Images

Buoys are attached to trotlines deployed in the Lower Missouri River.

Red River of the North at Halstad, Minnesota, on April 1, 2011, just prior to ice breaking up.

Storm clouds over the Missouri River.

Performing double duties of tracking and collecting acoustic images, Chad Vishy operates one of his three computers and five screens necessary to simultaneously collect this variety of data.

Dredging the entrance canal to the Caloosahatcee River in Moore Haven, FL.

Photo taken from above the Lago Icacos Damsite.

Alicia Torregrosa is downloading data from a phenocam on BLM land in Idaho.

Colorado River view.

Beth Stettner checks out the location of the IWRSS MOU signing.

Employee collectiing Water Quality data with instrument YSI 556mps handheld in creek swollen from spring melt.

Cattle Ranch with typically 100 head of cattle currently flooded from the spring melt of higher than average snow accumulation.

Work Continues even when Silvies River is about to flood over the bridge.

Our datalogger is attached to the bridge and much to our surprise, a dump truck drives across the bridge as we were contemplating the safety of crossing on foot.

Storm clouds moving in over the park entrance.

Tribal members welcome "families" from other Salish Sea Indian and First Nation Tribes.

This photo from our second cross section is an example of significant changes to the river. Data was collected from this location in 2009 from a manned boat, with no issue. Upon return to the same cross section in 2013 we found a 2-4 ft hydraulic feature exposed. Backwater from the Great Works Dam hid this feature previously. 

A photo from August 2013 after removal of the Great Works Dam, showing the old concrete, wood and stone cribbing upstream of where the dam used to be.

A photo from August 2013 showing the cribbing upstream of where the dam used to be. See the photo titled 'Station 4 2009' for a picture from before the dam was removed from the same general perspective.

The Hell Creek and underlying Fox Hills Formations are present at the land surface along the margins of the Williston Basin, but otherwise are the deepest bedrock aquifers that are commonly used in the basin.

Middle fork of the Salmon River near Shoup, Idaho.

The Vegetation Drought Response Index (VegDRI) incorporates satellite observations of vegetation to monitor at a finer spatial detail than other commonly used drought indicators.

Native Americans of the Miwok tribe in the northern Sierra Nevada, California carved these basins into the granite bedrock to produce salt for trade. They filled the basins with water from a salt spring and let the water evaporate, leaving a salt residue in the basin.