Images

Damage to a village house.

Hawaiia minuscula shell viewed with a scanning electron microscope with aperture facing up.

Ventral view of Guppya gundlachi shell observed with a scanning electron microscope.

Radiodiscus millecostatus shell viewed with a scanning electron microscope with aperture facing up.

Lucidella lirata shell viewed with a scanning electron microscope.

Pupisoma dioscoricola shell viewed with a scanning electron microscope.

Striatura meridionalis shell viewed with a scanning electron microscope.

Thysanophora caecoides shell viewed with a scanning electron microscope.

Strobilops sp. shell viewed with a scanning electron microscope.

Chanomphalus pilsbryi shell viewed with a scanning electron microscope.

Bivalve mollusk with a highly-ornamented shell. (Scanned From Negative)

National Wetlands Research Center workers set bench marks to study marsh subsidence.

When the river stops flowing the channel becomes brushy because of the moisture in the river bottom. The location is 17º59'15"N, 66º17'40" and the elevation is 10 m. All photographs are at the same location.

Immature adult, and nymph state box elder bugs gather on the ground in a residential garden under a silver maple tree.

Prop-roots of the red mangrove, and large mangrove ferns line the banks of a freshwater cenote or upwelling near a coastal marine estuary.

A pair of unidentified grazing cattle (Bovidae Family) with cattle egrets (Bubulcus ibis) in the grass. Deforestation is visible in the background.

Removing a blood sample from a shortnose sturgeon to determine a colorimetric technique for revealing sex and establish contaminant levels.

Researchers set up radar equipment at dusk near Horicon National Wildlife Refuge in east-central Wisconsin.

A magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck the island of Anjouan in the Union of the Comoros on March 12, 2014.  Heavy rainfall trigger landslides and damages were incurred to buildings, roads, and water supplies. As a precaution, more than 3,000 citizens living below the landslides were moved to a refugee camp.

Rare platinum nugget NMNH 73738 from the National Mineral Collection. Photo by Chip Clark, Smithsonian Institution. PGEs are essential for manufacturing computers, TVs, cell phones, and other portable electronic devices. They are found in hard drives, circuitry, and automobiles.

A magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck the island of Anjouan in the Union of the Comoros on March 12, 2014.  Heavy rainfall trigger landslides and damages were incurred to buildings, roads, and water supplies. As a precaution, more than 3,000 citizens living below the landslides were moved to a refugee camp.