Oregon Water Science Center

New post-wildfire resource guide now available to help communities cope with flood and debris flow danger.

Our lunchtime seminars are held Tuesdays from 12pm to 1 pm PT. The science lectures are held at the USGS Oregon Water Science Center at 2130 SW 5th Avenue in Portland, OR. The presentations are informal and are open to the public. Please, bring your lunch.

Preparation is key, especially when it comes to hazard spill response. A select few USGS staff train in Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER) each year.

USGS hydrologists provide training to environmental program staff from five tribes along the lower Klamath River on how to sample for suspended sediment.

USGS hydrologist Liam Schenk presents to fishery bioloigsts about water-quality conditions in Upper Klamath Basin.

Hydrologist Kurt Carpenter speaks to the WIllamette River Toxics Reduction Steering Committee at the Oregon Department of Envrionmental Quality about USGS Clackamas MS4 Pesticide Study.

This week a significant number of the Oregon Water Science Center staff will travel to Camp Rilea to learn or refresh their hydrological skills.

Hydrologist Nicholas Corson-Dosch will be talking May 2nd at the Klamath Basin Monitoring Program meeting at the Karuk Community Center in Yreka, CA. The title of the talk is "Vertical Hydraulic Gradient at the Sediment-Water Interface in Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon, 2017."

USGS Hydrologist presents talk about the flooding and debris flow hazards that exist after the 2017 Eagle Creek Fire at "Science on Tap" presentation.

In Spring Term, 2018, the USGS lunchtime seminar is a joint seminar series with the Portland State University School of the Environment (SOE) and Oregon State University.  Seminars are on Tuesdays from noon to 1:00 pm, April 3 through June 5, 2018.

The Spring, 2018 seminars are held on PSU's campus at: Fifth Avenue Cinema building, ...

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