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Scientific activities photo compilation

By Virginia and West Virginia Water Science Center 2017 (approx.)
Top: a USGS hydrologic technician, installs a Rapid-Deployment Gage; middle: analog dial gage (left) and a digital linear potentiometer (right); bottom: USGS streamgage located on Little Back Creek, Bath, Virginia.
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Top:

Hydrographer installing a rapid deployment gage at New Mill Creek at Chesapeake, VA in advance of Hurricane Dorian.

Middle:

An analog dial gage (left) and a digital linear potentiometer (right with blue barrel) used to measure land-surface movement in response to aquifer system deformation at the USGS Nansemond extensometer.

Bottom:

USGS streamgage located below the upper reservoir at the pump-storage station on Little Back Creeek, in Bath, Virginia, located in George Washington National Forest.

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