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Five dark goose silhouettes fly over a mountainous landscape
Tule white-fronted geese flying over Summer Lake Wildlife Area
Tule white-fronted geese flying over Summer Lake Wildlife Area
Tule white-fronted geese flying over Summer Lake Wildlife Area

Five tule white-fronted geese flying over Summer Lake Wildlife Area, the primary stopover site for this species on its fall migration.

Six dark goose silhouettes fly over a mountainous landscape
Tule white-fronted geese flying over Summer Lake Wildlife Area, OR
Tule white-fronted geese flying over Summer Lake Wildlife Area, OR
Tule white-fronted geese flying over Summer Lake Wildlife Area, OR

Six tule white-fronted geese flying over Summer Lake Wildlife Area, the primary stopover site for this species on its fall migration.

About a dozen geese in silhouette flap their wings and turn sideways and upside down in midair
Tule white-fronted geese landing in Summer Lake Wildlife Area
Tule white-fronted geese landing in Summer Lake Wildlife Area
Tule white-fronted geese landing in Summer Lake Wildlife Area

Tule white-fronted geese get ready to land at Summer Lake Wildlife Area in Oregon. The geese turn upside down and sideways to drop altitude quickly to land, a behavior known as "whiffling" or "maple leafing."

Tule white-fronted geese get ready to land at Summer Lake Wildlife Area in Oregon. The geese turn upside down and sideways to drop altitude quickly to land, a behavior known as "whiffling" or "maple leafing."

Five tule geese take off at the edge of a wetland
Tule white-fronted geese take off from Summer Lake Wildlife Area
Tule white-fronted geese take off from Summer Lake Wildlife Area
Tule white-fronted geese take off from Summer Lake Wildlife Area

Five tule white-fronted geese take off from Summer Lake Wildlife Area, the primary stopover site for this species on its fall migration.

Two high-resolution, digital cameras are mounted on towers overlooking the beach and dunes
Two CoastCams installed in the Outer Banks for DUNEX project
Two CoastCams installed in the Outer Banks for DUNEX project
boat on large body of water heading underneath a large bridge
Hudson River Spatial Mapping Boat Trip- photo for video
Hudson River Spatial Mapping Boat Trip- photo for video
Hudson River Spatial Mapping Boat Trip- photo for video

an Image from a video recording taken during a spatial mapping boat trip of about 50 miles on the Hudson River from New Hamburg to Yonkers, NY, passing through the Hudson Highlands, West Point, and the Tappan Zee.

an Image from a video recording taken during a spatial mapping boat trip of about 50 miles on the Hudson River from New Hamburg to Yonkers, NY, passing through the Hudson Highlands, West Point, and the Tappan Zee.

Hudson River Spatial Mapping Trip
Hudson River Spatial Mapping Trip
Hudson River Spatial Mapping Trip

This is a video recording taken during a spatial mapping boat trip of about 50 miles on the Hudson River from New Hamburg to Yonkers, NY, passing through the Hudson Highlands, West Point, and the Tappan Zee.

This is a video recording taken during a spatial mapping boat trip of about 50 miles on the Hudson River from New Hamburg to Yonkers, NY, passing through the Hudson Highlands, West Point, and the Tappan Zee.

Water, sediment supply reqs—post-wildfire debris flows in western U.S.
Water, sediment supply reqs—post-wildfire debris flows in western U.S.
Water, sediment supply reqs—post-wildfire debris flows in western U.S.

We sometimes fall back on an implicit model that post-wildfire debris flows are only triggered once a certain level of saturation or rainfall is reached, and that the sediment supply is soon exhausted and future flows are unlikely until it recharges.

We sometimes fall back on an implicit model that post-wildfire debris flows are only triggered once a certain level of saturation or rainfall is reached, and that the sediment supply is soon exhausted and future flows are unlikely until it recharges.

Two boats and multiple people on a calm ocean with a clear blue sky
USGS personnel and contracted divers work together to install instrume
USGS personnel and contracted divers work together to install instrume
USGS personnel and contracted divers work together to install instrume

To install instruments offshore professional divers were hired to work alongside USGS personnel. Here, long segments of pipe are jetted into the seafloor to which instruments will be attached to measure offshore oceanographic conditions.

A woman sitting cross legged on top of a ladder writing in a notebook next to long skinny equipment
USGS researcher uses RTk equipment to locate installed instruments
USGS researcher uses RTk equipment to locate installed instruments
USGS researcher uses RTk equipment to locate installed instruments

USGS researcher Jenna Brown takes a measurement with a real time kinematic GPS receiver, this will give her an accurate position and height of the aluminum pole beneath it, which will have mutliple instruments attached to it to measure water flow and elevation changes.

