USGS Multimedia Gallery for tag: Health

http://gallery.usgs.gov/images/logos/usgs_only.jpg USGS Multimedia Gallery for tag: Health http://gallery.usgs.gov/ en-us OC_Web@usgs.gov (Office of Communications Web Group) http://gallery.usgs.gov/images/USGS.gif USGS http://gallery.usgs.gov/ <![CDATA[Human-Health Science in the US-Mexico Borderlands]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/06_04_2013_ye72XkjWVr_06_04_2013_1 Children playing in a makeshift swimming pool at a colonia in Aqua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico. Scientists examine the growing health concerns related to the fate of hazardous wastes and contaminants introduced into the air, water, and soils of the Borderlands region, as well as pathogens carried by wildlife, domesticated animals, and humans.

]]> <![CDATA[Great Lakes Beach Health]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/05_24_2013_gkb4Erq11X_05_24_2013_0 As schools close for the year and summer weather beckons, many recreationalists head to the Great Lakes' public beaches. However, these coastal areas can become contaminated with disease-causing bacteria that threaten public health, disrupt water recreation, and pay a toll on the Great Lakes economies that depend on summer tourism.

The U.S. Geological Survey Great Lakes Beach Health initiative provides science-based information and methods that help beach managers make more accurate beach closure and advisory decisions, preventing unnecessary beach closures while protecting public health.

]]> <![CDATA[Ohio Nowcast]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/05_24_2013_gkb4Erq11X_05_24_2013_1 As schools close for the year and summer weather beckons, many recreationalists head to the Great Lakes' public beaches. However, these coastal areas can become contaminated with disease-causing bacteria that threaten public health, disrupt water recreation, and pay a toll on the Great Lakes economies that depend on summer tourism.

Similar to weather forecasts, the USGS Ohio Nowcast system uses near real-time information to estimate water-quality conditions and E. coli concentrations at specific beaches in Ohio. It uses mathematical models that are developed from several years of measurements taken at particular sites.

]]> <![CDATA[Great Lakes Beach Health]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/05_24_2013_gkb4Erq11X_05_24_2013_2 As schools close for the year and summer weather beckons, many recreationalists head to the Great Lakes' public beaches. However, these coastal areas can become contaminated with disease-causing bacteria that threaten public health, disrupt water recreation, and pay a toll on the Great Lakes economies that depend on summer tourism.

]]> <![CDATA[Great Lakes Beach Health]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/05_24_2013_gkb4Erq11X_05_24_2013_3 As schools close for the year and summer weather beckons, many recreationalists head to the Great Lakes' public beaches. However, these coastal areas can become contaminated with disease-causing bacteria that threaten public health, disrupt water recreation, and pay a toll on the Great Lakes economies that depend on summer tourism.

]]> <![CDATA[Diseased Coral]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/12_14_2012_l52Skw7JId_12_14_2012_0 Cyanobacteria-affected coral at Makua, Kauai on August 5, 2012. The green dots indicate macroalgae; the red dots indicate cyanobacteria-associated tissue loss; and the blue dots indicate live coral.

]]> <![CDATA[Diseased Monitpora Coral]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/12_14_2012_l52Skw7JId_12_14_2012_1 Coral tissue loss revealed by a white skeleton. The green dots indicate macroalgae; the red dots indicate cyanobacteria-associated tissue loss; and the blue dots indicate live coral.

]]> <![CDATA[Diseased Monitpora Coral]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/12_14_2012_l52Skw7JId_12_14_2012_3 Coral tissue loss revealed by a white skeleton. The mats of grey-black organic material are cyanobacteria, and separate the dead coral from the intact tissue. The green dots indicate macroalgae; the red dots indicate cyanobacteria-associated tissue loss; and the blue dots indicate live coral.

]]> <![CDATA[Sampling Diseased Coral]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/12_14_2012_l52Skw7JId_12_14_2012_4 USGS scientist Thierry Work takes a sample from diseased coral at Tunnels Reef on the north shore of Kauai, Hawaii

]]> <![CDATA[Scientists Gathering Data from Area with Diseased Coral]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/12_14_2012_l52Skw7JId_12_14_2012_5 Dr. Greta Aeby (left), a coral expert with the Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology at the University of Hawai‘i, and Dr. Thierry Work, wildlife disease specialist for the USGS National Wildlife Health Center exit the water at ‘Anini after more than six hours of documenting and photographing diseased rice corals.

