A few belated #fieldphotoFriday to start the field season: 🐟survey in Patagonia Sonoita Creek Preserve, and water sampling in the middle San Pedro. The Nature Conservancy in Arizona works to quantify the impacts of land use change, climate change, and restoration in these critical habitats!

Need a UAS-themed team building activity?

Arrange your team to spell out a word, then snap an aerial photo! Thanks for the inspo, USGS in Idaho.

📷 National Geospatial Program employees visiting Denver Federal Center last week spelled out 'USGS NGP'. #FieldPhotoFriday

Maintaining SCSN's earthquake detection ability involves regularly upgrading seismic equipment. Stations like CI.ABL near Frazier Park, have evolved significantly since their installation. Seen here in 1991, and with a recent upgrade in 2021. #FieldPhotoFriday .

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#Flashback to kayaking in Kyle Marsh, a portion of the Perry Wetlands (391743095270600). The Algal and Environmental Toxins Unit was collecting hyperspectral radiometer data. Learn more about this site location here: ow.ly/USTt50RsqwC; (1/2)

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SAWSC Hydrologic Technician Eric Von Amsberg set up equipment to take vertical profile readings from the water column for water quality sampling on West Fork of Eno River Reservoir. ow.ly/Senp50RvHKQ. 📸Ryan B Rasmussen. #FieldPhotoFriday

#DYK that our Hydrologic Technicians need to drill holes through ice to measure our rivers in Colorado? Tony was out this week making calibration measurement on the Williams Fork in some icy conditions! #FieldPhotoFriday

This week's #FieldPhotoFriday comes in from our cableway inspection class in Grand Junction, where we had 19 students and each of our four offices represented! Thanks to our instructors Stephen, Frank and Seth, who traveled from other #USGS Water Science Centers to help!

Brachiopod samples from Anticosti Island, Quebec. 🇨🇦 Collected from the ~444 Ma interval at the apex of the Hirnantian (Upper Ordovician) mass extinction event. #FossilFriday #FieldPhotoFriday

This #FieldPhotoFriday comes from Taylor Pass Meteorological Station in #Colorado . This Next Generation Water Observing System station tests #snow water equivalent and snow depth equipment at a high elevation to understand above tree line snow conditions. ow.ly/uAYy50Qx0hJ

Time to update and maintain our #sapflow measuring site of declining Scots pine #FieldPhotoFriday

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Tithegeh Chii Vitaii Lookout #NWT

Nice glacially sculpted outcrop that highlights the contact between a pegmatite and the country rock, southeast Manitoba. These Li-bearing pegmatites (white rock) are a hot exploration target. #MBGeology #FieldPhotoFriday

Hydrologic Technician Eric Von Amsberg took a boat to a sampling site on the Haw River arm of B. Everett Jordan Lake. The Dam is pictured here. 📸 Ryan Rasmussen. To see the data, click ow.ly/7YFr50R9J2j. #FieldPhotoFriday

SAWSC Hydrologic Technician Ryan B Rasmussen (📸) collected samples from Lake Michie dam near Bahama, NC. The dam side of the lake is pictured. Learn about the Triangle-Area Water-Supply Monitoring program at ow.ly/4bK350RiiQ3 #FieldPhotoFriday

Made good progress this week installing equipment to monitor tile drainage #FieldPhotoFriday #WaterQuality

From the Carboniferous to the Pleistocene... through the Triassic! It's Praia do Telheiro ( #Portugal ) and this is #fieldphotofriday !

Catching up with old friends from #Africa and #Antarctica at NHM Wien for #FieldPhotoFriday #FossilFriday

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Western Mongolia, 2016.

Did you know that the study of meteorite impact craters here on Earth is a big part of what our society members do?! For #FieldPhotoFriday here are some images from the Haughton impact structure 🇨🇦 - check out these breccias, impact melt rocks & shatter cones!

Images: Gordon Oz Osinski