AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Data used to map water-level changes in the High Plains aquifer, predevelopment (about 1950) to 2015  and  2013 to 2015

This USGS data release consists of two geospatial raster datasets and three geospatial vector data sets of water-level data. The data sets include a raster (A1) representing water-level change from predevelopment (about 1950) to 2015; the primary vector dataset (A2) of water-level-change data of static or near-static water levels in wells measured in predevelopment and 2015 (for wells in Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas) and in wells measured in predevelopment and the latest available static or near-static water level from 2011 to 2015 (for wells in New Mexico and Wyoming), a supplemental vector dataset (A3) of water-level data used to manually substantiate the raster of water-level change from predevelopment (about 1950) to 2015, a raster (B1) representing water-level change from 2013 to 2015; and the vector dataset (B2) of water-level-change data for wells measured in 2013 and 2015. The supplemental vector data sets of water-level-change data used to manually substantiate the raster of water-level change from predevelopment (about 1950) to 2015 are composed of 
(1) water-level-change data from wells measured before June 15, 1978, but not during or before the predevelopment period for the area, and in 2015,
(2) for wells not measured in predevelopment or before June 15, 1978 but measured in 1980 and in 2015, calculated water-level-change data derived from the sum of the water-level-change value from 1980 to 2015 and the beginning water-level-change value from the contours of water-level change, predevelopment to 1980 (Luckey and others, 1981; Cederstrand and Becker, 1999), 
(3) water-level-change data for wells located in Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas and measured in predevelopment and 2014 and not measured in 2015, 
(4) water-level-change data for wells located in Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas and measured in measured in predevelopment and 2013 and not measured in 2014 or in 2015, 
(5) the water-level-change data for wells located in Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas and measured in measured in predevelopment and 2012 and not measured in 2013, 2014, or 2015, 
(6) the water-level-change data for wells located in Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas and measured in measured in predevelopment and 2011 and not measured in 2012, 2013, 2014, or 2015.
The raster and vector data support USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2017-5040, Water-Level Changes and Change in Recoverable Water in Storage in the High Plains Aquifer, Predevelopment to 2015 and 2013-15.

Tags: aquifers, colorado, geoscientificinformation, great-plains, ground-water, groundwater, high-plains, high-plains-aquifer, inlandwaters, kansas, nebraska, new-mexico, ogallala-aquifer, oklahoma, south-dakota, texas, usgs-56abdeefe4b0403299f4673e, water-level-change, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Enhanced sidescan-sonar TIFF images in a UTM projection on the inner continental shelf off the northern Oregon and southern Washington

Two 21-day field operations were conducted in 1997 and 1998 in the estuaries and on the inner continental shelf off the northern Oregon and southern Washington coast. These cruises aboard the R/V Corliss were run in order to generate reconnaissance maps of the seafloor geology and the shallow subsurface stratigraphy using sidescan-sonar and seismic-reflection mapping techniques. The 1998 cruise also collected sediment grab samples, bottom photographs, and video images to verify the sidescan-sonar imagery and to document the seafloor geology. The combination of these data with previously collected sediment sample data (Robert, 1974; Nittrouer, 1978; and Smith et. al., 1980) has been used to define the extent and lithology of shelf sediments associated with the Columbia River littoral cell. This work is one component of a larger project studying the erosion of the Washington Oregon coasts and is being coordinated by the U.S. Geological Survey and the Washington State Department of Ecology. The reasons for collecting these data are to provide a regional synthesis of the offshore geology for this project and to support a wide variety of management decisions and to provide a basis for further process-oriented investigations.

Tags: columbia-river-littoral-cell, corliss, crls97007, crls98014, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, image, image-mosaics, imagerybasemapsearthcover, inner-shelf-off-columbia-river, marine-geophysics, oceans, or, oregon, pacific-ocean, sea-floor-acoustic-reflectivity, sidescan-sonar, tiff, tiff-world-file, usgs-53edd302-ad1e-43ab-ba0d-aead7036853e, utm-projection, wa, washington
Organization: Department of the Interior
Time Series Electromagnetic Induction-Log Datasets, Including Logs Collected through the 2014 Water Year in South Florida

