Multimedia Gallery

This is a Coleman lantern used by field scientists at campsites. This particular lantern has a black leather case with a spring inside the lid to stabilize the lantern during travel.
Object ID: USGS-000038

This is one of many heavy, canvas and leather panniers. They were used by Arnold Hague in the late 1800s and are no longer made or used. Many are imprinted with "US Geol. Sur."
Object ID: USGS-000037

This is a "Rema Stove." It was invented by Bill Rema and the design was never patented. This is likely the only remaining stove of its kind. Dr. J. D. Love added a few elements, but it is essentially built to the original specifications. This stove was used extensively by USGS field scientists.
Object ID: USGS-000034

This rawhide pannier was made for Dr. J. D. Love in 1945. It consists of rawhide stretched over wooden frames. For transportation, this type of pannier was made to hang on animals with wooden pack saddles.
Object ID: USGS-000027

This is a rolltop table used by Arnold Hague. The table top is made of oilcloth and rolls up. The table, legs and frame can be collapsed for easy travel and the package can then be carried on a wooden pack saddle.
Object ID: USGS-000023

This desk, used in the field, was originally made for the US Army. The drawers all pull into the desk and the writing surface of the desk then folds up for transport. Often, scientists took advantage of surplus items for their field work.
Object ID: USGS-000017

This is Arnold Hague's saddle. The saddle is likely about 120 years old and in the western style with a sheepskin liner. Arnold Hague used this saddle on his expeditions in the west.
Object ID: USGS-000015

This is a pack saddle used by Arnold Hague in the late 1800s. The wooden saddle has leather straps and a cinch used for the animal's comfort when carrying especially large loads. Pack saddles could be used to carry panniers or other large objects.
Object ID: USGS-000014

This is one of many saddle blankets from Dr. J.D. Love. The blanket has some felt decoration along the edges and is in particularily good condition. Saddle Blankets were used under saddles or pack saddles to provide comfort for animals used to carry equipment.
Object ID: USGS-000011

Assessing suitable sites in southern California
for reintroducing endangered southern mountain yellow-legged frogs, USGS scientists rediscovered a population in the San Jacinto Wilderness, 50 years since this frog was last seen there.

USGS scientists found this adult mountain yellow-legged frog on June 10 in Tahquitz Creek, a rediscovered population
of the endangered frog in the San Jacinto Wilderness, San Bernardino National Forest, California.

Students Anaga Nmagu and Danielle Travers, hired with ARRA funds, are converting more than one million hand-written bird band recovery records into digital format at the USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center. Once digitized, these invaluable recovery records will be linked to the Bird Banding Laboratory's new Oracle database for easy access by researchers and managers

Tule elk are shown here in their natural habitat at San Luis National Wildlife Refuge; Recovery Act funding will enable the refuge to build a Visitor Center to better serve the public. Related to the R8AF — Construct Headquarters Visitor Building — San Luis NWR project.

A view of the landscape at the Sweetwater Marsh Unit of San Diego Bay National Wildlife Refuge; Recovery Act funding will enable the refuge to build a new Visitor Center to better serve the public. Related to the R8AA — Construct Headquarters Visitor Building — San Diego Bay NWR project.

This is a view of the plot of land at Audubon National Wildlife Refuge selected for the Headquarters and Visitor Center that will be built with Recovery Act funding. Related to the R6BB — Construct Headquarters Visitor Building — Audubon NWR project.

This photo shows an aerial view of the existing facilities at Audubon National Wildlife Refuge. Related to the R6BB — Construct Headquarters Visitor Building — Audubon NWR project.

An FWS employee stocks walleye in a lined pond at Garrison Dam National Fish Hatchery, the Service's largest walleye production hatchery. Related to the R6PC — Replace 9 Clay Pond Liners — Garrison Dam NFH project.

This pond liner replacement process will be used to replace 9 deteriorated clay pond liners with polyethylene liners that help hatchery employees at Garrison Dam National Fish Hatchery produce more fish at a larger size with less effort. Related to the R6PC — Replace 9 Clay Pond Liners — Garrison Dam NFH project.

This photo shows the Righmeyer House at Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge, which will be rehabilitated with Recovery Act funding to house the refuge's offices. Related to the R5GA — Repair Rightmeyer House — Back Bay NWR project.

Sign above bathroom at Horseshoe Lake announcing CO2 hazard. Notice the ventilation in the bathroom.

The Vegetation Drought Response Index (VegDRI) incorporates satellite observations of vegetation to monitor at a finer spatial detail than other commonly used drought indicators.

