Images

Hydroacoustic mapping boat R/V Lucien Brush mapping habitat during high water in the North Overton Bottoms Side-channel chute.

Weather Station on Tern Island in the middle of Crump Lake protected by bird spikes.

USGS employees Beau Griffith (left) and Becky Welly (right) hold a telemetered pallid sturgeon they recaptured in a trammel net.  The wooden object with 2 white buoys to the right of Welly is call a "Buck" or a "Mule" and is used to pull the end of the net along in the current.

Multiple generations of Salish Sea Tribal members land at the Swinomish Indian Reservation.

Arrival of Salish Sea Tribal Canoes with USGS water quality sampling instrumentation onboard.

North Dakota Discovery Farms Underwood waterway site 3 at Underwood, ND.

The photo on the left was taken on April 18, 1997 by a USGS Personnel, of the new gates at Lake Darling. The photo to the right was taken on June 13, 2011 by Nathan A. Stroh (USGS), of Lake Darling.

USGS microbiology technician Brenda Berlowski enters an animal isolation room.

A section of the Upper Green River Valley in western Wyoming, just south of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, showing different ecosystems (such as forests, wetlands, and aquatic habitats) whose capacities for carbon storage and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions will be assessed by the USGS.

A prairie dog stands on alert. The USGS National Wildlife Health Center works to identify, track, and prevent wildlife disease. Better protection of prairie dogs against plague would minimize the risk of disease transfer to endangered black-footed ferrets, aid in prairie dog conservation, and protect public health.

Dr. Sasha Reed, research ecologist with the USGS, was one of 94 recipients of the 2011 PECASE award.

The Golden Gate Bridge seen through Racoon Strait in the San Francisco Bay, California.

Mikhail Malin, visiting IBIW scientist, prepares to deploy a high-resolution sidescan sonar towfish below Bagnell Dam on the Osage River.  The CERC and IBIW collaborated with the Missouri Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at the University of Missouri to assess the distribution of paddlefish below the dam using telemetry, sidescan sonar, and DIDSON.

Nine-year-old pallid sturgeon wait in holding tanks for their turn to be evaluated by biologists at CERC.  More than 100 pallid sturgeon made the trip from Gavins Point National Fish Hatchery to Columbia on a snowy December day.

Creosote bush shrublands are one of the driest Sonoran Desert plant communities; the creosote bush and white ratany are the dominant plants; a USGS study showed that their coverage is likely to decrease with forecasted climate change because of less winter precipitation and more aridity.

As part of an international collaboration, the USGS assessed water availability in Kabul, Afghanistan. The report can be found online.

Absolutes and electronics buildings at Newport, WA magnetic observatory.

Picture of Geyser Valley in Olympic National Park in Northwest Washington.

Hallie Ladd, Beau Griffith and Jeff Beasley, Five Rivers Services, LLC biologists sorting through larvae samples collected from the Missouri River.

Katie Pugliares and Michael O'Neil with the New England Aquarium preparing a harbor seal carcass for necropsy.

Dead harbor seal found in New England in 2011.