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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: Yoshihiro Konno (AIST) and David Mason (USGS).

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, left to right: Efthymios Papadopoulos (Georgia Tech) and Jun Yoneda (AIST).

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: Emile Bergeron (USGS) and Carlos Santamarina (Georgia Tech) are preparing to use a cutter (center) to saw a pressure core into shorter-length sections for transfer into various test devices.

Photo of Redoubt and vicinity taken from the gas/obs fixed-wing flight. 

Rockfishes inhabit oil platforms offshore of California.

A Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog (Rana sierrae) scans the landscape in Yosemite National Park.

USGS technicians Ray Sliter, Pete Dal Ferro, and Tom O'Brien retrieve the 72-channel digital seismic streamer on the research vessel Pelican during a cruise to explore gas hydrates in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico from April to May, 2013.

This black-bellied salamander (Desmognathus quadramaculatus) was found in the Citico Creek Wilderness, Cherokee National Forest, Tennessee.

USGS technicians Eric Moore and Jenny White deploy instruments at the start of a seismic survey to explore gas hydrates in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico from April to May 2013.

As schools close for the year and summer weather beckons, many recreationalists head to the Great Lakes' public beaches. However, these coastal areas can become contaminated with disease-causing bacteria that threaten public health, disrupt water recreation, and pay a toll on the Great Lakes economies that depend on summer tourism.

The dry climate of the Borderlands increases the challenge of balancing water supplies between humans and ecosystems. Here, two horses and their riders observe the low water levels of a river.

A screenshot from the USGS film "Living with Fire".

USGS is investigating ways to balance community fire risk management and native habitat conservation as part of the USGS Southern California Wildfire Risk Scenario Project, analyzing both human factors and natural factors.

Birds found in and around the Salton Sea, California.

This photo from our second cross section is an example of significant changes to the river. Data was collected from this location in 2009 from a manned boat, with no issue. Upon return to the same cross section in 2013 we found a 2-4 ft hydraulic feature exposed. Backwater from the Great Works Dam hid this feature previously. 

A photo from August 2013 after removal of the Great Works Dam, showing the old concrete, wood and stone cribbing upstream of where the dam used to be.

A photo from August 2013 showing the cribbing upstream of where the dam used to be. See the photo titled 'Station 4 2009' for a picture from before the dam was removed from the same general perspective.

Florida panther; Puma concolor coryi, remains one of the most endangered mammals in the world.

Blue tents in Longmen near epicenter.

Firemen and the rescue team building tents for homeless people in a middle school square.

Damage to a village house. Longmenxiang.

Muir Glacier has retreated more than 2 km and ceased to have a tidewater terminus. Note that the retreat of Muir Glacier has left several ice-cored morainal mounds between the shoreline and the terminus.