AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Location of the Thalweg of the Colorado River within Lake Mead, prior to the Impoundment of Lake Mead

Lake Mead is a large interstate reservoir located in the Mojave Desert of southeastern Nevada and northwestern Arizona. It was impounded in 1935 by the construction of Hoover Dam and is one of a series of multi-purpose reservoirs on the Colorado River. The lake extends 183 km from the mouth of the Grand Canyon to Black Canyon, the site of Hoover Dam, and provides water for residential, commercial, industrial, recreational, and other non-agricultural users in communities across the southwestern United States. Extensive research has been conducted on Lake Mead, but a majority of the studies have involved determining levels of anthropogenic contaminants such as synthetic organic compounds, heavy metals and dissolved ions, furans/dioxins, and nutrient loading in lake water, sediment, and biota (Preissler, et al., 1998; Bevans et al, 1996; Bevans et al., 1998; Covay and Leiker, 1998; LaBounty and Horn, 1997; Paulson, 1981). By contrast, little work has focused on the sediments in the lake and the processes of deposition (Gould, 1951). To address these questions, sidescan-sonar imagery and high-resolution seismic-reflection profiles were collected throughout Lake Mead by the USGS in cooperation with researchers from University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV). These data allow a detailed mapping of the surficial geology and the distribution and thickness of sediment that has accumulated in the lake since the completion of Hoover Dam. Results indicate that the accumulation of post-impoundment sediment is primarily restricted to former river and stream beds that are now submerged below the lake while the margins of the lake appear to be devoid of post-impoundment sediment. The sediment cover along the original Colorado River bed is continuous and is typically greater than 10 m thick through much of its length. Sediment thickness in some areas exceeds 35 m while the smaller tributary valleys typically are filled with less than 4 m of sediment. Away from the river beds that are now covered with post-impoundment sediment, pre-impoundment alluvial deposits and rock outcrops are still exposed on the lake floor.

Tags: arcview, arizona, black-canyon, boulder-basin, colorado-river, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, gregg-basin, hoover-dam, iceberg-canyon, inlandwaters, interpretation, lake-mead, lakebed-characteristics, las-vegas, las-vegas-bay, mojave-desert, nevada, north-america, ofr03-320, open-file-report, overton-arm, polyline, scientific-interpretation, shapefile, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-570c8635-fb09-405d-86e9-b00a5bbc57fb, virgin-basin, woods-hole-field-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Patterns of Diel Variation in Nitrate Concentrations in the Potomac River

This data set includes nitrate concentration, water temperature, and discharge collected every 15 minutes during Dec. 2011 - Nov. 2013 from the USGS gage at the Potomac River near Wash, DC, Little Falls Pump Sta (01646500). Additional data includes day length from the US Naval Observatory, and photosynthetically active radiation from USDA research station in Beltsville, MD. Data on channel width and velocity based on manual discharge measurements made at the USGS gage at the Potomac River at Point of Rocks, MD (01638500) are included and were applied to calculate diel nitrate loss rates. Several calculations derived from these data are included in the data set. These data accompany a paper titled "Patterns of Diel Variation in Nitrate Concentrations in the Potomac River", and details about further calculations and summaries based on these data are described in the manuscript.

Tags: chesapeake-bay, diel-variation, in-stream-processes, nitrate, nitrogen, potomac-river, river, usgs-570b99fce4b0ef3b7ca0257d
Organization: Department of the Interior
Location, sampling methods and field conditions of response-mode soil and sediment sampling stations sampled, Sediment-Bound Contaminant Resiliency and Response Strategy pilot study, northeastern United States, 2015.

Coastal communities are uniquely vulnerable to sea-level rise (SLR) and severe storms such as hurricanes. These events enhance the dispersion and concentration of natural and anthropogenic chemicals and pathogenic microorganisms that could adversely affect the health and resilience of coastal communities and ecosystems in coming years. The U.S. Geological Survey has developed the Sediment-Bound Contaminant Resiliency and Response (SCoRR) strategy to define baseline and post-event sediment-bound environmental health (EH) stressors. These data document the location, sampling techniques and field conditions observed while collecting soil and sediment samples from selected stations in the northeastern US during the 2015 pilot implementation of the SCoRR strategy. Photographs of sampling locations and conditions are also presented. Data in this release were collected during response mode.

Tags: connecticut, contamination-and-pollution, delaware, district-of-columbia, environmental-health, estuarine, field-monitoring-stations, field-sampling, intertidal, maine, maryland, massachusetts, new-hampshire, new-jersey, new-york, pennsylvania, rhode-island, sediment, soil, south-carolina, surface, usgs-5707efd7e4b06fa6ac664528, virginia
Organization: Department of the Interior
WLCI - Important Agricultural Lands Assessment (Input Raster: Agricultural Parcels Scored by Building Date)

Values in this raster layer represent a scaled index score which corresponds to the relative importance of a given land parcel in regard to the presence of buildings identified as 'Agricultural' as captured in the state assessor's database. Parcels identified as containing buildings with this categorization were then scaled from 0 to 1, with a value of 1 representing the oldest building, and values decreasing for parcels with newer buildings. The grid is a normalized, unit-less index with values ranging from 0 (low importance) to 1 (high importance). This raster is one of 9 inputs used to calculate the "Normalized Importance Index."

