Images

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 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.

A polar chart shows the daily fluctuation of the salt front from September 28 – October 28, 2019. On this timescale, the location of the salt front is influenced by tides. As a result, the chart displays an interwoven spiral pattern.

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.

Water table contour map (2018) of the Harney Basin, Oregon. Image is from a new groundwater basin study study by the Oregon Water Resources Department and U.S. Geological Survey for Harney Basin in southeast Oregon.

In-stream demonstration during the Clean Water Act Section 106/319 Training for Tribal Partners and First Nations that took place in Gay Head on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts in May 2022. 

Helicopter flights will test new technology and methods to collect water-velocity (speed) data from camera images. (Credit: USGS) 

The USGS Active Groundwater Level Network includes about 20,000 wells that have been measured by the USGS or USGS cooperators at least once within the past 13 months. The animation shows snapshots of water-level statistics in the network during April 2022.

USGS Hydrologist Eric White monitors a computer displaying real-time data inversions while towing a novel floating transient electromagnetic (TEM) system (i.e., FloaTEM) on the Columbia River near Richland, Washington, adjacent to the Hanford 300 Area.

On April 11th, 2022, Water Resources Mission Area hosted a public webinar updating stakeholders on the status of modernization. Next Generation products are gradually replacing legacy water data delivery products. This thumbnail is for that webinar.

U.S. River Conditions, January to March 2022 

U.S. River Conditions, January to March 2022 

A screenshot of the U.S. River Conditions, Janaury to March 2022 data visualization. View the full animation here. 

Photo of a mesocosm like that utilized in the study (Schmidt and others, 2022). The rocks are colonized with natural stream communities of aquatic insects. Fresh stream water is circulated through the mesocosm, and individual mesocosms are dosed with different concentrations of a neonicotinoid compound.

USGS Great Lakes Restoration Initiative urban stormwater green infrastructure examples including bioswale, rain garden, planter boxes, permeable pavement, green parking, urban farming, and green roofs. 

Hydrologic Technicians Dave Brower, and Taylor Naglieri are shown logging data that was being collected by Rob Lorens in the stream (not pictured). The photo was taken at # 01582500  Gunpower Falls at Glencoe MD, in northern Baltimore County, MD 

The USGS National Water Dashboard provides real-time stream, lake, reservoir, precipitation, water quality and groundwater station in context with current weather and hazard conditions.

The USGS Active Groundwater Level Network includes about 20,000 wells that have been measured by the USGS or USGS cooperators at least once within the past 13 months. The animation shows snapshots of water-level statistics in the network during December 2021.

USGS-R is a community of support for users of the R scientific programming language. USGS-R resources include R training materials, R tools for the retrieval and analysis of USGS data, and support for a growing group of USGS-R developers.

The geoknife package was created to support web-based geoprocessing of large gridded datasets according to their overlap with landscape (or aquatic/ocean) features that are often irregularly shaped. geoknife creates data access and subsequent geoprocessing requests for the USGS’s Geo Data Portal to carry out on a web server.

Screenshot of the water use data downloads page. The U.S. Geological Survey maintains national databases of water-use information. The data are collected and compiled every five years for each State, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.