Images

Burlington Northern Railroad Bridge and Mt. Hood seen from Portland, Oregon. 

The gage house is sitting on a circular metal base also known as a stilling well. Stilling wells fill with calm water that is equal to the height of the river that is read by sensors inside. This technique has been in use for decades to collect water level data. 

Malheur Lake is shown with turbid water and without emergent vegetation. Snowpack from Steens Mountain (shown in the distance) provides most of the inflow to Malheur Lake.

Malheur Lake, a saline lake in eastern Oregon, photographed from a USGS airboat. USGS has been monitoring water quality parameters including temperature, turbidity, and pH in the lake since 2017.

Gravel bars deposited by the Willamette River. The gravel bar distribution shifts each year with the changing river flows.

Klamath Straits Drain at Highway 97 looking west on February 11th , 2019. Photo taken during routine field work.

Algal bloom in the Ross Island Lagoon, Willamette River, Oregon.

USGS hydrologist, Steven Sobieszcyk, on stage at Alberta Rose Theater talking about the science behind the Eagle Creek Fire response.

View along a bluff in Tanner Creek watershed following the 2017 Eagle Creek Fire, Oregon (Columbia Gorge)

The measurement tape installed in the river bank is called a staff plate. USGS hydrologic technicians use staff gage readings to calibrate sensors depth sensors to make sure data being recorded is accurate. 

Microscopic view of blue green algae sample. Some algae produce toxins that threaten the health and safety of living things that come in direct contact. Cyanobacteria - Phormidium (blue green algae)

Microscopic view of blue green algae sample. Some algae produce toxins that threaten the health and safety of living things that come in direct contact. Cyanobacteria - Scytonema (blue green algae)

Microscopic view of blue green algae sample. Some algae produce toxins that threaten the health and safety of living things that come in direct contact. Cyanobacteria - Phormidium (blue green algae)

Poster: Within Our Reach (2016)

White, J., Jones, K., Buccola, N., Costello, A., Poor, E., Rounds, S.A., and Smith, C., 2016, Effects of beaver dams on urban streams in the Tualatin River Basin.

Natural color image of Fall Creek Lake taken from a UAS

The NUSO performed UAS-based data collection during the November 2016 drawdown at Fall Creek Lake to help determine the effectiveness of this high-resolution imagery for generating digital elevation models (DEMs) with detailed reservoir bathymetry. 

Drawdown of Fall Creek Lake result in lake levels being lowered to the elevation near the historical, pre-dam streambed.

USGS team of scientists electro-shocking (fishing) Zollner Creek, OR.

North Santiam River Valley downstream of Detroit Dam, as viewed from the top of Detroit Dam. 

Microcoelus algae on a rock from Clackamas River at Barton Park, Oregon

Microscopic view of blue green algae sample. Some algae produce toxins that threaten the health and safety of living things that come in direct contact. Cyanobacteria - Nostoc (blue green algae)

Microscopic view of blue green algae sample. Some algae produce toxins that threaten the health and safety of living things that come in direct contact. Cyanobacteria - Nostoc spongiiforme (blue green algae)