Western Coastal & Marine Geology Research by State/Region

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California

• The California Urban Ocean Project
• Coastal and Marine Catastrophic Hazards
• Coastal Evolution: Process-based Multi-scale Modeling
  • San Francisco Bight Coastal Processes Study
  • Webcam at Ocean Beach, San Francisco
• National Seafloor Mapping and Benthic Habitat Studies: Pacific (Project overview)
  • Nearshore benthic habitat studies
  • Seafloor Mapping
  • usSEABED
• Coastal Watershed Restoration Project
• Global Geoengineering Research
• GLORIA Imagery off California
• Central California/San Francisco Bay Earthquake Hazards Project, through 2002
• El Niño Coastal Erosion Photos, 1999
• San Mateo County Coastal Erosion, 1998
• San Francisco Landslides, 1998
• Studies of Polluted Sediment, Offshore Los Angeles, 1997-1998
• Monterey Bay Natural Resources, 1997
• Hydrocarbons in Monterey Bay, 1997
• Seafloor Morphology between Año Nuevo and Santa Cruz, 1997
• Gulf of the Farallones Disposal Issues, 1990-1995

Oregon

• National Seafloor Mapping and Benthic Habitat Studies: Pacific (Project overview)
  • Nearshore benthic habitat studies
  • Seafloor Mapping
  • usSEABED
• Coastal and Marine Catastrophic Hazards
• Global Geoengineering Research
• Tsunamis & Earthquakes
• Erosion of a Sea Stack
• GLORIA Imagery off Oregon
• Cascadia Earthquakes and Tsunami Hazards Studies, 1998
• Cascadia Tectonic Stress, 1996
• Gorda Ridge Hydrothermal Studies, 1996
• West Coast Flood Deposits, 1995

Washington

• National Seafloor Mapping and Benthic Habitat Studies: Pacific (Project overview)
  • Nearshore benthic habitat studies
  • Seafloor Mapping
  • usSEABED
• Coastal Habitats in Puget Sound
• Coastal and Marine Catastrophic Hazards
• Global Geoengineering Research
• Tsunamis & Earthquakes
• GLORIA Imagery off Washington
• Seismic Hazards in Puget Sound, 1998
• Cascadia Earthquake and Tsunami Studies, 1998
• Cascadia Tectonic Stress, 1996
• West Coast Flood Deposits, 1995

Alaska

• Geological characterization and sedimentary processes of nearshore habitats in Kachemak Bay, Alaska
• National Seafloor Mapping and Benthic Habitat Studies: Pacific (Project overview)
  • Nearshore benthic habitat studies
  • Seafloor Mapping
  • usSEABED
• Coastal and Marine Catastrophic Hazards
• Global Geoengineering Research
• GLORIA Imagery of the Bering Sea
• Arctic Environment Contamination
• Prince William Sound Oil Spill

Hawaii

• National Seafloor Mapping and Benthic Habitat Studies: Pacific (Project overview)
  • Nearshore benthic habitat studies
  • Seafloor Mapping
  • usSEABED
• Integrated Geologic Studies of Coral Reefs: Impacts from Land-Based Pollution and Sea Level Rise
• Global Geoengineering Research
• Pollution Offshore of Honolulu
• Hawaii Beach Loss
• Giant Hawaiian Underwater Landslides
• GLORIA Imagery around Hawaiian Islands

Other US Areas

• National Seafloor Mapping and Benthic Habitat Studies: Pacific (Project overview)
  • Nearshore benthic habitat studies
  • Seafloor Mapping
  • usSEABED
• Grand Canyon Studies
• Global Geoengineering Research
• Great Lakes Habitat & Geologic Mapping
• Great Lakes Wetland Studies
• USGS Fact Sheet: "Popular Beach Disappears Underwater in Huge Coastal Landslide--Sleeping Bear Dunes, Michigan"
• Gulf of Mexico Gas Hydrates, 1998

International

• The 26 December 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami:
  Tsunamis & Earthquakes
• Coastal and Marine Catastrophic Hazards
• Global Geoengineering Research
• Antarctic Seismic Data Library
• Global Inventory of Natural Gas Hydrate, 2000
• Chile Margin Triple Junction, a seismic analogue to Cascadia? 1992-1993