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Fieldwork - Complete Story Archive Stories in Recent Issues | Complete Story Archive Gulf Coast Impacts of Hurricanes Gustav and Ike Documented by USGS Extreme-Storms Group October 2008 California Sea Otters: Population Recovery Continues at Slower Rate September 2008 Scientists Map Unexplored Arctic Sea Floor September 2008 Tribal Canoes Towing Underwater Probes in the Salish Sea Attract Widespread Interest, Gather Valuable Water-Quality Data September 2008 Cold-Water Corals, Habitats, and Paleoclimate in the Drake Passage, Southern Ocean August 2008 Palos Verdes Shelf Experiment: What Will Happen to the Contaminated Mud? July 2008 Palos Verdes Shelf Experiment: Whatever Can Go Wrong… July 2008 Gravity Coring Offshore Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands to Investigate the Timing of Submarine Landslides and Large Earthquakes July 2008 USGS Will Collaborate with Coast Salish Indigenous Peoples to Measure Water Quality in the Salish Sea (Puget Sound, Strait of Georgia, and Strait of Juan de Fuca) May 2008 Calibrating Proxies for the Study of Holocene Climate Change in the Northern Gulf of Mexico April 2008 Tar Balls from Southern California Seeps Appear on Central California Beaches April 2008 USGS Researchers Participate in Research Cruise Studying Iron Biogeochemistry in the Gulf of Alaska March 2008 Sea-Floor Survey Off Key Largo, Florida, Using Along-Track Reef-Imaging System (ATRIS) March 2008 USGS Researchers Lead International Team Investigating Damage Caused by Offshore Earthquake Near World's Largest Nuclear Power Plant in Japan Jan. / Feb. 2008 USGS Scientists Investigate Coastal Processes Affecting a Restored Tidal Wetland in the San Francisco Presidio Jan. / Feb. 2008 USGS Coral-Reef Investigation Featured in the Molokai Times Jan. / Feb. 2008 Earthquake Swarms in the Puerto Rico Trench Monitored by Ocean-Bottom Seismometers December 2007 Assessing the Resilience of a Vital Barrier-Island Chain—Chandeleur and Breton Islands, Louisiana December 2007 Sea-Floor Mapping in the Gulf of Mexico Aboard the Research Vessel Bellows November 2007 Mapping the Sea Floor Southwest of Santa Rosa Island, California November 2007 USGS Researchers Collaborate with National Park Service Scientists to Understand the Impact of Watershed Erosion on Coral Reefs in War-in-the-Pacific National Historical Park, Guam October 2007 Offshore Mapping Captures Tar Seeps in the Santa Barbara Channel, California September 2007 California Sea Otters—2007 Survey Count Reaches New High September 2007 Investigating Submarine Ground Water on Maryland's Eastern Shore August 2007 New Bathymetric Map of Mona Passage, Northeastern Caribbean, Aids in Earthquake- and Tsunami-Hazard Mitigation May 2007 Surveying Faults and Sediment Outside the Entrance to San Francisco Bay March 2007 Studying Submarine Ground-Water Discharge at Dor Beach, Israel March 2007 Satellites Help Scientists Track Migratory Birds: GPS Latest Tool in Fight Against Avian Influenza Nov. / Dec. 2006 Effects of Urbanization on Nearshore Ecosystems in Puget Sound: Liberty Bay Pilot Study Nov. / Dec. 2006 Studying the Elwha River, Washington, in Preparation for Dam Removal Nov. / Dec. 2006 Massachusetts Sea-Floor Mapping Project Expands to South Shore and Cape Cod Bay Nov. / Dec. 2006 Invasive Sea Squirts Persist on Georges Bank Fishing Grounds October 2006 North to Alaska—an Aerial Shoreline Reconnaissance October 2006 Oil-Spill Exercise Aims for Safe Seas, Protection of National Marine Sanctuaries September 2006 Mapping the Sea Floor Off Santa Barbara, California September 2006 Measuring Hurricane Impact—USGS Scientists Map the Louisiana Coastline August 2006 Studying Submarine