Marine Conservation Efforts

Volunteers and scientists participating in beach cleanups and oyster farming, emphasizing marine ecosystem preservation.

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060906-N-7441H-006. Base: Hitchcock State: Texas (TX) Country: United States Of America (USA)

221007-N-ZG822-1117 SOUDA BAY, Crete (Oct. 7, 2022) A Sailor assigned to Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), picks up trash during a community relations event at Stavros Beach during a scheduled port visit Oct. 7, 2022. The event allowed volunteers to give back to the community while contributing to local authorities continued efforts to preserve the scenic environment. The George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group is on a scheduled deployment in the U.S. Naval Forces Europe area of operations, employed by U.S. Sixth Fleet to defend U.S., allied, and partner interests.

Mexican worker picking seaweed from (sargassum) on the beach.Ecology problem in tropical islands

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employee holds up samples of the fish captured for study. Subjects: Aquaculture; Aquatic environments; Banks; Biologists (USFWS); Coastal zone management; Emblems; Employees (USFWS); Equipment; Fishes; Fishing; Fisheries management; Freshwater fishes; Marine environments; Marine ecology; Personnel; Plants; Research; Sampl. Location: Texas. Fish and Wildlife Service Site: ARANSAS NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE.

Man collecting plastic bottles on the shore of a river, environmental and ecological concept

Service employees survey a Mississippi Sandhill Crane nest. Subjects: Birds; Endangered species; Wildlife refuges; Employees (USFWS); Work of the Service. Location: Mississippi. Fish and Wildlife Service Site: MISSISSIPPI SANDHILL CRANE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE. . 1998 - 2011.

100522-N-KD414-7707 SAN NICOLAS ISLAND, Calif. (NNS) (Oct. 5, 2022) - The U.S. Navy conducted an annual coastal cleanup on the remote beaches of San Nicolas Island (SNI), the most isolated of the California Channel Islands, located sixty-five miles offshore, and South of Naval Base Ventura County (NBVC) Point Mugu. The cleanup team consisted of nearly fifty volunteer Navy Sailors and civilians assigned to NBVC and Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, who removed over two-thousand pounds of trash and debris on three SNI beaches. NBVC is a strategically located Naval installation composed of three operating facilities: Point Mugu, Port Hueneme and San Nicolas Island. NBVC is the home of the Pacific Seabees, West Coast E-2C Hawkeyes, 3 warfare centers and 80 tenants.

Melissa Bimbi, Ecological Services biologist, relocating a loggerhead sea turtle nest into a hatchery on Cape Island, S.C. Subjects: Reptiles; Wildlife refuges; Work of the Service; Employees (USFWS). Location: South Carolina. Fish and Wildlife Service Site: CAPE ROMAIN NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE. . 1998 - 2011.

USGS scientist Terry Petrosky collects bulk sediment samples from the intertidal (swash) zone at St. George Island State Park in Florida.

Cleaning of oil pollution on reed bed of Loire river estuary

DR-1607 Hurricane Rita.. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Demonstrating water sampling in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

Man of Hammond, Oregon picks up trash at Ft Stevens State Park beach.

Office of Water - Lake Manassas , Environmental Protection Agency

Office of Research and Development - Gulf Breeze GED , Environmental Protection Agency

Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation, and Enforcement staff working at site of abandoned coal mine, the Horse Creek Mine, near Pinckneyville, Illinois

About 50 participants led by NASA Kennedy Space Center's Employee Resource Groups picked up about 20 bags of trash and other large debris along the center's shoreline before turtle-nesting season as a community service. Sea turtle-nesting season begins in about one month. Unlike what might be found along a public beach, all of the debris that litters Kennedys restricted beaches washes ashore after being discarded at sea. Of the 72 miles of beach that form the eastern boundary of Brevard County, Florida, about six of those miles line Kennedy.

Ranger explains the swampland, Everglades National Park, Florida/ Ranger, swampland, Everglades National Park, Florida, Everglades National Park, Florida, USA, North America

Tired worker collecting (sargassum) seaweed on beaches of the Riviera Maya

USGS Mississippi Water Science Center scientists Jessica Quintana and Darrell Wilson are collecting a bulk sediment sample at Pascagoula Beach, Pascagoula, MS (MS-45). Bulk sediment samples collected along the Gulf of Mexico shoreline are analyzed for oil-fingerprint, bacteria-fingerprint, metals, nutrients, oil and grease, and a suite of organic compounds. USGS analyses of the sediment will be used to identify chemical and biological changes that may have been caused by the arrival of crude oil product from the failure of the Deepwater Horizon well in April 2010..

