Images

Water carrying heavy debris rushes past a USGS streamgaging station on the San Lorenzo River in the Santa Cruz Mountains, California.

Borehole Fluid Logging in Bangladesh

Ice formations forming at Apple Creek.

USGS personnel (5'8") stands next to ice formation at Big Muddy Creek. Flow is 6.45  cubic feet per second.

USGS hydrologic technicians Tyler Meyer and Jesse Rigge document the river stage and ensure that the streamgage on the James River at Huron, SD is working properly. A streamflow measurement of 17,500 cubic feet per second was made during the site visit.

USGS employees measure discharge at USGS gage 15236900 Wolverine Creek near Lawning, Alaska

This image and associated video captures the breakup of ice cover on the Skunk River at Augusta, Iowa, on February 17, 2011, at approximately 3:00 p.m. local time. The river stage at the time was 14.50 feet (elevation 1,179.41 feet NGVD29).

On February 4, 2011 gage 05056255, Alice-Irvine Channel near Churchs Ferry, ND was removed due to rising water of the Devils Lake Basin. Lake elevation was 51.85 feet on the day of removal. USGS emplyees Chase(left) and Art(right).

Flying over the fog in route to a USGS hydro station in Shark Slough.

 Small ice mounds developed downstream of weir on Apple Creek. Flow is 14.7 cubic feet per second.

Photograph of bridge deployment also using tag line.  Used for low flow and/or upstream bridge deployments.

USGS streamgage at Snake River, WY (03011000)

San Juaquin Valley, CA Pumping Well. From USGS circular 1182 "Land subsidence in the United States."

Colorado Basin Focus Area Study carousel

USGS employee sampling a groundwater well.

Photo of a domestic public supply well from the USGS Floridian Circular 1355 "Water Quality in the Upper Floridian Aquifer and Overlying Surficial Aquifers, Southeastern United States, 1993-2010."

Sedimentary rock. Photo from the USGS circular 1360 "Water Quality in Pricipal Aquifers of the United States, 1991-2010."

Public-supply wells pump higher volumes of water than domestic-supply wells.  This photo appears in Circular 1352, Water Quality in the Glacial Aquifer System, Northern United States, one of a series of circulars on groundwater quality in the

Map of the Delaware River Basin

A scuba diver navigates his field site underwater.

High level of selenium in fish, fisherman notice sign posted at Sweitzer Lake State Park in the lower Gunnison River Basin in western Colorado. Photo from the USGS circular 1360 "Water Quality in Pricipal Aquifers of the United States, 1991-2010."