Images

Collecting a groundwater-quality sample from a public-supply well. This well is being sampled for water-quality constituents as part of the NAWQA Enhanced Trend Network project.

This well is being sampled for water-quality constituents as part of the NAWQA Enhanced Trend Network project.

USGS employee Keith Lambert during a routine Acoustic Doppler Velocimeter measurement at USGS gage 2055100 Tinker Creek near Daleville, VA.

The Columbia River flows by the highway on its way to the Pacific Ocean.

A USGS streamgage measures flooding in the lower Trinity River, Texas. 

Screen capture of ModelMuse with the caption "The farm process also requires the modeler define the properties of the farms."

Icy Sampling
RML scientist, Adam Mumford, working under ice to obtain grab samples of a stream in North Dakota to assess impacts of a brine spill from unconventional oil and gas activities (UOG). UOG spills often have very high concentrations of salts, metals, naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORMs), and organic compounds. 

A U.S. Geological Survey hydrologist holds a centrifuge bowl containing river suspended sediment for analysis of metals and organic chemicals. The sample was collected using a new in-field continuous-flow centrifugation technique to separate and collect suspended sediment from large volumes of water.

A large-volume public supply well in San Antonio, Texas.  This well is being sampled for water-quality constituents as part of the NAWQA Enhanced Trend Network project.

A U.S. Geological Survey streamflow gaging station collects water data on the Trask River. The Trask River gage is located near Tillamook, Ore. and has been in operation for 17 years.  

Trask River stage, discharge, and water-quality data are collected and used together to help monitor the current health of the river. Data from the river are sent to equipment in the gage house, where it is stored then transmitted to USGS servers. 

Anoxic groundwater pumped from the embayment-uplands aquifers for municipal supply is oxygenated as it cascades over aerator trays. The iron and manganese that are dissolved in the water precipitate and are filtered from the water.

The Garden Wall Weather Station is situated below the Garden Wall and adjacent to the Haystack Creek avalanche path in Glacier National Park. It provides meteorological data for avalanche forecasting and research, including wind speed and direction, air temperature, relative humidity, and net radiation measurements.

Brian Selck, a USGS National Association of Geoscience Teachers intern, collects a water level measurement from a domestic well at a site north of Jersey Shore in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, June 2014.

Both irrigation wells and municipal wells affect water levels in the Little Plover River, Wisconsin. 

A 3D Elevation Program lidar point cloud showing simulated flooding (in blue) of an area in Denver, Colorado

Screen capture of ModelMuse with a mesh for SUTRA being generated by GMSH. This image is intended to be used as a thumbnail for a video.

eruption of Lone Star Geyser, Yellowstone National Park

Screen capture of ModelMuse with an object used in Surface Water Routing and the words "Now I've set up a very simple Surface Water Routing process model.

Screen capture of ModelMuse with "The other way to define observations is with the SWR Observations dialog box."