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Sand fencing can affect natural beach processes
Human modifications to beaches, such as sand fencing, sea walls and rock jetties, can alter natural beach processes like overwash. This can affect how much habitat for species like piping plovers is created by storms.
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USGS scientists are working to model shorebird habitat availability both today and in the future, given processes like sea-level rise, in an effort to support the efficient management of beaches for both people and nesting shorebirds. This photo shows an area on the Rockaway Peninsula where high quality shorebird habitat has been closed off to beach recreation.
Gateway National Recreation Area shown here on the Rockaway Peninsula
The beach-dependent shorebirds project at the Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center models current and future habitat availability for nesting shorebirds in an effort to map current and likely future habitat availability on a range of sites along the U.S. Atlantic coast. Sites include beaches with a high human-presence, such as the Gateway National Recreation Area
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Buoy recovery off Fire Island, NY
A buoy instrumented to collect meteorological observations is recovered off Fire Island, NY in 2014. The data collected is part of a study of the coastal processes that mobilize and transport sediment in the region
Dawn operations off Fire Island, NY
A remotely operated vessel starts a survey at dawn off Fire Island, NY in 2014. The data collected is part of a study of the coastal processes that mobilize and transport sediment in the region
USGS tilt current meter (white cylinder) in overwash channel
USGS tilt current meter (white cylinder) in overwash channel in the Sandwich Town Beach flooded during a Nor'Easter in March 2014
Oceanographic equipment covering the R/V Connecticut's deck
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.
Oceanographic equipment covering the deck of the R/V Connecticut
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.
Deploying multichannel seismic streamer
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.
sonar on a bottom platform
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.