Images

Continuous water quality monitor that is deployed off a bridge in Westerly RI, just upstream of the 01118500 gage.

Hydrologic technician performing an electric tape down measurement of a real-time groundwater well. The site ID is: 412154071462901 RI-WEW 522 in Westerly, Rhode Island.

Photo of the Well CHW 18, Ninigret Park, Charlestown, Rhode Island. The depth of the well is 32.0 feet below land surface.

This is a graphic from the USGS National Oil and Gas Assessment Explorer application, which allows user to drill into 70 oil and gas assessment provinces throughout the United States.

View of the Sakonnet River, the eastern arm of the Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island.

The total area (land and water) of Rhode Island is only 1,545 square miles. The state measures about 37 miles east-west, and about 48 miles north-south.

Capital Providence

Image Source Landsat 8

Population 1,097,379

Number of Pixels 3,162,631

Photograph of monitoring station at U.S. Geological Survey streamgage 01115110, Huntinghouse Brook at Elmdale Road near North Scituate, Rhode Island.

Photograph of the sampling system used to collect flow-proportional filtered and nonfiltered composite samples of stormflow at the 01115110, Huntinghouse Brook at Elmdale Road near North Scituate, Rhode Island, streamgage.

Landsat image of the area near Providence, Rhode Island. This natural color Landsat composite was created using the red, green and blue bands. 

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Photo of the seafloor in Block Island Sound showing a rock crab and several shrimp on a boulder that is covered with bryozoans. The photo was collected in support of research and management activities (e.g., wind farms and fisheries) along the Rhode Island inner continental shelf.

After Hurricane Sandy, USGS researchers survey elevation at the location of a wrack line, indicating a high-water level mark, on Block Island, Rhode Island.

A coastal home damaged by Hurricane Sandy's historic storm surge on a beach in Rhode Island.

A coastal home damaged by Hurricane Sandy's historic storm surge on a beach in Rhode Island.

A coastal home damaged by Hurricane Sandy's historic storm surge on a beach in Rhode Island.

Debris jam from flooding after Tropical Strom Irene on the upstream side of the Bulkeley Bridge in Hartford, CT.

Satellite imagery of southern Connecticut showing the Connecticut River and the Thames River, with the Connecticut River a muddy color due to heavy sediment transport. 

A sediment sample taken from Connecticut River at Thompsonville, CT (01184000). 

High water from Tropical Storm Irene at going past the Housatonic River at Falls Village, CT (01199000) streamgage, park and boat ramp on the far side of river is inundated by the flood water.

Covered bridge over Otter Creek showing a high-water mark (silt line) from Tropical Storm Irene.

On Aug. 28th, 2011, this image was collected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua Satellite and shows the center of Tropical Storm Irene passing over New England. State borders and coastlines are shown as black lines.

Hydrologic Technicians strapping a water level sensor to a retaining wall piling in preparation for the arrival of Tropical Storm Irene and its storm surge.