Images

Hydro Technician, Henry Witt, takes a self portrait while he conducts a discharge measurement in the Houstonic River at Falls Village, CT. One of the many perks of field work year round is the ability to witness the seasons come and go. 

Long exposure photo of a river during fall as the leaves are beginning to turn colors.

Autumnal reflection in the Shepaug River Peter's Dam gage pool looking upstream at the dam with the gage in view (site 01202501 at Woodville, CT). The blue sky and Autumn leaves cast a reflection in the gage pool.

Research Hydrologist Phil Harte takes water-level measurements from a monitoring well that is adjacent to a uranium waste pile (visible in the background of the photograph).

USGS Research Hydrologist Philip Harte describes the different types of different iron staining visible on downhole samplers that were used in passive sampling of groundwater wells.

Peter VanMetre and Jennifer Krstolic making a habitat assessment in the Bronx River, NY as a part of the 2016 USGS National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) stream quality assessment in the northeastern United States.

Groundwater sampling along the eastern shore of Little Pond, East Falmouth, Massachusetts.

Groundwater sampling along the western shore of Great Pond, East Falmouth, Massachusetts.

USGS scientist Joseph Levitt secured the new buoy, equipped to monitor water quality, at Weirs Beach on Lake Winnepesaukee, New Hampshire in June 2016. Photo: Sanborn Ward, USGS

In June, USGS scientists deployed a new high tech buoy that will help determine when the water is safe for swimming at popular Weirs Beach on New Hampshire's Lake Winnepesaukee. Photo: Richard Kiah, USGS.

Mount Tom Range and is located in the Connecticut River Valley region of Massachusetts, north of the city of Springfield. Mount Tom features wonderful views of the Pioneer Valley in west-central Massachusetts. 

Eutrophication is seen along the eastern shore of Little Pond, East Falmouth, Massachusetts.

Eutrophication seen on the eastern shore of Little Pond, East Falmouth, Massachusetts.

Well installation using a Geoprobe drilling rig in the Maravista neighborhood, East Falmouth, MA

Glacial potholes of the Deerfield River in Shelburne Falls, a historic village in the towns of Shelburne and Buckland in Franklin County, Massachusetts,

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Winter landscape at Bunnell Brook, Burlington, CT

Stop sign at the end of School House Hill Rd in Turner, Maine near USGS gaging station 01055500 on the Nezinscot River.

Groundwater well serving private residence in Loudon, New Hampshire.

Herring River Estuary, Wellfleet, Massachusetts

Flooding around Mill River USGS streamflow gage 01171500 at Northampton, Massachusetts.