AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
The Oysters of Chicopit Bay, Florida, 2016-2018

This data set was generated to evaluate the status and response of oysters within Chicopit Bay, FL, in the Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve during and following dredging completed by the Army Corps of Engineers for the Mile Point Project.  It includes live oyster area estimates from aerial images collected in 2016-2018.

Tags: biota, coastal-ecosystems, habitat-alteration, usgs-6283c4f2d34e3bef0c9a4463
Organization: Department of the Interior
Brook trout toxicity data from bioassays conducted in Western Adirondack Streams, 2001-03 and 2015-17

This dataset is composed of a single data table containing survival data and ancillary measurements for brook trout bioassays conducted in streams of the Western Adirondack Mountains during 2001-03 and 2015-17. At each stream site, 4 replicate bottles, each containing five young-of-year brook trout, are exposed to ambient stream waters for approximately one month during spring.

Tags: adirondack-mountains, ecotoxicology, new-york, usgs-5d9b858fe4b036616291b39c, water-chemistry
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geochemical Characteristics of the Conterminous United States: % CaO

This raster depicts the percentage of lithological calcium oxide (CaO) content in surface or near surface geology. We derived these rasters by calculating the average percent CaO content for each map unit in combined surficial-bedrock geologic maps. We used state geologic maps (Preliminary Integrated Geologic Map Databases for the United States, Open File Reports 2004-1355, 2005-1305, 2005-1323, 2005-1324, 2005-1325, 2005-1351, and 2006-1272), which depict surficial geology instead of bedrock when the surficial layers are sufficiently deep. For the state maps that do not incorporate surficial geology (i.e., midwestern states), we overlaid surficial geologic map units with thicknesses greater than 100 feet (from Soller and Reheis [2004]) to produce combined surficial-bedrock geologic maps that were similar to other states. We characterized geology based on the 201 different lithologies that the Geologic Map Database lists as occurring in the conterminous United States. Because some of these lithologies are known to have chemical attributes that vary widely, we created an additional 78 lithologic classes based on the common modifiers used in the geologic unit descriptions to better parse chemical variability within the lithologies (e.g., calcareous and noncalcareous sandstone). Modifiers were assigned base on descriptions of geologic formations obtained through either the Lexicon of Geologic Names of the United States or literature searches. Fifteen lithologic classes were not characterized because the class was not a specific rock type (e.g., mélange, water, and landslide). These classes were characterized as no data. We translated each state’s combined surficial-bedrock geologic maps into characteristics following the methods in Olson and Hawkins (2012) by assigning an estimate of each map unit’s percent CaO content to every occurrence of that map unit in the combined surficial-bedrock geologic map. This estimate was calculated as the average of literature or database values of the respective property for each lithological class contained within the map unit weighted by the prevalence of each lithological class within the map unit. The accompanying Excel workbook (Lith-MajorOxides.xls) contains a summary of all of the average geochemical characteristics for each lithology (“Lith Summary” tab) and tabs for each individual lithology that include the source of each record (e.g., originating from the Earth Chem Database or the specific literature reference), as well as the calculations used to determine the measure of central tendency (mean or median depending on the data). The final national raster was created by merging each of the individual state rasters. Users should be cognizant that some differences will exist in chemical and physical characterizations across state lines that are caused by unreconciled differences in lithologic descriptions or mapping scales used among the underlying state source maps.

Tags: bedrock, calcium, cao, geochemistry, geology, usgs-53543d10e4b0bab7f98ce7e0
Organization: Department of the Interior
Seasonal median daily water depths for study wetlands in the Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge, the St. Croix National Scenic Riverway, the North Temperate Lakes Long-term Research area, and the Upper Mississippi River study area from 2008-2012.

