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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center Sediment Analysis Laboratory's InstruQuest HumiPyc2 gas pycnometer (USGS laboratory equipment number WH-SED-InstruQuest-HumiPyc2_1).

In collaboration with the National Park Service, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and the Vesta Corporation, the Environmental Geosciences group researched a new approach to climate change mitigation. The team led an experiment at the Herring River site as a first examination.

Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center Sediment Analysis Laboratory's Bruker CTX 800C benchtop x-ray fluorescence unit (USGS laboratory equipment number WH-SED-Bruker-CTX800C_1).

In collaboration with the National Park Service, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and the Vesta Corporation, the Environmental Geosciences group researched a new approach to climate change mitigation. The team led an experiment at the Herring River site as a first examination.

Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center Sediment Analysis Laboratory's UIC CM5017 coulometer with sample carousel (USGS laboratory equipment number WH-SED-UIC-CM5017_1).

Sandy Brosnahan and Eric Marsjanik of the USGS Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center while diving to level previously installed ADCPs. Photo credit: Danny Hansen (USGS) 

Sandy Brosnahan of the USGS Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center preparing to dive in the Norwalk River to service and level a bottom mounted ADCP.

USGS staff from the Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center and the New England Water Science Center leveling a bottom mounted ADCP off the pier located in the Mystic Seaport Museum in Mystic, Connecticut. The ADCP will record water level and flow velocity. Photo credit: Danny Hansen (USGS) 

Deep water camera and light installed in the head weight of the upgraded USGS jumbo piston corer. In the background, USGS Marine Engineering Technician Daniel Powers is preparing the core liner for sediment collection. 

Pete Dal Ferro, USGS Marine Engineering Technician and lead fabricator on the JPC upgrade, monitors the testing of the coring system on R/V Hugh R. Sharp in March 2022.

USGS personnel deploying instrumentation at the Stone Harbor marsh site in Stone Harbor, New Jersey on March 22, 2022. 

Woods Hole scientists surveyed Head of the Meadow Beach and Marconi Beach using a heli-kite, camera, and photogrammetry for the beach and bluffs, and an autonomous boat with GPS and sonar for the offshore portion. This work resulted in two data releases.

Upgraded USGS jumbo piston corer being readied for deployment off the research vessel Hugh R. Sharp in April 2022.

The Coastal and Estuarine Dynamics group at the WHCMSC maintained cameras along the Cape Cod National Seashore at Head of the Meadow Beach, North Truro, Massachusetts and Marconi Beach, Wellfleet, Massachusetts. The cameras are used to validate Total Water Level and Coastal Change forecasts.

Aerial imagery collected by airplane in the Outer Banks of North Carolina continued in FY22 as part of rapid response to storms and recovery monitoring after Hurricane Florence (2018) and Dorian (2019). Analysis of the flooding and erosion of North Core Banks during Hurricane Dorian was published.

Jen Cramer of the USGS Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center working with a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) rover in North Core Banks, North Carolina as part of rapid response to storms and recovery monitoring after Hurricane Florence (2018) and Dorian (2019).

Fieldwork was conducted in North Core Banks, North Carolina as part of rapid response to storms and recovery monitoring after Hurricane Florence (2018) and Dorian (2019). This work is supported by the Additional Supplemental Appropriations for the Disaster Relief Act of 2019 (Public Law 116–120, 113 Stat. 871).

Aerial imagery collected in the Outer Banks of North Carolina continued as part of rapid response to storms and recovery monitoring after Hurricane Florence (2018) and Dorian (2019). Analysis of the flooding and erosion of North Core Banks during Hurricane Dorian was published.

Photo Contest | Winter 2022 | Honorable Mention 2
Aerial view of four vehicles parked on the beach at Ocracoke Inlet

Pre- and post-Hurricane Dorian aerial imagery showing extreme sediment transport, overwash and breaches along the barrier islands of the North Carolina coast.

The marshes of Plum Island Estuary are among those predicted by scientists to submerge during the next century under conservative projections of sea-level rise.