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WWG Reading on the Wild Rice River in Minnesota during record Midwest flooding in spring 2019.

USGS streamgage number 13309220 on Idaho's Middle Fork of the Salmon River in the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness Area.

In Photo: Eastern berm of Jim Foot Key, April 2019.  This photo taken from Florida Bay, looking in toward the center of the island (now covered in water).  The arrow points toward a breach in the berm, first noted in 2014, but the cut has deepened significantly after Hurricane Irma, and the island interior

A coqui frog sits on a red ti leaf, next to a quarter for scale. Native to Puerto Rico, coqui frogs are an invasive species in Hawaii.

A coqui frog rests on a red ti plant leaf. Native to Puerto Rico, coqui are an invasive species in Hawaii.

NW CASC’s USGS Director Nicole DeCrappeo on a recent rafting trip through the Grand Canyon on the Colorado River. She brought along a paper John Wesley Powell, an explorer and the 2nd director of the USGS, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of his historic trip down the Colorado River.

Northeast Region Photo Contest Winner | April 2019 | Honorable Mention
Esmeralda Vargas taking data on an estuary sample

Matt Jennings (pictured) and Andrew Kowalczk (Boat Chief) on Seneca Lake using an underwater camera and grappling hook to locate and recover lost equipment from the Harmful Algal Bloom (HABs) Project platform that was damaged by an early winter storm. The platform mooring buoy can be seen in the background. Photo by Andrew Kowalczk (Public Domain)

Schematic model showing a cross section of Old Faithful's plumbing system as determined from seismic studies. The red circles (t0-t3) show the location of the tremor source over time, and how the tremor source migrates upward prior to an Old Faithful eruption. Times between red circles are based on a 93-minute eruption interval.

Closeup view of a Smelt (Osmerus mordax)

Skulls were collected in Spring 2018 & 2019 from coastlines throughout Alaska. It is assumed the animals died of natural causes over the preceding winters. They were collected under Marine Mammal Permit # 067925.

An intern uses Dopplar to gather streamflow data through the ice at the Little Wind River near Riverton, Wyoming.

A high-precision Global Positioning System (GPS) survey is completed annually on Mauna Loa. This station was occupied for a period of three days to supplement the continuously operating GPS stations on the volcano. A beautiful view of Mauna Kea (in distance) could seen from this site during the GPS survey. 

Recently retired hydrologic technician Doug Hutchinson services gage 10329500 MARTIN Creek near Paradise Valley, NV, March of 2019. This gage is designated as a centennial gage for FY21! Happy birthday, Martin Creek near Paradise Valley!

Doppler is used to peer under the ice to "see" the flow in the Little Wind River near Riverton, Wyoming.

One of our interns uses Dopplar to gather streamflow data through the ice at the Little Wind River near Riverton, Wyoming.

Belfort Weighing Bucket precipitation gauge at a high elevation meteorological station. Sleepers River Research Watershed, Danville, Vermont.