The USGS Core Research Center collaborated with the USGS Energy Resources Program to drill a core from the Mancos Shale to aid in the oil and gas assessment. Image Credit: Joshua Hicks, USGS.
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Research Drilling Rig and Landscape
The USGS Core Research Center collaborated with the USGS Energy Resources Program to drill a core from the Mancos Shale to aid in the oil and gas assessment. Image Credit: Joshua Hicks, USGS.
The USGS Coal Assessment Project
Coal project personnel visiting Trapper Mine in northwest Colorado in June, 2016.
Coal project personnel visiting Trapper Mine in northwest Colorado in June, 2016.
Temporary Streamgage on Brazos River
USGS scientist Jody Avant installs a temporary streamgage on the Brazos River near West Columbia, Texas. Rapidly deployable streamgages can be installed temporarily to provide emergency managers with additional information needed to help protect public safety.
USGS scientist Jody Avant installs a temporary streamgage on the Brazos River near West Columbia, Texas. Rapidly deployable streamgages can be installed temporarily to provide emergency managers with additional information needed to help protect public safety.
Temporary Streamgage on Brazos River
Temporary streamgage installed by the USGS on the Brazos River near Brazoria, Texas. Rapidly deployable streamgages can be installed temporarily to provide emergency managers with additional information needed to help protect public safety.
Temporary streamgage installed by the USGS on the Brazos River near Brazoria, Texas. Rapidly deployable streamgages can be installed temporarily to provide emergency managers with additional information needed to help protect public safety.
Great Basin
The Great Basin area in the northern Snake Range near the Utah/Nevada boarder.
The Great Basin area in the northern Snake Range near the Utah/Nevada boarder.
Inspecting Permafrost
USGS scientist Neal Pastick inspects a permafrost plot in North Slope of Alaska near Galbraith Lake.
USGS scientist Neal Pastick inspects a permafrost plot in North Slope of Alaska near Galbraith Lake.
Great Basin
The Great Basin area in the northern Snake Range near the Utah/Nevada boarder.
The Great Basin area in the northern Snake Range near the Utah/Nevada boarder.
Great Basin
The Great Basin area in the northern Snake Range near the Utah/Nevada boarder.
The Great Basin area in the northern Snake Range near the Utah/Nevada boarder.
Great Basin
The Great Basin area in the northern Snake Range near the Utah/Nevada boarder.
The Great Basin area in the northern Snake Range near the Utah/Nevada boarder.
Great Basin
The Great Basin area in the northern Snake Range near the Utah/Nevada boarder.
The Great Basin area in the northern Snake Range near the Utah/Nevada boarder.
Stan Musial bridge in St. Louis, Missouri
Photo of the Stan Musial bridge in St. Louis, Missouri.
Photo of the Stan Musial bridge in St. Louis, Missouri.
A piping plover adult standing over a nest scrape with four eggs
A piping plover adult standing over a nest scrape with four eggsA piping plover adult standing over a nest scrape with four eggs. Photo was taken on the Garrison Reach of the Missouri River, North Dakota
A piping plover adult standing over a nest scrape with four eggs
A piping plover adult standing over a nest scrape with four eggsA piping plover adult standing over a nest scrape with four eggs. Photo was taken on the Garrison Reach of the Missouri River, North Dakota
Piping plover adult stands on a sandbar
A piping plover adult stands on a sandbar on the Garrison Reach of the Missouri River, North Dakota. The yellow alphanumeric leg flag and color bands that identify it are clearly visible.
A piping plover adult stands on a sandbar on the Garrison Reach of the Missouri River, North Dakota. The yellow alphanumeric leg flag and color bands that identify it are clearly visible.
Two banded piping plover adults stand near a nest
Two banded piping plover adults stand near a nest with a small video camera pointed at it on a sandbar on the Garrison Reach of the Missouri River, North Dakota. The yellow alphanumeric leg flag and color bands that identify it are clearly visible. Video cameras were used to identify adults attending nests.
Two banded piping plover adults stand near a nest with a small video camera pointed at it on a sandbar on the Garrison Reach of the Missouri River, North Dakota. The yellow alphanumeric leg flag and color bands that identify it are clearly visible. Video cameras were used to identify adults attending nests.
USGS scientists on an airboat in Louisiana wetland
USGS scientists on an airboat in Louisiana wetlandWARC scientists take an airboat out to a wetland study site in Louisiana
USGS scientists on an airboat in Louisiana wetland
USGS scientists on an airboat in Louisiana wetlandWARC scientists take an airboat out to a wetland study site in Louisiana
Silt Fences Await Sediment from Storm Runoff
Silt fences were installed at paired locations on Mancos Shale to quantify sediment in runoff in disturbed and undisturbed areas.
Silt fences were installed at paired locations on Mancos Shale to quantify sediment in runoff in disturbed and undisturbed areas.
Canyonlands and the Colorado Plateau
The Needles district of Canyonlands serves as a stunning backdrop to our study site in the high desert grassland of the Colorado Plateau. Researchers at Canyonlands Research Station are testing the effect of experimentally imposed altered precipitation regimes on plant reproductive success, mortality, and biomass.
The Needles district of Canyonlands serves as a stunning backdrop to our study site in the high desert grassland of the Colorado Plateau. Researchers at Canyonlands Research Station are testing the effect of experimentally imposed altered precipitation regimes on plant reproductive success, mortality, and biomass.
Experimenting with Climate Change
Hilda Smith, biological technician with Canyonlands Research Station, monitors changes in biological soil crusts in response to experimental increases in temperature and altered precipitation patterns.
Hilda Smith, biological technician with Canyonlands Research Station, monitors changes in biological soil crusts in response to experimental increases in temperature and altered precipitation patterns.
Factory Butte
A variety of sampling methods are used to assess the movement of dust at different heights at Factory Butte. Dust samplers in the foreground are part of an ever-increasing network of more than 140 sites.
A variety of sampling methods are used to assess the movement of dust at different heights at Factory Butte. Dust samplers in the foreground are part of an ever-increasing network of more than 140 sites.
Please Stay on the Trail
A single narrow trail leads to research plots monitored by scientists at Canyonlands Research Station since the 1990s. This pristine area of biological soil crusts has never been grazed.
A single narrow trail leads to research plots monitored by scientists at Canyonlands Research Station since the 1990s. This pristine area of biological soil crusts has never been grazed.