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This image shows the cloud-water interception process in an island environment like the Hawaiian islands.

A map of the United States including Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico shows landslide susceptibility from yellow (low) to red (high), where the areas without shading represent negligible potential for landslides.

¿Dónde Ocurren los Deslizamientos de Tierra?

(Mapa Nacional de Susceptibilidad a Deslizamientos de Tierra, 2024)

This map, accessible to the public through the U.S. Geological Survey's Coastal Change Hazards Portal, depicts areas along the coasts of Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi that are forecast to experience sand dune erosion, overwash and inundation when Hurricane Francine strikes the U.S. on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (USGS image). 

Boulders deposited by post-fire debris flow at the site of the 2020 Dolan Fire in California.

Scientist Adam Perez collects guano samples to test with the CRISPR-Cas biosensor that can detect the pathogen that causes white-nose syndrome in bats.

Recipients of 2024 Pecora Group Award. The Optical Oceanography Laboratory of the University of South Florida, left to right: Keyu Mao, Cheng Xue, Yao Yao, Madjid Hadjal, Yingjun Zhang, Chuanmin Hu, Siarah Hall, Jennifer Cannizzaro, Brad Nemeth, Junnan Jiao, Brian Barnes, Jing Shi, Sarah Sullivan, Yuyuan Xie, David English. 

Andrew Robinson, a USGS hydrological technician, is making a measurement at Ebenezer Creek at Springfield, GA. This site number is 02198690. (Photo by Andrew Robinson, USGS.)

Drew Robinson, a USGS hydrological technician, is putting a Rapid Deployment Gauge together for the Georgia Department of Transportation on Wednesday, August 7. He built the RDG and deployed it in Statesboro in the early evening. That RDG was used to help the local community experiencing bad floods on Lotts Creek.

Colette Morris, a U.S. Geological Survey hydrologic technician, takes measurements from a streamgage in Flatford Swamp, Fla., Aug. 7, 2024 just days after Tropical Storm Debby struck Florida's Gulf Coast. (Photo by Don Hampton, USGS). 

Mike Ludwig, a U.S. Geological Survey hydrologic technician, reads measurements from a streamgage while sitting on a partially submerged park table  in Zephyrhills, Fla., Aug. 7, 2024 just days after Tropical Storm Debby struck Florida's Gulf Coast. (Photo by Todd Dunkle, USGS). 

MEET A FIRE SCIENTIST: Steven Sobieszczyk.

I fill two roles with wildfires. I go out after a fire to look at values at risk to postfire flooding or I respond during a fire as public information officer.

Nick Stanton, a U.S. Geological Survey hydrologic technician, takes floodwater measurements on a road overtopped with water near Parrish, Fla., Aug. 6, 2024 just days after Tropical Storm Debby struck Florida's Gulf Coast. (Photo by Patrick Marasco, USGS). 

National Hurricane Center satellite imagery, August 5, 2024, shows Hurricane Debby near Florida.

U.S. Geological Survey hydrologic technician Graham Murray installs a rapid deployment gauge Aug. 6, 2024 at Big Reedy Creek near Latta, South Carolina, to measure floodwaters in the wake of Tropical Storm Debby. (USGS photo). 

U.S. Geological Survey hydrologic technician Don Hampton traverses Ward Lake in Bradenton, Fla., to take high water measurements on Aug. 6, 2024 in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Debby. (Photo by Vinny Budd, USGS). 

U.S. Geological Survey hydrologic technician Todd Dunkle takes high water measurements with a remote-controlled boat in Clearwater, Fla. Aug. 5, 2024, hours after Tropical Storm Debby made landfall along Florida's western coast. (Photo by Mike Ludwig). 

Lava2d simulation of the fissure 3 lava flow from the 2022 eruption of Mauna Loa, Hawaiʻi. Colors represent lava flow depth after 5 days of activity.

National Hurricane Center satellite imagery of the Gulf of Mexico on August 5, 2024.

Alison Rose, Chief of Space Division, Geoscience Australia, and Darcee Killpack, acting Associate Director, Core Science Systems, United States Geological Survey, signing the Memorandum of Understanding formally operationalizing the Landsat Next partnership.

Animated Ash3D simulation of a volcanic ash cloud from a hypothetical eruption of Mt. St. Helens, WA if it occurred today. Colors represent ash concentrations in the cloud.  This .gif is uploaded to Drupal to support Volcano modeling feature story in support of the September’s theme of hazard resilient communities.