Videos

"Citizen Science in Grand Canyon" is a 7min video that describes the ecology of the highly regulated Colorado River in Grand Canyon, and how a citizen science project is creating a deeper understanding of this unique ecosystem.

by Thomas L. Holzer, USGS Research Geologist 

This video was edited and compiled from raw footage recorded by a camera equipped radio collar that was put on a female polar bear in the Beaufort Sea during April 2014 by the US Geological Survey. This new type of camera technology was developed by videographer Adam Ravetch with the support of the World Wildlife Fund.

Imagine being a fragile seedling pushing through the earth and reaching for the sun — but constantly being smothered by strange grasses growing faster and taller than you are. That is the plight of the Island Phacelia (Phacelia insularis var.

Remnants of former ranching enterprises, feral horses can still be found on Santa Rosa Island, part of the remote and hauntingly gorgeous Channel Islands National Park off the coast of Los Angeles.

Congressional Briefing at the Capitol Visitors Center on April 11, 2014. The briefing focuses on the Mississippi River Basin, which covers about 40% of the nation and represents a wide range of important climatic, agricultural, and urban influences that are present throughout the country.

In this webinar, Phil Mote from Oregon State University, describes a project that integrates, for the first time, state-of-the-science predictive modeling of these different attributes of the future environment in the Northwest, and will provide coherence and guidance for many scientific studies seeking to work out the details of how climate change will affect vario

This video shows how to use the Sensor Quick Entry feature (SensorQE) in SWAMI.

This video shows how to use SWAMI to document a large number of individual discharge measurements made during a tidal cycle that are part of a single site visit.

This video outlines the best practices for maintaining and editing information in NWIS SiteVisit when using SWAMI. Editing options for water science centers are explained in detail. Requirements for documenting changes are provided and important considerations are presented.

A short video showing the helicopter deployment of a spider monitoring unit to the SR530 landslide near Oso, Washington

--Climatologists Look Back and Peer Forward

Dan Cayan, USGS Climate Change Researcher

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Spring 2014. USGS scientists conduct a health evaluation of a young male polar bear in the Arctic as part of the annual southern Beaufort Sea population survey. The bear is sedated for approximately an hour while the team records a variety of measurements and collects key biological samples.

The minute 319 pulse flow experiment flood in the Lower Colorado River Delta allows scientists the opportunity to study many different aspects of a flood. With the help of CSAs we had the opportunity to actually back calculate the roughness value at the times that our technicians in Yuma measured discharge.

Ice breakup on March 11, 2014, at the South Fork Grand River near Cash, SD, at USGS station 06356500. The ice breakup causes the water to surge onto the bank.

The hull of the vessel is complete. Burger Boat Co. removes the hull from the construction bay and uses cranes to flip it over. Then, it's taken back to the bay to continue working.

Mar 7, 2014: This Quicktime movie shows Kīlauea's summit lava lake in Halema‘uma‘u Crater. A persistent spatter source is active on the lake margin.

Mar 7, 2014: This Quicktime movie shows the lava pond in Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō crater, which was undergoing "gas pistoning". Gas pistoning is the cyclic rise and fall of the lava surface, driven by the buildup and release of gas in the lava pond.

This video shows how to install the SWAMI electronic field form onto a Personal Data Assistant (PDA).

This video shows how to document a mid-section discharge measurement made with mechanical current meters that include the Price AA or pygmy meters.