Videos

Random Site: 5SM18 West Transect; Depth: 6.1 Meters (20 Feet); Distance from river mouth: 4.5 Kilometers (2.8 Miles) east; Pre/Post Dam Removal: 3 years pre-dam removal; Lat/Long: 48.13592923,-123.51082988; Site Description: This is a shallow site. Sediment is a gravel/sand mixture. Red, green and brown seaweed is abundant.

Short video clips and commentary as the Coast Salish Tribal Nation paddle through the San Juan Islands.

The USGS and the Coast Salish Tribal Nation have partnered during the annual Tribal Canoe Journey to study and help improve resources of the Salish Sea.

This final episode in the Corecast Tribal Journey gives an overview of the journey, including a look at preliminary results.

The USGS and the Coast Salish Tribal Nation have partnered during the annual Tribal.Canoe Journey to study and help improve resources of the Salish Sea.

This first episode in the Corecast Tribal Journey series examines the new partnership between the USGS and Coast Salish people.

Searching for a blue-eyed turtle in the Sahara Desert

by USGS Herpetologist Jeffrey Lovich and visiting Cadi Ayyad University (Marrakech) Professor Mohammed Znari

Streamflow Measurement (2008) — USGS streamgagers make a discharge measurement in southwest Arizona.

Footage of USGS streamgagers taking measurements on the Santa Cruz River in Arizona.

Various video footage of sea otter researchers, sea otters in their habitat, and scenery.

The Long Lasting Legacy of Nuclear Waste

Dave Stonestrom, USGS Research Hydrologist

USGS streamgagers make a low flow measurement on the San Pedro River at Charleston.

USGS employees using a wading rod to measure the streamflow over a road near Finchford, IA on 6/10/2008.

Western Style

Michael Dettinger, USGS Research Hydrologist

Visualizing Past, Present, and Future Earthquakes

USGS scientists David Schwartz, Heather Lackey, Luke Blair, and Scott Haefner take you on a virtual tour of the Bay Area's most urbanized fault

In this video podcast, USGS experts give preliminary observations on what took place during the high flow experiment. Time lapse videos and photos available.

Secretary of the Department of the Interior (DOI) Dirk Kempthorne addressed the audience at the Plenary Session via video. Kempthorne discussed the remarkable technological advances in geospatial technology that allow us to see the world in a new way and provide tools for addressing sustainability and managing disasters.

Restoring San Francisco Bay Salt Ponds to Wetlands Habitat

A video production introduced and discussed by Steven E. Schwarzbach, Director, USGS Western Ecological Research Center

Video showing a house being washed down the White River at Calico Rock in Arkansas, off of Highway 5, and colliding with a bridge. The roof of the house is ripped off completely as the house continues to pass under. Shot around 4pm.

USGS scientist Bruce Molnia, discusses the impact of changing climate and conditions on Earth's glaciers

By Bruce Molnia, Geologist

See excerpts from this full-length film feature showing:

Long-lived mud "eruption" inundates housing and infrastructure

By Thomas J. Casadevall, Geologist

Video Highlights

* Secretary of the Interior, Dirk Kempthorne, visits the fire ravaged Malibu, California (Jan 14, 2008). Led by USGS scientists, the Secretary was shown how technology and collaborative science are crucial to addressing a number of post-fire threats and concerns.

Jim Bowers, USGS, California Hydrologic Monitoring Program Chief talks about the potential for debris flows in central Orange County, Modjeska Canyon, as a result of the 2007 fires.