AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Water-level change data from wells used to map water-level changes in the High Plains aquifer, predevelopment (about 1950) to 2019

The High Plains aquifer extends from approximately 32 to 44 degrees north latitude and from 96 degrees 30 minutes to 106 degrees west longitude. The aquifer underlies about 175,000 square miles in parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming. This digital dataset contains water-level measurements from wells screened in the High Plains aquifer and measured in both predevelopment (about 1950) and for 2019. There were 2,741 wells measured in both predevelopment (about 1950) and 2019 as well as 71 wells located in New Mexico, which were measured in predevelopment and at least once between 2015 and 2018. These water-level measurements were used to map water-level changes, predevelopment (about 1950) to 2019. The map was reviewed for consistency with the relevant data at a scale of 1:1,000,000.

Tags: aquifers, colorado, geoscientificinformation, great-plains, groundwater, groundwater-level, high-plains, high-plains-aquifer, hydrogeology, inlandwaters, kansas, nebraska, new-mexico, ogallala-aquifer, oklahoma, south-dakota, texas, usgs-6499c0afd34ef77fcb02b22c, water-level-change, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Longitudinal water surface elevation profile of the Missouri River at Searcys Bend near Columbia, Missouri, May 5, 2021

This dataset contains a shape file representing a longitudinal water surface elevation profile collected by boat on the Missouri River at Searcys Bend near Columbia, Missouri on May 5, 2021, during a dye release experiment at the site. The dataset was collected to calibrate a multidimensional hydrodynamic model.

Tags: aquatic-biology, hydrology, inlandwaters, usgs-6499c0e2d34ef77fcb02b22f, water-resources
Organization: Department of the Interior
Raster dataset of mapped water-level changes in the High Plains aquifer, 2017 to 2019

The High Plains aquifer extends from approximately 32 to 44 degrees north latitude and 96 degrees 30 minutes to 106 degrees west longitude. The aquifer underlies about 175,000 square miles in parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming. This dataset consists of a raster of estimated water-level changes for the High Plains aquifer from pre-irrigation season 2017 to pre-irrigation season 2019. This digital dataset was created using water-level measurements from 7,195 wells measured in both 2017 and 2019. The map was reviewed for consistency with the relevant data at a scale of 1:1,000,000. Negative raster-cell values correspond to decline in water level and positive raster-cell values correspond to water-level rise.

Tags: aquifers, colorado, contouring, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-analysis, great-plains, groundwater, groundwater-level, high-plains, high-plains-aquifer, hydrogeology, inlandwaters, kansas, nebraska, new-mexico, ogallala-aquifer, oklahoma, south-dakota, texas, usgs-6499c112d34ef77fcb02b236, water-level-change, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Start location file for the “Fluvial Particle” model used in generating particle tracking simulations of the dye release experiment at Searcys Bend near Columbia, Missouri, May 5, 2021

This dataset contains the particle starting locations for particle tracking simulations of the Searcys Bend dye release experiment using the “Fluvial Particle” particle tracking model. This file was generated to approximate the location and distribution of dye as observed in the first aerial image captured 3.5 minutes following the dye release. Although the total number of particles simulated is 1,500,000, simulations were run using a parallel version of the Lagrangian particle tracking algorithm distributed across 120 computational processing units (CPUs). Therefore, the file provides the location information for 12,500 particles (1,500,000 / 120 = 12,500). The file was created by georeferencing a line laterally through the dye plume as seen in aerial imagery and automating the generation of particles nonlinearly from the center of the channel towards each bank to simulate the dye release process whereby two boats began releasing dye from the middle of the channel as they drove towards each bank of the river. The nonlinear spacing simulates the gradual decrease in the flow rate of dye from the boat mounted barrels as the supply of dye diminished and was generated using a custom script written in the Python programming language. It should be noted that while the column headers are not included in the file due to it being formatted to be read by "Fluvial Particle". This dataset contains five different columns. The first represents time, the second is the x-coordinate, the third is the y-coordinate, the fourth is elevation, and the final is the number of particles released at that location.

