics and morphodynamics integrate the effects of small-scale fluid-sediment interactions; yet, these small-scale processes are not well understood. To investigate sediment trapping by turbulent coherent structures or vortices, the transport of coarse sand over ripples was analyzed in a small-oscillatory flow tunnel with phase-separated Particle Image and Tracking...
Science
APPROACH (APplying Proxy-based Reconstruction Of Atlantic Climate CHange)
USGS scientists use marine geological archives to investigate how ocean temperature, salinity and circulation patterns changed over the past few centuries to millennia. This is done by analyzing the geochemical and physical clues about past environments that are preserved in fossil coral skeletons, clam shells, foraminifera and marine sediments.
Information Sheet: Marine Mineral Resources and USGS Studies
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) provides science and data on offshore mineral resources and ecosystems, as well as any potential hazards associated with extraction. Society relies on minerals for infrastructure, technology, manufacturing, and energy production; critical minerals are essential to the economic or national security of the United States and have a supply chain vulnerable to...
Cultural Heritage at Risk Tool (CHART) Project
Coastal erosion threatens the loss of Native American cultural heritage and archaeological sites located along our coastlines, reducing opportunities to increase knowledge of past communities and environments. This project leverages an advisory team of ancestral Tribes, coastal managers, and archaeologists to strengthen the effectiveness of coastal hazard data, focusing on assessing the...
