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Much of the USGS fieldwork has been delayed, postponed, or canceled in the face of COVID-19. USGS Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program (CMHRP) scientists were able to safely venture out to collect beach elevations; biogeochemistry samples; water, soil, and meteorological data; and coral and algal samples, in San Francisco, Florida, Massachusetts, and the US Virgin Islands.

Map of North America with three dots in locations where fieldwork was conducted.
Some of the locations where USGS Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program (CMHRP) scientists conducted fieldwork in April-July 2020.

Kissimmee River Aquifer Storage and Recovery (KRASR) treatment facility, Okeechobee, FL: Collected samples for geochemistry, biogeochemistry, microbial diversity, microbial productivity, and nutrient cycling, in order to characterize microbial biogeochemistry of groundwater systems, April 1

Ocean Beach, San Francisco, CA: Collected base GPS and beach elevation data and Structure-from-Motion digital photos, to monitor changes in beach sand volume and distribution, April 6, June 10, July 8

Madeira Beach, FL: Collected GPS beach elevation data following the passage of Tropical Storm Cristobal and in support of long-term monitoring at Madeira Beach and the total water level (TWL) model, June 10, July 10

Martin and Brevard Counties, FL: Collected beach elevation profiles and mapped sea turtle nesting locations to assess nesting response on different template designs for nourished beaches and how these differ from a "natural beach", Summer 2020

Buck Island Reef National Monument, St. Croix, USVI (BUIS): Visited coral calcification monitoring stations to measure coral and algal calcification rates, and extended the coral-calcification assessment network to include BUIS, June 15-19

Herring River Estuary, Cape Cod, MA: Continuous monitoring of surface water and pore-water depth, salinity, and temperature, soil temperature and meteorological data in Herring River estuary to examine environmental geochemistry and health of the estuary, ongoing from June through October

 

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Fieldwork during the pandemic
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Fieldwork during the pandemic

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