Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

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

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.

Shaded relief image of Vineyard Sound, MA Shoals

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.

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

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 buoy was a

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

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

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.