Multimedia Gallery

A 2002 animation of the NASA AQUA satellite
 

A video about the 30th Anniversary of USGS Landsat.

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

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

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

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

A 1999 press conference on the launch of the NASA EOS TERRA satellite
 

A 1999 video on the NASA EOS TERRA Satellite Launch NASA/EROS - Part 2
 

A 1999 video on the NASA EOS TERRA Satellite Launch NASA EROS - Part 1
 

This video provides an overview of several Earth Science career fields within the U.S. Geological Survey. After watching this program, viewers will have an understanding of the types of work experiences, environments, expertise, and education a typical USGS employee may have. Following a brief history of the USGS, the program features several interviews with USGS

A 1997 presentation on the National Satellite Land Remote Sensing Data Archive, led by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center 
 

A video from October 1994, updating progress on the building addition at USGS EROS.

A 1994 video on the construction of a building addition at the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center.
 

A video form 1994 outlining the USGS EROS building addition.
 

Raw silent video footage of the damage from the Northridge, CA earthquake that occurred on 1/17/94.

At 4:30 on the morning of January 17, 1994, some 10 million people in the Los Angeles region of southern California were awakened by the shaking of an earthquake. The earthquake, named for its epicenter in the town of Northridge, was a magnitude 6.7 (M = 6.7) shock

Raw silent video footage of the damage from the Northridge, CA earthquake that occurred on 1/17/94.

At 4:30 on the morning of January 17, 1994, some 10 million people in the Los Angeles region of southern California were awakened by the shaking of an earthquake. The earthquake, named for its epicenter in the town of Northridge, was a magnitude 6.7 (M = 6.7) shock

A glimpse at the often dangerous task USGS employees make every year to obtain stream flow measurements from flood events.