Welcome! USGS iCoast is a USGS crowdsourcing application created for you to help us better understand how coastlines change after extreme storms.

Welcome to USGS iCoast!

Help scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) annotate aerial photographs with keyword tags to identify changes to the coast after extreme storms like Hurricanes Ike and Sandy. We need your eyes to help us understand how our coastlines are changing from extreme storms.

Click the button below to Login or Register using Google.

Note: Any Google based account, including standard Gmail accounts or those managed by you or your organization, can be used to create an iCoast account.

(Examples: aperson@gmail.com, aperson@usgs.gov, aperson@university.edu)

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