Tags: aquatic-biology, hydrology, inlandwaters, usgs-6499e52ed34ef77fcb02b704, water-resources
Organization: Department of the Interior
Two-dimensional hydrodynamic model outputs of the Missouri River at Searcys Bend near Columbia, Missouri May 5, 2021

This dataset contains two-dimensional hydrodynamic model outputs from the Flow and Sediment Transport with Morphologic Evolution of CHannels (FaSTMECH) hydrodynamic model in the open source binary Visualization Toolkit (VTK) format (https://vtk.org/) that are required to run simulations of the Searcys Bend dye trace experiment using the “Fluvial Particle” model. The outputs correspond to a modeled flow of 1631 cubic meters per second (cms) based on conditions at Searcys Bend on May 5, 2021, as measured by the U.S. Geological Survey’s Missouri River gaging station at Boonville, Missouri (USGS Gage 06909000). Four different variations of the model were run at multiples of 0.5, 1, 2, and 4 of the calculated lateral eddy viscosity (LEV) value to account for uncertainty in this parameter. Files can be opened using the open source programming Paraview: (https://www.paraview.org/).

Tags: aquatic-biology, hydrology, inlandwaters, usgs-6499e9edd34ef77fcb02b720, water-resources
Organization: Department of the Interior
Quasi-three-dimensional hydrodynamic model outputs of the Missouri River at Searcys Bend near Columbia, Missouri May 5, 2021

This dataset contains quasi-three-dimensional hydrodynamic model outputs from the Flow and Sediment Transport with Morphologic Evolution of CHannels (FaSTMECH) hydrodynamic model in the open source binary Visualization Toolkit (VTK) format (https://vtk.org/) that are required to run simulations of the Searcys Bend dye trace experiment using the “Fluvial Particle” model. The outputs correspond to a modeled flow of 1631 cubic meters per second (cms) based on conditions at Searcys Bend on May 5, 2021, as measured by the U.S. Geological Survey’s Missouri River gaging station at Boonville, Missouri (USGS Gage 06909000). Four different variations of the model were run at multiples of 0.5, 1, 2, and 4 of the calculated lateral eddy viscosity (LEV) value to account for uncertainty in this parameter. Files can be opened using the open source programming Paraview: (https://www.paraview.org/).

Tags: aquatic-biology, hydrology, inlandwaters, usgs-6499ecb6d34ef77fcb02b72d, water-resources
Organization: Department of the Interior
Potomac River ADCP Bathymetric Survey, October 4-7, 2021

Bathymetric LiDAR technology was used to collect riverbed elevation data along the Potomac River.  In support of this effort, a bathymetric survey with a boat-mounted acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) was conducted in the study area during October 4-7, 2021.  The study area consisted of four verification reaches on the Potomac River including: 1) Williamsport accessed through the Williamsport Park boat ramp below Conococheague Creek and RTE 11 (Williamsport), 2) Big Slackwater above C&amp;O Canal Dam #4 accessed through the Big Slackwater Boat Ramp (Dam4), 3) Four Locks above C&amp;O Canal Dam #5 accessed through the Four Locks Boat Ramp (Dam5), and 4) Little Tonoloway Recreation Area accessed through the Hancock Boat Ramp below RTE 522. Global Navigational Satellite Systems (GNSS) were used to concurrently collect survey grade real-time kinematic (RTK) horizontal and vertical coordinates of the ADCP transducer face.  The riverbed elevations were collected using the ADCP with WinRiverII to export for post-processing in Microsoft Excel and RStudio.  The GNSS equipment was programmed to continuously collect an observation every 1 to 2 seconds and the ADCP was programmed to continuously collect an observation every 1 second to 2 seconds.  The corrected depths from the 4 ADCP beams were averaged and then subtracted from the GNSS derived elevation of the ADCP transducer face to compute the elevation of the riverbed.  All spatial data is referenced horizontally to the North American Datum of 1983 (2011) and vertically to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88). Grid coordinates are projected in Universal Transverse Mercator Zone 18 North and are represented in meter units. This data release consists of four (4) comma-delimited (*.csv) files with fifteen columns each: GNSS_ID, Time_hh_mm_ss, GNSS_Northing_M, GNSS_Easting_M, Computed_Elevation_M, GNSS_Transducer_Elevation_M, Computed_Mean_Depth_M, GNSS_PDOP, GNSS_Vertical Precision_M, GNSS_Satellites, ADCP_Ensemble_ID, ADCP_Temp_C, ADCP_Pitch_Degrees, ADCP_Roll_Degrees, and Type. This data release supersedes a previous version (https://doi.org/10.5066/P9EA0IKM) which contained a constant error of +0.344 meters in the GNSS antenna height reference elevations.

