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Photo Contest Winner | March 2021 | Honorable Mention
423441072170701 MA-ORW63 Winter Groundwater Site Inspection

The USGS is conducting a study to characterize groundwater and surface water-quality to address the need for a better understanding of nutrient inputs to the coastal waters. The initial focus of the study is on local-scale hydrologic monitoring adjacent to Academy Cove.

Groundwater sampling along the shoreline of Academy Cove, Wickford, Rhode Island, February 9, 2021

The snowy gage at Indian River, Clinton, CT 01195100 monitoring location.

The water quality sample is being taken at Saugatuck River near Westport, CT 01209500.

U.S. Geological Survey station 01194000, Eight Mile River at North Plain, Connecticut, February 4, 2021.

Field team took advantage of a warmer winter day and stopped on their way between sites to eat a socially distanced lunch at Otter Brook State Park, managed by the Army Corps of Engineers.

USGS hydrologic technician sampling at 01208990 Saugatuck River in Redding, CT streamgage location.

Taftville stream​gage (011230695​​) on the Shetucket River, Connecticut during a grey, snowy day​​​.​

Panoramic view of the USGS streamgage 011230695​​ (Shetucket River) surroundings during a grey, snowy day​​​.​

Photo Contest Winner | February 2021 | People
Scouting Marconi Beach

Taftville stream​gage (011230695​​) on the Shetucket River, Connecticut during a grey, snowy day​​​.​

Photo Contest Winner | February 2021 | Where We Work
North Fork Patapsco River

Bunnel Brook at USGS streamgage 01188000 near Burlington, Connecticut with snow covered banks flowing during the winter.

Photo Contest Winner | January 2021 | USGS at Work
Winter Wonderland in Lake Placid, NY

Lab Manager, Adrian Mann, analyzes pore water samples on an Ion Chromatograph.

Gage box holding equipment for USGS site 01467200, Delaware River at Penn's Landing at Philadelphia, PA. 

Streamgage location (0110588340) on the Santuit River at Old Kings Road, Barnstable MA.

Remote-Sensing Coastal Change project field collections at the Head of the Meadow Bay in Massachusetts.

USGS samples water within wetlands to understand which environmental drivers impact carbon cycle and sediment accretion. Here USGS staff (Jennifer O'Keefe Suttles) pumps water from at Phragmites wetland, Mashpee, MA, to analyze at the Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center Environmental Geochemistry lab.

Photo Contest Winner | January 2021 | People
Jon Cohl ADCP at 01457400 Musconetcong Riegelsville