AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Public-supply water service areas within the conterminous United States, 2017

This data release describes water service areas (WSA) for community water systems (CWS) within the conterminous United States, representing areas of active service between 2010 and 2020. A WSA is defined by a delineated polygon that contains all customers served by a water system. WSAs are represented by an ArcGIS shapefile. The U.S. Safe Drinking Water Act defines a CWS as a type of public-water system that serves at least 15 service connections used by year-round residents or regularly serves at least 25 year-round residents. Water may be used for several purposes (such as for commercial, industrial, and residential uses) or may be used only for one specific purpose (such as for residential use). This data release includes CWS that operate their own infrastructure and furnish water through their own water sources, purchase water from a neighboring water system, or are diversified in that they serve water from a combination of their own sources and purchases. This dataset also includes communities that do not operate a water system but receive water services by way of contract; in other words, an adjacent water system’s infrastructure extends their waterlines across boundaries from which residents connect to, are supplied, and directly billed from this neighboring water system.

Tags: drinking-water-use, environment, geoscientificinformation, groundwater, inlandwaters, population-human, public-supply-water-use, surface-water-non-marine, usgs-608035dcd34e8564d6835790, water-supply-and-demand
Organization: Department of the Interior
Summary of analytical data for sediment cores from the New England Mud Patch collected on USGS Field Activity 2016-001-FA

Variability in sediment properties with depth and the thickness of individual sedimentary layers are critical determinants of seabed acoustic response. The New England Mud Patch (NEMP), located south of Cape Cod, is an unusual feature on the U.S. Continental Shelf in that it is composed of fine-grained sediment layers containing a relatively-homogeneous mix of sand, silt, and clay-sized particles bounded by more typical sandy shelf sediments.  The unique characteristics and nature of this deposit is due to a derivation of sediments that have been transported to, and deposited in, a basal bowl-shaped depression since the last glacial maximum. Ninety-two piston, vibra-, and gravity cores with a maximum length of 8.2 meters were collected from across the New England Mud Patch during a 2-leg, 10-day cruise aboard the R/V Endeavor in the spring of 2016. Geologic characterization and analysis of a subset of the cores including grain size, CaCO3, mineral composition, and bulk index properties (undrained shear strength, water content, density, and porosity) of discrete samples was carried out at the USGS Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center's (WHCMSC) Sediment Analysis Laboratory. This data release contains the results of these analyses, along with visual core descriptions and summary sheets for each core analyzed for this study.

Tags: acoustic-cores, atlantic, bulk-density, calcium-carbonate, clay-deposits, core-analysis, cores, cruise-id-en577, earth-material-properties, geology, geophysical-properties, grain-density, grain-porosity, grain-size, gravity-coring, holocene, marthas-vineyard, massachusetts, nemp, new-england-mud-patch, oceans, organic-carbon, piston-cores, piston-coring, porosity, r-v-endeavor, sand-deposits, seabed-experiment-area, sediment-samples, sedimentology, soil-moisture, trigger-cores, u-s-continental-shelf, u-s-geological-survey, unconsolidated-deposits, usgs, usgs-60804620d34e8564d683624b, vibracores, vibracoring, whcmsc, whsc-field-activity-2016-001-fa, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Aquatic Gap Analysis Project (AGAP) Aquatic Species Distribution Modeling on the National Hydrography Dataset Plus Version 2.1 (ver. 2.0, December 2024)

This USGS data release contains products that resulted from aquatic species distribution modeling in the United States on the National Hydrography Dataset Plus Version 2.1. Source data, supporting code and model results are documented in this data release. The file species_model_list.csv provides a list of most recent models for each combination of species, habitat, and region.

Tags: aquatic-biology, biogeography, fauna, fish, fishery-resources, freshwater-ecosystems, freshwater-fishes, habitat-fragmentation, inlandwaters, multivariate-statistical-analysis, river-reaches, usgs-608096c2d34e8564d683e73e
Organization: Department of the Interior
Polygon bounds necessary to calculate 1000 year surfaces on the inner continental shelf off the northern Oregon and southern Washington coast

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 and Oregon coast and is being coordinated by the U.S. Geological Survey and the Washington State Department of Ecology. The reason for collecting these data is to provide a regional synthesis of the offshore geology to support a wide variety of management decisions and to provide a basis for further process-oriented investigations.

