Installing a water level gauge and camera in Grand Bay, Mississippi

Kathryn Smith of the USGS St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center stands with Nicole Khan (former USGS) and Dan Nowacki of the Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center in the water near a salt marsh shoreline in Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in Mississippi. The scientists were installing a water level gauge and a time-lapse camera to examine marsh shoreline erosion (watch the time lapse: Rapid salt-marsh erosion in Grand Bay, Mississippi). 

Learn more about the Estuarine and MaRsh Geology (EMRG) Project.