Videos

This time-lapse of Barter Island in Alaska during three summer months in 2014, shows the pack ice melting and the subsequent effects to the beach and permafrost cliffs from storms and summer temperatures. This camera sat on a fallen snow fence to capture storm events.

This Quicktime movie shows a large chunk of lava being pushed by the current in the channel.

Living Without Light

by Nancy Prouty, Research Oceanographer 

ARIS (Adaptive Resolution Imaging Sonar) imagery showing telemetry-tagged pallid sturgeon over spawning substrate in the Yellowstone River, North Dakota. Spawning locations in the Yellowstone River appear to be characterized by sand dunes interspersed with deposits of sorted, coarse gravels.

ARIS (Adaptive Resolution Imaging Sonar) imagery showing aggregations of pallid sturgeon and other fishes over coarse substrate deposits in the Yellowstone River, North Dakota.

USGS has released the assessment of biological carbon sequestration potential in eastern U.S. ecosystems.

This video, narrated by USGS scientist Brad Reed, provides a brief tutorial on the use of the USGS LandCarbon Viewing tool.

USGS and partners conducted an integrated pest management project on the Illinois River to determine the effectiveness of combining multiple tools in limiting populations of Asian carp.

Webinar on USGS research findings on Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH) contamination associated with coal-tar-based sealants and implications for environmental and human health. Dr.

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Month event at the Department of the Interior, 6/18/2014

With all but one deck in place, it's beginning to look like a ship. In this video, the pilot house is installed.

CE-QUAL-W2 temperature model animation of Hills Creek, Lookout Point, and Dexter Reservoirs on the Middle Fork Willamette River. Data are modeled for calendar year 2011. For supporting information, see http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2013/1186/.

Time-lapse photo of a rainfall-induced runoff event at an edge-of-field surface site near Fort Wayne, Indiana, on May 10-11, 2016. Edge-of-field monitoring is used to assess the quantity and quality of agricultural runoff and evaluate the effectiveness of conservation practices that aim to reduce nutrient loss.

Welcome to the Experimental Stream Lab at the US Geological Survey's Leetown Science Center in Kearneysville West Virginia. At this lab we're interested in stream ecology and how fish respond to land use and climate change. This experimental stream lets us test these questions in new ways.

The diversity of USGS fisheries research has wide ranging applications

by Jill Rolland, Western Fisheries Research Center Director 

Changing sky conditions and smoke from the Slide fire, a major wildfire near Flagstaff, Arizona, are apparent in this sequence of natural-color, hemispheric images acquired on May 21, 2014. Individual images are collected at 10-minute intervals at the USGS Flagstaff Science Campus by the High Dynamic Range All-Sky Imaging System (HDR-ASIS).

The influence of climate change on migratory ungulates of the Rocky Mountains remains uncertain. As climate change leads to advancing phenology, trophic mismatches can occur when migratory individuals arrive on summer range behind the optimal phenological stage of their food resources.

A presentation by Dr. Collin Homer, USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science Center (EROS), reporting the current status, future plans, and applications examples of the National Land Cover Database 2011 (NLCD 2011). The data in NLCD 2011 are completely integrated with those of previous versions.

This video shows how to install the SWAMI_PC electronic field form onto a Personal Computer (PC)

This video provides best practices for documenting index-velocity equipment servicing and overall use of SWAMI at index-velocity stations.

This video provides a general overview of SWAMI.