Images

Northeast Region Photo Contest Winner | April 2019 | Honorable Mention
Esmeralda Vargas taking data on an estuary sample

Matt Jennings (pictured) and Andrew Kowalczk (Boat Chief) on Seneca Lake using an underwater camera and grappling hook to locate and recover lost equipment from the Harmful Algal Bloom (HABs) Project platform that was damaged by an early winter storm. The platform mooring buoy can be seen in the background. Photo by Andrew Kowalczk (Public Domain)

Sean Stewart and Brendan Hallmark making repairs at the Green Island streamgage  (01358000) on the Hudson River. Photo by Travis Smith (Public Domain)

Matthew Jennings and Andrew Kowalczk breaking ice on the boat ramp before retrieving the Harmful Algal Bloom Data Collection Platform moored in Seneca Lake, NY.

Mohawk River at Lock 9 at Rotterdam Junction, NY

Mohawk RIver at Vischer Ferry Dam Ice Jam camera

An ice jam in place at Buffalo Creek at Gardenville (gage 04214500) Photo by Elizabeth Nystrom (Public Domain)

Northeast Region Photo Contest Winner | February 2019 | USGS at Work
Banu Bayraktar making a streamflow measurement at Carmans River, Yaphank, NY

Banu Bayraktar learns how to make a streamflow measurement at Carmans River at Yaphank, NY, as part of our new "Hydrologic Monitoring in the Central Pine Barrens" program. Photo by Amy Simonson (Public Domain)

Waning fall foliage as seen on a rural Adirondack road during the Western Adirondack Stream Survey (WASS) conducted in November, 2018. Photo by Scott George

Gradients of N deposition, S deposition, mean annual temperature, and mean annual precipitation across the conterminous U.S. Panels are the a) mean total N deposition from 2000–2012, b) mean total S deposition from 2000–2012, c) mean annual temperature from 2000–2014, and d) mean annual precipitation form 2000–2014.

Northeast Region Photo Contest Winner | November 2018 | USGS at Work
N. Cheung leaving Rockway Inlet NY tide station

USGS Hydrologist Irene Fisher monitors groundwater conditions at an agricultural well.

Biologists from the USGS and Nature Conservancy identify a small fish captured during a September electrofishing survey on a tributary to Follensby Pond, Adirondack Mountains, New York

Karen Murray and a visitor at Canajoharie Creek near Canajoharie, NY during ecological sampling for the National Water Quality Assessment project.

A large Mohawk River tributary

Lake Ontario gage installation

USGS Hydrologist deploys water quality monitoring buoy on Skaneateles Lake

Pier water quality monitoring station at Skaneateles Lake

Peggy Phillips measures a young red maple in an Adirondack watershed to see if liming has improved tree growth in a watershed where acid rain severely acidified the soil.

Groundwater Sampling in Nassau County, Long Island, New York