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USGS hydrologic technician Amy Simonson surveying a high-water mark on Liberty Island, New York after Hurricane Sandy

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Collecting data at Ellis Island after Hurricane Sandy

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Collecting data at Ellis Island after Hurricane Sandy

USGS hydrologist operating Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) on Long Island shore after Hurricane Sandy.

Oblique aerial photograph Fire Island, New York. The
view is looking northwest across Fire Island towards Great South Bay. This
location is within Fire Island National Seashore near Old Inlet—a very narrow
portion of the island that has experienced breaching in previous large storms.
The island breached during Hurricane Sandy, creating a new inlet.

Barrier-island breach created by Hurricane Sandy at Fire Island National Seashore, N.Y.

Vehicles partly submerged at an entrance to a flooded parking garage in the Financial District of Manhattan; photograph courtesy of Frankie Torres/Flickr

USGS scientists, Michael Noll and Amy Simonson, installing storm surge sensors before Hurricane Sandy

Brook Trout from an Adirondack lake

South Side of Clove Lake at Victory Blvd., Long Island, NY

New York groundwater well

Ketchumville Creek near Maine, New York

Fish shocking in the West Branch of the Neversink River

Stream discharge measurement Nissequogue River, Suffolk County, Long Island, NY

Soil testing near Sandy Pond West, Long Island, NY

Groundwater well measurement S-50500- discrete - Suffolk County , Long Island, NY

Water-quality sampling on Mohawk River

USGS hydrologist Alton Anderson of the New York Water Science Center teaches a borehole logging class to students in Bangladesh.

New York stream in winter

Stream discharge measurement Valley Stream, Nassau County, Long Island, NY

Laboratory instrument to test water quality