Images

USGS Hydrologist Venus Cruz collecting a passive pesticides sampler at USGS monitoring location10300000, West Walker River Near Hudson, NV.

Photo shows new streamflow monitoring equipment installed to measure flow at a specific point on the East Walker River.

Photo shows new streamgaging on the Humboldt River near Rose Creek, Nevada.

Photograph of Amargosa Flat playa north of Ash Meadows at dusk. For more information, visit the Amargosa Integrated Monitoring Network.

Photo of Walker Lake with migratory birds. USGS data on Walker Lake available on Walker Basin Hydro Mapper.

• Photograph of the USGS groundwater monitoring location 393310114475001 in White Pine County, Nevada.

Figure from SIR 2025-5106  showing sediment thickness in Pahranagat Wash behind Arrow Canyon dam.

Photograph of the monitoring location 10310000 on the West Fork Carson River at Woodfords.

Photograph of the monitoring location 10251259 on the Amargosa River at HWY 127 Near CA-NV State Line.

Photograph of a turkey crossing Lehman Creek near the monitoring location 10243260.

Photograph of the USGS deep well monitoring location 374215114453101 and solar panel equipment.

USGS booth at 2025 Tahoe Summit. Pictured from left, Sara Doyle (NV WSC), Zach Hood (NV WSC), David Smith (NV WSC), Ed Parvin (CAWSC) and Mark Dickman (CAWSC). Photograph by Ramon Naranjo (NV WSC) on 8/6/25.

Crown gathered at 2025 Tahoe Summit. The Lake Tahoe Summit is an annual event that brings local, federal, and state leaders together to discuss ways to protect Lake Tahoe and strengthen the partnership underlying the Lake Tahoe Environmental Improvement Program. 

This image shows the Van Horn CRNS soil moisture monitoring station in the Roaring Fork Basin, CO (USGS-391336106455801).

Photograph of electric cable measurement at well ER-8-1 as part of the U.S. Geological Survey-U.S. Department of Energy Cooperative Studies Program.

Cinnamon teal with a GPS tracking backpack that weighs 10 grams, making it much more successful in staying on longer than heavier tracking devices. 

Distance shot of crown gathered for the 2024 Lake Tahoe Summit. Lake Tahoe Summit attendees listen to opening remarks from U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto from Nevada.

This image shows the Hanna CRNS soil moisture monitoring station in a corn field in Indiana (USGS-412349086423701). This image is useful to see the station structure and layout of installed sensors.

Lake Abert, Oregon is one of the 20 terminal lakes identified by USGS partners as priority ecosystems for study by the Saline Lakes Ecosystems IWAA.

Goose Lake, on the Oregon-California border, is one of the 20 terminal lakes identified by USGS partners as priority ecosystems for study by the Saline Lakes Ecosystems IWAA. 

The Carson River Basin Hydro Mapper web application provides a modern and easy-to-use interface with the USGS National Water Information System (NWIS). It is also a one-stop location for visually descriptive summaries of USGS, SNOTEL, National Weather Service, Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service, and other local and regional hydrologic data with access