Images

Embudo Student Hydrographers

USGS prersonnel at the Embudo Station, New Mexico. Embudo was selected as the site of the first USGS streamgaging station in 1889 because of the need for systematic water resource assessments of western states as it not only offered a favorable climate and easy rail access, but qualified for congressional funding tapped specifically for the “arid West.”

Old Faithful Geyser in Upper Geyser Basin. 1878(?). Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (Hayden Survey).

Portrait of Ferdinand V. Hayden, about the time of his directorship of the Geological Survey of the Territories. c. 1870. The Hayden Survey was a predecessor to the USGS.

U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (Hayden Survey). Group of all the members of the Survey, made while in camp at Red Buttes at the junction of the North Platte and Sweetwater Rivers. Natrona County, Wyoming, 1870. Standing left to right: John "Potato John" Raymond and "Val," cooks; Sanford R. Gifford, landscape painter; Henry W.

Strong shaking during the 1868 Hayward Fault earthquake caused the second story of the Alameda County Courthouse in San Leandro to collapse (photo courtesy of the Bancroft Library, University of California). The inset photo shows the courthouse before the quake

A curious smallmouth bass following behind scuba divers in Sparkling Lake, Vilas County, Wis.

Sign in desk, taken at the first Federal Unmanned Aircraft Systems Workshop. 

Red and Bonita Mine located approximately .4 miles from the Gold King Mine.

Red and Bonita Mine located approximately .4 miles from the Gold King Mine.

Red and Bonita Mine located approximately .4 miles from the Gold King Mine.

USGS staff checking the streamgage equipment on the San Saba River in Texas.

EON Geosciences airplane under contract to the USGS for low-level flights in Cedar Rapids/Waterloo, Iowa, area.

Adult, immature, and nymph stage box elder bugs gather on the leaves of a hosta plant growing at the base of a silver maple tree. Adults have fully formed, mainly black wings.

Honey bees live and work in highly collaborative, social colonies with a sole reproducing queen, and they make honey by storing nectar from flowering plants in their hives for use during food scarcities.

The USGS researches land use and honey bee health in the northern Great Plains. This research will be useful in equipping land managers and policy makers with the best-available science to improve forage and habitat for pollinators in a part of the country that is undergoing rapid land-use change.

Shake Table at dusk, lit by flourescent lights installed under the table in addition to a high-powered, hand-held flashlight.

An 8.5-minute exposure taken on a moonless night with a blue-gel'd flashlight to fill in the top of the shake table.

A 30-second exposure with the fluorescent lights underneath the table switched on for a split second.

D.V. Rogers in the "Bunker," the control center for the project. Real-time earthquakes are received via satellite internet.

Clay-colored sparrow nest.