Images

Image of a deep-sea sulfide mound at Escanaba Trough with the text "Characterizing organic carbon at Escanaba Trough".

Sample image from the Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, CoastCam. The camera and associated wave buoy were installed by USGS to research coastal change hazards and to develop real-time forecasts of coastal water levels and the probability of flooding. 

Examples of environmental contamination risk reduction due to decreased coastal flooding provided by coral reef restoration in Florida. Adapted from the study Coral reef restoration can reduce coastal contamination and pollution hazards.

Cover image for the video titled "Shoreline Seasonality of California's Beaches".

Gerry Hatcher discussing BOBSled technology to help inform the development of SEABOSS 3.0.

Scientists and technicians from the Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center (WHCMSC) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts traveled to the Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center (PCMSC) in Santa Cruz, California to learn about their seafloor imaging and sampling instrument—the Benthic Observation camera Sled, or BOBSled.

Scientists and technologists from the Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center (WHCMSC) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts traveled to the Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center (PCMSC) in Santa Cruz, California to learn about their seafloor imaging and sampling instrument—the Benthic Observation camera Sled, or BOBSled.

The inner workings of the BOBSled bottle. 

Scientists and technologists from the Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center (WHCMSC) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts traveled to the Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center (PCMSC) in Santa Cruz, California to learn about their seafloor imaging and sampling instrument—the Benthic Observation camera Sled, or BOBSled.

Scientists and technologists from the Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center (WHCMSC) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts traveled to the Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center (PCMSC) in Santa Cruz, California to learn about their seafloor imaging and sampling instrument—the Benthic Observation camera Sled, or BOBSled.

A remotely operated vehicle collects a polymetallic sulfide sample from Escanaba Trough.

A seafloor massive sulfide at Escanaba Trough covered with sponges, shrimp, squat lobsters, and other deep-sea fauna.

Ferromanganese nodules collected from the Clariton-Clipperton Zone during a USGS research expedition.

A map showing Global Marine Mineral Prospective Regions, including those that occur within the United States Exclusive Economic Zone.

Figure 1: (a) Location map of the study area, showing the 2021 Caldor Fire burn zone. Color scheme indicates soil burn severity. Box indicates area shown in (b).

Figure 4: Results of geomorphic change analysis in the reservoir delta of Jenkinson Lake for 3 time intervals after the Caldor Fire: (a) October–November 2021; (b) 2021–2022, (c) 2022–2023. Refer to text for explanation of time steps. Color legend indicates vertical change detected from DEM differencing.

Western ends of each site showing the overall accretion using QGIS. See legend for color corresponding dates. The first continuous shoreline for each respective year was used for the visualization. (a) Rockaway Peninsula, (b) Long Beach, (c) Jones Beach Island.

The Long Island study area, including (a,b) the overall location of Long Island with respect to New York and the greater U.S.

Scientists and technicians from the Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center (WHCMSC) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts traveled to the Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center (PCMSC) in Santa Cruz, California to learn about their seafloor imaging and sampling instrument—the Benthic Observation camera Sled, or BOBSled.

Image of Santa Cruz wharf during Dec 23 2024 storm taken from a CoastCam atop the Dream Inn hotel.

Example CoSMoS flood extent map products for the Humboldt County region, showing a 100-year storm across three sea-level rise scenarios.