Images

USGS New Jersey Water Science Center Hydrographers on the Susquehanna River collect water quality samples.

North-oriented view of the Rio Grande from New Mexico State Road 359 near Mesilla, N. Mex., February 11, 2016 (photograph by Nicholas R. Glaser, U.S. Geological Survey).

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North-oriented view of the Rio Grande at New Mexico State Road 359 near Mesilla, N. Mex., February 11, 2016 (photograph by Nicholas R. Glaser, U.S. Geological Survey).

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USGS employee conducting a discharge measurement with a Flowtracker at USGS gage 13052200 TETON RIVER AB SOUTH LEIGH CREEK NR DRIGGS, ID.

USGS gage 1188000 Bunnel Brook near Burlington CT

Upstream view of the Rio Grande from a location about 1 mile southwest of the Montaño Bridge. Photograph was taken January 24, 2016, by Nathan Myers.

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USGS sets out to measure streamflow on the Mississippi River at Baton Rouge, sailing past the USS Kidd, a World War II destroyer.

Hydrologic technician Sylas Daughtrey works at a gagehouse on Columbia River at Stevenson, Washington

A panorama of a flooded stand of cypress trees in the Atchafalaya Basin.

USGS scientist Tammy Caudle demonstrates the acoustic dopplar current profiler onboard that will be used to measure streamflow on the Mississippi River.

Image shows a night-time view of the Natchez-Vidalia Bridge at Natchez, Mississippi.

USGS Gage 10032000 Smiths Fork near Border, Wyoming. USGS employee collects a measurement.   

USGS stream gage 1003200 SMITHS FORK NEAR BORDER, WY . 

Mississippi River water flows through the Bonnet Carré Spillway into the channel, where it will flow to Lake Pontchartrain.

Flooded land within the Bonnet Carré Spillway. Normally, this land is dry, but when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers decides to release Mississippi River water from the Bonnet Carré Spillway, this land will be submerged.

The USGS Streamgage at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, during the 2015/2016 Mississippi River Valley Flooding.

Sections of Fashion Valley Road, San Diego, were closed by flooding of the San Diego River. Closed roads were a common scene in San Diego and throughout California during the El Niño-related storms, Jan 6 - 7, 2016. Hydrographers from the Poway Field Office closely monitored high-flow conditions throughout the storms.

Jon Newby and Travis Kordiak, USGS Hydrographers from the California Water Science Center Redlands Field Office, take high-water measurements at USGS streamgaging site 11059300. The site is on the Santa Ana River in San Bernardino, California, and is one of more than 500 streamgage locations in California.

USGS hydrologic technician Deena Green collects streamflow data at streamgage station 12413875, St. Joe River at Red Ives Ranger Station, Idaho

USGS hydrologist Jason Ramage collects a groundwater-level measurement using a steel tape in Freeport, Texas. 

A new interactive web application illustrates how groundwater, sediment compaction and land-elevation change are related in the Houston-Galveston region in Texas.