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Installing MBARI Environmental Sample Processor (ESP) Streamgage

Installing sampling pump in river 

MBARI Environmental Sample Processor (ESP) installed in Streamgage

Surface Water Modeling for FEMA Flood Insurance Rate Maps.

USGS employee using survey data to model water surface elevation for different storm events.

Rock formations throughout Glen Canyon

Sealing MBARI Environmental Sample Processor into its housing

Snake River near Irwin, ID staff plate (station 13032500)

Kelsey Simmons and Kaamilya Najeeullah of the SAWSC prepare a sample from site 02336240 S.F Peachtree Creek Johnson Rd, near Atlanta, GA. The sample is part of routine water-quality monitoring for water-shed protection in Dekalb County, GA.

Sunset at camp

Despite the high evening temperatures, some campers still set up tents to spend the night in. Removal of the rainfly material helped keep it cool.

The sun sets over camp at Lake Powell

A team from the WERC San Diego Field Station traveled to the Sierra National Forest, CA this past week to prepare their field site for season two of an exciting study of federally threatened Yosemite toads. This is a collaborative project with the U.S.

Cristal Younker of the SAWSC drives a boat to site 02226160, Altamaha River at Everett City, Georgia, to collect samples for the National Water Quality Program (NWQP) trends sampling. The NWQP provides an understanding of water-quality conditions; whether conditions are getting better or worse over time; and how natural features and human activities affect thos

View from camp

View from Panorama Point in Capitol Reef National Park

On day 2 of the trip, Team G was delayed by strong winds and a broken motor. The boats remained stationary in a cove as we awaited the arrival of a replacement motor.

USGS scientists Beth Haddon (left) and Jaime Delano (right) measuring an offset road at the site of the Ridgecrest earthquake sequence rupture. Photo credit: Chris DuRoss, USGS

USGS Geophysicists Elizabeth Cochran and Nick VanDerElst install a seismometer on the base Photo credit: Ben Brooks, USGS

USGS scientist Jessie Thompson Jobe measures fault offset at the site of the Ridgecrest earthquake sequence rupture. Photo credit: Chris DuRoss, USGS

USGS scientist Jaime Delano, observes a sand blow caused by liquefaction during the M7.1 Ridgecrest earthquake. Photo credit: Chris DuRoss

Kate Scharer examining striations along fault scarp while completing GPS survey of fault rupture.  Here the fault has about 2.6 m of horizontal displacement and 0.5 m of vertical.  The rake of the striations is 47 degrees.  Photo credit: Jamie Delano, USGS