Native green bee resting peacefully inside a yellow jewelweed flower (Impatiens capensis) at Heron Rookery trail within Indiana Dunes National Park, Indiana. Photo credit: Johanna Nifosi, USGS.
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Images captured by GLSC scientists while working in and around the Great Lakes.
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Home Sweet Home
Native green bee resting peacefully inside a yellow jewelweed flower (Impatiens capensis) at Heron Rookery trail within Indiana Dunes National Park, Indiana. Photo credit: Johanna Nifosi, USGS.
Mushroom City
A community of dozens of basidiomycete fungi on a decomposing log. Photo credit: Johanna Nifosi, USGS.
A community of dozens of basidiomycete fungi on a decomposing log. Photo credit: Johanna Nifosi, USGS.
Sunset at the Park
Sunset on Isle Royale National Park, Lake Superior. Photo credit: Scott Dwyer, USGS.
Sunset on Isle Royale National Park, Lake Superior. Photo credit: Scott Dwyer, USGS.
Blocknet Backlog
Downstream blocknet as part of an electrofishing survey of the fish community in Sevenmile Creek, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in northern Michigan. Photo credit: James Roberts, USGS.
Downstream blocknet as part of an electrofishing survey of the fish community in Sevenmile Creek, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in northern Michigan. Photo credit: James Roberts, USGS.
Lonely Rock
Lonely rock feature located in the Apostle Islands, Lake Superior. Photo credit: Scott Dwyer, USGS.
Lonely rock feature located in the Apostle Islands, Lake Superior. Photo credit: Scott Dwyer, USGS.
Nature’s Choir
Ringless honey mushroom (Armillaria tabescens) seen in the Heron Rookery, Indiana Dunes National Park. Photo credit: Johanna Nifosi, USGS.
Ringless honey mushroom (Armillaria tabescens) seen in the Heron Rookery, Indiana Dunes National Park. Photo credit: Johanna Nifosi, USGS.
Monitoring Phragmites Growth
Measuring the height of invasive Phragmites at Quanicassee State Wildlife Area in Bay City, Michigan. Photo credit: Anne Bonds, USGS.
Measuring the height of invasive Phragmites at Quanicassee State Wildlife Area in Bay City, Michigan. Photo credit: Anne Bonds, USGS.
Tethys Visits the Great Lakes
Long-range autonomous underwater vehicle 'Tethys' upon retrieval after a 400 km mission in Lake Michigan to collect the environmental DNA (bits of DNA drifting in the environment) of pelagic prey fish through a partnership between the USGS Great Lakes Science Center and the Monterrey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. Photo Credit: Peter Esselman, USGS.
Long-range autonomous underwater vehicle 'Tethys' upon retrieval after a 400 km mission in Lake Michigan to collect the environmental DNA (bits of DNA drifting in the environment) of pelagic prey fish through a partnership between the USGS Great Lakes Science Center and the Monterrey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. Photo Credit: Peter Esselman, USGS.
Backward Roll
USGS Great Lakes Science Center dive team doing a backward roll off the R/V Stonecat to collect lake-bottom samples and retrieve instruments in Lake Ontario. Photo credit: Greg Kennedy, USGS.
USGS Great Lakes Science Center dive team doing a backward roll off the R/V Stonecat to collect lake-bottom samples and retrieve instruments in Lake Ontario. Photo credit: Greg Kennedy, USGS.
Holding Pattern
Fish in a holding net waiting to be measured following an electrofishing survey of Sevenmile Creek in Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, Michigan. Photo credit: James Roberts, USGS.
Fish in a holding net waiting to be measured following an electrofishing survey of Sevenmile Creek in Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, Michigan. Photo credit: James Roberts, USGS.
Day at the Beach
A slimy sculpin from Miners Creek in Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, Michigan. Photo credit: James Roberts, USGS.
A slimy sculpin from Miners Creek in Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, Michigan. Photo credit: James Roberts, USGS.
Phragmites in Panoramic
A paddle through wetlands at Fish Point State Game Area in Saginaw Bay on Lake Huron. Photo credit: Wes Bickford, USGS.
