Images

A USGS hydrologist conducts a near-surface electromagnetic induction survey to characterize the shallow earth. The survey was conducted as part of an applied research effort by the USGS Office of Groundwater Branch of Geophysics at Camp Rell, Connecticut, in 2008.

Well, Brunswick, GA; Welby Stayton installing groundwater monitoring equipment in a flowing well.

Nick Stasulis, a hydrologic technician with the Maine Office of the New England Water Science Center, is seen here making a discharge measurement through the ice on the Sheepscot River at North Whitefield, USGS station number 01038000.

Shaded relief image and upper Animas River watershed boundary. Mine-related sites are marked in pink circles. Rivers and streams are in blue. This map image is part of the USGS Abandoned Mine Lands Initiative (AMLI): Upper Animas River Study Area Project.

Metal-rich drainage from the old Howardsville mill site, near Silverton, Colorado. Photo credit: Briant Kimball, USGS. This photo is part of the USGS Abandoned Mine Lands Initiative (AMLI): Upper Animas River Study Area. From the Gold King Mine archived page.

Shaded relief image and upper Animas River watershed boundary. This map is part of the USGS Abandoned Mine Lands Initiative (AMLI): Upper Animas River Study Area Project.

Forest Queen, Upper Animas River Study Area. From USGS Abandoned Mine Lands Initiative (AMLI): Upper Animas River Study Area Project. From the Gold King Mine archived page.

Stream sampling in the Upper Animas River, the mixing zone downstream from Cement Creek, CO. This image is part of the USGS Abandoned Mine Lands Initiative (AMLI): Upper Animas River Study Area Project. Part of the Gold King Mine archived page.

Shaded relief image and upper Animas River watershed boundary. Rivers and streams are shown in blue. This map image is part of the USGS Abandoned Mine Lands Initiative (AMLI): Upper Animas River Study Area Project.

Mining and non-mining sources of metals and acid water near Silverton, Colorado. Part of the USGS Abandoned Mine Lands Initiative (AMLI): Upper Animas River Study Area. From the Gold King Mine archived page. 

Cover of USGS professional paper 1651 "Integrated investigations of environmental effects of historical mining in the Animas River Watershed, San Juan County, Colorado."

Using a groundwater observation well, a USGS hydrologist conducts a groundwater elevation survey on a city street on Staten Island, New York.

USGS scientists sampled sediment transport during (and after) the breaching of the Marmot Dam on the Sandy River, OR.

Sand patterns in a stretch of beach near Waimea, Kauai.

Sunset over the ocean near Poipu, Kauai, Hawaii.

Windswept coastline near the southernmost tip of the Big Island of Hawaii.

Sampling acid mine drainage residuals in Elk County, Pennsylvania.  The USGS has pioneered a new use for these residuals that are currently a disposal challenge, using them to filter phosphorus from agricultural and municipal wastewaters.

After heavy rains the river floods over the bridge and then for several months it will flow through the conduits under the roadway before it dries up again. The location is at 17º59"15"N, 66º17"40" and the elevation is 10 m. 

Early morning fog  and pilings at Oswego River near Phoenix, NY -  index velocity gaging station

View of Suwannee River at White Springs looking upstream.  USGS has maintained a gage here since 1906, the longest period of record stream gage in the state. 

American Falls at Niagara Falls, NY