]]> <![CDATA[Fish Sample from Area with Diseased Coral]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/12_14_2012_l52Skw7JId_12_14_2012_6 Dr. Thierry Work, wildlife disease specialist for the USGS National Wildlife Health Center, measures one of several Hawaiian white-spotted toby fish he caught Nov. 28 at ‘Anini. The fish, which have black skin discoloration and lesions on their fins, will be tested as part of an ongoing coral disease study along Kaua‘i’s North Shore.

]]> <![CDATA[Biting Mosquito]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/09_19_2012_uy50SfeRRM_09_19_2012_0 Culex species mosquito biting a human hand.

]]> <![CDATA[Scientist Respond to Wildlife Disease Events]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/09_19_2012_dIYk05Nba7_09_19_2012_0 USGS scientists from the National Wildlife Health Center respond to wildlife disease events in the field.

]]> <![CDATA[Volunteers Monitor Bird and Beach Health]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/04_25_2012_w06Du22TTo_04_25_2012_0 Volunteer, Bob Schutt, walks his assigned beach on Lake Michigan to monitor bird health and beach conditions as part of a citizen science program called AMBLE.

]]> <![CDATA[Volunteers Monitor Bird and Beach Health]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/04_25_2012_w06Du22TTo_04_25_2012_1 Volunteer, Patrick Sullivan, looks for birds while monitoring his assigned beach on Lake Michigan as part of a citizen science program called AMBLE.

]]> <![CDATA[Volunteers Monitor Bird and Beach Health]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/04_25_2012_w06Du22TTo_04_25_2012_2 Volunteer, Sue Alt, monitors bird health and beach conditions as part of a citizen science program called AMBLE.

]]> <![CDATA[Low-density Waterfowl in California Wetlands]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/02_17_2012_e38Kc54BBv_02_17_2012_0 Waterfowl in California can spread the avian influenza virus (AIv) during summertime when wetland temperatures are warm and waterfowl densities are low.

Researchers with the USGS and partners found low pathogenic (LP) AIv in water and waterfowl fecal samples collected in the California Central Valley during summer, indicating on-going infections in resident waterfowl, persistent shedding and active transmission of AIv.

Despite previous research suggesting that colder temperatures and increased bird densities as waterfowl congregate during migration are most favorable to the survival of these viruses, the recent findings suggest that high summer water temperatures do not prevent its circulation.

]]> <![CDATA[Low-density Waterfowl in California Wetlands]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/02_17_2012_e38Kc54BBv_02_17_2012_1 Waterfowl in California can spread the avian influenza virus (AIv) during summertime when wetland temperatures are warm and waterfowl densities are low.

]]> <![CDATA[Testing Coal-Tar Sealcoats for Toxic PAH Emissions ]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/02_08_2012_t85Bs11RQl_02_08_2012_0 USGS scientists prepare a sampler used to measure emission of polycyclic aromatic carbons (PAHs) into the air.

]]> <![CDATA[Testing Coal-Tar Sealcoats for Toxic PAH Emissions ]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/02_08_2012_t85Bs11RQl_02_08_2012_1 A professional applicator applies coal-tar-based sealcoat to a test plot used to measure emission of polycyclic aromatic carbons (PAHs) into the air.

]]> <![CDATA[Testing Coal-Tar Sealcoats for Toxic PAH Emissions ]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/02_08_2012_t85Bs11RQl_02_08_2012_2 A professional applicator applies coal-tar-based sealcoat to a test plot used to measure emission of polycyclic aromatic carbons (PAHs) into the air.

]]> <![CDATA[Testing Coal-Tar Sealcoats for Toxic PAH Emissions ]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/02_08_2012_t85Bs11RQl_02_08_2012_3 A USGS scientist adjusts an air pump used to measure emission of polycyclic aromatic carbons (PAHs) into the air.

]]> <![CDATA[Bat Necropsy]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/09_14_2011_y17Gxk3WVq_09_14_2011_0 The USGS National Wildlife Health Center conducts a bat autopsy as part of its efforts to study the fungus that causes white-nose syndrome in bats.

]]> <![CDATA[Black-Footed Ferret]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/09_14_2011_y17Gxk3WVq_09_14_2011_1 The USGS National Wildlife Health Center is working to develop an oral vaccine to protect the endangered black-footed ferret from plague.

]]> <![CDATA[Animal Isolation Room]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/09_14_2011_y17Gxk3WVq_09_14_2011_2 USGS microbiology technician Brenda Berlowski enters an animal isolation room.

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