Current Research Projects

listed by project title

Applied Sediment Transport

Coastal and Marine Earthquake, Tsunami, and Landslide Active Margin Field Studies

Coastal Aquifer Project II [CAPII]

Coastal Habitats in Puget Sound, and
Multi-Disciplinary Coastal Habitats in Puget Sound

• Effects of Elwha dam removal on nearshore habitats
  See web site: USGS Science to support the Elwha River Restoration Project

Human Impacts and Geological Processes in Southern California Urban Ocean

Law of the Sea - Outer Limits of the US Continental Margins

National Seafloor Mapping and Benthic Habitat Studies: Pacific

Pacific Coral Reef Geology and Oceanography

Pacific EEZ Minerals

Probabilistic Forecasting of Earthquakes and Earthquake Effects

Sources, Transportation, and Fate of Natural Oil and Gas Seepages

San Francisco Bay Coastal System

South China Sea Deep

Tsunami Hazards, Modeling, and the Sedimentary Record

Completed/Ended Projects

Coastal Evolution: Process-based Multi-scale Modeling (Ended)
Coastal and Marine Catastrophic Hazards (Ended; see new projects)
Coastal Watershed Restoration (COMPLETED 2007)
Geological characterization and sedimentary processes of nearshore habitats in Kachemak Bay, Alaska (COMPLETED 2008)
Integrated Geologic Studies of Coral Reefs: Impacts from Land-Based Pollution and Sea Level Rise (COMPLETED 2009)
National Community Sediment-Transport Modeling (COMPLETED 2010)
The California Urban Ocean Project (merged into new project, 2011)
Tsunami Hazard Potential in the Caribbean (COMPLETED 2010)