Environmental workers banding Mourning Doves

A group of contractors walk through a field planting tree seedlings at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, Jan. 11, 2024. Crews consist of 12 to 18 people who plant an average of 35,000 trees daily.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- On a beach on NASA's Kennedy Space Center, more than 130 volunteers from the joint NASAs Kennedy Space Center and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service contract organizations give up their afternoon to gather all the “unnatural” items that had accumulated on 6.1 miles of central Florida east coast shoreline during the past 12 months. Part of the center's dedication to a clean environment, volunteers gathered enough trash to fill approximately 450 garbage bags and enough recyclable plastic and glass to fill 150 bags.

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - Various Images (BP Oil Spill) - Oiled boom being moved from boat to decontamination area. USEPA photo by Eric Vance , Environmental Protection Agency

Group of activists picking up litter along riverbank. River clean up. Environmental pollution, eco activism. and plogging concept. Group of activists picking up litter along riverbank. River clean-up. Environmental pollution, eco activism. and plogging concept. model released

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - Various Images (BP Oil Spill) - Oil, beach and boom at Grand Isle, LA. USEPA photo by Eric Vance. , Environmental Protection Agency

Researchers document farthest north mangrove, St. Marys, Georgia.

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - BP Oil Spill (Web Photographs) - Beach clean up area. USEPA photo by Eric Vance , Environmental Protection Agency

Ecuador, Galapagos Islands, Girl inspecting animal skeleton on beach

In-Situ Burn Chevron Pipeline - Empire, Louisiana - 26-HK-159-54. Hurricane Katrina

Teruma Beach Easter Cleanup

Volunteer researchers from Seagrass Watch learning to monitor seagrass cover Hervey Bay, Queensland, Australia

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - BP Oil Spill (Web Photographs) - Marshy area behind dunes on Grand Isle. LA. USEPA photo by Eric Vance , Environmental Protection Agency

Children catch and throw salmon over the access gate at the Salomon Gulch Hatchery near Valdez, Alaska.

Capture of migratory birds in nets France

Visit of Acting Secretary P. Lynn Scarlett and aides to Lorimer Park, near Norristown, Pennsylvania, for Earth Day event in conjunction with representatives of the coldwater fisheries conservation, protection, restoration organization, Trout Unlimited

Office of the Administrator - Annapolis Area - EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy visiting the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center , Environmental Protection Agency

Crew of USFWS employees clean up after oil spill, Buzzards Bay, MA. Subjects: Coastal environments; Employees (USFWS); Oil spills. Location: Massachusetts.

Marine Corps Base Hawaii Environmental Compliance and Protection Division (ECPD) establishes and cordons portions of shoreline for an upcoming soil sampling taking place at Puuloa Range Training Facility, HI, Feb. 12, 2024. ECPD will work alongside the University of Hawaii, Brigham Young University - Hawaii, and Hawaii State Department of Health Hazard Evaluation and Emergency Response personnel to collect soil samples from across the 3,000-foot-long shoreline of the training facility that pose the greatest potential for off-site contaminate migration. Marine Corps

Office of Research and Development - Gulf Breeze GED , Environmental Protection Agency

Researchers tend endangered Texas wild rice at Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos.

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - Various Images (BP Oil Spill) - Marshy area behind dunes on Grand Isle. LA. USEPA photo by Eric Vance , Environmental Protection Agency

July 9, 2010 - Port St. Joe, FL: Placing eggs in the crate requires extreme caution and care. Tilting or jolting the egg can drastically effect the development of the embryo. Photo by Denise Rowell, USFWS. Subjects: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill; Relocation; Reptiles. Location: Florida.

Marking of salmon in Moricetown Canyon Canada

EDUCATION - AUSTRALIA. Western Australia. School children studying wetlands habitats preserved by Alcoa Ltd. .

2006. Subjects: Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge; AMNWR; Birds; Coastal environments; Islands; biology; work of the refuge. . 1998 - 2011.

An archaeologist looking for artifacts at the Big Eddy, MO.

