Beach Clean-Up Activities

Volunteers engaging in beach cleanup efforts, collecting trash and promoting environmental conservation along coastal areas.

Tag der Erde. Freiwillige Aktivisten sammelt Müll Reinigung von Strand Küstenzone. Frau und Mann setzt Plastikmüll in Müllsack auf Ozean Ufer. Umweltschutz Küstenzone Reinigung. Earth day. Volunteers activists collects garbage cleaning of beach coastal zone. Woman and mans puts plastic trash in garbage bag on ocean shore. Environmental conservation coastal zone cleaning ,model released, Symbolfoto Copyright: xZoonar.com/IuliiaxZavalishinax 22957566 ,model released, Symbolfoto ,property released

Tag der Erde. Freiwillige Aktivisten sammelt Müll Reinigung von Strand Küstenzone. Frau und Mann setzt Plastikmüll in Müllsack auf Ozean Ufer. Umweltschutz Küstenzone Reinigung. Earth day. Volunteers activists collects garbage cleaning of beach coastal zone. Woman and mans puts plastic trash in garbage bag on ocean shore. Environmental conservation coastal zone cleaning ,model released, Symbolfoto Copyright: xZoonar.com/IuliiaxZavalishinax 22957566 ,model released, Symbolfoto ,property released

Man demonstrating water sampling in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

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

Teams of environmental workers organizing cleanup efforts of the oils spill in Huntington Beach, California

USA, WA, Whidbey Island, Coupeville. Extreme low tide affords excellent clamming opportunity

Image of people cleaning Southern California beach after oil spill. (Editorial Usage Only)

Sailors assigned to U.S. Navy Support Facility Diego Garcia and tenant commands on the island participate in a beach cleanup Feb. 18. Diego Garcia, a strategic outpost in the Indian Ocean, enables presence, assures access, and provides defense to the global commons to an enduring free and open Indo-Pacific.

Sargassum (Sargassum sp). Volunteers collecting waste (plastics, ropes,...) dragged by the mass of algae. The genus Sargassum is characterized by having gas vesicles known as aerocysts that provide them with buoyancy. Thanks to these balls of gas, some species of sargassum are able to remain floating on the surface of the ocean for months and the currents end up accumulating them, forming immense aggregations similar to floating islands. In the North Atlantic Ocean is the Sargasso Sea, which receives its name precisely because the presence of these gigantic aggregations on its surface is common. It serves as food, shelter and breeding area for many marine animals, such as crabs, turtles, shrimp and seabirds. At some times of the year it can appear stranded in large numbers on beaches exposed to the current and/or wind. On some occasions, it may appear mixed with drifting garbage such as ropes, small talk, bottles,... Playa Grande, Punta de Abona. Tenerife, Canary Islands.

Ocean Conservancy International Coastal Clean-up on Milnerton Beach, South Africa

Fire Island Workers Create Sand Wall. New York Hurricane Sandy. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

VENICE, La. - Response workers clean up tar balls that washed up along the beach in response district seven here, Sept. 30, 2010. Work continues in clean up operations for marshes and beaches throughout Plaqueminse Parish.

Raking the Beach

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - Various Images (BP Oil Spill) - What appears to be weathered oil on beach. USEPA photo by Eric Vance , Environmental Protection Agency

Berm building efforts on Dauphin Island; Dauphin Island, Alabama, United States of America

221007-N-ZG822-1104 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.

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - BP Oil Spill (Web Photographs) - Absorbent material at beach clean up site. USEPA photo by Eric Vance , Environmental Protection Agency

Cleaning of oil pollution of banks of Loire river estuary

Volunteer, beach or people with plastic bag in nature for sustainability, help or ocean cleaning project. Accountability, team or volunteer at sea for earth day, social responsibility or NGO charity

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

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

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

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.

Man collecting garbage kneeling on sand dunes

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

100522-N-KD414-7718 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.

Preventing Beach Erosion Palm Beach Florida USA

Wildlife Biologist James Harris, Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Biologist and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Contaminants biologist discover a dead bird found on the shore of Breton National Wildlife Refuge. Subjects: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill; Oil spills; Birds. Location: Louisiana. Fish and Wildlife Service Site: BRETON NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE.

011081309 After IKE-recovery. Texas Hurricane Ike. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

100522-N-KD414-7711 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.

221110-N-ML137-1016 KEKAHA, Hawai`i (Nov. 10, 2022) Biologists with the environmental team at Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF), Barking Sands excavate a sea turtle nest found on a beach, traditionally known as Kohomahana, on the installation. PMRF is the world’s largest instrumented multi-environment range capable of supporting surface, subsurface, air and space operations simultaneously.

July 12, 2010 - Gulf Shores, AL: The coolers used to transport sea turtle eggs must be packed with sand from the turtle's native beach. Photo by Barbara Maxfield, USFWS. Subjects: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill; Employees (USFWS); Reptiles; Relocation. Location: Alabama.

