About

Meet the teams at the USGS Upper Midwest Water Science Center field and project offices.

Based out of the Upper Midwest Water Science Center (UMID), Web Informatics and Mapping (WIM) is a team of Geographers, Hydrologists, Physical Scientists, Computer Scientists, and IT Specialists who develop web-based tools that support USGS science and other federal science initiatives.

Spring flooding can be a concern across much of the upper Midwest. The USGS excels at measuring stream discharge, or the volume of water moving through a stream per unit of time, which helps us monitor flooding in real-time.

We strive to provide exceptional, unbiased hydrologic and earth science to support management decisions that protect and preserve our water resources for future generations.

Just in time for Halloween, this "spooky science" study focuses on how spiders can help us connect aquatic mercury contamination to terrestrial food webs.

The River and Coastal Processes Team uses expertise in such fields as sediment transport, hydrogeomorphology, flood statistics and mapping, watershed sediment-nutrient dynamics, and river and coastal restoration evaluations and monitoring oil/sediment interactions from oil spills, and Great Lakes region river/coastal flooding and sediment dynamics.

The Upper Midwest Water Science Center (UMid WSC) has the capacity and expertise to collect high-quality hydrologic data and to conduct unbiased, scientifically sound hydrologic investigations about our Nation's water resources, including surface water, groundwater, water quality, and water use.