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Seth Ackerman (USGS Geologist) talking to a visitor at the USGS booth for the 2024 Woods Hole Science Stroll.

USGS Geologist Marie Bartlett at the 2024 Woods Hole Science Stroll, ready for visitors to look at foraminifera, microfossils that live in marine environments, through our microscope.

USGS Geographer and drone pilot Jen Cramer showing visitors USGS uncrewed aircraft system technology and talking about how drones are used to map short- and long-term changes in coastal environments.

USGS Geographer Jin-Si Over talking about drones and how they are used to map short- and long-term changes in coastal environments at the Woods Hole Science Stroll.

Alfredo Aretxabaleta (USGS Research and Equipment Development Grade Evaluation (RGE-EDGE) Senior Scientist) showing off the jenga set at the Woods Hole Diversity Committee booth at the Woods Hole Science Stroll. They chose to have jenga at the booth to represent different people working together to keep the structure standing.

The Woods Hole Diversity Advisory Committee booth at the 2024 Woods Hole Science Stroll.

Chris Polloni, a retired scientist who had a long career with USGS, with Kate and Seth Ackerman at the Woods Hole Science Stroll. Chris was known to always have a coffee mug in his hand and today was no different!

USGS Geographer Jin-Si Over at the 2024 Woods Hole Science Stroll holding one of our drones.

USGS Geographer Jin-Si Over talking about drones and how they are used to map short- and long-term changes in coastal environments at the Woods Hole Science Stroll.

USGS geographer Jin-Si Over at the 2024 Woods Hole Science Stroll, ready to discuss drones and how they are used to map short- and long-term changes in coastal environments.

USGS Geographer Jen Cramer showing off our uncrewed aircraft system technology at the Woods Hole Science Stroll.

USGS Geologist Marie Bartlett at the 2024 Woods Hole Science Stroll, ready for visitors to look at foraminifera, microfossils that live in marine environments, through our microscope.

Scenic photo of Domes Beach in Rincon, Puerto Rico. Photo credit: Emily Himmelstoss.

An antibiotic resistance gene (ARG) microarray in the Real-Time PCR (RT-PCR) machine.

These shells are what remains of a Native American shell midden that is located along an actively eroding shoreline in Apalachicola Bay.

Estuarine shoreline erosion exposes a Native American shell midden beneath the surface of a coastal flatwood forest. Shell middens are the discarded shells and materials from generations of Indigenous people who lived along U.S. coastlines.

Florida archaeologist, Nicole Grinnan, talks about the vulnerability of Native American shell middens to coastal erosion from sea level rise and storms along the Apalachicola Bay.

Two shards of Native American pottery found at shell midden site that is located on an actively eroding shoreline of Apalachicola Bay. The shards show distinctive markings created by paleo Indians thousands of years ago.

The estuarine shoreline of barrier islands along the Gulf of America are vulnerable to shoreline erosion. Structures, such as this rock breakwater, can be used to protect the shoreline from erosional waves.

The estuarine (backbarrier) shoreline of barrier islands in Gulf of America are complex, ecologically diverse habitats that are under threat due to human development, sea level rise, and storms.

Screenshot of CoastSeg interface, from the study CoastSeg: an accessible and extendable hub for satellite-derived-shoreline (SDS) detection and mapping.