AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Listening Session Questions and Answers For Participatory Engagement in Puerto Rico

Underserved communities, especially those in coastal areas in Puerto Rico, face significant threats from natural hazards such as hurricanes and rising sea levels. Limited funding hinders the investment in costly mitigation measures, increasing exposure to natural disasters. Providing coastal resources and data products through effective communication mechanisms is fundamental to improving the well-being of these underserved coastal communities. The overall objectives of the pilot effort to engage and connect with underrepresented coastal communities in Puerto Rico were the following: (1) compile a comprehensive database of the projects and resources relevant to natural hazards in Puerto Rico; (2) foster connections with Puerto Rican interested parties to better understand their priorities regarding coastal hazards and provide them with pertinent U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) resources; and (3) identify knowledge gaps to guide future USGS projects in Puerto Rico. To address these objectives, USGS team members engaged in a series of listening sessions with interested parties and potential collaborators to assess their information needs and preferences, their perception of the agency’s information resources, and their recommendations for improvement. The research team organized five (5) listening sessions with 24 interested parties in total via Zoom, to assess their needs and perceptions regarding USGS natural hazards resources for Puerto Rico. The listening sessions focused on: (1) interested parties’ information needs and preferences, (2) their perception of the agency’s information resources, and (3) recommendations for improving resources to meet their needs. For further information about this data, refer to the associated journal article (Torres-García and others, 2024).

Tags: caribbean-sea, commonwealth-of-puerto-rico, data-communication, decision-support-methods, environmental-justice, improvement-of-scientific-data-usability, island-of-puerto-rico, location, mayaguez, product-types, society, usgs-d4e27c77-0fcb-48b3-9a8c-86046f91256d
Organization: Department of the Interior
2004 Post-Hurricane Frances USGS EAARL Lidar-Derived Dune Crest, Toe and Shoreline

The Storm-Induced Coastal Change Hazards component of the National Assessment of Coastal Change Hazards project focuses on understanding the magnitude and variability of extreme storm impacts on sandy beaches. Lidar-derived beach morphologic features such as dune crest, toe and shoreline help define the vulnerability of the beach to storm impacts. This dataset defines the elevation and position of the seaward-most dune crest and toe and the mean high water shoreline derived from the 2004 Post-Hurricane Frances (Florida) USGS Experimental Advanced Airborne Research Lidar (EAARL) lidar survey. Beach width is included and is defined as the distance between the dune toe and shoreline along a cross-shore profile. The beach slope is calculated using this beach width and the elevation of the shoreline and dune toe.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, coastal-processes, elevation, environment, florida, geoscientificinformation, hazards, marine-geology, ocean-sciences, oceans, spcmsc, st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, u-s-geological-survey, united-states-of-america, usgs, usgs-d4b599af-d330-40c6-a289-9566f41ea46e
Organization: Department of the Interior
Depth to transition--Santa Barbara Channel, California

This part of DS 781 presents data for the depth-to-transition (the depth to the bedrock at the Last Glacial Maximum) map of the Santa Barbara Channel, California, region. The raster data file is included in "DepthToTransition_SantaBarbaraChannel.zip," which is accessible from https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/781/SantaBarbaraChannel/data_catalog_SantaBarbaraChannel.html.
As part of the USGS's California Seafloor Mapping Project, a 50-m-resolution grid of depth to the transgressive surface of the Last Glacial Maximum within California State Waters between Refugio Beach and the Hueneme Canyon and vicinity map area was generated from seismic-reflection data collected in 2007 and 2008 (USGS activities Z-3-07-SC and S-7-08-SC), supplemented with outcrop and geologic structure data from DS 781. The resulting sediment-thickness grid was subtracted from regional bathymetry to determine the depth to the last glacial maximum transitional surface. The resulting grid covers an area of approximately 600 sq km. Contours at 5-meter intervals were derived from this depth-to-transition grid and are also available in this data release.

