USGS Science Center for Coastal and Marine Geology

Located in Woods Hole, MA

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.

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Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and Natural Resources Canada (NRC) are mapping the sea floor in the Arctic Ocean, one of the least explored ocean regions. This research will shed light on the Arctic's geologic history and help define the limits of the U.S. and Canadian extended continental shelf (MORE)

A small group of students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)'s Summer Research Program (MSRP) visited the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, to get a virtual tour with the GeoWall, a stereo-projection system used to illustrate spatial data sets in 3-D. (MORE)

Kathryn Scanlon and Dann Blackwood of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Woods Hole Science Center in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, participated in a research cruise to study cold-water coral habitats and paleo-oceanographic conditions in the Drake Passage between Antarctica and the southern tip of South America.(MORE)

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GIS information Our interactive map server with displays on various information layers from a number of USGS research programs.	Marine Realms Information Bank MRIB is a distributed geolibrary that provides access to information about oceanic and coastal environments.
Photographs A collection of photographs documenting sea floor characteristics and operations in the field.	Soundwaves A monthly newsletter produced by the U.S. Geological Survey.