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Images described and linked on this webpage come from a wide variety of USGS science activities and presentations performed by USGS Science Center staff members in the Region 7:  Upper Colorado Basin. A search tool is provided to narrow the number of image files shown.

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Dry wash in San Rafael Desert with white surface salts
Dry wash in San Rafael Desert with white surface salts
Dry wash in San Rafael Desert with white surface salts
Dry wash in San Rafael Desert with white surface salts

Dry wash in San Rafael Desert with white surface salts. White efflorescent salts form on the soil surface as water evaporates from the soil leaving the salt at the surface. 

Dry wash in San Rafael Desert with white surface salts. White efflorescent salts form on the soil surface as water evaporates from the soil leaving the salt at the surface. 

Unmanned Aerial System prior to takeoff
Unmanned Aerial System
Unmanned Aerial System
Unmanned Aerial System

This small unmanned aerial system with digital camera has been used to create digital elevation models to answer questions about erosion, bridge scour, and other hydraulics analyses. 

This small unmanned aerial system with digital camera has been used to create digital elevation models to answer questions about erosion, bridge scour, and other hydraulics analyses. 

Unmanned Aerial System takes images in Arizona
Unmanned Aerial System in Flight
Unmanned Aerial System in Flight
Unmanned Aerial System in Flight

Small Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) collecting digital photos to create digital elevation models. UAS are an increasingly important tool for monitoring, assessing, and conducting targeted scientific research for the nation.

Small Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) collecting digital photos to create digital elevation models. UAS are an increasingly important tool for monitoring, assessing, and conducting targeted scientific research for the nation.

Fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas) swimming in an experimental aquarium
Fathead minnows swimming in an experimental aquarium
Fathead minnows swimming in an experimental aquarium
Fathead minnows swimming in an experimental aquarium

Bioactive Chemicals Research Laboratory — Boulder, Colorado. Fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas) swimming in an experimental aquarium. The aquarium is part of an experiment to assess endocrine disruption in fish.

Bioactive Chemicals Research Laboratory — Boulder, Colorado. Fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas) swimming in an experimental aquarium. The aquarium is part of an experiment to assess endocrine disruption in fish.

Measuring streamflow in Pass Creek, near Parkman, WY, station 06289600
Measuring streamflow under ice, Pass Creek, nr Parkman, WY
Measuring streamflow under ice, Pass Creek, nr Parkman, WY
USGS scientists check breach on glass-calm Great Salt Lake in surreal light.
Great Salt Lake, USGS boat at work
Great Salt Lake, USGS boat at work
Great Salt Lake, USGS boat at work

USGS scientists check breach on glass-calm Great Salt Lake in surreal light.

Jemez Falls
Jemez Falls
Jemez Falls
Jemez Falls

Jemez Falls located in the Jemez Mountains near Santa Fe, New Mexico

Jemez Falls located in the Jemez Mountains near Santa Fe, New Mexico

Hydro techs from the New Mexico Water Science Center perform a well integrity test
Hydro Techs Perform Well Integrity Test
Hydro Techs Perform Well Integrity Test
Hydro Techs Perform Well Integrity Test

On September 19th, 2017 staff from the USGS NM WSC Albuquerque and Las Cruces offices visited a Climate Response Network (CRN) well just on the east side of the Organ Mountains outside of Las Cruces to receive training on integrity testing groundwater wells.

On September 19th, 2017 staff from the USGS NM WSC Albuquerque and Las Cruces offices visited a Climate Response Network (CRN) well just on the east side of the Organ Mountains outside of Las Cruces to receive training on integrity testing groundwater wells.

Testing the feasibility of real-time eDNA monitoring
Testing the feasibility of real-time eDNA monitoring
Testing the feasibility of real-time eDNA monitoring
Testing the feasibility of real-time eDNA monitoring

Elk are not concerned with our work. USGS and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute conducted tests of the feasibility of real-time eDNA monitoring at USGS streamgage 06190540 Boiling River at Mammoth,YNP, September 13, 2017.

Elk are not concerned with our work. USGS and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute conducted tests of the feasibility of real-time eDNA monitoring at USGS streamgage 06190540 Boiling River at Mammoth,YNP, September 13, 2017.

Cleaning the trench
Teton Fault
Teton Fault
Teton Fault

Mark, Nicole, Rich, Ryan, Dean taking out the "trash" from the base of the trench.

Mark, Nicole, Rich, Ryan, Dean taking out the "trash" from the base of the trench.

Floating the mighty Rio Grande
Floating the mighty Rio Grande
Floating the mighty Rio Grande
Floating the mighty Rio Grande

Staff float down the Rio Grande in New Mexico as part of their Swiftwater Awareness training. 

Staff float down the Rio Grande in New Mexico as part of their Swiftwater Awareness training. 

Scientist operates small drone over river valley with mountains in the background.
USGS uses drone with thermal infrared camera to study water resources
USGS uses drone with thermal infrared camera to study water resources
USGS uses drone with thermal infrared camera to study water resources

USGS Hydrologist Eric White flies a small unoccupied aircraft system – sUAS or "drone" – equipped with a thermal infrared camera during a groundwater/surface-water exchange study along the East River in Gunnison National Forest near Gothic, Colorado, in August 2017.

USGS Hydrologist Eric White flies a small unoccupied aircraft system – sUAS or "drone" – equipped with a thermal infrared camera during a groundwater/surface-water exchange study along the East River in Gunnison National Forest near Gothic, Colorado, in August 2017.

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