Images

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

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

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. 

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. 

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.

The Mohawk Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) returns to the NOAA Ship Pisces after a successful dive to survey benthic habitats in the Gulf of America

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. 

After exploring benthic communities in the deep Gulf of America, the remotely operated vehicle Mohawk (UNCW-Undersea Vehicles Program) is lifted back onto the NOAA Ship Pisces

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

Northern dusky salamanders (Desmognathus fuscus) are a species of stream-adapted salamander found throughout the northeastern US. The larvae are aquatic and live in streams, while the adults live on streambanks. This individual is a juvenile, and it has only recently lost its gills and left the water.

A banded Golden-winged warbler, that died as a result of a window collision.                    

A band of a Golden-winged warbler, that died as a result of a window collision.                  

Using the Smith Root sampler for eDNA collection in Big Pool within Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Park in June, 2023. eDNA will be extracted and sequenced to look for the presence of amphibians. 

Two 4-foot wide baffled chute fishways are tested side-by-side in the Conte Lab's Fish Passage Complex's east flume.  The fish ladders are instrumented with passive integrated transponder antennas/reader.  River herring, collected from the mouth of the Chicopee River are tested to assess entry and ascent rates.

Alexis Weinnig, a biologist with the USGS, explains the importance of USGS marine research and the partnership between UGSG and NOAA Ocean Exploration to a public audiance. This was during a port event in Seattle, WA. 

USGS Fish Biologist Aaron Heisey and EESC colleagues enter the east flume in the Conte Lab's Fish Passage Complex after the conclusion of a study trial to recover adult white suckers.

Overhead view of a microplate with a dilution gradient.  The targeted bioassay is designed to identify bioreactivity at varying concentrations.