Little girl among eco activists picking up litter, along riverbank in nature, environmental pollution, eco activism and plogging concept. Young girl among eco activists picking up litter along riverbank, in nature, environmental pollution, eco activism and plogging concept. model released

July 12, 2010 Gulf Shores, AL - A Share the Beach volunteer counts eggs with the counter in her hand as other volunteers excavate the sea turtle nest. Photo by Bonnie Strawser, USFWS. Subjects: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill; Employees (USFWS); Reptiles; Relocation. Location: Alabama. Fish and Wildlife Service Site: BON SECOUR NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE. . 1998 - 2011.

Beging human and cone sheet bits human and bowling robe copyright: xzoonar.com/martinaxbergx 9011285

A volunteer removes trash from a Cape Canaveral Space Station beach at CCSFS, Fla., April 21, 2022. The cleanup is conducted in April to help clear the way for nesting sea turtles and shorebirds.

June 28, 2010: Sea turtle nest relocation on Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge. Deputy Refuge Manager Eva Kristofik digs as interns Megan Creegan and Meredith Wilson and biologist Jackie Isaacs look on. Photo by Bonnie Strawser, USFWS. Subjects: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill; Employees (USFWS); Reptiles; Relocation. Location: Alabama. Fish and Wildlife Service Site: BON SECOUR NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE. . 1998 - 2011.

Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries biologist joins U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Biologists for a nesting bird survey on a Breton National Wildlife Refuge. Subjects: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill; Oil spills; Birds; Employees (USFWS); Uniforms; Service patch; Videography. Location: Louisiana. Fish and Wildlife Service Site: BRETON NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE.

Office of Research and Development - Gulf Breeze GED , Environmental Protection Agency

Office of Research and Development - Gulf Breeze GED , Environmental Protection Agency

Right, Alexxandra Martinez and Sara Boomgaarden, Far Western Anthropological Research Group, wet screen material from an archaeological site on the Utah Test and Training Range July 18, 2022. In compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, the Air Force works closely with the Utah State Historic Preservation Office to explore, discover, and preserve historical and cultural artifacts on the UTTR.

July 9, 2010 - Port St. Joe, FL: A crowd of trained sea turtle volunteers watch as USFWS biologist Dianne Ingram digs for the next egg. Assistant Secretary of the Interior, Tom Strickland, watches as he holds a cooler full of eggs shut. Photo by Denise Ro. Subjects: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill; Relocation; Reptiles. Location: Florida.

100522-N-KD414-7713 SAN NICOLAS ISLAND, Calif. (NNS) (Oct. 5, 2022) - The U.S. Navy conducted an annual coastal cleanup on the remote beaches of San Nicolas Island (SNI), the most isolated of the California Channel Islands, located sixty-five miles offshore, and South of Naval Base Ventura County (NBVC) Point Mugu. The cleanup team consisted of nearly fifty volunteer Navy Sailors and civilians assigned to NBVC and Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, who removed over two-thousand pounds of trash and debris on three SNI beaches. NBVC is a strategically located Naval installation composed of three operating facilities: Point Mugu, Port Hueneme and San Nicolas Island. NBVC is the home of the Pacific Seabees, West Coast E-2C Hawkeyes, 3 warfare centers and 80 tenants.

Guide explaining the reproduction of rhizophora during a pedalboat trip around the mangrove swamp, Grand Cul-de-sac Marin,Vieux-Bourg, Morne-a-l'eau, Grande-Terre, Guadeloupe, overseas region of France,Leewards Islands, Lesser Antilles, Caribbean

Madison Cox, right, 11th Civil Engineer Squadron natural resources program manager, records mussel sizes while Michael Hooks, left, 11th CES tanks program manager and Amberleigh Ray, center, 11th CES recycling and solid waste program manager, measure the mussels during a mussel release event, April 3, 2023, Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Washington, D.C. JBAB, in partnership with Anacostia Watershed Society, deployed and began monitoring the young freshwater mussels in April 2022; this event signified the mussels graduation and send-off to their permanent homes in the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers off the JBAB shoreline. The mussels were deployed to clean the rivers adjoining JBAB; a single mussel can filter more than five gallons of water per day, removing harmful pollutants and debris while improving the health of the river.

