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Piles of sand for beach renourishment at Roger Wheeler State Beach, locally known as Sand Hill Cove, in Narragansett, Rhode Island.

A pile of sand at a house construction site in Narragansett, Rhode Island neighborhood.

Laura Brothers and Neil Ganju presented at the Gulf of Maine Symposium in Haverhill, Massachusetts in April, where more than 150 monitoring program coordinators and researchers, data users, and policymakers gathered to learn about ongoing research in the Gulf of Maine.

In March, Jin-Si Over gave a geology talk at Jonathan Bourne Public Library in Bourne, Massachusetts to about 40 people. Days later, there was a follow-up walk to identify rocks and minerals at Little Island Trust in Falmouth, Massachusetts with about 20 people.

Jennifer Cramer is preparing a wingtra lidar flight at the Darby Creek landfill Superfund site (Philadelphia skyline is visible on the horizon) on March 27, 2025.  sUAS, also known as a drone, is being used to model morphological changes in the tidal creek and adjacent landfill with lidar sensors, potential contaminated groundwater seeps are identified using th

The Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center Newsletter is distributed bimonthly, sharing recent communications activities on the web and beyond, journal articles and data releases, field activities, and other center happenings.

Researchers Chris Sherwood, Bo Bales, Eric Marsjanik and Steve Suttles from the Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center recover oceanographic instruments that measured waves, currents, and water levels off Cape Cod for three months this winter.

A critical update was made to the latest version of DSAS (6.0.170) to fix a bug that was preventing rate calculation. Everything is operating as intended as of 3/5/25.

Social media post on the USGS Coastal and Ocean Science Facebook account. The post highlights a recent study uses an innovative method to analyze significant earthquakes (M6.5+) in the northeast Caribbean to make future predictions.

Social media post on USGS Coastal and Ocean Science Facebook account. The post is one in a series of Software Sunday posts highlighting downloadable software in the Coastal Science Navigator.

Social media post on USGS Coastal and Ocean Science Facebook account. The post is one in a series of Valentine's Day posts highlighting USGS coastal and ocean science.

Gerry Hatcher discussing BOBSled technology to help inform the development of SEABOSS 3.0.

Scientists and technicians from the Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center (WHCMSC) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts traveled to the Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center (PCMSC) in Santa Cruz, California to learn about their seafloor imaging and sampling instrument—the Benthic Observation camera Sled, or BOBSled.

In collaboration with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Old Dominion University, we are assessing winter hydrological, thermal, and biogeochemical processes occurring in North Atlantic salt marshes across a latitudinal gradient for improved annual estimates of water and organic matter outwelling to the coastal ocean.

Scientists and technologists from the Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center (WHCMSC) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts traveled to the Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center (PCMSC) in Santa Cruz, California to learn about their seafloor imaging and sampling instrument—the Benthic Observation camera Sled, or BOBSled.

Social media post on USGS Coastal and Ocean Science Facebook account. The post highlights an article about USGS products that can be used for emergency management. https://www.usgs.gov/programs/cmhrp/news/approaching-storms 

Scientists and technologists from the Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center (WHCMSC) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts traveled to the Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center (PCMSC) in Santa Cruz, California to learn about their seafloor imaging and sampling instrument—the Benthic Observation camera Sled, or BOBSled.

Scientists and technologists from the Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center (WHCMSC) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts traveled to the Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center (PCMSC) in Santa Cruz, California to learn about their seafloor imaging and sampling instrument—the Benthic Observation camera Sled, or BOBSled.

The inner workings of the BOBSled bottle. 

Scientists and technicians from the Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center (WHCMSC) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts traveled to the Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center (PCMSC) in Santa Cruz, California to learn about their seafloor imaging and sampling instrument—the Benthic Observation camera Sled, or BOBSled.

A magnitude 7.0 earthquake ruptured the Mendocino Transform Fault offshore Northern California on December 5, 2024. The USGS and colleagues from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Ocean Bottom Seismic Instrument Center deployed our new fleet of rapid response ocean bottom seismographs just 11 days later—the fastest response in U.S. history.