Tags: california, carpinteria, cmhrp, coal-oil-point, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, coastal-geology, distributions, environment, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, hueneme-canyon, maps-and-atlases, marine-geology, oceans, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pacific-ocean, pcmsc, physical-habitats-and-geomorphology, refugio-beach, santa-barbara, santa-barbara-channel, sediment-deposition, sediment-isopach, sediment-thickness, seismic-reflection-methods, seismic-reflection-profiling, stratigraphic-thickness, u-s-geological-survey, usa, usgs, usgs-d4b38aa8-3a29-4b10-aec8-84ce9bb1d5d9, ventura
Organization: Department of the Interior
Airborne geophysical survey: Silver City West, Arizona Survey Part 2 of 2

Aeromagnetic data were collected along flight lines by instruments in an
aircraft that recorded magnetic-field values and locations.  This dataset
presents latitude, longitude, altitude, and magnetic-field values.

Tags: aeromagnetic-data, aeromagnetic-surveying, airborne-surveys, arizona, az, f04003-cochise, f04009-graham, field-monitoring-stations, geophysical-surveys, geophysics, geospatial-datasets, magnetic, magnetic-field-earth, magnetic-surveys, new-mexico, nm, residual-magnetic-field, silver-city, silver-city-west, total-field, united-states, usgs-d4b157e2-90b7-4fd2-94f6-1e4d615671f1
Organization: Department of the Interior
2021-322-FA_sol: Digital Chirp Subbottom Profile Start of Line Data Collected During USGS Field Activity Number 2021-322-FA Offshore of Pensacola Beach, Florida, June 2021

From June 2 through 9, 2021, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) conducted geophysical surveys to investigate the geologic controls on barrier island evolution and determine Holocene stratigraphy near Santa Rosa Island, Florida (FL). This shapefile represents a point dataset of field activity number (FAN) 2021-322-FA chirp subbottom profile start of trackline locations collected inshore and offshore of Pensacola Beach, FL.

Tags: 2021-322-fa, barrier-island-mapping, chirp, coastal-processes, escambia, florida, geology, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, gulf-islands-national-seashore, gulf-of-mexico, location, marine-geology, navigational-data, oceans, okaloosa, pensacola, santa-rosa, seismic-reflection, start-of-line-locations, sub-bottom-profiling, usgs-d48e20eb-2f75-489f-8f6f-9972b10fdf4d
Organization: Department of the Interior
Grain-size data from vibracores collected in 2014 from Barnegat Bay, New Jersey

In response to the 2010 Governor’s Action Plan to clean up the Barnegat Bay–Little Egg Harbor (BBLEH) estuary in New Jersey, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) partnered with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection in 2011 to begin a multidisciplinary research project to understand the physical controls on water quality in the bay. Between 2011 and 2013, USGS scientists mapped the geological and morphological characteristics of the seafloor of the BBLEH estuary using a suite of geophysical tools. However, this mapping effort included only surficial characterization of bay sediments; to verify the sub-surface geophysical data, sediment cores were required.
Data Series 985 associated with this metadata record serves as an archive of sedimentologic data from 18 vibracores collected from Barnegat Bay between May and August of 2014 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) on behalf of the USGS. The vibracores were collected in conjunction with an ongoing NRCS subaqueous soil survey for the BBLEH estuary. The data presented in this report, including descriptive core logs, core photographs, processed grain-size data, and Geographic Information System (GIS) data files with accompanying formal Federal Geographic Data Committee metadata, can be viewed or downloaded from https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/985/ds985_data/.

Tags: barnegat-bay, coarse-fraction, coastal-processes, fine-fraction, geology, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, grain-size, location, loss-on-ignition, marine-geology, new-jersey, oceans, percent-total-organic-matter, sediment, sediment-classification, u-s-geological-survey, unconsolidated-deposits, usgs, usgs-d48bb13e-8b98-473e-b81c-6253fa8b9f1b, vibracore
Organization: Department of the Interior
DS926 Digital surfaces and thicknesses of selected hydrogeologic units of the Floridan aquifer system in Florida and parts of Georgia, Alabama, and South Carolina -- Clipping boundary extent for the first permeable zone below the LISAPCU

Digital surfaces and thicknesses of selected hydrogeologic units of the Floridan aquifer system 
were developed to define an updated hydrogeologic framework as part of the U.S. Geological 
Survey Groundwater Resources Program. This feature class contains a polygon representing 
the extent of the Lower Floridan below LISAPCU raster.

