Images

The Cherry Street Bridge crosses the Milwaukee River in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Upper Midwest Water Science Center employees who attended the Great Lakes Area of Concern Conference 2023 in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

(L to R): Hayley Olds, Grace Armstrong, Sarah Janssen, Leon Katona, Lisa Fogarty, Jeannette Cruz, Kayla Lockmiller, Tori Byers, Alexei Rose, Isaac Mevis

Sarah Janssen presents at Great Lakes Areas of Concern Conference 2023 in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Tori Byers (left) and Hayden Lockmiller (right) present a poster at the Great Lakes Areas of Concern (AOC) Conference 2023 in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Joe Clark and Doug Bonno operating UTV during safety training with James Letsos, Sept. 6, 2023. 

Michael Tate using the Raman microscope to identify and characterize microplastics at the Upper Midwest Water Science Center

Filtered plastics from surface water in Madison, WI. This photo was taken at UMID for microplastic analysis and method development.

A Hydrologic Imagery Visualization and Information System (HIVIS) camera in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, at Grand Avenue overlooking the Chippewa River.

James Romano holds a microplastic sampling net at Portage Lake, Minnesota before it is deployed into the lake to collect surface water microplastics.

Illustration (ink) depicting Delavan Lake and its dynamic water quality response to watershed changes, along with the associated monitoring efforts.

Streamgage 04043050 on the bank of the Trap Rock River near Lake Linden, Michigan in the Keweenaw Peninsula.

https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/04043050/

Equipment at streamgage 04043050 on the bank of the Trap Rock River near Lake Linden, Michigan in the Keweenaw Peninsula.

https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/04043050/

Streamgage 04043050 on the bank of the Trap Rock River near Lake Linden, Michigan in the Keweenaw Peninsula.

https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/04043050/

Streamgage 04043050 on the bank of the Trap Rock River near Lake Linden, Michigan in the Keweenaw Peninsula.

https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/04043050/

Angus Vaughan (USGS Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, right) and Heidi Broerman (USGS Upper Midwest Water Science Center, left) pilot a research vessel down the Kalamazoo River, Michigan toward a reference reach where riverbed substrate will be characterized.

A piece of blue plastic fishing twine on Great Sand Bay beach on Lake Superior in the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan.

Amygdaloidal basalt rock on Great Sand Bay beach on Lake Superior in Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan.

Stones on Lake Superior beach at Great Sand Bay in the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan

Streamgage 04060993 overlooks the Brule River at highway 2 near Florence, Wisconsin on an overcast day in June.

https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/04060993/

Streamgage 04060993 overlooks the Brule River at highway 2 near Florence, Wisconsin on an overcast day in June.

https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/04060993/

Constructed stormwater wetland upland native vegetation surrounding a USGS self-contained, solar-powered, monitoring station outfitted to collect samples, weather data, water quality data, and flow data at one of three inlets.