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Mayan cichlid

Southwest Florida Fish Slam – Spring 2022

Project
A disc-shaped GNSS receiver mounted atop a gps survey tripod

Progress Through Partnerships - Chesapeake Bay Vertical Land Motion Project

B-roll
Looking at underneath of caribou face as she is eats tussock cottongrass with a GPS-enabled video camera attached to collar.

Barren-Ground Caribou Eating Tussock Cottongrass Flowerheads
Project
Photograph of the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia

Holocene and Modern Drivers of Wetland Change

Center News
pastel-colored sky and soft clouds at sunrise reflecting on tidal creek by marsh grasses and distant flatwood habitat

A Changing Marsh: The Past, Present, and Future of Grand Bay

Data Release
Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Harmful Algal Bloom Toxins in Seabirds, Forage Fish, and Marine Invertebrates Across Alaska

Photography
A lagoon with floating plants

Not Grounded
Data Release
Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Assessing the Status and Trends of Seabirds and Forage Fish in Lower Cook Inlet, Alaska

Data Release
Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Mangrove Peat Radiocarbon Ages From Snipe and Swan Key, FL

Center News
Map of a coastal area showing where data has been collected offshore.

Explore Deep-sea Data Along the Pacific Coast with EXPRESS Data Viewer

Data Release
Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Tracking Data for Pacific Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus divergens)

Photography
Group photo of people smiling and standing alongside a marsh, blue sky in background

sUAS Lidar Training
Research
Picture of dead waterbird covered in algae

Review of Wildlife Health Outcomes and Potentially Toxic Algal Blooms in the Chesapeake Bay

Photography
Three people walking in marsh

Deploying Instrumentation at the Stone Harbor Marsh
Photography
coastal ecosystems in Omaha-Taniko Scientific Preserve

Omaha-Taniko Scientific Preserve, New Zealand
publication
image of publications layered on a wooden table

Causality guided machine learning model on wetland CH4 emissions across global wetlands

Research
Invasive green crab being held by a scientist

Invasive Species We Study: Green Crab

Presentations and Events
A screenshot of the title page for the NCASC webinar on climate impacts to cultural resources in the intermountain region.

Collaborative Development of a Framework to Assess NPS Cultural Resources Vulnerabilities to Climate Change in the Intermountain Region
Data Release
Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Intertidal Temperature Data from Kachemak Bay, Prince William Sound, Katmai National Park and Preserve, and Kenai Fjords National Park

Data Release
Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Benthic Kelp and Invertebrate Counts, California Sheephead Abundance, Substrate Rugosity Data, and Benthic Temperatures from Long-term Kelp Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Sites at San Nicolas Island, California

Project
Map of the Chesapeake Bay watershed with location of community samples identified by habitat size and aggregated ecoregions

Assessing the habitat conditions to support freshwater fisheries in the Chesapeake Watershed

Data Release
Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Mapping Data of Eelgrass (Zostera marina) Distribution, Alaska and Baja California, Mexico

Photography
scientist prepares conductivity, temperature, and depth instrument to be deployed

Preparing to Deploy CTD Instrument
Podcasts
Logo on fire background with two mugshots on left

Eyes on Earth Episode 83 - ECOSTRESS and Burn Severity
Featured Story
'Blue Marble' image of the Earth

From the Seafloor to Outer Space, USGS is on the Case

Photography
Scientists collecting samples on a rocky jetty as waves roll in.

Ocean Sample Collection
slideshow
Passive acoustic bat recording device deployed on a boulder in Montana.

Examples of USGS Bat Research
Project
Photograph of four airgun arrays towed behind R/V Marcus G. Langseth.

USGS Law of the Sea

Photography
Two people in raft paddling through water, marsh grass in foreground and trees, grasses, and sky in the background

Herring River Blue Carbon & Carbon Market Assessment
Photography
2 women and one man on the fantail of a research vessel standing next to ocean research equipment

Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary Survey
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