AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
MS_AL_Cores_Foram_CENSUS_metadata: Benthic foraminiferal data from sedimentary cores collected in the Grand Bay (Mississippi) and Dauphin Island (Alabama) salt marshes

Microfossil (benthic foraminifera) data from coastal areas were collected from state and federally managed lands within the Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve and Grand Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Grand Bay, Mississippi/Alabama; federally managed lands of Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge on Cedar Island and Little Dauphin Island, Alabama; and municipally managed land around Dauphin Island, Alabama. Samples were analyzed and quantified for foraminiferal census in order to document changes to the coastal wetlands, estuarine environments, and to aid in paleoenvironmental reconstruction. These data provide a baseline dataset for use in future wetland change descriptive and predictive studies and assessments. The data presented here were collected as part of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Sea-level and Storm Impacts on Estuarine Environments and Shorelines (SSIEES) project (https://coastal.er.usgs.gov/ssiees), Barrier Island Evolution Research (BIER) project (https://coastal.er.usgs.gov/bier), and National Fish and Wildlife Foundation-funded Alabama Barrier Island Restoration Feasibility Study (a collaborative study between the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, Mobile District; the State of Alabama; and the USGS [https://www.usgs.gov/centers/spcmsc/science/alabama-barrier-island-restoration-study]). These projects aim to assess ecological and societal vulnerability that results from long- and short-term physical changes to barrier islands and coastal wetlands. Two sampling surveys were conducted between 2014 and 2015: 14CCT01 (15–19 September 2014; 2014-323-FA), and 15BIM09 (18–20 August 2015; 2015-322-FA). During those two trips, seven Russian peat auger cores were taken from marsh locations. Three cores from Dauphin Island were subsampled and stained with rose Bengal (rB) in the field to indicate life. Four further cores from Dauphin Island and Grand Bay were not stained. At the St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center all cores were subsampled resulting in a total of 74 subsamples. Samples were processed in the laboratory to four size fractions (63–125 μm, 125–250 μm, 250–850 μm, and &gt;850 μm), of which the 125–250 μm and 250–850 μm fractions were picked at equal proportions of total sample and reported combined (125–850 μm). For additional information regarding foraminiferal collection and/or processing methods, refer to Ellis and others (2017). Further data collected on and surrounding Dauphin Island is presented in Ellis and others (2017) and Ellis and others (2018).

Tags: alabama, biota, dauphin-island, ecology, elevation, estuarine-ecosystems, foraminifera, fossils, geology, geoscientificinformation, grand-bay, gulf-of-mexico, location, microfossil, micropaleontology, mississippi, mississippi-sound, oceans, protists, salt-marsh, sediment, u-s-geological-survey, unconsolidated-deposits, usgs, usgs-85c4736f-1929-4dbe-9740-e015b1b57940
Organization: Department of the Interior
Columbia River ESTR00030 Survey Tracklines collected in 2000

A two-week field operation was conducted in the John Day Reservoir on the Columbia River to image the floor of the pool, to measure the distribution and thickness of post-impoundment sediment, and to verify these geophysical data with video photography and bottom sediment samples. The field program was a cooperative effort between the USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Team of the Geologic Division and the USGS Columbia River Research Laboratory of the Biological Resources Division. The data collection was completed aboard the R/V ESTERO during September 13-27, 2000. The interest in sediment accumulation in the reservoir was two-fold. First, it was unknown how effective this reservoir was as a sediment trap to material that otherwise would have been transported down-river to the estuary and eventually to the ocean. The recent erosion of beaches along the Washington coast has been attributed to a decreased contribution of sediment from the Columbia River to the coastal system due to the damming of the river. Second, sediment accumulation on the floors of reservoirs along the Columbia River has been suggested to be diminishing salmon spawning grounds. The extent of changes in habitat since construction of the John Day Dam, however, had not been documented. Common data sets were needed to address both of these questions, and for these reasons this geophysical and sampling program was undertaken.

Tags: arcview, chirp, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, columbia-river, geophysics, geospatial-datasets, john-day-dam, john-day-reservoir, lake-umatilla, mcnary-dam, navigation, navigational-data, north-america, of-2004-1014, open-file-report, oregon, reservoir, sediment, seismic, seismic-reflection, shapefile, sidescan, sis-1000, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-85b46236-91d8-48eb-a2d2-d4f07b390ee1, washington, woods-hole-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Projected Seafloor Elevation Along the Florida Reef Tract From Port St. Lucie to Marquesas Key, Florida-100 Years From 2001 Based on Historical Rates of Mean Erosion

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 along the Florida Reef Tract, Florida (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 erosion were calculated for 13 habitat types found in the UFK reef tract. The annual rate of mean erosion for each habitat type was applied to a digital elevation model (DEM) extending from Port St. Lucie to Marquesas Key, FL that was modified from the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) U.S. Coastal Relief Model coastal DEM (NOAA, 2001) to project future seafloor elevation (from 2001) along the Florida Reef Tract. Grid resolution for the DEM is 3-arc seconds (approximately 90 meters(m)).

