AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, and 2015 Site 1838 Land-Water Matrix

Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection, and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring efforts to determine the efficacy of these efforts. The Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) was developed to assist in a multiple-reference approach that uses aspects of hydrogeomorphic functional assessments and probabilistic sampling for monitoring. The CRMS program includes a suite of approximately 390 sites that encompass the range of hydrological and ecological conditions for each stratum.  As part of CRMS, land and water classifications are created from Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection, and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring efforts to determine the efficacy of these efforts. The Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) was developed to assist in a multiple-reference approach that uses aspects of hydrogeomorphic functional assessments and probabilistic sampling for monitoring. The CRMS program includes a suite of approximately 390 sites that encompass the range of hydrological and ecological conditions for each stratum.  As part of CRMS, land and water classifications are created from Digital Orthophoto Quarter Quadrangles (DOQQs) approximately every three years at all CRMS sites.  This dataset consists of a matrix of four land-water products (2005, 2008, 2012, and 2015).  The resulting matrix has 16 possible classes defined by the combination of land and water categories on those four dates.

Tags: cartography, coastal, crms, doqq, geographic-information-system, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-water, louisiana, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, state-of-louisiana, usgs-5938784de4b0764e6c5d6ce9, wetland
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2015 Site 0669 Land-Water Classification Data

Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection, and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring efforts to determine the efficacy of these efforts. The Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) was developed to assist in a multiple-reference approach that uses aspects of hydrogeomorphic functional assessments and probabilistic sampling for monitoring. The CRMS program includes a suite of approximately 390 sites that encompass the range of hydrological and ecological conditions for each stratum.  As part of CRMS, land and water classifications are created from Digital Orthophoto Quarter Quadrangles (DOQQs) approximately every three years at all CRMS sites.  A DOQQ is a raster image in which displacement in the image caused by sensor orientation and terrain relief has been removed and combines the image characteristics of a photo with geometric qualities of a map. The DOQQs generated for this project consist of 2015 Color Infrared (CIR) Digital Imagery.  These images were classified into land and water categories using a threshold of the near infrared (NIR) band, followed by supervised and unsupervised classification.  Initial classification results are then reviewed by multiple image analysts to identify and manually recode errors.  The final land-water classifications are intended to serve as both geographic and quantitative assessments of landscape composition on the date of acquisition.  Three previous assessments have been conducted (2005, 2008, and 2012).  Once the program creates enough data points for statistical analyses, these data will be used for land area change rate calculation.

Tags: cartography, coastal, crms, doqq, geographic-information-system, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-water, louisiana, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, state-of-louisiana, usgs-59387623e4b0764e6c5d6c1e, wetland
Organization: Department of the Interior
Precipitation Runoff Modeling System Input Data for Hydrologic Simulations of the Upper Chattahoochee River Basin in Northeast Georgia, United States

The upper Chattahoochee River Basin in northeast Georgia was modeled to produce seven example simulations of streamflow for demonstration of enhancements to the Precipitation Runoff Modeling System (PRMS). These data document the PRMS parameter files and input data files used in each of these simulations. Input files for the following simulations are included: 1) a baseline simulation of the existing model (includes HRU summary and basin variables output modules, and updates to depression storage), 2) a simulation using the dynamic parameters enhancement, 3) a simulation that generates an initial conditions file, 4) a simulation that uses a previously generated initial conditions file, 5) a simulation that uses the flow replacement option in the new muskingum_lake module, 6) a simulation that uses the flow through option in the new muskingum_lake module, and 7) a simulation that uses the new water use module.

Tags: model, streamflow, streamflow-modeling, usgs-591481ffe4b0e541a03e9930
Organization: Department of the Interior
Anomalous bioaccumulation of lead in the earthworm Eisenoides lonnbergi (Michaelsen)

This data set includes metal concentrations measured in a species of earthworm (Eisenoides lonnbergi) collected at various locations on the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center.

Tags: accumulation-of-lead, einsenoides-lonnbergi, maryland, patuxent-wildlife-research-center, soil, usgs-59146c96e4b0e541a03e96c9
Organization: Department of the Interior
Exposure of Peromyscus leucopus to lead and cadmium in the Southeast Missouri Lead Mining District

The exposure of white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus) to lead and cadmium and the potential associated toxic effects were examined at three sites contaminated with lead in the Southeast Missouri Lead Mining District and at a reference site.  Mice from the contaminated sites showed evidence of oxidative stress and red-blood cell δ-aminolevulinic acid dehydratase (ALAD) activity was depressed by an average of 68% at the most contaminated site.  However, histological examinations of the liver and kidney, cytologic examination of blood smears and biomarkers of lipid peroxidation and DNA damage failed to show evidence of toxic effects from lead.  The biomagnification ratio of cadmium (hepatic concentration/ soil concentration) at a site with a strongly acid soil was 44 times the average ratio from two sites with slightly alkaline soils. The elevated concentrations of cadmium in the mice did not cause observable toxicity, but were associated with about a 50% decrease in expected tissue lead concentrations and an increase in ALAD activity compared to the reference. Lead was associated with a decrease in concentrations of hepatic glutathione and thiols, whereas cadmium was associated with an increase.  Relying on a tissue-based approach, we calculated regressions relating both dietary exposures and tissue concentrations of lead to concentrations of lead in soil.

