Images

Photographer, Jake Seawolf, captured an aerial view of Bear Lake, USGS boat, and employees on a water-quality platform on a cold and blustery November day using a drone. Jake volunteered his time and talents with the USGS. He is a full-time professional photographer for the US Army.

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.  

A Piper Navajo fixed-wing aircraft with rear facing stinger magnetometer. Credit: New-Sense Geophysics Limited 

An AS350 helicopter with forward facing stinger magnetometer. Credit: New-Sense Geophysics Limited 

USGS conducts vegetation and soil drought and climatic research at long-term study sites in Canyonlands National Park, Utah in partnership with the National Park Service. This photo shows a site tour of a protected grassland that has been monitored by the USGS since 1996, with 2025 marking the 30th year of continuous data collection.

Drought Intensity Map compiled by the U.S. Drought Monitor for the area of NOAA's Colorado River Basin River Forecast Center, which includes part of the Great Basin drainage area in western Utah, for April 19, 2024.

An ecological site group map for the Upper Colorado River Basin that displays a quantitative soil-geomorphic framework in the Four Corners region, USA.

Photo of Zion Canyon located in Zion National Park in Utah, United States. (Image courtesy of Justin Gould)

USGS drilling and installing monitoring wells at trench infiltrations site in Monument Valley, Utah, Navajo Nation Reservation, to investigate the feasibility of recharging a groundwater aquifer.

This photo of lichen was taken by SBSC in Moab, Utah as part of a biocrust study in 2021. Photo courtesy of Erika Geiger, USGS.

Photo looking downstream from the Pack Creek Road Bridge shows the rain gage on top with a USGS sticker. Below is a solar panel for power. The other white round object contains the data logger and satellite antenna.

Cathedral Valley, Capital Reef National Park, Utah. Photo by Chris Benson, USGS.

A panorama of Cathedral Valley, Capital Reef National Park, Utah. Photo by Chris Benson, USGS, 2021.

USGS hydrologic technician Travis Gibson confirms Great Salt Lake water levels at the SaltAire gauge.

A sailboat is removed from the Great Salt Lake Marina due to low lake levels. 

USGS researchers walk to a long-term vegetation and drought study site in a Canyonlands National Park grassland, Utah, where long-term monitoring has occurred since 1998.

USGS scientist Dr. Erika Geiger gathers research at a vegetation drought monitoring study in Canyonlands National Park, Utah. Here Dr. Geiger collects data on warm season grasses at a control plot associated with a long-term drought experiment.

3DEP lidar rendering of Millsite Reservoir near Millsite State Park, Utah. 

USGS hydrologist Adam Birken cleans and inspects the water height reference staff at the USGS streamgage site on the South Fork of the Ogden River near Hunstville, Utah.  This streamgage has been monitoring water levels and flow since March 21, 1921, making it one of 25 centennial gauges in Utah. 

USGS hydrologist Adam Birken conducts equipment maintenance at the USGS streamgage on the South Fork of the Ogden River near Hunstville, Utah. This streamgage has been monitoring water levels and flow since March 21, 1921, making it one of 25 centennial gauges in Utah. 

A U.S. Geological Survey streamgage near Hunstville, Utah is celebrating 100 years of monitoring streamflow on the south fork of the Ogden River. The streamgage has been monitoring water levels and flow since March 21, 1921, making it one of 25 centennial gauges in Utah.