Images

A methane seep in shallow Lake Qalluuraq on the Alaskan North Slope near the Native Village of Atqasuk breaks the water's surface during 2009 geophysical surveys

Canadian Coast Guard Ship Louis S. St. Laurent alongside U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy in the Arctic Ocean. The United States and Canada are mapping the Arctic seafloor and gathering data to help define the outer limits of the continental shelf in this region. 

 U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy breaks ice ahead of the Canadian Coast Guard Ship Louis S. St-Laurent on September 1, 2009. The two ships were part of a multi-year, multi-agency Arctic survey that will help define the North American continental shelf.

Inlet to Pickwacket Pond, NY

The Native communities’ in-ground food storage facilities are being lost as a result of eroding bluffs and thawing permafrost.

Fire Island, NY sand dunes with protective sand fencing

Fire Island, New York shoreline

Shorebirds on the shoreline on a Fire Island, NY beach

Ocean side homes on Fire Island, New York

Science crew ran the multichannel seismic equipment, sonobuoy refraction equipment, navigation, marine mammal observations program, and incidental science studies.  Dr. Deborah Hutchinson (USGS liaison aboard the Canadian icebreaker) is 7^th from the right.  Dr. David Mosher, Chief Scientist aboard Louis is 10^th from the right.

Raindbow trout in New York stream

Collecting periphyton samples from the Upper Esopus Creek

Seismic Lab aboard CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent

Protected Species Observer aboard CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent

U.S. and Canadian two icebreaker collaboration in the Arctic Ocean. Flags flying from CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent.

Upper Esopus Creek Water Quality

Blue Ridge Sculpin from Wikimedia Commons

Didymosphenia in hand along the Upper Esopus Creek 2009

Inlet into Pleasant bay, looking north to Nauset Beach, Cape Cod National Seashore, Chatham, MA

2009 oblique photos of Cape Cod Bay from a USGS overflight