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Students Anaga Nmagu and Danielle Travers, hired with ARRA funds, are converting more than one million hand-written bird band recovery records into digital format at the USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center.

A USGS student employee and sophomore at the Colorado School of Mines, was among the first hired by USGS using Recovery Act funding to upgrade the seismic stations of the Advanced National Seismic System (ANSS) Backbone.

This photo shows the Righmeyer House at Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge, which will be rehabilitated with Recovery Act funding to house the refuge's offices. Related to the R5GA — Repair Rightmeyer House — Back Bay NWR project.

This pond liner replacement process will be used to replace 9 deteriorated clay pond liners with polyethylene liners that help hatchery employees at Garrison Dam National Fish Hatchery produce more fish at a larger size with less effort. Related to the R6PC — Replace 9 Clay Pond Liners — Garrison Dam NFH project.

An FWS employee stocks walleye in a lined pond at Garrison Dam National Fish Hatchery, the Service's largest walleye production hatchery. Related to the R6PC — Replace 9 Clay Pond Liners — Garrison Dam NFH project.

This photo shows an aerial view of the existing facilities at Audubon National Wildlife Refuge. Related to the R6BB — Construct Headquarters Visitor Building — Audubon NWR project.

Director's Display in Denver Colorado. It displays surveying equipment used by USGS field scientists. Some of the instruments included are engineer's levels, transits, hand-held transits, altimeters and microscopes.
Object ID: USGS-DenverDisplay(1of2)

Prism level manufactured by C.L. Berger & Sons, serial# 16898. The company was founded by Christian Louis Berger (1842-1922) who was born at Stuttgart, Germany and moved to Boston in 1866. In 1871 he joined with George Louis Buff, and began trading as Buff & Berger.

Pocket Model used to measure altitude. Accurate to 15,000 ft. Made in Aug. 1968 by Revue Thommen AG, Switzerland.
Object ID: USGS-000646

Original Box & Booklets. Marketed as being made of Ivorite, this slide rule was manufactured by Keuffel & Esser Company, New York & New Jersey in the 1960s.

An early optoelectronic instrument manufactured by Ernst Leitz G.m.b.H., Wetzlar, Germany, serial #25748. The instrument consists of a weighted stand with optics device with attached power cord, transformer box ("Regel-Transformator / Nur für Wechselstrom / 120/220 Volt - 50 HZ / Typ REDYX Nr. 25748 / Leitz-Speziallampe 6V. 5Amp. / max.

Model #6367, believed to be manufactured December 15, 1898 by the Weston Electrical Instrument Company, Newark, New Jersey. Edward Weston introduced this type of meter in 1889 and was a serious competitor of Thomas Edison in the development of electricity.

Manufactured by Mine Safety Appliances Company sometime after 1914, the wood cabinet-like chest includes an analytical balance, pans and flasks.
Object ID: USGS-000259

Electron & Nuclear Counter, Model #ARA35-1, Type DW-51. Manufactured by Cyclotron Specialties Company. Additional information would be appreciated.
Object ID: USGS-000262

Manufactured by the Bausch and Lomb Optical Company. Stereographs and stereo compilation glasses are used in the photogrammetry, which is the process of making maps or scale drawings from photographs, especially aerial photographs.
Object ID: USGS-000276

Equipped with a Summaron Lens, 1950s. Manufactured in Leitz, Germany.
Object ID: USGS-000277

With original case.
Object ID: USGS-000287

Distilling Apparatus or Still. The prominent feature of this antique lab equipment is the spherical copper globe. Object ID: USGS-000240

This device records atmospheric pressure and uses twelve stacked aneroid barometer cells in its mechanism to move a pen upon paper, both of which are attached to a drum moved by clockwork. The apparatus is enclosed in a wooden cabinet with set-in glass viewing pane.
Object ID: USGS-000242

Manufactured by Lamotte Chemical Products Company, Chestertown, Maryland sometime after 1930.
Object ID: USGS-000249

Object has its original Case. A graduated circular protractor with pivoting arm, it is used for measuring or marking off angles. This instrument was manufactured by Bowen & Company and was first used by the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers before being transferred to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Object ID: USGS-000252