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Northeast Region Photo Contest Winner | November 2018 | USGS at Work
N. Cheung leaving Rockway Inlet NY tide station

USGS Hydrologist Irene Fisher monitors groundwater conditions at an agricultural well.

Biologists from the USGS and Nature Conservancy identify a small fish captured during a September electrofishing survey on a tributary to Follensby Pond, Adirondack Mountains, New York

Karen Murray and a visitor at Canajoharie Creek near Canajoharie, NY during ecological sampling for the National Water Quality Assessment project.

A large Mohawk River tributary

Lake Ontario gage installation

USGS Hydrologist deploys water quality monitoring buoy on Skaneateles Lake

Pier water quality monitoring station at Skaneateles Lake

Peggy Phillips measures a young red maple in an Adirondack watershed to see if liming has improved tree growth in a watershed where acid rain severely acidified the soil.

Groundwater Sampling in Nassau County, Long Island, New York

Electrofishing Niagara River, NY

USGS technicians prepare to weigh a common carp during fish processing

DEC collaborators collect fish from a Niagara River tributary using an electrofishing boat

Andrew Kowalczk collecting a water quality sample below dam in Eighteenmile Creek at Burt, NY ( 04219768) as part of the Great Lake Restoration Initiative (GLRI).

A team of biologists, Barry Baldigo, Luis Rodriguez, Mike DeMoulpied, and Abbey Holsopple (from left to right), prepare to conduct a survey for invasive round goby on the New York State Canal system near Rome, NY in 2018. Photo by Scott George

During a National Water Quality Network (NWQN) sampling trip in May to the St Lawrence River, Hydrologic Technician Dave Knauer finds a batch of Zebra mussels attached to the boat anchor. 

ADCP measurement on a snowy day at the Cattaraugus Creek near Springville, NY

Groundwater - Surveying - Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Suffolk County, Long Island, NY

Bad River Watershed, Wisconsin

USGS storm-tide sensor bolted to a cement jetty on the Atlantic Ocean coast at Fire Island, New York. USGS scientists deployed over 50 sensors along the coast of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Delaware to study a Nor'easter that affected the Northeast in March of 2018.

Esopus River rapids sediment sampling January 2018