Images

GLSC dive team called to do inspection of Kalispell for zebra mussels.

Spring Rain at Hart Mountain.

Deploying a datalogger in the middle of Harney Lake.

Driving along the road to our next site and came upon this hawk on a dead tree.

These rice plants show the difference in growth of rice plants exposed to salt when grown with and without endophytes, which are mutually beneficial microscopic fungi that live in most plants.

After gastric tagging the adult Chinook, it was released back into the Klickitat River.

Standing on the Earth and Dam at Cougar as the fog rolled in and over the tailrace.

Two employees install equipment at Cougar Dam on a cold and wintery day.

Storm clouds moving in over the park.

Data storage tags (DST) implanted in telemetered pallid sturgeon record the water temperture and fish depth at pre-programed time intervals. 

Study chamber containing a pregnant pocketbook mussel (Lampsilis cardium) exposed to an elevated water temperature of 32 degrees Celsius. This mussel is showing signs of stress--lying on top of the substrate and unable to burrow.

USGS Oregon Water Science Center research vessel, used for lower Columbia River estuary water quality/contaminant and aquatic ecosystem health.

Engineered Log Jam on the lower river opposite the new Lower Klallam Tribe Fish Hatchery.

The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe project creates salmon habitat on the lower Elwha River in preparation for dam removal and habitat restoration.

Newly hatched pallid sturgeon propagated at the Columbia Environmental Research Center.

USGS Diver Reg Reisenbichler observing a Fish Eating anemone.
 

The USGS National Wildlife Health Center conducts a bat autopsy as part of its efforts to study the fungus that causes white-nose syndrome in bats.

A Washington Department of Ecology scientist maps the bathymetry of the mouth of the Elwha River using an integrated GPS and echo sounder on a personal watercraft. 

USGS microbiology technician evaluates a bacterial assay to determine the cause of a wildlife mortality. The USGS National Wildlife Health Center works to identify, track, and prevent wildlife disease.

Female pallid sturgeon, PLS11-007, is released back into the Missouri River after an ultrasound evaluation of her reproductive condition. 

Sunrise reflecting on a November morning on the Sacramento River, California.

Agricultural fields and an abandoned farmstead in eastern Montana in the Great Plains region. The Great Plains region of the United States has experienced significant land-use change since European settlement, with vast swaths of grasslands converted to agricultural lands.