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USGS Scientists collecting Biological samples in stream bed

Twenty-three state, tribal, and federal agencies and academic institutions throughout the Great Lakes region gathered in Traverse City, Michigan, in December 2018 for a prey fish age estimation workshop, co-hosted by GLSC.  This photo was taken in 2018, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Justin McKoon, hydrologic technicians with the USGS Idaho Water Science Center, measures treamflow at USGS streamgage station 13124265, Warm Springs Creek below diversion near Mackay, Idaho.

Lineations on a vertical fault strand of the Soda-Avawatz Fault Zone, exposed in the northern Soda Mountains, Mojave Desert, southern California. The fault can be seen cutting both late Tertiary sand and gravel units, but is buried by an overlying mid-Pleistocene alluvial gravel deposit.

USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center's research vessel R/V San Lorenzo.

On May 7, 2019, field crews visited a telemetry hub on the rim of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō to assess damage after a small collapse on May 1. During the overflight, photos and observations were made of the Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō crater. The crater walls expose a clear sequence of lava flows and cinder that built the cone in the early 1980s. USGS image by F. Younger.

The underwater autonomous vehicle sitting in a parking lot before being deployed.

This is an autonomous underwate vehicle (AUV) deployed in the west arm or Grand Traverse Bay, Lake Michigan near Traverse City.

Sun sets on Whiskeytown Lake with PCMSC's vessel San Lorenzo in foreground.

Yellow River at Knox, IN - upstream of bridge

Collecting water samples in Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.

USGS personnel preparing to dive in Yucatan Peninsula.

The SWATHplus is a 234 kHz interferometric bathymetric survey tool for surveys in water depths from 1 to 200 meters.

Hike through the jungle in Tulum, Mexico

Tulum, Mexico jungle panorama 

This is the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV). Here, it is being tested in a hotel swimming pool.

A burrowing owl, captured by a wildlife camera, standing next to the enterence of its den.

Landslide from bluff below rail grade north of Rabbit Creek. Main scarp of slump/flow slide at Potter Hill. Railroad grade is to the left, tidal flat to the right. Note ponded drainage and disrupted slide material.

2018 Anchorage Earthquake

This lava fountain, which erupted on September 6, 1969, during the Mauna Ulu eruption, was about 540 m (1770 ft) tall. The tephra cone, eventually named Mauna Ulu, can be seen in the fallout area (right of the fountains. in middle of image). It is now a 121 m (397 ft) tall lava shield in Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park.

USGS conducts a health assessment on a mantee in Crystal River, Florida.

Extensional cracking and settling around private residence in Chugiak.

2018 Anchorage Earthquake