Tags: 1000-year-surfaces, bounds, columbia-river, columbia-river-littoral-cell, geospatial-datasets, grays-harbor, holocene-evolution, inner-shelf-off-columbia-river, or, oregon, pacific-ocean, polygon, study-areas, usgs-60815824-48e7-4325-b117-5acd39ba6a9b, wa, washington, washington-coastal-zone, washington-continental-shelf, willapa-bay
Organization: Department of the Interior
Net coal thickness in the Deadman coal zone in the Black Butte area, Green River Basin, Wyoming (bbcatg.shp)

This ArcView shapefile contains a polygon
representation of the Deadman coal zone thickness
located within the Black Butte area of the Point of
Rocks-Black Butte coalfield in the Greater Green River
Basin, Wyoming. This coal zone is a part
of the National Coal Resource Assessment of the
Northern Rocky Mountain and Great Plains Fort Union
Coal Resources Assessment Area. This shapefile can be
shown in relation to other relevant themes of this area.

Tags: black-butte, coal, coal-thickness, deadman-coal-zone, economy, environment, geoscientificinformation, greater-green-river-basin, green-river-basin, greenrivercoal, nca2000, net-coal-isopach-map, net-coal-thickness, northern-rocky-mountain-and-great-plains-fort-union-coal-resources-assessment-area, northern-rocky-mountain-and-great-plains-region, nrockiescoal, point-of-rocks-black-butte-coalfield, sweetwater-county, total-net-coal-thickness, usgs-60a6b7ced34ea221ce4ba658, usgs-national-coal-resource-assessment, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Rock samples and geochemical analyses of Afghanistan and adjacent areas (rockafg.shp)

This shapefile contains points that describe the location of rock samples (core samples and outcrop samples) collected in Afghanistan and adjacent areas,  and the results of organic geochemical analysis.

Tags: af, afghan, afghan-tajik-basin-province-1156, amu-darya-basin-province-1154, core-rock-samples, geology, geoscientificinformation, islamic-state-of-afghanistan, natural-resources, northern-afghanistan, oilgas, outcrop-rock-samples, petroleum, resource-assessment, rock-samples, rockeval-analysis, source-rock-samples, southern-uzbekistan, southwestern-tajikistan, tajikistan, ti, turkmenistan, tx, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-60ad1e09d34e4043c850e64d, uz, uzbekistan, vitrinite-reflectance-analysis, wep, worldgeologicmaps
Organization: Department of the Interior
Passive Seismic Data Collected for the Horizontal-to-Vertical Spectral Ratio (HVSR) Method, Pinnacles National Park, California, 2018-2020

This dataset contains passive seismic data collected using a three-component seismometer during 2018-2020 at Pinnacles National Park, California. The data were acquired for the purpose of estimating depth to the bedrock surface underlying alluvial deposits, using the horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratio (HVSR) technique. Data were collected along ten transects, with 3 to 14 points collected along each transect, and at the locations of 6 existing or abandoned wells. A total of 81 passive seismic measurements were collected and the raw data are included in this dataset. The passive seismic data record ambient seismic noise in the range of approximately 0.1 to 1 Hertz (Hz), which is caused by ocean waves, large regional storms, and tectonic sources. The HVSR method analyzes the spectral ratio of the vertical and horizontal components of the passive seismic data to determine the fundamental seismic resonance frequency (f0), which is induced in unconsolidated sediments when there is a substantial contrast (greater than 2 to 1 ratio) in shear-wave acoustic impedance between these sediments and the bedrock. The thickness of the sediments is a function of f0.

Tags: california, geophysics, groundwater, horizontal-to-vertical-spectral-ratio, paicines, passive-seismic, pinnacles-national-park, san-benito, seismic-methods, seismology, usgs-60818df2d34e8564d68660e5
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2018 land-water classification data

Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring efforts to determine the efficacy of these efforts. The Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) was developed to assist in a multiple-reference approach that uses aspects of hydrogeomorphic functional assessments and probabilistic sampling for monitoring. The CRMS program includes a suite of approximately 398 sites that encompass the range of hydrological and ecological conditions for each stratum. As part of CRMS, land and water classifications are created from Digital Orthophoto Quarter Quadrangles (DOQQs) approximately every three years at all CRMS sites. A DOQQ is a raster image in which displacement in the image caused by sensor orientation and terrain relief has been removed and combines the image characteristics of a photo with geometric qualities of a map. The DOQQs generated for this project consist of 2018 Color Infrared (CIR) Digital Imagery. These images were classified into land and water categories using a threshold of the near infrared (NIR) band, followed by supervised and unsupervised classification.  Initial classification results are then reviewed by multiple image analysts to identify and manually recode errors. The final land-water classifications are intended to serve as both geographic and quantitative assessments of landscape composition on the date of acquisition. Four previous assessments have been conducted (2005, 2008, 2012, and 2015/2016). Once the program creates enough data points for statistical analyses, these data will be used for land area change rate calculation.

