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Salt marshes exist on every coast of the U.S., but these important wetlands are succumbing

quickly to the effects of sea level rise caused by climate change. Grace Goh with the NewsHour's

journalism training program student reporting labs has the story of how one young photographer from Massachusetts is fighting to protect these places.

Traditional DSLR and then in the back we got a huge battery pack.

Soren Goldsmith is a 20-year-old photographer who has been named a National Geographic

Young Explorer.

What makes his photo stand out is not only their beauty, but how he captures them.

So yeah, this is the underwater amphibious camera trap.

I call it Impact, which stands for intertidal motion picture

activated camera trap. If it works right, it will go for a week in the marsh. Goldsmith is

working on a project in the coastal marshes of Wellfleet, Massachusetts, a landscape that

presents unique challenges for photography. Saw marshes are intertidal environments, which means that half the day they're going to be dry,

but the other half of the day the water is going to come up and cover this landscape.

I had this idea of what if I could build an amphibious camera trap.

Camera traps, which take photos based on motion detection,

have long been a mainstay of wildlife photography.

But there are few options for taking the same kinds of photos underwater.

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