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Our coasts, the most familiar part of the ocean are the gateway to the larger deeper ocean world. USGS studies processes and hazards in the coastal zone and how they affect people, wildlife, and ecosystems.

The Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center Sea Floor Mapping Group is mapping the seafloor and subseafloor of Nantucket Sound as part of a long-term collaboration with the State of Massachusetts. This is an image of a seismic reflection profile showing layers of sediment deposited during a glacial period.

The Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center Sea Floor Mapping Group is mapping the seafloor and subseafloor of Nantucket Sound as part of a long-term collaboration with the State of Massachusetts. While a crew is at sea collecting new data, geographer Brian Andrews is processing yesterday's seafloor mapping data.

The Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center Sea Floor Mapping Group mapping the seafloor and subseafloor of Nantucket Sound as part of a long-term collaboration with the State of Massachusetts. Eric Moore and Alex Nichols deploy the chirp subbottom profiler. The chirp is the device that allows us to see underneath the seafloor.

The USGS and the University of Maryland’s Chesapeake Biological Laboratory conducted a study in the Chesapeake Bay to quantify greenhouse gas fluxes from the largest estuary in the U.S.

The first page of the Coastal and Shelf Geology section in the FY21 Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center.

A page of the Coastal and Shelf Geology section of the 2021 WHCMSC Annual Report.

The title page of the 2021 Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center annual report.

Table of contents page for the 2021 Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center annual report.

Cover of the 2021 annual report. https://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/1495/cir1495.pdf 

Partnership Education Program intern Zachary Taylor and USGS Cooperative Summer Fellowship Program intern Simone Gibson collect a sediment core from a salt marsh in the Herring River Estuary. 

Summer student fellow Rachel Einecker collects water samples from the impounded Herring River Estuary to examine production of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. 

Partnership Education Program intern Zachary Taylor and USGS Cooperative Summer Fellowship Program intern Simone Gibson prepare a salt marsh sediment sample for analysis. 

USGS Cooperative Summer Fellowship Program intern Simone Gibson processes a marsh sediment core using a core splitter in the Core Laboratory. 

USGS Cooperative Summer Fellowship Program intern-turned federal employee Allyson Boggess describes a core from the New England Mud Patch in the Sediments Laboratory.

Summer student fellow Rachel Einecker measures iron concentrations in water samples using colorimetric methods. Dynamic iron cycling in coastal wetlands can suppress methane emissions. 

Partnership Education Program Intern Zachary Taylor prepares salt marsh sediment slurries for analysis. Zachary measured radium, a naturally occurring isotope, on sediment tracer of water flow through the salt marsh.

Chris Sherwood and Jin-Si Over of the USGS Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center setting up a global navigation satellite system rover in North Core Banks, North Carolina as part of rapid response to storms and recovery monitoring after Hurricane Florence (2018) and Dorian (2019).

Jin-Si Over presenting a poster, titled "Kites, Cameras, Action! High-resolution Small-scale Topo-bathy Mapping," at a federal workshop.

Carbon dioxide removal experiment led by Kevin Kroeger in Herring River in Wellfleet, Massachusetts.

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