Images

Upstream Network Trace in StreamStats screenshot

See data for USGS gage 15275100 Chester Creek at Arctic Boulevard at Anchorage, AK.

Data Science: Water Use in 2015 Visualization. Click here to read more about USGS Water Resources Mission Area Data Science. 

Figure 1. The USGS FIM Mapper, showing an example flood and hydrograph for Terra Haute, Ind. (Please note, the flood condition displayed represents a higher stream stage than shown in the hydrograph.)

The headwaters of the Colorado and Gunnison Rivers was selected in 2019 as an Integrated Water Science Basin.

StreamStats application screenshot

Data Science: Lake Mead Water Level Decline Visualization. Click here to read more about USGS Water Resources Mission Area Data Science. 

Data visualization pulling together multiple datasets from multiple agencies to explain how rain and flooding from Hurricane Florence impacted the landscape.

Data visualization pulling together multiple datasets from multiple agencies to explain how rain and flooding from Hurricane Florence impacted the landscape.

Snow falls on USGS Hydrologist, Joe Nawikas, as he collects groundwater samples in Mammoth, California.

Research Hydrologist Paul Hsieh collects seismic data during a groundwater study at Pinnacles National Park in California. The red seismometer on the ground measures ambient seismic noise, which includes microtremors induced by wind, ocean waves, and human activity.

USGS scientists collect sediment cores to examine the amount and distribution of metals within Lake Powell.  

Kelvey Merill ADCP measurement at Perdanales River near Fredricksburg - Lynne Fahlquist USGS. 

Drill rig to collect sediment samples on Lake Powell.

USGS scientists work with heavy machinery to collect sediment through the full thickness of the San Juan and Colorado River deltas. 

Core processing hut provides a sheltered environment for scientists to process the cores for shipment to the National Lacustrine Core Facility

USGS scientists collect sediment cores to examine the amount and distribution of metals within Lake Powell.  

In this photo, a small unoccupied aicraft (sUAS) or drone is being prepared to collect thermal infrared data to assess groundwater discharge into Las Vegas Wash, in Clark County, Nevada. The umbrella provides shade to keep the equipment from getting too hot.

Graph of budget components from a MT3D-USGS simulation versus time generated by GW_Chart based on results from a hypothetical model.

USGS Research Oceanographer Lauren Toth and Oceanographer Anastasios Stathakopoulos study a coral-reef core in the USGS’s Core Archive in St. Petersburg, Florida. Photo: Dominique Gallery, USGS.

Yellowstone River Valley, northeast of Billings, from 37,002 feet, Delta Flight 610, Seattle to Atlanta, Yellowstone County, Montana . Photograph by Alan Cressler, USGS