Images

Migrating geese stop at local ecosystem.

Just finished lampara seining during the daylight now moving into evening seining  

Trammel net deployment on the Missouri River.  The wooden object with 2 white buoys in the river is called a "Buck" or a "Mule" and is used to pull the end of the net along in the current.

Pacific Lamprey mouth suckers adhered to the glass at Bonneville Dam fish viewing window.

The native Pacific Lamprey uses the fish ladder at Bonneville Dam.  This species plays a significant role in the foodweb and in Tribal "first foods".--cultural.

USGS Provides a tour of the research vessel and the lower Columbia River to Deputy Assistant Secretary Deanna Archuleta discussing the lower Columbia River estuary water quality and aquatic health.

A lower Columbia River estuary tour on a USGS research vessel with NWA Deputy REx and WFRC Director.

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

Nebraska Game and Parks Commission collaborates with USGS on the Comprehensive Sturgeon Research Project tracking telemetered pallid sturgeon in the Missouri River.

Juvenile lake sturgeon propagated at the Columbia Environmental Research Center.

In efforts to monitor potential bird flu transmission pathways, the USGS works with international partners to mark and track whooper swans with GPS transmitters.

Dr. Sasha Reed is a research ecologist with the USGS who was honored with a 2011 PECASE award.

This large Burmese python, weighing 162 pounds and more than 15 feet long at the time of its capture in 2009, was caught alive in the Everglades and was found to have eaten an American alligator that measured about 6 feet in length.

East front of the tarpaper shacks on the USGS Menlo Park campus, circa 1965 (with Chevy Corvair and 1950 Ford). 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.

Variations building at Guam geomagnetic observatory.

The May 12, 2008, Great Sichuan Earthquake, also called the Wenchuan Earthquake, occurred at 14:28 local time, in Sichuan Province, China. The earthquake magnitudes were Mw = 7.9 (USGS), Ms = 8.0 (Chinese Earthquake Administration). The epicenter was 80 km west-northwest of Chengdu, the capital city of Sichuan province.

The Colorado Plateau lies in the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States: western Colorado, northwestern New Mexico, southeastern and eastern Utah, and northern Arizona. Most of the area is drained by the Colorado River and its main tributaries.

A desert tortoise walks in the Mojave Desert.

Guests arrive at the Elwha Dam for the ceremony commemorating the official start of the dam decommissioning and river restoration project on the Elwha River in Washington state.

A newly hatched probable sturgeon larvae captured near the spawning site of PLS09-011 in Nebraska.

John Klavitter of the US Fish and Wildlife Service, left, and USGS biologist Michelle Reynolds attach transmitters to critically endangered Laysan teal that were translocated from Laysan to Midway Island to expand the species' population and range. 

USGS biologists translocated critically endangered Laysan Teal, such as this one, from Laysan Island to Midway Island in the Northwest Hawaiian Islands to expand the species' population and range and help guard against extinction.