Images

Strawberry fields surrounded by residential housing with the irrigation pumphouse in the foreground. 

Christopher Reich core drills coral to collect cores for paleoclimate analyses.

Bright, whitewater cascading through a lush pacific northwest rain forest.

USGS scientist shoots a repeat photograph of Grinnell Glacier in Glacier National Park to illustrate glacial recession due to impacts of climate change.

*note – logo on scientists hat is logo from USGS Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center, not private. 

observing the mass movement of salmon and steelhead through the dam.

Potash ore is mined at a depth of about 1500 m through a solution mining process. Examination of the world's largest potash producing basin was part of a global assessment of undiscovered.

Stratigraphic studies of Quaternary alluvium provides resource data to the U.S. aggregate industry.

Both ice and water sculpt the landscape surrounding Columbia Glacier.  Since USGS studies began in the early 1970s the glacier has lost 140 cubic km of ice, thinning by over 500 meters in the neighborhood of this image, and exposing 100 square km of new ocean.

Stark realities of how cars are recycled outside the United States.

This photo is of the Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse in Acadia National Park, Maine at the southern tip of Mount Desert Island. Heres, waves from the open ocean, beating against the rock walls with full force, have eroded a wave-cut platform of considerable size at the base of the sea cliff which is more visible during low-tides.

Magnolia in Bloom.

Grant Park Panorama at Sunset.

Absolutes pier curing at Deadhorse geomagnetic observatory.

The entire root perimeter of this tree collapsed in response to subsidence activity. More than 110 sinkholes formed in the Dover area of Florida during a freeze event in January 2010. Ground water levels dropped to record-setting lows as farmers pumped water to irrigate their plants for protection from the cold temperatures.

Sinkholes damage roadways and require constant maintenance for road safety. More than 110 sinkholes formed in the Dover area of Florida during a freeze event in January 2010. Ground water levels dropped to record-setting lows as farmers pumped water to irrigate their plants for protection from the cold temperatures.

Sinkholes affect roadway safety and require constant maintenance and monitoring. More than 110 sinkholes formed in the Dover area of Florida during a freeze event in January 2010. Ground water levels dropped to record-setting lows as farmers pumped water to irrigate their plants for protection from the cold temperatures.

More than 110 sinkholes formed in the Dover area of Florida during a freeze event in January 2010. Ground water levels dropped to record-setting lows as farmers pumped water to irrigate their plants for protection from the cold temperatures. The sinkholes destroyed homes, roads and sections of cultivated areas.

More than 110 sinkholes formed in the Dover area of Florida during a freeze event in January 2010. Ground water levels dropped to record-setting lows as farmers pumped water to irrigate their plants for protection from the cold temperatures. The sinkholes destroyed homes, roads and sections of cultivated areas.

The Role of Environment and Wildlife in Human Health. Human - wildlife interactions threatened by emerging diseases including avian influenza.

A red racer defends his home in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

Illustratuion of water and biodiversity in Pacific NW rainforest.