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Northeast Region Photo Contest Winner | March 2019 | USGS at Work
Seth Sutton at an outcrop of the marine Calvert Formation near Plum Point, MD, on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay

After record flooding on the Big Sioux River, USGS crews mobilized to take important water measurements.

After record flooding on the Big Sioux River, USGS crews mobilized to take important water measurements.

USGS technician Chris Broz helps take water measurements on the Big Sioux River during record flooding in March, 2019.

USGS scientists and technicians took water measurements during flooding on the Big Sioux River near Hawarden, Iowa in March 2019.

USGS technician Chris Broz helps take water measurements on the Big Sioux River during record flooding in March, 2019.

USGS scientists and technicians took water measurements during flooding on the Big Sioux River near Jefferson, SD in March 2019. Measurements for this site were 52,000 cfs at a gage height of 40.14 ft.

After record flooding on the Big Sioux River, USGS crews mobilized to take important water measurements.

After record flooding on the Big Sioux River, USGS crews mobilized to take important water measurements.

What does a hardened lava flow look like? This photograph is of the frothy top of a lava flow near the fissure 8 vent, on Kīlauea Volcano's lower East Rift Zone. The different sizes and abundance of bubbles in the surface texture create different colors of the lava, including the light brown and darker black near the boot (for scale).

Blended photo of a wind and solar energy facilities.

An integrated camera and scooter system is ready to deploy in Lake Ontario. The camera is used to record circular transects.

This SCUBA diver is using a camera integrated with a scooter running a circular transect. The white line attached to the scooter is also attached to a pivot point at the center of the sample area.

Sean Stewart and Brendan Hallmark making repairs at the Green Island streamgage  (01358000) on the Hudson River. Photo by Travis Smith (Public Domain)

Members of the LANDFIRE team met in March of 2019 at the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center near Sioux Falls, SD.

Preparing the Partenavia aircraft to leave Oxnard Airport for a survey.

The Seabird Studies Team at the USGS Western Ecological Research Center is conducting aerial photographic surveys of the ocean off central and southern California to create comprehensive maps of seabird and marine mammal distributions.

Telephoto zoom of the largest sulfur deposit forming on the NE talus wall in Halema‘uma‘u. The view is from the
USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory's K3cam. Images can be viewed on HVO's website at https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/observatories/hvo/webcam.html?webcam=K3cam.

 USGS field biologist Andrea Mott displays a recently marked Lesser Snow Goose.

Biological Technician Laura (Laney) White and Research Biologist, Josh Adams install a newly modified camera mount for in flight testing. This mount tilts forward and back to minimize glare and improve image quality.