Tags: acoustic-doppler-current-profiling, bathymetry, four-locks, geography, geospatial-datasets, gps-measurement, hancock, land-surveying, potomac-river, potomac-river-reservoir, state-of-maryland, state-of-west-virginia, usgs-6499ef55d34ef77fcb02b73e, williamsport
Organization: Department of the Interior
Grand Calumet River Area of Concern Metabarcoding Data

The Grand Calumet River flows through northwestern Indiana and was designated an EPA  Area of Concern (AOC) in 1987. There are multiple legacy pollutants in the river including but not limited to heavy metals and PCBs. To investigate potential causes and patterns of eutrophication in the river, water samples were collected for 16S rRNA microbial and eukaryotic 18S rRNA amplicon sequencing during April - September 2021. This data release describes the resulting sequencing data.

Tags: biota, dna-sequencing, environment, eukaryotic-18s-metabarcoding, freshwater-river-metagenome, microbial-16s-metabarcoding, usgs-649b40a4d34ef77fcb02d50d
Organization: Department of the Interior
Estimated crop irrigation water use withdrawals in San Simon Valley Groundwater Subbasin of the Safford Groundwater Basin, Arizona for 2022

Observations of irrigated agricultural land within the San Simon Valley Groundwater Subbasin of the Safford Groundwater Basin. Digitized field boundaries were used to locate crops for in situ verification twice in 2022; crop verification occurred first on May 18th and again on August 24th. Field boundaries were digitized from U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Imagery Program County Mosaic 2021 imagery for Arizona and supplemented with Landsat and Sentinel2 imagery collections accessed via the Sentinel Hub, Sentinel Playground (https://apps.sentinel-hub.com/sentinel-playground). Satellite images were also used to identify the length of the growing season and crop condition. Water withdrawals were calculated using the modified Blaney-Criddle model of calculating consumptive use (U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1992 appendix A) using crop coefficients from Doorenbos and Pruitt (1975), the number of acres with active crops, crop condition, and irrigation system efficiency. The withdrawal equation was modified from "Water withdrawals for irrigation, municipal, mining, thermoelectric-power, and drainage uses in Arizona outside of active management areas, 1991-2000" (Tadayon, 2005) to account for variations in water application.

Tags: agricultural-sites, arizona, cochise, groundwater, irrigation, safford-san-simon-valley-groundwater-subbasin, usgs-649c8830d34ef77fcb03a986, water-use
Organization: Department of the Interior
Interlab comparison of strength and permeability of rock in laboratory experiments

The data are time series of laboratory strength and permeability measurements of 5 rock types. The tests were conducted as part of an interlaboratory comparison to determine repeatability of measurements using different test equipment and measurement techniques. These data represent the USGS contribution to the study. Other contributing organizations are archiving data sets separately.

Tags: geoscientificinformation, permeability, permeability-strength-stress, strength, stress, usgs-649c90aed34ef77fcb03a9db
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geochemical and morphological characterization of bulk dust used in MMP3 and GLIDE experiments

Multiple techniques including, x-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, laser diffraction particle analysis, and inductively coupled plasma spectrometry, were used to characterize the morphology and composition of dust used for biological studies.

Tags: afghanistan, asia-minor-and-middle-east, chemical-analysis, china-lake, common-geographic-areas, geochemistry, geology-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center, geoscientificinformation, gggsc, grain-size-analysis, inductively-coupled-plasma-optical-spectroscopy, intelligencemilitary, iraq, particulate-matter, scanning-electron-microscopy, usgs-649cadb9d34ef77fcb03aa5b
Organization: Department of the Interior
Scanning electron microscopy and energy dispersive spectroscopy analysis of particles recovered from rat lung digestates

Scanning electron microscope analysis of dust in rat lung tissues.

