By kmulliken@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Aug 22, 2025.

Episode 31 of the ongoing Halemaʻumaʻu eruption began at 2:04 p.m. HST on August 22, with lava fountaining from the north vent.

By kmulliken@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Aug 21, 2025.

The past eight months have provided the Island of Hawaiʻi with spectacles of lava fountains at Kīlauea’s summit. These historic episodes began on December 23, 2024, consistently offering locals and visitors a stunning display of lava fountaining nearly weekly.  With the 30th episode, came one of the most significant changes since the eruption started—a new fissure in the caldera wall. 

By evarelaminder@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Aug 20, 2025.

Invasive Adirondack smallmouth bass populations have responded to eradication efforts by rapidly evolving to grow faster and mature earlier, leading to a larger population of smaller fish in the region.

By hweiss-racine@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Aug 19, 2025.

Moderate glow and sustained tremor indicate that magma remains at relatively shallow depths beneath the active vents. On August 18, USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory staff conducted a UAS (uncrewed aircraft systems) flight and field observations of the north vent in Halemaʻumaʻu crater at Kīlauea volcano. 

By jlball@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Aug 19, 2025.

Debris flows or mudflows that form from volcanic material are called lahars. The word lahar comes from Javanese, the language spoken on the island of Java in Indonesia. Lahars are hot or cold mixtures of water and rocks and ash that flow down the slopes of a volcano, usually in a river or stream valley. 

By hweiss-racine@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Aug 18, 2025.

Scientists study many different natural processes to understand what is happing just out of our view inside a volcano. There has been a lot of discussion about the earthquake swarm at Mount Rainier, but earthquakes are only a part of the story. Cascade Volcano Observatory (CVO) volcanic gas specialists recently traveled to Mount Rainier to sniff for clues about what caused the recent seismic swarm

By aliford@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Aug 18, 2025.

The USGS Science Data Management Branch will be hosting two upcoming training events for USGS authors and data managers. The first will be our general ScienceBase data release training and the second will be training on how to create metadata for your data release.

By mpoland@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Aug 18, 2025.

Deformation of Earth’s surface can be very subtle.  Accurately detecting how the ground moves in the Yellowstone area requires the right frame of reference.

By dchilds@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Aug 15, 2025.

USGS researchers at the Mississippi Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit are working with the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department (TPWD) and volunteer anglers to explore a one-of-a-kind fisheries database. TPWD manages an online tool that collects statistics on large black bass that weigh over 8 pounds. The first steps in this partnership have focused on estimating habitat and recruitment.

By mnewbrough@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Aug 15, 2025.

Bay Journal — by Karl Blankenship — August 15, 2025

By hweiss-racine@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Aug 14, 2025.

Kīlauea is not erupting. Episode 30 of the ongoing Halemaʻumaʻu eruption ended abruptly at 12:55 p.m. HST on August 6 after 12 hours of continuous fountaining. A new fissure vent that transected the south wall of Halemaʻumaʻu ceased erupting at 4:40 a.m. HST on the morning of August 6. Spatter from this fissure was sampled on August 13 to better understand the source and storage of magma.

By kmulliken@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Aug 14, 2025.

When most people think of erupting water, they probably have geysers, like Old Faithful Geyser in Yellowstone National Park, in mind. However, Kīlauea and its diverse style of eruptions are also significantly impacted by water. In fact, some of Kīlauea’s past explosive eruptions occurred when magma erupted through groundwater or through a lake in a summit crater.

By samgott@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Aug 14, 2025.

Critical minerals power the technology behind smartphones, computers and even fighter planes. The interactive Critical Minerals Atlas shows where these critical minerals are produced around the world. To explore, click on a country to see how many critical minerals it produces, its share of global production and how each mineral is used.

By kmulliken@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Aug 13, 2025.

On August 12, USGS-Hawaiian Volcano Observatory field engineers visited monitoring sites on Mauna Loa volcano to upgrade and install new monitoring webcams, change batteries, install new antennas, and replace solar panels that had been damaged during winter storms. 

By meganevans@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Aug 13, 2025.

By Sam Russo

WBOC News, July 19, 2025

The annual derby, organized by SU biological studies assistant professor Dr. Noah Bressman, encourages the removal of blue catfish and northern snakeheads. 

