Images

Identifying and sorting clams by species. This sample came from benthic trawls on the Norseman II.

Field camp in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, western AK, where USGS and other ecologists monitor impacts of climate changes, erosion, sedimentation, and flooding on coastal ecosystems

Panoramic view of entrance to Chakachamma Lake (near Lake Clark, Alaska).

Pacific walrus hauled out on sea ice in the Chukchi Sea.

An Alaska Native village on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, western AK

Male Arctic Warbler singing on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska. This photo was taken on the Seward Peninsula as part of the Changing Arctic Ecosystem Boreal-Arctic Transition Zone program.

Carol Damberg (USFWS) conducting survey of eelgrass (Zostera marina) in Izembek Lagoon, Alaska, 2015.

USGS scientists Erin Todd and Jonathan Caine wait for a helicopter pickup at a geologic mapping and sampling station high in the Neacola Mountains, Alaska.

USGS researcher Jonathan Caine measures vein orientation at an outcrop of late Cretaceous pluton in Lake Clark National Park.

Cross-cutting relationships of at least 4 different phases of rock and high-temperature silicate fluids in a sample from the Lake Clark area.

American Tree Sparrow in low to medium shrub thicket habitat.  This photo was taken on the Seward Peninsula as part of the Changing Arctic Ecosystem Boreal-Arctic Transition Zone program.

A Red-throated Loon swimming in a small lake on the Colville River Delta.

Biologists sorting through buckets of benthic invertebrates looking for bivalves onboard the Norseman II in the Chukchi Sea.

ANSEP intern Jannelle Trowbridge sorts through a catch of benthic invertebrates for bivalves on the Norseman II. This was from the Ecosystem Shifts in Arctic Seas project. 

Helicopter arriving to pick up geologists after retrieving geophysical equipment from the flanks of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska, July 2015

Sea ice in the Chukchi Sea.

Benthic invertebrates captured in a bottom trawl. This was from the Ecosystem Shifts in Arctic Seas project.

The 2015 benthic field sampling team Jannelle Trowbridge, Vanessa von Biela, Carolynn Harris, and Thomas Nguyen. This was from the Ecosystem Shifts in Arctic Seas project.

Savannah Sparrow sitting on a hummock in dwarf shrub meadow habitat. This photo was taken on the Seward Peninsula as part of the Changing Arctic Ecosystem Boreal-Arctic Transition Zone program. 

Whimbrel feeding on a hummock of dwarf shrub meadow habitat.

Savannah Sparrow on a hummock in dwarf shrub meadow habitat.  This photo was taken on the Seward Peninsula as part of the Changing Arctic Ecosystem Boreal-Arctic Transition Zone program.