Tags: biota, cadmium, environmental-pollution, lead, mining, missouri, old-lead-belt, peromyscus-leucopus, southeast-missouri-lead-mining-district, toxicity, usgs-59146205e4b0e541a03e96a6
Organization: Department of the Interior
Benthic pore water and sediment data Barnegat Bay, New Jersey, 2012-2013

This data set presents pore water nutrient concentrations and sediment oxygen demand (SOD) measurements made at 12 locations around the margin of Barnegat Bay and at 3 locations in central Barnegat Bay. The data were collected during 2012-2013 for the Barnegat Bay Nutrient Study in cooperation with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. Table 1 presents the site data including site name, geographical location, site ID, and latitude and longitude. Table 2 presents concentrations of water quality constituents measured in water at the sediment interface and in pore water. Pore water was measured using in-situ equilibrium dialysis samplers (peepers) deployed at the stations. Measured concentrations in pore water were used to calculate nutrient flux rates between sediment pore water and overlying Bay water. Tables 3 and 4 present the composition and grain-size distribution of sediment from the benthic surface at the test sites. Table 5 presents SOD test results including date, water parameters, test duration, and the parameters used to develop best-fit least-square lines to the oxygen consumption data; these include slope (the SOD rate), intercept, correlation coefficient, and calculated SOD.
These data support the following publication: 
Wilson, T. and DePaul, V., 2017, In situ benthic nutrient flux and sediment oxygen demand in Barnegat Bay, New Jersey, in Buchanan, G.A., Belton, T.J., and Paudel, B., eds., A Comprehensive Assessment of Barnegat Bay-Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey: Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue 78, p. 46-59, https://doi.org/10.2112/SI78-005.1.

Tags: estuary-nutrients, nutrient-benthic-flux, nutrient-recycling, sediment-diagenesis, sediment-oxygen-demand, usgs-59136b98e4b0e541a03d4745
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data for sediment application to cypress and tupelo seedlings in greenhouse study - 2016

The decline of Taxodium distichum, bald cypress, forests along the Gulf Coast of North America is partly due to elevation loss and subsequent flooding. In many coastal wetlands, a common approach for coastal restoration is to rebuild elevation through the application of dredge spoil, but this technique has not been used widely in coastal forests due to concerns of negatively impacting trees. This experiment explored health responses of Nyssa aquatica, water tupelo, and T. distichum saplings to applications of low salinity dredge spoil in a greenhouse setting. Compared to controls, saplings of T. distichum grown in 7 and 15 cm sediment depths had higher final heights, and stem and total biomass while N. aquatica did not respond. Because saplings of these species were not negatively impacted by dredge spoil application in this greenhouse study, field trials using shallow sediment applications might be conducted with careful monitoring of ecosystem responses, e.g., seed bank expression, seedling regeneration, root and canopy production. Dredge spoil application has the potential to improve the ecosystem health of sinking swamp forests by raising their elevation.

Tags: sediment-application, subsidence, usgs-591338e1e4b0e541a03d45f3, wetland-loss
Organization: Department of the Interior
Sampling site information, well construction details, and data dictionaries for data sets associated with the National Crude Oil Spill Fate and Natural Attenuation Site near Bemidji, Minnesota (ver. 4.0, September 2025)

This U.S. Geological Survey data release provides detailed sampling site information, hole and well construction details, and data dictionaries necessary to interpret historical and future physical, chemical, and biological data sets derived from samples collected and measurements made in association with the National Crude Oil Spill Fate and Natural Attenuation Research Site.     
In 1979, a high-pressure pipeline carrying crude oil burst near the city of Bemidji, Minnesota  and spilled approximately 1.7 million liters (10,700 barrels) of crude oil into glacial outwash deposits (Essaid and others, 2011).  Since 1983, scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey, in collaboration with scientists from academic institutions, industry, and the regulatory community have conducted extensive investigations of multiphase flow and transport, volatilization, dissolution, geochemical interactions, microbial populations, and biodegradation with the goal of providing an improved understanding of the natural processes limiting the extent of hydrocarbon contamination.  Long-term field studies at Bemidji have illustrated that the fate of hydrocarbons evolves with time, and a snap-shot study of a hydrocarbon plume may not provide information that is of relevance to the long-term behavior of the plume during natural attenuation.  The research at the site has been supported primarily by the U.S. Geological Survey's Toxic Substances Hydrology Program.

