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After hiking to the location of the historic photo, USGS employee, Lisa McKeon, uses the alignment of mountains and permanent features to compose the same shot as the original.  Sometimes, determining the location can take a long time, requiring moving up and down a mountainside to find the exact spot.

Keychain developed for USGS outreach activities about bird banding and reporting in Yup'ik and English. Yup'ik translation provided by Jakob Sipary, Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program (ANSEP).

Little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus) from an experimental infection trial with similar gross lesions as observed in this case. (A) Variably sized areas of depigmentation are widely distributed on the patagium. (B) Under UV-light, large areas of the patagium fluoresce orange.

USGS employees John Fulton - collecting live discharge data,  Josip Adams - operating drone, and Sandy Brosnahan co-piloting and spotting, on a River in Maine.

USGS field biologist Andrea Mott displays a recently marked Tule White-fronted Goose.

Since the beginning of the USGS Repeat Photography Project in 1997, Grinnell Glacier has been photographed from the summit of Mount Gould multiple times, documenting the glacier’s retreat and the enlargement of Upper Grinnell Lake.  You can view previous images from this vantage point, as well as the entire collection on the

Northeast Region Photo Contest Winner | Oct. 2019 | People
Kajsa Newton holding box turtle at the Northwest Branch Anacostia River near Colesville, MD

Photo of Fire Island, New York showing back barrier, dunes, beach, and nearshore environments.

Explore coastal change at Fire Island in this interactive Story Map.

This video shows a close-up of the unmanned aerial system collecting a water sample in Halema‘uma‘u. USGS video by M. Patrick, 26 Oct 2019.

This video shows the unmanned aerial system collecting a water sample from Halema‘uma‘u. This wider view shows the scale of the UAS relative to the water pond. USGS video by M. Patrick, 26 Oct 2019.

A great white heron standing atop the mangrove roots of Boggy Key, in the upper Florida Keys. This heron has a limited range, which includes the Florida Keys and Everglades National Park. It is rarely seen outside of these areas. 

Entry of the National Ocean Service and USGS

Jim Smith working on cabling inside of Lucchetti dam in Puerto Rico, assisting the Puerto Rico Strong Motion Program with Hurricane Maria recovery efforts. 

Fire Island is a barrier island off the coast of Long Island, New York that hosts several protected areas, nesting habitat for shorebirds, and beachgoers looking for a relaxing place for recreation. USGS studies how the island changes over time - in both the past and present - to better understand how the island may evolve in the future. 

USGS contractor Diana Phillips on September 12, 2019, making a section by section measurement at USGS 04273500 SARANAC RIVER AT PLATTSBURGH NY using an acoustic doppler current profiler (ADCP). Photo by Brian McDonald

Increasing seed stocks in the greenhouse for use in the USGS-WERC network of common garden experiments throughout the Mojave Desert.

USGS and OAS team prepares the sampling mechanism and inspects the unmanned aerial system a few minutes before mission start and takeoff. All safety precautions were taken to ensure the aircraft and sampling mechanism were sterile, and would return safely from the pond.