Images

Portland, OR WSC hydrotech and USGS retirement scholarship recipient, Will Long, conducting a wading measurement at beautiful Tanner Creek located in the Columbia Gorge, OR.

USGS gage 15955000 Canning River above Staines River near Deadhorse, AK. Derek Frohbelter loading helicopter for return to Kavik.

Exposed Austin Group in road cut excavation located on south side of U.S. Highway 90 and approximately midway between Sabinal and Knippa Texas, eastern Uvalde County, Tex. Photograph taken May 29, 2012.

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Side-looking sediment acoustics. Acoustic Doppler velocity meters (ADVMs) installed at the Illinois River near Florence, May 23, 2012.

Sample of dragonfly larvae in water in bottom of zip-lock plastic bag, held at horizon level with lake. At Sand Point Lake in Voyageurs National Park.

Installing stream monitoring equipment on a tributary to Grizzly Bear Creek, May 9, 2012. Water-quality sampling of groundwater and surface water was conducted during 2011-15 at Mount Rushmore National Memorial to characterize the occurrent of perchlorate and selected metals commonly associated with fireworks.

Sandstone ledges in the Escondido Formation located approximately 7 miles south-southeast of the community of D’Hanis in Medina County, Texas. Photograph taken April 13, 2012, by Robert R. Morris.

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The image shows a screen capture of the ModelMuse main window along with the caption "OK this is the final concentrations."

Kerry Caslow cleaning a water quality sonde that is outfitted with probes for continuous monitoring of water temperature, specific conductance, and turbidity. It is imperative that the sondes be regularly maintained so that the data, which is published online in realtime, is always accurate.

USGS scientist Paul Ankcorn takes a discharge measurement near USGS streamgage 02177000 CHATTOOGA RIVER NEAR CLAYTON, GA.

Paul Ankcorn takes a discharge measurement on the Chattooga River, Georgia.

USGS employee Paul Ankorn making a discharge measurement at USGS gage 02177000 Chattooga River near Clayton, GA.

Photograph showing outcrop of eroded and dissected extinct volcano located adjacent to the Frio River and east of the city of Uvalde in Uvalde County, Texas. Basalt is remnant of volcanic neck, and adjacent to the basalt is pyroclastic material ranging from fine-grained material to volcanic bombs, which formed the slope of the volcano.

West Fork of North Branch Chicago River at Northbrrok, IL.

USGS hydrologist Hannah Ingleston extracting cations from soil samples using an ammonium chloride method.

Karstic caves represent one of the most important subterranean carbon storages on Earth and provide windows into the subsurface. In the newly discovered Herrenberg Cave, Germany, Denise Akob and others were involved in investigating the diversity and potential role of bacteria in carbonate mineral formation (Rusznyak et al. submitted).

Reston Microbiology laboratory personel Sampling a Stalagtite from the HErrenberg cave for the presence of bacteria.

Pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea leaves filled with water in a bog in northern Florida.

Massanutten Mountain in Virginia

Open Field Near Blue Ridge Parkway

Waterfall in Appalachian Forest