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Laboratory research: Bioelectrochemical system for critical mineral recovery from mining by-products.

2024 USFWS Fire Employee Photo and Video Contest - Landscape Category The Rail Ridge Fire burns in the distance in Oregon.

Tailings piles at abandoned mine sites can be reprocessed to recover critical minerals and rare earth elements. 

Sarah Costanzo (USGS) collects soil stability data prior to installing RestoreNet version 2.0 treatments at Canyonlands Research Center near Moab, UT. Photo by Laura Shriver (USGS).

Montana is known for its fishing opportunities, especially its cold-water trout fishing. Here, someone is fishing in Big Hole River, Montana. 

USGS Biological Science Technician Claudia Dimartini poses with a long camelthorn (Alhagi maurorum) rhizome (underground root structure from which new plants can propagate that was exposed in a wash at the Deadman Wash Confluence Area. Photo by Laura Shriver (USGS).

Laura Shriver at the soil and restoration science booth at the USGS Flagstaff Science Center Open House. The booth included native seeds, biocrusts, a soil texturing activity, and science brief handouts.

Autonomous environmental DNA (eDNA) sampler in protective housing on the shore of Jackson Lake, Grand Teton National Park. The USGS READI-Net project and eDNA samplers like this one can assist the park in detecting aquatic invasive species, like quagga mussels. 

Underside of Bell Jet Helicopter with thermal infrared and true-color image sensors and JN and M.D. The helicopter is used for airborne surveys of river reaches to capture temperature values of water-surfaces.

From left to right, Ember Bradbury (Colorado State University), Sarah Costanzo (USGS), Sonoma Brill (USGS), and Laura Shriver (USGS) celebrate installing a RestoreNet site at Canyonlands Research Center near Moab, UT.

Albert Klein (University of Arizona) shows the pollinator garden designed and installed by University of Arizona students at the Santa Rita Experimental Range. Photo by Laura Shriver (USGS).

The Ruby River is a tributary of the Beaverhead River and anglers enjoy trout fishing here.  

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.

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 house wren was banded during the fall migration banding activities at EESC's Bird Banding Laboratory in Laurel, MD. 

Hunter Tyler Coleman holds two harvested ducks that have been banded. Coleman believes all hunter should report bands. 

Photographs from a mountainous star coral (Montastraea cavernosa) losing tissue to disease in Florida, USA.  (A) Colony in situ showing bare white, recently denuded skeleton with no turf algae growth (arrowheads) with dark discoloration along the active tissue loss margins (arrows).

This is a photo of Paul Hershberger at Marrowstone Marine Field Station Lab. Dr. Hershberger studies diseases in fish.

Density plots showing higher probability of host occupancy, on average, under proactive disease management (b, right) versus reactive disease management (a, left) for chytrid fungus, Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bsal). Adapted from 

Profile view of a Bell Jet Helicopter with a thermal infrared and true-color sensor co-mounted to the underside of the nose. These sensors are used in airborne thermal infrared surveys for remotely sensing land/water surface temperature.