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Cypress knees, Big Cypress Creek, Texas, July 27, 2011. Photograph taken by James B. Moring, U.S. Geological Survey.

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Electrofishing from a boat, Big Cypress Creek, Texas, July 27, 2011. Photograph taken by Justin A. McInnis, U.S. Geological Survey.

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This view is from Sowats Point on the Kaibab Plateau, looking southwest towards Kanab Creek.

Measuring physical characteristics, Big Cypress Creek, Texas, July 26, 2011. Photograph taken by James B. Moring, U.S. Geological Survey.

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Photograph of cutbank outcrop at Home Bay marsh, showing the subsurface stratigraphy to 90-cm depth exposed during low tide. Holes about halfway down the exposure are from burrowing crabs populating a narrow zone at the transition from underlying inorganic mud deposits to overlying peaty mud to peat deposits.

Calvert Cliffs on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland.

River lamprey (L. Ayresii) ammoceote tail pattern.

Aerial view looking northwest of Makapuu Beach Park (foreground) and Waimanalo Bay in the distance, southeast Oahu, Hawaii.

Halley Kimball (left) and Chris Magirl of USGS conduct a bathymetric survey of the Cedar River in western Washington.

Location: King County, WA, USA

A panoramic view taken from an island in the Yellowstone River.  Upstream is to the right side of the picture while downstream is to the left.  The middle of the picture looks straight across to the descending right bank. 

The Souris River flooded road near Foxholm, North Dakota. USGS personnel were there to measure the streamflow. Streamflow was approximately 16,900 cubic feet per second.

Starting around July 10, 2013, an airplane operating under contract to the USGS will be making low-level flights over a 1400-square-mile area in the New Madrid Seismic Zone. This airplane is a Cessna-180, specially modified for low-altitude geophysical surveys.

Cattle walking across biological soil crusts in southeastern Utah.

Road flooded by the Souris River near Foxholm, North Dakota. USGS personnel were there to measure the streamflow. Streamflow was approximately 16,900 cubic feet per second.

Typical goose grazing lawns along the Smith River in the Teshekpuk Lake Special Area of the National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska.  Greenhouses and Shadehouses are used by USGS biologists to assess the effects of climate change on plant quality and phenology.

Setting up for the National Scouting Jamboree at Fort A. P. Hill, Virginia.

The Souris River near Foxholm, North Dakota. USGS personnel were there to measure the streamflow. Streamflow was approximately 16,900 cubic feet per second.

Low elevation tundra along the Smith River in the Teshekpuk Lake Special Area of the National Petroleum Reserve – Alaska.  On left is low biomass, high-quality goose forage. On right is typical high biomass, low quality vegetation.

Coastal erosion reveals the extent of ice-rich permafrost underlying active layer on the Arctic Coastal Plain in the Teshekpuk Lake Special Area of the National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska.

USGS scientist Li Erikson poses for a picture in Alaska. Learn more about Li's research about climate impacts to Arctic coasts: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/pcmsc/science/climate-impacts-arctic-coasts.

Dry conditions at cattle water sources in western Colorado.