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Discover what a career in science with the U.S. Geological Survey looks like. The Maryland-Delaware-DC Water Science Center is home to skilled scientists of many disciplines: hydrologists, geomorphologists, geographers, data scientists, statisticians, biologists, technicians, and more. You name it, we need it.

Did you know the USGS is involved in understanding how PFAS travel through the environment?

Are you afraid of the dark?

Not this scientist. He is using a special technique to examine sediment samples that can help scientists study historical hurricanes.

On a fair sunny day in March, hydrologic technician Michael Brownley makes his way up the metal rung ladder to a platform. From there he beards a cableway, no bigger than a twin-sized bed. Luckily, he’s the only one aboard the cableway, space is tight as it is.

Narrated presentation that provides a unique synthesis of the story of nutrient water quality in the Susquehanna watershed.

The Potomac River Supplies drinking water for Washington D.C., so it’s important for us to understand what’s going on in the river.