Multimedia Gallery

Head of the Meadow Beach, Cape Cod National Seashore, Massachusetts

USGS scientists Adam Baldwin and Chris Gazoorian (USGS New York Water Science Center) point out the newly installed fixed-mount thermal infrared camera installed on the USGS Platte Kill at Dunraven NY streamgage in the Neversink River watershed. The camera is positioned to

Example of a camera system that will be tested to measure water level and surface velocity at the East Branch Brandywine Creek below Downingtown, PA. Photo Credit: USGS staff. This technology is part of the

USGS employee John Fulton prepares an unmanned aerial vehicle for take off. This particular drone referred to as "Q-Cam" measures surface water stream velocity. Combined with a second drone, non-contact discharge measurements can be made. This technology is part of the

USGS scientists collect data from the surfaced Ecomapper after a mission to understand stream mixing near the Benjamin Franklin Bridge on the Delaware River in Philadelphia, Penn. This technology is part of the

USGS scientists load and check the mission path onto an Ecomapper autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), while other crew members collect vertical profile information using a multiple-parameter water-quality meter. This technology is part of the

Photo of a newly installed fixed-mount thermal infrared camera installed on the USGS Platte Kill at Dunraven NY streamgage in the Neversink River watershed. The camera is positioned to track focused groundwater discharge along a bedrock contact on the opposite side of the

In this photo, USGS scientists Megan Haserodt (Hydrologist) and Jenelle Wempner (Student Intern) install a double ring infiltrometer along a recreated floodplain of Underwood Creek, a tributary to the Milwaukee River and Lake Michigan in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The work is part of a larger study of how overbank flows and shallow groundwater in floodplains are connected for

USGS scientists at the Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center use repeat photography to document glacier change and as a communication tool. 

Tyson Hatch and Fletcher Brinkerhoff sampling suspended-sediment concentration upstream of the Buckman Diversion for the city of Santa Fe on the Rio Grande (08313150 Rio Grande above Buckman Diversion, near White Rock, NM)

Geologist at Yukon Tanana Uplands Alaska.  This is part of the Earth MRI project.

The island of Kaua'i (public domain).

Top of perch 19, El Capitan (The Bizmark) photo by Mike Tupper.  August 2019 NER Photo Contest Honorable Mention.

Photo of hydro tech Alex Wong collecting stream flow data taken by Michael Upton. Honorable Mention for August 2019 NER Photo Contest

Photo of Patapsco above Elkridge, MD, by John Hammond. August 2019 Where We Work NER photo winner.

August 2019 NER photo contest winner in the People category, Mike Tupper. View of Half Dome from approximately 2,000’ up El Capitan (Mescalito). 

Earth MRI Geologic map of the Castle Rock quadrangle AZ

Bokan Mountain, Alaska.

Earth MRI - High Grade Rare Earth Elements Bearing Phosphorite

Earth MRI - Forty mile River Watershed

Earth MRI - Rare Earth Elements Deposit

Earth MRI - Common Uses of Rare Earth Elements

Earth MRI - Rare Minerals

A coral reef in the Turks and Caicos Islands dominated by the weedy coral species, Porites astreoides. The relative dominance of this taxa has increased throughout the western Atlantic.

A frontal view of the USGS Water Science Center in Louisville, Kentucky.

This is remote capture image of a Yosemite toad seen crossing beneath "toad road" structure built atop a forest road in the Sierra National Forest. Reseachers are exploring tools, such as this elevated road structure, or "toad road," to reduce vehicle strikes to this threatened species.

Apparatus used to test the sensitivity of eels to low-voltage pulsed DC electric fields. Knowledge of sensitivity of eels to electric fields enables development of behavioral barriers that use electricity to guide eels away from turbine intakes.

Prototype design of an airlift developed at CAFL to transport downstream migrant eels through a bypass pipe and away from turbine intakes. The airlift design passes eels as well as a conventional siphon or gravity pipe.

Radio-tagged silver phase American Eels being released for a CAFRL telemetry study of downstream passage of eels at hydroelectric dams on the Shetucket River, Connecticut.

Left: Prototype ABS plastic eel climbing ramp under development and testing at CAFRL. New substrate design allows for passage of a wider size range of eels with less need for precise flow regulation. Right: juvenile eel climbing wetted ABS plastic substrate.

Map of dissolved oxygen and turbidity along the Milwaukee River.

These data are preliminary or provisional and are subject to revision. They are being provided to meet the need for timely best science.

Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center geologist, Ben Gutierrez, moderates a panel with PEP coordinators, Jonique Howard, Onjale Scott Price, and Adrienne George,  at the 2019 Partnership Eucation Program (PEP) 10th Anniversity Conference and Celebration, Woods Hole, MA June 28-30, 2019. 

Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center geologist, Ben Gutierrez, moderates a panel at the 2019 Partnership Eucation Program (PEP) 10th Anniversity Conference and Celebration, Woods Hole, MA June 28-30, 2019.

A pilot flying a UAS on the beach.

Looking up at a drone hovering near an open-path methane analyzer mounted on a flux tower. Instruments mounted on both the towers and on the drones are measuring gases emitted from the soil.

USGS gage 05293000 YELLOW BANK RIVER NEAR ODESSA, MN with High River Water Level From Flood.

Hydrologic Technician using crane to collect a bedload sample from the bridge.

View from Durand bridge of boat crew conducting multibeam surveys

Durand streamgage mounted to bridge - looking downstream.

These images show grass carp larvae from the Maumee River. Characteristics of larval grass carp include overall length (left), skeletal muscle development (center) and presence of an eye spot that lacks pigmentation (right; pigment starting to develop on lower eye).

Well head of Sourdough oil discovery on Alaska state lease less than one mile west of 1002 Area showing minimal disturbance of permafrost polygons.

Geologists examine oil-saturated sand (unconsolidated), sandstone (dark orange-brown rocks), and concretions (light orange rocks) along the Jago River in the 1002 Area, about 18 miles southeast of Kaktovik.

Oil-saturated Miocene or younger sandstone in the Sagavanirktok Formation exposed at Angun Point on the coast of the Arctic Ocean, northeastern 1002 Area.

Oil-saturated Miocene or younger sandstone in the Sagavanirktok Formation exposed at Angun Point on the coast of the Arctic Ocean, northeastern 1002 Area.

Closeup view of oil-saturated Oligocene sandstone in the Sagavanirktok Formation exposed on Marsh Creek anticline near Katakturuk River in western 1002 Area. Weathered surface is light gray and freshly broken surface is brown.

Geologists examine oil-saturated Oligocene sandstone in the Sagavanirktok Formation exposed on Marsh Creek anticline near Katakturuk River in western 1002 Area. Weathered surfaces are light gray and freshly broken surfaces are brown.

View to the northeast from near the eastern boundary of the 1002 Area west of the Aichilik River.