To relate water levels in our study wetlands to temperature, precipitation, wetland water depth, and amphibian calling activity, we installed one pressure logger in the deepest spot we could find in each wetland. Soon after thawing conditions allowed, we drove a plastic pipe (anchor pipe) into the sediments at the deepest location and secured another pipe to it that contained one pressure logger (Global Water Model 14 and 15 [College Station, TX, USA] or Onset Computer Corporation Model U20-001-04 [Bourne, MA, USA]) suspended approximately 2.5 cm above the sediments. We installed additional individual pressure loggers in the upper part of the logger pipes (in air) at select locations to measure barometric pressure for calibrating the submerged loggers’ readings. We measured pressure once per hour and used software supplied by the logger manufacturers to upload and convert data to depth at the end of each season.

Tags: air-temperature, amphibian-calling-activity, field-inventory-and-monitoring, hydroperiod, north-temperate-lakes-long-term-research-area-wisconsin-usa, precipitation-atmospheric, st-croix-national-scenic-riverway-minnesota-usa, st-croix-national-scenic-riverway-wisconsin-usa, surface-water-availability, tamarac-national-wildlife-refuge-minnesota-usa, temperature, upper-mississippi-river-wisconsin-usa, usgs-5b3e4093e4b060350a0ef7f6, water-temperature
Organization: Department of the Interior
Surface Representing the Floor of Lake Mead and the surrounding area: UTM Projection 10m cellsize

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, bathymetry, black-canyon, boulder-basin, bureau-of-reclamation, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, colorado-river, dem, digital-elevation-model, elevation, geoscientificinformation, gregg-basin, grid, hoover-dam, iceberg-canyon, imagerybasemapsearthcover, images, inlandwaters, lake, lake-mead, lakebed-characteristics, las-vegas, las-vegas-bay, las-vegas-wash, mohave-desert, mosaic, nevada, north-america, ofr03-320, open-file-report, overton-arm, reservoir, topography, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-edfee35a-756c-45b2-bdf6-ed1a0f69f8c0, virgin-basin, woods-hole-field-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2018, and 2021 Site 4808 land-water matrix

Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring to determine the efficacy of these projects. 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 390 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. This dataset consists of a matrix of six land-water products (2005, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2018, and 2021).  The resulting matrix has 64 possible classes defined by the combination of land and water categories on those six dates.

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-654150bcd34ee4b6e05bced0, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
CoSMoS (Coastal Storm Modeling System) Central California v3.1 wave-hazard projections: 100-year storm in San Mateo County

This data contains maximum model-derived significant wave height (in meters) for the sea-level rise (SLR) and storm condition indicated. 
The Coastal Storm Modeling System (CoSMoS) makes detailed predictions (meter-scale) over large geographic scales (100s of kilometers) of storm-induced coastal flooding and erosion for both current and future sea-level rise (SLR) scenarios. Projections for CoSMoS v3.1 in Central California include flood-hazard information for the coast from Pt. Conception to the Golden Gate. Outputs include SLR scenarios of 0.0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 2.5, 3.0, and 5.0 meters; storm scenarios include background conditions (astronomic spring tide and average atmospheric conditions) and simulated 1-year/20-year/100-year return interval coastal storms. Methods and processes used in Central California are replicated from and described in O'Neill and others (2018).Please read metadata and inspect output carefully.  Data are complete for the information presented.
      

Tags: beaches, central-california, central-california-coast, climate-change, climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, coastal-erosion, earth-sciences, effects-of-climate-change, erosion, extreme-weather, floods, hazards-planning, mathematical-modeling, ocean-waves, ocean-winds, oceans, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, physical-habitats-and-geomorphology, san-mateo-county, sea-level-change, sea-level-rise, state-of-california, storm-surge, storms, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-5d446ea3e4b01d82ce8dbb4d, water-depth, waves, wind
Organization: Department of the Interior
GIS Shapefile of Irrigated Agricultural Acreage for Glades, Highlands, Martin, Okeechobee, and St. Lucie Counties, Florida for 2023-24

A shapefile was compiled of the extent of irrigated agricultural fields for the period November 2023 to July 2024 for the full county extents of Glades, Highlands, Martin, Okeechobee, and St. Lucie Counties, Florida. Glades, Martin, and St. Lucie Counties are fully within the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD), Highlands County is partially within two of the Water Management Districts, the Southwest Florida Water Management District (SWFWMD) and SFWMD, and Okeechobee County in partially within SFWMD and St. Johns River Water Management District   (SJRWMD). Attributes for each polygon that represents an agricultural field include irrigated acreage, a general or specific crop type, irrigation system, and primary water source for irrigation.

