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USGS scientists Chris Laveau and Joel Galloway are interviewed about historic flooding in Fargo, ND.

USGS scientists break up ice and prepare equpiment to conduct streamflow measurements during historic flooding in Fargo, ND.

USGS scientists break up ice and prepare equpiment to conduct streamflow measurements during historic flooding in Fargo, ND.

USGS Stream gage 5053000 Wild Rice River nr Abercrombie, ND . 

2009 flood aftermath near Antelope Creek, Carson, North Dakota.

2009 flooding on the Knife River near Hazen, North Dakota.

Path USGS employees took to service streamflow gage during winter 2009, Bear Den Creek near Mandaree, North Dakota.

Scientists aboard the Research Vessel Polaris sampling Potamocorbula amurensis.

Using the device pictured here, government scientists are measuring snowfall in remote areas with a bucket, a small windmill, and the sun -- all the while saving money, energy, and ultimately helping to save lives.

Malik Chavis wants to work for the USGS.

Showing the son of a USGS employee "what we do" on the Tangipahoa R., LA

The Souris River mostly covered in snow.

View of Carson Valley looking west to the Sierra Nevada Mountains.  The houses in the distance use a septic system for waste disposal and a domestic well for water supply.

Period of Record Flooding, April 29, 2011, Kevin Reisig wading to USGS stream gage 01318500 Hudson River at Hadley, NY. 

USGS employee sampling an urban monitoring well. Photo from USGS circular 1356 "Water Quality in the Mississippi Embayment-Texas Coastal Uplands Aquifer System and Mississippi River Valley Alluvial Aquifer, South-Central United States, 1994-2008."

USGS scientist taking a measurement at a groundwater well study site. Photo from USGS circular 1356 "Water Quality in the Mississippi Embayment-Texas Coastal Uplands Aquifer System and Mississippi River Valley Alluvial Aquifer, South-Central United States, 1994-2008."

Irrigation groundwater well. Photo from USGS circular 1356 "Water Quality in the Mississippi Embayment-Texas Coastal Uplands Aquifer System and Mississippi River Valley Alluvial Aquifer, South-Central United States, 1994-2008."

Irrigation water from a groundwater well on a rice crop field. Photo from USGS circular 1356 "Water Quality in the Mississippi Embayment-Texas Coastal Uplands Aquifer System and Mississippi River Valley Alluvial Aquifer, South-Central United States, 1994-2008."

Looking east to the Atlantic Ocean from Cadillac Mountain, Maine.

Squall line approaching freshwater marsh at Lacassine NWR, LA

Canyon Lake, November 2008. Photograph by Sam Price, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

SIR 2012–5202