By meganevans@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Aug 13, 2025.

Sea Duck Joint Venture Website

August 11, 2025

The Sea Duck Joint Venture (SDJV), a conservation partnership under the North American Waterfowl Management Plan, helps to fund avian influenza research at EESC's campus in Laurel, MD. The SDJV recently highlighted how EESC's utlilizes its captive sea duck colony for this important research. 

By jlawson@contractor.usgs.gov from All News. Published on Aug 13, 2025.

The southeastern United States is an important wood-producing region of the world, sometimes referred to as the wood basket. The state of Georgia is a global forestry leader, and according to the Georgia Forestry Commission, Georgia has more acres of plantations, timberland and privately owned timberland than any other state (GFC, 2025).

By jlavista@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Aug 13, 2025.

U.S. Geological Survey scientists are monitoring flooding on the Mendenhall River as water releases from Suicide Basin’s glacier-dammed lake.

By hackley@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Aug 12, 2025.

Scientists from the California and Nevada Water Science Centers attended the 29th annual Lake Tahoe Summit to discuss the work the USGS is doing in the Tahoe Basin. This year’s event honored the legacy of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein and her commitment to Lake Tahoe.

By shouse@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Aug 12, 2025.

Title:  Drivers of Wetland Change: A Paleo Perspective

Date:  August 22, 2025, at 2:00-2:30 pm Eastern/11:00 -11:30 am Pacific 

Speakers:  Debra Willard and Miriam Jones, Research Geologists, USGS Florence Bascom Geoscience Center

By jlball@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Aug 12, 2025.

Photographs can be a huge help in interpreting the mechanics and timelines of volcanic eruptions. For example, he 1914–1917 eruptions of Lassen Peak were one of the first to be extensively photographed by local observers. Details about the large eruption on the late evening of May 19, 1915, was limited by a lack of direct observations, since it happened mostly in darkness. 

By kmulliken@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Aug 11, 2025.

Kīlauea is not erupting. Episode 30 of the ongoing Halemaʻumaʻu eruption took place over about 12 hours on August 6. On August 8, USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory geologists conducted a monitoring overflight of the recent eruption area. 

By jlawson@contractor.usgs.gov from All News. Published on Aug 11, 2025.

Sometimes it takes distance to really see something. Take the Earth observing Landsat satellites. They’re orbiting 438 miles above us, but they capture data about what’s on the ground surrounding us—and in remote places that very few have walked.

By mpoland@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Aug 11, 2025.

The are many types of fluids that flow between the deep mantle underlying Yellowstone National Park and the atmosphere above it. These fluids drive volcanic and geyser eruptions and transport the significant amount of heat from Earth’s deep interior that fuels Yellowstone’s numerous thermal features.

By ldesmither@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Aug 07, 2025.

As part of a growing national effort to understand seafloor hazards, scientists from the United States Geological Survey’s (USGS) Volcano Science Center (VSC) are working across agencies to investigate how submarine earthquakes, landslides, and volcanic activity shape tsunami risk—not just in Hawaiʻi, but across the broader Pacific. 

By edietrich@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Aug 07, 2025.

Burmese pythons have invaded Southern Florida, and USGS researchers are monitoring individuals to understand their feeding behavior and potential for spread to new geographic locations. In a new publication, invasive species scientists describe a one-of-a-kind observation that supports this research: a female python vomiting a deer after a sudden drop in temperature. 

By twojtowicz@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Aug 07, 2025.

New research finds that elk personality can shape patterns of human-elk conflict, whether elk are long- or short-distance migrators, and how close to a town they are likely to spend the winter. Wildlife managers can take the personality traits of conflict-prone elk into consideration for management plans. 

By jmbaker@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Aug 07, 2025.

Learn about 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) lidar data for Tennessee in the new fact sheet -
The 3D Elevation Program - Supporting Tennessee's Economy

By mzoeller@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Aug 06, 2025.

Episode 30 of the ongoing Halemaʻumaʻu eruption began at approximately 1:20 a.m. HST on August 6, 2025

By jrichie@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Aug 06, 2025.

Curiosity has started to investigate the main exposure of the boxwork structures! What was once a distant target is now on our doorstep, and Curiosity is beginning to explore the ridges and hollows that make up this terrain, to better understand their chemistry, morphology, and sedimentary structures.