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Mikhail Malin, visiting IBIW scientist, prepares to lowers a hydroacoustic transducer into the water from a CERC research vessel below Bagnell Dam on the Osage River, Missouri.  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 us

Beau Griffith, a biological technician at CERC, stands at the bottom of one of the newly reconstructed ponds designed to conduct long-term studies with sturgeon and other riverine species.  A divider and circulators can be installed in the sandy-bottomed ponds to create the continuous water current that sturgeon prefer.

U.S. Geological Survey participiated in a flyover of the Devils Lake Basin to view continued severe flooding.

Interior of room 40 inside the tarpaper shacks on the USGS Menlo Park campus, circa 1965. During the early 1960s, three of the key scientists working on the theory of magnetic reversals operated in the Rock Magnetics Laboratory that was housed in these shacks. The Rock Magnetics Laboratory was designated a National Historic Landmark on October 12, 1994.

USA-National Phenology Network citizen-scientist Lucille Tower records the one millionth observation on maple vine in the large nature database.

A USGS herpetologist with a Sonora Mud Turtle (Kinosternon sonoriense; photo left) and Red-eared Slider (Trachemys scripta elegans;
photo right) at Montezuma Well, Montezuma Castle National Monument.

Damage to a house in Louisa County, Virginia, after a magnitude 5.8 earthquake on August 23, 2011.

The Spinx and the Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt are pictured here.

USGS scientist Craig D. Allen observes the results of the extensive, tree-killing fire that consumed almost all above-ground biomass in this part of the Las Conchas Fire burn area in the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico. Photo taken in late August 2011, two months post-fire.

Drift wood and other organic material showed up at the Paria Riffle due to high water volumes. 

USGS Aquatic Ecologist, Ted Kennedy, getting a reading off the flow meter.

View of the Colorado River from a bench near Water Holes Canyon.

USGS Hydrologist David Topping's sediment monitoring gauges.

USGS Aquatic Ecologist Ted Kennedy sampling invertebrate and organic drift at Lees Ferry during the November 19, 2012 HFE.

USGS scientists up on the cable way at Lees Ferry measuring suspended-sediment transport.

Previously undiscovered photo of undocumented Russian Crown Jewels were recently discovered in the USGS library. The photo appear in a 1922 album called "Russian Diamond Fund," that was uncovered in the rare book room of the library. This brooch was one of the four undocumented jewels.

Previously undiscovered photo of undocumented Russian Crown Jewels were recently discovered in the USGS library. The photo appear in a 1922 album called "Russian Diamond Fund," that was uncovered in the rare book room of the library. This photo, taken in 1925, shows the entire Russian jewelry collection.

This U.S. Capitol gatepost was built circa 1827 and is made of Aquia Creek Sandstone, the same material that makes up most of the U.S. Capitol building. It stands at the intersection of 15th Street, NW, and Constitution Avenue.

This is red Seneca sandstone, the building block of the Smithsonian Castle. It originated in a quarry on the shores of the Potomac River in Maryland, and is more than 200 million years old.

Scientists from AIST, JOGMEC, Georgia Tech, and the USGS prepare to analyze pressure cores as part of a multi-year gas hydrates research project in Japan. Front to back: Masato Kida (AIST), Yoshihiro Konno (AIST), William Waite (USGS), Jiro Nagao (AIST), and Yusuke Jin (AIST), analyze test results from pressurized hydrate-bearing sediment cores.

Scientists from AIST, JOGMEC, Georgia Tech, and the USGS prepare to analyze pressure cores as part of a multi-year gas hydrates research project in Japan. Left to right: David Mason (USGS), Carlos Santamarina (Georgia Tech), and Yoshihiro Konno (AIST).