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The USGS New England Water Science Center operates a streamgage on Lake Champlain in Burlington, Vermont. 

Sunrise during early morning checks at a USGS water quality/elevation station in West Harbor Beach Memorial Park, in Bayville, New York.

Fall 2025 Photo Contest Winner: Natalie Cheung, Where We Work category

Coopertown Brook, located in Douglas State Forest, Massachusetts, is completely dry in late September 2025.

USGS New England Water Science Center physical scientist Shannon Fisher documenting the location of a groundwater seep under a pine tree on the Namekagon River near Cable, Wisconsin.

Cold groundwater seep identified using a handheld thermal infrared camera (FLIR E8) on the upper Namekagon River near Cable, Wisconsin. The groundwater discharge area was about 7-8 degrees cooler than the main channel of the Namekagon.

National Park Service Great Lakes Inventory and Monitoring Network (GLKM) biologist Ted Gostomski uses a handheld thermal infrared sensor to identify cold groundwater seeps in the upper Namekagon River near Cable, Wisconsin.  Al Kirschbaum, a remote sensing specialist with the NPS-GLKM, documents Gostomski's findings from the canoe.

Members of the Connecticut Soils PFAS Team include (from left to right) Ashley Grengs, Leah Santangelo, Sydney Welch from the New England Water Science Center. A statewide survey of collecting soils was conducted to help establish baseline PFAS concentrations in the state of Connecticut throughout the summer and fall of 2025.

Members of the NJWSC, EPA, and NPS, conducted a sampling event for PFAS in foam at the Paterson Great Falls National Historic Park in Paterson, NJ.

Summer 2025 Photo Contest Winner: Jacob Gray, Where We Work category

Jennifer Cramer, a geographer and drone pilot at the Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, walks in front of a colorful section of the Aquinnah Cliffs. The Aerial Imaging and Mapping team was ground truthing multispectral and lidar UAS data collected of the exposed cliffs and beach. 

USGS hydrologic technician Brendan Crowley docks a boat in Kinston Bay after checking on continuous water quality monitoring equipment deployed in the area.

Hydrologic technician Kate Laabs downloads water quality data from a buoy in Kingston Bay near South Duxbury, Massachusetts. The water-quality monitoring is a part of a larger project.

A USGS physical scientist collects shallow soil and a USGS hydrologist logs site information and sample data at a site in Ellington, Connecticut. This sampling is part of a larger statewide investigation on the presence of PFAS in soils and shallow groundwater.

Tree canopy and ground cover in a forest in Goshen, Connecticut. This site is one sampling area where USGS is collecting soil to test for the occurrence of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in soils and shallow groundwater.

A view of the East Branch Pemigewasset River during a drought in the summer of 2025 near USGS monitoring station 01074520 near Lincoln, New Hampshire. Loon Mountain can be seen in the background. 

USGS hydrologic technicians Nathan Roy (front), Brandan Crowley (left), and Kaitlin Laabs (right) clean the continuous water quality equipment that was deployed on a buoy Kingston Bay. The data collection is part of a larger water quality collection project involving several Massachusetts bays.

A view of the Lemon Fair River at USGS monitoring station 04282538 near Shoreham, Vermont, during a drought in the summer of 2025.

A view of low flows and exposed rocks in Otter Creek at Center Rutland, Vermont, near monitoring station 04282000. This photo was taken during a drought in the summer of 2025.

A view of the Missisquoi River from the perspective of streamgage 04293500 in East Berkshire, Vermont, in August 2025 during a period of drought.

A view of Austin Stream in Binghamton, Maine, during a period of moderate drought in the summer of 2025.

A view of the Poultney River near the USGS monitoring station 04280000 near Fair Haven, Vermont, during a drought event in summer 2025. 

Wild River at Gilead, Maine, experienced low water levels during a drought event in the summer of 2025.