Images

Zoomed-in view of the current visitor viewing area at the end of Hwy 130.

Tucson geomagnetic observatory Arizona.

NEW ORLEANS — Fire boat response crews battle the blazing remnants of the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig on April 21, 2010. A Coast Guard MH-65C dolphin rescue helicopter and crew document the fire aboard the mobile offshore drilling unit Deepwater Horizon, while searching for survivors.

Great Blue Heron at Bennet Springs State Park.

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.

Birds found in and around the Salton Sea, California.

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

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.

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

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.