Images

  Every inch of the deck of the R/V Connecticut is covered by instrumented platforms awaiting deployment on the seafloor south of Fire Island NY in winter 2014. 

Snowy owl visitor to CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent in the Arctic Ocean

Shaded relief image of Vineyard Sound, MA Shoals

USGS technicians prepare a sediment trap to sample the sea floor off Cape Hatteras.

USGS research chemist John Pohlman samples seep gas through ice in Lake Qalluuraq, located in continuous permafrost approximately 97 kilometers (60 miles) south of Barrow, Alaska.

Eric Moore, Wayne Baldwin, and Tommy O’Brien are deploying multichannel seismic streamer onboard R/V Pelican during a 2013 seismic cruise in the Gulf of Mexico as part of the gas hydrates program. 

A sonar on a bottom platform while steaming to the deployment site in the Columbia River in 2013.  The 3 platforms acquired data on currents and sediment transport at the river mouth over several months.

Sandy Brosnahan transporting a weather buoy into the Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center’s operational facility to continue the process of getting it ready to deploy.  This buoy was one of 6, deployed by John Warner and others, to measure wind speed, direction, pressure, and temperature off the coast of Fire Island, NY.  Paired with each weather b

Investigators prepare to place a Shallow Water Irradience Platform (SWIP) at a site in Barnegat Bay, NJ.

USGS research supports wetland conservation as critical habitat, Cape Cod, MA

USGS and Summer Interns from the Partnership Education Program (PEP) program sampling over a tidal cycle.

Equipment used for a measuring lateral fluxes over tidal cycle

A sensor is deployed to measure flow in a channel of the marsh in Rachel Carlson National Wildlife Refuge in 2013.

Methane bubbles (middle top) emitted in the Norfolk seep field. Chemosynthetic mussels encrust the seafloor near the seep. The image, which is several meters across, was acquired by NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research using the Deep Discoverer remotely operated vehicle in May 2013.

Adrian Mann is using a piezometer to extract submarine groundwater to analyze for geochemical parameters in Indian River Bay, DE.

Surveying A Barrier Island Evolution Research (BIER) program study site in the Chandeleur Islands in 2013. The survey data is used to map the pre-storm conditions.
 

Drone footage taken of the Woods Hole Oceanographic facility on the Quissett campus in Woods Hole Ma.  This is an example of a tidally restricted marsh system cutoff from tidal flows by the bike path.

Trunk River is an example of a tidally restricted impounded wetland (Cape Cod, MA).

Subsample from dredge DR2-001, collected as a part of the U.S. Extended Continental Shelf Project's research in the Arctic aboard the USCGC Healy on cruise HLY1202 (Field Activity 2012-038-FA).

Sand dunes in Avon on Cape Hatteras, NC are the only separation between many beach house communities and the Atlantic Ocean. 

Shaded relief image of Vineyard Sound, MA