Images

Beautiful River with Mount Rainier in the background

The Pembina River located at Neche, North Dakota.

The Cannonball River in the fall at Breien, ND.

Solomon Gulch at Top of Falls during Solomon Lake sill event. Hydrographer in the photo is Jeff Wiles of the Anchorage Field Office.

Looking downstream toward beaver dam on Big Muddy Creek near Almont, North Dakota. Flow is 4.40 cubic feet per second.

USGS hydrologic technician measuring streamflow in the Merced River, near Happy Isles stream gage in Yosemite Valley.

Spring (113) near Leon Creek in the Trinity aquifer outcrop, northern Bexar County, Texas. Photograph taken on Tuesday, October 5, 2010.

Data Series 750

Spring (104) near the headwaters of Leon Creek in the Trinity aquifer outcrop, northern Bexar County, Texas. Photograph taken on Tuesday, October 5, 2010.

Red River of the North at Grand Forks on September 27, 2010.

Little Missouri River near Camp Area C at Albert Pike Recreation Area, Arkansas (photograph by Daniel M. Wagner, U.S. Geological Survey).

Remnants of a spruce forest complex following a severe wildfire in the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska. Wildfires are the dominant landscape-scale disturbance operating at annual time scales in Alaska, and fires play a major role in the rate and extent of vegetation growth and productivity of a site.

Looking west at the Cannonball River at Breien, ND.

The Cannonball River looking East.

Big Bend National Park field trip with Anne Castle, Assisstant Secretary for Water and Science, DOI, September 2010.     USGS Staff explaining USGS Science and water monitoring in the region.

USGS Research Hydrologist Art Horowitz and USGS Oklahoma Water Science Center Hydrologic Technician Ernie Smith describe streambed sediment collection devices for a Tribal training class at the Canadian River, Norman, Oklahoma.

Little Missouri River at Marmarth, North Dakota, streamflow 65.5 cubic feet per second.

Little Missouri River at Marmarth, North Dakota, streamflow 65.5 cubic feet per second.

Turtle River at Turtle River State Park near Arvilla, North Dakota, shot of the riffle (towards center of picture, about 700 feet downstream) looking downstream, streamflow 14 cubic feet per second, August 19, 2010.

USGS employee conducts stream discharge and velocity measurements at gage 01503500 Susquehanna River, Binghamton, NY

A photograph showing a USGS stream gage with a rainbow against an overcast sky in the background.   

A site operator and support staff visit an atmospheric deposition monitoring site at Loch Vale in Rocky Mountain National Park. The USGS-operated site (CO98) is part of the National Atmospheric Deposition Program (NADP) National Trends Network.