Photo and Image Collections

A comprehensive list of USGS photo and image collections.

Featured Sites

• Earth Science Photographic Archive

Astrogeology:

• Astrogeology Image Gallery

Biology

• Amphibian Research and Monitoring Initiative Photo Gallery
• Biology Features: Photo Gallery
• Butterfly Photographs
• Florida Integrated Science Center - Gainesville
• NBII Digital Image Library
• Northern Snakehead - Channa argus
• Patuxent Wildlife Research Center

Ecosystems

• South Florida Virtual Tour: Photo Gallery
• South Florida Restoration Science Forum Gallery

Geology

• Coral Mortality and African Dust Photo Gallery
• Central Region Geologic Photo Gallery
• Sea-floor Photography from the Continental Margin Program
• Mount St. Helens, Washington, 2004
• Earthquake Photo Collection
• Cascades Volcano Observatory's Photo Archives
• Photo Gallery of the Long Valley area, California
• Volcanoes of the Wrangell Mountains and Cook Inlet Region, Alaska: Selected Photographs
• Volcanoes of the Alaska Peninsula and Aleutian Islands--selected photographs
• Volcanoes of Hawaii: Photo Gallery
• Photo glossary of volcano terms
• Landslide Images
• Photographs of the Mojave Desert
• Photographs available from the Woods Hole Field Center
• Marine Geology
• SOFIA Restoration

Geography

• Earth as Art
• EROS Image Gallery
• Historical USGS Mappers at work
• Landsat Image Gallery
• EarthShots: Satellite Images of Environmental Change
• Terrestrial Remote Sensing: TerraWeb

Water (Hydrology)

• Toxic Substances Hydrology Program
  • Laurel Bay Research Site
  • Bemidji Crude Oil Research Site
  • Galloway Township, New Jersey Research Site: Photo Gallery
  • Abandoned Mine Lands Initiative
  • Upper Arkansas River Basin Site
  • Pinal Creek Research Site
• Water Resources of North Dakota: Photo Gallery
• High Plains Regional Ground Water Study: Photo Gallery
• Surface Water Photo Gallery
• Water Quality Image Library
• Water Science Picture Gallery
• Tocca Flood (November 6, 1977)
• Gulf of Mexico Tidal Wetlands
• Hurricane Georges (Puerto Rico, 1998)
• Hurricane Katrina Impact Studies

National Parks

• USGS Repeat Photography Project, Glacier national Park, MT  
• Death Valley National Park: Geology Image Gallery
• Grinnell Glacier Photo Gallery, Glacier National Park
• Geology of National Parks