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This image created using the Continuous Bathymetry and Elevation Models of the Massachusetts Coastal Zone and Continental Shelf, shows the Elizabeth Islands, Vineyard Sound, and Martha’s Vineyard.

This image was created using the Continuous Bathymetry and Elevation Models of the Massachusetts Coastal Zone and Continental Shelf, shows Provincetown, MA and the northern section of the Cape Cod National Seashore.

This image created using the Continuous Bathymetry and Elevation Models of the Massachusetts Coastal Zone and Continental Shelf, shows the mouth of the Merrimack River, Plum Island and the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge.

Black and white ruffed lemur of the genus Varecia.

Rigorously Valuing the Role of Puerto Rico’s Coral Reefs in Coastal Hazard Risk Reduction

Estimated Annual Benefits

Maps of Puerto Rico showing the distribution of the value of averted direct building damages, indirect economic activity losses, and population annually protected from flooding by coral reefs. Results at 10 m² resolution are

Rigorously Valuing the Role of the U.S. Virgin Islands’ Coral Reefs in Coastal Hazard Risk Reduction

Estimated Annual Benefits

Maps of the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) showing the distribution of the value of averted direct building damages, indirect economic activity losses, and population annually protected from flooding by coral reefs. Results at 10 m

Rigorously Valuing the Role of Hawaiʻi’s Coral Reefs in Coastal Hazard Risk Reduction

Estimated Annual Benefits

Maps of Hawaiʻi showing the distribution of the value of averted direct building damages, indirect economic activity losses, and population annually protected from flooding by coral reefs. Results at 10 m² resolution are aggregated into

Rigorously Valuing the Role of Florida’s Coral Reefs in Coastal Hazard Risk Reduction

Estimated Annual Benefits

Maps of Florida showing the distribution of the value of averted direct building damages, indirect economic activity losses, and population annually protected from flooding by coral reefs. Results at 10 m² resolution are aggregated into

Rigorously Valuing the Role of Guam’s Coral Reefs and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands’s Coral Reefs in Coastal Hazard Risk Reduction

Estimated Annual Benefits

Maps of Guam and the the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands showing the distribution of the value of averted direct building damages, indirect economic activity losses, and

Rigorously Valuing the Role of American Samoa’s Coral Reefs in Coastal Hazard Risk Reduction

Estimated Annual Benefits

Maps of American Samoa showing the distribution of the value of averted direct building damages, indirect economic activity losses, and population annually protected from flooding by coral reefs. Results at 10 m² resolution are

Several instruments visible on board the research vessel JOIDES Resolution. Photo taken from the ship bridge roof. USGS logo visible on one of the pieces of equipment. Research cruises taken on the JOIDES Resolution are often interdisciplinary and collaborative across many universities, scientific agencies, and other research institutions.

The Yukon River near St. Mary’s, Alaska.

Earl Alstrom and Carol Hasburgh taking water quality samples near St. Mary’s, Alaska.

A graphic overlay of the Yukon River Basin in Alaska as compared to the size of the continental United States. Credit: Laris Karklis (public domain) 

Lake profiler deployed on Detroit Lake, Oregon, to study harmful algal blooms in the reservoir.

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

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

Monthly Temperature Graph - Air Temperature Near Nuphar Lake

Weekly Temperature Graph - Air Temperature Near Nuphar Lake

Daily Temperature Graph - Air Temperature Near Nuphar Lake

Monthly Temperature Graph - Soil Temperature Near Vixen Geyser

Weekly Temperature Graph - Soil Temperature Near Vixen Geyser

Daily Temperature Graph - Soil Temperature Near Vixen Geyser

Monthly Temperature Graph - Tantalus Creek Upstream from the Reservoir

Weekly Temperature Graph - Tantalus Creek Upstream from the Reservoir

Daily Temperature Graph - Tantalus Creek Upstream from the Reservoir

Monthly Temperature Graph - Gray Lakes Tributary

Weekly Temperature Graph - Gray Lakes Tributary

Daily Temperature Graph - Gray Lakes Tributary

Monthly Temperature Graph - Porkchop Geyser

Weekly Temperature Graph - Porkchop Geyser

Daily Temperature Graph - Porkchop Geyser

Monthly Temperature Graph - Opalescent Spring

Weekly Temperature Graph - Opalescent Spring

Daily Temperature Graph - Opalescent Spring

Monthly Temperature Graph - Constant Geyser

Weekly Temperature Graph - Constant Geyser

Daily Temperature Graph - Constant Geyser

Monthly Temperature Graph - Echinus Geyser

Weekly Temperature Graph - Echinus Geyser

Daily Temperature Graph - Echinus Geyser