Movies and Animations at WHCMSC

Rapid salt-marsh erosion in Grand, Bay Mississippi. This time-lapse video shows lateral erosion of a salt marsh in the Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, part of an embayment near the city of Pascagoula, Mississippi, on the US Gulf coast. Wave action over the course of 6.5 months led to about 1.5 meters of erosion.
Holocene Evolution of the Southern Washington and Northern Oregon Shelf and Coast (13.6 Mbytes MPEG format) - from Cross,V.A. and Twichell,D.C. "Animation of the Holocene evolution of the southern Washington and northern Oregon shelf and coast, in Wright, D.J., ed." Undersea With GIS, CD-ROM included (2002).
Circulation Movies (in FLC format) - A collection of circulation simulations of Massachusetts Bay.
Stellwagen Bank (1.4Mbytes MPEG format) - animation of a 3D view of bathymetry of Stellwagen Bank.
Buzzards Bay (1.5Mbytes MPEG format) - animation of a 3D view of bathymetry of Buzzards Bay, MA.
Boston Harbor (1.3 Mbytes MPEG format)- animation of a 3D view of bathymetry of Boston Harbor, MA.
Gulf of Maine (0.8Mbytes MPEG format) - animation of a 3D view of bathymetry of Gulf of Maine.
Long Island Sound (1.6Mbyte MPEG format) - animation of a 3D view of bathymetry of Long Island Sound.
Underwater topography of the Puerto Rico trench (3.9Mbyte MOV format) - a small section of a 14-minutes long narrated movie. The movie describes the data collection at sea, presents 3-D fly-bys through the underwater topography of the Puerto Rico trench and discusses the scientific objectives of the mapping effort. This movie is from the Caribbean tsunami and earthquake hazards studies.
Underwater topography of the Puerto Rico trench (1.8Mbyte MOV format) - another small section of a 14-minutes long narrated movie. The movie describes the data collection at sea, presents 3-D fly-bys through the underwater topography of the Puerto Rico trench and discusses the scientific objectives of the mapping effort. This movie is from the Caribbean tsunami and earthquake hazards studies.
Underwater topography of the Puerto Rico trench (2.2Mbyte MOV format) - a third small section of a 14-minutes long narrated movie. The movie describes the data collection at sea, presents 3-D fly-bys through the underwater topography of the Puerto Rico trench and discusses the scientific objectives of the mapping effort. This movie is from the Caribbean tsunami and earthquake hazards studies.
ROV imagery (26.2Mbyte MOV format) - a movie of a ROV coral study at Pulley Ridge in the Gulf of Mexico.
Underwater Coring (7.4Mbyte MOV format) - a short video of a diver collecting a push-core.
IRIS Underway (1.8Mbyte AVI format) - a short video of IRIS (our autonomous vehicle) underway.
IRIS Underway (3.5Mbyte AVI format) - a short video of IRIS (our autonomous vehicle) underway.
Didemnum - (10Mbyte MOV format) Didemnum sp. colonies growing over pebble gravel.
Didemnum - (9.7Mbyte MOV format) Didemnum sp. colonies hanging from styrofoam float; colony tendrils extending downward from main parts of colonies.
Didemnum - (11Mbyte MOV format) Didemnum sp. colonies encrusting cobbles boulders and macro algae; shows typical colony growth upward from base of cobbles and boulders; also shows degenerating colony peeling off rock and being grazed by periwinkles (Littorina littorea).

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