AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Continuous resistivity profiling (CRP) in the Cedar River Floodplain, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 2015

In April 2015, approximately 19 miles of continuous resistivity profiling (CRP) surveys were collected on the Cedar River in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The CRP method was used to characterize the resistivity of the water column and subbottom materials. Five CRP profiles were collected concurrently with the continuous seismic methods. For this investigation, 11 electrodes spaced 10 m apart and mounted in a streamer were towed behind the boat and data were collected using the dipole-dipole array type. The first two electrodes, closest to the boat, were used to inject current into the water and subbottom materials, and eight electrical potential measurements were made using the remaining nine electrodes. With this system, a complete suite of measurements is collected every 2.8 seconds. Because the boat is moving at a slow rate of speed, a complete measurement is taken while the boat has moved about 3-5 m. In general, voltage measurements taken with larger electrode spacings extend deeper into the subsurface. The exact depth and resistivity are determined through a process of inversion. The raw CRP data are shared in this data release.

Tags: aquifer, cedar-rapids, cedar-river, continuous-resistivity-profiling, electrical-resistivity-imaging, environment, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, iowa, measurement, seismic-methods, usgs-5d0295d0e4b05cc71caf1146
Organization: Department of the Interior
Alpine Vegetation Trends in Glacier National Park, Montana 2003-2018

This dataset is focused on alpine plant species presence/absence, species turnover, and trends in species abundance on four mountain summits in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA from 2003 through 2014. Two summit sites were established in 2003 on Dancing Lady and Bison Mountain, east of the continental divide. Two additional summit sites were established in 2004 on Pitamakin and Mt. Seward, also east of the continental divide. This multi-summit approach to monitoring alpine plant species follows the protocols of the Global Observation Research Initiative in Alpine Environments (GLORIA) that were initiated by the University of Vienna in 2000 and which have been refined and revised since then. GLORIA summit sites now exist throughout the world. Current protocols are available at: https://gloria.ac.at/downloads/manual.  Plant surveys took place every five years during peak alpine plant growing season in late July and August on all aspects of the summits using a combination of area surveys and meter plots. Temperature loggers were buried on each aspect and replaced every 3-5 years.  To better track interannual variability, another band of plots was established below the summit plots in 2010 for Dancing Lady and 2011 to Pitamakin.  These were surveyed every year until 2014. A total of 189 species were recorded for the four summit sites. Preliminary results indicated species turnover rates of 0-36% at the five year intervals, and 6-55% at the ten year interval.  Annual turnover rates for the lower bands on Dancing Lady and Pitamakin were 2-18%.  The NE aspects were most species rich and S aspects had the greatest turnover rates.  Little difference was evident as a function of elevation.  Additional surveys are planned for the summer of 2019.

Tags: alpine, biota, botany, ecology, glacier, glacier-national-park, gloria, montana, usgs-5d028a0ae4b05cc71caf1042, vegetation
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hatch dates of American crocodile nests in Everglades National Park and Turkey Point Power Plant 1983-2016

We monitored nests from 1983 to 2016 during the crocodile nesting season (April through August) as part of a long-term American crocodile monitoring programs within Everglades National Park (ENP; since 1978) and Turkey Point Power Plant (TP; since 1983). Nests were located during April and May (egg laying period) and monitored from June to August (hatching period). During the hatching period, surveys for hatchlings were conducted nightly at TP by airboat and one to five nights per week by skiff, kayak, or portaboat within ENP. Hatch dates for all known nests within ENP and TP were determined when possible.

Tags: crocodilians, environment, global-warming, nest-timing, phenology, sea-surface-temperature, usgs-5d0283bfe4b05cc71caf0fa9
Organization: Department of the Interior
Spatio-temporal distribution models for dabbling duck species across the continental United States

These data describe the spatio-temporal distribution of dabbling duck species across the continental United States during four biologically relevant seasons. This dataset contains two types of distribution models: (1)   probability of presence, and (2) abundance. The model type, species, and season depicted in a raster are defined in the file name.  File names begin with either abun (indicating that it is an abundance model) or prob (indicating a probability of occurrence model). Following model type is species, for which there are 10 provided: ABDU (American Black Duck), AMEW (American Wigeon), BWTE (Blue-winged Teal), CITE (Cinnamon Teal), GADW (Gadwall), AGWT (Green-winged Teal), MALL (Mallard), MODU (Mottled Duck), NOPI (Northern Pintail), and NSHO (Northern Shoveler). Finally, season is indicated as either Winter, Spring, Summer, or Fall.

Tags: species-distribution, usgs-5d0283a1e4b05cc71caf0fa1
Organization: Department of the Interior
Crustal Architecture Beneath the Southern Midcontinent (USA) -- Data Grids and 3D Geophysical Models: Elevation surface grids

Regional surface elevation grid files provided in Grid eXchange File (GXF) format were used to study crustal architecture beneath the Southern Midcontinent (USA) by McCafferty and others (2019). The study covered a rectangular, multi-state area of 924 by 924 kilometers centered on Missouri, and a corresponding volume extending from the topographic surface to a depth of 50 kilometers below sea level. The grid files (magnetic field observation surface, topographic surface, Precambrian basement surface, and Moho interface) were used to construct templates and initial physical property models for 3D inversions. A masked version of the Precambrian basement surface grid was used to remove inverted densities and magnetic susceptibilities in areas where the basement elevation is unknown   All grids are sampled at a 2,000 by 2,000 meter grid interval. Missing data nodes are assigned a value of 1.000000E+38. 
Two versions of each GXF file are provided: (1) a version with embeded map projection information for use with Geosoft Oasis montaj and the free Geosoft viewer software and (2) a version without map projection information (filenames ending in NoProj.gxf) for use with ArcMap and QGIS.  An ArcMap projection file, which contains the missing projection information, is also provided.

Tags: aeromagnetic-surveying, arkansas, bouguer-anomaly, bulk-density, crust-earth, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, gravimeter-measurement, gravimetric-methods, gravitational-field-earth, illinois, indiana, iowa, kansas, kentucky, magnetic-field-earth, magnetic-susceptibility, magnetic-susceptibility-analysis, magnetometer-measurement, mississippi, missouri, oklahoma, scientific-interpretation, tennessee, topography, usgs-5d02796ee4b05cc71caf0ed2
Organization: Department of the Interior
Vegetation type conversion in chaparral in San Diego County, California, USA between 1953 and 2016

This dataset contains data pertaining to ground surface cover in a 30 meter radius around a random selection of points within San Diego County, California. These data were obtained from aerial imagery for the years 1953 and 2016 and were used to assess changes in cover type over time.

Tags: biota, chaparral, environment, imagerybasemapsearthcover, plants-organisms, san-diego-county, southern-california, type-conversion, usgs-5d016f40e4b05cc71cad2c4a
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hydrologic restoration of the Amite River Diversion Canal (PO-0142): 2017 habitat classification

The Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority works to conserve, restore, create and enhance Louisiana's coastal wetlands. The wetland restoration plans developed specifically require an evaluation of the effectiveness of each coastal wetlands restoration project in achieving long-term solutions to arresting coastal wetlands loss. This data set includes satellite imagery for the Hydrologic Restoration of the Amite River Diversion Canal (PO-0142) project for 2017. This data set is used as a basemap for habitat classification. It also serves as a visual tool for project managers to help them identify any obvious problems or land loss within their project boundary. To better evaluate the effectiveness of restoration efforts, a habitat classification is performed on specific restoration sites to help assess landscape changes.

Tags: aerial-and-satellite-photography, conservation, eastern-louisiana-coastal, ecosystem-monitoring, geographic-information-systems, gulf-of-mexico, habitats, image-mosaics, usgs-5d0169ade4b05cc71cad2aef, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
09471143 - Walnut Gulch below ARS Flume 6, near Tombstone, AZ - 07/28/2017 Flow Event Data

The dataset consists of a slope-area computation of peak discharge (published via NWIS), stage data from continuous slope-area (CSA) sensors, CSA computations of discharge data, verified Manning's roughness coefficients (n), channel geometry and reach properties associated with Manning's n computations, and GPS survey data associated with the flow event on July 28, 2017, at 09471143 - Walnut Gulch below ARS Flume 6, near Tombstone, AZ.

Tags: cochise-county, discharge, flood-stage, gage-height, gps, high-water-marks, tombstone-arizona, usgs-5d016447e4b05cc71cad2aab, walnut-gulch
Organization: Department of the Interior
Demographic data for Hesperocyparis forbesii on Otay Mountain 2004-2017

This dataset contains demographic data pertaining to Hesperocyparis forbesii on Otay Mountain in San Diego County, California, USA, over a 14-year study period from 2004 to 2017 following the 2003 Otay/Mine Fire.  Site variables including elevation, incline, and slope were collected as well as pre-fire tree density and stand age for 16 study site locations.  Tree density, height, and cone production was then monitored over the study period with data collection occuring in 2004, 2005, 2009, 2011, 2014, and 2017.

Tags: biota, california, closed-cone-cypress, drilling-and-coring, fire-damage, fire-frequency, gymnosperms, immaturity-risk, otay-mountain, population-dynamics, san-diego-county, tecate-cypress, usgs-5d015f49e4b05cc71cad2988
Organization: Department of the Interior
Attributed California Water Supply Well Completion Report Data for Selected Areas, Derived from CA WCR OSCWR Data

This Well Completion Report geospatial dataset represents an index to a subset of records available from the California Department of Water Resources' (DWR) Online System for Well Completion Reports (OSWCR). This release contains water supply well records  from  Amador, Calaveras, El Dorado, Nevada, Placer, Sacramento, San Bernardino, Sutter, and Yuba counties. The USGS California Water Science Center GAMA project has provided additional attributes: top of open interval; number of open intervals; and various other identifiers such as public supply well number and USGS site number where they can be identified. In some cases, locations are georeferenced to finer resolution based on county APN or 911 geospatial datasets. The attributed information is linked to the redacted publicly available image when the link can be resolved.
This dataset is for information purposes only. All attribute values should be verified by reviewing the original Well Completion Report. 
California Water Code Section 13752 allows for the release of redacted copies of well completion reports to the public.
DWR is the authoritative source of these data. https://data.ca.gov/dataset/well-completion-reports

Tags: geoscientificinformation, groundwater, inlandwaters, rocks-and-deposits, usgs-5d014866e4b05cc71cad26f7, water, water-well, well-completion-report, well-drilling
Organization: Department of the Interior
Alpine Vegetation Trends in Glacier National Park, Montana 2003-2018

The focus of this dataset is soil temperature collected on four mountain summits in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA from 2003 through 2018. Two summit sites were established in 2003 on Dancing Lady and Bison Mountain, east of the continental divide. Two additional summit sites were established in 2004 on Pitamakin and Mt. Seward, also east of the continental divide. These four summit sites comprise a target region set up in accordance with the Global Observation Research Initiative in Alpine Environments (GLORIA). GLORIA was initiated by the University of Vienna in 2000 and protocols for operating target regions have been refined and revised since then. Sixty-nine GLORIA target regions now exist throughout the world; 16 are in the U.S.A. Current protocols are available at: https://gloria.ac.at/downloads/manual. Along with the plant surveys which took place every five years, temperature loggers were buried 10cm into the substrate on each aspect and on the highest point of each summit and set to record at one hour intervals. Some loggers were lost or their batteries failed before being replaced by new loggers but other logger locations recorded near continuous soil temperature readings since 2003.  This will enable on site climate data to be used in analyzing the alpine plant data by looking for snow cover patterns and timing and length of growing season. These loggers were downloaded and replaced every 3-5 years and are currently still on site. A plant survey and temperature data recovery are planned for summer 2019.

Tags: alpine, biota, botany, ecology, glacier, glacier-national-park, gloria, montana, soil-temperature, usgs-5d013e7ce4b05cc71cad2649, vegetation
Organization: Department of the Interior
Streamflow and precipitation event statistics for treatment, urban control, and forested control watersheds in Clarksburg, MD USA (2004-2018)

This dataset describes streamflow and precipitation event statistics for four watersheds located in Clarksburg, Maryland, USA. Streamflow and precipitation events were identified from fourteen years of sub-daily (5- and 15-minute) monitoring data spanning October 1, 2004 through September 30, 2018. A 6-hour inter-event window was used to define discrete streamflow and precipitation events. The following streamflow metrics were calculated for each event area normalized peak streamflow, runoff yield, runoff ratio, streamflow duration, time to peak, and rise rate. Precipitation event metrics include total precipitation depth and precipitation event duration.

Tags: clarksburg, hydrograph, hydrology, land-use-change, maryland, montgomery-county, peak-flow, stormwater, streamflow, urban, urbanization, usgs-5d025fe5e4b05cc71caf0df8
Organization: Department of the Interior
Alpine Vegetation Trends in Glacier National Park, Montana 2003-2018

This dataset is focused on alpine plant species presence/absence, species turnover, and trends in species abundance on four mountain summits in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA from 2003 through 2014. Two summit sites were established in 2003 on Dancing Lady and Bison Mountain, east of the continental divide. Two additional summit sites were established in 2004 on Pitamakin and Mt. Seward, also east of the continental divide. This multi-summit approach to monitoring alpine plant species follows the protocols of the Global Observation Research Initiative in Alpine Environments (GLORIA) that were initiated by the University of Vienna in 2000 and which have been refined and revised since then. GLORIA summit sites now exist throughout the world. Current protocols are available at: https://gloria.ac.at/downloads/manual.  Plant surveys took place every five years during peak alpine plant growing season in late July and August on all aspects of the summits using a combination of area surveys and meter plots. Temperature loggers were buried on each aspect and replaced every 3-5 years.  To better track interannual variability, another band of plots was established below the summit plots in 2010 for Dancing Lady and 2011 to Pitamakin.  These were surveyed every year until 2014. A total of 189 species were recorded for the four summit sites. Preliminary results indicated species turnover rates of 0-36% at the five year intervals, and 6-55% at the ten year interval.  Annual turnover rates for the lower bands on Dancing Lady and Pitamakin were 2-18%.  The NE aspects were most species rich and S aspects had the greatest turnover rates.  Little difference was evident as a function of elevation.  Additional surveys are planned for the summer of 2019.

Tags: alpine, biota, botany, ecology, glacier, glacier-national-park, gloria, montana, usgs-5d013843e4b05cc71cad25fa, vegetation
Organization: Department of the Interior
Plant community establishment in a coastal marsh restored using sediment additions, Barataria Basin, Louisiana

This data release consists of vegetation cover, soil surface elevation (also called vertical land motion of the wetland (VLMw)), and vertical accretion data collected over 23 months beginning in May 2001 in a restored brackish marsh in southeast Louisiana, USA. Vegetation cover was estimated in permanent plots, and soil cores were collected for determination of bulk density, organic matter content and texture. VLMw was measured using rod surface elevation tables, while accretion was measured using feldspar marker horizons (i.e., RSET-MH technique).

Tags: accretion, barataria-basin, biota, brackish-marsh, dredged-sediment-addition, elevation, estuarine-ecology, estuarine-ecosystems, louisiana, plot-sampling, restoration, usgs-5d013193e4b05cc71cad2224, vegetation
Organization: Department of the Interior
X-Ray diffraction data for bulk sediment and clay separations taken from cores from Bristol Dry Lake, California and geothermal springs from Paoha Island (Mono Lake), California.

X-Ray diffraction (XRD) data for bulk sediment and clay separations taken from cores from Bristol Dry Lake, California and geothermal springs from Paoha Island (Mono Lake), California.   The data were collected for two separate projects: (1) determining the source of lithium in Bristol Dry Lake (BDL), and (2) determining the mechanism of sinter formation on Paoha Island, Mono Lake.  The data from BDL were collected in collaboration with Standard Lithium Ltd. who drilled 6 new proprietary wells in 2017 and 2018 on the playa.  The wells were not cored, but cuttings were available for sampling a few months after the drilling was completed.  The wells were up to 1500 feet deep.  Cuttings were kept in the dark in sealed plastic bags in a storage container on site at ambient temperatures.  The Paoha Island samples were part of a larger study conducted by the National Research Program of the Water Mission Area to look at the role of microbes in arsenic utilization and growth.  The current substudy was to look at how microbes may or may not contribute to sinter growth and preservation at the geothermal springs where the microbes live.

Tags: bristol-dry-lake, california, geoscientificinformation, mineralogy, mono-lake, paoha-island, usgs-5d012918e4b05cc71cad1fcc, x-ray-diffraction
Organization: Department of the Interior
Stream metabolism estimates for the Regional Stream Quality Assessments of the National Water Quality Program, 2013 to 2016

This dataset provides details from stream metabolism models for 20 stream sites in the United States that were sampled as part of the National Water Quality Program's Regional Stream Quality Assessments (RSQA). Metabolism was estimated at each site using the streamMetabolizer package in R. For each of the 20 sites, three files are provided; (1) the input data, which includes continuous dissolved oxygen, water temperature, light, and stream depth, (2) the output data containing the daily metabolism estimates, and (3) a site-specific html 'guide' for running the streamMetabolizer package in R. The site 'short_name' is included in each file name to distinguish the files associated with each field site. Final metabolism models were run using a constant value for K600, the mean reaeration rate coefficient scaled to a Schmidt number of 600, which was determined for each site based on initial model calibration runs.  
Model input data were downloaded directly from the USGS National Water Information System (NWIS) (dissolved oxygen and temperature) or directly from data loggers deployed in the field (light and depth). 
In addition to the stream metabolism files, a comma delimited file containing basic site characteristics is included for reference. This site file includes the USGS site ID (SITE_NO), the RSQA study name, the state where the site is located, the site 'short name', the USGS site name, and the decimal degree latitude and longitude of the sampling reach.

Tags: connecticut, dissolved-oxygen, ecosystem-respiration, environment, georgia, gross-primary-productivity, illinois, indiana, inlandwaters, iowa, new-york, north-carolina, oregon, oxygen-content-water, photosynthesis, rivers, stream-metabolism, streammetabolizer, streams, united-states, usgs-5d01251ae4b0573a18f7d339, washington, water-quality, water-temperature
Organization: Department of the Interior
Enhanced  1-m Composite Grayscale GeoTIFF Image of the Sidescan-Sonar Data From NOAA Survey H11076 of the Sea Floor in Quicks Hole, MA (H11076_UTM19_1MRSSS.TIF, UTM Zone 19)

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management (MA CZM), is producing detailed geologic maps of the coastal sea floor. Sidescan-sonar imagery, originally collected by NOAA for charting purposes, provide a fundamental framework for research and management activities along this part of the Massachusetts coastline, show the composition and terrain of the seabed, and provide information on sediment transport and benthic habitat. While acceptable for charting purposes, the original data contained numerous tonal artifacts due to environmental conditions (such as sea state), variable system settings (such as gain changes), attitude variations in the flight path of the towfish, or processing (such as lack of across-track normalization).  Many of these artifacts have now been removed by enhancing the imagery to provide a more continuous grayscale GeoTIFF that enhances the true backscatter character and trends of the sea floor.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, cape-cod, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, elizabeth-islands, enhanced-imagery, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, geotiff, h11076, image-mosaics, imagerybasemapsearthcover, klein-5000, marine-geophysics, massachusetts, national-oceanic-and-atmospheric-administration, noaa, noaa-survey-h11076, north-america, oceans, ofr2008-1196, open-file-report-2008-1196, quicks-hole, sea-floor-acoustic-reflectivity, sidescan-sonar, u-s-east-coast, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-5d0239f3-9a63-4335-a167-8178773476d2, whsc, woods-hole-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior