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Minisipper at water intake
Minisipper at Durango
Minisipper at Durango
Minisipper at Durango

Minisipper location at City of Durango water intake structure.  Minisipper installed by USGS to collect multiple water-quality samples. Latitude 37.26428, Longitude -107.8812.

Minisipper location at City of Durango water intake structure.  Minisipper installed by USGS to collect multiple water-quality samples. Latitude 37.26428, Longitude -107.8812.

Close up of Minisipper
Minisipper
Minisipper
Minisipper

Photo of submersible Minisipper sampling device used to collect multiple water-quality samples during multiple-day deployment. At several locations downstream from the Gold King Mine following the Gold King Mine release on August 5, 2015.

Photo of submersible Minisipper sampling device used to collect multiple water-quality samples during multiple-day deployment. At several locations downstream from the Gold King Mine following the Gold King Mine release on August 5, 2015.

Location is about 3 miles downstream from U.S. Highway 84 bridge over Double Mountain Fork Brazos River near Justiceburg, Texas.
U.S. Highway 84 bridge over Double Mountain Fork Brazos River
U.S. Highway 84 bridge over Double Mountain Fork Brazos River
U.S. Highway 84 bridge over Double Mountain Fork Brazos River

Location is about 3 miles downstream from U.S. Highway 84 bridge over Double Mountain Fork Brazos River near Justiceburg, Texas, in Garza County.
USGS SIR 2016–5032

miles downstream from Farm to Market Road 669 bridge over Double Mountain Fork Brazos River, Justiceburg, Texas, Garza County.
FM 669 bridge over Double Mountain Fork Brazos River
FM 669 bridge over Double Mountain Fork Brazos River
FM 669 bridge over Double Mountain Fork Brazos River

Location is about 9 miles downstream from Farm to Market Road 669 bridge over Double Mountain Fork Brazos River near Justiceburg, Texas, in Garza County.
USGS SIR 2016–5032

Location is about 9 miles downstream from Farm to Market Road 669 bridge over Double Mountain Fork Brazos River near Justiceburg, Texas, in Garza County.
USGS SIR 2016–5032

Location is about 8 miles downstream from Farm to Market Road 669 bridge over Double Mountain Fork Brazos River near Justiceburg
FM 669 bridge over Double Mountain Fork Brazos River
FM 669 bridge over Double Mountain Fork Brazos River
FM 669 bridge over Double Mountain Fork Brazos River

Location is about 8 miles downstream from Farm to Market Road 669 bridge over Double Mountain Fork Brazos River near Justiceburg, Texas, in Garza County.
USGS SIR 2016–5032

Location is about 8 miles downstream from Farm to Market Road 669 bridge over Double Mountain Fork Brazos River near Justiceburg, Texas, in Garza County.
USGS SIR 2016–5032

Location is about 11 miles downstream from Farm to Market Road 669 bridge over Double Mountain Fork Brazos River.
11 miles from FM 669 bridge Double Mt. Fork Brazos River
11 miles from FM 669 bridge Double Mt. Fork Brazos River
11 miles from FM 669 bridge Double Mt. Fork Brazos River

Location is about 11 miles downstream from Farm to Market Road 669 bridge over Double Mountain Fork Brazos River near Justiceburg, Texas, in Garza County.
USGS SIR 2016–5032

Location is about 11 miles downstream from Farm to Market Road 669 bridge over Double Mountain Fork Brazos River near Justiceburg, Texas, in Garza County.
USGS SIR 2016–5032

5 miles downstream from Farm to Market Road 669 bridge over Double Mountain Fork Brazos River near Justiceburg, Texas.
5 miles from FM Road 669 bridge Double Mt. Fork Brazos River
5 miles from FM Road 669 bridge Double Mt. Fork Brazos River
5 miles from FM Road 669 bridge Double Mt. Fork Brazos River

Location is about 5 miles downstream from Farm to Market Road 669 bridge over Double Mountain Fork Brazos River near Justiceburg, Texas, in Garza County.
USGS SIR 2016–5032

Image: San Angelo Streamgage
San Angelo Streamgage
San Angelo Streamgage
San Angelo Streamgage

New streamgage on the South Concho river above Twin Buttes Reservoir, in San Angelo, Texas. This new gage will provide resource managers with critical streamflow information.

New streamgage on the South Concho river above Twin Buttes Reservoir, in San Angelo, Texas. This new gage will provide resource managers with critical streamflow information.

Two men collecting groundwater samples at a public well in the middle of a grassy field in Texas
Scientists Sampling Groundwater from a Public Supply Well in Texas
Scientists Sampling Groundwater from a Public Supply Well in Texas
Signs warn public of dangers of harmful algal blooms
Signs warn public of dangers of harmful algal blooms
Signs warn public of dangers of harmful algal blooms
Image: Installing Tide Gauges
Installing Tide Gauges
Installing Tide Gauges
Installing Tide Gauges

Installing tide gauges in rivers of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta is dirty work.

Location: Tutakoke River, Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, AK

Installing tide gauges in rivers of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta is dirty work.

Location: Tutakoke River, Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, AK

USGS Hydrologist surveys Large Woody Debris on the Roanoke River, VA
USGS Hydrologist surveys Large Woody Debris on the Roanoke River, VA
USGS Hydrologist surveys Large Woody Debris on the Roanoke River, VA
USGS Hydrologist surveys Large Woody Debris on the Roanoke River, VA

USGS Hydrologist Adam Benthem surveys Large Woody Debris (LWD) on the Roanoke River, VA. Little is known about the transport, fate, and impacts on water quality of LWD which provide unique and critical habitat for many species.

USGS Hydrologist Adam Benthem surveys Large Woody Debris (LWD) on the Roanoke River, VA. Little is known about the transport, fate, and impacts on water quality of LWD which provide unique and critical habitat for many species.

USGS employee measuring snowmelt runoff Clear Creek below Quayle Creek at Bakersville, CO
USGS Employee Measuring Snowmelt Runoff At Clear Creek,Bakersville, CO
USGS Employee Measuring Snowmelt Runoff At Clear Creek,Bakersville, CO
Aerial photograph showing boundaries and geologic features of the Truxton Basin in northwestern Arizona
Aerial photograph of the Truxton Basin, northwestern Arizona, showing boundaries and geologic features
Aerial photograph of the Truxton Basin, northwestern Arizona, showing boundaries and geologic features
Salmonids are inventoried during the ecosurveys done for the Regional Stream Quality Assessment (RSQA)
Salmonid in a Pacific Northwest Stream
Salmonid in a Pacific Northwest Stream
View of a reservoir looking from the shore line.
John Redmond Reservoir
John Redmond Reservoir
John Redmond Reservoir

John Redmond Reservoir Outlet, June 22, 2015. Ten thousand cubic feet per second being released.

John Redmond Reservoir Outlet, June 22, 2015. Ten thousand cubic feet per second being released.

woman collecting water sample in a bottle from coastal wetland
Collecting pre-sampling measurements in a coastal wetland
Collecting pre-sampling measurements in a coastal wetland
Collecting pre-sampling measurements in a coastal wetland

USGS hydrologist Tristen Tagliaferri collecting pre-sampling measurements in a coastal wetland after an aerial application of the mosquito insecticide methoprene

USGS hydrologist Tristen Tagliaferri collecting pre-sampling measurements in a coastal wetland after an aerial application of the mosquito insecticide methoprene

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