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Modeled Scenarios--Moderate Weather: Cat Island
Areas likely to be inundated or overwashed....
Location: MS, USA
Modeled Scenarios--Moderate Weather: Chandeleur Islands
Areas likely to be inundated or overwashed....
Location: LA, USA
Modeled Scenarios--Moderate Weather: Dauphin Island
Areas likely to be inundated or overwashed....
Location: AL, USA
Modeled Scenarios--Moderate Weather: Horn Island
Areas likely to be inundated or overwashed....
Location: MS, USA
Modeled Scenarios--Moderate Weather: Petit Bois
Areas likely to be inundated or overwashed....
Location: MS, USA
Modeled Scenarios--Moderate Weather: Ship Island
Areas likely to be inundated or overwashed....
Location: MS, USA
Cat Island Inundation Map
Areas likely to be inundated or overwashed during expected tide, surge, and wave conditions for May 5, 2010....
Location: Cat Island, MS, USA
Chandeleur Islands Indundation Map
Areas likely to be inundated or overwashed during expected tide, surge, and wave conditions for May 5, 2010....
Location: Chandeleur Islands, LA, USA
Horn Island Inundation Map
Areas likely to be inundated or overwashed during expected tide, surge, and wave conditions for May 5, 2010. Missing data and known bodies of water (lakes, ponds) are shown as transparent....
Location: Horn Island, MS, USA
Petit Bois Island Inundation Map
Areas likely to be inundated or overwashed during expected tide, surge, and wave conditions for May 5, 2010....
Location: Petit Bois Island, MS, USA
Ship Island Inundation Map
Areas likely to be inundated or overwashed during expected tide, surge, and wave conditions for May 5, 2010....
Location: Ship Island, MS, USA
Location Map North Carolina Outer Banks
Map showing the location of the North Carolina coastal erosion study....
Location: Cape Hatteras, NC, USA
Cooperative Neighbors on Arctic Diplomacy
This photograph is of Canadian Coast Guard ship Louis S. St. Laurent alongside U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy in the Arctic Ocean. The U.S. and Canada are mapping the Arctic seafloor and gathering data to help define the outer limits of the continental shelf. Each country may exercise sovereign right...
Location: Arctic
Healy Breaking Ice and Mapping Ground
This photograph is of U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy in the Arctic Ocean, where USGS scientists are helping map the Arctic seafloor and gather data to help define the outer limits of the continental shelf. The U.S. and Canada are working together in this mission, and the U.S. effort is through the U....
Location: Arctic
USGS Topographers at Work
Two USGS topographers circa 1925, working with an alidade and plane table. The man on the left is believed to be Roland Whitman Burchard, who was the topographer for the USGS Grand Canyon Expedition of 1923....
Location: USA
USGS Topographers
USGS topographic field party, circa 1925, with a Wye level on a tripod and two stadia rods....
Location: USA
USGS Topographers
USGS topographic field party in a horse-drawn wagon northwest of Sacramento, California, circa 1906. Note the U.S.G.S. on the seat....
Location: CA, USA
USGS Topographic Rod man
Rod man Koontz holding a stadia rod....
Location: Job, WV, USA
Triangulation Tower
USGS triangulation tower in West Texas....
Location: TX, USA
USGS Topographers at Work
Two topographers working with an alidade and plane table. The man on the right is believed to be Roland Whitman Burchard, who was the topographer for the USGS Grand Canyon Expedition of 1923. Author Lewis Freeman described Burchard as a man of "powerful physique, great endurance, and a cool, steady ...
Location: NM, USA
USGS Topographer at Work
A USGS topographer works with a plane table and alidade to create a 1:180,000 scale topographic map near Imlay, Nevada. The umbrella is to protect the instrument from temperature variations....
Location: Imlay, NV, USA
USGS Topographer at Work
A topographer maps the north half of the Lovelock 1-degree quadrangle in the desert area near Jungo, Nevada. The umbrella protected the instrument from temperature variations....
Location: Lovelock, NV, USA
USGS Topographers at Work
A topographic field party crossing a snowdrift at the head of Grand Creek above their camp near Moose Lake while mapping the Mt. Constance quadrangle in the Olympic Mountains of Washington. ...
Location: WA, USA
USGS Topographic Field Party
A mounted topographic field party poses while working on the Dos Cabezas quadrangle in Arizona. 1940-1941. The quadrangle was surveyed by D.H. Rutledge, W.E. Burton, and G.K. Jensen, so it is likely that most or all of them are in this photo....
Location: AZ, USA
USGS Topographic Mapping Field Camp
Topographic mapping field camp under the direction of R.H. Chapman....
Location: Sonora, CA, USA
USGS Topographic Mapping Field Camp
Topographic mapping crew poses in camp in the Cascade Mountains of Washington....