Volunteers collecting plastic from the sand on the beach. Ecology concept, sea pollution

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - Grand Isle (BP Oil Spill) - Patrick Warnick collects water samples at Grand Isle State Park, Grand Isle, LA. USEPA photo by Eric Vance. , Environmental Protection Agency

Scientific investigation, systematic collection of beach litter on the island of Minsener Oog, Lower Saxony Wadden Sea National Park, Lower Saxony, Germany, Europe

Hurricane Katrina, Waveland, Miss., April 22, 2006 -- AmeriCorps*NCCC Team Leader David Celata picks up debris along Waveland's beachfront. Five hundred NCCC members cleared beaches and culverts and performed other volunteer work, on National and Global Youth Services Day today. George Armstrong/FEMA

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - Various Images (BP Oil Spill) - John Williams and AJ Veith race to retrive air monitoring data before violent summer storm. Air monitoring station at Grand Isle State Park. USEPA photo by Eric Vance , Environmental Protection Agency

Hurricane Gustav, Bay St Louis, MS, September 9, 2008 Work crews collect debris left by Hurricane Gustav on this Gulf of Mexico beach in Hancock County. Many unpleasant items - including over seven thousand drowned nutria (rat-sized rodents) are among the items that have been sent to landfills in the nine days since Gustav hit.. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Traditional Sustainable Oyster Fishing, River Fal. A fisherman tipping shells into the water.

A woman harvests her crop of seaweed (Eucheuma denticulatum), Jambiani, Zanzibar, Tanzania.

Ocean Conservancy International Coastal Clean-up on Milnerton Beach, South Africa

100522-N-KD414-7717 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.

100522-N-KD414-7717 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.

Sea Grass Restoration Project. Members of the Florida Oceanographic Society collect mats of seagrass from their storage site at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida as they prepare to plant them in the Banana River - one of three bodies of water that make up the Indian River Lagoon (IRL) - on March 29, 2023. Kennedys Environmental Management Branch is working to plant a minimum of 28,000 shoots of seagrass divided into 18 sites across three areas at the Florida spaceport as part of a pilot project for seagrass restoration efforts. The project will look at the feasibility of replanting seagrass in Kennedy waters and, if successful, could lead to the spaceport becoming a donor site where shoots of grass can be broken off and relocated to other areas within Kennedy or along the IRL to promote growth.

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

A woman moves a rock while constructing a fish habitat during low tide.

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - Grand Isle (BP Oil Spill) - Patrick Warnick and Jerru Woodford gather equipment before moving to next site. Grand Isle State Park , Environmental Protection Agency

Swahili woman cultivates seaweed.

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

Volunteer man collecting garbage or plastic on the beach. ecology concept

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - BP Oil Spill (Web Photographs) - Oil washes ashore at Grand Isle State Park, Grand Isle, LA. USEPA photo by Eric Vance , Environmental Protection Agency

June 28, 2010, Gulf Shores, AL Protocol for all sea turtle nests in Alabama is to evaluate the location and move the nest, if it is too close to the water. This nest relocation was not associated with the oil spill in any way. However, its SECOND move, ne. Subjects: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill; Employees (USFWS); Reptiles; Relocation. Location: Alabama. Fish and Wildlife Service Site: BON SECOUR NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE. . 1998 - 2011.

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

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

DIEGO GARCIA, British Indian Ocean Territory (Oct. 17, 2012) Volenteers help carry turtles for tagging at Turtle Cove. A team of marine biologists visited Diego Garcia in order to tag and track sea turtles, as well as study the environment in which they lay their eggs in. The U.S. Navy is constantly deployed to preserve peace, protect commerce, and deter aggression through forward presence. Join the conversation on social media using #warfighting.

Spain, Galicia, Costa Da Morte, Cleaning Squads Removing Oil From Rocky Coastline One Year After The Prestige Oil Disaster.

Brown algae removal, beach, Akumal, Quintana Roo, Mexico, Central America

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - Various Images (BP Oil Spill) - Boom is cleaned then inspected and repared as necessary before being reused. USEPA photo by Eric Vance. GPS coordinates in metadata. , Environmental Protection Agency

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

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - BP Oil Spill (Web Photographs) - Grand Isle, LA , Environmental Protection Agency

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

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - Cocodrie, Louisiana and Oil Disaster Meeting in Dulac, Louisiana (BP Oil Spill) - USEPA photo by Eric Vance , Environmental Protection Agency

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - Lafourche-Jefferson Parish (BP Oil Spill) - Beach clean up materials at beach. USEPA photo by Eric Vance , Environmental Protection Agency

Olive Ridley Sea Turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) nesting beach being cleared of driftwood by villagers after strong storm, Ostional Beach, Costa Rica

Oregon, USA. U.S. Department of the Interior researcher at Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area.

