Images

Dauphin Island, Alabama. Three-dimensional views of island topography (A-C), post-Katrina oblique aerial photograph (D), and differences in topography from Hurricanes Ivan (E) and Katrina (F). The view is along the island, looking from east to west, with the Gulf of Mexico to the left and Mississippi Sound to the right.

The top image was taken off the coast of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, in July 1998 by researchers at the University of New Orleans. In this image, notice the large multi-story houses, some of which are built on stilts to protect the homes from flooding. The bottom image shows the same location on August 31, 2005, two days after landfall of Hurricane Katrina.

The top image, taken off the coast of Waveland, Mississippi, in July 1998, shows several large oceanfront homes, and thick wooded vegetation bordering the sandy beach. The bottom image shows the same location on August 31, 2005, two days after landfall of Hurricane Katrina.

In the top image, taken in 1998, notice the pier, pier house, and the antebellum house. The bottom image shows the same location on August 31, 2005, two days after Hurricane Katrina made landfall. This photo shows the complete destruction of these landmarks.

Leptogorgia chilensis, Stylaster californicus, and a painted greenling (Oxylebius pictus) at 42 meters depth on Farnsworth Bank.

Coral reef off the Florida Keys.

Looking south over the coral reef surrounding Loggerhead Key, Dry Tortugas National Park. Dry Tortugas Lighthouse stands on Loggerhead Key. To the right in the background is Garden Key, where civil-war era Fort Jefferson is located.

The lower two floors of the five-story building in the center of these photos have collapsed and the third floor has fallen to ground level.

Photograph of the Florida coastline shows storm damage after Hurricane Jeanne's passage.

The Weedon Island Preserve is a 3,190-acre coastal system in Tampa Bay, Florida that is comprised of aquatic and upland ecosystems.

Dr. Christina Kellogg emerges from the submersible Delta after collecting coral samples in the Aleutian Islands in 2004.

A view taken from a rooftop of Madeira Beach in Florida. 

A beach home with exposed support columns at the edge of an eroded dune, Figure Eight Island, NC, 2004. High water at the coast can severely damage beaches and dunes putting coastal homes are risk of being undermined by the removal of sand during storms. 

Here are shown a series of photographs of a rice coral (Montipora capitata) shaded with light filters during a natural “coral bleaching” event observed during anomalously high ocean temperatures in Autumn of 2004 on the island of Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi.

Zoomed in aerial photograph of a home on the beach near Stuart, Florida, severely damaged by Hurricane Jeanne in September 2004.

Sandbags serve as a make-shift seawall to strengthen the dune and mitigate erosion from future storms. Photo taken on Figure Eight Island, NC. 

Airborne lidar is a surveying method that measures distance to a target from a survey plane by illuminating that target with a pulsed laser light, and measuring the reflected pulses with a sensor. Differences in laser return times and wavelengths can then be used to make digital 3D-representations of the target.

Airborne lidar is a surveying method that measures distance to a target from a survey plane by illuminating that target with a pulsed laser light, and measuring the reflected pulses with a sensor. Differences in laser return times and wavelengths can then be used to make digital 3D-representations of the target.

Anchored at the mouth of Big Sable Creek in Everglades National Park preparatory to 4-5 days field work on mangrove-associated fish and terrapins.

Yellowtop in bloom along the roadside, just south of the US 27/I-75 (Alligator
Alley) intersection.

Facing east, a panoramic view of Biscayne Bay. The mainland is seen at far
right. Biscayne Bay is an estuary, a place where freshwater and salt water
meet. Freshwater flow from the land supplies the bay with nutrients.