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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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
Two USGS scientists launching an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) into the ocean from a Long Island, NY beach
Two USGS scientists launching an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) into the ocean from a Long Island, NY beach
USGS staffers on beach making bathymetric survey of Long Island barrier-island breach from Hurricane Sandy
USGS staffers on beach making bathymetric survey of Long Island barrier-island breach from Hurricane Sandy
USGS Team measuring the flow, velocity, width, and depth of the breach in the NPS Wilderness Area on Fire Island National Seashore
USGS Team measuring the flow, velocity, width, and depth of the breach in the NPS Wilderness Area on Fire Island National Seashore
A piping plover parent and chicks.
Geophysical logging at a borehole well in western Maryland
Geophysical logging at a borehole well in western Maryland
Long Island body of water
Sunset view looking northwest from Fishermans Cove, across Ashumet Pond, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The small sticks and flags in the lake are a sampling grid.
Sunset view looking northwest from Fishermans Cove, across Ashumet Pond, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The small sticks and flags in the lake are a sampling grid.
In this photo, Joseph Whittier, a student with the Maine Office of the New England Water Science Center, takes a break from scooping leaves to pose for a photo.
In this photo, Joseph Whittier, a student with the Maine Office of the New England Water Science Center, takes a break from scooping leaves to pose for a photo.
Sudbury Dam located in Southborough Massachusetts was built in 1894. A storehouse was built in 1900.
Sudbury Dam located in Southborough Massachusetts was built in 1894. A storehouse was built in 1900.
A buoy instrumented to collect meteorological observations is recovered off Fire Island, NY in 2014. The data collected is part of a study of the coastal processes that mobilize and transport sediment in the region
A buoy instrumented to collect meteorological observations is recovered off Fire Island, NY in 2014. The data collected is part of a study of the coastal processes that mobilize and transport sediment in the region
A remotely operated vessel starts a survey at dawn off Fire Island, NY in 2014. The data collected is part of a study of the coastal processes that mobilize and transport sediment in the region
A remotely operated vessel starts a survey at dawn off Fire Island, NY in 2014. The data collected is part of a study of the coastal processes that mobilize and transport sediment in the region
Indiana Harbor Canal at East Chicago, IN - ADCP boat measurement - Cherly Silcox
Indiana Harbor Canal at East Chicago, IN - ADCP boat measurement - Cherly Silcox
Indiana Harbor Canal at East Chicago, IN - walk bridge closeup
Indiana Harbor Canal at East Chicago, IN - walk bridge closeup
Field crew on Bob Allen Key in Florida Bay, Everglades National Park, April 14, 2014, conferring on next steps near core sites marked with orange flags. The mangroves that form the islands’ perimeter are to the left and in the background.
Field crew on Bob Allen Key in Florida Bay, Everglades National Park, April 14, 2014, conferring on next steps near core sites marked with orange flags. The mangroves that form the islands’ perimeter are to the left and in the background.
On April 10, 2014 hydrologic technicians Nick Stasulis and Anthony Underwood visited the USGS gaging station on Grand Lake Stream at Grand Lake Stream, Maine. The cableway was used to make a discharge measurement with an acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP).
On April 10, 2014 hydrologic technicians Nick Stasulis and Anthony Underwood visited the USGS gaging station on Grand Lake Stream at Grand Lake Stream, Maine. The cableway was used to make a discharge measurement with an acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP).
On April 9, 2014 a visit to the USGS gaging station on Libby Brook near Northfield, Maine showed that while runoff had caused a large rise in the small brook, there still remained a significant snowpack in the area.
On April 9, 2014 a visit to the USGS gaging station on Libby Brook near Northfield, Maine showed that while runoff had caused a large rise in the small brook, there still remained a significant snowpack in the area.