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Trent Watts, a USGS hydrologic technician, uses an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler to measure the amount of water flowing in Perkiomen Creek in Graterford, Pennsylvania, on December 18. USGS photo by Cameron Ensor.

The streets of Hallowell, Maine, were flooded following heavy rains that hit New England and most of the East Coast, December 18, 2023. USGS photo by Glenn Hodgkins

Photo taken in Hallowell, Maine on December 19, 2023, following a powerful rainstorm.

Piscataquis River in Maine during flood following a powerful rainstorm. Vicinity of the USGS streamgage 01031500, Piscataquis River near Dover-Foxcroft, Maine on December 19, 2023.

Flooding surrounds USGS streamgage 01029500 on the East Branch of the Penobscot River in Grindstone, Maine. The river flooded after a significant rainstorm added several inches of rain and melted snowpack in late December 2023.

The Kennebec River flooded in downtown Augusta, Maine, after a heavy rainstorm. USGS streamgage 01049320 monitors the streamflow of this area

The Kennebec River flooded in downtown Hallowell, Maine, after a heavy rainstorm. USGS streamgage 01049330 monitors the streamflow of this area.

USGS Scientist makes a gage inspection during the rain event at Nepaug River near Nepaug, Connecticut - 01187800. The 1800 cubic feet per second (CFS) measured during the powerful rainstorm was the highest measurement on record to date, according to provisional data.

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

The break room in the Connecticut Office has two walls of windows that bring in a lot of natural light.

The New England Water Science Center Connecticut Office is located on the campus of Goodwin University at 339 Main Street in East Hartford.

The New England Water Science Center's Connecticut office has a spacious three-door garage.

A view of the Neponset River in Canton, Massachusetts, near a 01105554 USGS streamgage at Greenlodge Street.

Hydrologic Technician Brendan Crowley collecting a water quality sample at Moose River in Victory, VT (01134500). This site is sampled monthly for the Upper Connecticut River Watershed project.

Andrew Kowalczk, a NYWSC scientific diver, entering the Oneida River to conduct annual servicing to an Index Velocity gage. The NYWSC divers service various gages across the state to ensure data collected is as accurate as possible for the cooperators and public.

Fall 2023 Photo Contest Winner: Zachary Heck, People category

Fish Biologist Micah Kieffer holds a shortnose sturgeon during a public outreach event at EESC's S.O. Conte Research Lab in Turners Falls, MA. 

David Walters measuring surface elevation table that is used to assess changes in wetland surface (accretion and/or erosion) at Money Stump in Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge in Cambridge, Maryland.

Winter 2024 Photo Contest: Melinda Martinez, Honorable Mention category

USGS Scientists and Survey Technicians from the Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center (Laura Brothers, Dave Foster, Pat Berube and Chuck Worley) deploying geophysical survey systems on the R/V Pelican in the Gulf of Mexico.

Fall 2023 Photo Contest Winner: Seth Ackerman, Honorable Mention category

Longfellow Bridge, completed in 1906 and renamed for Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1927, viewed upstream from a window inside the Museum of Science at Science Park in Boston, Massachusetts. The museum occupies the site of the 1910 Charles River Dam Bridge.

The Boston Public Garden lagoon is a shallow, human‑constructed surface‑water body situated within the historic Public Garden in downtown Boston.

Brandon Graham collecting a sample from a sediment exposure at Army Base Fort Drum, New York. These samples were collected as part of an OSL (optically-stimulated luminescence) dating campaign in collaboration with Shannon Mahan of the USGS Luminescence Lab in Denver, CO.

Fall 2023 Photo Contest Winner: Grant Colip, USGS at Work category