Time series electromagnetic-induction log (TSEMIL) datasets are collected from PVC cased or uncased 
monitoring wells to evaluate changes in water conductivity over time.
TSEMIL datasets consist of a series of individual electromagnetic-induction logs collected at a
frequency of months or years that have been compiled into a dataset by eliminating small
uniform offsets in bulk conductivity between logs likely caused by minor variations in
calibration. At depths where water conductivity is not changing through time, each log is
typically within about ±15 mS/m of the median of the dataset at any given depth, which is
within the stated resolution, repeatability, and accuracy specifications of the probe. Though the
offsets between logs are small (±15 mS/m), they obscure the ability to identify small but real
changes in bulk conductivity resulting from changes in aquifer salinity. These offsets are
removed by selecting a depth at which no changes are apparent from year to year, and by
adjusting individual logs to the median of all logs at the selected depth. Generally, these
depths are within the freshwater saturated part of the aquifer, well below the water table. Once
the offsets have been removed there is generally only about ±2 mS/m of completely irregular
variation between successive logs that cannot be removed. Even if perfect numerical
alignment is achieved at one or two depths, the ±2 mS/m of random variation remains at other
depths. Given these corrections, however, changes from year to year caused by saltwater
intrusion are easier to identify. Detailed descriptions of how these corrections are applied are
described in Prinos and others (2014) and Prinos and Valderrama (2015).
TSEMIL datasets can be used to monitor changes in water conductivity throughout the full thickness of an aquifer, 
without the need for long open-interval wells, which have, in some
instances, allowed vertical water flow within the well bore that has biased water conductivity
profiles (Prinos and Valderrama, 2015). Although TSEMIL datasets are most commonly used
to evaluate saltwater intrusion some other observed changes evident in TSEMIL datasets are:
(1) variations in bulk conductivity near the water table where water saturation of pore spaces
may vary, and water temperature may be more variable, (2) dissipation of conductive water in
high porosity rock layers, which may have entered these layers during drilling.

Tags: biscayne-aquifer, biscayne-bay, broward-county, bulk-conductivity, florida, geophysical, glades-county, hendry-county, induction, lake-okeechobee, miami-dade-county, north-america, palm-beach-county, surficial-aquifer-system, time-series-electromagnetic-induction-log-datasets, tsemil-datasets, usgs-56abd635e4b0403299f46586, well-logs
Organization: Department of the Interior
CDOM/fDOM and Landsat 8 Comparisons

This data set is combination of imagery from the Advanced Land Imager and Landsat 8 Surface reflectance data product covering three USGS gauge stations, Middle Haddam Connecticut (01193050), Potomac River at Little Falls (01646500), and the Susquehanna River at Darlington, Maryland (01579550) and the Sandy Hook to Jamaica Bays areas of the New York and New Jersey coast.  Raw and corrected water quality data was collected from the NWIS database for the corresponding dates of Landsat 8 overpasses of all three sites.  Calculations and functions from the Landsat bands were compared, such as band ratios and power functions were calculated and compared against the corrected data for Colored Dissolved Organic Matter.

Tags: cdom-fdom-surface-reflectance-landsat-imagery, landsat-8, usgs-56abc85ce4b0403299f464c6
Organization: Department of the Interior
Trimmed Processed Continuous Resistivity Point Data from Cape Cod National Seashore, Feb. 28, 2006

Continuous resistivity profiling (CRP) surveys were conducted at Cape Cod National Seashore in 2004 and 2006 in order to test hypotheses about groundwater flow under and into estuaries and the Atlantic Ocean. Coastal resource managers here and elsewhere are concerned about nutrients that are entering coastal waters via submarine groundwater discharge, which are contributing to eutrophication and harmful algal blooms. CRP is used to measure electrical resistivity of sediments, a property that is sensitive to differences in salinity of submarine ground water. The 2004 and 2006 surveys used floating resistivity streamers of 100 m and 50 m respectively. The depth penetration of the streamers is approximately 20% of the streamer length which translates to approximately 20-25 m with the 100 m streamer and 12-14 m with the 50 m streamer. These data were processed using AGI's EarthImager 2D software.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, cape-cod, cape-cod-national-seashore, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, continuous-resistivity-profiling, crp, environment, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, ground-water, inlandwaters, location, massachusetts, nauset-marsh, navigation, north-america, oceans, of-2006-1169, open-file-report, point, salt-pond, shapefile, submarine-ground-water, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-56abb373-0ff5-4654-91e2-45a62d6ce9a3, whsc-field-activity-serial-number-06007, woods-hole-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Velocity Mapping in the Dresden Pool of the Des Plaines River with ADCP

