Images

Jin-Si Over (USGS Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center) carrying a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) rover at Great Sippewissett Marsh and Black Beach in Falmouth, Massachusetts as part of a multiday, small uncrewed aircraft system (sUAS) lidar training.

Shannon Fisher (USGS New York Water Science Center) and Jin-Si Over (USGS Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center) at Great Sippewissett Marsh in Falmouth, Massachusetts as part of a multiday, small uncrewed aircraft system (sUAS) lidar training. 

Participants of a multiday, small uncrewed aircraft system (sUAS) lidar training preparing the UAS to collect lidar data at Great Sippewisset Marsh in Falmouth, Massachusetts. 

Collecting lidar data at Great Sippewissett Marsh in Falmouth, Massachusetts as part of a multiday, small uncrewed aircraft system (sUAS) lidar training.

Fieldwork at Great Sippewissett Marsh and Black Beach in Falmouth, Massachusetts as part of a multiday, small uncrewed aircraft system (sUAS) lidar training.

Collecting lidar data at Great Sippewissett Marsh in Falmouth, Massachusetts as part of a multiday, small uncrewed aircraft system (sUAS) lidar training.

Aerial view of Great Sippewissett Marsh in Falmouth, Massachusetts. Photo taken during multiday, small uncrewed aircraft system (sUAS) lidar training workshop.

Gearing up for a day of fieldwork as part of a multiday, small uncrewed aircraft system (sUAS) lidar training at Great Sippewissett Marsh in Falmouth, Massachusetts. 

Black Beach in Falmouth, Massachusetts, along the edge of Great Sippewissett Marsh.

Sandy Brosnahan and Jin-Si Over (USGS Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center) handling a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) rover at Great Sippewissett Marsh in Falmouth, Massachusetts as part of a multiday, small uncrewed aircraft system (sUAS) lidar training.

USGS geotechnical engineer Adrian Garcia on site, with the hydrates drilling rig (far right) and the core processing tent (over Adrian’s right shoulder) in the background as the Arctic sun sits low on the horizon over the tundra in November 2022.

Geoffrey DeBenedetto (USGS Arizona Water Science Center) and Jin-Si Over (USGS Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center) set up a GNSS base station to enable geodetic corrections of the UAS flight trajectory and ground survey data at Great Sippewissett Marsh in Falmouth, Massachusetts as part of a multiday, small uncrewed aircraft system (sUAS) lidar training.&n

USGS scientists Steve Phillips and Adrian Garcia document and process sediment cores during the hydrate drilling expedition in November 2022.

Group photo of participants in the small uncrewed aircraft system (sUAS) lidar training October 31 through November 4 in Falmouth, Massachusetts.

Inset map shows red rectangle on Alaskan North Slope corresponding to larger map, where the location of the Hydrate Well is shown as a yellow circle.

U.S. Geological Survey Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) Version 5.1 User Guide cover.

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.

Sandy Brosnahan and Jen Cramer (USGS Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center) gathering equipment needed to collect lidar data at Great Sippewisset Marsh in Falmouth, Massachusetts as part of a multiday, small uncrewed aerial system (sUAS) lidar training.

Great Sippewissett Marsh in Falmouth, Massachusetts. Picture taken during fieldwork as part of small, uncrewed aerial system (sUAS) lidar training.

Great Sippewissett Marsh in Falmouth, Massachusetts. Photo taken during sUAS lidar training.

Chris Sherwood (USGS) drives a remote controlled surface vehicle named the Yellow Cat - built by Peter Traykovski (WHOI) - that is mapping the bathymetry of a pond on North Core Banks with a small echo-sounder in Cape Lookout National Seashore, North Carolina.
Fall 2022 Photo Contest: Jin-Si Over, Honorable Mention category