Images

A photograph of the Piscatquis River near Dover-Foxcroft, Maine taken on June 6, 2022, when the river was experiencing below average flow conditions due to a continued drought. USGS Current Conditions for USGS 01031500 Piscataquis River near Dover-Foxcroft, Maine

Map showing helicopter survey area and near Granby, Colo. Surveys will not occur directly above populated areas. Black circle indicates study area.

Field Photo Friday image for 6.3.22, USGS gage 02172020, on the Cooper River at Pimlico, SC.

A cartogram map of the US with proportional area charts for each state showing the proportion of streamgages by flow levels, categorized using percentile bins. Streamflow level percentiles are calculated using the historic daily record for each gage, and binned to reflect whether flow conditions are wetter or drier than the historical record.

Hi, I'm Salty, Drippy's saline counterpart! Did you know that one way to produce table salt is to evaporate saline water in evaporation ponds, a technique used by people for thousands of years?

Hey, I'm Drippy!

USGS researchers collect surface water samples on the Animas River, New Mexico, June 2022

Bruce Bernard (left) and Scott McBride (right) obtain water and sediment samples at Egmont Key which is about 1 mile west of the mouth of Tampa Bay in the Gulf of America. Samples were collected June 14, 2010 prior to the possible occurrence of oil contamination from the Deepwater Horizon's oil well.

Still-shot from webcam of sunset over Medina Lake near San Antonio, Texas, May 25, 2022. USGS Site: 08179500. Image from the Hydrologic Imagery Visualization and Information System (https://apps.usgs.gov/hivis/).

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USGS deployed this buoy platform with connected water quality equipment in Southport Harbor, CT in May 2022.

USGS deployed this buoy platform with connected water quality equipment in Southport Harbor, CT in May 2022.

A thumbnail image of the Vizlab logo. It features the words and a drawing of a gage.

A cartogram map of the US with proportional area charts for each state showing the proportion of streamgages by flow level. Streamflow levels are shown as percentiles of the historic daily record at each gage, and binned to reflect whether flow conditions are wetter or drier than the historical record.

Here is the beautiful USGS gage 10317500, on the North Fork, of the Humbolt River near Halleck, Nevada, a bit Northwest from The East Humboldt Range and the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest. Water data back to 1913 are available online.  

The way the river flows. A series of radial plots showing the river length by flow direction across select U.S. watersheds. Bar length is proportional to the relative river distance within 10 degree bins. An example of Puyallup in WA is shown which generally flows northwest, from its’ headwaters near Mt. Ranier towards Puget Sound.

A map showing the locations of the Upper and Lower Colorado river basins in the contiguous U.S. and all 1,865 NWIS sites used to calculate total flow.

A time series of streamflow drought events occurring across 122 stream gages in the Upper Colorado River basin from 1980 to present. Periods of streamflow drought are indicated for each of 122 gages in a beeswarm-like chart, with time on the x-axis. During time periods where many gages experienced drought, the swarm bulges due to many co-occurring events.

A time series of streamflow drought events occurring across 122 stream gages in the Upper Colorado River basin for 2020 through October 1, 2021. At the beginning of 2020 few gages were in drought status, but as the 2020 summer proceeded there was a surge in drought conditions continuing through the end of 2021.

The rise and fall of the Delaware River salt front. Over time, the location of the salt front moves in response to regional weather patterns, sea level rise, and human impacts. The precise location of the salt front in the Delaware River Basin is based on the location in the river where the average chloride concentration is 250 mg/L.

Timeseries plots of maximum daily salinity on the lower Connecticut River 2011-2021 for an upstream site on the river and a downstream site in the estuary. The timeseries chart uses tiles to show annual patterns in salinity compared across 10 years.