USGS researcher Jenna Brown takes a measurement with a real time kinematic GPS receiver, this will give her an accurate position and height of the aluminum pole beneath it, which will have mutliple instruments attached to it to measure water flow and elevation changes.

A white balloon-shaped kite being held in the air
A helikite used to collect imagery of the coastline
A helikite used to collect imagery of the coastline
A helikite used to collect imagery of the coastline

An alternative to uncrewed aerial systems (UAS; commonly known as 'drones'), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists use helikites equipped with cameras to collect imagery of the coastline. The pictures collected by these helium-powered kite-balloons are used to create a 3D digital elevation map of the beach.

An alternative to uncrewed aerial systems (UAS; commonly known as 'drones'), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists use helikites equipped with cameras to collect imagery of the coastline. The pictures collected by these helium-powered kite-balloons are used to create a 3D digital elevation map of the beach.

Aerial view of a sandy beach and dune. A scientists holds a post near a black and white marker on the ground.
DUNEX beach profile survey
DUNEX beach profile survey
DUNEX beach profile survey

Overhead image collected by a helikite of field work being conducted in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. An alternative to uncrewed aerial systems (UAS; commonly known as 'drones'), USGS scientists use helikites equipped with cameras to collect imagery of the coastline.

Overhead image collected by a helikite of field work being conducted in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. An alternative to uncrewed aerial systems (UAS; commonly known as 'drones'), USGS scientists use helikites equipped with cameras to collect imagery of the coastline.

A person walks along a sandy scarped dune near the waves under a cloudy sky, pulling along a white balloon-shaped kite
Flying a helikite to survey the beach
Flying a helikite to survey the beach
Flying a helikite to survey the beach

An alternative to uncrewed aerial systems (UAS; commonly known as 'drones'), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists use helikites equipped with cameras to collect imagery of the coastline. The pictures collected by these helium-powered kite-balloons are used to create a 3D digital elevation map of the beach.

An alternative to uncrewed aerial systems (UAS; commonly known as 'drones'), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists use helikites equipped with cameras to collect imagery of the coastline. The pictures collected by these helium-powered kite-balloons are used to create a 3D digital elevation map of the beach.

A person walks down a sandy shoreline near the waves under a cloudy sky, pulling along a white balloon-shaped kite
Flying a helikite to survey the beach
Flying a helikite to survey the beach
Flying a helikite to survey the beach

An alternative to uncrewed aerial systems (UAS; commonly known as 'drones'), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists use helikites equipped with cameras to collect imagery of the coastline. The pictures collected by these helium-powered kite-balloons are used to create a 3D digital elevation map of the beach.

An alternative to uncrewed aerial systems (UAS; commonly known as 'drones'), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists use helikites equipped with cameras to collect imagery of the coastline. The pictures collected by these helium-powered kite-balloons are used to create a 3D digital elevation map of the beach.

Image of the Week - Ida Rains on Eastern Pennsylvania
Image of the Week - Ida Rains on Eastern Pennsylvania
Image of the Week - Ida Rains on Eastern Pennsylvania

The remnants of Hurricane Ida dumped several inches of rain on eastern Pennsylvania.

These Landsat images show the Schuylkill River west of Philadelphia where muddied waters rose in several communities.

This image from August 26th shows typical river levels in the Phoenixville area.

The remnants of Hurricane Ida dumped several inches of rain on eastern Pennsylvania.

These Landsat images show the Schuylkill River west of Philadelphia where muddied waters rose in several communities.

This image from August 26th shows typical river levels in the Phoenixville area.

A beach with vegetated dunes and ocean waves approaching the shoreline. Houses are seen on the island in the distance.
Outer Banks, North Carolina coastline
Outer Banks, North Carolina coastline
Outer Banks, North Carolina coastline

Coastal communities, especially those on barrier islands, are vulnerable to processes of coastal change. The DUring Nearshore Event eXperiment (DUNEX) project is a multi-agency, a

a photo of the beach and land with hazy blue skies and infrastructure
Data collection at Duck USACE Field Research Station
Data collection at Duck USACE Field Research Station
Data collection at Duck USACE Field Research Station

The US Army Corps of Engineers Field Research Facility in Duck, NC has set up a variety of sensors and arrays on the beach to measure oceanographic paramters for DUNEX

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