Tags: biodegradation, contaminant-transport, contamination-and-pollution, crude-oil-spill, environmental-heath, geochemistry, groundwater-quality, hydrogeology, source-zone-natural-attenuation, usgs-5912466ae4b0e541a03c20cd, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, and 2015 Site 1965 Land-Water Matrix

Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection, and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring efforts to determine the efficacy of these efforts. The Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) was developed to assist in a multiple-reference approach that uses aspects of hydrogeomorphic functional assessments and probabilistic sampling for monitoring. The CRMS program includes a suite of approximately 390 sites that encompass the range of hydrological and ecological conditions for each stratum.  As part of CRMS, land and water classifications are created from Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection, and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring efforts to determine the efficacy of these efforts. The Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) was developed to assist in a multiple-reference approach that uses aspects of hydrogeomorphic functional assessments and probabilistic sampling for monitoring. The CRMS program includes a suite of approximately 390 sites that encompass the range of hydrological and ecological conditions for each stratum.  As part of CRMS, land and water classifications are created from Digital Orthophoto Quarter Quadrangles (DOQQs) approximately every three years at all CRMS sites.  This dataset consists of a matrix of four land-water products (2005, 2008, 2012, and 2015).  The resulting matrix has 16 possible classes defined by the combination of land and water categories on those four dates.

Tags: cartography, coastal, crms, doqq, geographic-information-system, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-water, louisiana, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, state-of-louisiana, usgs-59387860e4b0764e6c5d6ced, wetland
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data sets for: Variations on a method for evaluating decadal-scale changes in the groundwater quality of two GAMA coastal study units 2004-2014, California GAMA Priority Basin Project

The U.S. Geological Survey collected samples from 50 public supply wells during two distinct sampling episodes (2004-2005 and 2014) on the North-Central California coast.  During each sampling episode, the samples were analyzed for 160 water-quality constituents, including water-quality indicators, nutrients, major and minor ions, trace elements, volatile organic compounds, and pesticide compounds.  The paired-sample results were submitted to an evaluation method to determine whether or not step trends had occurred in the concentrations of each constituent. Quality-control samples were collected at a subset of the wells.  The datasets presented here consist of a list and description of the 160 constituents, an Excel workbook which details the step trend evaluation method, and a summary of the quality-control data results.

Tags: california, environment, groundwater, marin-county, monterey-county, napa-county, quality-control, san-luis-obispo-county, santa-cruz-county, sonoma-county, trend-evaluation, united-states, usgs-59120da1e4b0e541a03c1ef3, water-quality, western-united-states
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mount Baker Electromagnetic and Magnetic Data

Hydrothermally altered rocks, particularly if water saturated, can weaken stratovolcanoes, thereby increasing the potential for catastrophic sector collapses that can lead to far-traveled, destructive debris flows, which are the largest volcanic hazards for Mount Adams and Mount Baker. Evaluating the hazards associated with such alteration is difficult because much of the alteration is obscured by ice and its depth extent is unknown. Intense hydrothermal alteration significantly reduces the resistivity and magnetization of volcanic rock and therefore hydrothermally altered rocks are identified with helicopter electromagnetic and magnetic measurements at Mount Baker and Mount Adams. 
High resolution magnetic and electromagnetic data were collected using the RESOLVE multi-coil, multi-frequency electromagnetic system supplemented by a high sensitivity cesium magnetometer. The survey took place out of over Mount Baker, Washington during May of 2002. The survey covers an area centered on Mount Baker. Data were collected along north-south flight lines with east-west tie lines. A nominal EM sensor flight height of 60 m was maintained, except where safety dictated a higher elevation. A total of 200 kilometers over 2 survey blocks (including the Mount Adams area) were flown. Three files are available in this publication and include flight line data for the magnetic survey, flight line data for the gravity gradiometry survey and a report describing the survey parameters, field operations, quality control and data reduction procedures.

