Images

Oceanographic Research Vessel METEOR. Photo courtesy of Ferdinand Oberle.

Location: NW Iberian Shelf, Atlantic Ocean

One of the many passing bottom trawlers on the NW Iberian Shelf as seen from Research Vessel METEOR.

Location: NW Iberian Shelf, Atlantic Ocean

Surveying an exposed sandbar along the bank of the Colorado River, Grand Canyon, May 2014. Photo by USGS, public domain.

Pinyon-juniper and sagebrush on Juniper Mountain, Nevada.                  

Oceanographic Research Vessel METEOR.

Location: NW Iberian Shelf, Atlantic Ocean

Deployment of Scientific Research Equipment (Tripod) from ship, RV Meteor

Location: NW Iberian Shelf, Atlantic Ocean

Sagebrush ecosystem in the winter.                      

Field site truck and trailer at the Onaqui SageStep field site, field camp

Sagebrush after juniper removal in Utah.                       

Photo of restoration structures in the Deer Island restoration site, Missouri River, during April 2014.  

The male Common Goldeneye performs a complex courtship display during winter and early spring. These diving ducks eat mostly aquatic invertebrates and fish and females nest in tree cavities.

Sea Lamprey at the Hammond Bay Biological Statioin in Millersburg, MI

Common Mergansers are sometimes called sawbills, fish ducks, or goosanders. The word “merganser” comes from the Latin and translates to “plunging goose”. Similar to Goldeneye ducks, mergansers usually nest in natural tree cavities.

Radio-collared female Carolina Northern Flying Squirrel (Glaucomys sabrinus coloratus) in a high elevation red spruce (Picea rubens) stand on Whitetop Mountain, VA during winter of 2014. 

Radio-collared female Carolina Northern Flying Squirrel (Glaucomys sabrinus coloratus) in a high elevation red spruce (Picea rubens) stand on Whitetop Mountain, VA during winter of 2014. 

Sanderling (Calidris alba) walking on sand, seen during field work in Iceland in 2014.

Series of daily sample bottles containing integrated water samples from the Elwha River, October 17, 2012 to November 9, 2012. Graphical overlay is the measured suspended sediment concentration in each sample bottle, showing the variability in sediment concentration during the time period shown.

Series of daily sample bottles containing integrated water samples from the Elwha River, October 17, 2012 to November 9, 2012.

Cackling goose (Branta hutchinsii) on the Colville River Delta. Photo by Ryan Askren, USGS.

A mated pair of Common Eider swim across a lake in northern Alaska.

Photography by Jeff Wasley.