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Borehole logging

Cornell University's Geothermal Test Site on Roosevelt Island, NY

USGS hydrologist conducting a groundwater elevation survey on Long Island, New York

Water-quality sampling on Long Island, New York

Marinna Martini prepares to deploy a NIMBBLE from the R/V Connecticut south of Martha's Vineyard

Drilling on Maravista peninsula in Falmouth, Massachusetts

The Salt Marsh Observatory at Sage Lot Pond in the Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve serves as an important platform for research in coastal salt marshes. Infrastrucutre in this marsh allows researchers to access sites while maintaining habitat and platform health.

A Sontek IQ ADCP measures depth and velocity of a salt marsh creek (Cape Cod, MA)

Jen Suttles collects water samples from a salt marsh tidal creek (East Falmouth, MA) for laboratory analysis of total organic carbon.  These samples will be compared to data recorded by instrumentation deployed in an adjacent tidal creek as part of research efforts to quantify carbon dynamics in coastal ecosystems

Licking River at Highway 536 near Alexandria, Kentucky gage

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists collecting water-quality samples from shallow groundwater under Ashumet Pond, Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

 Sara Zeigler (USGS) uses the smartphone data collection app ‘iPlover’ to classify the landscape characteristics in an area immediately surrounding a piping plover nest (here, protected with a black mesh predator exclosure).

Human modifications to beaches, such as sand fencing, sea walls and rock jetties, can alter natural beach processes like overwash. This can affect how much habitat for species like piping plovers is created by storms.

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 the Rockaway Peninsula where high quality shorebird habitat has been closed off to beach recreation.

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 Team measuring the flow, velocity, width, and depth of the breach in the NPS Wilderness Area on Fire Island National Seashore

USGS staffers on beach making bathymetric survey of Long Island barrier-island breach from Hurricane Sandy

A piping plover parent and chicks.

Two USGS scientists launching an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) into the ocean from a Long Island, NY beach

Geophysical logging at a borehole well in western Maryland