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Damage to a local school building. Tianquan Elementary School.

This is the Menlo Park, Calif. Map Sales Office located on the USGS campus. The Sales Office is managed by the California Geological Survey.

USGS, Nature Conservancy, Idaho Fish and Game, and other volunteers collect fish on the Silver Creek Preserve near Picabo, Idaho.

Damage to a local school building. Tianquan Elementary School.

USGS and US Forest Service staff installing dust monitoring equipment at a uranium mine near Grand Canyon National Park.

Hester Dendy™ samplers like this one provide artificial substrate that aquatic insects can colonize.

Collection and comparison of pre- and post-restoration samples to assess how well the insects adapt to restoration efforts.

Cold-water adapted macroinvertbrates like these are good indicators for the health of an ecosystem.

Damage to a local school building. Tianquan Elementary School.

Damage to a local school building. Tianquan Elementary School.

Damage to a local school building. Tianquan Elementary School.

USGS hydrologist Dan Thomas places an acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) into Fargo, N.D., floodwaters to measure streamflow on the Red River.

USGS hydrologist Dan Thomas speaks with media about USGS flood response efforts in Fargo, N.D.

A high water marker is submerged by the rising Red River during flooding in Fargo, N.D.

USGS biologists Kristen Hart, Jeff Beauchamp, and Thomas Shelby prepare to release a green sea turtle fitted with a satellite tag in the waters of Dry Tortugas National Park. Note: All marine turtle images taken in Florida were obtained with the approval of the U.S.

The USGS Red River of the North at Fargo streamgage in Fargo, N.D., takes automatic water level measurements every 15 minutes.

USGS hydrologists return from measuring streamflow on the Red River in Fargo, N.D. The USGS Red River of the North at Fargo streamgage can be seen on the right in the image.

USGS hydrologist Dan Thomas shows media how the acoustic Doppler current profiler (on the right) measures streamflow on the Red River in Fargo.

A team of USGS hydrologists and technicians prepares to take an acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) out on the Red River in downtown Fargo, N.D., to measure streamflow during the 2013 flood.

USGS hydrologists measuring streamflow on the Red River during spring flooding in Fargo.

Red River floodwater in downtown Fargo, N.D., overcame a public trail sign in April 2013.