Images

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

Equipment used for a measuring lateral fluxes over tidal cycle

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

Hurricane Sandy struck the New Jersey shore October 29–31, 2012. Houses, cars, and a street in Seaside Heights, New Jersey, were covered in beach sand after the hurricane's storm tide receded

Image showing a study area from Boston Harbor to the mouth of Cape Cod Bay including some images of geophysical and sample data available in the associated report.

Airborne lidar (light detection and ranging) surveys recorded coastal elevations before and after Hurricane Sandy and documented a large barrier-island breach near Mantoloking, New Jersey. Left: Pre-storm elevations acquired October 26, 2012. Center: Post-storm elevations acquired November 1, 2012.

Satellite image of Hurricane Sandy (courtesy NASA GOES http://weather.msfc.nasa.gov/GOES/)

Acoustic backscatter intensity data are an indication of the relative hardness or softness of the sea floor, which is closely related to sediment texture and cohesion. The map shows acoustic backscatter intensity of the sea floor in the Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts.

USGS hydrologist Kaitlyn Colella and a Shinnecock Nation member work together gathering oyster and bed sediment samples along Long Island, New York, coast.

 Left to right: Mike Bastoni (volunteer) and Lisa Engler (Massachusetts Bays Program) deploying the USGS-desgined SEABed Observation and Sampling System (SEABOSS) from Ocean Survey Vessel Bold, with Marinna Martini (USGS) running the winch