Images

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.

Storm clouds moving in over the park entrance.

Bumble bee over a cone flower.

Three bumble bees around a cone flower.

The new solar heating system will reduce the center's carbon footprint by supplementing the current natural gas boiler and reduce energy costs.

A USGS employee locates a telemetry tagged pallid sturgeon between attempts to recapture the fish with a trammel net in the Missouri River. 

The 100 yr old, 108 ft tall Elwha Dam drawdown of water from Lake Aldwell reservoir began June 1, 2011 in preparation for Elwha Dam.

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

Tribal members welcome "families" from other Salish Sea Indian and First Nation Tribes.