AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Heat-pulse flow measurements for selected boreholes near GMH Electronics Superfund site, Roxboro, NC (2012-2015)

The collection of borehole geophysical logs and images and continuous water-level data was conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey South Atlantic Water Science Center in the vicinity of the GMH Electronics Superfund site near Roxboro, North Carolina, during December 2012 through July 2015. The study purpose was part of a continued effort to assist the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the development of a conceptual groundwater model for the assessment of current contaminant distribution and future migration of contaminants. Previous work by the U.S. Geological Survey South Atlantic Water Science Center at the site involved similar data collection, in addition to surface geologic mapping and passive diffusion bag sampling within monitoring wells (Chapman and others, 2013). The continued data compilation efforts included the delineation of more than 900 subsurface features (primarily fracture orientations) in 10 open borehole wells. Geophysical logs, borehole imagery, pumping data, and heat-pulse flow measurements were collected and are presented within this data release. 
The data on this page consists of .csv files that contain vertical flow measurements within the borehole and the associated depth below land surface. Measurements recorded under both ambient and stressed conditions are contained in each file.

Tags: fractured-rock-aquifer, geophysical-logging, groundwater, north-carolina, person-county, roxboro, usgs-576ac13ce4b07657d1a166e1
Organization: Department of the Interior
Caliper, electric, fluid, and flow logs for selected boreholes near GMH Electronics Superfund site, Roxboro, NC (2012-2015)

The collection of borehole geophysical logs and images and continuous water-level data was conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey South Atlantic Water Science Center in the vicinity of the GMH Electronics Superfund site near Roxboro, North Carolina, during December 2012 through July 2015. The study purpose was part of a continued effort to assist the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the development of a conceptual groundwater model for the assessment of current contaminant distribution and future migration of contaminants. Previous work by the U.S. Geological Survey South Atlantic Water Science Center at the site involved similar data collection, in addition to surface geologic mapping and passive diffusion bag sampling within monitoring wells (Chapman and others, 2013). Geophysical logs, borehole imagery, pumping data, and heat-pulse flow measurements were collected and are presented within this data release. 
The data within this page contain .csv files with caliper, natural gamma, resistivity, fluid temperature, fluid specific conductance, and heat-pulse flow measurements (ambient and stressed conditions).

Tags: fractured-rock-aquifer, geophysical-logging, groundwater, north-carolina, person-county, roxboro, usgs-576ac0b1e4b07657d1a166d6
Organization: Department of the Interior
GIS data for predicting the occurrence of cave-inhabiting fauna based on features of the Earth surface environment in the Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC) Region

Cave-limited species display patchy and restricted distributions, but are challenging to study in-situ because of the difficulty of sampling. It is often unclear whether the observed distribution is a sampling artifact or a true restriction in range. Further, the drivers of the distribution could be local environmental conditions, such as cave humidity, or they could be associated with surface features that are surrogates for cave conditions. If surface features can be used to predict the distribution of important cave taxa, then conservation management goals can be more easily obtained.  
These GIS data represent the input and results of a spatial statistical model used to examine the hypothesis that the presence of major faunal groups of cave obligate species could be predicted based on features of the earth surface. Georeferenced records of cave obligate amphipods, crayfish, fish, isopods, beetles, millipedes, pseudoscorpions, spiders, and springtails within the area of Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC) in the eastern United States (Illinois to Virginia, and New York to Alabama) were assigned to 20 x 20 km grid cells.  Habitat suitability for these faunal groups was modeled using logistic regression with twenty predictor variables within each grid cell, such as percent karst, soil features, temperature, precipitation, and elevation.   The models successfully predicted the presence of a group greater than 65 percent of the time (mean=88 percent) for the presence of single grid cell endemics, and for all faunal groups except pseudoscorpions.  The most common predictor variables were latitude, percent karst, and the standard deviation of the Topographic Position Index (TPI), a measure of landscape rugosity within each grid cell.  The overall success of these models points to a number of important connections between the surface and cave environments, and some of these, especially soil features and topographic variability, suggest new research directions.  These models should prove to be useful tools in predicting the presence of species in understudied areas.

Tags: baseflow, biodiversity, caves, karst, precipitation, soils, species-distribution-models, species-ranges, subterranean-species, temperature, topography, troglobionts, usgs-57684f72e4b07657d19f59ea
Organization: Department of the Interior
U.S. block-level population density rasters for 1990, 2000, and 2010

This dataset consists of three raster datasets representing population density for the years 1990, 2000, and 2010.  All three rasters are based on block-level census geography data.  The 1990 and 2000 data are derived from data normalized to 2000 block boundaries, while the 2010 data are based on 2010 block boundaries.  The 1990 and 2000 data are rasters at 100-meter (m) resolution, while the 2010 data are at 60-m resolution.  See details about each dataset in the specific metadata for each raster.

