Images

NW CASC’s USGS Director Nicole DeCrappeo on a recent rafting trip through the Grand Canyon on the Colorado River. She brought along a paper John Wesley Powell, an explorer and the 2nd director of the USGS, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of his historic trip down the Colorado River.

Partners discuss seasonal drought experiments.

Unuk River sampling site.

After a long day collecting cores, the team of scientists watch the sun set over the Florida Bay.

Deploying environmental monitoring equipment in a mesic (between wet and dry) forest in western Puerto Rico. Characterizing fine-scale moisture gradients between dry and wet forests is critical to understand which habitats are likely to remain suitable for vulnerable amphibian species as the climate changes. 

View of Nellie Juan Glacier from Wolverine Glacier

View from Wolverine Glacier from Helicopter

A windblown stand of hemlock trees at the Wolverine Glacier field site

View West from Wolverine Glacier

Mountain Hemlock in Alaska

Antlers, White Mountains, Alaska

Big bear scat found while in the field

Native species richness (of the 29 species) using cool to warm colors to represent overlapping distributions of few to many species, respectively. The top panel shows that the present (year 2000) distribution of hotspots in the national park aligns well with the distribution of SEAs.

Staudinger dissecting a dolphinfish at the Annual Ducks Fishing tournament in Morehead City, North Carolina. Credit: Joshua Snyder 

Brian Miller, research ecologist for the NC CASC, on the road while doing fieldwork in Tanzania.

Miller interviewing Maasai pastoralists about how they have coped with drought amidst conservation and land use changes.

Miller collecting geospatial data as part of his dissertation research on drought resources in East Africa.

Flames from the Woodbury Fire rise above Tonto National Monument.

A view of a vegetated inland coastline overlooking the water on Dauphin Island, Alabama. The island protects mainland Alabama’s coastal communities and resources from storms, while also providing recreational opportunities (fishing, beach tourism, etc.) and other economic benefits to the local community and state.

Burned, hollowed out base of a sequoia tree in Sequoia National Park

Mari Rodriguez checks a trap for mice at a field site in Michigan for research.