Ground-Water Discharge at Santa Barbara, California, and Hood Canal, Washington August 2006 California Sea-Otter Numbers Dip Again in 2006, But Overall Population Trend Remains Up August 2006 USGS Scientists Revisit New Orleans Levee Breaks to Collect High-Accuracy Survey Data May 2006 Impressions of Post-Katrina New Orleans and Mississippi May 2006 USGS Scientists Investigate Surf-Zone Hydrodynamics at San Francisco's Ocean Beach April 2006 Eruption of Augustine Volcano Being Monitored by State-of-the-Art Submarine Seismometers March 2006 USGS and Florida State University Scientists Collaborate on Submarine-Ground-Water-Discharge Study in the Northern Gulf of Mexico March 2006 USGS Sea-Floor Mapping Group Assists Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Searching for Airplane Wreckage March 2006 Monitoring Hurricane Wilma's Storm Surge February 2006 USGS Scientists Investigate New Orleans Levees Broken by Hurricane Katrina Dec. 2005 / Jan. 2006 Post-Katrina Cleanup in Biloxi, Mississippi—a Volunteer's Reflections Dec. 2005 / Jan. 2006 USGS Scientists Examine Offshore Impacts of Hurricane Katrina Dec. 2005 / Jan. 2006 USGS Diving Operations Assist Sediment-Toxicity Studies in Western Long Island Sound Dec. 2005 / Jan. 2006 USGS, State of Massachusetts, and NOAA Cooperate to Map Sea-Floor Geology Off Massachusetts Coast Dec. 2005 / Jan. 2006 Alvin Dives to Deep-Water Coral Habitats off New England Dec. 2005 / Jan. 2006 New Equipment Deployed to Map Sea-Floor Geology in Southern Maine November 2005 Sea Squirt Colonies Persist on Georges Bank—Found Over More Area, Less Abundant at Some Sites November 2005 Measuring Hurricane Impacts—USGS Coastal Hazards Team Is Up to the Challenge October 2005 Sonar Survey of Sea-Floor Habitats Southeast of Santa Barbara, California October 2005 Drilling for Submarine Ground Water at Cape Cod National Seashore October 2005 USGS Center in Lafayette, LA, Provides Aid in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina September 2005 Before-and-After Aerial Photographs Show Coastal Impacts of Hurricane Katrina September 2005 Hydrologic Impacts of Hurricane Dennis on the Florida Panhandle, July 9-14, 2005 September 2005 Along-Track Reef-Imaging System (ATRIS) Used to Survey the Sea Floor in Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida September 2005 Finding the Needle in a Big Haystack—Locating Surf Scoter Nests in the Northern Boreal Forest August 2005 USGS Researchers Lead a Collaborative Effort for Further Investigation of the Deep Coral Reef at Pulley Ridge August 2005 California Sea Otters—2005 Survey Numbers Dip, But Overall Population Trend Remains Positive August 2005 Coral Coring in Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary—a Collaborative Effort July 2005 Joint Spanish-United States Cruise Investigates Tsunami and Earthquake Hazards in the Northeastern Caribbean June 2005 Habitat Mapping to Assess Health of Oyster Fishery in Apalachicola Bay, Florida June 2005 In Search of Submarine Ground-Water Discharge Along the Suwannee River Delta, Florida June 2005 Paleoshorelines and Spawning Groupers—Deep Diving at the Shelf Edge, Northeastern Gulf of Mexico May 2005 Second Tsunami Causes Damage in Indonesia—USGS Scientists Post Observations on the World Wide Web April 2005 Why Wasn't There a Larger Tsunami from the Magnitude 8.7 March 28, 2005, Sumatra Earthquake? April 2005 Assessing Tsunami Impacts in the Republic of Maldives April 2005 Astonishing Wave Heights Among the Findings of an International Tsunami Survey Team on Sumatra March 2005 USGS Flood-Response Teams Documented Effects of Hurricane Charley in Southwest-Central Florida in August 2004 March 2005 USGS Geologist Invited to Map Tsunami Impacts in the