Images

Photo taken on top of Meteorogical station in El Yunque Forest.

Photo taken from above the Lago Icacos Damsite.

A radio tracking boat cruises down a flooded Yellowstone River in search of telemetered pallid sturgeon. 

Scientist displays juvenile tarpon captured in a tidal pond.

Alicia Torregrosa is downloading data from a phenocam on BLM land in Idaho.

Arenal Volcano is surrounded by inhabitants despite being extremely active.

After a long struggle to position the fish just right, a double-crested cormorant finishes off a relatively young spotted gar.

A combination of salt water intrusion and altered water deliveries to Everglades National Park will likely decrease alligator nesting success, as seen by this baby gator whose nest was flooded.

Sun making shadows at the Grand Canyon.

Colorado River view.

Cooled ropey pahoehoe overlays active lava flows only detectable by heat radiating from the ground.

Though not as charismatic, the underwater periphyton and other vegetation are the primary support for all other life in the ecosystem.

Beth Stettner checks out the location of the IWRSS MOU signing.

Devil's Tower.

A channelized flow was being erupted today from the vent on the west side of the floor of Pu'u 'O 'o.

A close-up of the active lava surface in Halema'uma'u.

Cattle Ranch with typically 100 head of cattle currently flooded from the spring melt of higher than average snow accumulation.

Work Continues even when Silvies River is about to flood over the bridge.

Our datalogger is attached to the bridge and much to our surprise, a dump truck drives across the bridge as we were contemplating the safety of crossing on foot.

A pair of pelicans and in the background a Great Blue Heron in a Wetland at Summerlake Wildlife Area.

Employee collectiing Water Quality data with instrument YSI 556mps handheld in creek swollen from spring melt.

USGS Physical Scientist Erich Peitzsch sets up a weather station on Snowslip Mountain in Glacier National Park.  It provides meteorological data for avalanche forecasting and research, including wind speed and direction, air temperature, relative humidity, and net radiation measurements.