Multimedia Gallery

Dr. David Shelly is a research seismologist with the USGS.

USGS scientists have worked closely with Afghan geologists, both to verify old Soviet and Afghan mineral research and to expand and enhance the total knowledge of Afghanistan's mineral wealth.

A section of the Upper Green River Valley in western Wyoming, just south of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, showing different ecosystems (such as forests, wetlands, and aquatic habitats) whose capacities for carbon storage and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions will be assessed by the USGS. Scientists with the USGS are assessing the potential to store carbon

A prairie dog stands on alert. The USGS National Wildlife Health Center works to identify, track, and prevent wildlife disease. Better protection of prairie dogs against plague would minimize the risk of disease transfer to endangered black-footed ferrets, aid in prairie dog conservation, and protect public health.

Researchers from the USGS National Wildlife Health Center examine a duck as part of part of efforts to identify, track, and prevent wildlife disease.

USGS microbiology technician evaluates a bacterial assay to determine the cause of a wildlife mortality. The USGS National Wildlife Health Center works to identify, track, and prevent wildlife disease.

In efforts to monitor potential bird flu transmission pathways, the USGS works with international partners to mark and track whooper swans with GPS transmitters.

The USGS National Wildlife Health Center works to identify, track, and prevent wildlife disease. A USGS technician works with a prairie dog as part of the center's efforts to protect prairie dogs, and in turn the endangered black-footed ferret, from plague.

USGS microbiology technician Brenda Berlowski enters an animal isolation room.

The USGS National Wildlife Health Center is working to develop an oral vaccine to protect the endangered black-footed ferret from plague.

The USGS National Wildlife Health Center conducts a bat autopsy as part of its efforts to study the fungus that causes white-nose syndrome in bats.

A Washington Department of Ecology scientist maps the bathymetry of the mouth of the Elwha River using an integrated GPS and echo sounder on a personal watercraft. 

Pallid sturgeon embryo propagated at the Columbia Environmental Research Center.

Newly hatched pallid sturgeon propagated at the Columbia Environmental Research Center.

Juvenile lake sturgeon propagated at the Columbia Environmental Research Center.

Pallid sturgeon eggs freshly spawned and fertilized in a laboratory at the Columbia Environmental Research Center.

The Little Missouri River at Medora, North Dakota. Top photo taken by a USGS personnel in March of 1972, while the Little Missouri River was flooding the camp sites at Medora, ND. The bottom photo was taken by USGS Colton Rupp on May 24, 2011, with a discharge of 32,000 cfs and a gage height of 19.42 feet.

Nebraska Game and Parks Commission collaborates with USGS on the Comprehensive Sturgeon Research Project tracking telemetered pallid sturgeon in the Missouri River.

The Souris River at Westhope, North Dakota. The top photos taken on April 26, 1970, with a discharge of 1,110 cfs. And the bottom photo taken on April 19, 2011, with a discharge of 13,300 cfs and a gage height of 19.82 feet.

USGS Divers Steve Rubin and Reg Reisenbichler laying out a survey
transect.

USGS Diver Reg Reisenbichler observing a Fish Eating anemone.
 

USGS Diver Nancy Elder recording invertebrate data.

Maple River Dam spillway comparison in 2011. The top photo was taken on July 14, 2011, with a gage height of 1,027.30 feet and a streamflow of 809 cubic feet per second. The bottom photo was taken on April 13, 2011, with a gage height of 1,052.95 feet and a streamflow of 4,960 cubic feet per second.

The photo on the left was taken on April 18, 1997 by a USGS Personnel, of the new gates at Lake Darling. The photo to the right was taken on June 13, 2011 by Nathan A. Stroh (USGS), of Lake Darling.

North Dakota Discovery Farms Underwood waterway site 3 at Underwood, ND.

Study chamber containing a pregnant pocketbook mussel (Lampsilis cardium) exposed to an elevated water temperature of 32 degrees Celsius. This mussel is showing signs of stress--lying on top of the substrate and unable to burrow.

The freshwater mussels that provide pearls for jewelry and nutrients to aquatic ecosystems may be further threatened by rising water

Trammel net deployment on the Missouri River.  The wooden object with 2 white buoys in the river is called a "Buck" or a "Mule" and is used to pull the end of the net along in the current.

Data storage tags (DST) implanted in telemetered pallid sturgeon record the water temperture and fish depth at pre-programed time intervals. 

USGS employees Beau Griffith (left) and Becky Welly (right) hold a telemetered pallid sturgeon they recaptured in a trammel net.  The wooden object with 2 white buoys to the right of Welly is call a "Buck" or a "Mule" and is used to pull the end of the net along in the current.

A USGS employee locates a telemetry tagged pallid sturgeon between attempts to recapture the fish with a trammel net in the Missouri River. 

The new solar heating system will reduce the center's carbon footprint by supplementing the current natural gas boiler and reduce energy costs.

The new solar heating system will reduce the center's carbon footprint by supplementing the current natural gas boiler and reduce energy costs.

A lower Columbia River estuary tour on a USGS research vessel with NWA Deputy REx and WFRC Director.

Engineered Log Jam on the lower river opposite the new Lower Klallam Tribe Fish Hatchery.

The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe project creates salmon habitat on the lower Elwha River in preparation for dam removal and habitat restoration.

The 100 yr old, 108 ft tall Elwha Dam drawdown of water from Lake Aldwell reservoir began June 1, 2011 in preparation for Elwha Dam.

USGS Oregon Water Science Center research vessel, used for lower Columbia River estuary water quality/contaminant and aquatic ecosystem health.

USGS Provides a tour of the research vessel and the lower Columbia River to Deputy Assistant Secretary Deanna Archuleta discussing the lower Columbia River estuary water quality and aquatic health.

Pacific Lamprey mouth suckers adhered to the glass at Bonneville Dam fish viewing window.

The native Pacific Lamprey uses the fish ladder at Bonneville Dam.  This species plays a significant role in the foodweb and in Tribal "first foods".--cultural.

Deputy Assistant Secretary Deanna Archuleta tours the Bonneville Dam to view the fish ladder and in particular the native Pacific Lampreys used as first foods by Tribes along the Columbia River.

Tribal members welcome "families" from other Salish Sea Indian and First Nation Tribes.

Arrival of Salish Sea Tribal Canoes with USGS water quality sampling instrumentation onboard.

Arrival of Salish Sea Tribal Canoes with USGS water quality sampling instrumentation onboard.

Multiple generations of Salish Sea Tribal members land at the Swinomish Indian Reservation.

These rice plants show the difference in growth of rice plants exposed to salt when grown with and without endophytes, which are mutually beneficial microscopic fungi that live in most plants. The plant on the left was colonized with a fungi that made it salt-tolerant, but it wasn't exposed to salt; the plant in the middle was colonized with a fungi that made it

The view of Cougar Dam and the fish facility from the upper cliff side. 

Two employees install equipment at Cougar Dam on a cold and wintery day.

Standing on the Earth and Dam at Cougar as the fog rolled in between the snow capped mountains.