AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
USGS National and Global Oil and Gas Assessment Project-Permian Basin Province, Midland Basin, Wolfcamp Shale Assessment Units

The Assessment Unit is the fundamental unit used in the National Assessment Project for the assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources.  The Assessment Unit is defined within the context of the higher-level Total Petroleum System.  The Assessment Unit is shown herein as a geographic boundary interpreted, defined, and mapped by the geologist responsible for the province and incorporates a set of known or postulated oil and (or) gas accumulations sharing similar geologic, geographic, and temporal properties within the Total Petroleum System, such as source rock, timing, migration pathways, trapping mechanism, and hydrocarbon type.  The Assessment Unit boundary is defined geologically as the limits of the geologic elements that define the Assessment Unit, such as limits of reservoir rock, geologic structures, source rock, and seal lithologies.  The only exceptions to this are Assessment Units that border the Federal-State water boundary.  In these cases, the Federal-State water boundary forms part of the Assessment Unit boundary.

Tags: assessment-unit, continuous-assessment-unit, earth-science, economic-geology, energy-resources, geology, geoscientificinformation, midland-basin, midland-basin-northern-wolfcamp-continuous-oil, midland-basin-wolfcamp-a-continuous-oil, midland-basin-wolfcamp-b-lower-continuous-oil, midland-basin-wolfcamp-b-upper-continuous-oil, midland-basin-wolfcamp-c-continuous-oil, midland-basin-wolfcamp-d-continuous-oil, national-assessment-of-oil-and-gas, natural-gas, natural-gas-resources, natural-resources, noga2000, oil, oil-resources, oilgas, permian-basin, resource-assessment, texas, u-s-a, u-s-geological-survey, unconventional-assessment-unit, united-states, usgs, usgs-5d1d0895e4b0941bde64cecb, usgs-world-energy-region-5, wolfcamp
Organization: Department of the Interior
Wind rose plots for the volcano: 357090  Copahue

This zip folder contains ASCII text files of vectors at the specified volcano at 
12-hour intervals, 
from January 1, 1990 through December 28, 2009.  
The wind vectors are divided into five files, names by their elevation range above 
sea level in the atmosphere: 00-05km.txt; 05-11km.txt; 11-16km.txt; 16-24km.txt; 
and 24-30km.txt. 
The zip folder also contains a subfolder "figures", with Wind rose plots of wind 
direction and speed over 
this time period.  The plots are by season, and by elevation, given a total of 20 
plots (4 seasons, 5 
elevation ranges).  A summary plot is also included which gives the year-round 
wind pattern at the volcano, 
at 0-5 km elevation.  Plots are in both jpg and pdf format.

Tags: meteorology, usgs-58d017fee4b0236b68f532bf, volcanic-ash, volcanic-eruption-forecasting, wind
Organization: Department of the Interior
Contours--Offshore Monterey, California

This part of DS 781 presents bathymetric contours for several seafloor maps of the Offshore of Monterey map area, California. This metadata file refers to the data included in "Contours_OffshoreMonterey.zip," which is accessible from https://doi.org/10.5066/F70Z71C8. These data accompany the pamphlet and map sheets of Johnson, S.Y., Dartnell, P., Hartwell, S.R., Cochrane, G.R., Golden, N.E., Watt, J.T., Davenport, C.W., Kvitek, R.G., Erdey, M.D., Krigsman, L.M., Sliter, R.W., and Maier, K.L. (S.Y. Johnson and S.A. Cochran, eds.), 2016, California State Waters Map Series—Offshore of Monterey, California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2016–1110, pamphlet 44 p., 10 sheets, scale 1:24,000, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20161110.
Bathymetric contours of the Offshore of Monterey map area, California, were generated from bathymetry data collected by California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB) and by Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), as well as from bathymetric lidar data collected by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Center of Expertise (JALBTCX). Mapping was completed between 1998 and 2012 using a combination of 30-kHz Simrad EM-300 and 200-kHz/400-kHz Reson 7125 multibeam echosounders, as well as 234-kHz and 468-kHz SEA SWATHplus bathymetric sidescan-sonar systems. Bathymetric lidar mapping was completed between 2009 and 2010 for the California Coastal Mapping Project (CCMP). The mapping missions collected bathymetry data from about the 10-m isobath to beyond the 3-nautical-mile limit of California's State Waters.
Bathymetric contours were generated separately from the modified 2-m and 5-m bathymetric surfaces then merged to one final contour dataset. 10-m intervals were generated in water depths shallower than 100 m, at 50-m intervals from 100 to 200 m, and at 200-m intervals in water depths deeper than 200 m. The original surface was smoothed using the Focal Mean tool in ArcGIS and a circular neighborhood with a radius of 20 to 30 m (depending on the area). The contours were generated from this smoothed surface using the ArcGIS Spatial Analyst Contour tool. The most continuous contour segments were preserved; smaller segments and isolated island polygons were excluded from the final output.