Maldives March 2005 Mapping Oyster Beds in Apalachicola Bay, FL March 2005 USGS Research Vessel G.K. Gilbert Helps Secure Super Bowl XXXIX March 2005 USGS Scientists Study Sediment Deposited by 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami February 2005 Mapping the Sea Floor on the San Pedro Shelf, Southern California February 2005 Indian Ocean Earthquake Triggers Deadly Tsunami Dec. 2004 / Jan. 2005 Could It Happen Here? Tsunamis That Have Struck U.S. Coastlines Dec. 2004 / Jan. 2005 Deltaic Habitats in Puget Sound—Natural Versus Human-Related Change Dec. 2004 / Jan. 2005 Invasive Sea Squirt Alive and Well on Georges Bank Dec. 2004 / Jan. 2005 Ripples for Everyone!—Investigating How Sediment Moves on the Sea Floor Dec. 2004 / Jan. 2005 Sediment Impacts on Reef Corals in Maui, Hawai'i November 2004 Putting Radon to Work: Identifying Coastal Ground-Water Discharge Sites November 2004 Mapping Benthic Habitat Around Oil Platforms in the Santa Barbara Channel, California November 2004 USGS Scientists Gather Images and Information About Recent Hurricanes October 2004 Drilling Monitoring Wells in Dry Tortugas National Park—Fahrenheit 100, Blue Sky, Blue Water, Crumbling Bricks, and Here Comes Hurricane Charley October 2004 Persistence of Coral Reefs Under Extreme Environmental Stress in American Samoa October 2004 USGS Dive Team Completes Installation and Recovery of Samplers in Ashumet Pond, Falmouth, MA October 2004 Eelgrass in Puget Sound—A New Study of Flow, Sediment Transport, and Zostera marina September 2004 Microbial Ecology of Deepwater Corals in the Aleutian Islands September 2004 Hyperspectral Data Analysis for Mapping Coastal Landslide Hazards Along the Big Sur Coast September 2004 Ground-Truthing Sea-Floor Data with the New Mini SEABOSS—Mapping the South Essex Ocean Sanctuary August 2004 USGS and WHOI Investigate Gas-Hydrate Mounds on the Gulf of Mexico Sea Floor August 2004 California Margin's Ancient Volcanic History—MBARI Cruise to California Seamounts August 2004 Exciting New Discoveries in Submarine Hydrothermal Systems, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands July 2004 USGS Woods Hole Dive Team Deploys Samplers for Study of a Phosphorus Plume July 2004 California Sea-Otter Numbers Climb for Second Consecutive Year July 2004 Researchers Study Benthic Habitats in Glacier Bay, Alaska June 2004 Integrated Science Team Deploys New Tools to Study Submarine Ground Water in North Carolina June 2004 Coastal Landforms and Historical Shoreline Change on the West Coast of Hawai'i May 2004 Microbial Life in Perennially Ice Covered Lakes in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica April 2004 Looking for a Needle in a Haystack—Search for Missing Instruments Yields Valuable New Data March 2004 Studying Submarine Ground Water in Rhode Island Under Arctic Conditions March 2004 USGS Instruments Record Turbidity Flows in Monterey Canyon, California February 2004 Mapping National Parks on the Big Island of Hawai'i February 2004 Geologists and Biologists Endeavor to Understand Seamount Environments Off California Dec. 2003 / Jan. 2004 Investigating Sediment Transport Off South CarolinaÑPart of the South Carolina Coastal Erosion Study Dec. 2003 / Jan. 2004 High-Resolution Geologic Mapping of the Shallow Sea Floor off Massachusetts Dec. 2003 / Jan. 2004 USGS Scientists Discover Gas Hydrate in Southern California During Cruise to Study Offshore Landslides, Earthquake Hazards, and Pollution November 2003 Life in the Deep Gulf of Mexico—Exploring Deep-Water-Coral Habitats November 2003 Before and After Surveys Document the Impacts of Hurricane Isabel November 2003 Mapping of the Puerto Rico Trench, the Deepest Part of the Atlantic, is Nearing Completion October 