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Lip Service
Kids in Grant Park enjoy a fountain....
Location: Chicago, IL, USA
Sunset on the Gulf of Alaska
Sunset from the coastal Gulf of Alaska....
Location: Cordova, AK, USA
Sampling at the End of the Rainbow
Surface-water dissolved iron sampling from a ship, while underway, through Teflon-lined tubing secured to a rope, towed from one meter below the surface, using a continuously pumping system....
Location: Cordova, AK, USA
Sunrise over Kayak Island
Sunrise behind Kayak Island, near the mouth of the Copper River, coastal Gulf of Alaska....
Location: Cordova, AK, USA
Sunrise over Kayak Island
Sunrise behind Kayak Island, near the mouth of the Copper River, coastal Gulf of Alaska....
Location: Cordova, AK, USA
Reflections on Cordova, AK
Harbor in Cordova, AK....
Location: Cordova, AK, USA
Mountains over Copper River, AK
Mountains towering above the mouth of the Copper River from the coastal Gulf of Alaska....
Location: Cordova, AK, USA
Maroon Bells at Sunrise
Maroon Bells at Sunrise....
Location: Aspen, CO, USA
Magnolia in Bloom
Magnolia in Bloom....
Location: Columbus, OH, USA
Buckingham Fountain in Grant Park, Chicago
Grant Park Panorama at Sunset....
Location: Chicago, IL, USA
Storm at Sunset
A storm clears at sunset at Rodeo Cove, California....
Location: Rodeo Cove, , CA, USA
Bison at Large
Older Bison who was very friendly and thought he was going to be fed....
Location: Vail, CO, USA
Curious Fellow
A immature elk is very interested in being photographed....
Location: CO, USA
Elk at Play
Two immature Elk test and develop their abilities....
Location: Rocky Mt, CO, USA
Lower Yellowstone Falls
Lower Yellowstone Falls, Yellowstone River....
Location: Yellowstone National Park, WY, USA
Waterfall
Waterfall at Hayden Run....
Location: Dublin, OH, USA
First Light
Sunrise on Marblehead Neck MA....
Location: Marblehead, MA, USA
Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse
Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse, Mount Desert, Maine....
Location: Mount Desert, ME, USA
Ray Copper Mine
Production level in the Ray porphyry copper mine, AZ....
Location: AZ, USA
Ray Copper Mine
Production level in the Ray porphyry copper mine, AZ....
Location: AZ, USA
Belle Plaine Potash Solution Mining Facility
Potash ore is mined at a depth of about 1500 m through a solution mining process. Examination of the world's largest potash producing basin was part of a global assessment of undiscovered....
Location: Canada
Ray Copper Mine
Overlook of Ray porphyry copper mine....
Location: AZ, USA
Supergene Chrysocolla Zone
Supergene chrysocolla zone in the Ray porphyry copper mine....
Location: AZ, USA
Training Baby Whooping Cranes
USGS employee training baby whooping cranes to follow ultralight aircraft....
Location: Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Patuxent, , MD, USA
Adolescent Whooping Crane
Adolescent whooping crane....
Location: Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Patuxent, , MD, USA
Sunset in Thailand
Sunset in Thailand....
Location: Thailand
Songbirds
Songbird finding food for its young....
Location: USA
Elwha River Restoration
A large cooperative project is taking place with Olympic National Park in the Elwha River in anticipation of removal of two dams. Restoration of the entire river to natural free flows will allow returning salmon access to historic spawning grounds. This promises to return the historic giant Chinook...
Location: Olympic National Park, Elwha, Washington, USA
Butterfly
Butterfly pollinating a flower....
Location: Fairfax, VA, USA
Jurassic Rocks in Arizona
Gordon Haxel (USGS, Flagstaff) explains the Jurassic geology of the Baboquivari Mountains, Arizona. Kitt Peak, Arizona, November 2009. Bob Powell (USGS, Tucson) holds the map....
Location: Kitt Peak, Pima County, AZ, USA
Mine Blast at Silver Bell Mine, Arizona
Mine Blast at Silver Bell Mine, Arizona....
Location: Pima County, AZ, USA
Headframe in Miami-Globe Mining District
Long-distance shot of headframe in Miami-Globe mining district....
Location: Globe, AZ, USA
Underground in Mine in Peru
Robert Kamilli (USGS) taking notes underground in Colqui mine in Peru(Note: Photo by Hector Pilco (deceased), field assistant)....
