Images

Photograph of the eruption from the summit of Eyjafjallajökull from the north looking to the south across the Gígjökull outlet glacier, its "missing" proglacial (ice-margin) lake caused by the jökulhlaup that filled in the lake. 

Solar panels or arrays of photovoltaic cells convert renewable solar radiation into electricity by a clean and environmentally sound means. Collected solar energy can either be used instantly or stored in batteries for later use.

Solar panels or arrays of photovoltaic cells convert renewable solar radiation into electricity by a clean and environmentally sound means. Collected solar energy can either be used instantly or stored in batteries for later use.

Solar panels or arrays of photovoltaic cells convert renewable solar radiation into electricity by a clean and environmentally sound means. Collected solar energy can either be used instantly or stored in batteries for later use.

Collection of surface-water samples in South Dakota using DH-81.

Birds found in and around the Salton Sea, California.

Birds found in and around the Salton Sea, California.

Staff at the USGS Central Region Library created two displays for an open-house in celebration of National Library Week, April, 2010. This display on USGS scientific investigtations of the Grand Canyon displays field records, historical photography,historical surveying equipment, and publications from the science areas of biology, geology, geography, and water.

Surface fractures and long-term offset of features along the Imperial Fault. Right-lateral fault offset at I-8 due to recurrent movement on the Imperial Fault; view to the east.

Fresh surface fractures (black arrows) along Brawley Fault Zone and across Ralph Road in response to the 2010 El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake; view to the north. Slight vertical component of slip (2 mm, up on east [right] side) more noticeable at white arrow.

Cannonball River at Breien, ND looking West.

Portuguese man o' war washed onto a sandy beach.

By-the-wind sailor jellyfish washed onto a sandy beach as well as shells and clumps of Sargassum seaweed.

This image shows benthic biofilms growing in Wilson Park at 13th Street, Milwaukee.

Wild Rice River at Great Bend North Dakota, streamflow 1,890 cubic feet per second.  Photograph taken during spring 2010 flooding looking downstream of the bridge which was clogged with debris.  The river also had flooded over the road approaching the bridge.

Ilya the manatee swimming under a dock near Miami in March 2010 as other manatees swim nearby.

Ilya the manatee, famous for swimming up the Atlantic in the summer of 2009, is recognizeable in part due to the white scar on his head.

Ilya the manatee, famous for swimming up the Atlantic in the summer of 2009, photographed at a dock near Miami, Florida in March 2010

Saguaro National Monument is now Saguaro National Park. The decline is saguaros has continued but at a rate slightly less steep than predicted. Very few of the saguaro present in 1935 remain. Meanwhile, the regeneration of this forest has already begun, as shown by findings from a long-term study-plot located at left midground.

Large flock of Spectacled Eiders aggregated in a sea ice lead in the northern Bering Sea, south of St. Lawrence Island, Alaska.  Aerial photograph from a helicopter deployed from the USCG Cutter Polar Sea.

Overflow over the road on the west side of streamgage 05092000 Red River of the North at Drayton, ND, streamflow 65,200 cubic feet per second, during 2010 spring flooding.