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USGS Scientists Investigate Coastal Processes Affecting a Restored Tidal Wetland in the San Francisco Presidio
Back in 1915, a 127-acre tidal marsh amidst a dune field at the north end of San Francisco was filled in to make room for the Panama-Pacific...
January 2008 from Sound Waves - Fieldwork USGS Emeritus Scientist Leads Field Trip to Ancient Submarine-Canyon Fill on Central California Coast
Glorious fall weather and a striking coastal setting added to participants' enjoyment of a daylong field trip to exposures of submarine-canyon fill...
December 2007 from Sound Waves - Meetings Arc Marine: GIS for a Blue PlanetŃCase Studies in New Book Include USGS Sea-Floor Data
Data from two U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) coastal sea-floor mapping projects are showcased in Arc Marine: GIS for a Blue Planet, a new reference...
December 2007 from Sound Waves - Publications Mercury Contamination in Waterbirds Breeding in San Francisco Bay
References to the neurological effects of mercury exposure date back several centuries. In the 1800s, when mercury was a common ingredient used in...
October 2007 from Sound Waves - Research California Sea Otters - 2007 Survey Count Reaches New High
Observers led by scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) counted a total of 3,026 California sea otters during the 2007 spring survey...
September 2007 from Sound Waves - Fieldwork Upcoming! A Tale of Two Kelp Forests - USGS Will Observe Sea Otter Awareness Week with a Public Lecture on September 27 in Menlo Park, California
Schools, museums, aquariums, zoos, and other organizations along the west coast will celebrate Sea Otter Awareness Week from September 23 to 29, 2007...
September 2007 from Sound Waves - Outreach USGS Researchers and Academic Collaborator Win Best Paper Award at International Conference on Landslides and Climate Change
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientist and Mendenhall Postdoctoral Research Fellow Brian Collins received the Best Paper Award at the International...
August 2007 from Sound Waves - Awards Piedmont College Students Introduced to USGS Studies in the San Francisco Bay Region
A field trip to coastal cliffs and marine terraces, a demonstration of state-of-the-art laser scanning used for topographic surveys, and a video and...
July 2007 from Sound Waves - Outreach USGS Analyzes 70 Years of Coastal Cliff Retreat in California
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) recently published a report analyzing coastal cliff retreat along more than 350 km of the California coast over a...
July 2007 from Sound Waves - Publications USGS Current Drifter Ends Decades-Long Journey on Beach in San Pablo Bay
A decades-old U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) current drifter was recently found by a 5-year-old boy on the shore of San Pablo Bay, California...
June 2007 from Sound Waves - Outreach Tar Balls Washed Onto Central California Beaches by Storms
In February 2007, unusually large numbers of mystery tar balls washed up on beaches in central California, from Monterey Bay north to Half Moon Bay...
May 2007 from Sound Waves - Research Surveying Faults and Sediment Outside the Entrance to San Francisco Bay
A small group of U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) personnel from the Western Coastal and Marine Geology Team ventured out of San Francisco Bay's Golden...
March 2007 from Sound Waves - Fieldwork Giant Underwater Sand Waves Seaward of the Golden Gate Bridge
A field of giant underwater sand waves was mapped at high resolution for the first time just west of the Golden Gate Bridge in a cooperative effort...
September 2006 from Sound Waves - Research Oil-Spill Exercise Aims for Safe Seas, Protection of National Marine Sanctuaries
What would happen if a cargo ship sailing toward San Francisco collided with a tug towing a tank barge southwest of the Golden Gate? Representatives...
September 2006 from Sound Waves - Fieldwork California Sea-Otter Numbers Dip Again in 2006, But Overall Population Trend Remains Up
Observers tallied a total of 2,692 California sea otters for the 2006 spring survey, led by scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The 2006...
August 2006 from Sound Waves - Fieldwork Coastal and Marine Exhibits Are Wet and Wild at USGS Open House in Menlo Park, California
Coastal and marine exhibitors made a splash - many splashes, in fact - at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)'s 8th triennial Open House in Menlo Park...
July 2006 from Sound Waves - Outreach Scientists Recreate Ground Shaking from the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
On March 28, 2006, scientists unveiled results from the most comprehensive study to date of how hard and how long the ground shook in the 1906 San...
April 2006 from Sound Waves - Research USGS Scientists Investigate Surf-Zone Hydrodynamics at San Francisco's Ocean Beach
Researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)'s Pacific Science Center in Santa Cruz, Calif., recently conducted a study of surf-zone...
April 2006 from Sound Waves - Fieldwork Abalones May Owe Their Huge Size to Sea Otters
Abalone divers, who typically despise the California sea otter because of its voracious appetite for the largest and tastiest of the shellfish, may...
February 2006 from Sound Waves - Research Google Maps View of Western Coastal and Marine Geology Projects
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)'s Western Coastal and Marine Geology (WCMG) team announces a new portal to its current projects, using a Google...
January 2006 from Sound Waves - Outreach California Sea Otters - 2005 Survey Numbers Dip, But Overall Population Trend Remains Positive
Observers tallied a total of 2,735 California sea otters during the 2005 spring survey, led by scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The 20...
August 2005 from Sound Waves - Fieldwork Fish Habitat a Common Theme at USGS-NOAA Symposium in Santa Cruz, CA
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientists at neighboring facilities in Santa Cruz, CA, met...
August 2005 from Sound Waves - Meetings California Sea-Otter Numbers Climb for Second Consecutive Year
Observers tallied a record-high total of 2,825 California sea otters for the 2004 spring survey led by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The 2004...
July 2004 from Sound Waves - Fieldwork Looking for a Needle in a Haystack - Search for Missing Instruments Yields Valuable New Data
A search for U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) instruments missing in Monterey Canyon failed to recover the instruments but gathered valuable new data...
March 2004 from Sound Waves - Fieldwork USGS Instruments Record Turbidity Flows in Monterey Canyon, California
Monterey Canyon is known for its intermittent and dramatic downcanyon turbidity flows, or underwater avalanches of sediment and...
February 2004 from Sound Waves - Fieldwork Geologists and Biologists Endeavor to Understand Seamount Environments Off California
An interdisciplinary-research cruise conducted by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) under the direction of MBARI volcanologist...
January 2004 from Sound Waves - Fieldwork Collapsing Populations of Marine Mammals - the North Pacific's Whaling Legacy?
The rapid removal of at least half a million great whales from the North Pacific Ocean by intensive industrial whaling more than 50 years ago may...
October 2003 from Sound Waves - Research California Sea Otter Numbers Are Up for the 2003 Census
Counters tallied a total of 2,505 California sea otters in 2003, 17 percent more than the total of 2,139 sea otters in 2002, according to a survey...
July 2003 from Sound Waves - Fieldwork California Sea Otter Numbers Slide for Second Straight Year
Equipped with binoculars and spotting scopes, scientists and skilled volunteers paired up onshore for this year's spring survey of California sea...
July 2002 from Sound Waves - Fieldwork What's Wrong with the California Sea Otter?
Some of the most important insights about wildlife populations come from retrospective analyses of data and records that accumulate over years...
February 2002 from Sound Waves - Research New Publication Depicts Seafloor Rocks and Sediments of the Continental Shelf, Monterey Bay Area
The continental shelf of the greater Monterey Bay area between Point A–o Nuevo and Point Sur exposes complex patterns of Mesozoic and Cenozoic rock...
February 2001 from Sound Waves - Research Joint USGS-Monterey Bay Aquarium Cruise
A most successful joint cruise between the USGS and Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), funded by the Department of Energy, was...
August 2000 from Sound Waves - Fieldwork
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