Tags: backscatter, bathymetry, bathymetry-and-elevation, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, continental-island-shelf, distributions, ecosystem, environment, fisheries, geology, geoscientificinformation, imagerybasemapsearthcover, intensity, marine-nearshore-subtidal, marine-offshore-subtidal, monterey-county, moss-landing, multibeam, northern-california-ecoregion, ocean-floor-topography, oceans, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pacific-ocean, pcmsc, rock-substrate, seafloor-character, seafloor-topography, state-of-california, topographic-maps, transform-continental-margin, u-s-geological-survey, unconsolidated-mineral-substrate, usgs, usgs-33cba2df-6c94-4c19-b2c7-cff3b9644b15
Organization: Department of the Interior
Developmental Stages of Grass Carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) eggs in the Sandusky River in 2017

Grass Carp Ctenopharyngodon idella was imported to the United States in the 1960s for research into its usefulness as a biocontrol agent for nuisance aquatic vegetation. Escapees and intentionally stocked individuals founded wild, spawning populations in the Mississippi River and tributaries to the Laurentian Great Lakes. USGS-led research on the Sandusky River, a tributary to Lake Erie, demonstrated spawning of Grass Carp in 2015. In 2017, sampling with ichthyoplankton nets in the Sandusky River produced thousands of fertilized eggs on four dates during two distinct spawning events. We used published keys to estimate developmental stage of eggs, which can be used in conjunction with hydraulic models to predict spawning and hatching locations and with genetic analyses to estimate numbers of spawning adults.

Tags: biota, environment, invasive-species, sandusky-river, usgs-5bdb2512e4b0b3fc5cee0d8e, western-lake-erie
Organization: Department of the Interior
Kilauea 2018 lower East Rift Zone eruption - fissure 15 lava flow A

The 2018 lower East Rift Zone eruption of Kilauea Volcano began in the late afternoon of 3 May, with fissure 1 opening and erupting lava onto Mohala Street in the Leilani Estates subdivision, part of the lower Puna District of the Island of Hawai'i. For the first week of the eruption, relatively viscous lava flowed only within a kilometer (0.6 miles) of the fissures within Leilani Estates, before activity shifted downrift (east-northeast) and out of the subdivision during mid-May. Around 18 May, activity along the lower East Rift Zone intensified, and fluid lava erupting at higher effusion rates from the downrift fissures reached the ocean within two days. Near the end of May, this more vigorous activity shifted back uprift into Leilani Estates, where fissure 8 reactivated with lava fountains feeding several 'a'a flows. The southernmost flow lobe developed into a well-defined lava channel and reached the ocean at Kapoho Bay - 11 kilometers (7 miles) away - on 3 June. Fissure 8 continued supplying this lava channel for more than two months, constructing an approximately 3.5-square-kilometer (1.4-square-mile) lava delta along the coastline. Over 4 and 5 August, activity at fissure 8 waned and flow in the lava channel came to a halt, only to be followed by weak activity within the vent in late August and early September. By then, the eruption had covered 35.5 square kilometers (13.7 square miles) of the lower Puna District with lava. In this report, the authors have sought to chronicle this sequence of events using geospatial data in the form of an Esri file geodatabase, Esri shapefiles, and Google Earth KMZs.