Tags: 1990-census, 2000-census, 2010-census, population-density, usgs-57753ebee4b07dd077c70868
Organization: Department of the Interior
Continued Geophysical Logging in the vicinity of the GMH Electronics Superfund Site near Roxboro North Carolina

The collection of borehole geophysical logs and images and continuous water-level data was conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey South Atlantic Water Science Center in the vicinity of the GMH Electronics Superfund site near Roxboro, North Carolina, during December 2012 through July 2015. The study purpose was part of a continued effort to assist the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the development of a conceptual groundwater model for the assessment of current contaminant distribution and future migration of contaminants. Previous work by the U.S. Geological Survey South Atlantic Water Science Center at the site involved similar data collection, in addition to surface geologic mapping and passive diffusion bag sampling within monitoring wells (Chapman and others, 2013). The continued data compilation efforts included the delineation of more than 900 subsurface features (primarily fracture orientations) in 10 open borehole wells. Geophysical logs, borehole imagery, pumping data, and heat-pulse flow measurements were collected and are presented within this data release.

Tags: fractured-rock-aquifer, geophysical-logging, groundwater, north-carolina, person-county, roxboro, usgs-576444fae4b07657d19ba8af
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data Quality Assurance - Laboratory duplicates

This dataset includes data quality assurance information concerning the Relative Percent Difference (RPD) of laboratory duplicates.  No laboratory duplicate information exists for 2010.  The formula for calculating relative percent difference is: ABS(2*[(A-B)/(A+B)]).  An RPD of less the 10% is considered acceptable.

Tags: usgs-576420d6e4b07657d19ba823, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Effects of carbon dioxide on juveniles of the freshwater mussel Lampsilis siliquoidea (Unionidae).

Carbon dioxide has shown promise as a tool to control movements of invasive Asian carps. We evaluated lethal and sublethal responses of juvenile fat mucket (Lampsilis siliquoidea) mussels to carbon dioxide concentrations (43–269 mg/L, mean concentration) that are effective for deterring carp movement. The 28-d LC50 value (lethal concentration to 50% of the mussels) was 87.0 mg/L (95% confidence interval, CI 78.4–95.9) and at 16-d post-exposure was 76.0 mg/L (95% CI 62.9–90.3). A proportional hazards regression model predicted that juveniles could not survive CO2 concentrations 160 mg/L for more than 2 weeks or 100 mg/L CO2 for more than 30 days. Mean daily shell growth was significantly lower for mussels that survived carbon dioxide treatments; however, growth during the post-exposure period did not differ among treatments, indicating recovery of the mussels. Carbon dioxide also caused shell pitting and erosion of the periostracum in mussels. Behavioral effects of carbon dioxide included movement of mussels to the substrate surface and narcotization in the highest concentrations. Mussels in 110 mg/L, mean CO2 had the most movements, particularly in the first 3 days of exposure. If carbon dioxide is infused continuously as a fish deterrent, concentrations below 76 mg/L are recommended to prevent juvenile mussel mortality and shell damage. Mussels may survive and recover from brief exposure to higher concentrations.

Tags: biota, carbon-dioxide, ecotoxicology, environment, freshwater-mussels, mussels, unionid, usgs-57641959e4b07657d19ba80c
Organization: Department of the Interior
Estimated Use of Water by Subwatershed (HUC12) in the Delaware River Basin, 2010

This dataset presents offstream water use estimates from 2010 which are aggregated to the 12-digit (subwatershed) hydrologic unit level for the Delaware River Basin.  The data support USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2015-5142.

Tags: de, delaware, delaware-river, delaware-river-basin, new-jersey, new-york, nj, ny, pa, pennsylvania, usgs-5762a410e4b07657d19a71cb, water-use, water-withdrawals, withdrawals
Organization: Department of the Interior
Trace elements concentrations in pore water and surface water near the sediment-water interface in the Upper Columbia River, Washington (2015)

