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Location of continuous real-time water-quality monitoring sites and land use in the Cheney Reservoir drainage basin, south-central Kansas.

Butterflies and moths are submitted to the KS WSC for the Lepidoptera Research Collection Citizen Science Project. Julie Dietze holds a sphinx moth received from Texas. 

A Citizen Science Flyer requesting people to mail in deceased butterflies, moths, and skippers to help begin a USGS Scientific Collection to further research related to the decline of insect populations.

Specimens from a USGS Lepidoptera Research Collection stored at the Kansas WSC Organic Geochemistry Reseearch Laboratory. Specimens are received as part of a Citizen Science effort to establish a collection to further insect research. 

Image of pipettors used in the laboratory. Pipettes are stored on charging docking stations. 

Image shows equipment for analysis of targeted and non-targeted organic contaminants at the OGRL located at the KS WSC. 

Mail in deceased butterflies, moths, and skippers and help United States Geological Survey(USGS) scientists establish a Lepidoptera Research Collection (LRC). Specimens will help USGS scientists identify contaminants and environmental factors which may be contributing to the decline of insect populations.

This is the instrument laboratory of the Organic Geochemistry Research Laboratory located in the KS WSC.

Image of the Week (IOW) Cheyenne Bottoms Dries Out thumbnail. Image of the Week highlights satellite and other remote sensing imagery from around the world.

Map showing principal aquifers (PAs) and wells that were sampled as part of a Nationwide assessment of the quality of groundwater used for public supply.  

Image shows different types of sample containers filled with a variety of sample matrices tested by the OGRL. 

Photo of the front of the Kansas Water Science Center office in Lawrence, Kansas. In the background is a pink tinted sky and a rainbow.

View from the bridge in Eudora as during the early morning as USGS scientists prepare for a dye injection.

View of USGS vehicle and dye buckets preparation on a bridge over the Kansas River in Eudora.

The rhodamine dye plume seconds after injection into the Kansas River at Eudora, KS.

Julie Dietze checks suplies for the QAQC test on the temperature cards in a walk in freezer.

Annaliese Estevez, Leyton Brunner, and Emiley Fletcher, three student interns helping the Logistics Teams, stand in front of logistics supplies.

Justin Krahulik, Logan Neal, Moussu Guira & Julie Dietze finish packing the last shipments for the field.

USGS Hydrotechs sample collecting in the early morning at the Gathering Pond below Milford Lake.

Algal accumulation near the shore of the Gathering Pond below Milford Lake.

Algal accumulation at Ferguson Marsh in the Perry Lake Wetland Complex.