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Spor Mountain open pit; mineralized tuff in foreground; mine staff and USGS scientists collecting samples.

Overlying Spor Mountain rhyolite caprock and underlying Beryllium Tuff member. 

Large storm waves crashing on the rocks near Santa Cruz, California

Stream measurement at Stony Creek at Noblesville, IN (Zach Razor)

Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, New Jersey Study SIte

Map showing estimated regions of subsidence derived from interferograms for 2008–2010 and selected surface-water conveyance infrastructure in the San Joaquin Valley area of the Central Valley, California.

A sunset in western Loveland, Colorado. 

Map showing the surficial geology of Vineyard and western Nantucket Sounds with equivalent onshore geology (adapted from Stone and DiGiacomo-Cohen, 2009). The areal extents over which offshore subsurface geologic units crop out at the sea floor were interpreted from seismic-reflection data.

A team of scientists studied changes in nitrapyrin — a nitrification inhibitor applied with fertilizers as a bactericide to kill natural soil bacteria for the purpose of increasing crop yields — occurrence associated with land use changes from March to June 2016.

Scientists sample a rough-skinned newt for the fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans, or Bsal, at a pond near Portland, Oregon. Bsal is decimating wild salamander populations in Europe and could emerge in the U.S. thro

Jen Suttles,Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, collects water samples from a salt marsh tidal creek (East Falmouth, MA) for laboratory analysis of total organic carbon. These samples will be compared to data recorded by instrumentation deployed in an adjacent tidal creek as part of research efforts to quantify carbon dynamics in coastal ecosystems

The Garden Wall weather station in Glacier National Park (elev. 7400 feet) is used for avalanche research and forecasting along the Going-to-the-Sun Road. It records air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, and incoming and outgoing shortwave and longwave radiation.

The South Platte River at 104th Street bridge in Denver, CO. Photo by Lindsay Reynolds, USGS.

The South Platte River at the 52 Bridge. Photo by Laura Perry, USGS.

Torbernite is a copper phosphate mineral that contains uranium, making it somewhat radioactive. Although it can be used as a uranium ore, it's more valued as a collectors mineral. It can be used as a good indicator of uranium deposits, however.

Tree rings dating to the mid-1500s from a ponderosa pine log collected near Taos, NM.

Sandy Brosnahan performing first solo flight as a USGS certified drone pilot.  There are multiple exciting applications for drone imagery including erosion studies and physical changes to coastal ecosystems over time. 

The USGS strives to put coastal change data and information at the fingertips of users such as planners and emergency managers. The explicit goal is to enable users to integrate and apply USGS data and tools to address their specific needs. Online resources such as the Coastal Change Hazards (CCH) portal are designed with applied use of data in mind.

USGS employees and Flathead National Forest staff dig pits in the snow to examine snow structure and depth for avalanche research and forecasting in northwest Montana.

USGS intern, James Willey (2016), making a discharge measurement

USGS scientist Robert Baskin takes a boat out on the Great Salt Lake to conduct research.