2003 Studying Underwater Water in the Land of Misty—Chincoteague Bay, Maryland October 2003 Imaging Remnants of Ancient Landscapes Beneath South Carolina Beaches September 2003 New USGS Drifters Track Hawai'i Coral Larvae September 2003 Quantifying Suspended Sediment in Hawaiian Waters With Digital Aerial Imaging September 2003 Testing High-Resolution Profiling Instruments for Studying Sediment Movement Near the Sea Floor September 2003 West Maui Coastal Circulation Experiment: Understanding the Movement of Sediment, Coral Larvae, and Contaminants Along Coral Reefs August 2003 The Flood of June 2003 in Southwest Central Florida August 2003 USGS Scientists Use the SeaBOSS to Explore What Could Be the Deepest Coral Reef in the Continental United States July 2003 Gas Hydrate in the Northern Gulf of Mexico Has Puzzling Characteristics and Could Pose a Hazard to Deep Drilling July 2003 California Sea Otter Numbers Are Up for the 2003 Census July 2003 Multipronged Scientific Assault on North Carolina's Outer Banks June 2003 Using the SeaBED AUV for Geologic and Benthic-Habitat Studies of the Sea Floor May 2003 Integrated Science in the Suwannee River Estuary May 2003 Voyage to Recover and Redeploy Instruments in the Adriatic Sea—the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly April 2003 USGS Researchers Collaborate with National Park Service Archeologists to Better Predict the Life Expectancy of the USS Arizona Dec. 2002 / Jan. 2003 USGS Participates in Sediment-Transport Cruise in the Adriatic Sea Dec. 2002 / Jan. 2003 Sea-Floor Mapping Goes Inland, to Bear Lake in Utah and Idaho Dec. 2002 / Jan. 2003 Lidar Mapping of Vegetation at Assateague Island National Seashore—a First Look Dec. 2002 / Jan. 2003 Field-Testing the New USGS Portable Auger Drilling System (PADS) in Louisiana and South Carolina Dec. 2002 / Jan. 2003 Seagrass Restoration in Tampa Bay November 2002 Scientists Track Pintail-Duck Migration to Learn More About the Species' Population Decline November 2002 Remote Sensing of Coral Reefs: Testing the Waters at Biscayne National Park November 2002 USGS, University of New Hampshire, and NOAA Cooperate in Exploring the Puerto Rico Trench November 2002 Gas Hydrate Studied in the Northern Gulf of Mexico September 2002 Research Vessel Marion Dufresne Cores Tampa Bay, Florida September 2002 Recent Cruise Completed for the North Carolina Regional Coastal Erosion Study September 2002 On the Road to Recovery—the Endangered White Abalone (Haliotis sorenseni) off Southern California September 2002 Radios Lead Researchers to Nests of Elusive Marbled Murrelets September 2002 Survey of Offshore Hazards in Southern California August 2002 U.S. and Canadian Scientists Map Georges Bank Geology and Habitats August 2002 California Sea Otter Numbers Slide for Second Straight Year July 2002 Coring to Study Sediment Dispersal in Lake Mead, Nevada July 2002 Sediment Study to Improve Salmon and Trout Habitat in Northern California Reservoir July 2002 Mapping Sediment Distribution and Thickness in Lake Mohave June 2002 Joint USGS/NOAA Cruise Samples Contaminants near San Francisco May 2002 Ground-Truthing Coral-Reef Maps Produced from Remote-Sensing Data May 2002 Gas-Hydrate Research Wells Completed in the Canadian Arctic April 2002 Recent Flood-Derived Sediment Collected on Moloka'i's Coral Reef April 2002 Caribbean Coral-Reef Ecologist Studies Dust from the African Sahel March 2002 There's Room for Shorebirds, Too February 2002 Geophysical Survey of the Northwest Australian Margin February 2002 USAID/USGS/Honduras Hurricane Mitch Program: Coral Reef Health in the Bay Islands of Honduras Dec. 2001 / Jan. 2002 Fluvial Discharge of Black Carbon and Its Role in the Global Carbon Cycle Dec. 2001 / Jan. 