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WHCMSC scientists and technical staff conducted a Seabed Observation and Sampling System (SEABOSS) survey in collaboration with NOAA’s Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary to acquire sea-floor samples, video, and photographs within the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary.

Maeve Munnelly, Marie Bartlett and Seth Ackerman on the deck of the R/V Auk with the mini SEABed Observation and Sampling System (mini-SEABOSS) during a survey with scientists from the NOAA Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary (SBNMS). 

Maeve Munnelly and Tammy Silva (SBNMS) looking for sandlance in the sediment grab collected with the mini SEABed Observation and Sampling System (mini-SEABOSS) aboard the R/V Auk during a survey with scientists from the NOAA Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary (SBNMS).

Marie Bartlett and Maeve Munnelly setting up the mini SEABed Observation and Sampling System (mini-SEABOSS) aboard the R/V Auk during a survey with scientists from the NOAA Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary (SBNMS).

The Marston Mills Discover Flying RC Club has welcomed the AIM group to use their space to fly their UAS.

Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center scientists have been working with the University of Georgia and NOAA restoration staff to record pre-restoration conditions at an impounded wetland in Gulf Shores, Alabama.

The Marston Mills Discover Flying RC Club has welcomed the AIM group to use their space to fly their UAS.

After a couple years of working with students virtually, a big highlight of this season was having students in-person throughout the summer. In celebration, center staff organized the Woods Hole Summer Student Barbecue, an event for the summer students and their mentors working at all the different science institutions throughout Woods Hole.

Summer student fellow Rachel Einecker collects water samples from the impounded Herring River Estuary to examine production of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. 

The Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center Sea Floor Mapping Group is mapping the seafloor and subseafloor of Nantucket Sound as part of a long-term collaboration with the State of Massachusetts. This is an image of Nantucket Sound's seafloor. It is dominated by sand waves.

Our coasts, the most familiar part of the ocean are the gateway to the larger deeper ocean world. USGS studies processes and hazards in the coastal zone and how they affect people, wildlife, and ecosystems.

The Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center Sea Floor Mapping Group is mapping the seafloor and subseafloor of Nantucket Sound as part of a long-term collaboration with the State of Massachusetts. This is an image of a seismic reflection profile showing layers of sediment deposited during a glacial period.

The Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center Sea Floor Mapping Group is mapping the seafloor and subseafloor of Nantucket Sound as part of a long-term collaboration with the State of Massachusetts. While a crew is at sea collecting new data, geographer Brian Andrews is processing yesterday's seafloor mapping data.

The Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center Sea Floor Mapping Group mapping the seafloor and subseafloor of Nantucket Sound as part of a long-term collaboration with the State of Massachusetts. Eric Moore and Alex Nichols deploy the chirp subbottom profiler. The chirp is the device that allows us to see underneath the seafloor.

The USGS and the University of Maryland’s Chesapeake Biological Laboratory conducted a study in the Chesapeake Bay to quantify greenhouse gas fluxes from the largest estuary in the U.S.

Summer student fellow Rachel Einecker collects water samples from the impounded Herring River Estuary to examine production of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. 

Partnership Education Program intern Zachary Taylor and USGS Cooperative Summer Fellowship Program intern Simone Gibson prepare a salt marsh sediment sample for analysis. 

Carbon dioxide removal experiment led by Kevin Kroeger in Herring River in Wellfleet, Massachusetts.

USGS Cooperative Summer Fellowship Program intern-turned federal employee Allyson Boggess describes a core from the New England Mud Patch in the Sediments Laboratory.

Chris Sherwood and Jin-Si Over of the USGS Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center setting up a global navigation satellite system rover in North Core Banks, North Carolina as part of rapid response to storms and recovery monitoring after Hurricane Florence (2018) and Dorian (2019).

Each summer, scientists at the center mentor students through programs such as the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Summer Student Fellowship (SSF), the Woods Hole Partnership Education Program (PEP), the City College of New York/City University of New York partnership, and the USGS/National Association of Geoscience Teachers Cooperative Summer Field Trai