Tags: crop-type, environment, farming, florida, florida-department-of-agriculture-and-consumer-services, glades-county, groundwater, highlands-county, image-collections-aerial-photography, inlandwaters, irrigation-type, land-use, land-use-classification-codes, martin-county, okeechobee-county, south-florida-water-management-district, southwest-florida-water-management-district, st-johns-river-water-management-district, st-lucie-county, surface-water, usgs-66faf7cbd34e6d68f514c63e
Organization: Department of the Interior
HEC-RAS hydraulic, temperature, and nutrient models for the Mohawk River between Rome and Cohoes, New York

In support of a preliminary analysis performed by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) that found elevated nutrient levels along selected reaches of the Mohawk River, one-dimensional, unsteady, hydraulic and water-quality models using HEC-RAS and HEC-RAS Nutrient Simulation Module I (version 5.0.3) were developed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) for the 127-mile reach of the Mohawk River between Rome and Cohoes, New York. The models were designed to accurately simulate within-channel flow conditions for this highly regulated, control structure dense river reach. The models were calibrated for the study period of May through September 2016 using best available streamflow, temperature, and water quality data. Nitrogen, phosphorus, dissolved oxygen, and water column algae were balanced within the models with a focus on phosphorus. 
Nine phosphorus reduction scenarios were implemented, applying the reductions to wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) effluent concentrations within the models. Monthly mean differences were computed at five comparison locations. Scenario results were generally linear and predictable with scenarios with the greatest reductions in phosphorus concentrations corresponding to larger differences in Mohawk River phosphorus concentrations downstream of the WWTPs associated with those reductions. 
The contents of this data release support the following publication: 
Suro, T.P., Niemoczynski, M.J., and Boetsma, A.C., 2024, Development and calibration of HEC-RAS hydraulic. temperature, and nutrient models for the Mohawk River, New York: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2024-5005, https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20245005.

Tags: algae, amsterdam, biota, cohoes, dissolved-oxygen, environment, geoscientificinformation, hec-ras, hydraulic-engineering, hydraulic-model, inlandwaters, little-falls, mathematical-modeling, mohawk-river, new-york-state, nitrogen, nutrient-content-water, nutrient-model, phosphorus, river-systems, rome, schenectady, stream-discharge, streamflow, surface-water-non-marine, usgs-604a62b3d34eb120311b0e38, utica, water-chemistry, water-temperature, water-temperature-model
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2016 Site 4529 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 390 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 2016 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. Three previous assessments have been conducted (2005, 2008, and 2012). 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-5b5f53f3e4b006a11f66eb5e, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Process-guided deep learning water temperature predictions: 4b Sparkling Lake detailed training data

This dataset includes compiled water temperature data from an instrumented buoy on Sparkling Lake, WI and discrete (manually sampled) water temperature records from North Temperate Lakes Long-TERM Ecological Research Program (NTL-LTER; https://lter.limnology.wisc.edu/). The buoy is supported by both the Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network (gleon.org) and the NTL-LTER. This dataset is part of a larger data release of lake temperature model inputs and outputs for 68 lakes in the U.S. states of Minnesota and Wisconsin (http://dx.doi.org/10.5066/P9AQPIVD).