2002 Seismic Surveys in Canals of Miami Dec. 2001 / Jan. 2002 Woods Hole Field Center Diving Team Completes Deployments for Water Investigations Dec. 2001 / Jan. 2002 Geophysical Survey of Hawaiian Coral Reefs November 2001 Sediment Study in Bonneville Reservoir on the Columbia River November 2001 USGS Collaboration with the NPS: Mapping Coastal Vulnerability to Future Sea-Level Rise within the National Parks October 2001 Dust Collecting in the Caribbean October 2001 Pinellas County Beach Study: Measuring the "Health" of Florida Beaches October 2001 SHOALS Mapping of Northern Lake Michigan Trout-Spawning Reefs October 2001 Monitoring the Coral Reef Off Moloka'i, Hawai'i September 2001 North Carolina Coastal Sedimentary System Cruises September 2001 Beginning the Search for Offshore Oil Seeps Near Point Conception, California September 2001 USGS Scientists Team Up with National Geographic's Sustainable Seas Expedition to Explore Deep Reefs at Pulley Ridge August 2001 Mapping Southern Puget Sound Delta Fronts After the 2001 Nisqually Earthquake July 2001 Core Drilling in Biscayne National Park July 2001 Spring Multibeam Cruise in Glacier Bay Provides Spectacular Images July 2001 Successful Deployment of Tripods and Moorings Off Southern California, Or "Ten Fingers, Ten Toes, and a Clear Deck at the End of the Day . . ." July 2001 The Great Blue Hole of Belize June 2001 CMG Joins National Marine Fisheries Service in Channel Islands Cruise June 2001 Lake Mead Mapping Completed June 2001 The Ecology of Oil Seeps in Central California May 2001 NASA EAARL Lidar Test at Wallops Flight Facility April 2001 Natural (Background) Hydrocarbon Contamination in Gulf of Alaska Sediments March 2001 Ubiquitous Coastal-Tar Residues on Santa Rosa Island, Offshore Southern California Dec. 2000 / Jan. 2001 Groundwater Discharge to Delmarva Coastal Bays: CMG, WRD, and Surface Processes Hoverprobe Team Conduct First Open-Water Surveys November 2000 Red Grouper Habitats in Florida Bay October 2000 USGS Divers at Turners Falls October 2000 Long Island Sound Environmental Synthesis October 2000 USGS Assists in Recovery of the Civil War Submarine H.L. Hunley September 2000 CMG Maps Bottom of Crater Lake, Oregon September 2000 CMG Scientist Observes, Assists Biologists Studying Nearshore Habitat in Lake Erie September 2000 Continued Benthic-Habitat Mapping and Submersible Dives in the Channel Islands September 2000 Most Detailed Map to Date of the Pinnacles Area—A Deep-Reef Fish Habitat in the Northern Gulf of Mexico September 2000 Gulf of Maine Study September 2000 USGS Collaborates with Biscayne National Park on Coral-Reef Research August 2000 Santa Monica Bay Instruments Recovered August 2000 Salvage for Science August 2000 Joint USGS-Monterey Bay Aquarium Cruise August 2000 WHFC Cooperative Dives in Snake Pond July 2000 Streamer-Resistivity Surveys in Delaware Inland Bays Delineate Submarine Fresh Water July 2000 Update on Barataria Barrier-Shoreline Feasibility Study July 2000 OBS Recovery off Puerto Rico July 2000 Seismic and Sidescan Sonar Survey in Lake Mead, Nevada July 2000 Puerto Rico OBS Study June 2000 Shelf-Edge Habitats in the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico—Multi-Agency, Interdisciplinary Field Work June 2000 ROV Groundtruthing, Northern Channel Islands, California June 2000 New York Bight Field Experiment: Recovery Cruise May 2000 Update on Coral-Reef Research in Honduras May 2000 Biologic Monitoring Sites Enhance Hawai'i Coral Reef Studies April 2000 Cruise News from the R/V G.K. Gilbert April 2000 Chesapeake Bay Cruise April 2000 CMG Coral Reef Studies Featured in Moloka'i's Newspaper March 2000 Moloka'i Reef Study—Part 2 March 2000 Massachusetts Bay Cruise March 2000 