Tags: alteration-of-wetland-habitats, cartography, coastal, coastal-louisiana, crms, doqq, emergent-wetland, forested-wetland, geographic-information-system, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-water, louisiana, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, scrub-shrub-wetland, state-of-louisiana, usgs-60818ee2d34e8564d68660f0, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Anthropogenic Disturbances and Natural Variables in the Conterminous United States Linked to Catchments and Buffers of the National Hydrography Dataset Plus Version 2.1

This USGS data release contains landscape variables representing anthropogenic disturbances to stream habitats and natural variables summarized within local and network stream catchments of the National Hydrography Dataset Plus Version 2.1 (NHDPlusV2.1) as well as a 90 meter local and network buffer of stream reaches throughout the conterminous U.S. The source datasets compiled and attributed to spatial units were identified as being: (1) consistent extent across the entire study area; (2) broadly representative of conditions in the past 20 years, and (3) of adequate spatial resolution that they could be used to make valid comparisons among local catchment units. Variables summarized at the catchment scale include measures of anthropogenic land uses, population density, roads, mines, water withdrawals, fertilizer use and nutrient yields on land that drain to rivers, and point-source pollution sites; whereas buffers were attributed with only land cover variables. In this data set, variable summaries are linked to catchments and buffers developed for the NHDPlusV2.1 using the ComID as the unique identifier. Catchment attributes are available for both local catchments (defined as the land area draining directly to a reach; attributes begin with "L_" prefix) and network catchments (defined by all upstream contributing catchments to the reach's outlet, including the reach's own local catchment; attributes begin with "N_" prefix). Like the catchment variables the buffer variables are labeled using a LB and NB prefix for local buffer and network buffer variables, respectively. Data are provided in comma separated value (CSV) and Parquet file formats. Parquet file format is provided to help facilitate faster download and read capabilities when using compatible packages in coding languages such as R and Python.

Tags: anthropogenic-disturbance, biogeography, biota, buffer, catchment, elevation, environment, fertilizer-yield, freshwater-ecosystems, inland-fisheries-resources, inlandwaters, land-cover, mine, natural-variables, nutrient-yield, point-source-pollution, precipitation, road-crossing, slope, stream, temperature, usgs-6081a48dd34e8564d6866173, water-withdrawal
Organization: Department of the Interior
Preliminary estimated annual agricultural pesticide use for counties of the conterminous United States, 2018

This data release provides preliminary estimates of annual agricultural use of pesticide compounds in counties of the conterminous United States, for the year 2018, compiled by means of methods described in Thelin and Stone (2013) and Baker and Stone (2015). For all States except California, U.S. Department of Agriculture county-level data for harvested-crop acreage were used in conjunction with proprietary Crop Reporting District-level pesticide-use data to estimate county-level pesticide use. Where Crop Reporting District data were not available or were incomplete, estimated pesticide-use values were calculated with two different methods, resulting in a low and a high estimate based on different assumptions about missing survey data (Thelin and Stone, 2013).
Pesticide-use data for California were obtained from the California Department of Pesticide Regulation Pesticide Use Reporting (DPR–PUR) database (California Department of Pesticide Regulation, 2020). The California county data were appended after the estimation process was completed for the rest of the Nation.
Preliminary estimates in this dataset may be revised upon availability of updated crop acreages in the 2022 Agricultural Census, expected to be published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 2024. Estimates of annual agricultural pesticide use are provided as downloadable, tab-delimited files, organized by compound, year, state Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) code, county FIPS code, and amount in kilograms. Tables of annual agricultural pesticide-use estimates beginning in 1992 are available for download on the Pesticide National Synthesis Project webpage: https://doi.org/doi:10.5066/F7NP22KM.
References cited:
Baker, N.T., and Stone, W.W., 2015, Estimated annual agricultural pesticide use for counties of the conterminous United States, 2008–12: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 907, 9 p., accessed July 12, 2015, at https://doi.org/10.3133/ds907.
California Department of Pesticide Regulation, 2020, Pesticide use reporting (PUR): California Department of Pesticide Regulation Pesticide Use Reporting (PUR), Pesticide Use Report Data (PUR archives pur2018.zip), accessed December 29, 2020, at http://www.cdpr.ca.gov/docs/pur/purmain.htm.
Thelin, G.P., and Stone, W.W., 2013, Estimation of annual agricultural pesticide use for counties of the conterminous United States, 1992–2009: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2013–5009, 54 p., accessed July 12, 2015, at http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2013/5009/.

Tags: agriculture, census-of-agriculture, crop-reporting-district, crops, environment, geoscientificinformation, inlandwaters, national-water-quality-program, nawqa, pesticide, pesticide-use, usgs-6081a706d34e8564d686618e, water, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Tug Hill Glacial Aquifer Water Level Contours

The U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, the Tug Hill Commission, the Jefferson County Soil and Water Conservation District, the Oswego County Soil and Water Conservation District, and the Tug Hill Land Trust studied the northern and central parts of the Tug Hill glacial aquifer to help communities make sound decisions about the groundwater resource. This child item dataset contains locations of water level contours for the northern and central parts of the Tug Hill aquifer.

