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The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute robotic sampler is shown being lowered into its metal housing. Photo by Cheryl Miller, USGS

Argentine black and white tegus (Salvator merianae) can survive the winter under semi-natural conditions well beyond their current invasive range.

Debris flow in Glenwood Canyon during the summer of 2021. This event followed the 2020 Grizzly Creek Fire in Glenwood Canyon, Colorado. 

Interstate 70 in Glenwood Canyon, Colorado. In the summer of 2021, travelers in Colorado's Glenwood Canyon were safely evacuated before massive debris flows buried highways and destroyed bridges, thanks to a debris flow warning system developed in part by the U.S. Geological Survey.

USGS scientist assesses debris flow in Glenwood Canyon, Colorado. This post-wildfire debris flow follows the 2020 Grizzly Creek Fire. 

An artist’s rendition of Landsat 9 in orbit.

Source: NASA, public domain.

Scientists assess post wildfire debris flow following the 2020 Grizzly Creek fire. 

This photo, taken by teenager Aidan Ford in 2021 of a Ringed Map Turtle near Covington, Louisiana, led to the conformation of a second, previously-unknown population of the species. (Photo courtesy of Aidan Ford). 

This image shows a male bighorn sheep with large horns.                         

(Left) This Flood and Storm Tracker map shows areas where flooding caused by Hurricane Ida in 2021 may have spread the invasive northern snakehead. (Right) The northern snakehead is just one of almost 1,400 nonindigenous aquatic species the USGS can estimate the spread of after major flood events with these maps. USGS images.

A photo of a prairie pothole wetland. The Prairie Pothole Region is the largest wetland complex in North America.

Vehicles drive on interstate I-70 in Glenwood Canyon, Colorado. In the summer of 2021, travelers in Colorado's Glenwood Canyon were safely evacuated before massive debris flows buried highways and destroyed bridges, thanks to a debris flow warning system developed in part by the U.S. Geological Survey.

This map of the Cape Cod region is created with the National Land Cover Dataset (NLCD). The dataset classifies land cover into categories such as developed areas, forests, wetlands, and water bodies, providing a detailed view of the region's composition.

Seismicity of Hawaii: earthquakes M>5 from the 1840-1899, 1900-1959, 1960-2019 catalogs shown separately. While earthquake activity remains high today, it seems to have decreased over the past 60 years, which could be related to less volcanic activity at Mauna Loa. 

Figure 1. Chance of minor or greater damaging earthquake shaking in the next 100 years. Population exposure estimates are rounded to the nearest 1000. 

Figure 2.

Map of maximum uranium concentration at 206 spring and well sites in the Grand Canyon region.

Triple-high mist net in front of Half Dome. The net is used to capture bats as part of a study tracking bat movements in Yosemite National Park.

Landsat image of Window Rock, Arizona, acquired on November 3, 2021.

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Photo of the drone performing a low-altitude gas survey to monitor gas emissions near Mammoth Lakes, CA. In the foreground (the white outcrops) is a fumarole. The dead trees in the background are due to tree-kill from heated ground temperatures

Landsat 9 is the latest in a prestigious line of satellites that have been watching our planet for nearly 50 years. They have monitored changes on land and made that information freely available to users around the world.