Videos

This video shows how to use the Sensor Quick Entry feature (SensorQE) in SWAMI.

This video shows how to use SWAMI to document a large number of individual discharge measurements made during a tidal cycle that are part of a single site visit.

This video outlines the best practices for maintaining and editing information in NWIS SiteVisit when using SWAMI. Editing options for water science centers are explained in detail. Requirements for documenting changes are provided and important considerations are presented.

A short video showing the helicopter deployment of a spider monitoring unit to the SR530 landslide near Oso, Washington

--Climatologists Look Back and Peer Forward

Dan Cayan, USGS Climate Change Researcher

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Spring 2014. USGS scientists conduct a health evaluation of a young male polar bear in the Arctic as part of the annual southern Beaufort Sea population survey. The bear is sedated for approximately an hour while the team records a variety of measurements and collects key biological samples.

The minute 319 pulse flow experiment flood in the Lower Colorado River Delta allows scientists the opportunity to study many different aspects of a flood. With the help of CSAs we had the opportunity to actually back calculate the roughness value at the times that our technicians in Yuma measured discharge.

Ice breakup on March 11, 2014, at the South Fork Grand River near Cash, SD, at USGS station 06356500. The ice breakup causes the water to surge onto the bank.

The hull of the vessel is complete. Burger Boat Co. removes the hull from the construction bay and uses cranes to flip it over. Then, it's taken back to the bay to continue working.

Mar 7, 2014: This Quicktime movie shows Kīlauea's summit lava lake in Halema‘uma‘u Crater. A persistent spatter source is active on the lake margin.

Mar 7, 2014: This Quicktime movie shows the lava pond in Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō crater, which was undergoing "gas pistoning". Gas pistoning is the cyclic rise and fall of the lava surface, driven by the buildup and release of gas in the lava pond.

This video shows how to install the SWAMI electronic field form onto a Personal Data Assistant (PDA).

This video shows how to document a mid-section discharge measurement made with mechanical current meters that include the Price AA or pygmy meters.

This video shows how to document a volumetric discharge measurement. This volumetric measurement is specific to streamflows small enough to be collected in a single container.

This video shows how to document a discharge measurement made using a weir.

This video shows how to document a moving boat ADCP discharge measurement.

This video shows how to document environmental measurements.

This video shows how to document a gaging station control inspection.

This video shows how to document the following sensor types: float tape, staff gage, electronic tape gage (ETG), and maximum and minimum stage indictator clips.

This video shows how to document the following sensor types: radar, wire-weight gage, staff gage, reference point, and crest stage gage (CSG). In this example, measuring point elevations for the reference point and crest stage gage are not configured in SiteVisit.