Images

NBII and Guyra Paraguay are collaborating on two biodiversity informatics projects in Paraguay. NBII is providing funding and expertise in metadata, cataloguing, and information delivery. Guyra Paraguay is a small NGO specializing in species and landscape-level conservation.

Bill Foreman, research chemist at the National Water Quality Laboratory, prepares a soil sample for the National Water Quality Assessment Program.

Municipal biosolids being loaded onto spreader for land application

Buidling 3 on the U.S. Geological Survey campus located at 345 Middlefield Road in Menlo Park, California. Built in 1958, this building originally housed the topographic map division for many years. It currently houses the offices of the earthquake and geography science centers, the publications group, a visitor center, the map-sales office, and an auditorium.

View of the apalachicola River looking upstream from in a bluff in the Nature Conservancy's Apalchicola Bluffs and Ravines Preserve.

Crawfish are both caught wild and farm raised, hopefully free of contaminants

Rich blue Afghan lapis still intrigues visitors.

Tom Custer, Ann Secord (USFWS), and Paul Dummer transport swallow boxes to place along the Hudson River, NY.

Aluminum x-ray intensity map of a high temperature inclusion from the Allende meteorite.

Photograph of ant taken with electron microscope.

Diatom in spire from floor of Yellowstone Lake, Yellowstone National Park.

Secondary electron image of dickite clay crystals.

Spires from the floor of Yellowstone Lake appear to be composed of diatoms and silicified bacteria.

Spires from the floor of Yellowstone Lake appear to be composed of diatoms and silicified bacteria.

Spires from the floor of Yellowstone Lake appear to be composed of diatoms and silicified bacteria.

California red-legged frog (Rana draytonii) surfaces in a pond in Point Reyes National Seashore, CA.

USGS Field Technician wading down river toward an arched stone bridge.

A nene goose, Hawai‘i's state bird and an endangered species, stands among coastal vegetation on O‘ahu island. USGS researchers have tracked nene movements using GPS transmitters to determine where they spend their time and to inform policy and decision making regarding their continued protection under the Endangered Species Act. 

American eel (Anguilla rostrata) from the Neversink River, New York

Emperor geese standing at the shoreline near Kodiak.

View of Colorado River confluence with the Little Colorado River taken from the rim of Marble Canyon