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Supporting the project of winter habitat of juvenile Dolly Varden in the Canning River.

Firn core with an ice lens collected on Gulkana Glacier during spring 2019 mass balance field work. Gulkana Glacier is located along the south flank of the eastern Alaska Range.

Denise Akob working with children at the microbiology lab

Weather station instruments are all but buried near the spring snow maximum at Sperry Glacier in Glacier National Park, Montana.

Children playing with th AR Sandbox.

This huge boulder was dropped by a retreating glacier on the north rim of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone in Yellowstone National Park, and it is a testament to Yellowstone's icy past.

Wilma Aleman working with children at a mineral booth

Supporting the project of winter habitat of juvenile Dolly Varden in the Canning River.

Supporting the project of winter habitat of juvenile Dolly Varden in the Canning River.

GLSC Cheboygan Vessel Base staff stand alongside residents of Cheboygan, Michigan, prior to touring the R/V Sturgeon and R/V Arcticus on April 24, 2019.

An HVO geologist walks along the Mauna Loa summit trail, with Mauna Kea visible in the distant background.

USGS Hydrologist Hilary Dozier (formerly Abraham) measuring stream discharge during sampling, to allow calculation of loads, in Fishing Creek, Logan Township, Clinton County, Pennsylvania, just below the Logan Mills Covered Bridge (John Clune, USGS).

HVO staff visited the summit of Mauna Loa on foot to repair the webcam on April 24. The weather was perfectly clear and views of the caldera floor showed nothing unusual.

Jessica Rodysill (Reston) and Hunter Wilcox (SPCMSC) deploying a corer in Lake Enriquillo. The scientists will use the cores to construct precipitation changes in Dominican Republic over the late Holocene (~5000 years ago to present) time period.

GLSC trawl net workshop held at the USGS vessel base in Cheboygan, Michigan, April 24-25, 2019. The USGS research vessel Sturgeon pictured in background.

Biological Technician, Laura (Laney) White adjusts the camera mount during a survey.

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.

USGS Field Test Support Unit (left to right) Dick Wiser, John Hendricks, Bill Tinnin and Putty Mills with the Explorer, a lunar rover vehicle simulator at Cinder Lake Crater Field east of Flagstaff, December 1968. 

Two Northern Right Whale Dolphins (Lissodelphis borealis), one below the water and another cresting the surface captured during a test flight in March 2019. This image was zoomed in to show the lack of a dorsal fin, a definitive trait in this species.

Full size image of a pod of dolphins captured during an aerial photographic survey 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.

Recipients of the Wings Across the Americas 2019 International Research Partnership Conservation Award representing the Migratory Dragonfly Partnership included Ralph Grundel, GLSC, second from left, and Leslie Weldon, Deputy Chief of the National Forest System, middle.

An earthquake and tsunami in March of 2011 leveled cities and left 18,000 people dead along the east coast of Japan.

The government responded with a plan to build hundreds of sea walls in hopes of protecting coastal communities from future disasters.