Capabilities
The HIF provides training, repairs, calibrations, and testing services for instruments and equipment through our warehouse and laboratories. HIF facilities include a warehouse, testing laboratories and a hydraulic laboratory with large calibration tow tanks and tilting flume. HIF facilities are available to USGS; other Federal, State, and local agencies; academic facilities; and private industry.
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Instrumentation Evaluations
The HIF evaluates equipment and instruments in an effort to ensure that these devices will meet the requirements of the USGS for hydrologic data collection. These requirements include accuracy, performance under a wide range of environmental conditions, and cost effectiveness.
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Instrumentation Services
The HIF sells, rents, repairs, calibrates, evaluates, and designs hydrologic equipment and instrumentation for the USGS; other Federal, State, and local agencies; academic facilities; and private industry.
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Facilities at the HIF
The HIF has several labs and shops that offer unique capabilities for developing and evaluating instrumentation. The tanks and flumes in the state-of-the-art Hydraulics Laboratory test instruments under a variety of conditions, and the Environmental Test Chamber and Water Quality Labs perform quality assurance tests and evaluations.
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Training at the HIF
USGS Hydrologic Instrumentation Facility (HIF) training courses are specifically designed to benefit USGS hydrologic technicians and hydrologists who operate streamgages and other automated hydrologic monitoring stations. Non-USGS personnel who work for other Federal, State, and local agencies whose job duties include hydrologic monitoring may attend HIF training classes if space is available.