Tags: aquatic-habitat, energy-development, environment, geoscientificinformation, ia, landscape-scale-conservation, southwest-wyoming, sw-wyoming, terrestrial-habitat, united-states, usa, usgs-577d7de7e4b0ef4d2f43b487, wlci, wlci-integrated-assessment, wyoming, wyoming-landscape-conservation-initiative
Organization: Department of the Interior
MGL1111bathyutm.tif: Multibeam bathymetry data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey in the Bering Sea in 2011 during cruise MGL1111, 100-meter gridded data in GeoTIFF format, UTM coordinate system

This raster dataset represents approximately 49,581 square kilometers of Simrad EM122 multibeam backscatter-intensity data collected in the Bering Sea during U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) cruise MGL1111 aboard the R/V Marcus G. Langseth. Calibrated backscatter-intensity time-series data were adjusted for range-angle, beam pattern, and power-gain distortions.

Tags: bathymetry, bathymetry-and-elevation, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, continental-shelf, environment, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, marine-geophysics, multibeam-echo-sounder, multibeam-sonar, oceans, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, physical-habitats-and-geomorphology, seismic-methods, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-5707ce27e4b06fa6ac662e6e
Organization: Department of the Interior
MGL1111backsgeo.asc: Multibeam backscatter data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey in the Bering Sea in 2011 during cruise MGL1111, 100-meter gridded data in Esri gridascii format, geographic coordinate system

This raster dataset represents approximately 49,581 square kilometers of Simrad EM122 multibeam backscatter-intensity data collected in the Bering Sea during U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) cruise MGL1111 aboard the R/V Marcus G. Langseth. Calibrated backscatter-intensity time-series data were adjusted for range-angle, beam pattern, and power-gain distortions.

Tags: backscatter-intensity, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, continental-shelf, environment, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, image-mosaics, marine-geophysics, multibeam-echo-sounder, multibeam-sonar, oceans, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, physical-habitats-and-geomorphology, sea-floor-acoustic-reflectivity, sea-floor-characteristics, seismic-methods, substrate, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-5707bfcde4b06fa6ac66035d
Organization: Department of the Interior
Spatial distribution of depth-averaged velocity measured in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, Chicago, IL (November 16, 2011)

These data were collected using a 600 kHz TRDI Rio Grande acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) in mode 12 with 50 centimeter bins from a moving boat.  The data were georeferenced with a Hemisphere Crescent A100 differential Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver with submeter accuracy.  The data have been depth-averaged over the entire measured portion of the water column and temporally averaged over 5-second intervals to reduce noise.  These data were collected during dye tracing surveys of the right bank of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal and include low-velocity regions of the canal such as barge slips in addition to the main channel. Data were processed using the Velocity Mapping Toolbox (Parsons and others, 2013). NOTE: Any data assigned a value of "-9999" are bad or missing data and should not be used for analysis.
Parsons, D. R., Jackson, P. R., Czuba, J. A., Engel, F. L., Rhoads, B. L., Oberg, K. A., Best, J. L., Mueller, D. S., Johnson, K. K. and Riley, J. D. (2013), Velocity Mapping Toolbox (VMT): a processing and visualization suite for moving-vessel ADCP measurements. Earth Surf. Process. Landforms, 38: 1244–1260. doi: 10.1002/esp.3367

Tags: chicago-sanitary-and-ship-canal, cook-county, dupage-county, illinois, usgs-5706865ae4b032f77a8a4553, velocity, will-county
Organization: Department of the Interior
Survey of velocity at cross sections in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal near Sag Junction, Chicago, IL (December 7, 2010)

These data were collected using a 1200 kHz TRDI Rio Grande acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) in mode 12 with 25 centimeter bins from a moving boat.  The data were georeferenced with a Hemisphere Crescent A100 differential Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver with submeter accuracy.  The data were processed in the Velocity Mapping Toolbox (Parsons and others, 2013) to obtain a mean velocity field for each cross section from four individual transects at each cross section.  These data were collected by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) concurrently with environmental DNA (eDNA) sampling in this reach of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal (CSSC) by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS).  NOTE: Any data assigned a value of "-9999" are bad or missing data and should not be used for analysis.
Parsons, D. R., Jackson, P. R., Czuba, J. A., Engel, F. L., Rhoads, B. L., Oberg, K. A., Best, J. L., Mueller, D. S., Johnson, K. K. and Riley, J. D. (2013), Velocity Mapping Toolbox (VMT): a processing and visualization suite for moving-vessel ADCP measurements. Earth Surf. Process. Landforms, 38: 1244–1260. doi: 10.1002/esp.3367

