Videos

Presents descriptions of the USGS Precipitation Runoff Modeling System (PRMS) Summary modules.
 

A time-lapse video of the excavation of the trench for a paleoseismology research project at Flat Canyon, Utah, along the Wasatch fault zone.
 

Elliott Barnhart, a hydrologist with the USGS Wyoming-Montana Water Science Center, describes his work developing what could be a cleaner way to develop coal.

Fumaroles (venting gas and steam) at the base of Porcelain Terrace in the Norris Geyser Basin, Yellowstone.

Imagery from temperature-sensing cameras showing bats in hibernation. This new footage suggests that bats who warm up from hibernation together throughout the winter may be better at surviving white nose syndrome, a disease caused by a cold-loving fungus ravaging insect-eating bat populations in the United States and Canada.

The USGS and its cooperators have installed debris-flow monitoring equipment in the largest drainage basin at Chalk Cliffs, CO. Data collection at this site supports research on the hydrologic factors that control debris-flow initiation, entrainment, and flow dynamics.

- a story of Grand Canyon geology, water, and biology

by Jack Schmidt & David Rubin

Exploring the colorful southern Colorado Plateau in 3-D

By Philip Stoffer, Geologist



Take a colorful tour with the help of 3-D photography through some of the region's highlights:

Clarence King and the 40th Parallel Survey

By James G. Moore, Geologist