What secrets lie within Olympic National Park’s forests, lakes, and skies? From tracking bats to uncovering ancient earthquakes, USGS scientists are working with the National Park Service to reveal how Olympic’s natural systems change, connect, and respond to emerging challenges. 📷 1: Lunch Lake, olympic_nps, Washington. Credit: Robin Munshaw 📷 2: Radio antennae, Olympic NP. USGS scientists are using radio nanotags and acoustic monitoring to track bats. The data can help scientists understand winter activity and how white-nose syndrome may affect western bat populations. Olympic NP is an important place to study the disease because western bats may use different winter habitats and hibernation behaviors than bats elsewhere. Credit: USGS 📷 3: Beneath Ozette Lake is a 14,000-year archive of earthquakes. Sediment layers in this glacially carved lake, near the Cascadia Subduction Zone, can preserve evidence of past shaking. USGS scientists map the lake and collect sediment cores (p...