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Dredging operations aboard the research vessel Alpha Crucis. The first dredge with successful rock recovery is wrangled back on deck.

Digital elevation model (left) and orthomosaic (right) of the middle Elwha River

Core racks filled with split cores in D-tubes in the K.O. Emery Geotechnical Wing walk-in refrigerator

Erika Lentz, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center Research Geologist interviewed by WBZ Boston Meterologist, Danielle Niles fora segment on sea-level rise

Research geologist, Erika Lentz, interviewed on Trunk River Beach, Falmouth, MA, by WBZ meterologist, Danielle Niles, about the future impacts of sea-level rise

Dawn breaks behind one of the bottom landers on deployment day.

 Sediment transport team members assemble chain, shackles and pear links that are are attached to the anchor and floats as part of deploying a mooring.

Sediment transport team members attach a quick-release to the top of a bottom lander prior to deployment

An instrumented bottom lander platform is lowered off the stern of the R/V Savannah during deploment

Sediment transport team members prepare to deploy a buoy instrumented with Meteorological sensors

The buoy that measures meteorological conditions at the site after deployment.

Sediment transport team members manage tag lines to control the motion of the bottom lander as it is deployed.

Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center Oceanographer, Neil Ganju, sharing science at the 2017 Woods Hole Science Stroll outreach event

Gerry Hatcher (left) and Shawn Harrison work on their video-camera station atop a hotel in Santa Cruz, California.

Map of Edwin B Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, N.J., marsh shoreline change rates.

Basemap of the United States with an overview image of elevation models

Authigenic carbonate supplies the foundation for deep-sea corals, including colonies of bubblegum corals (Paragorgia) seen here. 
 

(A) Maximum Likelihood Classification (MLC) with two inputs, slope, and ISO-classified backscatter for the whole survey area. (B) MLC with five inputs, slope, ISO-classified backscatter, bathymetry, hillshaded-relief, and curvature.

Time series of the coral reef at Grecian Rocks (Key Largo, FL) illustrating an example of the dramatic decline in live coral on Florida Keys reefs in recent decades. From Shinn and Kuffner (2017).

USGS research oceanographer Neil Ganju shares a time-lapse video showing salt marsh erosion.

Views of Cowells Beach in Santa Cruz, California, from a 10-minute video shot on May 6, 2017. Snapshot (first frame in video) on left; time-averaged image on right.