Photo by Bobbie Camp | Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command | 05.24.2018
180524-N-N0701-0004 ATLANTIC OCEAN (May 24, 2018) Scott Chappell, a marine biologist from Naval Facilities Engineering Command Atlantic, releases a tagged Kemp's ridley sea turtle back into the ocean off the coast of Virginia Beach, Va. The tag is used to track the turtle’s movements and the release was conducted as part of a Navy research project with the Virginia Aquarium and Marine......
Photo by Bobbie Camp | Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command | 05.24.2018
180524-N-N0701-0003 ATLANTIC OCEAN (May 24, 2018) A rehabilitated Kemp's ridley sea turtle is equipped with a U.S. Navy-funded satellite tag prior to release into the ocean off the coast of Virginia Beach, Va. The tag is used to track the turtle’s movements and the release was conducted as part of a Navy research project with the Virginia Aquarium and Marine Science Center. The turtle was......
Photo by William S Chappell | Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command | 04.20.2018
180420-O-OL387-0003 Virginia Beach, Va. (April 20, 2018) An Adaptive Resolution Imaging Sonar (ARIS) acoustic camera is s specialized sonar recording device used for deployment in shallow-water environments. Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Atlantic marine biologists use ARIS to record the behavior of fish exposed to pile driving from the Elevated Causeway Training at Joint......
Photo by William S Chappell | Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command | 04.20.2018
180420-O-OL387-0002 Virginia Beach, Va. (April 20, 2018) Marine biologists Cara Hotchkin and Scott Chappell, assigned to Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Atlantic, survey the deployment location for an Adaptive Resolution Imaging Sonar (ARIS) acoustic camera, which is a specialized sonar recording device used for deployment in shallow-water environments. NAVFAC Atlantic marine......
Photo by Jill M Brown | Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command | 03.24.2018
180324-N-VK993-004 NORFOLK (March 24, 2018) Jackie Bort Thornton, a natural resources specialist assigned to Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Atlantic, explains naval environmental stewardship to visitors at the U.S. Navy’s “Stewards of the Sea: Defending Freedom, Protecting the Environment” exhibit during a “Women in STEM Day” event hosted at Nauticus, a maritime science......
Photo by Sean M Camp | Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command | 04.29.2017
170429-N-EQ906-001 NORFOLK, Va. (April 29, 2017) Lesley Dobbins-Noble, right, a natural resources specialist attached to Naval Facilities Engineering Command Atlantic, discusses how sonobouys are used to detect frequencies and signals in the water with a visitor at the U.S. Navy’s “Stewards of the Sea: Defending Freedom, Protecting the Environment” exhibit at Town Point Park during the......
Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Joshua Nistas | Joint Task Force Guantanamo Public Affairs | 05.14.2010
Chris Petersen, a natural resource specialist with Naval Facilities Engineering Command Atlantic, fits a GPS harness equipped on an anesthetized hutia, colloquially known as a banana rat, at the Guantanamo Bay Veterinary Treatment Facility, April 13. The purpose of the GPS unit is to track the migration patterns of the local hutia population. The hutia, nicknamed "Thor" during the procedure,......
Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Joshua Nistas | Joint Task Force Guantanamo Public Affairs | 05.14.2010
Chris Petersen, a natural resource specialist with Naval Facilities Engineering Command Atlantic, helps José Montalvo, Naval Station Guantanamo Bay's natural resources manager, fit a GPS harness on an anesthetized hutia, colloquially known as a banana rat, at the Guantanamo Bay Veterinary Treatment Facility, April 13. The purpose of the GPS unit is to track the migration patterns of the local......