Tags: chicago-sanitary-and-ship-canal, cook-county, dupage-county, illinois, usgs-57068550e4b032f77a8a451f, velocity, will-county
Organization: Department of the Interior
Spatial distribution of depth-averaged velocity measured in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, Chicago, IL (December 7, 2010)

These data were collected using a 1200 kHz TRDI Rio Grande acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) in mode 12 with 25 centimeter bins from a moving boat.  The data were georeferenced with a Hemisphere Crescent A100 differential Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver with submeter accuracy.  The data have been depth-averaged over the entire measured portion of the water column and temporally averaged over 5-second intervals to reduce noise.  These data were collected by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) concurrently with environmental DNA (eDNA) sampling in this reach of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal (CSSC) by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). Data were processed using the Velocity Mapping Toolbox (Parsons and others, 2013). NOTE: Any data assigned a value of "-9999" are bad or missing data and should not be used for analysis.
Parsons, D. R., Jackson, P. R., Czuba, J. A., Engel, F. L., Rhoads, B. L., Oberg, K. A., Best, J. L., Mueller, D. S., Johnson, K. K. and Riley, J. D. (2013), Velocity Mapping Toolbox (VMT): a processing and visualization suite for moving-vessel ADCP measurements. Earth Surf. Process. Landforms, 38: 1244–1260. doi: 10.1002/esp.3367

Tags: chicago-sanitary-and-ship-canal, cook-county, dupage-county, illinois, usgs-57068401e4b032f77a8a44a2, velocity, will-county
Organization: Department of the Interior
Soil-Water Balance Groundwater Recharge Model Results for the Upper Colorado River Basin

This USGS Data Release represents Soil-Water Balance (SWB) groundwater recharge modeling results for the Upper Colorado River Basin (UCRB). The data release was produced in compliance with 'open data' requirements as a way to make the scientific products associated with USGS research efforts and publications available to the public. 
There are 4 separate datasets associated with this Data Release: 
1. SWB model results from simulations run using observed climate data, summarized by water year from 1951 through 2010 
2. SWB model results from simulations run using projected climate data, summarized by month and UCRB sub-basin from 1950 through 2099 
3. SWB model results from simulations run using projected climate data, summarized by water year from 1951 through 2099 
4. SWB model results from simulations run on climate data from 1981 through 2014 at ~800m, ~4km, and ~12km spatial scales.

Tags: climate-change, groundwater-recharge, usgs-57067bb3e4b032f77a8a4271
Organization: Department of the Interior
Spatial distribution of Rhodamine WT dye concentration measured in the Des Plaines River and the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, Chicago, IL in November 2011

These data were collected during a dye tracing study of the lower Des Plaines River and lower Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal (CSSC) in November 2011 by the U.S. Geological Survey. The study attempted to identify potential inflows of Des Plaines River water through the fractured bedrock that separates the two water bodies. Data include Rhodamine WT dye concentrations measured every 3 or 10 minutes by means of Turner Designs C3 and C6 fluorometers with internal dataloggers at three fixed locations on the Des Plaines River, in three groundwater monitoring wells, at two fixed locations on the CSSC, and from a mobile vessel in the CSSC.

Tags: chicago-sanitary-and-ship-canal, cook-county, des-plaines-river, dupage-county, dye, illinois, tracer, usgs-57067951e4b032f77a8a41a1, will-county
Organization: Department of the Interior
Acoustic Doppler current profiler velocity data collected in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal in 2010 and 2011 in support of the interbasin transport study for invasive Asian carp

Water velocities were measured in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal (CSSC) in 2010 and 2011 using Teledyne Rio Grande 600 kHz and 1200 kHz acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCP). The data were georeferenced with differential GPS receivers with submeter accuracy. Data were processed using the Velocity Mapping Toolbox (Parsons et al., 2013). Any data assigned a value of "­-9999" are bad or missing data and should not be used for analysis. 
Parsons, D. R., Jackson, P. R., Czuba, J. A., Engel, F. L., Rhoads, B. L., Oberg, K. A., Best, J. L., Mueller, D. S., Johnson, K. K. and Riley, J. D. (2013), Velocity Mapping Toolbox (VMT): a processing and visualization suite for moving-vessel ADCP measurements. Earth Surf. Process. Landforms, 38: 1244–1260. doi: 10.1002/esp.3367

Tags: chicago-sanitary-and-ship-canal, cook-county, dupage-county, illinois, usgs-57067681e4b032f77a8a40cf, velocity, will-county
Organization: Department of the Interior
Attributes for NHDPlus Version 2.1 Catchments and Modified Routing of Upstream Watersheds for the Conterminous United States:  Estimated Area of Subsurface Drainage on Agricultural Land, 1992

