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Wabash River at New Harmony IN - museum

Wabash River at New Harmony IN - right bank to left bank view

This picture was taken January 16 by Hydro Tech Tim Nicholson as he was assessing site conditions for a discharge measurement, which he determined was unsafe to make. 04191500 Auglaize River near Defiance

Flood measurement at White River near Edwardsport, IN

This microscopic image shows a sun-shaped area within turtle skin cells where chelonid herpesvirus 5 replicates. The virus capsids, or protein shells, are arrayed like a corona around the circle. ChHV5 is associated with fibropapillomatosisa tumor disease affecting endangered green turtles.

Is this cemetery haunted? Probably not, but there could be tiny things moving beyond the grave. The USGS sampled groundwater downhill of Mt. Hope Cemetery in Lansing, Michigan, to find out if materials associated with decomposition and burial processes could affect groundwater quality near a cemetery.

Photo of Tahquamenon River, MI 

Toxic Substances and Areas of Concer

Monarch butterfly on a Joe Pyeweed plant.

A monarch butterfly on a hairy puccoon plant.

Staff processing a sample in the Microbiology laboratory

This photomicrograph shows a liver of a frog with a severe Perkinsea infection.

Buoy at Put-in-Bay.

Steven Fuller making an flood measurement

HABs in lake.

Steven Fuller making an ADCP streamflow measurement via a cable car

National Wildlife Health Center — Madison, Wisconsin. Digestive gland from a freshwater snail (Lymnaea stagnalis)

Is this cemetery haunted? Probably not, but there could be tiny things moving beyond the grave. The USGS sampled groundwater downhill of Mt. Hope Cemetery in Lansing, Michigan, to find out if materials associated with decomposition and burial processes could affect groundwater quality near a cemetery.

Photograph of USGS Kentucky WSC unmanned aircraft system.

A Phragmites rhizome, or a belowground stem that puts up new shoots, dug up in a coastal marsh of Lake Erie in northern Ohio. Phragmites' belowground biomass can exceed that of its aboveground biomass. 

USGS scientist collecting samples of aquatic species from the Pike River, Wis., for later analysis of mercury contamination

Is this cemetery haunted? Probably not, but there could be tiny things moving beyond the grave. The USGS sampled groundwater downhill of Mt. Hope Cemetery in Lansing, Michigan, to find out if materials associated with decomposition and burial processes could affect groundwater quality near a cemetery.