Images

This is a picture of the new location for Council Bluffs water field office. 

Group selfie during wrap-up discussion at Effigy Mounds National Monument. (EFMO)

Picture of Lee's Summit office in Lee's Summit, Missouri. This is being used for location picture on Central Midwest Science Center. 

Randi Owens, a USGS hydrologic technician, prepares to lower an acoustic doppler current profiler device into the South Grand River in Urich, Missouri, to measure river flooding April 29. This device uses sound waves to measure streamflow. USGS photo by Chris Drummond. 

Randi Owens, a USGS hydrologic technician, guides an acoustic doppler current profiler device across the South Grand River in Urich, Missouri, to measure river flooding April 29. USGS photo by Chris Drummond. 

This is a photograph of the United States Geological Survey building that is located in Olivette, Missouri. 

This is a picture of the United States Geological Survey that is located in Fort Dodge, Iowa. 

USGS collects environmental samples for AIV detection at Crissy Marsh at Golden Gate National Recreation Area

This map shows the airborne geophysical survey area and planned flight paths across the Illinois River Basin in Illinois and northwest Indiana. Surveys will not occur directly over areas that are populated. Planned flight lines and survey progress can be found online. 

(USGS map) 

National Park Service Biological Technician Eileen Kramer harvests her first white-tailed deer in New York.

USGS Research Biologist Nathan Johnson’s son Bryce harvests his first white-tailed deer on private property near High Springs, Florida.

USGS, Central Midwest Water Science, Hydrologic Technician, Daniel Grant is preparing to monitor lake bathymetric data on a Cook County Illinois lake.

USGS Central Midwest Water Science Center hydrologic technician Josh Keele monitors lake bathymetric data as its collected from an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) mounted on a tethered trimaran with real-time GPS positioning.

The Ecomapper is an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) that is a specialized submersibile device that operates by propelling through a water body between points along a constant depth.

USGS hydrologist Tim Cowdery titrates water alkalinity in a mobile sampling van using an electronic field form.

Beach-ridge prairie at Glacial Ridge National Wildlife Refuge

USGS technician Jody Hulne collects a groundwater nutrient sample at Glacial Ridge National Wildlife Refuge.

A well at a restored prairie on Lake Agassiz beach ridge, Glacial Ridge National Wildlife Refuge

Morning fog over beach ridges at Glacial Ridge National Wildlife Refuge

Prairie Dog, Glacial Ridge National Wildlife Refuge

Young moose near Benoit, Minnesota, Glacial Ridge National Wildlife Refuge