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Taken on the last full day of the Cape Cod Bay 2019 Survey, from the wheel house of the boat at about 5:45 am.

Northeast Region Photo Contest Winner | Sept 2019 | Honorable Mention
Sunrise from the bridge of the M/V Warren Jr. while surveying Cape Cod Bay, MA

Wayne Baldwin, Alex Nichols, and Brian Andrews get the 512i chirp subbottom profiler back on deck! The instrument weights ~500lbs. and requires the ships A-frame to lift it! We only take the chirp out of the water when we need to perform maintenance, transit rapidly, or for weather.

Wayne Baldwin, Alex Nichols, and Brian Andrews get the 512i chirp subbottom profiler back on deck! The instrument weights ~500lbs. and requires the ships A-frame to lift it! We only take the chirp out of the water when we need to perform maintenance, transit rapidly, or for weather.

Wayne Baldwin, Alex Nichols, and Brian Andrews get the 512i chirp subbottom profiler back on deck! The instrument weights ~500lbs. and requires the ships A-frame to lift it! We only take the chirp out of the water when we need to perform maintenance, transit rapidly, or for weather.

Northeast Region Photo Contest, August 2019, USGS at Work
Melissa Roach, biologist, with the Patuxent Bird Banding Lab, keeps pelican chicks that are waiting for banding from sneaking away into the marsh on Smith Island in Chesapeake Bay

Before deploying the subbottom profiler for leg 2 of the Cape Cod Bay 2019 Survey, Wayne Baldwin, Alex Nichols, and Chuck Worley made sure that the floats are sufficiently inflated. In the relatively shallow waters of Cape Cod Bay we want the instrument towed at water's surface for the resolution of the sub seafloor geology.

2270-trackline kilometers of geophysical data and 320 km^2 of continuous bathy/backscatter was collected in Leg 1 of the Cape Cod Bay 2019 seafloor mapping cruise.

2270-trackline kilometers of geophysical data and 320 km^2 of continuous bathy/backscatter was collected in Leg 1 of the Cape Cod Bay 2019 seafloor mapping cruise.

2270-trackline kilometers of geophysical data and 320 km^2 of continuous bathy/backscatter was collected in Leg 1 of the Cape Cod Bay 2019 seafloor mapping cruise.

Sunset photo taken during Cape Cod Bay sea-floor mapping cruise.

Marinna Martini doing an instrumentation show-and-tell at the 2019 Science Stroll.

Marinna Martini doing an instrumentation show-and-tell at the 2019 Science Stroll.

Marinna Martini doing an instrumentation show-and-tell at the 2019 Science Stroll.

Marinna Martini doing an instrumentation show-and-tell at the 2019 Science Stroll.

Marinna Martini doing an instrumentation show-and-tell at the 2019 Science Stroll.

Kids learning about drone work, while they view virtual drone footage taken during the Kilauea volcanic eruption, at the 2019 Science Stroll.

Julia Moriarty showing and talking to the public about drone equipment at the 2019 Science Stroll.

People waiting to get to the information table at the 2019 Science Stroll.

Elizabeth Pendelton of the USGS teaching visitors about drones and letting them view virtual drone footage taken during the Kilauea volcanic eruption at the 2019 Science Stroll outreach event.

Marinna Martini showing and talking about different instrumentation used for sediment transport research at the 2019 Science Stroll.