Tags: alabama, below, confining-unit, environment, extent, first, florida, floridan-aquifer-system, geology, georgia, geoscientificinformation, hydrogeology, inlandwaters, lisapcu, lisbon-avon-park, lower-floridan, permeable-zone, regional-groundwater-availability-study, south-carolina, stratigraphy, top, united-states-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-d48b3513-45bc-4496-9c7b-484680f1040c
Organization: Department of the Interior
Katrina_R4_elevation: Modeling the impacts of sand placement strategies on barrier island evolution in a semi-enclosed bay system: model input and results

Using version 5527 of the XBeach numerical model (Roelvink and others, 2009), barrier island morphological change was simulated at Little Dauphin Island, Alabama (AL) under different storm scenarios and restoration alternatives as described in Passeri and others (2025). The two-dimensional XBeach model can be applied to barrier islands to solve for time-dependent elevations (topography and bathymetry). The XBeach model setup requires the input of topographic and bathymetric elevations at each grid cell. Model inputs and outputs in the form of elevation at each grid cell are provided in this data release. For further information regarding model input generation and visualization of model output, refer to Passeri and others (2025).

Tags: alabama, bathymetry, coastal-processes, digital-elevation-models, elevation, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, gulf-of-mexico, little-dauphin-island, north-america, oceans, spcmsc, st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, storm-surge, topography, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-d4829725-6f31-4ce0-ab8c-3d1508fafb2b
Organization: Department of the Interior
Composite sidescan-sonar mosaic collected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration offshore of Massachusetts in the approaches to Boston Harbor near Hull (DH_NOAA_backscatter1m, UTM Zone 19N, GeoTIFF)

These data were collected under a cooperative agreement with the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management (CZM) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Woods Hole Science Center (WHSC). Initiated in 2003, the primary objective of this program is to develop regional geologic framework information for the management of coastal and marine resources. Accurate data and maps of sea-floor geology are important first steps toward protecting fish habitat, delineating marine resources, and assessing environmental changes due to natural or human impacts. The project is focused on the inshore waters (5-30 m deep) of Massachusetts between the New Hampshire border and Cape Cod Bay. Data collected for the mapping cooperative have been released in a series of USGS Open-File Reports (http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/project-pages/coastal_mass/html/current_map.html). This spatial dataset is from the study area located between Duxbury and Hull Massachusetts, and consists of high-resolution geophysics (bathymetry, backscatter intensity, and seismic reflection) and ground validation (sediment samples, video tracklines and bottom photographs). The data were collected during four separate surveys conducted between 2003 and 2007 (NOAA survey H10993 in 2003, USGS-WHSC survey 06012 in 2006, and USGS-WHSC surveys 07001 and 07003 in 2007) and cover more than 200 square kilometers of the inner continental shelf.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, backscatter, boston-south-shore, brant-rock, cape-cod-bay, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, duxbury-bay, duxbury-beach, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, geotiff-image, grey-scale, hull-bay, image-mosaics, imagerybasemapsearthcover, marine-geology, marine-geophysics, marshfield, massachusetts, massachusetts-bay, mosaic, multibeam, multibeam-backscatter, multibeam-echosounder, nantasket-beach, noaa-hydrographic-survey-registry-number-h10993, noaa-launch-1005, noaa-launch-1014, noaa-ship-thomas-jefferson, north-america, oceans, reson, reson-8101, reson-8125, reson-seabat, scituate, sea-floor-acoustic-reflectivity, seafloor, sidescan-sonar, sonar, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-d479ef15-e0df-453f-93f5-878202765d84, whsc, woods-hole-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Single-Beam Bathymetric Data collected with Personal Watercraft collected within Fire Island Inlet, New York (2014) in XYZ ASCII text file format

Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center in St. Petersburg, Florida, conducted a bathymetric survey of Fire Island, New York, from October 5 to 10, 2014. The U.S. Geological Survey is involved in a post-Hurricane Sandy effort to map and monitor the morphologic evolution of the wilderness breach, which formed in October 2012 during Hurricane Sandy, as part of the Hurricane Sandy Supplemental Project GS2-2B. During this study, bathymetry data were collected, using single-beam echo sounders and global positioning systems mounted to personal watercraft, along the Fire Island shoreface and within the wilderness breach, Fire Island Inlet, Narrow Bay, and Great South Bay east of Nicoll Bay. Additional bathymetry and elevation data were collected using backpack and wheel-mounted global positioning systems along the subaerial beach (foreshore and backshore), and flood shoals and shallow channels within the wilderness breach and adjacent shoreface.

