Photo Roundup: October 2024-January 2025

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Example CoSMoS flood extent map products for the Humboldt County region, showing a 100-year storm across three sea-level rise scenarios.

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CoSMoS flood extent map

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Example CoSMoS flood extent map products for the Humboldt County region, showing a 100-year storm across three sea-level rise scenarios.

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CoSMoS flood extent map

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Wayne Baldwin (USGS) and Eric Moore (USGS) preparing the rapid response ocean bottom seismograph fleet for deployment. Photo credit: Nathan Miller, USGS Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center. 

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Rapid Response OBS – Mendocino

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Wayne Baldwin (USGS), Eric Moore (USGS), and Hannah Brewer (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) about to deploy one of the rapid response ocean bottom seismograph fleet. Photo credit: Nathan Miller, USGS Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center. 

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Rapid Response OBS – Mendocino

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Wayne Baldwin (USGS), Eric Moore (USGS), and Hannah Brewer (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) preparing the rapid response ocean bottom seismograph fleet for deployment. Photo credit: Nathan Miller, USGS Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center. 

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Rapid Response OBS – Mendocino

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Example sparker data from Cascadia Subduction Zone showing multiple ghost reflections that reduce the overall resolution of the image.

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Example sparker data from Cascadia Subduction Zone showing multiple ghost reflections

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Animated GIF of fault zone outcrop from late Miocene–Pliocene period, Western Macedonia, Greece. Subsequent images are overlays that are offset with colors inverted, to simulate ghost reflections found in sparker seismic data.

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Animated GIF of fault zone outcrop from late Miocene–Pliocene period, Western Macedonia, Greece

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Photos of each substrate type upon collection. (A) Basalt; (B) Ferromanganese (FeMn) crust; (C) Sedimentary; and (D) Phosphorite rock.

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Photos of various deep-ocean substrate types upon collection

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Diagram of system designed to record signature of outgoing sparker source, from the study Practical approaches to maximizing the resolution of sparker seismic reflection data.

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Diagram of ghostbuster system designed to record signature of outgoing sparker source

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Example aerial orthoimagery at a typical location (located in the middle reach of the Elwha River), showing the variation in color and brightness, as well as the nature of the channel, wood deposition, and bar growth.

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Example aerial orthoimagery of wood along Elwha River

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Low-altitude aerial photograph of Plum Island, Massachusetts, , from USGS field activity 2019-009-FA.

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Low-altitude aerial photograph of Plum Island, Massachusetts

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Photograph of a starfish on the sea floor, offshore of Duxbury to Hull, Massachusetts

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Photograph of a starfish on the sea floor, offshore of Duxbury to Hull, Massachusetts