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Nighttime collection of adult aquatic insects using a vacuum aspirator on a white sheet illuminated by blacklight. Photo Taken by Laura Hubbard, USGS

Elaine Nakash educates visitors and volunteers alike at the USGS Bird Banding Laboratory's display table, which was setup for the Latino Conservation Week event at the National Wildlife Visitor Center at Patuxent Research Refuge. 

These scientists are working on The Great Salt Lake to determine the amount of water and qualities of it. This will help them in developing better management techniques that will work to support the migratory birds that frequent the area. 

These brine flies are an important fuel source for migratory birds, giving them energy for long flights. 

This passive acoustic recording device has been deployed in Montana (MT) as part of the North American Bat Monitoring Programs (NABat) summertime survey efforts. It has an ultrasonic microphone placed at the top of a 10ft pole that records echolocating bats fro

Image of a western meadowlark, a grassland-dwelling bird species. Credit: USFWS, public domain

An inside look at an MBARI autonomous environmental DNA (eDNA) sampler that is normally in metal housing taking samples in streams to detect aquatic invasive species, pathogens, and parasites. This version weighs about 400 pounds, but future versions will be more portable.  

Boaters fly fishing on the Missouri River in Montana                                                                                       

USGS scuba divers collect bottom water for environmental-DNA and nutrient analysis. Photo credit: Shelby Eagan, USGS.

USGS scientists prepare to sample for environmental AIV at an impoundment at Horicon National Wildlife Refuge, Wisconsin

Reef manta rays were one of 10 pelagic species tagged in a new effort to understand marine habitat use and the functionality of the large "blue water" marine protected area surrounding Palmyra Atoll and Kingman Reef in the central eastern Pacific Ocean.

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Sunset over the lagoon at Palmyra Atoll.

Learn more about research at Palmyra Atoll:

https://www.usgs.gov/centers/werc/science/palmyra-blue-water-research

Grand Canyon Youth/Partners in Science trip participants cool down under a small waterfall on a hot day

Researchers attach a GPS tag to the tail feathers of a Red-footed Booby as part of the Palmyra Blue Water project.

Learn more:

https://www.usgs.gov/centers/werc/science/palmyra-blue-water-research

Biologists measure the bill length of a GPS-tagged Red-footed Booby for the Palmyra Blue Water project.

Learn more:

https://www.usgs.gov/centers/werc/science/palmyra-blue-water-research

Karmann Kessler and Zachary Kelly install a water temperature logger in Big Hunting Creek in Catoctin Mountain Park, MD.

Caitlin Reynolds retrieving one of the sediment traps used by USGS to study sediment flux in the Gulf of America on board the Research Vessel (R/V) Weatherbird II (Florida Institute of Oceanography).

Eckerd College students taking water samples from a CTD-rosette on board the R/V Weatherbird

USGS Hydrologist collecting water from a dock at Horicon National Wildlife Refuge

USGS Biologist Amanda Milde holds a 79 lb bighead carp captured, tagged, and released in Pool 18 of the Mississippi.

Mountain goat standing next to a mostly frozen, high-elevation lake in Glacier National Park, Montana.