Images

 Streaks of cyanobacteria near the surface of the Willamette River inside the Ross Island Lagoon. 

Weekly web visits to USGS Oregon stream monitoring stations from September 25, 2023 to July 15, 2024. A bar graph on the bottom flashes an orange bar for each week. The height of each bar represents the amount of internet users that visited the page that week.

Photo taken after measuring the streamflow volume on the South Fork McKenzie River, above Cougar Reservoir. 

Horse Creek is a tributary of the McKenzie River, situated near the unincorporated community of McKenzie Bridge in Lane County, Oregon, USA.

Profile view of a Bell Jet Helicopter with a thermal infrared and true-color sensor co-mounted to the underside of the nose. These sensors are used in airborne thermal infrared surveys for remotely sensing land/water surface temperature.

Fall Creek above Tiller Creek near Lowell (14150250). The U.S. Geological Survey monitors monitors water level, water temperature and air temperature at this location.

Clackamas River at Big Bottom (14208000). The U.S. Geological Survey monitors water level, water temperature, and air temperature at this location.

Middle Santiam River near Santiam Junction (14185600). The U.S. Geological Survey monitors monitors water level, water temperature and air temperature at this location.

Looking northwest from Military Crossing Rd with the  Williamson River in the foreground.

Looking southwest from Military Crossing Road with Mt. Scott in the background. The Williamson River makes its way through dense marsh vegetation. 

Looking southwest from Silver Lake Rd. towards Wocus Bay in the Klamath Marsh. The upper reaches of the Williamson River winds through the marshland. 

A USGS field technician enjoyed a sighting of a Blue Heron while inspecting water-quality gage equipment on the Tualatin River at the Oswego Dam site (14207200).

Sometimes equipment can only be accessed by diving to it!

View from a metal platform looking down into the Willamette River. Technicians use a freshly calibrated "reference monitor" to verify site monitor readings. Here, a reference monitor hangs from the platform into the water.

A groundwater irrigation well supplies water to a small channel in southern Oregon. 

Lake Abert, Oregon is one of the 20 terminal lakes identified by USGS partners as priority ecosystems for study by the Saline Lakes Ecosystems IWAA.

Former Hydrologic Technician, Paige Preston, collects temperature readings in Miller Creek (11491950) near Beaver Marsh, Oregon. The paddle helps to hold the sensor in place.

Goose Lake, on the Oregon-California border, is one of the 20 terminal lakes identified by USGS partners as priority ecosystems for study by the Saline Lakes Ecosystems IWAA. 

Irving Creek monitoring station near Lenz, Oregon in the Williamson River Basin. View data. 

Jackson Creek monitoring station near Lenz, Oregon in the Williamson River Basin. View data. 

Sand Creek monitoring station below Sand Creek Canal near Chinchalo, Oregon in the Williamson River Basin. View data.