Tags: aquifer, groundwater, jefferson-county, new-york, oswego-county, surficial-geology, united-states, usgs-60896fa4d34ef6cfc4a84bac
Organization: Department of the Interior
Survival, viral load and neutralizing antibodies in steelhead trout and cell cultures exposed to infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHNV) at 3 temperatures

Environmental variation has important effects on host-pathogen interactions, affecting large-scale ecological processes such as the severity and frequency of epidemics. However, less is known about how the environment modulates viral fitness traits and within host infection processes. Viral genetic variation, fish host immune response and environmental parameters such as temperature have been reported to strongly influence the replication and clearance of infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHNV), a significant pathogen of salmon and trout. Here, we quantified the effect of water temperature on probability of infection across time following exposure of steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) to a field isolate of IHNV. Warm water temperatures accelerated IHNV replication compared to colder water temperatures in cell lines, which have a more limited host immune response. In vivo challenge experiments also demonstrated a higher replication rate of IHNV at warmer water temperatures, but IHNV persisted for a shorter amount of time at these warmer temperatures and led to lower overall mortality compared to colder temperatures. Furthermore, fish were found to have higher prevalence of neutralizing antibodies at warmer water temperatures compared to colder temperatures.  These results support the hypothesis that IHNV clearance or persistence is modulated by temperature, and this difference was influenced by temperature effects on the host immune responses. At later time points, the viral RNA that persisted was most commonly localized in the kidney and spleen pooled tissue; these tissues are composed of hematopoietic cells that are favored targets of the virus. By partitioning the effect of environmental variation into independent and common effects of host and pathogen responses, we can better understand the environmental regulation of host-pathogen interactions within hosts. Our results therefore provide insights into how different host-pathogen systems could react to environmental change.

Tags: aquaculture-water-use, climate-change, farming, fish, health-and-disease, migratory-species, usgs-6081f351d34e8564d6866f53
Organization: Department of the Interior
Drainage-basin characteristics associated with road and stream intersections in Montana.

This data release presents drainage-basin characteristics for 12,639 road and stream intersections in Montana. The drainage-basin characteristics presented include those computed by the Montana StreamStats application (McCarthy and others, 2016). Statistical analysis of the road and stream intersections was included in the report "Peak-Flow Variability, Peak-Flow Informational Needs, and Consideration of Regional Regression Analyses in Managing the Crest-Stage Gage Network in Montana" (Sando, 2021).

Tags: geoscientificinformation, geospatial-analysis, inlandwaters, location, usgs-6082eb0cd34e8564d6891c5f
Organization: Department of the Interior
Water chemistry data for samples collected at groundwater sites in the Montebello Oil Field study area, September 2014–October 2018, Los Angeles County, California

The California State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) initiated the Regional Groundwater Monitoring Program (RMP) to assess effects of oil and gas development on groundwater designated for any beneficial use. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is the technical lead in conducting the RMP through the California Oil, Gas, and Groundwater (COGG) Program, working in cooperation with the State Water Board, and in partnership with other State and local agencies. The USGS collected and analyzed groundwater and associated quality control (QC) samples during September 2014 through October 2018. Groundwater samples collected in 2017-18 were from eight public supply wells, eight monitoring wells and one irrigation well located within the Montebello Oil Field study area, a three-mile buffer zone overlying and surrounding the Montebello Oil Field administrative boundary in Los Angeles County, California. Groundwater from four additional monitoring wells was collected in the Montebello Oil Field study area as part of the exploratory phase of the RMP; those sites were sampled in 2014. Samples were collected using established groundwater data-collection protocols and procedures. Samples were analyzed for water-quality indicators, major and minor ions; nutrients; trace elements, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs); naturally-occurring radioactive material; geochemical and age-dating tracers; dissolved organic carbon (DOC) characteristics; dissolved standard and hydrocarbon gases (methane through hexane); and dissolved noble gases and atmospheric gases. In total, 286 constituents, water-quality indicators, or properties were measured. QC samples collected as part of the Montebello Oil Field study area include one replicate, two equipment blanks and two source-solution blanks. Additional QC samples collected from study areas for which sampling was done during December 2017 through October 2018 include three replicates, three spikes, two field blanks, and two source-solution blanks.

Tags: aquifers, california, geochemistry, groundwater, groundwater-aquifer, groundwater-quality, inlandwaters, los-angeles-county, montebello-oil-field, regional-monitoring-program, salinity, salinity-mapping, usgs-6083072fd34efe46ec0a18c1, water-chemistry, water-quality-data
Organization: Department of the Interior