ADCP data were collected on July 31-August 1, 2013 in the Dresden Island Pool on the Des Plaines River using a Teledyne Rio Grande 1200 kHz Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler with integrated Trimble Ag162 GPS. On July 31-August 1, 2013 the Des Plaines River discharge also was approximately 2,000-3,000 cfs. ADCP data was collected in reciprocal pairs along cross-sections and along roughly streamwise oriented lines between cross-sections. The data are provided in: 
(1) a zipped folder containing classic ascii output files exported from WinRiverII software, and a README text file indicating which files are reciprocal pairs, and which files are streamwise oriented lines 
(2) a zipped folder containing KML files for each transect

Tags: des-plaines-river, dresden-pool, illinois, surface-water-non-marine, usgs-56a8fb38e4b0b28f1184dcac, velocity
Organization: Department of the Interior
Great Basin Sage-Grouse Concentration Areas.

Indices of habitat suitability and animal abundance provide useful proxy-based measures adaptive management (Coates et al. 2015a). Doherty et al. (in review) derived a range-wide population index model for sage-grouse using such indices that incorporated sage-grouse habitat suitability generated from Random Forest models (Evans et al. 2011), and spatially explicit abundance measures based on fixed kernel density functions informed by distributions of lek locations (lek locations defined by Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, see Coates et al. 2015b). The kernels were generated using two bandwidth distances representing the majority of breeding habitat in relation to leks (6.4 km) and seasonal movements (18.0 km). Relationships between abundance indices and the overall population index model were then evaluated to demarcate areas that are the most meaningful to sage-grouse populations (i.e., sage-grouse concentration areas). 
REFERENCES
Coates, P. S., M. L. Casazza, M. A. Ricca, B. E. Brussee, E. J. Blomberg, K. B. Gustafson, C. T. Overton, D. Davis, L. Neill, S. P. Espinosa, S. C. Gardner, and D. J. Delehanty. 2015a. Integrating spatially explicit indices of abundance and habitat quality: an applied example for greater sage-grouse management. J. Appl. Ecol. (available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2664.12558/epdf).
Coates, P. S., M. A. Ricca, B. G. Prochazka, K. E. Doherty, M. L. Brooks, and M. L. Casazza. 2015b. Long-term effects of wildfire on greater sage-grouse - integrating population and ecosystem concepts for management in the Great Basin. Report 2015-1165, Reston, VA. http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr20151165 
Doherty, K. E., J. S. Evans, P. S. Coates, L. Juliusson, and B. C. Fedy. In review. Importance of regional variation in conservation planning and defining thresholds for a declining species: a range-wide example of the greater sage-grouse. Ecosphere. 
Evans, J. S., M. A. Murphy, Z. A. Holden, and S. A. Cushman. 2011. Modeling species distribution and change using Random Forests in Predictive species and habitat modeling.in C. A. Drew, W. Y.F., and F. Huettmann editors. Landscape ecology: concepts and applications. Springer, New York.
Vander Wal, E., and A. R. Rodgers. 2012. An individual-based quantitative approach for delineating core areas of animal space use. Ecological Modelling 224:48-53.

Tags: fire-suppression, greater-sage-grouse, habitat, monitoring-trends-in-widlifire-severity-mtbs, usgs-56a7ba52e4b0b28f1184d966, wildfire
Organization: Department of the Interior
Modifed Great Basin Extent (Buffered)

