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Tommy Ly (foreground; USGS) and Jake Brinkman (background; USGS) preparing to collect discrete water quality samples on Folsom Lake. Photo: Maura Uebner (USGS).

Figure 3: Maura Uebner (USGS) collecting radiance measurements using an SVC 512i on Pardee Reservoir, CA. Photo: Tommy Ly (USGS)

Banner graphic for fall 2023 ACWA conference held in Indian Wells, California.

USGS booth at fall 2023 Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA) conference in Indian Wells, California.

The CAWSC ACWA Conference team included (L to R): Steve Ackley, Elizabeth Jachens, Anke Mueller-Solger, John "Izzy" Izbicki, Bryant Jurgens, and Claudia Faunt

Dr. John Izbicki discusses research with an Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA) conference attendee.

Dr. John Izbicki (seated) discusses differences in local geology within the groundwater aquifer with Hinkley residents. This took place at a meeting in Sacramento to discuss the development of MODFLOW Model.

A USGS scientist meets with a Hinkley resident at research site to discuss the details of a geophysical survey.

Researchers from the USGS use a mobile lab to carry out on-site sample analyses near Hinkley, CA.

Additional analyses at a USGS lab in Menlo Park were also conducted, but not before the Technical Advisory Committee was given a tour of the USGS and an explanation of all that is entailed. In this photo, a USGS scientist explains data from the mobile laboratory to members of the Hinkley community.

USGS researchers discuss Menlo Park lab analysis details with representatives from the Technical Advisory Committee. 

This is a photograph of a Citrus orchard and canal in California's Coachella-Valley.

Elisabeth LaBarbera, Andrea Jaegge, Nick Framsted, and Schuyler Nardelli hosted a workshop for the Expanding Your Horizons Conference. During lunchtime networking, Anna Conlen and Lawrence Fujiwara from the West Sacramento Projects Office hosted a USGS table where the girls were able to learn all about a future career with the USGS.

One part of the “Dive into the Bay Delta” workshop involved using Skittles to help demonstrate the concept of chromatography. Here, Elisabeth LaBarbera pours hot water over the Skittles and students observe how the running colors form a pattern. 

The USGS workshop called “Dive into the Bay-Delta” featured chromatography, microscopy, and sediment cores. Here USGS workshop leaders assist students with their hands-on activity.

During lunchtime networking, Anna Conlen and Lawrence Fujiwara from the West Sacramento Projects Office hosted a USGS table where the girls were able to learn all about a future career with the USGS.

San Francisco Bay as seen from USGS R/V Peterson with the bay waters, the City of San Francisco and Bay Bridge.

The USGS R/V Peterson conducts monthly cruises covering the San Francisco Estuary up to the Sacramento River at Rio Vista, California. The USGS has been researching and monitoring the San Francisco Estuary since 1969.

Twitchell Island Pump Station Monitoring Site. Instruments are housed in vertical PVC pipes.

Existing monitoring locations in the Sepulveda Basin v2 

Continuous, Water-Quality Monitoring of the Los Angeles River

Sediment-monitoring locations in the Sepulveda Basin Map of the Sediment-monitoring locations in the Sepulveda Flood Control Basin for the Continuous, Water-Quality Monitoring of the Los Angeles River website.