Images

Kat Powelson and Patrick Dickhudt deploy an upward-looking current sensor in the marsh at Seal Beach, California.

Mapping one of the targets used as a ground control point. Left to right: Rob Thieler, Sandy Brosnahan, Alex Nichols.

Home page of the U.S. Geological Survey Oceanographic Time-Series Data Collection. The horizontal navigation bar provides navigation between sections, and the interactive map allows users to easily browse the data holdings and identify sites of interest and view the types of data included in the datasets.

Zoomed-in view of the sites comprising the Fire Island 2012 (black stars) and 2014 (blue stars) experiments. The pop-up window (displayed by clicking the icon) contains information specific to the site selected.

Barry Irwin and Sandy Brosnahan set up the differential global positioning system on the lawn of the old Coast Guard Station, Cape Cod National Seashore.

Detail of the near-infrared point cloud over a portion of Nauset Marsh. The faint reddish tinges are the first glimmer of spring growth at the edges of the marsh.

A diver examines the coral reef along Molokini Crater off of the island of Maui, Hawaii.

Phosphorite rock formed on the seafloor in Southern California.

The map on sheet 7 shows “potential” marine benthic habitats in the Monterey Canyon and Vicinity map area, representing a substrate type, geomorphology, seafloor process, or any other attribute that may provide a habitat for a specific species or assemblage of organisms.

Animated GIF of wave runup and setup on a beach on a stormy day during Tropical Storm Colin in Florida. Full b-roll video: https://www.usgs.gov/media/videos/wave-runup-during-tropical-storm-coli…

Screenshot of Total Water Level and Coastal Change Forecast Viewer on June 4, 2016, two days before Tropical Storm Colin was expected to hit Florida’s Gulf of Mexico coast.

Marinna Martini is deploying a weather buoy off the coast of Plymouth Ma.

A specialized wave buoy was deployed at the site farthest from shore to measure the height, period, and direction of surface waves and telemeter the data to the Coastal Data Information Program (CDIP)

Tripod deployed on the reef flat off Jurabi, Ningaloo World Heritage Site, Western Australia, with instrumentation designed to measure tides, waves, currents, and sediment being transported across the reef.

Cerulean damselfish dart around lettuce coral off the Cape Range National Park along the Ningaloo Coast in Western Australia. USGS researchers combined forces with Australian colleagues in this UNESCO World Heritage Site to conduct the most extensive study of how erosion of reefs contribute sand to the beaches—a coast’s natural armor.

USGS scientists are working to model shorebird habitat availability both today and in the future, given processes like sea-level rise, in an effort to support the efficient management of beaches for both people and nesting shorebirds.

USGS scientists are working to model shorebird habitat availability both today and in the future, given processes like sea-level rise, in an effort to support the efficient management of beaches for both people and nesting shorebirds.

The beach-dependent shorebirds project at the Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center models current and future habitat availability for nesting shorebirds in an effort to map current and likely future habitat availability on a range of sites along the U.S. Atlantic coast.

USGS scientists are working to model shorebird habitat availability both today and in the future, given processes like sea-level rise, in an effort to support the efficient management of beaches for both people and nesting shorebirds.

USGS collaborators from Marine Biological Laboratory preparing to measure greenhouse gas flux from a salt marsh study site (Cape Cod, MA).

Tripod holding instruments and cameras used to measure and study aspects of sediment movement in and around the reef.

USGS scientists are working to model shorebird habitat availability both today and in the future, given processes like sea-level rise, in an effort to support the efficient management of beaches for both people and nesting shorebirds. This photo shows an area on Long Beach Island, NJ where high quality shorebird habitat has been closed off to beach recreation.