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Sandy Brosnahan transporting a weather buoy into the Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center’s operational facility to continue the process of getting it ready to deploy.  This buoy was one of 6, deployed by John Warner and others, to measure wind speed, direction, pressure, and temperature off the coast of Fire Island, NY.  Paired with each weather b

Photo for upcoming seminar titled, “Sediment delivery across the bay-marsh interface of an estuarine salt marsh,” by Jessie Lacy.

A USGS diver carrying a scale bar and clipboard swims above Sombrero Reef, Florida Keys using SCUBA.

Image of ripples in sand, next to a rocky surface on the seafloor 2.5 km (1.5 miles) offshore San Mateo County, California at a depth of 24.6 meters (81 feet). The two red dots in the image (from lasers mounted on the camera and used as reference points) are 15 cm (6 inches) apart.

USGS diver taking a core of a 100-year-old coral to allow reconstruction of past ocean temperatures in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.

PCMSC research vessel Karluk

Investigators prepare to place a Shallow Water Irradience Platform (SWIP) at a site in Barnegat Bay, NJ.

USGS research supports wetland conservation as critical habitat, Cape Cod, MA

USGS and Summer Interns from the Partnership Education Program (PEP) program sampling over a tidal cycle.

Equipment used for a measuring lateral fluxes over tidal cycle

Estuarine salt marsh at China Camp State Park looking towards San Pablo Bay, northern San Francisco, California.

A sensor is deployed to measure flow in a channel of the marsh in Rachel Carlson National Wildlife Refuge in 2013.

Images of the remotely operated vehicle Jason2 sampling a sea urchin in a deep sea mussel community found near a gas seep on the U.S. outer continental shelf. Images courtesy Deepwater Canyons 2013 - Pathways to the Abyss expedition, NOAA-OER/BOEM/USGS.

Methane gas bubbles rise from the seafloor—this type of activity, originally noticed by NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer in 2012 on a multibeam sonar survey, is what led scientists to the area. Image courtesy of Deepwater Canyons 2013 – Pathways to the Abyss expedition, NOAA-OER/BOEM/USGS.

A lithodid crab seen on a bed of deep sea mussels living near a gas seep 1,600 meters below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean. Images courtesy Deepwater Canyons 2013 - Pathways to the Abyss expedition, NOAA-OER/BOEM/USGS.

Adrian Mann is using a piezometer to extract submarine groundwater to analyze for geochemical parameters in Indian River Bay, DE.

Assessing how storms move sediment during storms provides coastal scientists and managers the information they need to keep coastal communities safe and prosperous. And, lucky for us, provides many opportunities to see great coastal sunsets!

The San Clemente Dam, built in the 1920s on the Carmel River in Monterey County, California, was removed during 2014 and 2015.

Hurricane Sandy moved a house from barrier island to estuary, in this case into Barnegat Bay, NJ. Waves from extreme storms do the same with barrier island sediment.

Debris from Hurricane Sandy (Seaside Heights, NJ) is piled up behind an artificial dune in order to protect island infrastructure from the subsequent winter storm season. Like storms, humans change coasts too.

Surveying A Barrier Island Evolution Research (BIER) program study site in the Chandeleur Islands in 2013. The survey data is used to map the pre-storm conditions.