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Hydrologic technicians Joe Beman and Hal Nelson remove a deployed sensor for cleaning and recalibration, as needed.  This sensor is left in place to continuously log water quality parameters.

USGS staff gage (ruler) measuring the height of the water, on the Carson River, near Brunswick Canyon, Nevada.

Flood water on Carson River near Nevada Water Science Center Office.

Streamgaging on Martin Creek, near Paradise Valley, Nevada.

2" aluminum pipe, structural pipe fittings, and square tubing are utilized to create a dock servicable uplooking ADVM mount.

Drill rig on Long Island, NY

Photo of USGS stream gage number 10337500, TRUCKEE River A TAHOE CITY CA.   

Student Aurelia Mitchell recently trekked up into the Sandia Mountains to collect snow data as part of an ongoing hydrologic study in the East Mountains, conducted in cooperation with the Bernalillo County Public Works Division. They measured the depth and density of the snow in several locations to determine the snow/water equivalent.

Hydrologist Ryan McCutcheon and student Aurelia Mitchell recently trekked up into the Sandia Mountains in Albuquerque, New Mexico to collect snow data as part of an ongoing hydrologic study in the East Mountains, conducted in cooperation with the Bernalillo County Public Works Division.

Bryce Redinger huddles in the cold while making an Acoustic Doplar Current Profile (ADCP) measurement at USGS gage ID 13213072 SAND RUN GULCH NR PARMA ID.

Hydrologic Technician, James Albrecht, from the North Platte Field Office making a measurement of discharge under ice using a Flowtracker acoustic velocity meter on a top-setting wading rod.  The string going across the picture is a tagline, used for measuring distance across the channel so that he can note the location of the ice hole he is working in.  T

A U.S. Geological Survey field crew uses an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler to measure water velocity on the Truckee River in Reno, Nevada.

USGS scientist Robert Baskin takes a boat out on the Great Salt Lake to conduct research. 

Havasu Creek spilling over Havasu Falls, downstream from Supai Village on the Havasupai Nation.

The quality of the water we drink can potentially impact our health. The USGS has several programs and cooperative projects that characterize the quality of selected rivers and aquifers used as sources of drinking water to community water systems in the United States.

Ocoee River, Tennessee

Bath Creek, upstream of Blowing Springs Campground, George Washington National Forest, Bath County, VA.

The Storm Drain at Rivers Ridge Circle near Newport News, VA during a hihg flow event triggered by a rainstorm. This site is a part of the Hampton Roads Regional Water Quality Monitoring Network.

JJ Thordsen (USGS) and a wireline operator retrieving downhole vacuum sampler from a characterization well near a CO2 injection well at Citronelle oil field, Alabama.

Iron Reducing Bacteria
FeRB isolated using a roll bottle technique from the former Uranium Mine near Ronneburg, Germany, Photo credit: Denise Akob, USGS

Snow dapples the banks on Brodhead Creek near Analomink, PA. This stream reach, and reaches on other streams were surveyed as part of a geomorphic dataset to determine channel dimensions and allow new estimates of bankfull discharge and channel dimensions at U.S.