2008 High-Flow Experiment: Science As It Happens
Visiting Grand Canyon National Park during the high-flow experiment is now possible virtually. Here you can read the field reports of USGS scientists doing in Grand Canyon during the experiment, see how water levels change, and watch sandbars being built.
- See the River Corridor Change
- See how a possible high-flow experiment will alter sandbars in the Grand Canyon. As the experiment takes place, pictures will be taken at various locations and loaded to this Web site.
- View Matched Photos
- View Time-Lapse Videos
- Real-Time USGS Water Gage Data for Sites along the Colorado River
- Today, track the water as is moves downstream by visiting the USGS Arizona Water Science Center Web site.
- Colorado River at Lees Ferry, Ariz. (river mile 0)
- Colorado River near Grand Canyon, Ariz.(river mile 87)
- Colorado River above Diamond Creek near Peach Springs, Ariz. (river mile 226)
- A Look Back in Time
- Compare photographs of the Colorado River environment taken a century apart. [View Photos]
- Notes from the Field
- Scientists in the field before, during, and after the high-flow experiment, should it occur, will post here their observations as well as pictures that they take in the course of a day's work.
- Thursday March 06, 2008
- Thursday February 14, 2008
- Science In and Out of the Classroom
- Middle school students from Flagstaff, Page, and Tuba City, Ariz., meet Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthore at the opening of the jet tubes at Glen Canyon Dam on March 5, 2008. [See Pictures]
- Future scientists in Flagstaff get firsthand experience in how science is actually done. [Read Article]