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Wayne Baldwin (USGS) and Eric Moore (USGS) preparing the rapid response ocean bottom seismograph fleet for deployment. Photo credit: Nathan Miller, USGS Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center. 

As powerful hurricanes approach the coast, they generate elevated water levels and dangerous wave conditions that can cause extensive flooding, significant landscape changes, and destruction of property.

As powerful hurricanes approach the coast, they generate elevated water levels and dangerous wave conditions that can cause extensive flooding, significant landscape changes, and destruction of property.

An illustrated map displaying the COAWST  Modeling System product coverage for U.S. East Coast and the Gulf of America.

An illustrated map displaying the HERA product coverage, in pink, for the U.S. West Coast and Pacific territories for Emergency Management. Coverage includes Guam, Mariana Islands, American Samoa, 

An illustrated map of the United States and territories, displaying the site coverage of the Coastcam cameras that survey the coasts and provide imagery, with purple diamonds at these locations along the West and East Coast, Alaska and Puerto Rico.

An illustrated map displaying the Flood Event Viewer national coverage, in blue, across the United States (East and West Coast), Alaska, Hawaii, and Pacific (Guam, American Samoa, Mariana Islands) and Atlantic territories (Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands)

Illustrated map displaying the coverage provided by the Coastal Change Hazard Portal for the U.S. East and West Coast, Great Lakes, Gulf of America, Hawaii, Alaska and Atlantic Territories (Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands) in red along the coasts to show the prediction output from CCHP.

Illustrated map displaying the coverage provided by the Total Water Level and Coastal Change Forecast Viewer for the U.S. East Coast and Gulf of America, in blue.

On October 16 and 17, Ben Gutierrez visited Tennessee State University (TSU) to give guest lecture in Environmental Science and Water Resource classes taught by Tom Byl of the USGS Lower Mississippi Gulf Water Science Center.

On October 16 and 17, Ben Gutierrez visited Tennessee State University (TSU) to give guest lecture in Environmental Science and Water Resource classes taught by Tom Byl of the USGS Lower Mississippi Gulf Water Science Center.

On October 16 and 17, Ben Gutierrez visited Tennessee State University (TSU) to give guest lecture in Environmental Science and Water Resource classes taught by Tom Byl of the USGS Lower Mississippi Gulf Water Science Center.

SOFAR buoy of the western coast of Florida, within the expected track of Milton, actively transmitting real-time wave height. The graph reads a peak of above 4 meters. Captured October 9^th 2024.

sUAS flights conducted over the Federal Center buildings in Reston, VA, on October 8, 2024, captured high-resolution imagery in preparation for the Federal Center's 50th-anniversary celebration.

sUAS flights conducted over the Federal Center buildings in Reston, VA, on October 8, 2024, captured high-resolution imagery in preparation for the Federal Center's 50th-anniversary celebration.

sUAS flights conducted over the Federal Center buildings in Reston, VA, on October 8, 2024, captured high-resolution imagery in preparation for the Federal Center's 50th-anniversary celebration.

sUAS flights conducted over the Federal Center buildings in Reston, VA, on October 8, 2024, captured high-resolution imagery in preparation for the Federal Center's 50th-anniversary celebration.

sUAS flights conducted over the Federal Center buildings in Reston, VA, on October 8, 2024, captured high-resolution imagery in preparation for the Federal Center's 50th-anniversary celebration.

CoastCam on Madeira Beach in Florida on October 8, 2024 before Hurricane Milton made landfall on October 9, 2024.

UAS Pilot Jennifer Cramer attaches a YellowScan Mapper+ lidar sensor to the underside of a DJI M600 in preparation to map the beach and marsh.

Town Neck Beach, Sandwich, Massachusetts

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sUAS flights conducted over the Federal Center buildings in Reston, VA, on October 8, 2024, captured high-resolution imagery in preparation for the Federal Center's 50th-anniversary celebration.