U.S. Geological Survey
Thanks to all who submitted entries for the 2005 "USGS Employees At Work" Photo Contest. We now have a fresh supply of images from which to choose for our Web pages, reports, Powerpoints, etc. It was an excellent look into our wonderful world of science here at USGS.
We would like to thank our judges who took time from their busy schedules to judge the photos. Our judges were:
Prizes will be awarded to USGS entrants as follows:
Certificates of recognition will be presented to our winners who are not USGS employees.
| Biology | |||
 1st Place An NWRC researcher, contractor Kevin Wessner, treats a DNA sample with RNAse solution. |
 2nd Place Matt Wilson uses radio telemetry to look for surf scoters in the NW territories. |
 3rd Place Brent Knights and Jon Vallazza conduct a river productivity study aboard the E.D. Cope, Upper Mississippi River System. |
 Honorable Mention Irina Comardicea processes a chlorophyll sample from Little Cobb River near Beauford, MN. |
| Geography | |||
 1st Place Steve Nagel collects data from a weatherstation in the Shenandoah National Park. |
 2nd Place Christian Bongard collects data from a weatherstation in the Shenandoah National Park. |
 3rd Place National Wetlands Research Center contractor Brandy Winch reads a color infrared aerial phototransparency. |
 Honorable Mention Mike Sabatino (volunteer for science) wires a weatherstation in the Shenandoah National Park. |
| Geology | |||
 1st Place Research geophysicist Allegra Hosford Scheirer reads a gravity meter in the Delamar Mountains of eastern Nevada. |
 2nd Place A USGS scientist operates an X-ray diffraction machine at the National Center in Reston, VA. |
 3rd Place Erika Lentz examines Pennsylvanian coal samples in West Virginia. |
 Honorable Mention Scientist Jonathan Godt samples a landslide headscarp in Alameda County, CA. |
| Hydrology | |||
 1st Place Bill Foreman, research chemist at the National Water Quality Laboratory, prepares a soil sample for the National Water Quality Assessment Program. |
 2nd Place Seth Book examines ground-water discharge along the shorline of Hood Canal, WA. |
 3rd Place Laura Coffey,a chemist at the National Water Quality Laboratory, loads on-line solid-phase extraction cartridges into the high-performance liquid chromatography/mass spectrometer (HPLC/MS) in preparation for testing and calibration. |
 Honorable Mention USGS personnel servicing SONDES at J.B. Converse Lake, AL. |
| Hazards | |||
 1st Place USGS hydrographers Chad Menke and Paul Baker part the flood waters of the Wabash River near Mt. Carmel, IL. |
 2nd Place Geologist Ed Harp estimates rock-fall susceptibility in American Fork Canyon, UT. |
 3rd Place Geologist Ed Harp estimates rock-fall susceptibility in American Fork Canyon, UT. |
 Honorable Mention Scientists Jonathan Godt and Rex Baum examine a fresh debris-flow deposit near Buena Vista, CO. |
| Education | |||
 1st Place USGS Cartographer Will Stettner demonstrates peel coats to the children attending a special "Guest Scientist" presentation at Science Camp in Reston, VA. |
 2nd Place Barrington White, USGS, demonstrates the correct technique used in gold panning during the 2005 National Scout Jamboree. |
 3rd Place Will Stettner, USGS Cartographer, demonstrates mapmaking techniques. |
 Honorable Mention Outreach Coordinator Debra Foster helps middle-school students take water-quality samples from the Contoocook River, NH. |
| Science Support | |||
 1st Place Beth Stettner, USGS, demonstrates rock identification at the National Scout Jamboree. |
 2nd Place An NWRC employee and guest explore PDA usage as a scientific tool. |
 3rd Place A cableway inspector class measures the angle of a backstay cable at Tuolumne River at Modesto, CA. |
 Honorable Mention IT Coordinator Jim Capezza at his desk in National Wetlands Research Center, Lafayette, LA. |
| Partnerships | |||
 1st Place Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources employees measure current velocity and dissolved oxygen as part of a Long Term Resource Monitoring Program (LTRMP) partnership with the Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center (UMESC), Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS) Pool 8. |
 2nd Place Lia Parker, part Chippewa, who works for Southcentral Foundation in Anchorage, holds a polar bear cub while assisting in the capture of a polar bear family as part of a USGS project. |
 3rd Place Tom Custer, Ann Secord (USFWS), and Paul Dummer transport swallow boxes to place along the Hudson River, NY. |
 Honorable Mention The GeoWall Consortium takes the Northern Arizona University geology field trip to determine applicability of Virtual Reality in geology curriculum. |
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