Images

USGS hydrologist Tristen Tagliaferri collecting pre-sampling measurements in a coastal wetland after an aerial application of the mosquito insecticide methoprene

New York State Dept. of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) and USGS personnel examine a walleye captured during boat electrofishing on the Barge Canal, near Utica, NY

Mature pumpkinseed captured during 2014 surveys in New York.

Groundwater Pump Test on Long Island

Groundwater sampling for 305(b)

Exposure of the Marcellus shale in central New York showing the Cherry Valley limestone (grey-colored rock) between the Union Springs and Oatka Creek shales of the Marcellus.

USGS scientists collecting surface water samples from Pine Creek

USGS hydrologists Fred Paillet (USGS emeritus), Alton Anderson, John Lane, and John Williams with their borehole geophysics students in India

USGS demonstrating borehole geophysical method for detection of chloride plumes

USGS hydrologist Kaitlyn Colella and a Shinnecock Nation member work together gathering oyster and bed sediment samples.  Contaminants released and or mobilized as a result of Hurricane Sandy may be retained in bed sediments in aquatic environments and may be accumulating in exposed organisms, especially at low trophic levels (for example, oysters).

Sediment Sampling on the Shinnecock Indian Nation Reservation, Long Island, New York

Highway runoff water along the Harem River in Bronx, NY

Long Island Estuary - part of the North Atlantic Coastal Plain

USGS gage house on Long Island, New York

Long Island beach at sunset

Flooded Gage House Carlls River, Suffolk County, Long Island, NY

 Carlls River at Babylon, NY approximately 3000 ft downstream of the gaging station (01308500). Part of a video  by William Capurso of USGS on 8/13/2014. (Public domain)

Borehole logging

Cornell University's Geothermal Test Site on Roosevelt Island, NY

USGS hydrologist conducting a groundwater elevation survey on Long Island, New York