Images

Emily Sturdivant, with the help of her co-pilot, hits the landing target.

USGS scientific programmer Tarandeep Kalra talks to children about ocean modeling.

USGS research oceanographer Neil Ganju shares a time-lapse video showing salt marsh erosion.

Children measure water salinity to learn about climate warming and how it affects wetlands. 

Aerial map of Sodus Bay, NY study sites. 

The R/V Muddy Waters lends itself to be a versatile survey launch and assistance vessel for the deployment and retrieval of inshore moorings and scientific sensor platforms. The boat can easily be towed to location by a full sized pickup truck and is easily launched and retrieved for fast mobilization after storm events or other rapid response surveys.

Photograph of moving-boat ADCP discharge measurements being made in Bayou Heron, Mississippi

Graphic showing geophysical and sampling systems used to define the seafloor topography, surface sediments, and underlying geology.

(A) Maximum Likelihood Classification (MLC) with two inputs, slope, and ISO-classified backscatter for the whole survey area. (B) MLC with five inputs, slope, ISO-classified backscatter, bathymetry, hillshaded-relief, and curvature.

Methane bubbles emerging from the seafloor at a seep site colonized by chemosynthetic mussels at ~1000 m water depth on the Virginia margin. Photograph taken by the Global Explorer operated by Oceaneering Inc.

USGS ocean engineers Peter Dal Ferro and Gerry Hatcher, from the Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center in Santa Cruz, California, deploying a multicorer to sample the seafloor near an Atlantic margin methane seep site.

Seafloor methane seep with chemosynthetic mussels at ~1000 m (~3300 ft) water depth offshore Virginia. Image taken by the Global Explorer ROV during a USGS-led cruise sponsored by the NOAA Office of Exploration and Research in 2017.  Green dots are 10 cm apart.

USGS pilot Sandy Brosnahan and Senate Pro Tempore Marc Pacheco discuss the use of Umanned Aerial Systems (UASs, also known as drones) to collect data in coastal environments.

USGS WHCMSC pilot, Emily Sturdivant at a public outreach event using a 3DR Solo Quadcopter and a Gopro camera.

Steve Suttles and Neil Ganju surveying the position of a deployed oceanographic platform in Great South Bay, NY

Map of Edwin B Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, N.J., marsh shoreline change rates.

 Barnegat Bay Little Egg Harbor Study Site

Basemap image of the survey locations south of Long Island Sound

Overview of the 4 Continuous Bathymetry and Elevation Models of the Massachusetts Coastal Zone and Continental Shelf

An interdisciplinary USGS team is conducting research and developing tools to identify suitable coastal habitats for species of concern, such as the piping plover (Charadrius melodus), under a variety of sea-level rise scenarios.

Browse collage for 2017-003-FA data release