Location: WA, USA
USGS Topographic Mapping Field Camp
USGS topographic mapping field camp in the early 1900s. Note the USGS "pick and hammer" flag flying below the United States flag. It was common practice to fly both flags in USGS field camps. Also note the "US" on the tents. Much of the USGS field gear was obtained from army surplus....
Location: USA
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Location: AZ, USA
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Location: NV, USA
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Location: NV, USA
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Location: USA
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Location: Littlefield, TX, USA
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Location: USA
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Location: Alabama Hills, CA, USA
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Location: Alabama Hills, CA, USA
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Location: Death Valley, CA, USA
USGS Topographers at Work
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Location: Death Valley, CA, USA
USGS Topographers at Work
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Location: Death Valley, CA, USA
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Location: Death Valley, CA, USA
USGS Topographer at Work
Topographer George Stanley Druhot running a level line on oil-shale cliffs north of the Colorado River. The level line was one mile long and climbed 2,000 feet over talus slopes....
Location: Grand Valley, CO, USA
USGS Topographer at Work
Topographer George Stanley Druhot with a plane table and alidade. Recorder R.H. Moore is sitting against the Pierce Arrow in the background. A stadia rod is visible on the second car....
Location: Fullerton, CA, USA
USGS Topographer at Work
Topographer George Stanley Druhot with a plane table and alidade while mapping the Mt. Constance quadrangle on the Olympic Peninsula....
Location: WA, USA
USGS Topographer at Work
Topographer George Stanley Druhot working with a tripod, planetable, and alidade at Kahekili Leap, on the island of Oahu. His two companions are Malcolm Springer and Tai Hai Lau...
Location: USA
USGS Topographer at Work
R.R. Monbeck on the rim of Haleakala volcano on the island of Maui...
Location: HI, USA
Cartographers in the Field
This Depression-era oil painting was created by USGS field man Hal Shelton in 1940. The painting depicts mapping techniques used in the early days of cartography, including an alidade and stadia rod for determining distances and elevations and a plane-table for sketching contour lines. A USGS benchm...
Location: Menlo Park, CA, USA
Brutus the North Pole Wolf Map
The Ellesmere Island study area is 600 miles from the North Pole....
Location: Canada
Brutus the North Pole Wolf Map
Ellesmere Island, where the wolf, Brutus, was radio-tagged, is in the northernmost area of Canada about 1,200 miles northeast of Alaska....
Location: Canada
USGS Elevation Monument
USGS elevation monument for a level line run from Mojave, California to Keeler, California. The line ran through such places as 18-Mile Station, Dixie, Indan Wells, Little Lake, and Olancha. Elevations were based on Benecia datum....
Location: CA, USA
USGS Topographers at Work
A level crew running a line from Mojave, California to Keeler, California via the state road, preparing the way for topographers to follow. R.A. Farmer, just to the left of the long-barreled Engineers WYE level instrument, was the levelman and Chief of Party. Holding the umbrella (used to shield the...
Location: CA, USA
USGS Rod Man
A USGS rod man poses with his leveling rod in Salinas Valley, California....
Location: CA, USA
USGS Topographers at Work
Captain Straughan (right) and rod man Bud Sullivan (left) departing for a day in the field. Straughan has a tripod on his shoulder and a plane table packed in the satchel under his leg. The flagpole in the background is flying a United States flag and a USGS flag - a common practice in mapping field...
Location: USA
USGS Topographers at Work
USGS topographers pose with their leveling instrument and leveling rod....
Location: USA
USGS Topographers at Work
A USGS topographer works with a leveling instrument. The umbrella prevents temperature fluctuations that could affect the leveling bubble in his instrument. The man on the ground is recording elevation data....
Location: USA
USGS Topographer at Work
A USGS topographer poses with his leveling instrument....
Location: USA
USGS Cartographer at Work
Performing color separation scribing of the culture separate of a USGS topographic map using a swivel graver....
Location: Sacramento, CA, USA
USGS Cartographer at Work
Color separation scribing of the intermediate contours for a USGS topographic map using a freehand scriber. ...
Location: Sacramento, CA, USA
USGS Cartographer at Work
Yutaka Hamamoto working on a Wild A-7 Stereoplanigraph....
Location: Menlo Park, CA, USA
USGS Photographer at Work
Jay Prendergast adjusts the lens on a Robertson 48-inch, 4.5 ton camera. Installed in 1959, the camera was used for precise scale transformation of mapping separates and composites....
Location: Menlo Park, CA, USA
USGS Cartographer at Work
Bill Campbell operates an Electrical Survey Net Adjuster (ESNA). The ESNA was used for the adjustment of levels and traverse. ...
Location: Sacramento, CA, USA
USGS Map Editor at Work
Map editor Webb Greenup reviews an overlay of the Atwater, CA 7.5-minute topographic quadrangle map....
Location: Sacramento, CA, USA
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