Images

A coastal home damaged by Hurricane Sandy's historic storm surge on a beach in Rhode Island.

Barrier-island breach created by Hurricane Sandy at Fire Island National Seashore, N.Y.

Oblique aerial photograph Fire Island, New York. The
view is looking northwest across Fire Island towards Great South Bay. This
location is within Fire Island National Seashore near Old Inlet—a very narrow
portion of the island that has experienced breaching in previous large storms.
The island breached during Hurricane Sandy, creating a new inlet.

USGS New England Water Science Center hydrologist measures a high-water level mark along the garage door of a coastal Connecticut home after Hurricane Sandy.

Flooding from Hurricane Sandy breaks up a sidewalk at Seaside Park in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

Sand carried by Hurricane Sandy flood waters covers picnic tables at Short Beach in Stratford, Connecticut days after the storm.

A Hurricane Sandy high water mark measured by USGS in Fairfield County, Connecticut. The Sandy high water mark is marked above the high-water mark for the Great Hurricane of 1938 and below the area's 100-year flood measurement. 

Hurricane Sandy flooding remains days after the storm passes in Fairfield County, Connecticut.

Days after Hurricane Sandy passed through the northeastern Atlantic seaboard, this sailboat remained wrecked on a dock in Connecticut.

Hurricane Sandy sent sand from Sound Beach in Old Lyme, Connecticut up the street to cover nearby benches.

USGS scientists, Michael Noll and Amy Simonson, installing storm surge sensors before Hurricane Sandy

Hydrologic technician installs a storm-tide sensor ahead of Hurricane Sandy in Milford Harbor, Connecticut.

Two storm tide sensors installed on a piling attached to a boardwalk on Short Beach in Stratford, Connecticut ahead of Hurricane Sandy.

Brook Trout from an Adirondack lake

Panoramic view (~270 degrees) looking across the Blue Ridge of Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee (from left to right).  The Valley and Ridge is in the distance (gap between mountains). 

Panoramic view looking southeast across the Blue Ridge of Virginia and North Carolina.  The mountains in the distances are underlain by amphibolite of the eastern Blue Ridge. 

South Side of Clove Lake at Victory Blvd., Long Island, NY

Digital still photograph from Ipswich Bay near Salisbury, MA, showing a lobster, sponges, and brachiopods, on cobbles and ledge covered with bubblegum algae and red filamentous algae.  A thin veneer of coarse sand and gravelly sediment partially cover the rocks. Water depth at this location is approximately 24 meters.

New York groundwater well

Ketchumville Creek near Maine, New York

Fish shocking in the West Branch of the Neversink River