Tags: altimetry, coelenterates, 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, lidar, lidar-gt-light-detection-and-ranging, marine-geology, marquesas-keys, 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, port-saint-lucie, reef-ecosystems, sea-floor-characteristics, sea-level-change, sea-level-rise, seafloor, seafloor-accretion, seafloor-elevation, seafloor-erosion, submerged, submerged-topography, usgs-85afadeb-2d27-4b63-8eed-8b0aa9ae9d32
Organization: Department of the Interior
Polygons Representing Drainage Areas Upstream from Potential Streamflow-loss Zones in Lawrence County, SD

This data set provides information for evaluation of streamflow loss
as mechanism of transport of potential contaminants when assessing
sensitivity of ground-water to contamination in Lawrence County, SD.
This data set is a result of a larger work (WRIR 00-4103 cited above),
which includes a paper plate titled: "Map showing sensitivity of
ground-water to contamination in Lawrence County, South Dakota."
Thirty drainage basins upstream from outcrops of the Minnekahta
Limestone, Minnelusa Formation, or Madison Limestone were delineated
using digital elevation models (DEM) for the study area and GIS
algorithms for the analysis of watersheds.  Streamflow loss is an
important source of recharge to the Minnekahta, Minnelusa, and
Madison aquifers.  Precipitation that falls on outcrop areas
could transport a contaminant to the water table by direct
infiltration, but in many instances the runoff moving to a
streamflow-loss zone is a more important mechanism of potential
ground-water contamination.  Water from streamflow loss in the study area
is more likely to enter rapid flowpaths through the unsaturated zone
and aquifer media because of solution openings. An additional data
set listed in cross-references (sd_lcsens_lz) shows the locations of
the streamflow loss zones.  An attribute file describes selected
characteristics of the drainage basins and includes a site identifier
that can be related to the loss_zones.  The source data includes
digital data that characterizes the geology of the Black Hills area,
which has been compiled at 1:100,000 scale and published in 1999
as part of the Black Hills Hydrology Study. USGS digital elevation
models were used to describe land-surface altitudes.  The drainage
area data set has been archived at the USGS Water Resources National
Spatial Data Information Node.

Tags: contamination, environment, geoscientificinformation, ground-water, inlandwaters, lawrence-county, sensitivity, south-dakota, usgs-85ad4a97-65c0-423f-89eb-86e16b264047
Organization: Department of the Interior
Interpretation of Sedimentary Environments from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Survey H12299 in Block Island Sound (Geographic, WGS 84, H12299SEDENV.SHP)

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), is producing detailed geologic maps of the coastal sea floor. Bathymetric data, originally collected by NOAA for charting purposes, provide a fundamental framework for research and management activities along this part of Block Island Sound, show the composition and terrain of the seabed, and provide information on sediment transport and benthic habitat. During June 2013, bottom photographs and surficial sediment data were acquired as part of a ground-truth reconnaissance survey of this area. Interpretations were derived from the multibeam-echosounder, sedimentary, and photographic data collected in Block Island Sound. For more information on the ground-truth survey see https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2013-005-FA.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, block-island-sound, cmgp, coarse-grained-bedload-transport, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, erosion-or-nondeposition, esri-shapefile, field-activity-number-2013-005-fa, gardiners-island, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, h12299, info-bank-id-b-05-13-li, interpretation, national-oceanic-and-atmospheric-administration, new-york, noaa, noaa-survey-h12299, north-america, ocean-processes, oceans, polygon-shapefile, scientific-interpretation, sea-floor-characteristics, sediment-transport, sedimentary-environments, sorting-and-reworking, u-s-east-coast, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-885d7e1f-e75e-4fa2-88ab-a43dfc671ade, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital Shoreline Analysis System version 4.3 transects and long-term linear regression shoreline change statistics for all data available in the Buzzards Bay coastal region from Nobska Point in Woods Hole to Westport at the Rhode Island border (BuzzardsBay_transects_rates_LTw.shp)

