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Images below come from a wide variety of USGS science activities in the Northeast Region. Science Center staff showcase what we do, who we are, and where we work conducting science that inform decision makers and addresses societal needs. 

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Image of R/V Connecticut's deck loaded with oceanographic equipment.
Oceanographic equipment covering the R/V Connecticut's deck
Oceanographic equipment covering the R/V Connecticut's deck
Oceanographic equipment covering the R/V Connecticut's deck

Every inch of the deck of the R/V Connecticut is covered by instrumented platforms awaiting deployment on the seafloor south of Fire Island NY in winter 2014.

 

Image of oceanographic equipment covering the deck of the R/V Connecticut
Oceanographic equipment covering the deck of the R/V Connecticut
Oceanographic equipment covering the deck of the R/V Connecticut
Oceanographic equipment covering the deck of the R/V Connecticut


  Every inch of the deck of the R/V Connecticut is covered by instrumented platforms awaiting deployment on the seafloor south of Fire Island NY in winter 2014. 

 

Photograph of a Snowy Owl in flight
Snowy Owl
Snowy Owl
John Pohlman samples seep gas through ice in Lake Qalluuraq
Sampling seep gas through the ice in Lake Qalluuraq, Barrow Alaska
Sampling seep gas through the ice in Lake Qalluuraq, Barrow Alaska
Sampling seep gas through the ice in Lake Qalluuraq, Barrow Alaska

USGS research chemist John Pohlman samples seep gas through ice in Lake Qalluuraq, located in continuous permafrost approximately 97 kilometers (60 miles) south of Barrow, Alaska.

sonar on a bottom platform while steaming to the deployment site in the Columbia River
sonar on a bottom platform
sonar on a bottom platform
sonar on a bottom platform

A sonar on a bottom platform while steaming to the deployment site in the Columbia River in 2013.  The 3 platforms acquired data on currents and sediment transport at the river mouth over several months.

A sonar on a bottom platform while steaming to the deployment site in the Columbia River in 2013.  The 3 platforms acquired data on currents and sediment transport at the river mouth over several months.

Sandy Brosnahan transporting a weather buoy into the Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center’s operational facility
Weather buoy transport!
Weather buoy transport!
Weather buoy transport!

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

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

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