Tags: 2014-325-fa, atlantic-ocean, barrier-island, bathymetry, bellport-bay, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, elevation, fire-island, fire-island-inlet, fire-island-national-seashore, geomorphology, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, gps-measurement, great-south-bay, hurricane-sandy, hurricane-sandy-supplemental-fire-island, imagerybasemapsearthcover, mapping, marine-geology, narrow-bay, new-york, oceans, otis-pike-fire-island-high-dune-wilderness, sea-floor-characteristics, shoals, single-beam, single-beam-echo-sounder, spcmsc, st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, u-s-geological-survey, united-states-of-america, usgs, usgs-d4300550-1d38-4582-abff-9b853b0cf0ba, wilderness-breach
Organization: Department of the Interior
Textural Data from the Continental Margin Program (HATHAWAY71 shapefile)

This data set contains sediment grain size and textural information from the Continental Margin Program.  The program was a joint collaboration between the U.S. Geological Survey and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution during the 1960s to conduct a geological reconnaissance investigation of the continental shelf and slope off the Atlantic coast of the United States. Only those records with complete size analyses are included in this data set.  Other stations where only lithologic descriptions are available have been excluded.

Tags: atlantic, clay, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, continental-shelf, continental-slope, geographic-information-system, georges-bank, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, gis, grain-size, grain-size-analysis, gravel, gulf-of-maine, location, marine-geology, navigational-data, new-england, north-america, oceans, open-file-report-03-001, point-shapefile, points, sand, sea-floor-characteristics, sediment, sediment-classification, shelf, silt, slope, statistics, surficial-classification, texture, u-s-east-coast, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usa, usgs, usgs-d422772a-2112-4ef8-8e9b-563c25e02a01, whsc, woods-hole-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastal Multibeam Bathymetry and Backscatter Data Collected in October 2019 from Rockaway Peninsula, New York: Leg 2

An Ellipsoidally Referenced Survey (ERS) using two Teledyne Reson SeaBat T50-P multibeam echosounders, in dual-head configuration, was conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center (SPCMSC) covering the nearshore, seaward side of Rockaway Peninsula, New York (NY), from October 24-29, 2019. This dataset, Rockaway_2019_MBES_Leg2_xyz.zip, includes the processed elevation point data (x,y,z), as derived from a 1-meter (m) bathymetric grid from the second leg of the survey. Additionally, the dataset Rockaway_2019_MBES_Leg2_Backscatter.zip includes the acoustic backscatter intensity data in 32-bit floating point GeoTIFF (.tif) format. Leg 1 survey efforts were cut short due to inclement weather and the survey was resumed later in the month (Leg 2). Both survey legs have been made available in this publication independently as there is evidence of morphologic change, and therefore the legs could not accurately be combined into a comprehensive product.

Tags: applanix-pos-mv-wavemaster-ii, atlantic-ocean, bathymetry, elevation, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, hydrography, imagerybasemapsearthcover, location, marine-geology, marine-geophysics, multibeam-sonar, new-york, ocean-characteristics, ocean-processes, oceans, queens-county, rockaway-beach, sea-floor-acoustic-reflectivity, seafloor-mapping, spcmsc, st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, teledyne-reson-t50-p, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-d4114adf-0196-48e9-b7f9-eed6e9fc3813
Organization: Department of the Interior
Postconstruction water velocity data collected at selected points on the Missouri River downstream from Gavins Point Dam near River Mile 769.8

This data set contains water velocity and flow direction data collected in shallow areas on selected transects near 
River Mile 769.8 of the Missouri River below Gavins Point Dam, South Dakota and Nebraska.

