Images

USGS geologists Dave Foster and Wayne Baldwin and Andrew Green (University of
KwaZulu-Natal) observe coastal hazards on the Lower Cape, Massachusetts.

Yellow Creek near Oak Grove, IN - Fall foilage

Waning fall foliage as seen on a rural Adirondack road during the Western Adirondack Stream Survey (WASS) conducted in November, 2018. Photo by Scott George

Wayne Baldwin (USGS, far right) with students and staff from Stockton University getting ready to deploy the miniSEABOSS off the R/V Petrel during the geological sampling survey in October 2018.

Gradients of N deposition, S deposition, mean annual temperature, and mean annual precipitation across the conterminous U.S. Panels are the a) mean total N deposition from 2000–2012, b) mean total S deposition from 2000–2012, c) mean annual temperature from 2000–2014, and d) mean annual precipitation form 2000–2014.

Photo showing floating cages for oyster farming in a marsh creek exposed at low tide.

Photo showing school of juvenile fish in water next to marsh vegetation.

The Androscoggin river in Maine during Fall colors. 

Photo of a boardwalk over a saltmarsh creek showing people.

Photo showing different species of salt tolerant plants near a saltmarsh.

Northeast Region Photo Contest Winner | November 2018 | USGS at Work
N. Cheung leaving Rockway Inlet NY tide station

Photo of a saltmarsh platform showing vegetation on on top of the banks of a tidal creek. It shows the general setting of a saltmarshes that experience wet and dry periods with the tides within a day.

NAGT summer intern, Kelly Sanks, prepares to collect salt marsh sediment cores with her advisor, Dr. Meagan Gonneea (Cape Cod, MA).

View looking west from the Brushy Mountains, NC, to the Blue Ridge escarpment and highlands of the Blue Ridge.  The high jagged peak toward the left side of the photo is Grandfather Mountain and is covered by a winter snow. 

Shown in this photo is Hydrologic Technician Sam Banas performing an electric tape down measurement of a groundwater well. The site ID is: 422906072124301 MA-PHW 16 Petersham, MA

Northeast Region Photo Contest Winner | October 2018 | Honorable Mention
Harry Dowsett at the Parkers Creek bone bed

Screenshot of a point cloud containing more than 50 million points from a photogrammetry project of the Quissett Campus.  This point cloud was created from 633 photographs taken from a unmanned aircraft system (UAS) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts in July 2018

Biologists from the USGS and Nature Conservancy identify a small fish captured during a September electrofishing survey on a tributary to Follensby Pond, Adirondack Mountains, New York

Upper Left:  Dann Blackwood operating the SEABOSS winch during a sampling cruise; Lower left: Bill Schwab, Laura Brothers and Emile Bergeron on the deck of a research vessel; Center Left: Tom O'Brien carrying equipment during a research cruise; Center: USGS staff deploying a seismic system from a research vessel; left: Chuck Worley ready to deploy a multibeam e

USGS Research Geologist Dr. Erika Lentz is conducting real-time kinematic GPS surveys on barrier island dunes, part of her research looking at how coastal landscapes respond to sea-level rise.

Example of new Open-Graded Friction Course (OGFC) pavement layer at the start of the project. OGFC, commonly referred to as porous pavement, is a layer of porous asphalt spread over the surface of impervious hot mix or dense-graded asphalt (HMA) that is traditionally used as the wearing surface in Massachusetts.