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Grizzly Bay dolphin with weather station installed on top

By Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
A structure made of wooden pilings with a platform around the top stands in water with fog and hills in the far background.
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A structure called a dolphin, permanently affixed in the sediment, stands in Grizzly Bay near San Francisco, CA, with a weather station installed on top. The USGS will use the data from the weather station in conjunction with other oceanographic data, in their studies of sediment movement in the bay.

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