Images

Brook Trout from an Adirondack lake

Panoramic view (~270 degrees) looking across the Blue Ridge of Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee (from left to right).  The Valley and Ridge is in the distance (gap between mountains). 

Panoramic view looking southeast across the Blue Ridge of Virginia and North Carolina.  The mountains in the distances are underlain by amphibolite of the eastern Blue Ridge. 

South Side of Clove Lake at Victory Blvd., Long Island, NY

Digital still photograph from Ipswich Bay near Salisbury, MA, showing a lobster, sponges, and brachiopods, on cobbles and ledge covered with bubblegum algae and red filamentous algae.  A thin veneer of coarse sand and gravelly sediment partially cover the rocks. Water depth at this location is approximately 24 meters.

New York groundwater well

Ketchumville Creek near Maine, New York

Fish shocking in the West Branch of the Neversink River

Photo Contest Winner | Feb. 2020 | Honorable Mention 1
Box turtle

Macroalgae, seagrass, and litter in West Falmouth Harbor, MA

Stream discharge measurement Nissequogue River, Suffolk County, Long Island, NY

Yellow River near Brems, IN - view of bridge

USGS lake elevation gage on Lewy Lake at Princeton, Maine, station 01019300. 

Yellow River near Brems, IN - dirty equipment probe

Yellow River near Brems, IN - under the bridge

The impacts of Tropical Storm Irene lingered on long after the storm. This photo shows the Green River in Great Barrington, Massachusetts (USGS station ID 01198000) and was taken on May 14, 2012, almost a year after Irene. This tree was lodged under the Hurlburt Rd.

Soil testing near Sandy Pond West, Long Island, NY

Groundwater well measurement S-50500- discrete - Suffolk County , Long Island, NY

Water-quality sampling on Mohawk River

USGS hydrologist Alton Anderson of the New York Water Science Center teaches a borehole logging class to students in Bangladesh.

New York stream in winter