Images

Multi-parameter meter installed at Milwaukee River Cherry Street streamgage location. https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/040870115

Milwaukee River at Cherry Street Bridge looking downstream into downtown Milwaukee. https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/040870115

Large-volume microplastics sampler with pump and flow meter next to field vehicle.

Approaching the Port Washington Breakwater Light in Wisconsin on a foggy Lake Michigan while heading out for a day of trawling aboard the USGS research vessel Arcticus during a fall forage fish survey. Photo credit: Patty Dieter, USGS.

Looking downstream at Underwood Creek at Juneau Boulevard at Elm Grove, Wisconsin in early Autumn. https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/040870855

USGS Upper Midwest Water Science Center hydrologist Laura Hubbard (right, in yellow coat and PFD) and Jordan Wight (left, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada) walk between hundreds of spawning sockeye salmon in shallow lake at Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska as they filter water for avian influenza virus.

Scientists scout for brown bears before starting infectious avian influenza water sampling in Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska.

Upper Midwest Water Science Center Hydrologist Laura Hubbard filters wetland water to sample for infectious avian influenza in Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska.

View of submerged passive sampler from above water deployed at Lincoln Creek at 47th Street at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/040869415/

Deployed passive sampler under water at Underwood Creek at Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/04087088/

Installing a rebar stake into river bottom by pounding in from above to be used as an anchor for the passive samplers at Menomonee River at Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin. https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/04087030/

Measuring the stream velocity at the location of passive sampler deployment at Cedar Creek near Cedarburg, Wisconsin. https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/04086500/

Scientist attaching underwater passive sampler to a rebar stake using zip ties at Jewel Creek at Muskego, Wisconsin. https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/05544371/

Benthic algae growing at Oak Creek at East Drexel Avenue in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/04087202/

USGS Director Applegate (center) gathers near a remotely-helmed Saildrone Explorer with U.S. Congressman Tom Tiffany (WI) (second from left), USGS Great Lakes Science Center Director Russell Strach (second from right), Saildrone Director of Ocean Data Programs Matt Womble (right), and USGS Biologist Josh Miller (left) on August 9, 2022, in Ashland, Wisconsin.

USGS Director David Applegate delivers remarks during the celebration of USGS advanced technologies in fisheries science on the Great Lakes, August 9, 2022, in Ashland, Wisconsin. Photo credit: Andrea Miehls, USGS.

DOI and USGS leadership, scientists, and staff are joined by Great Lakes fishery science and management partners for an evening cruise aboard the 107’ USGS research vessel Kiyi in Lake Superior off Ashland, Wisconsin, on August 8, 2022.

Biologist Pat Perner (USGS Upper Midwest Environmental Science Center, left) and Physical Scientist James Romano (UMid WSC, right) collect a sediment core from the Mukwonago River at Mukwonago, Wisconsin. https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/05544200/

Physical Scientist James Romano (UMid WSC, left) and Field Assistant Justin Peschman (UMid WSC, right) collect a sediment core from the Scuppernong River near Palmyra, Wisconsin. https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/05426400

Biologist Pat Perner (USGS Upper Midwest Environmental Science Center, left) and Field Assistant Justin Peschman (UMid WSC, right) collect a sediment core from the Root River at Grange Avenue in Greenfield, Wisconsin. https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/04087214/

Field Assistant Justin Peschman (UMid WSC) filters a water sample for nutrient analysis at Mukwonago River at Mukwonago, Wisconsin. https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/05544200/