Water Resources

Photograph of custom boogie board for ADCP deploymet, view of bottom.

Example of a camera system that will be tested to measure water level and surface velocity at the East Branch Brandywine Creek below Downingtown, PA. Photo Credit: USGS staff. This technology is part of the

Temporary mount for installation of a horizontal ADVM under ice.  A large flange serves as a load bearing base plate with 2" pipe and pipe fittings being used to suspend the ADVM below.

Tethered boat deployed from a temporary cableway using pulleys and rope.

Photograph of the StreamPro being deployed in the included tethered boat on a temporary tagline.

USGS scientists Adam Baldwin and Chris Gazoorian (USGS New York Water Science Center) point out the newly installed fixed-mount thermal infrared camera installed on the USGS Platte Kill at Dunraven NY streamgage in the Neversink River watershed. The camera is positioned to

Illustration of a typical remotely recoverable sub-surface deployment.

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OceanScience, Inc. designed alternative boat.

2" aluminum pipe, structural pipe fittings, and square tubing are utilized to create a dock servicable uplooking ADVM mount.

6" PVC pipe is weighted to allow an ADVM/ADCP to be deployed in a vertical or "uplooker" configuration.