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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. 

Soil cores are collected and sectioned to characterize soil properties, abundance of metals, and fallout radionuclides which can be used to characterize rates of mixing of particles in soil.

Dr. Turner received graduate degrees from University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa and University of California, Berkeley. She was an NSF International Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oslo, Norway, and an Assistant Professor at the University of Albany, State University of New York before joining the Wisconsin Unit in 2020. Dr.

Artistic rendition of the mineral lifecycle from a natural state through to exploration, permitting, mining, and reclamation. Designed for the Minerals Lifecycle Integrated Science Team to depict one aspect of their science focus.

Contaminant releases can be associated with all steps of the food production process. The Food IST answers questions about what contaminants are released, if wildlife and humans are exposed, and if there are health hazards associated with exposure to wildlife

Wet mount image of cyanobacteria, Raphidiopsis sp.,  collected from Lake Okeechobee, Florida

Starting in 2017, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) researchers and land managers are co-producing a network of restoration field trial sites on Department of Interior (DOI) and surrounding lands in the southwestern U.S. The network systematically tests restoration treatments across a broad range of landscape, soil, and climate conditions.

Non-lead ammunition, such as those made from copper, tend to remain intact after impact with their target, while lead ammunition can fragment into many small pieces.

USGS map showing the movement of a lesser scaup infected with highly pathogenic avian influenza (red line) compared to four lesser scaup not infected (maroon, yellow, blue and black lines). Movement was recorded January 23 to 26, 2022. The black dot identifies where the birds were captured and released in Maryland.

USGS scientist Jeff Pigati collects pollen for radiocarbon dating at the site where human footprints were found in order to estimate the age of the footprints. Pollen also provides a picture of what kind of vegetation existed at the time that the footprints were made.

This is a coloring page for the USGS I Am A... career series depicting a Volcanologist.

Graphic showing potential benefits of RestoreNet 2.0 treatments, including seeding, live topsoil inoculation, livestock grazing, seed balls, and soil pits

This image is the report cover from a USGS Report Circular 1490. 

Bee nesting block with included image insert showing nesting hole occupied by a bee.

RestoreNet treatments include soil pits and connectivity modifiers (ConMods), seen here at a RestoreNet site in the Sonoran Desert.

The USGS Ecosystems Mission Area (EMA) is encouraging participatory science with its partners. EMA is a leader in participatory science activities and this guidance emphasizes support for this research design model that encourages research projects, as appropriate, to engage in enhanced forms of participatory science.

Male (ram - left) and female (ewe) bighorn sheep outside of Yellowstone National Park. 

Nikola Rodriguez exits the water after a successful sampling effort along the west coast of Hawai’i Island in September 2021. The fish will be processed and tested for the presence of ciguatoxins.

Bull elk roaming on the National Elk Refuge with the Teton Range in the background.