Images

Sediment Sampling on the Shinnecock Indian Nation Reservation, Long Island, New York

USGS hydrologist Kaitlyn Colella and a Shinnecock Nation member work together gathering oyster and bed sediment samples.  Contaminants released and or mobilized as a result of Hurricane Sandy may be retained in bed sediments in aquatic environments and may be accumulating in exposed organisms, especially at low trophic levels (for example, oysters).

Highway runoff water along the Harem River in Bronx, NY

Long Island Estuary - part of the North Atlantic Coastal Plain

USGS gage house on Long Island, New York

Long Island beach at sunset

Flooded Gage House Carlls River, Suffolk County, Long Island, NY

 Carlls River at Babylon, NY approximately 3000 ft downstream of the gaging station (01308500). Part of a video  by William Capurso of USGS on 8/13/2014. (Public domain)

Borehole logging

Cornell University's Geothermal Test Site on Roosevelt Island, NY

USGS hydrologist conducting a groundwater elevation survey on Long Island, New York

Water-quality sampling on Long Island, New York

USGS staffers on beach making bathymetric survey of Long Island barrier-island breach from Hurricane Sandy

USGS Team measuring the flow, velocity, width, and depth of the breach in the NPS Wilderness Area on Fire Island National Seashore

Two USGS scientists launching an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) into the ocean from a Long Island, NY beach

Geophysical logging at a borehole well in western Maryland

Long Island body of water

Fairmount 2 well house Long Island, NY

Using ADCP (Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler) to measure current offshore on Long Island, NY.

Groundwater quality sampling techniques

305(b) Groundwater quality sampling