Multimedia Gallery

A 2002 animation of the NASA AQUA satellite
 

A video about the 30th Anniversary of USGS Landsat.

Lava pours down pre1995 sea cliff. See stills above for more information. Note large file size. Warning: turn down your sound; lots of wind noise.

20 Years of Eruption at Kilauea and Waiting for Mauna Loa

by Don Swanson,Volcanologist, Hawaiian Volcano Observatory

• Kilauea's Pu'u O'o-Kupaianaha eruption, which began on January 3, 1983, is already the volcano's longest rift eruption in at least 600 years
• Lava has destroyed 8 miles of highway and 189

Challenge of Making Economic Estimates for Biodiversity

by Alicia Torregrosa, Geographer and Ecologist

• How can we best strike a balance between vineyard development and wildlife in the Napa Valley?
• Geographic Information System (GIS) facilitates comparing the "apples and oranges" of endangered species and the

Deep Drilling to Test Fundamental Theories About Faulting and Earthquakes

By Stephen H. Hickman, Geophysicist

• Scientists will make measurements, obtain samples and place instruments directly within the fault at a depth of 2.5 miles, creating the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD)
• SAFOD's instruments

Successes and Failures in a Large-scale Watershed Restoration Program

by Mary Ann Madej, Geologist

• Can we undo the effects of decades of logging and road-building on salmon habitat and redwood forest?
• The Redwood Creek restoration program in California--one of the Nation.s largest and longest-running watershed

Explore the diverse features on and below the sea floor in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

by Steve Eittreim, Marine Geologist

• See---
  • Drowned bedrock pinnacles that provide shelter for rockfish
  • Earthquake faults that slice through the sea floor
  • New, highly detailed views of the

Close-up of lava falls and steam cloud generated by lava entering water.

Lava falling over sea cliff into water at western group of entries.

Telephoto of lava dropping into the sea.

Lava falls into sea from western two entries at Highcastle. Entry started within past several hours. Listen to the "plop, plop" sounds as lava drips hit water.

Oceanography, Geology, Biology, and Environmental Issues In The Gulf of the Farallones

by Herman A. Karl, Marine Geologist, and Edward Ueber, Director, Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary

• Learn about the complex marine geology offshore from the San Francisco Bay region
• Hear the story of the 47,000

Lava spills over Wilipe`a sea cliff and across boulders into the sea.

Close view of wave crashing over lava in the surf zone.

Close view of lava spilling over the lip of Wilipe`a sea cliff.

Lava cascades down sea cliff on July 19, 2002, 3.5 hours after Mother's Day flow reached to the sea.

New Mapping Techniques Reveal Potential Seismic Sources Beneath Seattle

By Richard J. Blakely, Geophysicist and Ralph A. Haugerud, Geologist

• Geophysical methods reveal "the landscape beneath the landscape"
• Why does the Seattle Fault exist, and why is it so hard to locate and map?
• LIDAR imagery can

The catastrophic decline of the desert tortoise in California

Kristin H. Berry, Desert Ecologist

• Learn about the unique social behavior and fragile ecology of the desert tortoise, some of whose populations have declined by 70-90% in the past 20 years
• Why is this fabled creature sometimes referred to as the "Methuselah

A`a lava flow on 23 February

Fly-by of shaded-relief bathymetry and surrounding mountains of Crater Lake Oregon. The colored region is the lake floor whereas the gray region shows the surrounding mountains. The lake is approximately 9-km wide east to west. The flight approaches from the south, flies around the lake floor in a clockwise direction, passes over Wizard Island, Merriam Cone, the deep East

A press conference on releasing data from NASA TERRA satellite

USGS scientists C. Dan Miller, Don Mullineaux, Mike Doukas, Norm Banks, Don Swanson, and Richard Waitt talk about their experiences at Mount St. Helens, from tracking and analyzing the early signs of volcanic unrest in March 1980, to documenting the catastrophic eruption on May 18, 1980, and working to forecast eruptions during the subsequent dome building phase within the