Data Visualization

Charts and Infographics

Circular bar plots showing average monthly water withdrawals for irrigation in four regions of the U.S., styled to look like center pivot fields.
Line charts showing electricity generated by five types of renewable energy in the U.S. from 2000 to 2020, styled like neon lights on a black background.
Three waffle charts showing the amount of water in different compartments: all Earth's water, all freshwater, and surface and other freshwater.
Three landscape diagrams highlighting the locations of all of Earth's water, all freshwater, and surface and other freshwater.
Pictogram comprised of 342 illustrated water bottles, signifying that the average American drank 342 bottles of water in 2020.
Map of beverage bottling facilities across the U.S., color coded by the existence of water use data, accompanied by a stacked bar chart that identifies that USGS acquired water use data for 0.6% of bottling facilities.
Image 1 of 2: stacked bar chart showing that, of beverage bottling facilities with available water use data, 61% are bottled water facilities.
Image 2 of 2: stacked bar chart showing that, of bottled water facilities with water use data, their sources of water include public supply, wells, springs, surface water intakes, a combination of sources, and other sources.
Data-based diagram showing the elevation of key features on three reservoirs on the Delaware River.
Gantt chart showing which release tables were used to inform reservoir operation at which times during the report year.
Gantt chart showing the spill dates for three reservoirs on the Delaware River.
Infographic highlighting key accomplishments of the National Seed Strategy during its first five years of implementation.
Stacked bar chart identifying the times of year when different species of ungulate have different stages of antler growth.
Infographic explaining how seed dispersal and propagule pressure were estimated for experimental plots.
Series of scatter plots showing the relationship between four factors and the abundance of an invasive plant species.
Figure showing the quantitative differences in morphology between two closely related species of crocodile.

Maps

Two maps of California, one in color and one in black and white, both showing a study site in the context of the range of serpentine grassland across the state.
Elevation map of Georgia, with artistically designed colors and hill shade.
Map of the United States showing major highways and national parks and forests.
Map of Tennessee overlaid with pie charts that show the relative abundance of two species of bass at each site.
Map of study sites across the eastern U.S., with points scaled and color-coded by the number of studies at each site.
Distribution map for West African and Central African slender-snouted crocodiles.