Images

Scenic shots of Rocky Mountain National Park, near Bear Lake.

Working with FWS partner, Mara Weisenberger, to instruct village scouts in monitoring and data collection methods for Tanzania’s Wildlife Management Areas Program, 2010 (DOI-ITAP).  (credit - M. Eaton)

Taking notes while observing elephants at a waterhole in Ruaha, Tanzania while on a short-term mission in 2010 with DOI’s International Technical Assistance Program (ITAP) to develop methods and train scouts in wildlife monitoring for Tanzania’s village-based Wildlife Management Areas. (credit – M. Weisenberger, DOI)

Autumn foliage on the Snake River.

Manistee River, MI in the Midwestern US.

Little Missouri River at Marmarth, North Dakota, streamflow 65.5 cubic feet per second.

Birds found in and around the Salton Sea, California.

Medano Creek after wildfire. 

View near a groundwater well in North Dakota.

Panorama (180 degree field of view) photograph of smoke rising from the Schultz Pass fire near Flagstaff, Arizona, at 1:34 p.m. on its day of ignition, June 20, 2010.  Over the following 10 days, the fire burned an estimated 15,075 acres, or more than 23 square miles of northern Arizona forest, and cost more than \$8.6 million to fight.

View from a groundwater well site.  Missouri River in the distance, near Huff, North Dakota.

View near a groundwater well site, looking at Missouri River, near Huff, North Dakota.

Rufous Hummingbird in Bellingham, Washington. Rufous Hummingbirds are present in southeast and some select southcentral locations in Alaska.

Mountains towering above the mouth of the Copper River from the coastal Gulf of Alaska.

Maroon Bells at Sunrise.

Winter storm erosion of coastal bluffs at Ocean Beach, San Francisco.

The Colorado River near Moab, Utah. The entire Colorado River Basin currently supports 50 million people, and that amount is expected to increase by 23 million between 2000 and 2030. A new USGS study shows more than half of the streamflow in the Upper Colorado River Basin originates as groundwater. Photo by M. Miller.

Ken Pierce, at the Curtis Canyon Overlook in Jackson Hole, leading the 2003 INQUA (International Union of Quaternary Research) field trip, one of his many geologic field trips about the Greater Yellowstone Geoecosystem. 

Aspen Forest

Unidentified spruce tree with rain dripping from it.

Melt water stream discharging from Gulkana Glacier, Alaska.

USGS research of the Yukon River has had a long term goal of determining the source and fate of organic carbon transported by the river to the Bering Sea and ultimately the Arctic Ocean.