Tags: andesite, basalt, basaltic-andesite, east-rift-zone, fissure-15-flow-a, fissure-15-lava-flow-a, fissure15flowa, geology, green-lake, hawaii, holocene, individual-flow, individual-lava-flow, individualflows, island-of-hawaii, kapoho-bay, kapoho-oe-n-quadrangle, kapoho-quadrangle, kilauea, lava, lava-flow, leilani-estates, lower-east-rift-zone, map, pahoa-north-quadrangle, pahoa-south-quadrangle, puna-district, quaternary, shield-volcano, state-of-hawaii, tholeiitic-basalt, united-states-of-america, usgs-5ebb4e9f82ce25b5136182e1, vacationland-hawaii, volcano, waiopae
Organization: Department of the Interior
Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta berry harvesting location maps

Participatory mapping is a general term applied to activities that work with participants to gather and map spatial information to help communities learn, discuss, build consensus, and make decisions about their communities and associated resources (NOAA 2015). Here we used participatory mapping to document the locations of different species of berries and understand any social, ecological, or climatological reasons that these locations may be shifting. Mapping was accomplished using topographic basemaps of the villages and surrounding areas overlaid with mylar sheeting. The area surrounding the villages of Hooper Bay and Kotlik were represented with arrays of 1: 63,360 USGS quadrangle topographic maps (USGS, 2017). A 1:250,000 USGS topographic map was utilized for Emmonak, and a 1:500,000 scale community-created place names map in Chevak. Participants identified harvesting locations for each of the five berry species by drawing onto the mylar sheeting using varying colors of markers to represent different species of berries as well as to distinguish between current and historic harvesting areas. Participants were encouraged to draw polygons, but in some cases lines and points were used. Location maps were manually digitized in ArcMap 10.5.1(ESRI 2107 using a USGS topographic digital basemap that matched the scale and extent of the paper maps used during the participatory mapping activity.

Tags: alaska, subsistence, usgs-5c19656ae4b0708288c198b3, wild-berries, yukon-kuskokwim-delta
Organization: Department of the Interior
Seasonal Blue Water Evapotranspiration 1986 – 2020 for the Croplands in the High Plains Aquifer Region

Estimation of irrigation water use provides essential information for the management and conservation of agricultural water resources. The blue water evapotranspiration (BWET) raster dataset at 30-meter resolution is created to estimate agricultural irrigation water consumption. The dataset contains seasonal total (1 May to 30 September) BWET time series (1986 – 2020) for the croplands across the U.S. High Plains aquifer region. The BWET estimates are generated by integrating an energy-balance ET model (Operational Simplified Surface Energy Balance model) and a water-balance ET model (Vegetation ET model). BWET in croplands reflects crop consumptive use of irrigation water extracted from surface water and groundwater resources.

Tags: blue-water, climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, colorado, evapotranspiration, geoscientificinformation, high-plains-aquifer, irrigation, kansas, nebraska, new-mexico, oklahoma, remote-sensing, south-dakota, texas, usgs-65de2cd3d34eb64889e1a2b7, water-use, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Captures and habitat classification of benthic fishes along the Missouri and Lower Yellowstone Rivers, 1996-1998

In 1995, the Missouri River Benthic Fishes Study was initiated to provide improved information on Missouri River fish populations and how alterations might affect them. Missouri River Benthic Fishes Study (MRBFS) documented annual patterns, habitat, and water quality associations of 21 Missouri River benthic fish species based on relative abundance, including sicklefin and sturgeon chub from 1996 to 1998. Data sets include capture data and habitat characterization. The objective was to evaluate population structure and habitat use of benthic fishes along the entire mainstem Missouri River, exclusive of reservoirs.

Tags: bayesian-theory, benthic-ecosystems, biogeography, biota, catch-per-unit-area-modelling, field-sampling, fish, habitats, missouri-river, modeling, usgs-656e52bad34e7ca10833fd28, yellowstone-river, zero-inflated-poisson
Organization: Department of the Interior
Gridded earthquake ground motions for the 2023 AASHTO Design Specifications