A USGS student employee and sophomore at the Colorado School of Mines, was among the first hired by USGS using Recovery Act funding to upgrade the seismic stations of the Advanced National Seismic System (ANSS) Backbone. The USGS is using Recovery Act funding to upgrade its earthquake monitoring networks and hire students who represent the future of science and public

The agglutinate created by the plasma melting process is later ground and blended with other materials to create lunar regolith simulant.
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The USGS has created man-made moon dirt, or regolith, to help NASA prepare for upcoming moon explorations. Four tons of the simulant is expected to be made by this summer of 2009 and turned over to the scientific

The agglutinate created by the plasma melting process is later ground and blended with other materials to create lunar regolith simulant.
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The USGS has created man-made moon dirt, or regolith, to help NASA prepare for upcoming moon explorations. Four tons of the simulant is expected to be made by this summer of 2009 and turned over to the scientific

When the water is separated from the cooled molten rock, agglutinate is collected.
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The USGS has created man-made moon dirt, or regolith, to help NASA prepare for upcoming moon explorations. Four tons of the simulant is expected to be made by this summer of 2009 and turned over to the scientific community involved in lunar exploration.

The molten rock mixture cools upon contact with lukewarm water, instantly creating glassy agglutinate.
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The USGS has created man-made moon dirt, or regolith, to help NASA prepare for upcoming moon explorations. Four tons of the simulant is expected to be made by this summer of 2009 and turned over to the scientific community involved in lunar

The molten rock streams through an opening in the melter into a large container of water below, where it instantly cools into glass.
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The USGS has created man-made moon dirt, or regolith, to help NASA prepare for upcoming moon explorations. Four tons of the simulant is expected to be made by this summer of 2009 and turned over to the scientific

When firing, the Zybek melter plasma torches must be viewed wearing long sleeves and a welding mask to avoid potential burns from the 37,000 degree Fahrenheit blaze.
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The USGS has created man-made moon dirt, or regolith, to help NASA prepare for upcoming moon explorations. Four tons of the simulant is expected to be made by this summer of 2009 and

Plasma torches at Zybek Advanced Products blaze at over 37,000 degrees Fahrenheit, melting the rock mixture.

The plasma torch melter in Boulder, Colorado exists nowhere else in the world. The mixed and ground rock on the left in a 1-ton bag is fed into the melter to be made into glass.
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The USGS has created man-made moon dirt, or regolith, to help NASA prepare for upcoming moon explorations. Four tons of the simulant is expected to be made by this summer of

Rocks from the Stillwater Mine are brought to the USGS in Denver, Colorado, where they are sledged and ground before entering the plasma melter at Zybek Advanced Products.
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The USGS has created man-made moon dirt, or regolith, to help NASA prepare for upcoming moon explorations. Four tons of the simulant is expected to be made by this summer of 2009

Rocks are collected from the Stillwater Mine in Nye, Montana to be used for making lunar regolith simulant.
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The USGS has created man-made moon dirt, or regolith, to help NASA prepare for upcoming moon explorations. Four tons of the simulant is expected to be made by this summer of 2009 and turned over to the scientific community involved in lunar

View of the Stullwater Mine, where rocks are collected for making lunar regolith simulant.
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The USGS has created man-made moon dirt, or regolith, to help NASA prepare for upcoming moon explorations. Four tons of the simulant is expected to be made by this summer of 2009 and turned over to the scientific community involved in lunar exploration.

Rocks from the Stillwater Mine are collected, ground, and blended with other rocks and materials to make the lunar regolith simulant.
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The USGS has created man-made moon dirt, or regolith, to help NASA prepare for upcoming moon explorations. Four tons of the simulant is expected to be made by this summer of 2009 and turned over to the scientific

In an unearthly series of events, the USGS has created man-made moon dirt, or regolith, to help NASA prepare for upcoming moon explorations. Four tons of the simulant is expected to be made by this summer of 2009 and turned over to the scientific community involved in lunar exploration.

While the susceptibility of endangered akepa honeycreepers to avian malaria is unknown, it is likely very high given their current restriction to the highest elevation forests on the island of Hawaii.

During the past decade populations of this honeycreeper have begun to rebound at lower elevations on most of the main Hawaiian Islands, in spite of high prevalence of infection with avian malaria. Natural selection for resistance to avian malaria is the leading explanation for this rebound and recent genetic studies indicate that these populations are genetically distinct

While the susceptibility of endangered akiapolaau honeycreepers to avian malaria is unknown, it is likely very high given their current restriction to the highest elevation forests on the island of Hawaii.

Creosote scrub habitat (one type of preferred desert tortoise habitat) in the Mojave Desert.

A new school being constructed.

Workers repairing a road.

Workers repairing a road.

Workers repairing a road.

Workers repairing a road.

Workers repairing a road.

North American Bird Phenology Program Coordinator Jessica Zelt working with old migration bird cards.

Volunteers Derek Smith (white shirt) and Reuben Anderson sort through migration cards in the Bird Phenology Program Office.