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Close-up photograph of USGS Hydrologist Christopher Schubert on a rocky beach. Provided for use as his Staff Profile photo.

The USGS installs a sensor to monitor groundwater levels in real time at a well located at the City University of New York, York College campus. 

The USGS installs a sensor to monitor groundwater levels in real time at a well located at the City University of New York, York College campus. 

The USGS installs a sensor to monitor groundwater levels in real time at a well located at the City University of New York, York College campus. 

Leveling a newly installed radar gage on the dock at Rye Playland, NY.

Spring 2024 Photo Contest Winner: Natalie Cheung, USGS at Work category

Photograph of the Lake in Central Park, NY under harmful algal bloom conditions.

Andrew Kowalczk, a NYWSC scientific diver, entering the Oneida River to conduct annual servicing to an Index Velocity gage. The NYWSC divers service various gages across the state to ensure data collected is as accurate as possible for the cooperators and public.

Fall 2023 Photo Contest Winner: Zachary Heck, People category

Electa Hare-RedCorn is a member of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma and a descendant of the Ihanktonwan Dakota tribal communities. She was participant in the Native American Research Assistantship program in 2023 with mentors from the New York Water Science Center and New England Water Science Center.

Electa Hare-RedCorn was a participant in the Native American Research Assistantship program in 2023. She was mentored by USGS staff at the New England and New York Water Science Centers.

Amanda May is taking field measurements prior to cleaning the sensors at one of the sites for the SALT project in Lake Placid, NY, on a chilly winter day.

Winter 2023 Photo Contest Winner: Cara Udvadia, Honorable Mention category

Downstream view of the East Branch Fish Creek at Taberg, New York

Winter 2023 Photo Contest Winner: Zachary Heck, Where We Work category

USGS recently tested ground-penetrating radar (GPR) on a drone for mapping peat thickness and extent. This work is part of a collaboration with Florida Atlantic University to study and locate large carbon gas emissions from peat soils in the swampy wetlands of the Everglades in Florida.

USGS recently tested ground-penetrating radar (GPR) on a drone for mapping peat thickness and extent. This work is part of a collaboration with Florida Atlantic University to study and locate large carbon gas emissions from peat soils in the swampy wetlands of the Everglades in Florida.

USGS scientists collect sediment core samples to study the history of cyanobacteria blooms in New York’s Moreau Lake.

USGS scientists collect sediment core samples to study the history of cyanobacteria blooms in New York’s Moreau Lake.

USGS scientists collect sediment core samples to study the history of cyanobacteria blooms in New York’s Moreau Lake.

USGS scientists collect sediment core samples to study the history of cyanobacteria blooms in New York’s Moreau Lake.

Image of Gloeotrichia echinulata colonies found by USGS scientists in the water column at Moreau Lake in New York.

Image of Gloeotrichia echinulata colonies found by USGS scientists in the water column at Moreau Lake in New York.

Differential leveling techniques are performed by Alex Wong to determine reference-mark elevations at historic USGS streamgage, 01303000 Mill Neck Creek in Mill Neck, NY.

Summer 2022 Photo Contest Winner: Amy Simonson, Where We Work category

Photo Contest Winner | Winter 2022 | People

Photo of nine USGS employees posing for a picture during ice training