December 2005
- USGS Scientists Investigate New Orleans Levees Broken by Hurricane Katrina
- Post-Katrina Cleanup in Biloxi, Mississippi--a Volunteer's Reflections
- San Francisco Bay Floor Explored in Public Lecture
- Department of the Interior Briefing on Coastal Research in Hawai'i
- Telling the Public About USGS Research on the Kona Coast, Hawai'i
- Award for USGS Map Hawaii's Volcanoes Revealed
- New Book on Benthic Habitats and the Effects of Fishing
November 2005
- USGS CMG Staff Go to Washington, D.C., for Oceans 2005
- USGS Scientists Featured in National News Segment on Investigating Broken Levees in New Orleans
- USGS Team Studying Coastal Habitats in Puget Sound Wins Award for Innovation in Integrated Science
- Marlene Noble Wins Reimbursable Activities Recognition Award
- Tsunami Researchers Win the Western Region Communicator of the Year Award
- USGS Volunteer Wins AAPG Pacific Section Award for Best Paper at Annual Meeting
October 2005
- Sonar Survey of Sea-Floor Habitats Southeast of Santa Barbara, California
- Workshop on Optimizing the DART Network for Tsunami Forecasting
- New Hires for the Western Coastal and Marine Geology Team
September 2005
- read about USGS response to Hurricane Katrina victims
August 2005
- New USGS Fact Sheet About Landslides Delivering Slope Material to Nearshore Waters on California's Big Sur Coast
- Fish Habitat a Common Theme at USGS-NOAA Symposium in Santa Cruz, CA
- USGS Scientists Address International Visitors from Asia and Australia
July 2005
- Brief Tsunami Warning Startles U.S. West Coast, Reveals Strengths and Weaknesses in Tsunami Preparedness
- Standing-Room-Only Lecture on "Tsunamis—Lessons and Questions from the Indian Ocean Disaster
- 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami—New USGS Web Site About Initial Findings in Sumatra
- Bill Normark Receives a Medal Named for His Early Mentor, Francis P. Shepard
June 2005
- U.S. Geological Survey and the American Geological Institute Receive Valuable Seismic Data from Chevron Corp.
- Department of Commerce Science and Technology Fellows Visit the USGS in Menlo Park, CA
- Kurt Rosenberger Joins the Western Coastal and Marine Geology Team
May 2005
- "Knowledge Management for Coastal and Marine Geology" Workshop Held in St. Petersburg, FL
- New Mendenhall Postdoctoral Fellows to Join WCMG Team
- New Operations Assistant Joins the Western Coastal and Marine Geology Team: Kathleen Donahue
- Notes From the Field... USGS Scientists in Sumatra Studying Impact of 2 Tsunamis March 30 - April 26
April 2005
- Second Tsunami Causes Damage in Indonesia—USGS Scientists Post Observations on the World Wide We
- Why Wasn't There a Larger Tsunami from the Magnitude 8.7 March 28, 2005, Sumatra Earthquake
- Assessing Tsunami Impacts in the Republic of Maldives
- Making Waves and Ripples in a Giant Flume in Japan
March 2005
- Astonishing Wave Heights Among the Findings of an International Tsunami Survey Team on Sumatra
- USGS Geologist Invited to Map Tsunami Impacts in the Maldives
- Tsunami News Conference in Menlo Park, CA, Puts USGS in Media Spotlight
- New USGS Web Sites About 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami
February 2005
- USGS Scientists Study Sediment Deposited by 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami
- Mapping the Sea Floor on the San Pedro Shelf, Southern California
- Dam Removal on the Elwha River in Washington—Nearshore Impacts of Released Sediment
- Oceanographer Joins the Western Coastal and Marine Geology Team
January 2005
- Indian Ocean Earthquake Triggers Deadly Tsunami
- Could It Happen Here? Tsunamis That Have Struck U.S. Coastlines
- Deltaic Habitats in Puget Sound—Natural Versus Human-Related Change
- Ripples for Everyone! Investigating How Sediment Moves on the Sea Floor
- Jingping Xu Becomes a Permanent Member of the Western Coastal and Marine Geology Team