Images

USGS technicians Jenny White and Tom O'Brien prepare lead weight to be added for proper ballasting of the seismic streamer on the fantail of the research vessel Pelican during a cruise to explore gas hydrates in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico from April to May, 2013.

The view of the river from the USGS gaging station on the Kennebec River at The Forks, station 01042500. 

Sunrise on the shore of Spednic Lake before heading out on the lake to collect data for a study. 

Chevak youth help funnel Cackling Geese into holding pen for banding.

Life in a tent. A grandfather taking the baby outside the tent. The wall with shear crack behind him was their house which suffered serious damage.

Homeless people waiting in line for food and water. Aid agencies have scrambled to provide food, shelter and medical supplies to the thousands of people made homeless by the quake and strong aftershocks.

Damage to a village house. Longxingcun.

Top of Radiodiscus sp. viewed with scanning electron microscope.

Hawaiia minuscula shell observed with a scanning electron microscope with aperture facing down.

Gastrocopta germindens shell viewed with a scanning electron microscope.

Radiodiscus millecostatus shell viewed with a scanning electron microscope.

Gastrocopta pentodon shell viewed with a scanning electron microscope with a zoom-in of the aperture.

Geologists extract a hand-driven core from 2-3 m depth on Sitkinak Island, Alaska. The cores contain peat with interbedded sand layers that record inundation of the coast by prehistoric tsunamis. (l-r: Peter Haeussler, USGS; Andrew Kemp, Tufts University; Alan Nelson, USGS)

Adult and nymph stage box elder bugs gather on the leaves of a hosta plant growing at the base of a silver maple tree. Adults have fully formed, mainly black wings.

Brown pelicans and gulls float and fly along a coastline.

Glen Black of GLSC and Angela Wahlquist of Northland College places fyke net in wetland vegetation in Fish Creek Slough of Lake Superior near Ashland, Wisconsin, as part of a study of bioindicators of wetland degradation in the Great Lakes. This study is funded by the U.S.

Wildlife Biologist Bruce Hanson conducting a breeding bird survey.

An unidentified cow (Bovidae Family) with cattle egrets (Bubulcus ibis) in the grass. Deforestation is visible in the background.

Heavy rains from a tropical cyclone struck the islands of the Comoros in March, 2014. On the island of Anjouan in the Union of Comoros, these rains triggered landslides that displaced over 3000 people to refugee camps.

Heavy rains from a tropical cyclone struck the islands of the Comoros in March, 2014. On the island of Anjouan in the Union of Comoros, these rains triggered landslides that displaced over 3000 people to refugee camps.

Heavy rains from a tropical cyclone struck the islands of the Comoros in March, 2014. On the island of Anjouan in the Union of Comoros, these rains triggered landslides that displaced over 3000 people to refugee camps. The USGS and the OFDA with USAID are providing support and research assistance on these events.