Unified Interior Regions

USGS scientists Rich Briggs, Ryan Gold, Chris DuRoss, and Jaime Delano spent September 5-21, 2017 outside of Jackson, Wyoming doing fieldwork at a site to collect paleoseismology data on a segment of the Teton Fault. This video shows the first day of the site excavation inside the flagged the boundaries set up by the group.

Sample collection from cableway above Big Horn River near Kane, Wyoming as part of project evaluating pesticides in Wyoming.

Taking water-quality equipment to Fogarty Creek

Yellowstone grizzly bears inhabit federal, state, tribal, and private lands, and long-term research requires careful coordination across governmental levels. The Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team (IGBST) is an interdisciplinary group of scientists and biologists responsible for long-term monitoring and research efforts on grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone

Upright petrified tree in Yellowstone National Park. 

Amphitheater Mountain and Soda Butte Creek viewed from the Yellowstone National Park northeast entrance road. 

Real-time well at Five Springs Creek southeast of Lovell, Wyoming

Using a GPS station to get highly precise streamflow measurement 

Measuring streamflow using bridge crane and AA meter, Powder River at Sussex

Measuring stream stage on Muddy Creek near Dad

Springtime streamflow measurement, East Fork Smiths Fork