Videos

Time-lapse photos taken from the northwest side of the Platte River State Park Tower. Photos taken every hour from April 4, 2011 to April 29, 2012.

Travis explains how he began his career as a hydrologic technician with the USGS through the USGS Student Career Employment Program.

In the video, Robert Leeper stands in the field while explaining how he became associated with the USGS, what types of research projects he has worked on , and what his plans are for the future.

A series of time-lapse photographs capture rapid water-level fluctuations in the vicinity of Wildwood Islands in the Sheboygan River, 4.4 km upstream of Lake Michigan near Sheboygan, Wis. The fluctuations are caused the interaction of seiche-related oscillations from Lake Michigan with river flows. 
 

In March 2012, USGS hydrologic technician John Wirt recorded unusually high streamflow at our streamgage on Dixie Creek. This summer, a wildfire burned through the same area, destroying two of streamgages. The USGS is responding to restore its monitoring capability in case of post-fire flooding and debris flow.Note: U.S.

Kerry Caslow is a hydrologic technician with the Georgia Water Science Center. Listen to her story.

Current river conditions and available equipment make it a challenge to measure streamflow in the White Oak Creek. Hydrologic technicians (not shown) make field measurements of streamflow with an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP), a device that uses sound waves to determine the area and velocity of the water.

The low-head dam just downstream from the USGS White Oak Creek near Georgetown, Ohio, streamgage collapsed during high flow early on January 18, 2012. Video shows water rushing past the former low-head dam location; still photos show the dam during low- and high-flow conditions.

Josh Latimore, USGS hydro technician, discusses how he joined the USGS and his current day to day responsibilities. Josh was introduced to the USGS through the Hydrologic Studies Program at GateWay Community College in Phoenix, AZ. As a USGS hydro technician, Josh's primary duties involve managing real-time surface water gaging stations.

Underwater video showing horizontal and vertical views from new video camera technology. The high-definition video output will help drillers complete the wells and will help hydrologist understand the aquifer system.

Eric Evenson, coordinator of the National Water Census discuses a new set of water resource challenges brought on by the 21st century. Even in normal water years, water shortages and use conflicts have become commonplace in many areas of the United States — especially competition among crop irrigation, growing cities and communities, and energy production.

Faith Fitzpatrick (U.S. Geological Survey) and Tom Slawski (Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission) discuss how designs for stormwater runoff from roadways in narrow transportation corridors can help protect coldwater brook trout habitat in agricultural settings.

Cheryl Nenn (Milwaukee Riverkeeper) explains to Faith Fitzpatrick (U.S. Geological Survey) how a Riverkeeper coordinates programs, communication, monitoring, maintenance, and volunteer organization related to urban stream restoration and protection.

This video shows how to use the status bar in ModelMuse to obtain information about your model.
 

This video shows how to ensure that the edge of one object in ModelMuse lines up exactly with the edge of another object.
 

In the USGS software ModelMuse, the user must assign spatially varying data to data sets, This video describes how to assign values to data sets in ModelMuse.
 

This video shows how to visualize spatial data in the USGS software ModelMuse by coloring cells or contouring the data.
 

This video demonstrates how to export an image from ModelMuse into an editable image of the top, front, or side view of your model.
 

This video shows how to use ModelMuse to specify layers in MODFLOW that vary in elevation.
 

This video shows how to measure distances in a model using ModelMuse
 

In the USGS software ModelMuse, a 3D view of the groundwater model is part of the main form. This video describes how to manipulate this 3D view.