Two different great basin perimeter files were intersected and dissolved using ArcGIS 10.2.2 to create the outer perimeter of the great basin for use modeling long-term wildfire effects on sage-grouse population growth, and development of sage-grouse concentration areas based on modeled habitat quality, lek density, and population abundance (Coates et al. 2015). These two perimeter files included a 1:1,000,000 map of hydrographic areas in the Great Basin) (Buto 2009), and vegetation characteristics (Karl et al. 2001). The resulting Modified Great Basin Extent represented a combination of hydrographic and floristic features best suited for the defining the spatial extent of the analyses. To ensure moving window analyses of habitat and fire areas covered the entire extent, the extent was then buffered by 15.8 km. The extent also encompasses large parts of sage-grouse management zones III (Southern Great Basin), IV (Snake River Plain), and V (Northern Great Basin). A small portion (&lt; 5%) of management zone II (Wyoming Basins) is also encompassed.
REFERENCES
Buto, S.G., 2009, Digital Representation of 1:1,000,000-scale Hydrographic Areas of the Great Basin: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 457, 5 p .http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/457
Coates, P.S., Ricca, M.A., Prochazka, B.G., Doherty, K. D., Brooks, M.L., Casazza, M.L. 2015. Long-term effects of wildfire on greater sage-grouse - integrating population and ecosystem concepts for management in Great Basin. http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr20151165
Karl, M., Durtsche, B.M., Morgan, K. 2001. Great Basin Restoration Initiative Area. http://sagemap.wr.usgs.gov/SearchData.aspx

Tags: biota, boundaries, boundary, california, cheatgrass, environment, great-basin, greater-sage-grouse, idaho, nevada, north-america, oregon, planning-tool, united-states, usgs-56a7b9b8e4b0b28f1184d962, utah, wildfire
Organization: Department of the Interior
Velocity Mapping in the Marseilles Pool of the Illinois River with ADCP

ADCP data were collected on two separate occasions (May 14-15, 2013 and May 28, 2013) in the Marseilles Pool on the Illinois River using a Teledyne Rio Grande 1200 kHz Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler with integrated Trimble GPS. ADCP data was collected in reciprocal pairs along cross-sections and along roughly streamwise oriented lines between cross-sections. The data are provided in:  
(1) a zipped folder containing classic ascii output files exported from WinRiverII software, and a README text file indicating which files are reciprocal pairs, and which files are streamwise oriented lines  
(2) a zipped folder containing KML files for each transect.

Tags: illinois, illinois-river, marseilles-pool, surface-water-non-marine, usgs-56b0d476e4b010e2af2a99d7, velocity
Organization: Department of the Interior
Magnetic Data of Airborne Geophysical Surveys over the 2011 Mineral, Virginia, Earthquake Area

The 2011 moment magnitude (Mw) 5.8 central Virginia earthquake was felt by millions of people and caused significant damage in the eastern United States. As part of efforts to better understand the faults and geologic features associated with the earthquake, the U.S. Geological Survey commissioned airborne geophysical surveys over the epicentral area. The surveys were conducted from July 15, 2012 - July 25, 2012, by Sander Geophysics Limited. The area was flown along a draped surface with a nominal survey height above ground of 125 meters. The flight line spacing was 200 meters for traverse lines and 2000 meters for control lines. Here we present downloadable magnetic data from those surveys as image (GeoTiff or kmz), grid (gxf) or flight line (csv) data.

Tags: airborne-magnetics, earthquake, louisa-county, magnetics, mineral, piedmont, subsurface-imaging, united-states-of-america, usgs-53f59abbe4b09d12e0e845c8, virginia
Organization: Department of the Interior
Water quality and optical absorbance data for groundwater samples collected during 2010 to 2012 from select Principal Aquifers of the United States

Water quality and optical absorbance data for journal article entitled, "The removal kinetics of dissolved organic matter and the optical clarity of groundwater" by Francis H. Chapelle, Yuan Shen, Eric W. Strom, and Ronald Benner.

Tags: connecticut, dissolved-organic-carbon, georgia, groundwater, hydrochemistry, nebraska, optical-clarity, reaction-kinetics, south-carolina, texas, united-states, usgs-56a7b8f0e4b0b28f1184d95d, utah
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hydrologic and Landscape Database for the Caloosahatchee and "Ding" Darling National Wildlife Refuges and Contributing Watersheds, Florida

This hydrologic and landscape database was developed by the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for the Caloosahatchee and "Ding" Darling National Wildlife Refuges and contributing watersheds in Florida. The database was developed as an assessment and evaluation tool to use in examining refuge-specific hydrologic patterns and trends as related to water availability and water quality for refuge ecosystems, habits, and target species. The database includes hydrologic time series data, statistics on landscape and hydrologic time series data, and hydro-ecological metrics that can be used to assess refuge hydrologic conditions. The database is described in detail in Open File Report 2017-1018.

