The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), alone or in collaboration with other agencies, conducts a great deal of oceanographic and coastal research. For example, see the following: Marine geology and geophysics
www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/

Great Lakes Environmental Research Labs
www.glerl.noaa.gov/data/data.html

NOAA/National Geophysical Data Center coastal programs
www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/coastal/coastal.html

Excellent data on hurricanes and other major storms are available through Frequently Asked Questions at
www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/

For online images of hurricanes and other major storms:
www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ol/satellite/olimages.html

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Coastal Program deals more with coastal biological environments than coastal erosion; see
www.fws.gov/cep/cepcode.html

Federal Emergency Management Agency Fact Sheet on Hurricanes:
www.fema.gov/library

USGS Western Region Marine and Coastal Surveys includes links to case studies and illustrations of a variety of coastal and nearshore areas at
walrus.wr.usgs.gov/hazards/erosion.html

The USGS Center for Coastal and Marine Geology offers links to a variety of case histories and images as well as basic information:
coastal.er.usgs.gov/

USGS programs relating to the Great Lakes are described at
water.usgs.gov/wid/html/gl.html

Among online USGS publications relevant to this chapter are: Collins, B. Minasian, D., Reiss, T., and Gibbons, H. 2006. USGS scientists revisit New Orleans levee breaks to collect high-accuracy survey data.
soundwaves.usgs.gov/2006/05/

Williams, S. J., Dodd, K., and Gohn, K. K. 1997. Coasts in crisis (USGS Circular 1075)
pubs.usgs.gov/circ/c1075/

See also an online publication of changes to the San Francisco Bay estuary at
sfbay.wr.usgs.gov/

The California Coastal Records Project is developing an extensive archive of photographs to document change along the California coast:
californiacoastline.org/