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Measuring discharge of Lame Deer Creek near Lame Deer, Montana

Mount Hood photographed near Parkdale, Oregon.

Oceanscience Q1250 Remote Boat for slow to mid flow.

Two WERC technicians walk back from a placed trap with hands full. 

Brock, a USGS volunteer, walks out to a future waterfowl trapping site with a bucket full of rice in hopes that it will attract waterfowl to the area.

Left to right: In July 2017 Tim Elfers (USGS), Hannah Drummond (WA State Dept. of Ecology), Heather Weiner (WA State Dept. of Ecology), Andrew Stevens (USGS), and Andy Ritchie (USGS) used handheld computers and backpack-mounted GPS equipment to record topography along a beach near the mouth of the Elwha River.

USGS employee measuring road overflow during a record flood event at Little Wapsipinicon River near Oran, IA USGS gage ID 5420850

Black-legged Kittiwake with a herring in it's bill. These seabirds were foraging near Gull Island in Cook Inlet, Alaska.

The photo was taken by Erin Todd during helicopter-supported geologic fieldwork in Lake Clark National Park this past summer.

Kīlauea Volcano's Kamokuna ocean entry photographed on May 23, 2017 (left) and July 13, 2017 (right) show how lava flowing from the tube has both widened and thickened the delta. Near the sea cliff, the delta appears to have doubled in thickness over the past seven weeks, creating a distinctly sloped surface from the base of the cliff to the sea.

Metolius River, Smiling River Campground, Deschutes National Forest

In northern Brazil, the Belo Monte Dam complex on the Xingu River, a major tributary of the Amazon, has changed the course of the river and surrounding landscape. 

Virginia and West Virginia Water Science Center: Virginia Science Office, Richmond.

Black-legged Kittiwakes foraging for fish in Cook Inlet, Alaska.

Inverted funnel connected to thermoplastic tubing used to collect gas from a hot spring pool near Lassen Peak, California.

Inland fish are found in city waterways as in Hanoi, Vietnam. 

Hook Pond, East Hampton, New York

The small computer, or “micro-controller,” at the bottom of this photo controls the operation of two video cameras mounted on the 10-story Dream Inn hotel in Santa Cruz, California.

USGS research geologist Jamey Jones collects multiple samples of rocks exposed in a glacial stream valley near Lake Clark.

This is the first of two microscopic images of potentially toxic cyanobacteria, Microcystis aeruginosa.  In both images, the cyanobacteria have been exposed to a green stain.

Image 1: Microcystis aeruginosa in freshwater. The green stain doesn’t enter the cells, which show up in red.

This is the second of two microscopic images of potentially toxic cyanobacteria, Microcystis aeruginosa.  In both images, the cyanobacteria have been exposed to a green stain.