Collecting wild oysters on the North Sea coast in North Friesland, Tetenbuell, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Europe

Analysis of water quality of a river in Lozere France

Coastal Cleanup Day. Cleaning up the Dominguez Channel at Wilmington Marinas. Over 14,000 volunteers took part in Coastal Cleanup Day in Los Angeles County, cleaning up beaches, parks, alleys, creeks, highways and storm drains at 69 different sites. Over 300,000 pounds of debris and recyclables were removed by the various environmental organizations, community groups, families, local businesses, faith-based organizations and students that took part. San Pedro, Los Angeles. California, USA

Port St. Joe, FL: Brail Stephens (University of Florida) gently places the cooler into the carrier as Natalie Williams (UF) and Lorna Patrick (USFWS) assist. Subjects: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill; Relocation; Reptiles; Volunteers; Employees (USFWS). Location: Florida.

A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employee inspects a predator-proof fence. Subjects: Predator control; Wildlife refuges; Employees (USFWS); service patch; history. Location: California. Fish and Wildlife Service Site: SEAL BEACH NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE. . 1998 - 2011.

Biologist sets up containers for the federally endangered Anastasia Island beach mouse

221007-N-ZG822-1209 SOUDA BAY, Crete (Oct. 7, 2022) Sailors assigned to the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), pick up trash during a community relations event at Stavros Beach during a scheduled port visit Oct. 7, 2022. The event allowed volunteers to give back to the community while contributing to local authorities continued efforts to preserve the scenic environment. The George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group is on a scheduled deployment in the U.S. Naval Forces Europe area of operations, employed by U.S. Sixth Fleet to defend U.S., allied, and partner interests.

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - Various Images (BP Oil Spill) - USEPA photo by Eric Vance , Environmental Protection Agency

Tag der Erde. Freiwillige Aktivisten Team sammelt Müll Reinigung von Strand Küstenzone. Frau mans setzt Plastikmüll in Müllsack auf Ozean Ufer. Umweltschutz Küstenzone Reinigung. Earth day. Volunteers activists team collects garbage cleaning of beach coastal zone. Woman mans puts plastic trash in garbage bag on ocean shore. Environmental conservation coastal zone cleaning ,model released, Symbolfoto Copyright: xZoonar.com/IuliiaxZavalishinax 22957553 ,model released, Symbolfoto ,property released

Louisiana Wildlife & Fisheries Biologist and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Biologist James Harris survey the nesting birds on Breton Island National Wildlife Refuge looking for any sign of oil impacted birds or nests. Subjects: Birds; Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill; Employees (USFWS); Oil spills; Uniforms; Service patch. Location: Louisiana. Fish and Wildlife Service Site: BRETON NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE.

Cleaning by children dunes pebbles

Katy Smith, left, an environmental engineer with Marine Corps Base Hawaii Environmental Compliance and Protection Division (ECPD), and Sarah Failla, an environmental protection specialist with MCBH ECPD, measures and cordon portions of shoreline for an upcoming soil sampling taking place at Puuloa Range Training Facility, HI, Feb. 12, 2024. ECPD will work alongside the University of Hawaii, Brigham Young University - Hawaii, and Hawaii State Department of Health Hazard Evaluation and Emergency Response personnel to collect soil samples from across the 3,000-foot-long shoreline of the training facility that pose the greatest potential for off-site contaminate migration. Marine Corps

Fisherman, Nick Collins, with oyster harvest one year after BP disaster, only a few are alive out of 2,000 bivalves, Louisiana

Grass planting on a newly created sand dune on Dauphin Island; Dauphin Island, Alabama, United States of America

Creator: Roach, R. Will. Subjects: Habitat restoration; Pollution; Pollution cleanup; Contaminants. . 1998 - 2011.

July 12, 2010 - Gulf Shores, AL: Members of Share the Beach, a trained sea turtle watch group, begin the excavation. Photo by Barbara Maxfield, USFWS. Subjects: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill; Employees (USFWS); Reptiles; Relocation. Location: Alabama.

Giant River Turtle (Podocnemis expansa) nests being dug up for relocation to safer, higher ground, captive, Playita Beach, (mid) Orinoco River, 110 Km north of Puerto Ayacucho. Apure Province, Venezuela.

About 50 participants led by NASA Kennedy Space Center's Employee Resource Groups picked up about 20 bags of trash and other large debris along the center's shoreline before turtle-nesting season as a community service. Sea turtle-nesting season begins in about one month. Unlike what might be found along a public beach, all of the debris that litters Kennedys restricted beaches washes ashore after being discarded at sea. Of the 72 miles of beach that form the eastern boundary of Brevard County, Florida, about six of those miles line Kennedy.