Woman worker raking (sargassum) seaweed marine plant. Extreme work under the sun

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - Grand Isle (BP Oil Spill) - Oil is scooped up from the sand one shovel full at a time and deposited in bags for disposal. USEPA photo by Eric Vance , Environmental Protection Agency

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - BP Oil Spill (Web Photographs) - AJ Veith, EPA contractor with Weston Solutions, verifies calabration of air monitoring station. USEPA photo by Eric Vance , Environmental Protection Agency

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - BP Oil Spill (Web Photographs) - Planking protects levie and dunes from heavy equipment traffic. USEPA photo by Eric Vance , Environmental Protection Agency

USA, WA, Seattle. Beachcombers at low tide (Editorial Usage Only)

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

Crews clean up garbage out of a river in Thailand.

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - BP Oil Spill (Web Photographs) - Contaminated sand is colledted from lthe beach and fed into a series of hot water washes. Oily water is collected and disposed of. Clean sand is returned to the beach. This inovative process prevents tons of sand from being dumped into landfills, reduced depletion of sand from the beach and elimintes oil from the beach. USEPA photo by Eric Vance. GPS coordinates in metadata. , Environmental Protection Agency

220422-N-ML137-2031 KEKAHA, Hawai`i (April 22, 2022) Aaron Swink, an Education Specialist for Hawai`i Division of Aquatic Resources, picks up trash at Waiokapua (Major’s Bay) at Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF), Barking Sands, during an Earth Day event. PMRF is the world’s largest instrumented multi-environment range capable of supporting surface, subsurface, air and space operations simultaneously.

Recreation. Creator: Eilerts, Bruce. Subjects: Recreation; Photography. . 1998 - 2011.

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

Hawaiian Electric volunteers look for trash at Kahe Beach during International Coastal Cleanup Day in Oahu, Hawaii.

June 28, 2010: Sea turtle nest relocation on Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge. Law Enforcement Officer Mike Canada assisted with marking the new nest location. 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.

Fisheries officer collecting samples for water quality testing, Brunei

June 28, 2010: Sea turtle nest relocation on Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge. Refuge Biologist Jackie Isaacs, Deputy Refuge Manager Eva Kristofik (from Mountain Longleaf NWR), and interns (AD) Megan Creegan and Meredith Wilson perform the standard pro. Subjects: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill; Employees (USFWS); Reptiles; Relocation. Location: Alabama. Fish and Wildlife Service Site: BON SECOUR NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE. . 1998 - 2011.

The Marine Fire Reversing Den Helder practices dealing with chemical pollution (April 1990).

Sgt. Jesse L. Thomas, a military policeman with Combat Logistics Regiment 17, carries buckets of mulch as part of a restoration project at Mori Point Oct. 8. Service members participating in San Francisco Fleet Week have helped restore the natural California habitat in five different areas over the past two days.

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

Oil spill clean up on beach, Huntington Beach, California

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

Teruma Beach Easter Cleanup

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

Pressure Washing Rocks

Participants with the Young Marine program collect debris during a base-wide beach clean-up, Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Dec. 2, 2022. The Young Marines participated in a base-wide beach clean-up as well as several other committee events, while participating and attending commemoration ceremonies of the 81st anniversary of the attacks on Pearl Harbor.

Scientist measuring water depth

Sea oat (Uniola paniculata) planting on a newly created sand dune on Dauphin Island; Dauphin Island, Alabama, United States of America

Santiago de Compostela 01-12-2002 Cleaning work on Muxia beach after the arrival of the new oil spill from the Prestige fuel spill that reached the coast in the early hours of today photo Jaime García.

Cleaning Up after Hurricane Sandy. New Jersey Hurricane Sandy. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Maldivians fortify the sandy beaches as a protection against Tsunamis and currents, Maldives, Asia

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

Tag der Erde. Freiwillige Aktivisten Team sammelt Müll Reinigung von Strand Küstenzone. Frau legt Plastikmüll in Müllsack auf Ozean Ufer. Umweltschutz Küstenzone Reinigung. Earth day. Volunteers activists team collects garbage cleaning of beach coastal zone. Woman puts plastic trash in garbage bag on ocean shore. Environmental conservation coastal zone cleaning ,model released, Symbolfoto Copyright: xZoonar.com/IuliiaxZavalishinax 22958012 ,model released, Symbolfoto ,property released

8th Military Police Brigade Soldiers load trash bags full of litter and debris during a beach clean-up effort on Mokuleia Army Beach in Waialua, Hawaii Sept. 23, 2022. The beach cleaning event, sponsored by U.S. Army Garrison Hawaii leadership, supported the annual Public Lands Day which saw various Army units on the island pitch in to help keep Hawaiis public-use areas clean.

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - Lafourche-Jefferson Parish (BP Oil Spill) - Decontamination tubs at beach clean up site. USEPA photo by Eric Vance , Environmental Protection Agency

This camp is not on U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service lands, but the service is assisting in the removal of foxes to rehabilitate the natural diversity of the island. Subjects: Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge; AMNWR; Birds; Coastal environments; Islands; biology; work of the refuge; Aleutians; Aleutian Islands. . 1998 - 2011.

Brown algae removal, beach, Akumal, Quintana Roo, Mexico, Central America

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

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