Images

Dawn breaks behind one of the bottom landers on deployment day.

 Sediment transport team members assemble chain, shackles and pear links that are are attached to the anchor and floats as part of deploying a mooring.

Sediment transport team members attach a quick-release to the top of a bottom lander prior to deployment

An instrumented bottom lander platform is lowered off the stern of the R/V Savannah during deploment

Sediment transport team members prepare to deploy a buoy instrumented with Meteorological sensors

The buoy that measures meteorological conditions at the site after deployment.

Sediment transport team members manage tag lines to control the motion of the bottom lander as it is deployed.

Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center Oceanographer, Neil Ganju, sharing science at the 2017 Woods Hole Science Stroll outreach event

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

Basemap of the United States with an overview image of elevation models

Authigenic carbonate supplies the foundation for deep-sea corals, including colonies of bubblegum corals (Paragorgia) seen here. 
 

(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.

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

Map of subsea permafrost distributions on the U.S. and Canadian Arctic Ocean margin. The inset map shows the location of the larger map. Subsea permafrost on the Canadian margin was delineated in the 1980s (blue curve). The red curve on the U.S.

Eroding permafrost on Alaska’s Arctic Coast. Inundation of permafrost like this produced subsea permafrost

Sandy Brosnahan (left) and Jon Borden at Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) training in Santa Cruz, California.

The 3DR Solo with GoPro Hero4 camera and gimbal. Coming to a beach near you soon.

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.

Location map of the Hudson Canyon survey area.

Cenote Bang, a component of the Ox Bel Ha cave network study site and model for coastal karst subterranean estuary

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