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - BP Oil Spill (Web Photographs) - Pressure washing and wrangling boom. USEPA photo by Eric Vance , Environmental Protection Agency

USA, Florida, Ichetucknee State Park, Ichetucknee Spring, Group of chidren on science filed trip

DENMARK - ORGANIC FARMING. Praesto. Dung heap. . Government subsidies are available to farmers in Denmark to convert to organic farming; this is partly because of the damaging effect of fertilizer run off into rivers and seas. Denmark is one of the top-ten countries in Europe as regards the organic share of the total cultivated area. In 2002, there were 3714 organic farms cultivating about 180,000 hectares corresponding to 6.7 percent of the total Danish farmland.

221007-N-ZG822-1148 SOUDA BAY, Crete (Oct. 7, 2022) Sailors assigned to the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), pick up trash during a community relations event at Stavros Beach during a scheduled port visit Oct. 7, 2022. The event allowed volunteers to give back to the community while contributing to local authorities continued efforts to preserve the scenic environment. The George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group is on a scheduled deployment in the U.S. Naval Forces Europe area of operations, employed by U.S. Sixth Fleet to defend U.S., allied, and partner interests.

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - BP Oil Spill (Web Photographs) - Transfering oil contaminated material to a lined disposal container. USEPA photo by Eric Vance. GPS coordinates in metadata. , Environmental Protection Agency

2006. Subjects: Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge; AMNWR; Birds; Coastal environments; Islands; Biology; work of the refuge; Semidi Islands; Camps; Work of the Service; Employees (USFWS). . 1998 - 2011.

Villagers collecting and harvesting Olive Ridley Turtle eggs

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - BP Oil Spill (Web Photographs) - USEPA photo by Eric Vance , Environmental Protection Agency

Dolphin Rescue - 26-HK-130-334. Hurricane Katrina

Subjects: Environmental education; Training; Education outreach. . 1998 - 2011.

Members of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation & Natural Resources, and the Presque Isle State Park Advisory Committee discuss observations during a semi-annual beach walk at Presque Isle State Park in Erie, Pennsylvania, April 5, 2022. The semi-annual walk is an opportunity to survey the results of shoreline erosion, which is limited by 55 rubblemound breakwaters and annual sand nourishment conducted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District.

Port St. Joe, FL: Digging for the next egg is a delicate operation! Dig too vigorously and you may damage the eggs buried below. Subjects: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill; Relocation; Reptiles; Volunteers. Location: Florida.

Seaweed Harvest Festival, Seaweed Collection, Plouguerneau, North Finistere, Brittany, France.

ESAT of the ADAGES association. Work Assistance Establishment and Services. Disabled workers during green space maintenance workshops. Clearing and maintenance work on the fitness trail in the town of Perol on the edge of the Thau pond

Upland Marsh restoration, Pier 94, San Francisco, California, USA

Cleaning up the Glendale narrows. FoLAR' (Friends of the LA River) annual river cleanup, La Gran Limpieza, was held May 9, 2009. Thousands of volunteers at 14 sites pulled out accumlated trash, mostly plastic bags, from river runoff that might normally find it's way downstream into the Pacific Ocean.

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - Various Images (BP Oil Spill) - Salinity, temperature, Ph testing. Curtis Franklin, Dougherty Srague Environmental Inc. EPA contractor. USEPA photo by Eric Vance , Environmental Protection Agency

Within the Service, fishery biologists play a key role in restoring such nationally important species as Atlantic and Pacific salmon, American shad, Striped bass, and in the Great Lakes, Lake trout. Subjects: Leavenworth NFH; Washington; Fishes. . 1998 - 2011.

ESAT of the ADAGES association. Work Assistance Establishment and Services. Disabled workers during green space maintenance workshops. Clearing and maintenance work on the fitness trail in the town of Perol on the edge of the Thau pond.

Visitors to the Fort McCoy Pine View Campground and Pine View Recreation Area 50th birthday celebration meet with Endangered Species Biologist Jessup Weichelt with the Fort McCoy Directorate of Public Works Environmental Division Natural Resources Branch on Aug. 20, 2022, at Whitetail Ridge Ski Area at Fort McCoy, Wis. Hundreds of people attended the event where they enjoyed crafts, games, archery, and more. The event was organized by the Fort McCoy Directorate of Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation.

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