Images

Damage to a village house. Gaojiabian, Lushan.

People next to the ruins.

Damage to a village house.

Timberwork house with "soft connection" has little damage during earthquake.

People next to the ruins.

Timberwork house with wood embedded in cement wall has little damage during earthquake.

A scuba diver enters the water to complete an underwater survey.

Greg Linder, USGS Columbia Environmental Research Center, instructs Emily Simpson, Bethel College undergraduate student, on the dissection of a pocket gopher.

Sean Shea loads the PIT tag onto a syringe.

Agricultural Stream in Indiana

A research biologist conducting surgery on a lake sturgeon to implant an acoustic telemetry transmitter.

Lake sturgeon collected on restored spawning grounds in the lower St. Clair River.

A communications associate holding a lake sturgeon collected on restored spawning grounds in the lower St. Clair River.

Ernie Valdez, USGS Fort Collins Science Center, examines a bat caught over the mine detention pond.

Flood waters of the Missouri River and its tributaries cause road closures.

Woody debris is picked up and carried downstream by the rising waters of the Missouri River in Jefferson City, Missouri.

This ledge outcrop serves as the control at the USGS station on the Mousam River near West Kennebunk, Maine.

Three Hiodontid eggs, one Hiodontid larvae, and one Catostomid larvae sampled in the Missouri River near Plattsmouth. 

Two Centrarchid larvae sampled in the Missouri River near Plattsmouth.

Two Centrarchid larvae and one Catostomid larvae sampled in the Missouri River near Plattsmouth.

Hydrologic Technician Denis Scanlon removes a Pankow sampler from Lincoln Creek, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as USGS Hydrologist Dave Saad assists. High waters make the job particularly challenging.