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USGS personnel deploying instrumentation at the Stone Harbor marsh site in Stone Harbor, New Jersey on March 22, 2022. 

Woods Hole scientists surveyed Head of the Meadow Beach and Marconi Beach using a heli-kite, camera, and photogrammetry for the beach and bluffs, and an autonomous boat with GPS and sonar for the offshore portion. This work resulted in two data releases.

Upgraded USGS jumbo piston corer being readied for deployment off the research vessel Hugh R. Sharp in April 2022.

The Coastal and Estuarine Dynamics group at the WHCMSC maintained cameras along the Cape Cod National Seashore at Head of the Meadow Beach, North Truro, Massachusetts and Marconi Beach, Wellfleet, Massachusetts. The cameras are used to validate Total Water Level and Coastal Change forecasts.

Aerial imagery collected by airplane in the Outer Banks of North Carolina continued in FY22 as part of rapid response to storms and recovery monitoring after Hurricane Florence (2018) and Dorian (2019). Analysis of the flooding and erosion of North Core Banks during Hurricane Dorian was published.

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Aerial view of four vehicles parked on the beach at Ocracoke Inlet

Jen Cramer of the USGS Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center working with a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) rover in North Core Banks, North Carolina as part of rapid response to storms and recovery monitoring after Hurricane Florence (2018) and Dorian (2019).

Fieldwork was conducted in North Core Banks, North Carolina as part of rapid response to storms and recovery monitoring after Hurricane Florence (2018) and Dorian (2019). This work is supported by the Additional Supplemental Appropriations for the Disaster Relief Act of 2019 (Public Law 116–120, 113 Stat. 871).

Aerial imagery collected in the Outer Banks of North Carolina continued as part of rapid response to storms and recovery monitoring after Hurricane Florence (2018) and Dorian (2019). Analysis of the flooding and erosion of North Core Banks during Hurricane Dorian was published.

Unrestricted Phragmites wetland in Sage Lot Pond, Cape Cod, MA. Learn more about Continuous Water Level, Salinity, and Temperature Data from Monitoring Wells in Wetlands on the South Shore of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 2020

By circulating water downward through a clear chamber (“capture cone”), bubbles of gas can be held, imaged and studied over time.  The left image shows bubbles of xenon in the process of developing coatings of gas hydrate.  The shiny bubble indicated near the top is hydrate-free, the white/opaque bubbles have coatings of xenon hydrate.  A few bubbles

Pre- and post-Hurricane Dorian aerial imagery showing extreme sediment transport, overwash and breaches along the barrier islands of the North Carolina coast.

Monitoring well in a restored marsh on Cape Cod, MA.  Learn more about Continuous Water Level, Salinity, and Temperature Data from Monitoring Wells in Herring River Wetlands, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 2020-2021

Tidally restricted Typha wetland in the Herring River Estuary.  Learn more about  Continuous Water Level, Salinity, and Temperature Data from Monitoring Wells in Herring River Wetlands, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 2020-2021 

 Bathymetric map of Grand Traverse Bay, Lake Superior.  The 2018 data are shown in gray hillshade, with the combined 2021 data superimposed in color.  Index map at lower right shows the extent of each survey. 

Detailed bathymetric maps of Buffalo Reef.  Improvements in grid resolution between the 2018 (left) and 2021 (right) surveys were facilitated by decreasing line spacing from 50 meters to 35 meters or less between adjacent lines.  

USGS scientist cuts open core taken in the field to sample soils and vegetation for chemical analysis. 

The AIM group sent three members to Cape Hatteras National Seashore in North Carolina to train new U.S. National Park Service uncrewed aircraft system pilots in structure from motion best practices. The group was able to map the Bodie Island Lighthouse (pictured here) and a section of the beach at Ocracoke Inlet.

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Robert (Bo) Bales works on a Aquadopp for deployment

The marshes of Plum Island Estuary are among those predicted by scientists to submerge during the next century under conservative projections of sea-level rise.

Grain density results obtained using a pycnometer inform other geotechnical testing, such as the consolidation results from the laboratory’s oedometers.