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Rich Kim works on giant gartersnake trap building. 

Eastern newt (Notophthalmus viridescens) in Wisconsin.

USGS scientists visit Garden Wall Weather Station in Glacier National Park.  This high elevation weather station, just below the Continental Divide near Logan Pass, collects weather data that is used each spring to forecast avalanche hazard for the road crew plowing Going to the Sun Road.  The data is also used by USGS avalanche scientists to study the con

Scientists with the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team have seen the first female grizzly bear with cubs of the year for 2020 in Yellowstone National Park. The radio-collared female was seen with 3 cubs during a telemetry tracking flight on 4/10.  One of the 3 cubs is hard to see between the 2 obvious siblings, but you can just make out its

An open-canopied ephemeral wetland occupied by gopher frogs in the northern Florida Peninsula. Wetlands like these surrounded by sandy upland habitat, such as longleaf pine systems, support gopher frog populations.

Hawai'i 'Amakihi (Chlorodrepanis virens).

Land managers representing National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, US Forest Service, Navajo Nation, private ranches and farms attend the first RestoreNet stakeholder meeting at the USGS Southwest Biological Science Center in February 2020. 

A CTD-rosette is a commonly used instrument that measures conductivity (that can inform scientists about salinity), temperature, and depth (CTD). As the instrument is lowered into the water--sometimes down to great depths--the cylinders around will open at various depths to collect water samples at discrete locations throughout the water column.

Two adult bald eagles look on while two younger bald eagles fight. The eagle on top is a juvenile bald eagle and the one on the bottom is a Basic IV.

This adult female bald eagle is named "Relish." She was banded #57 and fitted with a GPS transmitter in January 2019 as part of the Raptor View Research Institute's bird-lead study. She nested near the Great Slave Lake in the NW Territories, Canada in the Summer of 2019. Her transmitter stopped sending location data in May 2020.

A white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in a snowy field in front of forest in Wisconsin.

Scientists working to uncover footprints at White Sands National Park field site.

Reported lionfish sightings from 1985 - January 8, 2020

Data Source: U.S. Geological Survey, Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

A Western sandpiper in San Francisco Bay.

Ben is marking geese with global positioning system transmitters and analyzing banding data to learn what role waterfowl hunters can play in helping to reduce increasing human-goose conflicts. 

Environmental DNA sampler (located in metal housing)  in USGS stream gage along the Snake River

Pair of pronghorn in a snow-covered prairie near Medicine Bow, Wyoming. Pronghorn are mainly found in the U.S., with Wyoming being particularly important to this species.

USA-NPN Pheno Forecast of emerald ash borer adult emergence. Yellow areas indicate locations that will have reached the accumulated temperature requirements for adult emergence as of April 1, 2019.

Left: Prototype ABS plastic eel climbing ramp under development and testing at CAFRL. New substrate design allows for passage of a wider size range of eels with less need for precise flow regulation. Right: juvenile eel climbing wetted ABS plastic substrate.

A tractor using a grass-seed drill to plant a tallgrass prairie site in Minnesota.

Apparatus used to test the sensitivity of eels to low-voltage pulsed DC electric fields. Knowledge of sensitivity of eels to electric fields enables development of behavioral barriers that use electricity to guide eels away from turbine intakes.