# @usgs on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DH6M_PyxFII
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/69013898-usgs-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/fb9fe2ea9d.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-04-01T15:44:25.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) (@USGS) — https://gondola.cc/USGS

## Caption

Yeah… we study that. 🤓📓

At the U.S. Geological Survey, we are WAY more than geology. Our science touches almost every natural science discipline, providing essential data for individuals and policymakers. Sure, we study rocks, earthquakes, streams, topography, and ecosystems, but did you know we also study...

Coastal hazards like coral health, sea-level rise, kelp forest ecology, shoreline change, marine biological threats, beach morphology, biological disease threats, and extreme storms?

Astrogeology like rocks and soils on nearby planets, exploring Martian ice, and mapping the surfaces of the Moon, Mars, Venus, Mercury, and other planets in the inner solar system?

Wildlife Health, including monitoring emerging diseases like Chronic Wasting Disease in deer, elk, and moose; researching wildlife vaccines and other disease management tools; and tracking and surveying emerging wildlife diseases?

Domestic energy resources including assessments of national oil and gas, critical minerals, and the economics of energy transition?

Water quality like real-time temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen, and sediment mapping; studies on harmful chemicals like PFAS (forever chemicals) and pesticides; and impacts of water quality on aquatic life?

Honestly, it would probably be easier to list natural science subjects we DON'T study because at USGS, #EveryDayIsEarthDay!

#EarthScience #GeologyRocks #PlanetEarth #WhatOnEarth #Volcanoes #Earthquakes #Science #Wildfires #Space #WaterQuality #Ecosystems #Climate #NaturalHazards #Wildlife #Glaciers #NationalWildlifeWeek #Moon #Mars #Rocks #Coral #CriticalMinerals #OurPowerOurPlanet

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- **Views:** 29,557
- **Likes:** 1,589
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- **Comments:** 22

## Tags

planetearth, earthscience, waterquality, rocks, wildfires, space, moon, earthquakes, ecosystems, glaciers, geologyrocks, naturalhazards, everydayisearthday, climate, criticalminerals, science, ourpowerourplanet, nationalwildlifeweek, mars, whatonearth, wildlife, volcanoes, coral

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