Smelter slag containing copper and other trace elements is widespread in riverbed sediment of the upper Columbia River (UCR) of the United States. To evaluate potential risk to aquatic life concentrations of copper and other trace elements were measured in shallow pore-water and in river water samples collected near the sediment-water interface. Samples were collected using an in-situ pore-water profiler to collect a suite of four water samples from above, at, and below the sediment-water interface at each of 29 sampling locations; pore-water collected with a drive-point sampler at 10 additional locations; and Stabilized Liquid Membrane Device samplers (SLMDs) to allow determination of trace-element concentrations directly at the sediment-water interface at 8 locations.  Samples were collected between April 26 and August 5, 2015 from a total of 47 locations in the UCR between river-mile 715 and 745. The analysis of water samples included specific conductance, pH, alkalinity, fluoride, chloride, bromide, nitrate, sulfate, phosphate, dissolved organic carbon, silver, aluminum, arsenic, barium, beryllium, bismuth, calcium, cadmium, cerium, cobalt, chromium, cesium, copper, dysprosium, erbium, europium, iron, gallium, gadolinium, germanium, holmium, potassium, lanthanum, lithium, lutetium, magnesium, manganese, molybdenum, sodium, niobium, neodymium, nickel, phosphorus, lead, praseodymium, rubidium, antimony, scandium, selenium, silica, samarium, strontium, tantalum, terbium, thorium, titanium, thallium, thulium, uranium, vanadium, tungsten, yttrium, ytterbium, and zinc. The analysis of SLMD samples included cadmium, copper, nickel, phosphorous, and zinc.

Tags: pore-water-chemistry-trace-element-lake-roosevelt-surface-water-remedial-investigation-white-st, upper-columbia-river-lake-roosevelt, usgs-5761c96be4b04f417c2d30d8, washington
Organization: Department of the Interior
Attributes for NHDPlus Version 2.1 Catchments and Modified Routing of Upstream Watersheds for the Conterminous United States: National Land Cover Database 2011 (NLCD 2011)

This tabular data set represents the percent of land cover classes from the 2011 National Land Cover Dataset 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 the "National Land Cover Database 2011" produced by the United States Geological Survey (Homer and others, 2011). Units are percent. The "National Land Cover Database 2011" (NLCD 2011) is a 16-class (additional four classes in Alaska only) land cover classification scheme that has been applied consistently across all 50 United States and Puerto Rico at a spatial resolution of 30 meters. 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: arkansas-white_red, california, catchment, conterminous-united-states, great-lakes, inlandwaters, land-cover, lower-mississippi, missouri, national-land-cover-data-set, nawqa, new-england-and-mid-atlantic, nhdplus, nlcd-2011, ohio, pacific-northwest, rio-grande-colorado-and-great-basin, souris-red-rainy, south-atlantic-gulf-and-tennessee, sparrow, tennessee, texas-gulf, upper-mississippi, usgs-5761bad4e4b04f417c2d30c5
Organization: Department of the Interior
Attributes for NHDPlus Version 2.1 Catchments and Modified Routing of Upstream Watersheds for the Conterminous United States: National Land Cover Database 2006 (NLCD 2006)

This tabular data set represents the percent of land cover classes from the 2006 National Land Cover Dataset 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 the "National Land Cover Database 2006" produced by the United States Geological Survey (Fry and others, 2011). Units are percent. The "National Land Cover Database 2006" (NLCD 2006) is a 16-class (additional four classes in Alaska only) land cover classification scheme that has been applied consistently across all 50 United States and Puerto Rico at a spatial resolution of 30 meters. 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: catchment, inlandwaters, land-cover, national-land-cover-data-set, nawqa, nhdplus, nlcd-2006, sparrow, usgs-5761b90ee4b04f417c2d30bc
Organization: Department of the Interior
On the Deterministic and Stochastic Use of Hydrologic Models: Data Release

This data set archives all inputs, outputs and scripts needed to reproduce the findings of W.H. Farmer and R.M. Vogel in the 2016 Water Resources Research article entitled "On the Deterministic and Stochastic Use of Hydrologic Model".  Input data includes observed streamflow values, in cubic feet per second, for 1225 streamgages over the period from 01 October 1980 through 30 September 2011.  Estiamted streamflows, for the same streamgages and periods, is provided from a general calibration of the Precipitation Runoff Modeling System.  Output data includes the same with alternate realizations of streamflow generated following the descriptions in the associated report.  These results can be regenerated by using the included scripts. 
Data are provided in several files: (1) observedStreamflow.csv contains observed streamflows, in cubic feet per second, for all 1225 streamgages; (2) prmsModeledStreamflow.csv contains streamflows modeled with the Precipitation Runoff Modeling Streamflow (Markstrom et al., 2015; DOI 10.3133/tm6B7); (3) outputData.zip contains CSV files of observed, PRMS-modeled and stochastically-generated streamflows, in cubic feet per second, for all 1225 streamgages; (4) README.txt describes the contents of this archive and execution of model scripts; (5) simulation.R is a computer script in in the R programming lanaguage and is capable of reproducing the results in outputData.zip from observedStreamflow.csv and prmsModeledStreamflow.csv; (6) analysis.R is another R script capable of reproducing the figures in the associated report from the results in outputData.zip.

