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Physical scientists and hydrologic technicians from New England Water Science Center and Woods Hole Dive Team recover and repair a continuous monitor buoy in the Southport, Connecticut estuary near the Long Island Sound. The buoy had been damaged in a recent storm.

Winter 2023 Photo Contest Winner: Donald Jeandervin, USGS at Work category

Hydrologic Technicians Paul Solis, Brittney Izbicki and Nigel Pepin of the New England WSC CT office point to where they have just moored an acoustic doppler velocity meter (ADVM) in the channel of the Southport, CT river estuary.

Winter 2023 Photo Contest Winner: Donald Jeandervin, Honorable Mention category

Amanda May is taking field measurements prior to cleaning the sensors at one of the sites for the SALT project in Lake Placid, NY, on a chilly winter day.

Winter 2023 Photo Contest Winner: Cara Udvadia, Honorable Mention category

This USGS map shows the number of PFAS detected in tap water samples from select sites across the nation. The findings are based on a USGS study of samples taken between 2016 and 2021 from private and public supplies at 716 locations. The map does not represent the only locations in the U.S. with PFAS.  

Downstream view of the East Branch Fish Creek at Taberg, New York

Winter 2023 Photo Contest Winner: Zachary Heck, Where We Work category

Adrian Mann (Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center Lab Manager and Safety Officer) at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy pool during "Working over water" training.

Winter 2023 Photo Contest Winner: Chris Sherwood, People category

The anomaly at Pennington Mountain is visible in the geophysical data collected in aerial surveys conducted in 2021.

A fine-grained volcanic rock (trachyte) that hosts rare earth elements, niobium, and zirconium, all which are considered critical mineral resources. This rock was found on Pennington Mountain in Maine. Image courtesy of Chunzeng Wang, University of Maine-Presque Isle.

Chris Sherwood (USGS) drives a remote controlled surface vehicle named the Yellow Cat - built by Peter Traykovski (WHOI) - that is mapping the bathymetry of a pond on North Core Banks with a small echo-sounder in Cape Lookout National Seashore, North Carolina.

Fall 2022 Photo Contest Winner: Jin-Si Over, Honorable Mention category

USGS field crew (left to right) Sara Zeigler, Alexandra Evans, and Jennifer Cramer walk through spike rush as they complete vegetation surveys with GPS equipment and a quadrat in North Core Banks, Cape Lookout National Seashore, NC.

Fall 2022 Photo Contest Winner: Jin-Si Over, Where We Work category

U.S. Geological Survey Mill River at Northampton, Massachusetts streamgage (01171500) on October 11, 2022 looking downstream. The low-flow was about 12 cubic feet per second (cfs) for a 56.2-square-mile drainage area.

The Aerial Imaging and Mapping Group (AIMG) preparing for a day of field work at Assateague Island National Seashore.

(Left to right then front: Sandra Brosnahan, Alexandra Evans, Jennifer Cramer, Seth Ackerman, Erika Lentz, Jin-Si Over)

Fall 2022 Photo Contest Winner: Jin-Si Over, People category

A downstream view of the Green River near Colrain, Massachusetts close to the USGS streamgage (01170100). The low-flow was about 7.7 cubic feet per second (cfs) for a 41.4-square-mile drainage area.

Pearl Hill Brook at Mill Creek Drive in Ashby, Massachusetts on October 1, 2021. The drop at the outflow of the culvert would impede aquatic organism passage.

Unnamed tributary to Trapfall Brook at Harris Road in Ashby, Massachusetts, on October 1, 2021. The shallowness of water in the culvert could impede aquatic organism passage.

DOI partners celebrating a day of restoring native Blue Ridge sculpin to a stream in Catoctin Mountain Park, Maryland. The team includes researchers from the USGS Eastern Ecological Science Center, resource managers from the National Park Service, and wildlife videographers from the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

A railroad crossing over the East Branch Penobscot River located at a streamgage 01029500 in Grindstone, Maine

Airborne geophysical surveys make use of a boom with sensitive equipment installed on small aircraft.

A helicopter with a boom that contains sensitive equipment for conducting airborne geophysical surveys.

Collecting water quality samples from the New River Gorge in support of USGS-NPS partnership.

Fall 2022 Photo Contest Winner: Matt Kearns, USGS at Work category

Non-motorized watercraft training practical exercises (canoe rescues) in Buffumville Lake, Oxford, MA

Summer 2022 Photo Contest Winner: Andrew Massey, Honorable Mention category