Due to continued coastal population growth and increased threats of erosion, current data on trends and rates of shoreline movement are required to inform shoreline and floodplain management. The Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management launched the Shoreline Change Project in 1989 to identify erosion-prone areas of the coast. In 2001, a 1994 shoreline was added to calculate both long- and short-term shoreline change rates at 40-meter intervals along ocean-facing sections of the Massachusetts coast.
The Coastal and Marine Geology Program of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management, has compiled reliable historical shoreline data along open-facing sections of the Massachusetts coast under the Massachusetts Shoreline Change Mapping and Analysis Project 2013 Update. Two oceanfront shorelines for Massachusetts (approximately 1,800 km) were (1) delineated using 2008/09 color aerial orthoimagery, and (2) extracted from topographic LIDAR datasets (2007) obtained from NOAA's Ocean Service, Coastal Services Center. The new shorelines were integrated with existing Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management and USGS historical shoreline data in order to compute long- and short-term rates using the latest version of the Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS).

Tags: accretion, atlantic-coast, baseline, buzzards-bay, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, coastal-processes, digital-shoreline-analysis-system, dsas, erosion, esri-polyline-shapefile, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, historic-shoreline, linear-regression-rate, long-term, lrr, massachusetts, massachusetts-office-of-coastal-zone-management, net-shoreline-movement, new-england, nsm, oceans, sce, shoreline, shoreline-change-envelope, shoreline-change-rate, transect, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-85a67073-dc9f-49ac-a7db-d98ce9febaa1, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital data sets that describe aquifer characteristics of the Elk City aquifer in western Oklahoma

This data set consists of digitized polygons of constant
recharge values for the Elk City aquifer in western Oklahoma.
The aquifer covers an area of approximately 193,000 acres and
supplies ground water for irrigation, domestic, and industrial
purposes in Beckham, Custer, Roger Mills, and Washita Counties
along the divide between the Washita and Red River basins.
The Elk City aquifer consists of the Elk City Sandstone and
overlying terrace deposits, made up of clay, silt, sand and
gravel, and dune sands in the eastern part and sand and gravel
of the Ogallala Formation (or High Plains aquifer) in the
western part of the aquifer. The Elk City aquifer is unconfined
and composed of very friable sandstone, lightly cemented with
clay, calcite, gypsum, or iron oxide. Most of the grains are
fine-sized quartz but the grain size ranges from clay to cobble
in the aquifer. The Doxey Shale underlies the Elk City aquifer
and acts as a confining unit, restricting the downward movement
of ground water.
The recharge polygon boundaries were transfered from a figure in
the ground-water model thesis for the Elk City aquifer to a
photocopy of a paper map and digitized. The source map was
published at a scale of 1:63,360.
The Elk City aquifer was divided into three subareas based on
soil type and topography and assigned the recharge rates 2.00,
3.92, and 4.00 inches per year in a ground-water model thesis.
These subareas and recharge rates are used in this data set.
Ground-water flow models are numerical representations that
simplify and aggregate natural systems. Models are not unique;
different combinations of aquifer characteristics may produce
similar results. Therefore, values of recharge used in the
model and presented in this data set are not precise, but are
within a reasonable range when compared to independently
collected data.

Tags: aquifers, elk-city-aquifer, elk-city-sandstone, environment, geoscientificinformation, ground-water, ground-water-recharge, ground-water-vulnerability, groundwater, groundwater-vulnerability, inlandwaters, recharge, recharge-rate, usgs-859366e6-d88c-48d9-bf0a-1ea171d7664b
Organization: Department of the Interior
Time Series of Structure-from-Motion Products - Point Clouds: Madeira Beach, Florida, July 2017 to June 2018

Aerial imagery acquired with a small unmanned aircraft system (sUAS), in conjunction with surveyed ground control points (GCP) visible in the imagery, can be processed with structure-from-motion (SfM) photogrammetry techniques to produce high-resolution orthomosaics, three-dimensional (3D) point clouds and digital elevation models (DEMs). This dataset, prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center (SPCMSC), provides UAS survey data products consisting of point clouds collected at Madeira Beach, Florida, monthly from July 2017 to June 2018 in order to observe seasonal and storm-induced changes in beach topography.
Photogrammetry software was used to perform SfM processing on low-altitude digital aerial imagery acquired with a 3DR Solo UAS quadcopter equipped with a Ricoh GR II digital camera, using surveyed permanent features (for example, parking lot stripes, concrete groin blocks) and temporary targets (black and white, 4-square checked pattern) distributed uniformly throughout the UAS flight operations area as GCPs. The following SfM products are produced for each UAS survey over the approximately 700-meter-long and 100-meter-wide stretch of coastline:
* georeferenced orthomosaic image with 5-centimeter (cm) resolution
* DEM with 5-cm horizontal resolution
* 3D RGB-colored point cloud
All horizontal data are provided in Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) projected coordinate system, Zone 17 North (17N), referenced to the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83 (2011)), and elevation is referenced to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88), GEOID12B.

