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Looking through the belly port of a small airplane before an aerial photographic survey starts, Fall 2018.
The Seabird Studies Team at the USGS Western Ecological Research Center is conducting aerial photographic surveys of the ocean off central and southern California to create comprehensive maps of seabird and marine mammal distributions.
Looking through the belly port of a small airplane before an aerial photographic survey starts, Fall 2018.
The Seabird Studies Team at the USGS Western Ecological Research Center is conducting aerial photographic surveys of the ocean off central and southern California to create comprehensive maps of seabird and marine mammal distributions.
Kanab North reclamation study site informational sign. These signs identify the project benefits in mining, jobs and the environment.
Kanab North reclamation study site informational sign. These signs identify the project benefits in mining, jobs and the environment.
For ten years, this yellow concrete block house in Cape San Blas, Florida, dubbed Fish Inn, was the seasonal office, laboratory and living quarters for a team of USGS sea turtle researchers during their field season from November till April.
For ten years, this yellow concrete block house in Cape San Blas, Florida, dubbed Fish Inn, was the seasonal office, laboratory and living quarters for a team of USGS sea turtle researchers during their field season from November till April.
A cyanobacterial bloom in late fall at Ash River Harbor in Kabetogama Lake, Voyageurs National Park
A cyanobacterial bloom in late fall at Ash River Harbor in Kabetogama Lake, Voyageurs National Park
Cyanobacterial bloom at Kabetogama Lake in Voyageurs National Park
Cyanobacterial bloom at Kabetogama Lake in Voyageurs National Park
Cyanobacterial bloom in Kabetogama Lake with fall leaves in the background
Cyanobacterial bloom in Kabetogama Lake with fall leaves in the background
Glen Canyon Dam jet tubes releasing water into the Colorado River for a November 2018 high flow experiment. The increase in flow of the Colorado River downstream of the dam mobilizes sand at the bottom of the river and that sand rebuilds sandbars in Grand Canyon.
Glen Canyon Dam jet tubes releasing water into the Colorado River for a November 2018 high flow experiment. The increase in flow of the Colorado River downstream of the dam mobilizes sand at the bottom of the river and that sand rebuilds sandbars in Grand Canyon.
Remote Camera, 30-mile Camp (River MIe 30.7)
Panoramic view of scientists in boat on Hells Canyon Reservoir, Idaho
Panoramic view of scientists in boat on Hells Canyon Reservoir, Idaho
Particulate matter captured on a quartz fiber filter at the Mercury Research Laboratory.
Particulate matter captured on a quartz fiber filter at the Mercury Research Laboratory.
Native birds resting on marker buoys in Brownlee Reservoir, Idaho.
Native birds resting on marker buoys in Brownlee Reservoir, Idaho.
Draining overlying water from sedimentation sampler at Brownlee Reservoir, Idaho.
Draining overlying water from sedimentation sampler at Brownlee Reservoir, Idaho.
Grand Teton National Park in autumn.
Fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas) in an exposure tank housed inside of a mobile laboratory at the legacy fire-training area contaminated by PFAS derived from aqueous film-forming foams on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas) in an exposure tank housed inside of a mobile laboratory at the legacy fire-training area contaminated by PFAS derived from aqueous film-forming foams on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Pond mussel (Ligumia subrostrata) in an exposure tank housed inside of a mobile laboratory at the legacy fire-training area contaminated by PFAS derived from aqueous film-forming foams on Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Pond mussel (Ligumia subrostrata) in an exposure tank housed inside of a mobile laboratory at the legacy fire-training area contaminated by PFAS derived from aqueous film-forming foams on Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Mobile laboratory deployed at the legacy fire-training area contaminated by per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) derived from aqueous film-forming foams on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Mobile laboratory deployed at the legacy fire-training area contaminated by per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) derived from aqueous film-forming foams on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Passive samplers in an exposure tank housed inside of a mobile laboratory at the legacy fire-training area contaminated by PFAS derived from aqueous film-forming foams on Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Passive samplers in an exposure tank housed inside of a mobile laboratory at the legacy fire-training area contaminated by PFAS derived from aqueous film-forming foams on Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Between 2009 and 2018, scientists conducted a national scale assessment of mercury accumulation in the National Park System using dragonfly larvae as biosentinels (species that accumulate a pollutant in their tissues as an index of exposure to other organisms without significant adverse effects to the biosentinel) through a citizen science network called the Dragonf
Between 2009 and 2018, scientists conducted a national scale assessment of mercury accumulation in the National Park System using dragonfly larvae as biosentinels (species that accumulate a pollutant in their tissues as an index of exposure to other organisms without significant adverse effects to the biosentinel) through a citizen science network called the Dragonf
Photovoltaic, or solar, cells array at the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility in the Mojave Desert and a wind energy facility in the Northeastern United States.
Photovoltaic, or solar, cells array at the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility in the Mojave Desert and a wind energy facility in the Northeastern United States.
A completed restoration field trial site just after installation. Half of the site is seeded, and the other half had plants and weed cloth (white fabric) installed.
A completed restoration field trial site just after installation. Half of the site is seeded, and the other half had plants and weed cloth (white fabric) installed.
These workers are planting seedlings as part of the restoration field trial network. Each garden in the network is examining seedlings and seeds in conjunction with restoration treatments to better und
These workers are planting seedlings as part of the restoration field trial network. Each garden in the network is examining seedlings and seeds in conjunction with restoration treatments to better und