Tags: data-packaging, ecosystems, groundwater-level, hydrology, land-use-and-land-cover, population-human, runoff, soil-horizons, stream-discharge, stream-gage-measurement, usgs-56a79e78e4b0b28f1184d934, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Bootstrap-Estimated Land-to-Water Coefficients from the CBTN_v4 SPARROW Model

This file contains 200 sets of bootstrap-estimated land-to-water coefficients from the CBTN_v4 SPARROW model, which is documented in USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2011-5167. The coefficients were produced as part of CBTN_v4 model calibration to provide information about the uncertainty in model estimates.

Tags: fate-and-transport, nitrogen, sparrow, usgs-569fa417e4b0961cf27fd210
Organization: Department of the Interior
Five Hydrologic and Landscape Databases for Select National Wildlife Refuges in Southeastern United States

Five hydrologic and landscape databases were developed by the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, for select National Wildlife Refuges (NWRs) in southeastern United States: (1) the Cahaba River NWR and contributing watersheds in Alabama, (2) the Caloosahatchee and J.N. "Ding" Darling NWRs and contributing watersheds in Florida, (3) the Clarks River NWR and contributing watersheds in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi, (4) the Lower Suwannee NWR and contributing watersheds in Georgia and Florida, and (5) the Okefenokee NWR and contributing watersheds in Georgia and Florida. The databases were developed as an assessment and evaluation tool to use in examining refuge-specific hydrologic patterns and trends as related to water availability and water quality for refuge ecosystems, habitats, and target species. They include hydrologic time-series data, statistics on landscape and hydrologic time-series data, and hydro-ecological metrics that can be used to assess refuge hydrologic conditions. The databases are described and documented in detail in Open File Report 2017-1018.

Tags: alabama, data-packaging, ecosystems, florida, georgia, groundwater-level, hydrology, kentucky, land-use-and-land-cover, mississippi, population-human, runoff, soil-horizons, stream-discharge, stream-gage-measurement, tennessee, usgs-569eba68e4b0961cf27fb0db, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Backflow rate time series from August 15, 2011, to September 30, 2011, for Injection Well IW-2 at the North District Wastewater Treatment Plant, Miami-Dade County, Florida

U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with Miami-Dade County, performed a sequential, aquifer stress test from August 15 to October 12, 2011, on the Floridan aquifer system at the North District Wastewater Treatment Plant, in Miami-Dade County, Florida. Miami-Dade County stressed the Floridan aquifer system with four municipal injection wells at the North District. The U.S. Geological Survey measured backflow rate with a flow volume counter from August 15, 2011, to September 30, 2011, in Injection Well IW-2. These data are part of a larger data set that describe the stress test at the North District (King, 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.5066/F7QZ2819).

Tags: 2011, aquifer-test, boulder-zone, cedar-keys-formation, deepwell-injection, effluent-injection, eocene, florida, floridan-aquifer-system, hydrogeology, miami-dade, oldsmar-formation, paleocene, tomography, underground-injection-control, usgs-56991d9ee4b0fbd3f7fa4d71
Organization: Department of the Interior
Injection rate time series from August 10, 2011, to October 20, 2011, for Injection Wells IW-1, IW-3, and IW-4 at the North District Wastewater Treatment Plant, Miami-Dade County, Florida

U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with Miami-Dade County, performed a sequential, aquifer stress test from August 15 to October 12, 2011, on the Floridan aquifer system at the North District Wastewater Treatment Plant, in Miami-Dade County, Florida. Miami-Dade County stressed the Floridan aquifer system with four municipal injection wells at the North District. Miami-Dade County, Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department measured injection rate with a supervisory control and data acquisition system from August 10, 2011, to October 20, 2011, for Injection Wells IW-1, IW-3, and IW-4. These data are part of a larger data set that describe the stress test at the North District (King, 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.5066/F7QZ2819).

Tags: 2011, aquifer-test, boulder-zone, cedar-keys-formation, deepwell-injection, effluent-injection, eocene, florida, floridan-aquifer-system, hydrogeology, miami-dade, oldsmar-formation, paleocene, tomography, underground-injection-control, usgs-56991d35e4b0fbd3f7fa4d6a
Organization: Department of the Interior