A paddle through wetlands at Fish Point State Game Area in Saginaw Bay on Lake Huron. Photo credit: Wes Bickford, USGS.
Nature’s Patterns and Textures
Scales, fin rays and lateral line of a Smallmouth Buffalo (Ictiobus bubalus) found in the hydrologically restored wetlands of Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge near Saginaw, Michigan. Photo credit: Sasha Bozimowski, USGS.
Scales, fin rays and lateral line of a Smallmouth Buffalo (Ictiobus bubalus) found in the hydrologically restored wetlands of Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge near Saginaw, Michigan. Photo credit: Sasha Bozimowski, USGS.
Casting a Bait Net in front of an ARIS Sonar Unit in a Wetland
Casting a Bait Net in front of an ARIS Sonar Unit in a WetlandA partner field technician with the USFWS-Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge throws a bait cast net in front of the ARIS sonar unit. Photo Credit: Alexandra (Sasha) Bozimowski, USGS.
Casting a Bait Net in front of an ARIS Sonar Unit in a Wetland
Casting a Bait Net in front of an ARIS Sonar Unit in a WetlandA partner field technician with the USFWS-Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge throws a bait cast net in front of the ARIS sonar unit. Photo Credit: Alexandra (Sasha) Bozimowski, USGS.
Too Splendid to Blend In
A submerged leopard frog in a stand of Phragmites at Quanicassee State Wildlife Area in Bay City, Michigan. Photo credit: Danielle Snow, USGS.
A submerged leopard frog in a stand of Phragmites at Quanicassee State Wildlife Area in Bay City, Michigan. Photo credit: Danielle Snow, USGS.
Sleeping Bear Dunes in Panoramic
A USGS sampling area in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore on Lake Michigan. Photo credit: Edward Kostelnik, USGS.
A USGS sampling area in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore on Lake Michigan. Photo credit: Edward Kostelnik, USGS.
Lake Huron Shoreline
A nearshore view of Lake Huron and surrounding landscape. Photo credit: Edward Kostelnik, USGS.
A nearshore view of Lake Huron and surrounding landscape. Photo credit: Edward Kostelnik, USGS.
Collecting Invertebrates in a Restored Wetland
USFWS and University of Michigan assist with collecting macroinvertebrate samples from a restored coastal wetland at the Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge. Photo Credit: Alexandra (Sasha) Bozimowski, USGS.
USFWS and University of Michigan assist with collecting macroinvertebrate samples from a restored coastal wetland at the Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge. Photo Credit: Alexandra (Sasha) Bozimowski, USGS.
Marquette Lagoon Water Collection
Water sample collections in the Marquette Lagoon within Indiana Dunes National Park as part of an algal metabarcoding study to help address eutrophication or undesirable algae within the Grand Calumet River Area of Concern. Photo credit: Ashley Spoljaric, USGS.
Water sample collections in the Marquette Lagoon within Indiana Dunes National Park as part of an algal metabarcoding study to help address eutrophication or undesirable algae within the Grand Calumet River Area of Concern. Photo credit: Ashley Spoljaric, USGS.
Electrofishing Maankiki Marsh
An electrofishing catamaran rests on the berm surrounding Maankiki Marsh - Center Unit, the most recent wetland unit at the Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge near Saginaw, Michigan, to be reconnected to the local waterway. Photo credit: Sasha Bozimowski, USGS.
An electrofishing catamaran rests on the berm surrounding Maankiki Marsh - Center Unit, the most recent wetland unit at the Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge near Saginaw, Michigan, to be reconnected to the local waterway. Photo credit: Sasha Bozimowski, USGS.
Emergent Vegetation in a Wetland
Landscape view of two researchers walking through the emergent vegetation zone of a Great Lakes coastal wetland. Photo Credit: Alexandra (Sasha) Bozimowski, USGS.
Landscape view of two researchers walking through the emergent vegetation zone of a Great Lakes coastal wetland. Photo Credit: Alexandra (Sasha) Bozimowski, USGS.