Images

U.S. Geological Survey streamflow-gaging station 08098290 Brazos River near Highbank, Texas, looking upstream from FM 413 bridge, April 1, 2008.

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Materials arrive from across the country to be accessioned and processed at the Denver Library, Field Records Collection. Geologic Discipline scientists are encouraged to deposit their project materials and with the Field Records Collection. Materials in the collection are managed as Federal records to ensure ongoing access in perpetuity for future researchers.

The Field Records Collection in Denver houses materials generated from nearly 130 years of scientific investigations by more than 1200 scientists.

Organization and inventorying of the collection is an ongoing project. The Denver Library is converting card catalog records and inventory documents into a web accessible database in which inventories may be searched by keyword or browsed by scientist. The new website went live for USGS and public use in March of 2009.

U.S. Geological Survey streamflow-gaging station 08098290 Brazos River near Highbank, Texas, looking downstream from FM 413 bridge, April 1, 2008.

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U.S. Geological Survey streamflow-gaging station 08110500 Navasota River near Easterly, Texas, looking downstream from left bank, April 1, 2008.

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U.S. Geological Survey streamflow-gaging station 08110800 Navasota River at Old Spanish Road near Bryan, Texas, photograph looking upstream from bridge, April 1, 2008.

U.S. Geological Survey streamflow-gaging station 08111000 Navasota River near Bryan, Texas, looking upstream from left bank of abandoned channel, April 1, 2008.

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This bar-headed goose (Anser indicus) was marked with a satellite transmitter at Qinghai Lake, China, in an effort to understand the role that wild birds play in avian influenza.

Wing damage from fungus in little brown bat.

Iowa State Grad students Devan McGranahan and Torre Hovick, along with DNR private land specialist Josh Rusk and ISU Research Technician Shannon Rusk ignite a prescribed fire on a patch-burn grazing research pasture in southern Iowa.

A typical structure, or "hutch," for the management of rabbits for agricultural purposes and sometimes pet care. A wire base allows droppings to fall through to the ground.

B.K. Martin, hydrologic technician in the Little Rock office of the USGS Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center, measuring streamflow with an acoustic doppler current profiler during flood of March 19, 2008, at USGS streamflow-gaging station 07056000, Buffalo River near St. Joe, Arkansas. Photograph by W.E.

Noses Creek at Powder Springs Road, Georgia. Part of the USGS safety protocol is to wear a PFD (personal flotation device) around any surface water. This scientist may not look like he has one on, but he does--it is under his rain coat. This DH-81 sampler is used to sample flood water for suspended-sediment concentrations and water quality.

B.K. Martin, hydrologic technician in the Little Rock office of the USGS Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center, measuring streamflow with an acoustic doppler current profiler during flood of March 19, 2008, at USGS streamflow-gaging station 07056000, Buffalo River near St. Joe, Arkansas. Photograph by W.E.

White River at Calico Rock, Arkansas, during flood of March 19, 2008. Photograph by Daniel M. Wagner, U.S. Geological Survey.

Photo of River Mile 3 taken after the 2008 Glen Canyon high flow experiment.

Photo of River Mile 3 taken after the 2008 Glen Canyon high flow experiment.

Photo of River Mile 45 taken after the 2008 Glen Canyon high flow experiment.

Photo of River Mile 45 taken after the 2008 Glen Canyon high flow experiment.

As part of our routine field work in the winter the staff of the Maine Office head out on Maine's frozen (and partially frozen) rivers. This is dangerous work and in 2003 the Maine Office obtained a hovercraft to allow hydrographers to access rivers with unsafe ice conditions more easily.