Videos

Underwater video showing horizontal and vertical views from new video camera technology. The high-definition video output will help drillers complete the wells and will help hydrologist understand the aquifer system.

The video shows time-lapse changes in the lava dome and Crater Glacier from 2004-2012. The images were created from 1:12,000 scale vertical aerial photographs combined with ground control points from campaign GPS and targets. Photogrammetry software was used to collect a 3-D point cloud and combined to make a digital elevation model (DEM).

This podcast provides insight in to the life of the common loon as captured by research scientists with USGS using modern technologies. Scientists used satellite telemetry and archival geolocator tag technologies to gain critical information on migratory movements of breeding loons in the Upper Midwest to guide conservation planning.

Earthquakes serve as an early warning sign for volcanic eruptions, as well as a marker for the location of moving magma. This animation shows magma movement beneath a volcano, simulated seismograms, volcanic tremor and seismicity associated with an impending eruption.

This animation shows how gases behave in magma and how an airplane-mounted UV spectrometer can measure gases in a volcanic plume.

Moving magma can deform the surface of the Earth. This animation shows how a tiltmeter and GPS are used to detect the subtle signs that tell scientists something about what is going on beneath the surface.

--fissures...fountains...and flows

by Matthew Patrick, USGS, Hawaiian Volcano Observatory

This video introduces a multi-agency team of scientists and their project to install and operate a resistance board floating weir in the Elwha River. The weir is a fish trap used within a larger program for monitoring salmon populations in the Nation's largest dam removal and river restoration project.

The U.S. Geological Survey’s Western Fisheries Research Center in Seattle, Washington is a state-of-the-art laboratory operating on the cutting edge of fish science. Work at the lab falls into three broad categories, ecosystem studies, studies of invasive species, and studies of disease in fish.

Eric Evenson, coordinator of the National Water Census discuses a new set of water resource challenges brought on by the 21st century. Even in normal water years, water shortages and use conflicts have become commonplace in many areas of the United States — especially competition among crop irrigation, growing cities and communities, and energy production.

- a story of Grand Canyon geology, water, and biology

by Jack Schmidt & David Rubin

Cheryl Nenn (Milwaukee Riverkeeper) explains to Faith Fitzpatrick (U.S. Geological Survey) how a Riverkeeper coordinates programs, communication, monitoring, maintenance, and volunteer organization related to urban stream restoration and protection.

This video shows how to ensure that the edge of one object in ModelMuse lines up exactly with the edge of another object.
 

In the USGS software ModelMuse, the user must assign spatially varying data to data sets, This video describes how to assign values to data sets in ModelMuse.
 

This video shows how to use ModelMuse to check that streams in a MODFLOW model and linked properly.
 

This video shows how to visualize spatial data in the USGS software ModelMuse by coloring cells or contouring the data.
 

This video shows how to plot of the residuals between the observed heads and the simulated heads in ModelMuse.
 

In the USGS software ModelMuse, "Objects" are used to specify spatially varying data. Sometimes it is useful to be able to edit several of these objects at the same time. This video shows how.
 

This video demonstrates how to export an image from ModelMuse into an editable image of the top, front, or side view of your model.
 

This video shows how to to import a MODFLOW-2005 model into ModelMuse
 

This video describes how to import Shapefiles into ModelMuse and use them to help set up a groundwater flow model.