Videos

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.

"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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