Multimedia Gallery

Audience at California's Premier Adaptation Gathering

Cover of the 2018 publication, "California’s Fourth Climate Change Assessment: Statewide Summary Report."

Burning Man is named for the wooden effigy set ablaze at the end of the weeklong celebration in the temporary metropolis of Black Rock City.

Band 7 of Landsat 8’s Operational Land Imager is sensitive to moisture in and above the soil. It makes the silty water that runs through the playa on May 22, 2017 pop in

Fisheries technicians prepare to release a tagged pallid sturgeon back into the Yellowstone River, Montana

A fisheries technician prepares to release a tagged pallid sturgeon into the Yellowstone River, Montana

Unalakleet village on the low-lying barrier spit at the inlet of the Unalakleet River and Norton Sound, Alaska.

Two views from the Rainbow Falls overlook, downstream of the Wailuku River streamgage near Hilo, Hawaii. The image on the left shows a typical base flow of about 35 cubic feet per second (cfs). The image on the right shows the early impact of Hurricane Lane with a flow of about 26,000 cfs taken at 8:35 a.m. HST, August 23, 2018. This U.S. Geological Survey streamgage has

Gills from Lost River suckers with a heavy infestation of Ichthyobodo sp. (arrows).  Slide is stained with hematoxylin and eosin.

Research Oceanographer Lauren Toth and student volunteer Liz Whitcher drill a coral-reef core from a reef off Key West, Florida. Photo: Anastasios Stathakopoulos, USGS.

Crista Straub USGS Fort Collins Science Center

A total solar eclipse darkened the skies over the United States on Aug. 21, 2017.

Oshkosh, a town in the Nebraska Sandhills, was a prime location for viewing the eclipse. This Landsat 7 image shows the town at 11:33 a.m. local time on Aug. 18, 2016, a year before the total eclipse.

Alana Spaetzel collecting water-quality sample on Sakonnet tidal strait in Rhode Island

Four diesel-powered compressors chained to the deck of the R/V Hugh R. Sharp provided the air to power the seismic sources during the MATRIX cruise. 

 Jenny White McKee and Pete Dal Ferro of the Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center retrieve two airguns during the 2018 MATRIX cruise aboard the R/V Hugh R. Sharp.  The seismic streamer is visible on the winch in the foreground.

Catherine Fargen and Moriah Will securing a well from floodwaters.

Catherine Fargen and Moriah Will making a groundwater measurement.

USGS hydrologist Taylor Dudunake assesses the rip-rap countermeasure along the pier of the Iowa State Route 76 bridge over the Upper Iowa River near Dorchester, Iowa. The assessment was part of a nationwide study of bridge scour countermeasures the USGS conducted on behalf of the Federal Highway Administration. 

View of a recently installed Restoration Field Trial Network site in the rangelands of Northern Arizona. This part of the site contains the seeding treatments: mulch, ConMods (metal crosses), pits, and two

These workers are planting seedlings as part of the restoration field trial network. Each garden in the network is examining seedlings and seeds in conjunction with restoration treatments to better understand how

A completed restoration field trial site just after installation. Half of the site is seeded, and the other half had plants and weed cloth (white fabric) installed. RAMPS will be collecting data on this site for

Todd Preston, USGS contract scientist, collecting a surface-water sample from a Prairie Pothole wetland.

Lake Ontario gage installation

The nighttime Oakland city skyline as seen from San Francisco with the Bay Bridge in the foreground

A Glaucous-winged Gull on the rock floor of the Bogoslof Volcano a year after it explosively erupted.

A Glaucous-winged Gull on the rock floor of the Bogoslof Volcano a year after it explosively erupted.

Herring (top) and juvenile Chinook salmon (bottom) flushed from the stomach of a resident Chinook salmon in Puget Sound.

The Land Treatment Planning Tool provides a practical resource for managers who are planning restoration and rehabilitation actions on public lands. The Planning Tool is a user friendly, web-based interface to Geographic Information System (GIS) maps and tools, and requires little to no GIS experience to generate a variety of spatial products. This image is an example of

Many lakes in South Dakota's Prairie Pothole Region are expanding. Lake Thompson in eastern South Dakota is one that has displayed remarkable change in recent decades.

Sandy Brosnahan, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, discusses Kilauea Volcano drone footage with Science Stroll participants

Sandy Brosnahan, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center's Aerial Imaging and Mapping project lead, shares the display screen of a drone in flight

Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) demonstration, 2018 Woods Hole Science Stroll

Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) demonstration at 2018 Woods Hole, MA Science Stroll

Landsat 8 captured satellite views of California's largest wildfire on record in the summer of 2018. The Mendocino Complex fire in northern California is a combination of two fires: the Ranch Fire and the River Fire.

Sandy Baldwin, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, shares video from the kilauea volcano with Science Stroll participants.

USGS display table at the 2018 Woods Hole, MA Science Stroll

USGS drone demonstration at the 2018 Woods Hole, MA Science Stroll

USGS drone demonstration at the 2018 Woods Hole, MA Science Stroll

2018 Woods Hole, MA Science Stroll USGS drone demonstration

Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center staff, Tarandeep Kalra (pointing in light blue shirt) and Zafer Defne (orange USGS shirt) discuss oceanographic models with Science Stroll attendees

USGS Hydrologist deploys water quality monitoring buoy on Skaneateles Lake

Jenny White McKee watches as an expendable sonobuoy leaves the launcher during the 2018 MATRIX cruise on the R/V Hugh R. Sharp.  The sonobuoy deploys an antenna used to transmit received seismic signals back to the ship over radio frequencies at distances up to 15 km away.

Entering Yaquina Bay, Oregon aboard the NOAA ship Rainier, approaching the Yaquina Bay Bridge with Newport Marina off to the right in the distance.

Pier water quality monitoring station at Skaneateles Lake

USGS personnel configuring and deploying the streamer of hydrophone receivers on the R/V Hugh R. Sharp during the MATRIX cruise.  In foreground from left to right are Nathan Miller, Wayne Baldwin, and Eric Moore from the USGS Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center.

Did you know that plants can help us understand what is happening underground? Studying plants in an area can sometimes provide information about soil conditions, water availability, and water quality. In this photo, USGS Oregon Water Science Center hydrologists Brandon Overstreet and Gabe Gordon are using a small

USGS scientists on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon, AZ

Rainbow over a canyon in the Grand Canyon, AZ