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Breakout Table 1 Discussion of the Río Piedras Session of the USGS Workshop in Puerto Rico Titled “Participatory Engagement for Storm Management.” 

Morning Group Photo of the Río Piedras Session of the USGS Workshop in Puerto Rico Titled “Participatory Engagement for Storm Management.” Top row, left to right: Carlos R. Olmedo Álvarez, Francisco “Paco” López, Ernesto Rodríguez, Aurelio “Tito” Castro, Federico Subervi Vélez, Kevian Pérez, Carlos Anselmi-Molina, Aurora Justiniano, Jack R. Friedman.

Breakout Table 2 Discussion of the Río Piedras Session of the USGS Workshop in Puerto Rico Titled “Participatory Engagement for Storm Management” 

Breakout Table 4 Discussion of the Río Piedras Session of the USGS Workshop in Puerto Rico Titled “Participatory Engagement for Storm Management.” 

Breakout Table 3 Report Out of the Río Piedras Session of the USGS Workshop in Puerto Rico Titled “Participatory Engagement for Storm Management.” 

An antibiotic resistance gene (ARG) microarray in the Real-Time PCR (RT-PCR) machine.

Florida archaeologist, Nicole Grinnan, talks about the vulnerability of Native American shell middens to coastal erosion from sea level rise and storms along the Apalachicola Bay.

Two shards of Native American pottery found at shell midden site that is located on an actively eroding shoreline of Apalachicola Bay. The shards show distinctive markings created by paleo Indians thousands of years ago.

The estuarine shoreline of barrier islands along the Gulf of America are vulnerable to shoreline erosion. Structures, such as this rock breakwater, can be used to protect the shoreline from erosional waves.

The estuarine (backbarrier) shoreline of barrier islands in Gulf of America are complex, ecologically diverse habitats that are under threat due to human development, sea level rise, and storms.

These shells are what remains of a Native American shell midden that is located along an actively eroding shoreline in Apalachicola Bay.

Estuarine shoreline erosion exposes a Native American shell midden beneath the surface of a coastal flatwood forest. Shell middens are the discarded shells and materials from generations of Indigenous people who lived along U.S. coastlines.

Potential coastal change impacts are predicted during a direct landfall of Hurricane Beryl on the Texas coast at 4:00 am, Sunday, July 7, 2024.

A screenshot of the U.S. Geological Survey's costal change hazards portal, indicates the forecast of Tropical Storm Beryl's impact on the coast of Texas. The three red lines indicate the collision, wave and water sand dune overwash, and dune inundation. 

Sabrina Levinson, a USGS intern on the Coastal Sediment Availability and Flux Project (St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center), pilots a survey waverunner to the shallows of Wallops Island, Virginia.

Coastal Coupling Community of Practice Executive Committee and other subject matter experts (partial group) in front of a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration building and “The Hand.” From left to right: Rebecca Atkins, John Warner, Cristina Urizar, Tracy Fanara, Courtney Barry, Trey Flowers, Saeed Moghimi, David Welch, Lucila Houttuijn Bloemendaal, Chris

Example of the relationship between CT intensities and measured density of the coral standards used to calibrate data. The measured density of the coral standards are compared to the mean intensities of each standard. Linear regressions calculated from the standard values are then used to calibrate data.

Orbicella spp. coral sample with no packing material. Center of image is darker than edges. Transect across image shows intensity values lower in the center creating a cupping effect.

Animation of a computed tomography scan of a coral core.

Animation of a computed tomography scan of a coral core.

The newly developed USGS Coral Core Archive, housed at the Santa Cruz and St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Centers, contains approximately 500 coral reef cores from U.S. jurisdictions worldwide.