For designing bridges to safely resist earthquakes, the 2023 editions of the AASHTO (1) Guide Specifications for LRFD Seismic Bridge Design, (2) LRFD Bridge Design Specifications, and (3) Guide Specifications for Seismic Isolation Design provide risk-targeted design ground motions via this data release and the corresponding USGS Seismic Design Web Services. The web services spatially interpolate the gridded ground motions of this data release for user-specified latitudes and longitudes. The attached files below for 8 site classes each provide risk-targeted spectral accelerations (in units of g) for a grid of latitudes and longitudes and 22 spectral periods, including 0.0 seconds for peak ground acceleration (denoted SA0P0). The spectral accelerations for Site Class BC and spectral periods of 0.0, 0.2, and 1.0 seconds were directly derived from the USGS seismic hazard curves released in the "Associated Item"; from these three values, the spectral accelerations for the other site classes and spectral periods were derived indirectly via the FEMA P-2078 "Procedures for Developing Multi-Period Response Spectra at Non-Conterminous United States Sites," because corresponding USGS hazard curves were not yet available for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Tags: earthquakes, engineering-sciences, hazards, puerto-rico, seismology, standards, u-s-virgin-islands, usgs-624afc7fd34e21f827635bb2
Organization: Department of the Interior
Reference baselines used to extract shorelines for the West Coast of the United States (ver. 1.1, September 2024)

This data release contains reference baselines for primarily open-ocean sandy beaches along the west coast of the United States (California, Oregon and Washington). The slopes were calculated while extracting shoreline position from lidar point cloud data collected between 2002 and 2011. The shoreline positions have been previously published, but the slopes have not. A reference baseline was defined and then evenly-spaced cross-shore beach transects were created. Then all data points within 1 meter of each transect were associated with each transect. Next, it was determined which points were one the foreshore, and then a linear regression was fit through the foreshore points. Beach slope was defined as the slope of the regression. Finally, the regression was evaluated at the elevation of Mean High Water (MHW) to yield the location of the shoreline. In some areas there was more than one lidar survey available; in these areas the slopes from each survey are provided. While most of the slopes are for sandy beaches, there is some slope data from rocky headlands and other steeper beaches.
These data files (referenceLine_WestCoast.csv and referenceLine_WestCoast.shp) contain information about the reference baseline, the cross-shore transects, and the Mean High Water values used to estimate the shoreline. The accompanying data files (slopeData_WestCoast.csv and slopeData_WestCoast.shp) contain the slope data. The csv and shapefiles contain the same information, both file types are provided as a convenience to the user.

Tags: beach-slope, california, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, coastal-processes, environment, foreshore, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, mean-high-water, mhw, oceans, oregon, pacific-coast, shoreline, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-65a029b7d34e5af967a38422, washington, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geospatial bathymetry datasets for New York City's East of Hudson Reservoirs and Controlled Lakes

From May 2017 to November 2019, the U.S. Geological Survey conducted bathymetric surveys of New York City's East of Hudson Reservoirs.
Depth data were collected primarily with a multibeam echosounder. Quality assurance points were measured with a single-beam echosounder. Water surface elevations were established using real-time kinematic (RTK) and static global navigation satellite system (GNSS) surveys and submersible pressure transducers. Measured sound velocity profiles were used to correct echosounder depth measurements for thermal stratification. Digital elevation models were created by combining the measured bathymetry data with lidar elevation data surrounding the reservoirs; gaps in the combined data were estimated (for example the tops of submerged islands) or interpolated. 
Files included in this Data Release include: grids (tiff format) of reservoir bed elevation, data source, and cell data standard deviation; shapefiles of elevation contours at a 2-foot interval and of single-beam echosounder quality assurance points; and text files (comma-separated value format) of elevation-area-capacity table, measured GNSS points, water surface elevation time series (tides) used to process echosounder data, measured sound velocity profiles, and average sound velocity profiles used to process echosounder data. 
Any use of trade, firm, or product names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.

