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USGS scientist Mike Tate sets up the mass spectrometer for mercury isotope measurements. 

A snow-covered Streamgage 04085074 with a green USGS sign in front of a red barn on an overcast snowy day at Dutchman Creek at Cyrus Street near Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin.

USGS streamgage 04072150 at Duck Creek near Howard, Wisconsin covered in layer of snow overcast December day.

View this streamgage's data here: https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/04072150/

A technician has just finished applying Type IV aircraft anti-icing fluid (which is green) to an airplane parked at a hangar. Anti-icing fluid is applied after the plane has already been deiced and it is used to prevent new ice from forming. Type IV fluid typically shears off the fuselage during takeoff and can be deposited along runways.

Upstream Infall gaging station near the Air Guard 128th Air Refueling Wing base in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Streamgage 05049700 Lake Traverse at Reservation Dam near Wheaton, Minnesota in winter, surrounded by windswept snow, with a pink-hued snow-covered lake and open water in the background.

An orange acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) floats in the middle of the Flambeau River near Bruce, Wisconsin near USGS streamgage 05360500 on an overcast winter day. 

Team members from the USGS Laboratory for Infectious Disease and the Environment (LIDE) collecting private well water samples on a chilly November day in Kewaunee County, Wisconsin. Pictured from left to right Joel Stokdyk (USGS), Rachel Cook (USDA), Aaron Firnstahl (USGS). 

A wintery landscape of snow-covered grass and trees on a late morning in November in Kewaunee County in northeast Wisconsin.

Kewaunee Wisconsin well water advisory forecast study door hanger left after sample collection.

Laboratory for Infectious Disease and the Environment team member Joel Stokdyk collects residential private well water sample for the well water advisory forecast study in Kewaunee County, Wisconsin.

Joel Stokdyk (USGS) and Rachel Cook (USDA) from the USGS Laboratory for Infectious Disease and the Environment (LIDE) standing in front of field vehicle en route to collecting private well water samples on a chilly November day in Kewaunee County, Wisconsin.

Streamgage 05429369 Swan Creek at Lalor Road near Fitchburg, Wisconsin with snow covered brushy vegetation on the shore of stream on overcast day.

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.  

Time lapse video (10x speed) of salmon migrating upstream from Lake Michigan to spawn, taken at Underwood Creek at Wauwatosa, Wisconsin on October 22, 2022.

Site 04087088 Underwood Creek at Wauwatosa, WI https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/04087088/

Time lapse video of salmon migrating upstream from Lake Michigan to spawn, taken on October 22, 2022, at Underwood Creek at Wauwatosa, Wisconsin (https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/04087088/). 

Yellow sediment sampler suspended off side of boat in Manacapuru, Amazon River Basin, Brazil, during a field trip with USGS and National Agency for Water and Basic Sanitation (ANA) scientists (Brazil) and Geological Survey of Brazil (SGB-CPRM).

ANA (Agencia Nacional De Aguas E Saneamento Basico)

SGB-CPRM (Geological Survey of Brazil)

USGS, ANA and Geological Survey of Brazil (SGB-CPRM) staff standing in front of an ANA/SBG-CPRM research vessel in the Amazon River basin in Manacapuru, Brazil to measure measure streamflow and sample suspended sediment.

SGB-CPRM (Geological Survey of Brazil)

ANA (Agencia Nacional De Aguas E Saneamento Basico)

USGS, ANA and SBG-CPRM staff reviewing streamflow measurements on board an ANA/SBG-CPRM research vessel in the Amazon River basin in Manacapuru, Brazil. USGS staff in middle wearing orange shirt and yellow PFD, ANA and SGB-CPRM staff in navy blue attire discuss measurements and look over data.

SGB-CPRM (Geological Survey of Brazil)

USGS meeting with National Agency for Water and Basic Sanitation (ANA) scientists in Brazil.

Top (L – R) ANA Scientists Vitor Saback, Brian McCallum, Mauricio Abijaodi

Bottom (L-R) USGS Hydrologists Travis Knight, Joel Groten, Filipe Sampaio

ANA (Agencia Nacional De Aguas E Saneamento Basico)

USGS meeting with National Agency for Water and Basic Sanitation (ANA) scientists in Brazil, standing in front of three flags (L-R) American flag, Brazilian Flag, ANA logo flag.

(L-R) Mauricio Abijaodi, Brian McCallum, Filipe Sampaio, Joel Groten, Travis Knight, and Vitor Saback.

ANA (Agencia Nacional De Aguas E Saneamento Basico)