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USGS scientists collect time-domain electromagnetic sounding in the Texas southern highplains to measure hydrogeologic properties below the land surface.

South-oriented view of the Rio Grande near Radium Springs, New Mexico, February 4, 2014 (photograph by Andrew J. Robertson).

SIR 2016–5010

Scott Bendtson, a hydrologic technician with the Maine Office of the New England Water Science Center, is seen here making a discharge measurement through the ice on the St. John River at Ninemile Bridge, USGS station number 01010000.

Nick Stasulis, a hydrologic technician with the Maine Office of the New England Water Science Center, is seen here making a wading discharge measurement on the East Branch Wesserunsett Stream near Athens, USGS station number 01048220.

An ice jam on the East Branch Wesserunsett Stream in Athens, Maine in January 2014 left 3-5 ft ice walls on the riverbanks. On a January 21, 2014 site visit Nick Stasulis and Charlie Culbertson chisled away some of the ice wall so a discharge measurement could be made.

USGS hydrologic technician Bob Reaves collects streamflow measurements from the cableway at the USGS streamgage on the Snake River near Moran, WY. Jackson Lake Dam is shown in the background. Location: USGS streamgage station 13011000, Snake River near Moran, WY, Grand Teton National Park.

A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service scientist collects water samples on Little Lake Butte des Morts, Wisconsin, for contaminants testing.

An oil/brine spill in the Williston Basin.

U.S. Geological Survey employee sampling water from a Principal Aquifer. Photo by James Kingbury, 2013. 

This well is being sampled for water-quality constituents as part of the NAWQA Enhanced Trend Network project.

This well is being sampled for water-quality constituents as part of the NAWQA Enhanced Trend Network project.

USGS employee Steve Gerner measuring discharge with water temperature at 21.9 degrees F, at USGS gage 10010020 Great Salt Lake Breach at Lakeside, UT

This figure illustrates shoreline retreat caused by a combination of sea-level rise and land subsidence. 

Water in a Mountain Stream in Nelson County Virginia

The USGS monitors several small watersheds in Maine as part of a project with the Maine DOT to help more accurately design culvert sizes. 

In this photo, hydrologic technician Nick Stasulis wades a brook near Dresden, Maine as part of a streamflow measurement.

A large-volume public supply well in San Antonio, Texas.  This well is being sampled for water-quality constituents as part of the NAWQA Enhanced Trend Network project.

This well is being sampled for water-quality constituents as part of the NAWQA Enhanced Trend Network project.

South Mill Creek near Mozer, WV.

USGS scientists Craig Weiss and Michael Scheider make a streamflow measurement at Onion Creek at U.S. Highway 183 in Austin, TX.

USGS scientist Monica Langhorst measures gage height with a wire weight at Onion Creek at U.S. Highway 183 in Austin, TX.

USGS scientist Monica Langhorst measures gage height with a wire weight at Onion Creek at U.S. Highway 183 in Austin, TX.