Tags: amawalk-reservoir, bathymetry, bog-brook-reservoir, boyd-corners-reservoir, cross-river-reservoir, croton-falls-reservoir, digital-elevation-models, east-branch-reservoir, elevation, geospatial-analysis, inlandwaters, kensico-reservoir, kirk-lake, lake-gilead, lake-gleneida, land-surveying, middle-branch-reservoir, multibeam-sonar, muscoot-reservoir, new-croton-reservoir, new-york, putnam-county, single-beam-echosounder, sound-velocity, surface-water-level, surface-water-non-marine, titicus-reservoir, usgs-5f7c85a082ce1d74e7db5363, west-branch-reservoir, westchester-county
Organization: Department of the Interior
Projected Seafloor Elevation Along the Florida Reef Tract From Deerfield Beach to Homestead, Florida-25 Years From 2014 Based on Historical Rates of Mean Elevation Change

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center conducted research to quantify the combined effect of all constructive and destructive processes on modern coral reef ecosystems by projecting future regional-scale changes in seafloor elevation for several sites along the Florida Reef Tract, Florida (FL) including the shallow seafloor along the coast of Miami, FL. USGS staff used historical bathymetric point data from the 1930's (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Office of Coast Survey, see Yates and others, 2017) and light detection and ranging (lidar)-derived data acquired in 2002 (Brock and others, 2006, 2007) to calculate historical seafloor elevation changes in the Upper Florida Keys (UFK) (Yates and others, 2017). Using those changes in seafloor elevation, annual rates of elevation change were calculated for 13 habitat types found in the UFK reef tract. The annual rate of mean elevation change for each habitat type was applied to a digital elevation model (DEM) extending from Deerfield Beach to Homestead, FL that was modified from the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) Miami coastal DEM (NOAA, 2015) to project future seafloor elevation (from 2014) along the Miami section of the Florida Reef Tract. Grid resolution for the DEM is 1/3 arc second (approximately 10 meters).

Tags: altimetry, coelenterates, deerfield-beach, digital-elevation-models, doi-usgs-cmg-gt-coastal-and-marine-geology-u-s-geological-survey-u-s-department-of-interior, elevation, elevation-change, florida, florida-keys, florida-reef-tract, geoscientificinformation, homestead, lidar, lidar-gt-light-detection-and-ranging, marine-geology, miami, ocean-gt-bathymetry-seafloor-topography-gt-water-depth, ocean-gt-coastal-processes-gt-coastal-elevation, ocean-gt-coastal-processes-gt-coral-reefs, ocean-gt-coastal-processes-gt-erosion, ocean-gt-coastal-processes-gt-sea-level-rise, oceans, reef-ecosystems, sea-floor-characteristics, sea-level-change, sea-level-rise, seafloor, seafloor-accretion, seafloor-elevation, seafloor-erosion, submerged, submerged-topography, usgs-3de2bca6-5f76-4d67-ac56-e40306e232ea
Organization: Department of the Interior
Baseline coastal oblique aerial photographs collected at Breton Island and the Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana, January 22, 2011

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) conducts baseline and storm-response photography missions to document and understand the changes in the vulnerability of the Nation's coasts to extreme storms. On January 22, 2011, the USGS conducted an oblique aerial photographic survey at Breton Island and the Chandeleur Islands, LA, aboard a Cessna 210 aircraft at an altitude of 500 feet (ft) and approximately 1,200 ft offshore. This mission was conducted to collect data for assessing incremental changes in the beach and nearshore area. since the last survey, which was flown in September 2010 (http://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=10CCH02) (unpublished), and the data can be used as a baseline to assess future coastal change. The photographs provided are Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) images. The photograph locations are an estimate of the aircraft's position and do not indicate the location of the feature in the images. These photographs document the configuration of the barrier islands and other coastal features at the time of the survey. ExifTool (version 4.0) was used to add the following to the header of each photograph: time of collection, GPS latitude, GPS longitude, keywords, credit, artist (photographer), caption, copyright, and contact information. Photographs can be opened with any JPEG-compatible image viewer by clicking on a thumbnail on the contact sheet. All image times are recorded in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

Tags: baseline-survey, beach-erosion, breton-island, chandeleur-islands, coastal-aerial-photography, coastal-processes, coastline, curlew-islands, environment, erosion, geomorphology, grand-gosier-islands, image-collections, imagerybasemapsearthcover, louisiana, marine-geology, national-assessment-for-coastal-change-hazards, ocean-characteristics, ocean-processes, oceans, photographs, photography, structure, u-s-geological-survey, usgs-a12a2f95-a0ce-4f75-883b-b16fb62c1a63
Organization: Department of the Interior