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Mountain yellow-legged frogs (Rana muscosa) in their transport containers being acclimated to their new habitat, Los Angeles County.

Mountain yellow-legged frog habitat found in a riparian area of Los Angeles County.

Newly released mountain yellow-legged frogs (Rana muscosa), Los Angeles County. Mountain yellow-legged frogs were bread and captivity then released.

Bison waiting by field technician's truck after a sample collection in Montana.  

Michael Tate using the Raman microscope to identify and characterize microplastics at the Upper Midwest Water Science Center

The 6 components that comprise READI-Net are each represented by an interlocking hexagon, illustrating the multi-dimensional aspect of the project including: Autonomous eDNA samplers, Broad spectrum surveillance, Where & when to sample, Lab analysis standards, Information framework, and Communication. 

The 6 components that comprise READI-Net are each represented by an interlocking hexagon, illustrating the multi-dimensional aspect of the project including: Autonomous eDNA samplers, Broad spectrum surveillance, Where & when to sample, Lab analysis standards, Information framework, and Communication. 

Filtered plastics from surface water in Madison, WI. This photo was taken at UMID for microplastic analysis and method development.

A still image taken from a USGS Flow Photo Explorer camera (Pl_06.5) shows drying in a small stream in Shenandoah National Park.

Big Sheep Canyon, Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Centennial Mountains, southern Montana.

Water tracing dye was injected into a stream in Leadville, Colorado, to identify locations of metal loading and to guide geophysical measurements.

A filter from the Smith-Root sampler that collects eDNA when water is pushed through. This pattern is indicative of turbid water passing through the filter.

University of Idaho Doris Duke Scholars at the USFWS National Conservation Training Center. From left to right, standing: Orion Cardenas-Ritzert, Abigain Cano Perez, Dr. Kerri Vierling (faculty co-advisor), Zander Zuniga; in front, Emily Cook. Photograph by co-advisor Courtney Conway.

Photographs from a colony of boulder brain coral (Colpophyllia natans) found losing tissue in Biscayne Bay, Miami, FL, US. (A). In situ photograph. An area of prior tissue loss is covered in algal overgrowth (O), new loss is evidenced by white, bare skeleton not yet overgrown by algae (S), and intact healthy-appearing tissue is greenish brown (H).

USGS field technician photographing bumble bees captured during monitoring surveys at Logan Pass, Glacier National Park, Montana.

This site was burned but not invaded by exotic annual grasses. Many perennial bunchgrasses were present before the fire and were able to recover quickly afterwards.

This site south of Rock Springs in Wyoming was not burned but cheatgrass has invaded the space between sagebrush shrubs. 

This landscape south of Rock Springs, Wyoming was burned and subsequently invaded by cheatgrass. Cheatgrass has a short growing season and leaves behind mats of dry, dead material that serves as wildfire fuel--contributing to a cycle of more frequent and larger wildfires and more plant invasions.

Orange streams are increasingly common in the Brooks Range of northern Alaska. The orange stream color reflects oxidized iron, but also often indicates elevated heavy metal concentrations. Our ongoing study aims to document these occurrences and the timing of their onset.

Orange streams are increasingly common in the Brooks Range of northern Alaska. The orange stream color reflects oxidized iron, but also often indicates elevated heavy metal concentrations. Our ongoing study aims to document these occurrences and the timing of their onset.

This landscape in Rabbit Valley in Colorado was burned and then invaded by the exotic annual grass cheatgrass. A formerly diverse plant community was replaced by a sea of highly flammable grass.