Tags: aeromagnetic-surveying, cggsc, crustal-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center, electromagnetic-surveying, fugro-airborne-surveys, geophysics, geospatial-datasets, magnetic-surveying, mount-baker, mountains, resistivity, usgs-5911dab3e4b0e541a03c1ba7, washington
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mount Adams Electromagnetic and Magnetic Data

Hydrothermally altered rocks, particularly if water saturated, can weaken stratovolcanoes, thereby increasing the potential for catastrophic sector collapses that can lead to far-traveled, destructive debris flows, which are the largest volcanic hazards for Mount Adams and Mount Baker. Evaluating the hazards associated with such alteration is difficult because much of the alteration is obscured by ice and its depth extent is unknown. Intense hydrothermal alteration significantly reduces the resistivity and magnetization of volcanic rock and therefore hydrothermally altered rocks are identified with helicopter electromagnetic and magnetic measurements at Mount Baker and Mount Adams. 
High resolution magnetic and electromagnetic data were collected using the RESOLVE multi-coil, multi-frequency electromagnetic system supplemented by a high sensitivity cesium magnetometer. The survey took place out of over Mount Adams, Washington during May of 2002. The survey covers an area centered on Mount Adams. Data were collected along north-south flight lines with east-west tie lines. A nominal EM sensor flight height of 60 m was maintained, except where safety dictated a higher elevation. A total of 200 kilometers over 2 survey blocks (including the Mount Baker area) were flown. Three files are available in this publication and include flight line data for the magnetic survey, flight line data for the gravity gradiometry survey and a report describing the survey parameters, field operations, quality control and data reduction procedures.

Tags: aeromagnetic-surveying, cggsc, crustal-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center, electromagnetic-surveying, fugro-airborne-surveys, geophysics, geospatial-datasets, magnetic-surveying, mount-adams, mountain, resistivity, usgs-5911da5ae4b0e541a03c1ba4, volcanic-hazards, washington
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mount Baker and Mount Adams Airborne Magnetic and Electromagnetic Survey Data, August 2002, Washington, USA

Hydrothermally altered rocks, particularly if water saturated, can weaken stratovolcanoes, thereby increasing the potential for catastrophic sector collapses that can lead to far-traveled, destructive debris flows, which are the largest volcanic hazards for Mount Adams and Mount Baker. Evaluating the hazards associated with such alteration is difficult because much of the alteration is obscured by ice and its depth extent is unknown. Intense hydrothermal alteration significantly reduces the resistivity and magnetization of volcanic rock and therefore hydrothermally altered rocks are identified with helicopter electromagnetic and magnetic measurements at Mount Baker and Mount Adams. 
High resolution magnetic and electromagnetic data were collected using the RESOLVE multi-coil, multi-frequency electromagnetic system supplemented by a high sensitivity cesium magnetometer. The survey took place out of over Mount Adams and Mount Baker, Washington during May of 2002. The survey covers an area centered on Mount Adams and Mount Baker. Data were collected along north-south flight lines with east-west tie lines. A nominal EM sensor flight height of 60 m was maintained, except where safety dictated a higher elevation. A total of 200 kilometers over the 2 survey blocks were flown. Three files are available in this publication and include flight line data for the magnetic survey, flight line data for the gravity gradiometry survey and a report describing the survey parameters, field operations, quality control and data reduction procedures.

Tags: aeromagnetic-surveying, cggsc, crustal-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center, electromagnetic-surveying, fugro-airborne-surveys, geophysics, geospatial-datasets, magnetic-surveying, mountain, mt-adams, mt-baker, resistivity, usgs-5911da14e4b0e541a03c1ba1, washington
Organization: Department of the Interior
Attributes for NHDPlus Version 2.1 Catchments and Modified Routing of Upstream Watersheds for the Conterminous United States: Housing Density 1940-2010

This tabular data set contains information on historic housing densities for every 10 years from 1940-2010, compiled for two spatial components of the NHDPlus version 2 data suite (NHDPlusv2) for the conterminous United States; 1) individual reach catchments and 2) reach catchments accumulated upstream through the river network. This dataset can be linked to the NHDPlus version 2 data suite by the unique identifier COMID.  The source data is from Hammer and others (SILVIS Lab, University of Wisconsin, 2008). The data provided here contains information for eight time periods: 1940, 1950, 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000, and 2010. The units are housing units per square kilometer. Reach catchment information characterizes data at the local scale. Reach catchments accumulated upstream through the river network characterizes cumulative upstream conditions. Network-accumulated values are computed using two methods, 1) divergence-routed and 2) total cumulative drainage area. Both approaches use a modified routing database to navigate the NHDPlus reach network to aggregate (accumulate) the metrics derived from the reach catchment scale. (Schwarz and Wieczorek, 2018).

Tags: census-blocks, housing-density, inlandwaters, nhdplus, silvis-lab, usgs-5910de31e4b0e541a03ac983
Organization: Department of the Interior