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Explore our planet through photography and imagery, including climate change and water all the way back to the 1800s when the USGS was surveying the country by horse and buggy.
1985-2018 Lionfish Invasion
Lionfish invasion (1985-2018). Lionfish invaded US Atlantic coastal waters, the Caribbean Sea, and the Gulf of Mexico with unprecedented, alarming speed. Though reports of sightings date back to the 1980s, it is only recently that the species has exploded in numbers and range. In fact, the lionfish invasion is the ...
Walrus Itch
An animated GIF showing a Pacific Walrus scratching/rubbing themselves on their side with their "eye" rolling. The animation repeats in a reverse-motion.
Lick Run Watershed and Land Cover Map
Lick Run Watershed and Land Cover Map
Mud Creek Shaded-Relief Topography, 2010-2017
A series of images from various sources of shaded-relief topography show the progression of the Mud Creek landslide area, from 2010 through October 12, 2017.
Sources:
- lidar data from 2010
- lidar data from 2016
- structure-from-motion (SfM), March 8, 2017
- SfM, May 19, 2017
- SfM, May 27, 2017
- SfM, May 31, 2017
- SfM, June 13, ...
Looking Back and Forth
Animated GIF of a scientist at Kīlauea Volcano in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park looking back and forth using a range finder. Footage found in the USGS video: Kīlauea Summit Eruption | Lava Returns to Halemaʻumaʻu.
Lava Bubbling in Kīlauea Hawaiʻi
Animated GIF of lava bubbling up from Kīlauea Volcano in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park. The source of the GIF comes from footage found within the USGS video: Kīlauea Summit Eruption | Lava Returns to Halemaʻumaʻu.
Big Sur Landslide fly around
Big Sur Landslide fly around from May 27, 2017, a preliminary computer animation. The slide created roughly 13 acres of new California land.
Snacker
An animated GIF of a ground squirrel appearing to eat repeatedly, really fast. The animated GIF was created from a clip within a USGS video entitled, "USGS Pollinator Research and Monitoring."
Gila Shake
Can you do the Charleston? This animated GIF takes frames from a USGS video on the gila monster and reverses them to make this Southwestern lizard shake his tail...or perhaps dancing the Charleston.
Gila monsters are one of only two venomous lizard species in the world. They live in the southwestern U.S. and in Mexico. This USGS...
Edge-of-field: sites and installations
These photos show various edge-of-field monitoring surface and subsurface monitoring sites, installation efforts, and runoff events across the Great Lakes basin.
Edge-of-field: runoff before and after conservation practice install
These photos, taken before and after a grassed-waterway conservation practice was installed, show a change in the water clarity of agricultural runoff at an edge-of-field surface monitoring site in Wisconsin.
Monarch Butterflies
This animated GIF shows a group of monarch butterflies flying among the oyamel fir tree forest at an overwintering site in the Piedra Herrada Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary, Mexico. Extracted from this original USGS video by Steve Hilburger, USGS.
Estimated Agricultural Use of Azoxystrobin Fungicide - 1996 to 2014
Estimated Agricultural Use of Azoxystrobin Fungicide - 1996 to 2014
Flood Map, Stinson Beach
Flood maps from Our Coast, Our Future showing Stinson Beach today (slide 1); with a 50-centimeter sea-level rise (slide 2); and when an annual storm strikes in addition to 50-centimeter sea-level rise (slide 3). Green patches are low-lying areas prone to flooding.
Lava Sampling
This is an animated GIF, taken from a longer video, showing the moment that this geologist from the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) scoops up lava from an active flow and drops it into a bucket of water to cool it down.
Looking upstream from bridge, Tongue river, Monarch
Looking upstream from bridge, Tongue river, Monarch