Images

Hydrologic Imagery Visualization and Information System (HIVIS) webcam at Jones' Island Milwaukee, Wisconsin with Hoan Memorial Bridge in background.

Map showing locations of test and control watersheds for the determination of watershed response to green infrastructure in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Illustration depicting phosphorus loading in shallow lakes represented by Lake Winnebago, Wisconsin.

Green Lake is the deepest natural lake in Wisconsin. The drawing relates the water-quality response of Green Lake, with emphasis on the Metalimnetic Oxygen Minima, to total phosphorus loading from its watershed. The drawing depicts data collection, analysis, modeling, and real-time monitoring.

Part of a series of small inset drawings, this is of a sign located near Horn Creek. The Creek is contaminated with high levels of Uranium. Sign states: "Horn Creek, Danger, Contaminated Water, Do Not Drink! Water in Horn Creek exceeds EPA health standards for radioactivity"

A USGS scientist holds a sediment corer being prepared for use on Gruber’s Grove Bay on Lake Wisconsin, Wisconsin.

Created for a fact sheet on the implications of breccia pipe Uranium mining in the Grand Canyon region, this drawing packs a significant amount of information into a single image.

Road salt de-icer left over from an ice event on Milwaukee Riverwalk boardwalk near East Clybourn Street, looking south towards highway 794.

Part of a series of small inset drawings, this is a top view of Havasupai Falls, its aquamarine colored water is highly recognizable and it is a site of tribal, cultural, and recreational significance to the greater Grand Canyon region.

Ed Wiggins, Mariah Hipsher, and Lucas Stevens check sensors in the Sloughs on the Lake Superior shoreline, at the Mashkiiziibii (Bad River) Reservation.

This is a landscape photo of a wildfire burn site located in Oregon, USA. Photo taken in November of 2021.

Scientist Emeritus Dave Krabbenhoft collecting water sample at edge of Green Lake, Minnesota (Kandiyohi County).

Close up of the Green Lake, Minnesota (Kandiyohi County) shoreline showing zebra mussels washed up on shore, October 2021

Lauren Privette holds a large ice block from a frozen lake at Treehaven education center in northern Wisconsin.

Biologist Alexei Rose processes a water sample for analysis of infectious avian influenza virus at the Michigan Bacteriological Research Laboratory in Lansing, Michigan.

The new bike lane along Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY.

 John Steiner preparing to bring wastewater samples to FedEx for shipping.

Laura Hubbard hard at work collecting samples across the state of Wisconsin to send to the Leetown Lab.

A National Park Service Technician collects a water sample from an algal bloom at Voyageurs National Park, MN.

Five clear glass bottles contain samples of dry plankton, ranging in color from brown to dark green. Plankton samples were collected from different monthly collections in Lake Mendota, Wisconsin. The color gradient highlights how plankton communities can rapidly change over the course of spring to summer.

A USGS scientist collects a water sample from Teal Lake in Alaska, using a Go-Flo bottle, while standing on the float of a seaplane.