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Jin-Si Over at the 2025 Woods Hole Science Stroll on August 9, 2025. During this free event, a variety of booths line the streets, docks, and Waterfront Park to deliver hands-on science activities, games, demonstrations, and more to visitors of all ages. 

Jin-Si Over at the 2025 Woods Hole Science Stroll on August 9, 2025. During this free event, a variety of booths line the streets, docks, and Waterfront Park to deliver hands-on science activities, games, demonstrations, and more to visitors of all ages. 

Seth Ackerman showing drones to Science Stroll attendees. The Aerial Imaging and Mapping Group showcased uncrewed aircraft system technology (drones) of all sizes and talked about how they’re used to map short- and long-term changes in coastal landscapes. The group also flew one of the drones to demonstrate how they’re piloted.

Jin-Si Over talking to an attendee about foraminifera, tiny microfossils that live in marine environments. Scientists at the USGS use foraminifera to determine the age of sediment found many meters below the seafloor and to learn more about past climate conditions.

Zafer Defne discussing COAWST, a modeling system that allows many sophisticated models to feedback to one another to accurately simulate physical storm processes.

Eric Moore setup a shake table that moves in different directions, at varying frequencies to demonstrate the power of earthquakes. People built structures out of Legos to put on the shake table to test how buildings, bridges, and other infrastructure would behave during a real seismic event. 

Marie Bartlett at the 2025 Woods Hole Science Stroll on August 9, 2025. During this free event, a variety of booths line the streets, docks, and Waterfront Park to deliver hands-on science activities, games, demonstrations, and more to visitors of all ages. 

Brita Jessen and Eric Moore at the earthquake station at the 2025 Woods Hole Science Stroll on August 9, 2025. We setup a shake table that moves in different directions, at varying frequencies to demonstrate the power of earthquakes.

USGS at the 2025 Woods Hole Science Stroll on August 9, 2025! This year's participants included Meagan Eagle, Eric Moore, Zafer Defne, Marie Bartlett, Sara Ernst, Amit Millo, Seth Ackerman, Brita Jessen, and Alfredo Aretxabaleta.

Location of BeachX. Inset wave rose shows the location and distribution of offshore waves from ERA5. b The detailed map of BeachX (Curl Curl Beach, New South Wales, Australia). The color gradient at the seaside indicates bathymetry. Yellow lines represent transects. Red dots show the location of nearshore waves.

Curl Curl Beach, New South Wales, Australia, the test site used in the collaborative shoreline modeling workshop ShoreShop2.0, from the study Benchmarking shoreline prediction models over multi-decadal timescales.

The USGS office in Woods Hole, MA recently conducted a survey of Long Pond—a local waterbody in the town of Falmouth. Long Pond has been Falmouth’s primary drinking water source since 1898.

In August, the Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center had four great presentations from summer interns discussing various aspects of salt marsh science!

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and USGS prepared four activities for the Preserving Our Homelands Summer Camp on July 22nd. EPA hosted an air quality monitoring activity that involved the campers conducting tests and participating in a guided discussion about factors contributing to air quality and its implications on people and habitat.

An example seasonally rotating beach of southern California (Salt Creek Beach, 33.4788°N, 117.7237°W) showing (a,b) general patterns of rotation from satellite imagery, (c) spatial distribution of seasonal shoreline excursions (marker size) and timing of the shoreline seasonality (marker colour) from the STL and k-means results and (d) time series of shoreline posit

Aerial image of Estero de San Antonio on Bodega Bay, an example of a seasonally rotating pocket beach in California.

A recent USGS study highlights the impacts of #hurricanes and #storms on #barrierislands, focusing on the outwash process, where flooding from behind the dunes removes sand, plants, and seeds, washing them into the #ocean. 

BAYEX predictions of 100-year storm surge return levels and associated 90% credible interval widths for the entire US coastline. From the study Observations reveal changing coastal storm extremes around the United States.

The USGS used #drones to collect aerial remote sensing data across the Lower #DarbyCreek Area Superfund Site and the adjacent #JohnHeinzNationalWildlifeRefuge, about 5 miles outside of #Philadelphia, PA. The data release is now available: https://doi.org/10.5066/P134HU3Y.  

New data release presents an update to the Coastal Response Likelihood model—a spatially explicit, probabilistic model that evaluates coastal response for the Northeastern U.S. under various sea-level scenarios. https://doi.org/10.5066/P13JKJUT  

Preparing equipment to map the geologic framework of Nantucket Sound, offshore Cape Cod, Massachusetts.