Location: Peru
Mineralization
Mineralized section in the Cerro Maimón copper-gold-silver mine in the Dominican Replublic....
Location: Dominican Republic
Loading & Unloading
Mine trucks transporting material from the Cripple Creek and Victor Gold Mine in Colorado....
Location: Victor, CO, USA
Ornate Horned Frog
Ornate Horned Frogs are commonly found in parts of South America and are from the Ceratophryidae family....
Location: USA
Ambushed by a Dart Poison Frog
Dart Poison Frogs are commonly found in Central and South America and are from the Dendrobatidae family....
Location: USA
Stratigraphic Studies
Stratigraphic studies of Quaternary alluvium provides resource data to the U.S. aggregate industry....
Location: Phoenix, AZ, USA
Our Great Falls
Great Falls Park in Mclean, VA....
Location: Mclean, VA, USA
Coral Core Recovery
Christopher Reich core drills coral to collect cores for paleoclimate analyses....
Location: USA
Sampling Forster’s Tern Chicks for Avian Influenza Study
Scientists sampling Forster’s Tern chicks for avain influenza during salt pond restoration work in south San Francisco Bay salt ponds....
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Scientists prepare to release Forster’s Tern chicks following sampling for avian influenza study.
Scientists prepare to release Forster’s Tern chicks following sampling for avian influenza study....
Location: San Franicsco , CA, USA
Scientist Prepares to Release Forster’s Tern Chicks
Scientist prepares to release Forster's Tern chicks....
Location: San Francisco , CA, USA
Annie Schultz and Kathy Baumberger Process Forster's Terns Chicks
Scientists sampling Forster's Tern chicks for avain influenza during salt pond restoration work in south San Francisco Bay salt ponds....
Location: San Francisco , CA, USA
Longtail Boats
Longtail boats are an important part of the Thai seafaring economy. A nationwide ban on logging has caused the value of the boats to skyrocket....
Location: Thailand
Clownfish
Clownfish and a living sea anemone survive in a coral reef that has been decimated by natural and human disasters....
Location: Thailand
Autumn Glow
Vegetation clings to a nearly soil free landscape, showing vivid autumn colors....
Location: Yahtse Glacier, AK, USA
Recycling
Stark realities of how cars are recycled outside the United States....
Location: Thailand
Shriveled and Cracked
When USGS mapped the glaciers in Icy Bay in the 1950s, the glacier in this image was flat and hundreds of meters thick. Bedrock is emerging as Guyot retreats very rapidly....
Location: Icy Bay, AK, USA
Submarine Surfacing
A submarine berg emerges from the advancing terminus of Yahtse Glacier. Iceberg calving is a key process in the global sea level budget....
Location: USA
Hydroforms
Both ice and water sculpt the landscape surrounding Columbia Glacier. Since USGS studies began in the early 1970s the glacier has lost 140 cubic km of ice, thinning by over 500 meters in the neighborhood of this image, and exposing 100 square km of new ocean....
Location: Columbia Glacier, AK, USA
Rapid Erosion
Both ice and water sculpt the St. Elias range, forcing some of the fastest erosion rates on Earth....
Location: Icy Bay, AK, USA
Hidden Lake External Load
Hydrologic Technician James Foreman prepares to attach an external load of equipment to an approaching helicopter as part of the nutrient loading to alpine lakes project....
Location: , WA, USA
Roseau River near Malung Minnesota
Russ Buesing using a cable car to access a gage (05104500) in winter (March 26) on the Roseau River near Malun, MN....
Location: Malung, MN, USA
Cathedral Spires
Cathedral Spires in the Black Hills of South Dakota....
Location: Custer State Park, SD, USA
Setting it Up, Grinnell Glacier, Glacier National Park.
USGS scientist sets up a repeat photograph of Grinnell Glacier in Glacier National Park to illustrate glacial recession due to impacts of climate change....
Location: Glacier National Park, , MT, USA
Getting the Shot, Grinnell Glacier, Glacier National Park.
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Location: Glacier National Park, , MT, USA
Cool Springs
Bright, whitewater cascading through a lush pacific northwest rain forest....
Location: Multhomah Falls, OR, USA
A Looking in View
observing the mass movement of salmon and steelhead through the dam....
Location: , WA, USA
A Time to Spawn
Salmon and steelhead migrating through Bonnerville Dam....
Location: Bonnerville Dam, WA, USA
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