Janet M Carter (Former Employee)

The growth of aquaculture to raise trout, sturgeon and other cold-water fish has increased withdrawals of critical groundwater in the Ararat Basin of Armenia. The USGS is working with partners, including USAID, to develop scientific tools for water-resource managers to understand and predict consequences of management decisions in Armenia.

U.S. Geological Survey Hydrologic Technician, Louis Leader Charge, demonstrates collection of stream discharge data to the Field Affair class from the South Dakota School of Mines on June 19, 2012. The demonstration is at Rapid Creek in Rapid City, SD (streamgage 06414000).

Mark Anderson, Director of the USGS South Dakota Water Science Center, dedicated a flood marker at the Post Office in Keystone, SD, in June 2012 to commenorate the 40th anniversary of the devastating 1972 flood in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

Mark Anderson, Director of the USGS South Dakota Water Science Center, dedicated a flood marker at Cleghorn Springs Fish Hatchery in Rapid City, SD, in June 2012 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the devastating 1972 flood in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

Mark Anderson, Director of the USGS South Dakota Water Science Center, with Dr. John H. Marburger, III, Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President. Dr. Marburger was the keynote speaker for the 2008 Western South Dakota Hydrology Conference, held on April 17, 2008, in Rapid City, SD.