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USGS scientist Sara Zeigler records habitat characteristics in iPlover at an ‘exclosed’ nest. On some beaches, managers erect netting around nests to protect eggs/chicks and adults from predators, allowing movement of chicks and parents to and from the nest but excluding predators

USGS staff ski to and from  the Garden Wall weather station in Glacier National Park (elev. 7400 feet) to complete maintenance and examine the snowpack for avalanche research.

This is an example of a USGS storm-tide sensor. 

Video-camera station installed by Jenna Brown and Joe Long atop a hotel in Madeira Beach, Florida.

Wave runup at Madeira Beach, Florida, during Tropical Storm Colin

Water truck in background is providing maintenance water to a producing well drilled in the Bakken Formation near Williston, North Dakota. 

Elevation surveys as part of an effort to provide downscaled climate response models to managers, Bandon National Wildlife Refuge, Bandon Oregon. Photo credit: Katherine Powelson/USGS (former employee).

White Oak Creek downstream of Jones Branch, KY

White-tailed Tropicbird (Phaethon lepturus) flying.

Wind turbines and a rainbow towering high above trees on an island in Hawaii. Paul Cryan, USGS, Fort Collins Science Center.

Yellow River near Brems, IN - view from bridge

Person taking data in a healthy dryland grassland with dark biocrusts between bunchgrasses and cacti in Utah.

On May 24, 2016, two new flows broke out on the flanks of the Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō cone on Kīlauea Volcano's East Rift Zone. The silvery sheen of new lava erupting from the northern 61f breakout (center) and eastern 61g breakout (upper left) stands out in contrast to the older flows on and around Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō (right).

USGS ocean engineer Gerry Hatcher with the camera system he helped create for recording the precise time and geographic location of each air photo it takes. The system is mounted in the cargo compartment of a Cessna 182R airplane and takes photos through a window cut into a removable cargo door (right).

Landsat 7's Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) sensor captured the image that shows the white covering on the caramel-colored landscape southwest of the Algerian community of Ain Sefra, a town sometimes referred to as the gateway to the desert.

Adam Terando (right) and his colleagues from left to right, Dr. Azad Henareh, Dr. Jared Bowden, Ms. Sarah Grade, at the American Geophysical Union conference in the Fall of 2016.

The use of acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCPs) from a moving boat is now a commonly used method for measuring streamflow. The technology and methods for making ADCP-based discharge measurements are different from the technology and methods used to make traditional discharge measurements with mechanical meters.

Hurricanes can cause severe beach erosion
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December 13 - 14, 2016 Long Valley Caldera earthquake swarm recorded on instrument MDH1 webicorder. Swarm begins at 23:28 PST.

Icicles hang from the bank of the Neosho River near Parsons, Kansas with temperatures below 5 degress Celsius.

Staudinger and UMass Amherst undergraduate honors student (Gabrielle (Mila) Calandrino) at the New England Aquarium sea turtle rehabilitation center.