Images

Kent Smith Installing a crest stage gage (CSG) on the Genesee River. (Credit: John Wernly, USGS NY WSC Public domain.)

Ken Planty and Brian McDonald (USGS NYWSC Potsdam office) observing the ice pile up on the pier at USGS 04249071 LK ONTARIO (SELKIRK SHORES) NR DAYSVILLE CORNER NY. (Credit: Isabella Lucia, USGS NY WSC. Public domain.)

Photo Contest Winner | January 2021 | USGS at Work
Winter Wonderland in Lake Placid, NY

Physical scientist technician Ariel Reed digging a hole thru the ice to check on passive loggers at USGS 04273996 W BR AUSABLE R TRIB 1 ABV ST HW 86 NR LK PLACID NY in Ausable Tributary, Lake Placid, NY. (Credit: Kaitlyn Jozokos, USGS NY WSC. Public domain.)

Devin Gaige and Amanda May measure bathymetry of the Black River near Great Bend, NY

Field Photo Friday August 2020 - Scott George holding 2 crabs

 01328770 Hudson River at Thompson, Justin Rappold making an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) discharge measurement.

A field crew collects sediment samples from Hoyt Lake in Buffalo, NY

USGS hydrographer Dave Thompson makes a near-peak flood measurement off a bridge at Tenmile River in Tusten, New York.

Supervisory Research Hydrologist, Mike McHale taking a volumetric flow measurement in a storm sewer at USGS 425520078535601 West Delavan Avenue, Buffalo, New York, as part of the Green Infrastructure project. (Credit: Michael Antidormi, USGS. Public domain.)

Photo Contest Winner | Feb. 2020 | People
Shannon Fisher pulling sled at Moreau Lake area after measuring water levels in GW wells surrounding the lake

Banu at Fire Island

Photo Contest Winner | Jan. 2020 | Where We Work
John Wernly and Andrew Kowalczk after HABS platform pull on Skaneateles Lake

Large microscope used for counting microplastics found in water samples

Photo Contest Winner | Nov. 2019 | Where We Work
Cattaraugus Creek near Springville, NY

Installing USGS gage 01354230 MOHAWK RIVER AT LOCK 9 AT ROTTERDAM JUNCTION NY Photo by Kevin Reisig (Public Domain)

John Byrnes and Josh Rosen prepare to retrieve a water quality monitoring buoy from Washington Park Lake, Albany, New York.

Photo Contest Winner | Jan. 2020 | USGS at Work
John Byrnes and Joshua Rosen prepare to remove HABS buoy from Washington Park Lake in Albany, NY

Making a discharge measurement at Fish Creek at Beck's Grove, New York, November 1, 2019.

Inductively Coupled Plasma Spectrophotometer for cation analyses (ICP-OES)

Fall day at Neversink River at Neversink, NY 01436000