Images

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. 

USGS pathologist Nancy Thomas and technician Dottie Johnson necropsy little brown bat at the USGS National Wildlife Health Center.

USGS pathologist Nancy Thomas conducting necropsy on little brown bat at the USGS National Wildlife Health Center (Allison Klein, USGS).

The Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River in Arizona. At noon Monday, Nov. 19, U.S.

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

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

Scientists at Lake Michigan Ecological Research Station are examining how habitat structure, fire history, nesting resources, and plant community composition affect bee community composition.

A USGS hydrologist conducts a near-surface electromagnetic induction survey to characterize the shallow earth. The survey was conducted as part of an applied research effort by the USGS Office of Groundwater Branch of Geophysics at Camp Rell, Connecticut, in 2008.

Dr. Kimberli Miller, a Wildlife Disease Specialist at the USGS National Wildlife Health Center, collects field samples from a WNS positive cave in Vermont.

USGS scientist Dede Goldberg swabs a pintail duck for avian influenza at Monte Vista National Wildlife Refuge in Colorado.

Five orange blossoms against a backdrop of citrus leaves and a mature orange produced by the previous year's blossoms. One blossom has already been pollinated and has lost its surrounding petals leaving the pistil isolated. Photograph taken March 15-16, 2008.