Tags: cmgp, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, coastal-processes, florida, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, imagerybasemapsearthcover, madeira-beach, oceans, pinellas-county, remote-sensing, spcmsc, st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, topographic-maps, topography, u-s-geological-survey, uas, unmanned-aircraft-systems, usgs, usgs-85925c9f-e0cb-4c26-a338-1ccd7159a412
Organization: Department of the Interior
Station, sample, video, and photo locations in the New York Bight from four U.S. Geological Survey cruises (1996-004-FA, 1998-020-FA, 1999-006-FA, 2000-013-FA) surveyed from 1996 to 2000

This data set shows the locations of stations, samples, photographs and videos collected by the U.S. Geological Survey in the New York Bight on four research cruises carried out between 1996 and 2000.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, backscatter-intensity, bathymetry, bottom-photography, contaminated-sediments, dredged-material, eez, exclusive-economic-zone, f-v-alpha-and-omega, field-monitoring-stations, geographic-information-systems, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, gis, hars, historic-area-remediation-site, hudson-canyon, hudson-shelf-valley, mds, mid-atlantic-bight, mud-disposal-site, multibeam, multibeam-echo-sounder, navigational-data, new-jersey, new-york, new-york-bight, new-york-bight-apex, new-york-harbor, nj, ny, ocean, ocean-disposal, oceans, r-v-endeavor, r-v-oceanus, r-v-seaward-explorer, sea-floor-geology, sea-floor-mapping, sea-floor-photographs, sea-floor-topography, sea-floor-video, seabed-observation-and-sampling-system, seaboss, sediment-grain-size, sediment-texture, simrad-subsea-em1000, surficial-geology, topographic-data, underwater-photography, united-states-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-85921b4c-d7d6-451e-ac0b-1c1912f8b4f8, whfc, woods-hole-field-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
1:250,000-scale geology of the Dry Valley Hydrographic Area, Nevada and California

This dataset consists of digital geologic data for the Dry Valley Hydrographic area, 
Nevada and California.  It was compiled from individual 1:250,000-scale geologic 
data for Washoe County, Nevada, 1:62,500-scale geologic data for the Chilcoot 
and Doyle 15' quadrangles in California and the results of field mapping within the 
study area in 2004.  A revised geologic map was needed in the study area because 
the available published maps have large discrepancies between the reported geologic 
units along the state line.  The 2004 field mapping was confined to an area approximately 
2000 feet east and west of the California/Nevada state line and about 1.5 miles north 
and south of Dry Valley Creek.  No attempt was made to resolve discrepancies between 
the published maps in the area outside of the designated mapping area.
The discrepancies between geologic units in the previously published maps directly 
affect flow calculations used in the water budget for Dry Valley.  The geologic unit 
involved in the greatest discrepancy is a non-welded rhyolitic tuff.  Contacts between 
this unit and Quaternary basin-fill sediments were refined based on field mapping and 
sampling; and aerial photography.   During mapping, low hills along the southern side 
of the valley floor 0.5 to 1.3 miles east of the state line mapped as Quaternary alluvium 
by previous efforts were recognized as non-welded rhyolitic tuff.  In the locations described 
above, the non-welded tuff is distinguished by a lag deposit of yellow and red rhyolitic 
gravel at land surface.  In the sub-surface, reached by digging, the tuff is weathered to 
a dense clay.  Outcrops of the tuff with faint bedding planes were located in washes.  
Sample points, outcrops, and contacts between the tuff and unconsolidated sediments 
were located in the field using a handheld Garmin GPS unit (model GPS76).

Tags: dry-valley, east-central-california, geologic-data, geology, usgs-858c5125-a349-4ca3-8b41-0c984b93cc92, west-central-nevada
Organization: Department of the Interior
Airborne geophysical survey: Southern Alaska Range - N.

Aeromagnetic data were collected along flight lines by instruments in an aircraft that recorded magnetic-field intensity values and location. In surveys such as this one where the data were originally collected in digital form and not digitized from contour maps, the information we provide typically includes latitude, longitude, magnetic anomaly in nanoTeslas, and intermediate values used to derive the magnetic anomaly such as total magnetic field.

Tags: aeromagnetic-surveying, f02050-bethel, f02290-yukon-koyukuk, field-monitoring-stations, geophysics, geospatial-datasets, magnetic-field-earth, usgs-858793df-c693-4467-877b-e317acff7e21
Organization: Department of the Interior