Images

James Molden shows off an Orange-throated Whiptail (Aspidoscelis hyperythra) while conducting the monthly pitfall trap monitoring at Cabrillo National Monument. The traps were put in place over 20 years ago by researcher Robert Fisher. USGS is looking at the effects of fragmentation on the isolated amphibian and reptile community at the monument.

Global distribution of GLORIA sites.

James Molden takes habitat photos for Arroyo Toad surveys in Santa Ysabel Creek.

Researcher Melanie Madden holds up a Blainville's Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma blainvillii).

Researcher Melanie Madden holds up a gophersnake (Pituophis catenifer).

Angler holding a brown trout caught from a Montana River                                                                        

Shannon Waters-Dynes masks up in the genetics lab.

USGS National Wildlife Health Center pathologist examines a cottontail for cause-of-death determination.

Rich Kim works on giant gartersnake trap building. 

Eastern newt (Notophthalmus viridescens) in Wisconsin.

USGS scientists visit Garden Wall Weather Station in Glacier National Park.  This high elevation weather station, just below the Continental Divide near Logan Pass, collects weather data that is used each spring to forecast avalanche hazard for the road crew plowing Going to the Sun Road.  The data is also used by USGS avalanche scientists to study the con

Scientists with the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team have seen the first female grizzly bear with cubs of the year for 2020 in Yellowstone National Park. The radio-collared female was seen with 3 cubs during a telemetry tracking flight on 4/10.  One of the 3 cubs is hard to see between the 2 obvious siblings, but you can just make out its

An open-canopied ephemeral wetland occupied by gopher frogs in the northern Florida Peninsula. Wetlands like these surrounded by sandy upland habitat, such as longleaf pine systems, support gopher frog populations.

Hawai'i 'Amakihi (Chlorodrepanis virens).

Land managers representing National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, US Forest Service, Navajo Nation, private ranches and farms attend the first RestoreNet stakeholder meeting at the USGS Southwest Biological Science Center in February 2020. 

A CTD-rosette is a commonly used instrument that measures conductivity (that can inform scientists about salinity), temperature, and depth (CTD). As the instrument is lowered into the water--sometimes down to great depths--the cylinders around will open at various depths to collect water samples at discrete locations throughout the water column.

Two adult bald eagles look on while two younger bald eagles fight. The eagle on top is a juvenile bald eagle and the one on the bottom is a Basic IV.

This adult female bald eagle is named "Relish." She was banded #57 and fitted with a GPS transmitter in January 2019 as part of the Raptor View Research Institute's bird-lead study. She nested near the Great Slave Lake in the NW Territories, Canada in the Summer of 2019. Her transmitter stopped sending location data in May 2020.

A white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in a snowy field in front of forest in Wisconsin.

Scientists working to uncover footprints at White Sands National Park field site.

Reported lionfish sightings from 1985 - January 8, 2020

Data Source: U.S. Geological Survey, Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database