Images

Kanakee River at Davis, IN - downstrean of bridge

Yellow River at Knox, IN - downstream of bridge

Yellow River at Knox, IN - control under bridge

Grand River near Painesville, OH - bridge view

A view of the Berkley-Dighton Bridge that cross over the Taunton River in Massachusetts. USGS and the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection collects water quality data in the Taunton River.

Drilling and core sampling on the Shinnecock Tribal Lands, Long Island, NY

NYWSC scientist collecting groundwater samples

The Maine Office boat, "Miss Q", is parked next to the boat launch on Verona Island, ready to begin data collection on the Penobscot River. The crew was preparing to collect ADCP data (depth and velocity) as well as conductivity, temperature and depth profiles at various locations. In the background is the Penobscot Narrows Bridge and Fort Knox.

Cores were collected from various areas of thawing permafrost-peatlands in Alaska. Permafrost thaw results in ground subsidence and inundation that kills black spruce and other understory plants living on the permafrost plateau. 

Page Valentine and Dann Blackwood on the fantail of the NOAA R/V Auk.  Dann is photographing a sediment sample collected on the seabed.  

Page Valentine works with NOAA staff from the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary to ready the SEABoss for deployment off the fantail of the NOAA R/V Auk. 

USGS 01174565 gaging station, West Branch Swift River near Shutesbury, Massachusetts

USGS Research Scientist, Meagan Gonneea, talking about the differences between coastal salt marshes and invasive phragmites at the 2017 Woods Hole Science Stroll outreach event

Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center Science Stroll participants; Dann Blackwood, Andrea Toran, Emily Sturdivant, Ellyn Montgomery, Sara Zeigler, Neil Ganju, Seth Ackerman, Laura Brothers, Meagan Gonneea

SeaBOSS Selfies were a big hit at the 2017 Woods Hole Science Stroll.  

Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center drone pilot, Emily Sturdivant, lands a drone on target at the 2017 Woods Hole Science Stroll

Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center drone pilot, Emily Sturdivant, provides a demonstration of drone capabilities at the 2017 Woods Hole Science Stroll

Aeiral image of Woods Hole, MA taken during the 2017 Woods Hole Science Stroll.  The green USGS tent generated a lot of interest and participation from Science Stroll attendees

USGS employee conducts gage inspection at the 1175500 Swift River, MA gage location.

USGS Streamgage 1174500 East Branch Swife Near Hardwick, MA . 

USGS scientist SOD sampling in the Mohawk RIver