Sara Ernst

Marie Bartlett at the 2025 Woods Hole Science Stroll on August 9, 2025. During this free event, a variety of booths line the streets, docks, and Waterfront Park to deliver hands-on science activities, games, demonstrations, and more to visitors of all ages. 

The USGS booth at the 2025 Woods Hole Science Stroll on August 9, 2025. During this free event, a variety of booths line the streets, docks, and Waterfront Park to deliver hands-on science activities, games, demonstrations, and more to visitors of all ages. 

Meagan Eagle used a gas analyzer and respiration chamber to demonstrate the role of salt marshes in carbon sequestration.

Eric Moore setup a shake table that moves in different directions, at varying frequencies to demonstrate the power of earthquakes. People built structures out of Legos to put on the shake table to test how buildings, bridges, and other infrastructure would behave during a real seismic event. 

The USGS booth at the 2025 Woods Hole Science Stroll on August 9, 2025. During this free event, a variety of booths line the streets, docks, and Waterfront Park to deliver hands-on science activities, games, demonstrations, and more to visitors of all ages. 

Eric Moore setup a shake table that moves in different directions, at varying frequencies to demonstrate the power of earthquakes. People built structures out of Legos to put on the shake table to test how buildings, bridges, and other infrastructure would behave during a real seismic event.

Meagan Eagle used a gas analyzer and respiration chamber to demonstrate the role of salt marshes in carbon sequestration.

USGS geographer Jin-Si Over at the 2024 Woods Hole Science Stroll, ready to discuss drones and how they are used to map short- and long-term changes in coastal environments.

Chris Polloni, a retired scientist who had a long career with USGS, with Kate and Seth Ackerman at the Woods Hole Science Stroll. Chris was known to always have a coffee mug in his hand and today was no different!

The Woods Hole Diversity Advisory Committee booth at the 2024 Woods Hole Science Stroll.

Alfredo Aretxabaleta (USGS Research and Equipment Development Grade Evaluation (RGE-EDGE) Senior Scientist) showing off the jenga set at the Woods Hole Diversity Committee booth at the Woods Hole Science Stroll. They chose to have jenga at the booth to represent different people working together to keep the structure standing.

USGS Geographer Jin-Si Over talking about drones and how they are used to map short- and long-term changes in coastal environments at the Woods Hole Science Stroll.

Visitor during the 2024 Woods Hole Science Stroll talking to Marie Bartlett (USGS Geologist) about the foraminifera she viewed in the USGS microscope.

Seth Ackerman (USGS Geologist) talking to a visitor at the USGS booth for the 2024 Woods Hole Science Stroll.

Seth Ackerman (USGS Geologist) discussing USGS science at the Woods Hole Science Stroll.

Zafer Defne (USGS Oceanographer) discussing operational ocean and coastal dynamics forecasts at the Woods Hole Science Stroll.

A curious young man, assissted by Marie Bartlett (USGS Geologist), looks through a microscope at the USGS booth at the Woods Hole Science Stroll to view foraminifera, tiny microfossils that live in marine environments. 

Microscope station at the USGS booth of the Woods Hole Science Stroll, looking at foraminifera, microfossils that live in marine environments.

USGS Geographer Jin-Si Over at the 2024 Woods Hole Science Stroll holding one of our drones.

USGS geographer Jin-Si Over at the 2024 Woods Hole Science Stroll, ready to discuss drones and how they are used to map short- and long-term changes in coastal environments.

USGS Geologist Marie Bartlett at the 2024 Woods Hole Science Stroll, ready for visitors to look at foraminifera, microfossils that live in marine environments, through our microscope.