The United States Coast and Geodetic Survey was the first scientific agency of the United States government. It existed from 1807 to 1970, and throughout its history was responsible for mapping and ch
The seal of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler was the first superintendent of the Survey of the Coast, renamed the U.S. Coast Survey during his tenure.
A survey of the Mississippi River in Louisiana below Fort Jackson and Fort St. Philip made by the U.S. Coast Survey to prepare for the bombardment of the forts by David Dixon Porter's mortar fleet in April 1862 during the American Civil War.
The Richards Building, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey headquarters from 1871 to 1929, on New Jersey Avenue in Washington, D.C., from Harper's Weekly, October 1888.
The Environmental Science Services Administration was a United States federal executive agency created in 1965 as part of a reorganization of the United States Department of Commerce. Its mission was
Robert M. White, ca. 1971. He was the Administrator of ESSA throughout its existence.
The ESSA-9 weather satellite in February 1969. It operated from February 1969 to November 1972.
The ocean survey ship USC&GS Surveyor (OSS 32) – seen during helicopter operations in the Bering Sea – was among ships in commission in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey fleet during the years the Survey was subordinate to ESSA.
The seal of the U.S. ESSA Commissioned Officer Corps.