Tags: environment, geoscientificinformation, inlandwaters, missouri-river-below-gavins-point-dam, nebraska, south-dakota, stream-velocity-and-direction, usgs-d40e906c-a138-48ca-bab6-64d12085941e
Organization: Department of the Interior
Daily SSEBop Evapotranspiration Data from 2000 to Present

Daily SSEBop evapotranspiration at the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) scale was created for the CONUS. These data are published on the USGS earlywarning site (https://earlywarning.usgs.gov/ssebop/modis/daily). The first phase included the creation on historical actual daily ET data from 2000 – 2018. The second phase will create the ET product operationally on a daily time scale.
The corresponding data files for each day, geotiff and meta data file, are compressed as a zip file for download. The values for the daily ET data are scaled by a factor of 1000. NoData pixels are indicated as NoData(9999). Daily ETa data are produced at 1 km resolution and are available at: https://earlywarning.usgs.gov/ssebop/modis/daily

Tags: actual-et, evapotranspiration, geoscientificinformation, inlandwaters, remote-sensing, ssebop-model, usgs-d40c5a3a-91cf-4823-a4a9-97ffc1604ad0, usgs-watersmart
Organization: Department of the Interior
Surficial Sediment Data Collected During RV Rafael cruise 2010-033-FA and RV Connecticut cruise 2010-005-FA Offshore of Gay Head Massachusetts in Eastern Rhode Island Sound (2010_033_SEDDATA.SHP, Geographic, WGS84)

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), is producing detailed geologic maps of the coastal sea floor. Bathymetry, originally collected by NOAA for charting purposes, provides a fundamental framework for research and management activities off southern New England, shows the composition and terrain of the seabed, and provides information on sediment transport and benthic habitat. During July-August 2008 NOAA completed hydrographic survey H11922 west of Gay Head, Massachusetts, in Rhode Island Sound and during July and September 2010 bottom photographs and surficial sediment data were acquired as part of ground-truth reconnaissance surveys of this area. Interpretations were derived from the multibeam echo-sounder data and the ground-truth data used to verify them. For more information on the ground-truth surveys see http://quashnet.er.usgs.gov/data/2010/10033/ and http://quashnet.er.usgs.gov/data/2010/10005/

Tags: aquinnah, atlantic-ocean, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, cuttyhunk-island, environment, esri-point-shapefile, field-activity-number-2010-005-fa, field-activity-number-2010-033-fa, gay-head, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, grain-size-analysis, gravel, ground-truth, info-bank-id-r-33-10-ri, info-bank-id-u-5-10-bz, location, marine-geology, marthas-vineyard, massachusetts, navigational-data, nomans-land, north-america, northeast-united-states, oceans, ofr-2011-1004, open-file-report-2011-1004, rhode-island, rhode-island-sound, rv-connecticut, rv-rafael, sand, sea-floor, sea-floor-characteristics, seaboss, sediment-data, sediment-samples, sediments, silty-sand, stations, surficial-sediment-classification, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-d40c42d7-d9e0-40f1-a4ce-c5b66d6a4a55, van-veen-grab-sampler, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Video transects of the sea floor on Stellwagen Bank during U.S. Geological Survey field activity 2017-043-FA, aboard the R/V Auk, Aug. 22 and 23, 2017 (geographic, WGS84, 2017-043-FA_video_driftlines.shp polyline)

This field activity is part of an effort to map geologic substrates of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary region off Boston, Massachusetts. The overall goal is to develop high-resolution (1:25,000-scale) interpretive maps, based on multibeam sonar data and seabed sampling, showing surficial geology and seabed sediment dynamics. The data collected in this study will aid research on the ecology of fish and invertebrate species that inhabit the region. On August 22 and 23, 2017, the U.S. Geological Survey, in collaboration with the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, conducted a research cruise aboard the Sanctuary’s Research Vessel Auk, visiting 39 locations within the sanctuary. A customized Van Veen grab sampler (SEABOSS) equipped with a video camera and a conductivity, temperature, and depth (CTD) instrument was deployed in drift mode to collect sediment for grain-size analysis, video imagery of the seabed, and measurements of water column properties.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, location, massachusetts, massachusetts-bay, navigation, navigational-data, north-america, oceans, polyline-shapefile, sbnms, sea-floor-characteristics, seabed-observation-and-sampling-system, seaboss, stations, stellwagen-bank, stellwagen-bank-national-marine-sanctuary, trackline, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-d3f4824f-9c26-4254-8a0a-a6c1e41a560f, video, videos, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior