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USGS staff installing a new streamgage on the island of Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. This streamgage is a part of the state’s cooperative hydrologic monitoring network with USGS. 

USGS, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the University of Maine, is predicting the potential hydrological impacts based on these climatic changes using the USGS Precipitation Runoff Modeling System (PRMS) to inform the New England farming industry.

USGS hydrologic technician collects discrete water quality samples at various depths on the Norwalk River at Maritime Aquarium Near Southern Norwalk, CT (410606073245700).

Members from the Massachusetts office of the New England Water Science Center conduct bridge crane training for water quality at Hockanum Road in East Hartford, CT, April 29, 2029. 

Spring 2025 Photo Contest Winner:  Paul Solis, Where We Work category

USGS hydrologic technician Virginia Stanley is towing an acoustic doppler current profiler (ADCP) behind a kayak on the Quinebaug River in Putnam, Connecticut, to capture streamflow measurements. 

A view of the Missisquoi River from the perspective of streamgage 04293500 in East Berkshire, Vermont, in March 2025.

USGS staff outfit the inside of the metal enclosures for groundwater wells. These enclosures contain data loggers, sensor, battery and telemetry equipment that transit the real-time data collected at the well. 

Hydrologic Technician Nathan Roy testing ice thickness prior to collecting a water quality sample in West Hartford, VT.

Winter 2025 Photo Contest Winner: Danny Hansen, Honorable Mention category

USGS Hydrologist John Mullaney collects groundwater samples from a USGS monitoring well on the Pine Grove peninsula in February 2025.

Hydrologic technician measuring discharge for nutrient load calculations at Wilbur Hollow Brook near Clayville, RI.

Streamgage 01010000 on the St. John River at Ninemile Bridge in Maine. This monitoring location is very remote; it was established in 1950.

USGS hydrologic technician Ryan Botoroff anchored a kayak to position the attached acoustic doppler current profiler (ADCP) over a water quality sensor on the bottom of the Farm River installed to measure water velocity.

National Water Quality Network (NWQN) discrete water quality sample collection. Paul Solis (Left) Samantha Robinson (Right) driving to location on boat on the Connecticut River near Thompsonville, Connecticut.

Winter 2025 Photo Contest Winner: Allen Lyon, Honorable Mention

Physical Scientist Andrew Collins, of the USGS New England Water Science Center, presents his research on PFAS contamination in coastal kettle lake and bog systems at AGU24. Collins uses multiscale groundwater-flow modeling to see how flow paths influence the distribution of PFAS contaminants. 

USGS New England Water Science Center Physical Scientist Sarah Murphy presents her research during a poster session at AGU24 alongside co-author Chris Cook of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

The American Geophysical Union held their annual conference in Washington D.C. the second week of December in 2024.

A look at the section of poster presentations at AGU24, the American Geophysical Union's annual conference. The 2024 conference took place at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.

USGS New England Water Science Center Hydrologist Janet Barclay presents her research at AGU24. She calculated the amount of groundwater-transported nitrogen entering Long Island Sound from Connecticut. 

USGS Research Hydrologist Glenn Hodgkins presents his work on extreme low streamflows in North and South America, Europe and Australia and the climatic factors that drive them at AGU24 in Washington D.C. 

USGS Hydrologist Jamie Shanley collecting data from soil sensors in the woods of the Sleepers River Research Watershed. These data loggers collect water content and concentrations of oxygen and carbon dioxide. 

USGS national estimates of the probability for PFAS in groundwater at the depth of public drinking water supply. Read the associated USGS study at https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ado6638.