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USGS Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program

We are part of the USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program. Please visit our other science centers at:

  1. St. Petersburg, FL
  2. Menlo Park, CA

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USGS at work

The Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Geology Team is one of three marine teams that conduct research within the USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program. The team is located on WHOI's Quissett Campus. The team has a staff of about 100, including 24 research scientists and 75 scientific and administrative support staff. USGS earth scientists explore and study many aspects of the underwater areas between shorelines and the deep ocean, off the U.S. East Coast, the Gulf of Mexico, and in parts of the Caribbean and Great Lakes.

News

news photo 1 Marine Geophysical Survey of the Virgin Islands Platform Aids in Tsunami-Hazard Assessment A marine geophysical survey to study potential tectonic deformation of the shallow seafloor, or "platform," surrounding the Virgin Islands was conducted by Brian Andrews, Emile Bergeron, Bill Danforth, Uri ten Brink, and Chuck Worley of the USGS Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center. (MORE) news photo 2 Geologic Mapping of Massachusetts Seafloor Includes USGS Summer Intern. Personnel from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, mapped approximately 350 km2 of seafloor in Buzzards Bay and Vineyard Sound off Massachusetts in May and June 2009. (MORE) news photo 3 USGS and American Association of State Geologists Host Workshop on Data-Preservation Techniques In mid-July, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation Program (NGGDPP), in collaboration with the Association of American State Geologists, hosted a workshop on techniques for preserving geoscience data. (MORE)

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GIS information

GIS Map of Boston Harbor
Our interactive map server with displays on various information layers from a number of USGS research programs.

Marine Realms Information Bank

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MRIB is a distributed geolibrary that provides access to information about oceanic and coastal environments.

Geologic Maps of America's Submerged Lands:

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Links to maps of the sea floor, including the digital data, displayed on a map of the U.S. east coast.

Photographs

Photo of Shrimp
A collection of photographs documenting
sea floor characteristics and operations in the field.

Soundwaves

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A monthly newsletter produced by the U.S. Geological Survey.

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