Unified Interior Regions

Chris, Mark, Dean, and Ryan shovel soil and rock into the wheelbarrow to remove it from the trench after the excavator has finished digging.

The first scoop! The excavator begins digging the trench on the Teton site. 

Whoa! The slope is very steep, making for challenging digging

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.

Rich Briggs, Ryan Gold, and Chris DuRoss flagging the boundary of the area to be trenched. Try to find Ryan - he's camouflaged!

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

Measuring streamflow in Fogarty Creek

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.