Images

Fish Biologist Micah Kieffer holds a shortnose sturgeon during a public outreach event at EESC's S.O. Conte Research Lab in Turners Falls, MA. 

Ted Castro-Santos, EESC, and Katie Deters, PNNL, release tagged American Shad in the canal at the Conte Lab 

David Walters measuring surface elevation table that is used to assess changes in wetland surface (accretion and/or erosion) at Money Stump in Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge in Cambridge, Maryland.

Winter 2024 Photo Contest: Melinda Martinez, Honorable Mention category

Ted Castro-Santos, EESC, and Katie Deters, PNNL, release tagged American Shad in the canal at the Conte Lab 

a view of a laptop computer connected to 2 monitors and a microplate reader. The monitors display data generated from an assay including a standard curve.

At the Bird Banding Lab's Fall Migration Station, Winter Wrens are one of the smallest species they band. They have the smallest tail measurement at the station, between 26-36 millimeters!  

A female biologist holds an Eastern box turtle in her hand as gets ready to process it as part of a survey.

A female biologist holds an Eastern box turtle and measures its shell as part of a survey.

An Eastern box turtle in the leaves in the woods of Patuxent.                  

An Eastern Box turtle with vibrant orange skin is caught as part of the Patuxent Box Turtle Survey.

A female biologist records data taken from an Eastern box turtle survey event                 

Biologist Sofia Galvan demonstrates how to identify the gender of an Eastern Box Turtle. 

A large shed is part of the new bird banding station. It will serve as a more private place for banding and storage.

A comparison of two hatch year (born this year) Northern Parulas. The individual on the left is a male, while a female is on the right, note the color differences including the band of chestnut on the males chest. 

Bird Bander reviewing the "Identification Guide to North American Birds" by Peter Pyle, to see if this Wilson's Warbler's black crown gives any indication of its age. 

The BBL's Fall Migration Station's second banded Yellow Warbler in the last 10 years! 

The Yellow-throated Vireo is an uncommon visitor to the BBL's Fall Migration Station - this is the first one since 2016!

Ben is a biologist at the Eastern Ecological Science Center in Kearneysville, West Virginia

A still image taken from a USGS Flow Photo Explorer camera (Pl_06.5) shows drying in a small stream in Shenandoah National Park.

This is a newly hatched two-lined salamander (Eurycea bislineata). Two-lined salamanders are a stream-adapted species, which means that the larvae are fully aquatic and live in streams.

USGS Scientist, Alexis Weinnig, working aboard the NOAA ship Okeanos Explorer to sample seawater with a niskin water bottle mounted on the back of the remotely operated vehicle (ROV). The water from the niskin bottles is filtered for eDNA to detect biological life in the water column.