<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management (CZM) are pleased to announce the recent publication of two new seafloor mapping reports:</span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><ul style="font-size: 13px; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 15px; list-style-type: disc; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">USGS Open-File Report 2014-1221:</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Geological Sampling Data and Benthic Biota Classification—Buzzards Bay and Vineyard Sound, Massachusetts</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> [link:</span><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20141221" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> </span><span style="text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20141221</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">] by Ackerman, S.D., Pappal, A.L., Huntley, E.C., Blackwood, D.S., and Schwab, W.C. contains sample and photography data, including a classification of benthic biota observed in sea-floor photographs and based on the Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard (CMECS). </span></div><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></div></li></ul><ul style="font-size: 13px; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 15px; list-style-type: disc; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">USGS Open-File Report 2014-1220:</span><span style="text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Shallow Geology, Sea-Floor Texture, and Physiographic Zones of Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">[link:</span><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20141220" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20141220</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">] by Foster, D.S., Baldwin, W.E., Barnhardt, W.A., Schwab, W.C., Ackerman, S.D., Andrews, B.D., and Pendleton, E.A. contains geologic, sediment texture, and physiographic zone maps that characterize the sea floor of Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts. These data are derived from interpretations of the seismic-reflection profiles, high-resolution bathymetry, acoustic-backscatter intensity, bottom photographs, and surficial sediment samples. </span></div><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="line-height: 1.15; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="line-height: 1.15; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Bathymetry, acoustic-backscatter, and seismic-reflection profiles were previously released in USGS Open-File Report 2012-1006: High-Resolution Geophysical Data from the Inner Continental Shelf: Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts [link:</span><a href="http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2012/1002/" target="_blank" style="line-height: 1.15; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2012/1002/</span></a><span style="line-height: 1.15; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">]</span></div></li></ul><div style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">These are the most recent reports prepared as part of the long-standing cooperative mapping program between the USGS and CZM, which began in 2003 and has mapped more than 2,330 square kilometers (900 square miles) of the Commonwealth’s coastal waters. Other reports from the USGS-CZM Seafloor Mapping Program can be found on the recently updated USGS</span><a href="http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/project-pages/coastal_mass/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Geologic Mapping of the Seafloor Offshore of Massachusetts website</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">For more information on CZM’s role, see the CZM</span><a href="http://www.mass.gov/eea/agencies/czm/program-areas/seafloor-and-habitat-mapping/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Seafloor Mapping Program website</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">. </span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div class="gmail_signature"><b style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-family: Verdana, 'Book Antiqua', Garamond; font-size: x-small;" class=""><i class="">Seth D. Ackerman</i></b><span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-family: Verdana, 'Book Antiqua', Garamond; font-size: x-small;" class=""> | U.S. Geological Survey | 384 Woods Hole Road | Woods Hole, MA 02543-1598 | tel: 508.457.2315 | email: </span><a href="mailto:sackerman@usgs.gov" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-family: Verdana, 'Book Antiqua', Garamond; font-size: x-small;" class="">sackerman@usgs.gov</a></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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