Images

The USGS gages the St. John River at Fort Kent, Maine at Station 01014000. A major flood in 2008 was the highest flow measured at this station, based on record going back to the 1920s. This photo shows the International Bridge in Ft. Kent, right at the water surface of the flooded river.

A USGS hydrologist holds an electromagnetic induction borehole logging tool while the tool is calibrated. The hydrologist was participating in a USGS class on how to use electromagnetic induction geophysical methods for groundwater investigations, conducted by the USGS Office of Groundwater Branch of Geophysics in 2008.

Looking downstream at the gage and Gorge.

A USGS water-quality sampling crew sets up to collect a groundwater sample from a public-supply well in South St. Paul, Minnesota, as part of the USGS National Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Project.

U.S. Geological Survey streamflow-gaging station 08111500 Brazos River near Hempstead, Texas, looking downstream from U.S. Highway 290 bridge, April 2, 2008.
USGS SIR 2009–5174
http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2009/5174/

U.S. Geological Survey streamflow-gaging station 08108700 Brazos River at State Highway 21 near Bryan, Texas, looking downstream from right bank just downstream from Texas State Highway 21 bridge, April 2, 2008.

A new device to measure snowfall in remote areas is pictured here with its solar panels, small windmill, and snow-collecting bucket.

U.S. Geological Survey streamflow-gaging station 08109000 Brazos River near Bryan, Texas, looking upstream from left bank, April 2, 2008.

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U.S. Geological Survey streamflow-gaging station 08106500 Little River near Cameron, Texas, photograph looking downstream from right bank just downstream from U.S. Highway 77/190 bridge, April 1, 2008.

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U.S. Geological Survey streamflow-gaging station 08111000 Navasota River near Bryan, Texas, looking downstream from U.S. Highway 190 bridge, April 1, 2008.
USGS SIR 2009–5174
http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2009/5174/

USGS hydrologist conducts borehole geophysical logging as part of an applied research project to evaluate the use of new hydrogeophysical tools to remotely monitor and visualize bioremediation of contaminated groundwater.

U.S. Geological Survey streamflow-gaging station 08098290 Brazos River near Highbank, Texas, viewed from right bank downstream from FM 413 bridge, April 1, 2008.

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U.S. Geological Survey streamflow-gaging station 08110325 Navasota River above Groesbeck, Texas, photograph looking upstream from small bridge upstream from State Highway 14 bridge, April 1, 2008.

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U.S. Geological Survey streamflow-gaging station 08110500 Navasota River near Easterly, Texas, looking upstream from left bank, April 1, 2008.

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U.S. Geological Survey streamflow-gaging station 08098290 Brazos River near Highbank, Texas, looking downstream from FM 413 bridge, April 1, 2008.

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U.S. Geological Survey streamflow-gaging station 08110500 Navasota River near Easterly, Texas, looking downstream from left bank, April 1, 2008.

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U.S. Geological Survey streamflow-gaging station 08110800 Navasota River at Old Spanish Road near Bryan, Texas, photograph looking upstream from bridge, April 1, 2008.

U.S. Geological Survey streamflow-gaging station 08111000 Navasota River near Bryan, Texas, looking upstream from left bank of abandoned channel, April 1, 2008.

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White River at Calico Rock, Arkansas, during flood of March 19, 2008. Photograph by Daniel M. Wagner, U.S. Geological Survey.

B.K. Martin, hydrologic technician in the Little Rock office of the USGS Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center, measuring streamflow with an acoustic doppler current profiler during flood of March 19, 2008, at USGS streamflow-gaging station 07056000, Buffalo River near St. Joe, Arkansas. Photograph by W.E.

As part of our routine field work in the winter the staff of the Maine Office head out on Maine's frozen (and partially frozen) rivers. This is dangerous work and in 2003 the Maine Office obtained a hovercraft to allow hydrographers to access rivers with unsafe ice conditions more easily.