Images

Cluster of tubeworms - Scuba divers from the U.S. Geological Survey’s Western Fisheries Research Center, Washington Sea Grant, EPA and the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe collected data and images from a long-term study of the Elwha River dam removals and the resulting effects on the nearshore ecosystem.

Sanddab - Scuba divers from the U.S. Geological Survey’s Western Fisheries Research Center, Washington Sea Grant, EPA and the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe collected data and images from a long-term study of the Elwha River dam removals and the resulting effects on the nearshore ecosystem.

Buffalo sculpin camouflaged - Scuba divers from the U.S. Geological Survey’s Western Fisheries Research Center, Washington Sea Grant, EPA and the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe collected data and images from a long-term study of the Elwha River dam removals and the resulting effects on the nearshore ecosystem.

Image of sockeye salmon. Photo provided by Milton Love, Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Image of the Western Fisheries Research Center, Columbia River Research Laboratory, Cook, WA

USGS scientist sampling water in Klamath Lake.

Juvenile steelhead smolts become silvery and scales become loose as they transition into their seawater life history stages.

Murals on the USGS Western Fisheries Research Center Pump House structure by Jeff Jacobson. 

Interpretive signage created by interpretive designer and illustrator Denise Dahn, with murals of USGS Western Fisheries Research Center Pump House created by Jeff Jacobson in background.

Taking a break in the fog on the San Joaquin River while trawling aboard the USGS Research Vessel Munson II.

Underwater image of Juvenile Chinook salmon in Cougar Reservoir in the Willamette Basin.

Juvenile wolf eel - Scuba divers from the U.S. Geological Survey’s Western Fisheries Research Center, Washington Sea Grant, EPA and the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe collected data and images from a long-term study of the Elwha River dam removals and the resulting effects on the nearshore ecosystem.

Moon snails - Scuba divers from the U.S. Geological Survey’s Western Fisheries Research Center, Washington Sea Grant, EPA and the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe collected data and images from a long-term study of the Elwha River dam removals and the resulting effects on the nearshore ecosystem.

Fish health principle investigators, students, post-docs, and technicians from different research groups work together as a fish processing team on days when large numbers of fish require sampling.  They are collecting multiple tissues from each fish for testing virus infection and host immune response.

Fish biologist with a female Lost River sucker from Sucker Springs on Upper Klamath Lake.

Researcher processing a Lost River sucker at Sucker Springs on Upper Klamath Lake.

Re-vegetation in the river valley at the Elwha River restoration site. Image available at Olympic National Park flickr site.

Pahranagat Roundtail Chub (Gila robusta jordani) in the Pahranagat River, NV.

USGS Hydrologist Chris Magirl captures image of the Elwha River flooding for the first time following dam removal. This location is just downstream of the former Elwha Dam which used to stand at the area near the top of the photograph.

Visitors at Glines Canyon East Abutment in Olympic National Park, the location of the Elwha River Restoration project. Image available at Olympic National Park flickr site.

Different size and age classes of experimental Specific-Pathogen-Free Pacific herring reared at the Marrowstone Marine Field Station.