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Wire weight mounted on bridge crossing Blacks Fork, streamgage 09219200

Setting up to measure streamflow, Muddy Creek near Dad

Channel measurement section locations for Ruby River above Reservoir.

Installing new radar sensor and staff plate, Big Sandy River

Surveying water surface to tie into bathymetry measurments on Bitterroot River near Hamilton, MT to describe scour near the bridge.

Pipetting for DNA analysis using loop-mediated isothermal amplification

Elk are not concerned with our work. USGS and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute conducted tests of the feasibility of real-time eDNA monitoring at USGS streamgage 06190540 Boiling River at Mammoth,YNP, September 13, 2017.

Establishing a survey base station in Lame Deer, Montana

Using kayak to measure cross-sectional depth and water surface of Gallatin River

Sample collection from cableway above Big Horn River near Kane, Wyoming as part of project evaluating pesticides in Wyoming.

Measuring the groundwater level in a well near Lame Deer, Montana

Measuring discharge of Lame Deer Creek near Lame Deer, Montana

Chad Reese and Chuck Parrett of the Wyoming-Montana Water Science Center measure channel width for a small stream near Helena, Montana. Streams of this size are often measured using an instrument called a flume designed to constrain all flow to an artificial channel with a known mathematical relationship between water level and streamflow.

Taking water-quality equipment to Fogarty Creek

Real-time well at Five Springs Creek southeast of Lovell, Wyoming

Using a GPS station to get highly precise streamflow measurement 

Measuring streamflow using bridge crane and AA meter, Powder River at Sussex

Measuring stream stage on Muddy Creek near Dad

Springtime streamflow measurement, East Fork Smiths Fork

Stacy M Kinsey collecting eDNA sample from Snake Riv nr Astoria HS, WY

Processing a sample for detection of N. fowleri