http://gallery.usgs.gov/images/logos/usgs_only.jpg http://gallery.usgs.gov/ en-us OC_Web@usgs.gov (Office of Communications Web Group) http://gallery.usgs.gov/images/USGS.gif http://gallery.usgs.gov/ http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/11_30_2012_bFvh8LK886_11_30_2012_0 USGS Aquatic Ecologist Ted Kennedy sampling invertebrate and organic drift at Lees Ferry during the November 19, 2012 HFE.

]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/11_30_2012_bFvh8LK886_11_30_2012_1 USGS Aquatic Ecologist Ted Kennedy sampling invertebrate and organic drift at Lees Ferry during the November 19, 2012 HFE.

]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/11_30_2012_bFvh8LK886_11_30_2012_2 Drift wood and other organic material showed up at the Paria Riffle due to high water volumes. 

]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/11_30_2012_bFvh8LK886_11_30_2012_3 This Riffle is caused by the Paira River colliding with the Colorado River. Usually, there are two distinct colours — crystal blue from the Colorado and a murky brown from the sediment filled Paria.

]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/11_30_2012_bFvh8LK886_11_30_2012_4 A fieldtrip organized by the USGS’s Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center convenes downstream of the Paria Riffle.

]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/11_30_2012_bFvh8LK886_11_30_2012_5 View of the landscape from the Beaver Creek Rapid lookout.

]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/11_30_2012_bFvh8LK886_11_30_2012_6 USGS staff Kyrie Fry and Scott Vanderkooi as well as BOR Employees Katrina Grantz, Mary Barger, and Glen Knowles look down at Beaver Creek Rapid.

]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/11_30_2012_bFvh8LK886_11_30_2012_7 A view of the Vermillion Cliffs near Soap Creek Rapid lookout.

]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/11_30_2012_bFvh8LK886_11_30_2012_8 USGS scientists up on the cable way at Lees Ferry measuring suspended-sediment transport.

]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/11_30_2012_bFvh8LK886_11_30_2012_9 USGS's Arizona Water Science Center's Dave Anning on cable way at Lees Ferry measuring suspended-sediment transport.

]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/11_30_2012_bFvh8LK886_11_30_2012_10 USGS Aquatic Ecologist Ted Kennedy sampling invertebrate and organic drift at Lees Ferry during the November 19, 2012 HFE.

]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/11_30_2012_bFvh8LK886_11_30_2012_11 USGS scientists up on the cable way at Lees Ferry measuring suspended-sediment transport.

]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/11_30_2012_bFvh8LK886_11_30_2012_12 USGS scientists up on the cable way at Lees Ferry measuring suspended-sediment transport.

]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/11_30_2012_bFvh8LK886_11_30_2012_13 Grand Canyon.

]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/11_30_2012_bFvh8LK886_11_30_2012_14 USGS and BOR staff follow Jack Schmidt on a trail to get a better look at the water level increasing.

]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/11_30_2012_bFvh8LK886_11_30_2012_15 Downstream from the Paria Riffle, Jack leads a field trip downstream to see the river.

]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/11_30_2012_bFvh8LK886_11_30_2012_16 USGS Hydrologist David Topping rushes to be the first to look at Beaver Creek Rapids.

]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/11_30_2012_bFvh8LK886_11_30_2012_17 Looking downstream at Soap Creek Rapid during sunset.

]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/11_30_2012_bFvh8LK886_11_30_2012_18 The Vermillion Cliffs.

]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/11_30_2012_bFvh8LK886_11_30_2012_19 USGS Aquatic Ecologist, Ted Kennedy, getting a reading off the flow meter.

]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/11_30_2012_bFvh8LK886_11_30_2012_20 Water Holes Canyon — checking out David Toppings Sediment monitoring gauges. 

]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/11_30_2012_bFvh8LK886_11_30_2012_21 View of the Colorado River from a bench near Water Holes Canyon.

]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/11_30_2012_bFvh8LK886_11_30_2012_22 USGS Hydrologist David Topping's sediment monitoring gauges.

]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/11_30_2012_bFvh8LK886_11_30_2012_23 USGS stage censor at Water Holes Canyon.

]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/11_30_2012_bFvh8LK886_11_30_2012_24 At Lees Ferry where river trips, both recreational and scientific, launch.

 

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