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Dredging operations aboard the research vessel Alpha Crucis. The first dredge with successful rock recovery is wrangled back on deck.

The left panel shows the threatened elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata) alive and performing the critical ecosystem service of building the reef crest that protects shorelines during storms. The right panel shows a dead and quickly eroding skeleton of Elkhorn Coral.

Tim Collett, USGS research geologist, presenting at the Korean Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources' (KIGAM)  international program for geoscience resources.

Digital elevation model (left) and orthomosaic (right) of the middle Elwha River

Core racks filled with split cores in D-tubes in the K.O. Emery Geotechnical Wing walk-in refrigerator

Erika Lentz, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center Research Geologist interviewed by WBZ Boston Meterologist, Danielle Niles fora segment on sea-level rise

Research geologist, Erika Lentz, interviewed on Trunk River Beach, Falmouth, MA, by WBZ meterologist, Danielle Niles, about the future impacts of sea-level rise

Dawn breaks behind one of the bottom landers on deployment day.

 Sediment transport team members assemble chain, shackles and pear links that are are attached to the anchor and floats as part of deploying a mooring.

Sediment transport team members attach a quick-release to the top of a bottom lander prior to deployment

An instrumented bottom lander platform is lowered off the stern of the R/V Savannah during deploment

Sediment transport team members prepare to deploy a buoy instrumented with Meteorological sensors

The buoy that measures meteorological conditions at the site after deployment.

Sediment transport team members manage tag lines to control the motion of the bottom lander as it is deployed.

The USGS Utah Water Science Center and the Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center conducted a collaborative geophysical research effort within Lake Powell, UT-AZ to map the bathymetry of the lake and characterize shallow sediment deposition near the mouths of the San Juan and Colorado Rivers.

Location map for Bathymetry and backscatter intensity of the sea floor of the Sandy Hook artificial reef, offshore of New Jersey, data release.

Location Map of Atlantic Beach artificial reef, offshore of New York

Basemap image of the survey locations south of Long Island Sound

Browse collage for 2017-003-FA data release

 Barnegat Bay Little Egg Harbor Study Site

Methane-derived authigenic carbonate (MDAC) rocks on the seafloor on the U.S. Atlantic margin