Videos

Faith Fitzpatrick (U.S. Geological Survey), Shelley Warwick (Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources), and Karla Leithoff (Wisconsin Department of Transportation) discuss coordination among WI DOT and WI DNR, connections between wetland scientists and engineers.

Faith Fitzpatrick (U.S. Geological Survey) and Tom Slawski (Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission) discuss how culverts and culvert openings can be designed to maintain fish passage. Special design considerations can be given to wing walls, concrete aprons, and substrate.

Faith Fitzpatrick (U.S. Geological Survey), Matt Aho (Ozaukee County), and Tom Slawski (Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission), discuss solutions for fish passage barriers in urban watersheds.

Faith Fitzpatrick (U.S. Geological Survey) and Tom Slawski (Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission) show how streamgaging and water quality monitoring are important for stream rehabilitation planning, design and monitoring.

Faith Fitzpatrick (U.S. Geological Survey) and Gail Epping Overholt (University of Wisconsin-Extension Basin Educator) talk about bringing people together to improve the Menomonee River watershed through the Menomonee River Action Plan.

Faith Fitzpatrick (U.S. Geological Survey) and Paul Lohmiller (GRAEF-USA, Inc.) talk about the communities and groups that make up the successful Menomonee River Action team in Milwaukee, Wis.

Faith Fitzpatrick (U.S. Geological Survey) and Theresa Caven (City of Brookfield) talk about how the City of Brookfield near Milwaukee, Wisconsin actively participates in the highly successful Menomonee River Action Plan team.

Faith Fitzpatrick (U.S. Geological Survey) and Dave Fowler (Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District) describe how the deep tunnel system in the Milwaukee area has allowed enough flood storage to be able to take out the cement-lined channel and recreate a more natural riffle-pool type of channel with improved fish habitat and fish passage.

Cheryl Nenn (Milwaukee Riverkeeper) and Jeff Martinka (Southeastern Wisconsin Watersheds Trust, Inc.) discuss the power of the people in making things happen for Menomonee River restoration projects.

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Faith Fitzpatrick (U.S. Geological Survey), Tom Slawski (Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission), and Dave Fowler (Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District) talk about how stormwater management allows removal of cement lined channels and fosters stream rehabilitation for the highly urban Underwood Creek.

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Flooding taking place at Grand falls.

How do you catch a sea otter? Very carefully. Researchers must use high-tech equipment and teamwork in order to safely capture these marine mammals and collect blood samples and conduct health exams as part of the Pacific Nearshore Project.

Part three of a three part series on how development can have negative effects on streams in urban and suburban areas.

USGS streamgagers, Mike Sanders and Henry Sanger are servicing the, Salt River near Roosevelt, Arizona streamflow gaging station and making a streamflow measurement on January 22, 2010. Flow was measured to be 44,500 cubic feet per second (CFS) on the 22th but peaked earlier on the 22nd at an estimated 88,000 cfs.

USGS employees, John Hoffmann, Corey Salmond, Robert Fritzinger, and Chris Smith are being interviewed by Naomi Pescovitz from KVOA on January 22, 2010. Robert Fritzinger and Corey Salmond are making a streamflow measurement at Rillito Creek at La Cholla BLVD near Tucson streamflow gaging station.

1-D model simulation showing floodplain inundation in the lower Roanoke Rive, from Roanoke Rapids to Jamesville, 1998.

Time-lapse photography of the transition from fall-to-winter, the buildup of shelf ice, flow constriction, and jamming of river ice along the Niobrara River in the Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge in north-central Nebraska. Flow in the photos is from left to right.

USGS staff evaluates flood damage caused by the recent Havasu Creek Flood, August 2008.

Streamflow Measurement (2008) — USGS streamgagers make a discharge measurement in southwest Arizona.