Tags: biota, climate-change, deep-learning, environment, hybrid-modeling, inlandwaters, machine-learning, modeling, reservoirs, temperate-lakes, temperature, thermal-profiles, united-states, us, usgs-5d8a4752e4b0c4f70d0ae61a, water, wi, wisconsin
Organization: Department of the Interior
Offshore baseline for the northern North Carolina (NCnorth) coastal region generated to calculate shoreline change rates

Sandy ocean beaches are a popular recreational destination, often surrounded by communities containing valuable real estate.  Development is on the rise despite the fact that coastal infrastructure is subjected to flooding and erosion.  As a result, there is an increased demand for accurate information regarding past and present shoreline changes.  To meet these national needs, the Coastal and Marine Geology Program of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is compiling existing reliable historical shoreline data along open-ocean sandy shores of the conterminous United States and parts of Alaska and Hawaii under the National Assessment of Shoreline Change project.
There is no widely accepted standard for analyzing shoreline change.  Existing shoreline data measurements and rate calculation methods vary from study to study and prevent combining results into state-wide or regional assessments.  The impetus behind the National Assessment project was to develop a standardized method of measuring changes in shoreline position that is consistent from coast to coast.  The goal was to facilitate the process of periodically and systematically updating the results in an internally consistent manner.

Tags: atlantic-coast, baseline, bodie-island, buxton, cape-hatteras, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, coastal-processes, corolla, digital-shoreline-analysis-system, dsas, effects-of-coastal-change, environment, erosion, geoscientificinformation, hatteras-island, kitty-hawk, nags-head, national-assessment-of-shoreline-change-project, nc, north-america, north-carolina, oceans, oregon-inlet, outer-banks, pea-island, rodanthe, shoreline, shoreline-accretion, shoreline-change, shoreline-erosion, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-58b89172e4b01ccd5500c32b, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
UMRS Floodplain Inundation Depths - Pool 7

Floodplain inundation is believed to be the dominant physical driver of an array of ecosystem patterns and processes in the Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS). Here, we present a time series of daily surface water inundation depths (in feet) for floodplain surfaces in the UMRS. The time series data are for the months of April through September of every year since 1940. These months were chosen because it approximates the period during which most biophysical processes such as vegetation metabolism and biogeochemical cycling are likely to be strongest across the longitudinal gradient of the UMRS.  Data were derived from a geospatial model of surface water inundation developed for the UMRS and described in Van Appledorn et al. (2021; doi: 10.1002/rra.3628). We excluded areas permanently wetted (aquatic areas), surfaces in agricultural production, roads, and developed areas. The data are intended for use in geospatial analyses of UMRS floodplain ecosystem patterns and processes.

Tags: flood-plain, floods, freshwater-ecosystems, hydrology, river-systems, usgs-65fc2c65d34e64ff1548d22d
Organization: Department of the Interior
Pilot Study of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Infiltration to Shallow Groundwater Through Selected Soils in New Hampshire, 2023

In a study conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services, detectable concentrations of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) were found in the soil at every site despite targeting locations with no known PFAS sources (Santangelo and others, 2022). The widespread distribution of PFAS concentrations in New Hampshire has since sparked critical interest into understanding whether recharge to groundwater contains significant concentrations of PFAS after infiltration through soils. To address this concern, the USGS implemented a pilot study designed to evaluate whether PFAS infiltrate through shallow soil into shallow groundwater. Five sites were selected based on previously observed PFAS concentrations, soil type, aquifer materials, elevation, groundwater depth, and geographic location (Santangelo and others, 2022). At each sample site, one pushpoint sampler was installed down-slope of new soil sample points. At one sample site, two stainless steel lysimeters were installed at two varying depths above the water table, and up-slope of the pushpoint sampler. Seven shallow soil samples were submitted for PFAS, total organic carbon, and pH analysis. Twelve groundwater samples and four porewater samples were also submitted for PFAS analysis. Quality-control samples consisted of a source solution blank, three equipment blanks, and five sample duplicates. 
Reference:
Santangelo, L.M., Tokranov, A.K., Welch, S.M., Schlosser, K.E.A., Marts, J.M., Drouin, A.F., Ayotte, J.D., Rousseau, A.E., and Harfmann, J.L., 2022, Statewide survey of shallow soil concentrations of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and related chemical and physical data across New Hampshire, 2021: U.S. Geological Survey data release,
https://doi.org/10.5066/P9KG38B5.

Tags: biota, chemical-analysis, eastern-united-states, groundwater, hydrology, lysimeters, new-england, new-hampshire, northeast, pfas, soil, usgs-65134757d34eeedefc139ee9
Organization: Department of the Interior