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Green River at Spottsville,KY - lock view from bridge, during flood waters - March 2015.

Green River at Spottsville, KY - February 2015 high water

Green River at Spottsville, KY - February 2015 high water

Green River at Spottsville, KY - flooded property March 2015

Exposure of the Marcellus shale in central New York showing the Cherry Valley limestone (grey-colored rock) between the Union Springs and Oatka Creek shales of the Marcellus.

Hydrologist Charlie Culbertson holds an acoustic velocity meter under the ice covered river while standing under the covered bridge over the Ellis River at South Andover, Maine. This meter is used to collect streamflow information through the ice during the winter period.

Cuyahoga River at Independence OH - light shore ice

Cuyahoga River at Independence OH - left control

Cuyahoga River at Independence OH - upstream view

Cuyahoga River at Independence OH - right control

On January 14, 2015, hydrologic technicians Jeff Kinsey (shown) and Nick Stasulis visited USGS gaging station 01030500 on the Mattawamkeag River.

Locations of the 97 beaches and barrier islands where our partners used the iPlover app to collect and record information on landcover characteristics at piping plover nesting locations during the breeding seasons of 2014-2016.

USGS staff and Tribal GIS workshop participants

Split-beam (EK60) sonar image of bubbles (green) in the water column at a seep site overlooking Baltimore Canyon on the U.S. Atlantic margin. Although the bubbles appear to nearly reach the sea surface, the methane contained in the bubbles would have dissolved and been replaced by other gases by the time the bubbles rise several hundred meters.

Bottom simulating reflector imaged in 2014 by the USGS along a seismic line acquired south of Hudson Canyon during the Extended Continental Shelf cruise.  Image provided by D. Hutchinson and reproduced from USGS Fact Sheet 3080.

Treated wastewater from Joint Base Cape Cod was discharged to rapid-infiltration disposal beds from 1936 to 1995. The disposal formed a groundwater contamination plume that extends more than 10 kilometers in the Cape Cod sand and gravel glacial outwash aquifer.

Rob Thieler (left), Laura Brothers, and David Foster pull in a cable containing underwater microphones after completing a seismic survey in 2014.

Inundated marsh at Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, New Jersey.

R/V Marcus G. Langseth entering NY Harbor

Visualization of hydrodynamics around seagrass patch.

Preview image of multi-channel seismic data collected by the USGS off the US Seaboard Atlantic as part of the US Extended Continental Shelf project.