Welcome to the Central Plains Center for BioAssessment Photo Gallery. This page contains the warehouse of favorite pictures that we have taken during our projects. Click on the thumbnail to see a larger picture.

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Reference Streams

These photos were taken of reference streams that were sampled by CPCB during our Nutrient Streams project. Omernik Level III Ecoregions are indicated.

Kansas

South Fork, Republican River, Western High Plains

Deep Creek, Flint Hills

Grouse Creek, Flint Hills

Iowa

Measuring velocity at Chequest Creek, Central Irregular Plains

West Branch Buttrick Creek, Western Corn Belt Plains

French Creek, Driftless Area

Mill Creek, Western Corn Belt Plains

Missouri

Main Ditch, Mississippi Alluvial Plain	Little Niangua River, Ozark Highlands	Sampling macroinvertebrates at Spring Creek, Central Irregular Plains	Marrowbone Creek, Central Irregular Plains
Locust Creek, Central Irregular Plains

Nebraska

Willow Creek, Western High Plains	South Platte River, Western High Plains	Degraw Drain, Western High Plains	Rock Creek, Western High Plains
Gracie Creek, Nebraska Sand Hills	Big Cotton Creek, Central Great Plains

Dissolved Oxygen Streams
These photos were taken of the work we did for our Dissolved Oxygen Streams project.

The Aqua 2000 Dissolved Oxygen and Temperature Logger (DO logger)

08 DO logger in Burr Oak Creek, Iowa

Big Muddy Creek, Iowa

Logger retrieval from Bear Creek, Iowa

Sampling Stranger and Wolf Creeks in Leavenworth County, Kansas
Click here to learn more about these Leavenworth County projects.

Tonganoxie High School students learning about electrofishing methods at Stranger Creek

Will Spotts electrofishing in Wolf Creek

Will Spotts and Andy Dzialowski seine for fish in Wolf Creek

Kansas Biological Survey staff collect stream habitat data at Wolf Creek

Lakes

Crescent Lake, Garden Co., Nebraska. Nebraska Sand Hills.

Taking sediment samples from Hillsdale Lake, Kansas.

Pomona Lake, Kansas

Sampling the lake with a Vandorn sampler, Secchi disk, and Horiba water quality checker, during our TMDL Lakes project.

Modeling Nutrient Input into Pomona Lake, Kansas
These photos were taken during our Lake Modeling project.

Downloading data from an autosampler at the tributary 110-Mile Creek

An autosampler at the tributary Valley Brook Creek

Clean Water Farms Project
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An eight-foot lysimeter is used to collect subsurface drainage (i.e., soilwater) in Marion, KS.	A CPCB researcher conducts a field survey to identify sampling sites in a rowcropped field.	Confining cattle to feed lots leads to devegetation, erosion and water quality problems including fecal coliform contamination.	A CWFP participant sits in a field gully that will be remedied with check dams to slow runoff water velocity and fencing to keep cattle out of the area.
A runoff sampler is stationed to collect field runoff coming from a rotational grazing system.