Tripods Deployed for Studies of Sediment and Pollutant Transport off Southern California, or CMG Scientists Loan More Gear to Neptune February 2000 CMG Scientists Study Blast-Induced Liquefaction of Artificial Fill in San Francisco Bay and Determine Soil-Density Changes with Ground-Penetrating Radar February 2000 Moorings Deployed in the Hudson Shelf Valley, Offshore New York January 2000 Marine Geologic Mapping of Nearshore Region off Myrtle Beach, South Carolina December 1999 Joint USGS/Wesleyan University Long Island Sound Cruise December 1999 Coral Reef Studies on Moloka'i: a Progress Report December 1999 Inner-Shelf-Mapping Cruise off Northern North Carolina Outer Banks December 1999 Sidescan-Sonar Study of Benthic Habitat off Southern California December 1999 USGS Heads to Lake Tanganyika to Study Delivery of River-Borne Contaminants November 1999 USGS Evaluates and Establishes Monitoring Station at Cayos Cochinos, Honduras November 1999 Sedimentologic Engineering in Grand Canyon November 1999 Ground-Penetrating Radar Examines Sand Bars in Grand Canyon November 1999 R/V Fast Eddy on Medicine Lake November 1999 SWASH Project Prepares for Winter Storms November 1999 Third Quarter Cruise News: R/V G.K. Gilbert November 1999 Busy Hurricane Season for Coastal & Marine's Extreme Storm Impact Project October 1999 CMG Multibeam Map Guides Sustainable Seas Exploration in Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary October 1999 Seeing the Bottom Provides a New Perspective and Complements Multibeam Surveys September 1999 Bathymetric Data from Waverunners September 1999 Sediment Sampling Off Southern California August 1999 Southern California Earthquake Hazards August 1999 Marion Dufresne Coring in Chesapeake Bay August 1999 Woods Hole Field Center-NMFS Second Joint Benthic Habitat Cruise on Georges Bank August 1999 Biohabitat Studies in Glacier Bay National Park August 1999 Woods Hole Dive Team Deploys Samplers for WRD Plume Study August 1999 Woods Hole Staff Deploys Ocean Bottom Seismometers (OBS) off Los Angeles August 1999 Sediment Transport Research and Sidescan-Sonar Surveying in the Grand Canyon July 1999 Gulf of Mexico Cruise July 1999 USGS-NMFS Benthic Habitat Cruise to Closed Area on Georges Bank July 1999 News from the Channel Islands July 1999 Lake Mead: UNLV Cooperative Cruise July 1999 Second Quarter Cuise News: R/V G.K. Gilbert July 1999 Great Bahama Bank, R/V Quest July 1999 Navassa Island Field Trip June 1999 First Quarter Cruise News: R/V G.K. Gilbert June 1999 Florida Wetlands Project Work June 1999 Recent Activities in the Western Region Benthic Habitat Project: Cruising Above and Below the Surface May 1999 Spectrolaserwizardry May 1999 USGS Looks at Moloka'i's Coral Reefs May 1999 1999 GLOBEC/George's Bank Mooring Deployment Cruise: A Photo Essay May 1999 Geophysical Studies of Lake Titicaca Provide Paleoclimate Insights March 1999 Massachusetts Bay Cruise March 1999 Cruise News: R/V David Johnson March 1999 Cruise News: R/V G.K. Gilbert February 1999 First Shear Strength Measurements on Gas Hydrate Cemented Sediments Are Part of Preliminary Results of Tests on Gas Hydrate Cores from the Mackenzie Delta, NWT, Canada January 1999 Deep-Water Moorings Successfully Recovered January 1999 Coastal SWATH Does Well in Tests January 1999 Great South Channel and Cape Cod National Seashore Imagery January 1999 Stories in Recent Issues | Complete Story Archive

