Photos from Fire Island National Seashore

A biologist kneels in a salt marsh, looking at a clipboard that another scientist is holding
Jim Lynch, NCBN Biologist and Project Lead, sets up surface elevation table (SET) equipment with Kelsey Taylor, a Fire Island NS biotechnician, at Hospital Point. October 2021. Bridget Ye / NPS Photo
Two scientists sit on a makeshift bench in a salt marsh, facing away from each other. One takes notes, the other handles a long metal equipment
Kelsey Taylor, Fire Island NS Biotechnician, records surface elevation table (SET) measurements that NCBN Biologist and Project Lead, Jim Lynch, reads out. October 2021. Bridget Ye / NPS Photo
A biologist holds a block of soil in his right hand and measures it with a meter stick held in his left hand
NCBN Biologist and Project Lead, Jim Lynch, measures a soil core sample at Hospital Point. October 2021. Bridget Ye / NPS Photo
A researcher bends at his waist, holding a meter stick, to measure a blade of grass in a marsh
Jim Lynch, NCBN Biologist and Project Lead, measures the height of vegetation in a plot at Hospital Point. October 2021. Bridget Ye / NPS Photo
A field crew member stands holding a 6inch red rod over a pipe in a river
Collecting water table data at Hospital Point. October 2021. Bridget Ye / NPS Photo
Blue water separates two expanses of marshland
Looking across the waters from Great Gun Marsh. October 2021. Bridget Ye / NPS Photo
Two field crew members sit facing each other in the middle of a marsh, warm sunlight shines on the marsh
Field crew at Great Gun Marsh. October 2021. Bridget Ye / NPS Photo
One field crew member kneels on a metal plank, measuring long thin poles of a metal field instrument. Another sits to the right recording notes on a clipboard
Jim Lynch, NCBN Biologist and Project Lead, reads out marsh elevation measurements as Kelsey Taylor, Fire Island NS Biotechnician, records them. October 2021. Bridget Ye / NPS Photo
A field crew member stands next to a metal barrel with a tube that has steam rising from it
Jim Lynch, NCBN Biologist and Project Lead, releases liquid nitrogen through a tube and into a metal rod he stuck in the ground to collect a soil core sample. October 2021. Bridget Ye / NPS Photo
A field crew member holds a metal rod with soil on it and measures the rod with a yellow meter stick
Measuring a soil sample that was frozen and extracted from the ground using liquid nitrogen. October 2021. Bridget Ye / NPS Photo
Two field crew members in a marsh, one holds a clipboard and the other holds a metal equipment with long poles
It's a wrap. Packing away equipment after a day of fieldwork at Fire Island National Seashore. October 2021. Bridget Ye / NPS Photo

Last updated: March 25, 2022

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