Center for Coastal & Watershed Studies - USGS

The Center investigates scientific processes related to societal problems arising in coastal and marine environments, including natural hazards, resources, and environmental change. Increased understanding of these topics will provide the basis for: predicting future coastal erosion, the fate of wetlands and coral reefs, accumulation of sediments, sediment transport and stability, circulation, movement of pollution through aqueous environments, and the locations of economically valuable minerals.