Monthly Newsletter Mailing List: Sign up to receive monthly email updates: Recent Highlights: Coastal Impacts of Hurricanes Gustav and Ike October 2008   Sea Otter Population Recovery Continues at Slower Rate September 2008   Corals, Habitats, and Paleoclimate in the Drake Passage August 2008   Palos Verdes Shelf Experiment: Contaminated Mud July 2008   Water Quality in the Salish Sea May 2008   Calibrating Proxies for Holocene Climate Study April 2008   Iron Biogeochemistry in the Gulf of Alaska March 2008   Earthquake Damage Near Nuclear Power Plant Jan. / Feb. 2008   Ocean-Bottom Seismometers Monitor Earthquake Swarms December 2007   Sea-Floor Mapping in the Gulf of Mexico November 2007   Effects of Watershed Erosion on Coral Reefs in Guam October 2007   Tar Seeps in the Santa Barbara Channel September 2007   Submarine Ground Water on Maryland's Eastern Shore Outreach August 2007   New Bathymetric Map of Mona Passage May 2007   Surveying Faults and Sediment Outside San Francisco Bay March 2007   Satellites Help Scientists Track Migratory Birds Nov. / Dec. 2006   Invasive Sea Squirts Persist on Georges Bank October 2006   Aerial Shoreline Reconnaissance of Alaska's North Slope October 2006   Oil Spill Response Exercise September 2006   Measuring Hurricane Impact Along the Louisiana Coastline August 2006   Scientists Revisit New Orleans Levee Breaks May 2006   Surf-Zone Hydrodynamics at Ocean Beach April 2006   Monitoring Eruption of Augustine Volcano March 2006   Monitoring Hurricane Wilma's Storm Surge February 2006   USGS Scientists Investigate New Orleans Levees Dec. 2005 / Jan. 2006   New Equipment Deployed to Map Sea-Floor Geology Novmeber 2005   Sea Squirt Colonies Persist on Georges Bank Novmeber 2005   Measuring Hurricane Impacts October 2005   USGS Provides Aid in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina September 2005   Coastal Impacts of Hurricane Katrina September 2005   Locating Surf Scooter Nests in the Northern Boreal Forest August 2005   Coral Coring in Flower Garden Banks NMS July 2005   Northeastern Caribbean Tsunami and Earthquake Hazards June 2005   Deep Diving at the Shelf Edge May 2005   Second Tsunami Causes Damage in Indonesia April 2005   Tsunami Survey Finds Evidence of Astonishing Wave Heights March 2005   Tsunami Deposits February 2005   Indian Ocean Tsunami Dec. 2004 / Jan. 2005   Sediment Impacts on Reef Corals November 2004   Images and Information About Recent Hurricanes October 2004   Eelgrass in Puget Sound September 2004   Mapping the South Essex Ocean Sanctuary August 2004   Marianas Submarine Hydrothermal Systems July 2004   Sea-Otter Numbers at Record High July 2004   Benthic Habitats in Glacier Bay June 2004   Geologic Resources of Hawai'i May 2004   Microbial Life in Antarctic Lakes April 2004   Search for Instruments Yields New Data March 2004   Submarine Ground Water in Rhode Island March 2004   Turbidity Flows Recorded in Monterey Canyon February 2004   Mapping Hawaiian National Parks February 2004   Sediment Transport off South Carolina Dec. 2003 / Jan. 2004   Impacts of Hurricane Isabel November 2003   Ancient Landscapes Beneath South Carolina Beaches September 2003   West Maui Coastal Circulation Experiment August 2003   Scientists Explore What Could Be the Deepest Coral Reef in the Continental United States July 2003   California Sea Otter Numbers Are Up for the 2003 Census July 2003   North Carolina's Outer Banks June 2003   Autonomous Vehicle Studies the Sea Floor May 2003   Adriatic Sea Instrument Redeployment April 2003   Monitoring USS Arizona Dec. 2002 / Jan. 2003   Seagrass Restoration in Tampa Bay November 2002   Gulf of Mexico Gas Hydrate September 2002   Southern California Offshore Hazards August 2002   California Sea Otter Numbers Slide for Second Straight Year July 2002   Contaminants Cruise off San Francisco May 2002   Canadian Arctic Gas-Hydrate Wells April 2002   Protecting Shorebirds in Santa Barbara February 2002   Coral Reef Health in Honduras Dec. 2001 / Jan. 2002

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