2024 Field Fresh Blog Photo Gallery
2024 in photos: Our observers, interns, and scientists share field experiences through their blog photos.
We had a lot of amazing photos taken by our bloggers in 2024—here are just a few of them. Want to see more? Check out our Field Fresh blog to see all our bloggers’ great shots or our 2023 and 2022 blogger galleries for past year’s great shots.
A bottlenose dolphin in mid-air, wake-riding behind the vessel. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Emma Fowler
Survey technician Justin DaSilva holding a gag grouper and red snapper on the side sample station before sampling was do...
Katherine McKenna photographs right whales out the NOAA Twin Otter window using a 300mm lens to get a closer look. Credi...
Night watch scientist Bridget St. Amand with her book, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of...
At the Milford Lab we use the biodeposition method to measure feeding rates in bivalves. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Sam Gurr...
An American lobster with several gooseneck barnacles on its shell. These barnacles don’t harm it, but may be slightly an...
A blue-gloved hand holds a brown-spotted flatfish up so that it’s backlit by the sun. In the background is a calm ocean,...
Fenway and her calf. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Lisa Conger
Although we regularly encounter halibut on the Bottom Longline Survey, it is rare to catch two so close in size on the s...
Passing by the Coast Guard boat. Credit NOAA Fisheries/Katey Marancik
Deploying bongo nets to collect plankton. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Katey Marancik
Getting ready to empty a very full net into the checker. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Jessica Blaylock
Gulls fly by NOAA Ship Henry B. Bigelow during Winter EcoMon 2024. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Katey Marancik
Streaming the net just before starting a tow.
Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Kathryn Ford
Surfclams in individual experimental chambers to measure feeding rates. Credit: Laura Steeves/Rutgers University
Looking for pteropods under the microscope during winter 2024 EcoMon survey as part of survey’s ocean acidification work...
A scientist tags a neonate sandbar shark with a blue rototag during the Delaware Bay COASTSPAN survey. Credit: NOAA Fish...
A North Atlantic right whale dives down below the surface of the water around Hudson Canyon during the May 29 aerial sur...
Parsons employees load several cages filled with empty shells onto the bed of a tractor-trailer. The shells are part of ...
Michelle Passerotti (left) and Lisa Natanson (right) dissect sandbar sharks incidentally killed during the 2024 survey. ...
North Atlantic right whale identified as Fenway and her calf as seen from above in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Credit NOA...
: A monkfish with a spiny dogfish in its mouth.Credit: NOAA Fisheries/ Emma Fowler
From left to right: Mael Glon (US Fish and Wildlife Service), Abby Lucas, and Yuan Liu met at the bridge to enjoy the su...
Yuan and Abby using a Smith-Root sampler on a small CTD rosette. Credit: Katie Cubina / Mystic Aquarium
The team (left to right: Matt Loughlin, Emma Fowler, Anna Mercer, and Mary Kate Munley) uses the conveyor belt to sort t...
Leah holding halibut. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Beth Nelson
The “Surfclam Sanitation Department” collects surfclam poop for science. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Katyanne Shoemaker
Jennifer shows grit in the “oyster trenches” of Milford, Connecticut. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Jonathan Lim
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution engineer Owen Ceserano downloads images collected from a long-range autonomous unde...
Dr. Gurney-Smith (back) picking scallop larvae under the microscope while Katyanne Shoemaker (front) loads larvae into t...
A right whale named “Epic” had its head covered with reddish-brown mud from the Bay of Fundy. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Ali...
Maura Flynn holds up a large white hake during the fall Bottom Longline Survey. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/ Dave McElroy
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