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Hydrologic Technician
March 5, 2012 | USGS

Lots of people enter work with USGS as a hydrologic technician, this video goes on the job with Kerry Caslow.

“A typical day for me revolves around collecting accurate data for our cooperators and the public. Duties that I might perform include surface water and water quality field trips; gage maintenance; peak flow data collection; bacteria sample collection and processing; working and checking records; storm and base flow sampling; laboratory cleaning; and much more.”


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