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A canoe family arriving at the beach at the Swinomish Tribal Community Center.

USGS scientist Eric Grossman interviewed by KOMO-TV (ABC,Seattle) at the Swinomish Tribal Community Center.

USGS scientist Eric Grossman interviewed by KOMO-TV (ABC,Seattle) at the Swinomish Tribal Community Center.

USGS scientist Eric Grossman demonstrates the water-quality instruments, used during the tribal canoe journeys, at the Swinomish Tribal Community Center.

USGS scientist Eric Grossman interviewed by KOMO-TV (ABC,Seattle) at the Swinomish Tribal Community Center.

A canoe family arriving and requesting permission from Brian Cladoosby, Swinomish Tribe chairman, to
come ashore at the the beach at the Swinomish Tribal Community Center

USGS scientist Eric Grossman demonstrates the water-quality instruments, used during the tribal canoe journeys, at the Swinomish Tribal Community Center.

USGS scientist Eric Grossman demonstrates the water-quality instruments, used during the tribal canoe journeys, at the Swinomish Tribal Community Center.

USGS scientist Eric Grossman demonstrates the water-quality instruments, used during the tribal canoe journeys, at the Swinomish Tribal Community Center.

KOMO-TV (ABC, Seattle) satellite truck parked near the beach at the Swinomish Tribal Community Center

USGS scientist Eric Grossman demonstrates the water-quality instruments, used during the tribal canoe journeys, at the Swinomish Tribal Community Center.

USGS scientist Eric Grossman demonstrates the water-quality instruments, used during the tribal canoe journeys, at the Swinomish Tribal Community Center.

When lava from the Pu'u 'Ō'ō-Kupaianaha eruption, active since 1983, meets the ocean, large littoral explosions can result.

USGS scientist John Shelton using high-tech hydroacoustic equipment to measure the depth and velocity of the Congo River.

White pelicans on the James River, North Dakota, summer 2008.

Photograph of the Donghekou Landslide, triggered by the 2008 Wenchuan, China Earthquake. This landslide had 3 sources areas: the mountain slope at the top right of the photograph a second area primarily resulting in a rockslide that occurred to the left of the scientists, and one to the right, across the river (not shown in picture).

Photograph of the Donghekou Landslide, triggered by the 2008 Wenchuan, China Earthquake. This landslide had 3 sources areas: the mountain slope at the top right of the photograph a second area primarily resulting in a rockslide that occurred to the left of the scientists, and one to the right, across the river (not shown in picture).

Common in Louisiana, although amphibian declines are a global problem. Are we next?

Solar powered streamgage to transmit real-time data at Grinnell Creek at Grinnell Glacier, Glacier National Park.

Mounds in Acidalia Planitia, Mars. These are almost certainly not cinder cones despite their appearance. Their alignment in rows is not typical of cinder cones on Earth; more likely these are mud volcanoes formed from the shaking of an impact event.

Scientists have found that wind turbines are causing fatalities of certain species of migratory insect-eating bats, although a March 2011 study in Science suggests that solutions to reduce the impacts of wind turbines on bats may be possible.