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Hydrologic Technician Luke Haara taking readings at streamgage - 04057801 Middle Branch Escanaba River at US Highway 41 near Humboldt, Michigan on Sept. 21, 2023. https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/04057800/

Upper Midwest Water Science Center employees who attended the Great Lakes Area of Concern Conference 2023 in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

(L to R): Hayley Olds, Grace Armstrong, Sarah Janssen, Leon Katona, Lisa Fogarty, Jeannette Cruz, Kayla Lockmiller, Tori Byers, Alexei Rose, Isaac Mevis

Tori Byers (left) and Kayla Lockmiller (right) present a poster atthe Great Lakes Areas of Concern (AOC) Conference 2023 in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Sarah Janssen presents at Great Lakes Areas of Concern Conference 2023 in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Joe Clark and Doug Bonno operating UTV during safety training with James Letsos, Sept. 6, 2023. 

James Romano holds a microplastic sampling net at Portage Lake, Minnesota before it is deployed into the lake to collect surface water microplastics.

Streamgage 04043050 on the bank of the Trap Rock River near Lake Linden, Michigan in the Keweenaw Peninsula.

https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/04043050/

Streamgage 04043050 on the bank of the Trap Rock River near Lake Linden, Michigan in the Keweenaw Peninsula.

https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/04043050/

Angus Vaughan (USGS Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, right) and Heidi Broerman (USGS Upper Midwest Water Science Center, left) pilot a research vessel down the Kalamazoo River, Michigan toward a reference reach where riverbed substrate will be characterized.

Stones on Lake Superior beach at Great Sand Bay in the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan

Amygdaloidal basalt rock on Great Sand Bay beach on Lake Superior in Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan.

A piece of blue plastic fishing twine on Great Sand Bay beach on Lake Superior in the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan.

Streamgage 04060993 overlooks the Brule River at highway 2 near Florence, Wisconsin on an overcast day in June.

https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/04060993/

Streamgage 04060993 overlooks the Brule River at highway 2 near Florence, Wisconsin on an overcast day in June.

https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/04060993/

Mercury Research Laboratory team at the Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, Wisconsin

Smallmouth Bass are good indicators of methylmercury exposure to humans and wildlife because they are a common, popular sport fish and eat a variety of food during their lifetime. Juvenile Smallmouth Bass – smaller than 150mm in length - eat zooplankton, or microscopic animals.

James Romano sampling Mille Lacs Lake in Minnesota for microplastics in surface water and benthic sediment.

Group photo of the Web Informatics and Mapping (WIM) team.

Front row (left to right): Julia Prokopec, Harper Wavra, Aileen Clarke, Lorraine Metz, Chad Fanguy, Daniel Rubin, Milan Liu

Middle row (left to right): Lauren Privette, Andrea Medenblik, Aaron Stephenson, Hans Vraga, Kathy Dooley, Maggie Jaenicke, Andrew Laws

Supervisory hydrologic technician Ben Torrison (left) is interviewed by a Kare11 news crew at a USGS streamgage 05288580, Rice Creek below old highway 8 in Mounds Veiw, Minnesota north of Minneapolis on April 19, 2023.

Hydrologist Ryder Myers and Research Hydrologist Laura Hubbard wade in a wetland while collecting water samples to detect infectious avian influenza virus in Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge, Louisiana.

Scientists attach a GPS tracking device to a blue-winged teal at Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge, Louisiana.