Images

The Rock Creek at Sherrill Drive Washington, DC (USGS-01648000) monitoring site in beautiful fall foliage.

Nick Giro services the gage at Wheel Creek in Harford Glen (0158175320).

Photo credit: David Fisher/USGS Contractor

Nick Giro walks through a forest in Harford Glen Park on the way to service the Wheel Creek gage (0158175320).

Photo by David Fisher/USGS Contractor.

Tyler Bowser services a precipitation gage at Atkisson Reservoir near Bel Air, MD (01581753), within Harford Glen Park.

Photo credit: David Fisher/USGS Contractor

Tyler Bowser holds a bottle over a precipitation gage.

Photo credit: David Fisher/USGS Contractor

Precipitation gage at Atkisson Reservoir near Bel Air, Maryland (01581753) in Harford Glen Park.

Photo credit: David Fisher/USGS Contractor

Tyler Bowser at Atkisson precipitation gage at Harford Glen in Maryland.

Photo credit: David Fisher

Tyler Bowser services a rain gage at Winters Run Basin at Fallston, Maryland (393126076244301).

Photos credit: David Fisher/USGS Contractor

Jacob Mavrogeorge surveys in Lewers, Delaware.

Photo credit: Neel Hodgkinson/USGS Contractor

Chris Lewis surveys for high water marks on the Delmarva Peninsula.

Photo credit: Neel Hodgkinson/USGS Contractor

Chris Lewis takes refuge from the rain as he surveys the Delmarva Peninsula after Hurricane Ian.

Photo in Lewes, Delaware.

Photo credit: Neel Hodgkinson/USGS Contractor

Erica Warner holds a water quality sonde in Sligo Creek in Maryland on October 4, 2022.

As part of the National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP), USGS works with several partner agencies to increase our knowledge of how storms impact and shape our coasts.

Eric Boyd walks on the bridge at Jennings Randolph Lake (01595790).

Photo credit: David Fisher/USGS Contractor

Eric Boyd pulls an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler across the North Branch Potomac River at Barnum, West Virginia (01595800).

Photo credit: David Fisher/USGS Contractor

Eric Boyd walks along the bridge at Jennings Randolph Lake (01595790).

Photo credit: David Fisher/USGS Contractor

A USGS scientist holds a vial.

Photos by Neel Hodgkinson/USGS. Public Domain

Downstream side of the Conowingo (hydroelectric) Dam on the Susquehanna River in Conowingo, Maryland.
Summer 2022 Photo Contest: Nicholas Giro, Honorable Mention category

The USGS conducted an Airborne Electromagnetic Survey of subsurface conditions under and around the Delaware Bay. The data collected will improve scientists understanding of groundwater salinity as climate change, coastal storms, and growing groundwater demands increase the risk of saltwater impacting water supplies in the region.

The USGS conducted an aerial electromagnetic survey of the Delaware Bay to collect data on groundwater salinity. Rising sea level, increasing frequency and intensity of coastal storms, and increasing demand for groundwater have amplified the risk of saltwater impacting water supplies in the region.

Photo credit: David Fisher (USGS Contractor)

Leah Staub collects a sediment sample from a stream in Chesterville Branch along the Eastern Shore of Maryland.