Images

Whitefish drying on a fish rack in Pilot Station, AK, in the Yukon River Basin. 

Drilling to take water chemistry samples for permafrost study in the Yukon River Basin

Heading out to do field work for a permafrost loss study in the Yukon River Basin. 

Winter landscape in northern Ontario, Canada.

Deep snow in northern Ontario, Canada.

Thompson getting ready for take off to visit caribou cratering areas (areas where caribou dig for lichens in the winter time).

Caribou in northern Ontario, Canada.

Aerial view of caribou in northern Ontario, Canada.

Thompson working on ice training, Ontario, Canada.

Thompson holding a back bear cub in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee, USA.

Non-native Cuban treefrogs have established a breeding population in New Orleans, Louisiana, the first such population on the U.S. mainland outside Florida. The treefrogs were discovered at the Audubon Zoo shortly after a shipment of palm trees from Florida were planted in the zoo's elephant enclosure in 2016.

Cliffs of Franciscan Complex rocks near the Point Bonita Lighthouse reveal metamorphosed pillow lava at their bases. USGS photo by Jessica L. Ball

Big Southern Butte, Idaho.  The butte is among the largest rhyolite domes in the world and is located in the eastern Snake River Plain. Photo by James Neeley, BLM (https://flic.kr/p/CsA4TV).

Part of the project team for a scenario planning effort with Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site.

Prescribed fires, such as this one, are used by land managers to restore ponderosa pine forests to more resilient conditions. We are fortunate to be able to occasionally participate in such burns because we are co-located with land managers.

Spruce-covered mountains surround a dried-up lake.

Brian Miller, NC CASC Research Ecologist.

In 2015 Dr. Terando attended and presented at an IPCC Scientific Workshop on Regional Climate Modeling in Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil.

Ryan Toohey at the Active Layer Network grid near Hess Creek, Alaska.