This tabular data set represents the estimated percent area of subsurface drainage for the year 1992 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 are "Subsurface Drains on Agricultural Land in the Conterminous United States, 1992: National Resource Inventory Conservation Practice 606" produced by the United States Geological Survey (Wieczorek, 2004). Units are percent. 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, nawqa, nhdplus, sparrow, subsurface-drainage, usgs-57067469e4b03f95a075ad3e
Organization: Department of the Interior
Attributes for NHDPlus Version 2.1 Catchments and Modified Routing of Upstream Watersheds for the Conterminous United States: Estimated Area of Agricultural Land Drained by Field Ditches, 1992

This tabular data set represents the estimated percent area of agricultural land drained by field ditches for the year 1992 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 are "Surface Drainage, Field Ditches on Agricultural Land in the Conterminous United States, 1992: National Resource Inventory Conservation Practice 607" produced by the United States Geological Survey (Wieczorek, 2004). Units are percent of catchment. 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, field-ditches-on-agricultural-land, inlandwaters, nawqa, nhdplus, sparrow, usgs-57067257e4b03f95a075ab0c
Organization: Department of the Interior
Raw, high-resolution seismic-reflection data collected between Shelter Cove and Fort Bragg (northern California) during field activity B-5-10-NC from 09/20/2010 to 10/01/2010

This dataset includes raw, high-resolution seismic-reflection data jointly collected by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and Oregon State University in 2010, between Shelter Cove and Fort Bragg in northern California.

Tags: bathymetry, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, continental-margins, distributions, fort-bragg, geoscientificinformation, humboldt-county, marine-geophysics, mendocino-county, noyo-canyon, oceans, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pacific-ocean, pcmsc, point-delgada, punta-gorda, seismic-reflection, seismic-reflection-methods, seismic-reflection-profiling, shelter-cove, state-of-california, sub-bottom-profiling, substrate, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-5705a3c2e4b0d4e2b7572e09
Organization: Department of the Interior
Raw, high-resolution seismic-reflection data collected between Punta Gorda and Fort Bragg (northern California) during field activity B-04-12-NC from 09/17/2012 to 09/25/2012

This dataset includes raw, high-resolution seismic-reflection data jointly collected by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and Oregon State University in 2012, between Punta Gorda and Fort Bragg  in northern California.

Tags: bathymetry, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, continental-margins, distributions, fort-bragg, geoscientificinformation, humboldt-county, marine-geophysics, mendocino-county, noyo-canyon, oceans, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pacific-ocean, pcmsc, point-delgada, punta-gorda, seismic-reflection, seismic-reflection-methods, seismic-reflection-profiling, shelter-cove, state-of-california, sub-bottom-profiling, substrate, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-57059833e4b0d4e2b7572dd7
Organization: Department of the Interior
Navigation data for marine geophysical data collected collected between Fort Bragg and Point Arena (northern California) during field activity C-1-10-NC from 08/09/2010 to 08/15/2010

This dataset includes navigation data for marine geophysical data jointly collected by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and Oregon State University in 2010, between Fort Bragg and Point Arena in northern California.

Tags: bathymetry, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, continental-margins, distributions, fort-bragg, geoscientificinformation, humboldt-county, marine-geophysics, mendocino-county, navigational-data, noyo-canyon, oceans, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pacific-ocean, pcmsc, point-delgada, punta-gorda, shelter-cove, state-of-california, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-57058487e4b0d4e2b7572b50
Organization: Department of the Interior
Navigation data for marine geophysical data collected between Punta Gorda and Fort Bragg (northern California) during field activity B-04-12-NC from 09/17/2012 to 09/25/2012

This dataset includes navigation data for marine geophysical data jointly collected by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and Oregon State University in 2012, between Punta Gorda and Fort Bragg in northern California.

Tags: bathymetry, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, continental-margins, distributions, fort-bragg, geoscientificinformation, humboldt-county, marine-geophysics, mendocino-county, navigational-data, noyo-canyon, oceans, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pacific-ocean, pcmsc, point-delgada, punta-gorda, shelter-cove, state-of-california, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-57058336e4b0d4e2b75728f1
Organization: Department of the Interior
Attributes for NHDPlus Version 2.1 Catchments and Modified Routing of Upstream Watersheds for the Conterminous United States: Percent NLCD 2011 in 50 Meter Riparian Buffer

This tabular data set represents the percent of NLCD 2011 land cover classes in the 50 meter riparian buffer zones 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. 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: 50-meter-riparian-buffer, catchment, inlandwaters, nawqa, nhdplus, nlcd-2011, sparrow, usgs-570577fee4b0d4e2b7571d7b
Organization: Department of the Interior