Tags: hydrology, mathematical-modeling, statistical-analysis, streamflow, usgs-5761b7b3e4b04f417c2d30b2, water-resources
Organization: Department of the Interior
Attributes for NHDPlus Version 2.1 Reach Catchments and Modified Routed Upstream Watersheds for the Conterminous United States: Crop Land Data Layer 2014

This tabular data set represents the percent of land cover classes from the 2014 Crop land Data Layer 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 the "2014 Crop Land Data Layer" produced by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS, 2015).  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, 2016).

Tags: agriculture, catchment, cdl, crop-cover, crop-estimates, crop-land-data-layer, cropland, cropscape, inlandwaters, land-cover, nawqa, nhdplus, sparrow, usgs-5761afb6e4b04f417c2d309f
Organization: Department of the Interior
Raw Data from Continuous Resistivity Profiles Collected May 24-25, and July 28, 2011 in Biscayne Bay and a Cooling Canal System, Miami-Dade County

The salinity of groundwater at the Florida Power &amp; Light Company (FPL) Turkey Point Nuclear Plant in southeastern Florida is being evaluated. The power plant contains a large cooling canal system with warm water; which has salinities elevated above typical, natural surface water in southeastern Florida, circulating within the canals in the uppermost part the highly permeable karst carbonate Biscayne aquifer. The canal system is a closed system that does not discharge directly to fresh or marine surface water bodies. However, exchange between the canal system and groundwater has been postulated based on existing hydrologic information. 
A pilot study was conducted to determine if Continuous resistivity profiles could be used to determine the vertical and horizontal extent of the hypersaline water from the cooling canal system. Continuous resistivity profiles were collected May 24-25, and July 28, 2011 in some of the cooling canals of the Florida Power and Light Company Turkey Point power plant and in Biscayne Bay near the power plant.

Tags: biscayne-bay, continous-resistivity-profiling, cooling-canal-system, crp, florida, geophysical, miami-dade-county, salinity, survey, turkey-point, usgs-5761ae4ee4b04f417c2d309a
Organization: Department of the Interior
Field Measurements and Laboratory Analysis

The dataset includes field measurements and laboratory analysis of water-quality data collected by trained community technicians across the Yukon River Basin in Alaska and Canada and Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council staff and analyzed at the U.S. Geological Survey National Research Program laboratories in Boulder, CO.

Tags: climate-change, usgs-5761a0efe4b04f417c2d3068, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Parasite Recruitment and Host Risk in a Snail-Trematode System at Carpinteria Salt Marsh

The project is located at Carpinteria Salt Marsh, part of the University of California Reserve System. The marsh is located at 34.40°N, 119.53°W, which is near the city of Carpinteria, CA. The "exp_recruitment" data set includes information on site name (site), latitude (lat) and longitude (long) of each site, cage number (cage), the number of egg-transmitted (egginf) and miracidium-transmitted (mirainf) trematode infections per cage, the biomass of snails within a cage (cagebmdens), and the influence (g^3/4) of final hosts that carry egg-transmitted (eggfhi) and miracidium-transmitted (mirafhi) trematodes. The "exp_risk" data set includes information on site name (site), latitude (lat) and longitude (long) of each site, cage number (cage), the length of each snail (length), the mass of each snail (mass), whether the snail was infected with an egg-transmitted trematode (egginf) or miracidium-transmitted trematode (mirainf), the biomass of snails within a cage (cagebmdens), the biomass of snails in the surrounding area (surrbmdens), and the influence (g^3/4) of final hosts that carry egg-transmitted (eggfhi) and miracidium-transmitted (mirafhi) trematodes. These data support the following publication entitled “Host density increases parasite recruitment but decreases host risk in a snail-trematode system” by J.C. Buck, R.F. Hechinger, A.C. Wood, T.E. Stewart, A.M. Kuris, and K.D. Lafferty http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy.1905.

Tags: cerithidea, cerithideopsis-californica, complex-life-cycle, encounter-dilution, horn-snail, host-density, parasite, spatial-scale, transmission-mode, trematode, usgs-575f302ce4b04f417c2b069d
Organization: Department of the Interior