Images

Scientists explore mangroves in a beach environment, Cape Sable, FL.

Gage House 05114000 located near Sherwood, North Dakota along the Souris River. USGS personnel were there there to measure the streamflow. The picture to the left was taken on April 11, 2011, streamflow of approximately 2,790 cubic feet per second and a stage approximately 18.91 feet. The picture to the right was taken on June 22, 2011.

The view of Cougar Dam and the fish facility from the upper cliff side. 

Standing on the Earth and Dam at Cougar as the fog rolled in between the snow capped mountains.

An impulsive alternative energy program subsidized farmers who allowed windmill construction but did not account for maintaining the resource.

Scientists hike up the Little Colorado River to assist in installing remote PIT tag readers to more efficiently keep track of native, endangered fish populations.

Following several collapses and small explosive events that deposited spatter on the floor of Halema'uma'u crater around noon, the lava surface in Halema'uma'u was roiling and agitated for the remainder of the afternoon, with numerous points of upwelling and spattering.

Angled shot of butterfly on a flower.

Benthos sampling at Crane Creek, OH.

Blue Heron.

Solomon Gulch Top of Falls gage house in spring.

Hydrographer C.S. Couvillion drilling Willow Creek for ice discharge measurement.

USGS scientist shoots a repeat photograph of Grinnell Glacier in Glacier National Park to illustrate glacial recession due to impacts of climate change.

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

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

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.

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.