Tags: afghanistan, asia-minor-and-middle-east, chemical-analysis, china-lake, common-geographic-areas, geochemistry, geology-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center, geoscientificinformation, gggsc, grain-size-analysis, intelligencemilitary, iraq, mass-spectroscopy, particulate-matter, scanning-electron-microscopy, usgs-649cae83d34ef77fcb03aa63
Organization: Department of the Interior
Closed depressions in 2014 lidar topography in areas of Pleistocene limestone on Anegada, British Virgin Islands

May sea floods contaminate Anegada groundwater by entering a freshwater aquifer through sink holes? Groundwater provides the island's main naturally available source of freshwater. Robert Schomburgk in 1832 reported natural wells provided by holes in limestone (https://library.iucn-isg.org/documents/1832/Schomburgk_1832_The_Journal_of_the_Royal_Geographical_Society_of_London.pdf). Today, sinks in the limestone are readily mapped today in lidar topography. The dataset here identifies 1,508 closed topographic depressions. Several holding water were examined during field work in 2008–2017. The water level in them was close to mean sea level, as estimated from differences between lidar elevations of rims and depths to water below the rims.

Tags: aquifers, british-virgin-islands, caribbean-sea, farming, geoscientificinformation, karst, limestone, usgs-6492a0eed34ef77fcb009d98, water-supply-and-demand
Organization: Department of the Interior
Groundwater-level altitudes and volatile and semi-volatile organic compound concentrations at the Petro-Chemical Systems, Inc. (Turtle Bayou) Superfund site, Liberty County, Texas, 2023

In 2023, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, collected groundwater-level altitude and water-quality data from monitoring wells at the Petro-Chemical Systems, Inc. (Turtle Bayou) Superfund Site in Liberty County, Texas. The data were collected to obtain information that could be used to provide an update on the status of groundwater contamination at the site. This data release documents the groundwater-level altitudes, field properties, and water-quality data obtained in 2023 from six of the 11 monitoring wells where similar data were collected by the U.S. Geological Survey in August and September 2020 (Braun and Becher 2022). The environmental and quality-control data from the water-quality samples collected at each well that was sampled in April 2023 are included. Each water-quality sample was analyzed for a suite of volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds.

Tags: environmental-protection-agency, geoscientificinformation, groundwater, liberty-county, semi-volatile-organic-compounds, superfund, texas, turtle-bayou, usa, usgs-649da32dd34ef77fcb03fce3, volatile-organic-compounds, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Russian River Integrated Hydrologic Model (RRIHM): Streamflow-Routing (SFR) layer used to define the segment and reach data

This is a shapefile of the streamflow network.  This dataset contains the SFR segment and reach data along with the non-calibrated Streamflow-Routing (SFR) package parameter values.

Tags: california, environment, groundwater, groundwater-and-surface-water-interaction, groundwater-level, hydrology, modeling, precipitation, russian-river, streamflow, surface-water-non-marine, united-states, usgs-64a38241d34ef77fcb057901, water-resources
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geodetic Survey Data Used as Subsidence Observations for Model Calibration, Central Valley, California

The Central Valley, and particularly the San Joaquin Valley, has a long history of land subsidence caused by groundwater development. The extensive withdrawal of groundwater from the unconsolidated deposits of the San Joaquin Valley lowered groundwater levels and caused widespread land subsidence—reaching 9 meters by 1981. More than half of the thickness of the aquifer system is composed of fine-grained sediments, including clays, silts, and sandy or silty clays that are susceptible to compaction. In an effort to aid water managers in understanding how water moves through the aquifer system, predicting water-supply scenarios, and addressing issues related to water competition, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) developed a new hydrologic modeling tool, the Central Valley Hydrologic Model (CVHM; Faunt and others 2009). 
The data presented in this data release will be used to facilitate updates to the original CVHM and represent subsidence observations (measurements) using geodetic surveys during 1926–2021 by USGS, Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), California Department of Water Resources (DWR), National Geodetic Survey (NGS), and San Luis and Delta-Mendota Water Agency (SLDMWA). In the context of this report, subsidence is defined as the lowering of the land-surface elevation as a result of aquifer-system compaction and is calculated by differencing repeated measurements. While the model only goes through 2019, the 2021 data is included in this data release for completeness.  For a more detailed description of geodetic survey methods, please see Poland and others (1975) and Sneed and Brandt (2020).

Tags: biota, california, central-valley, elevation, farming, field-activity-logs, field-observation, geoscientificinformation, groundwater-level, streamflow, subsidence, united-states, usgs-649da97bd34ef77fcb03fcfb
Organization: Department of the Interior
Compilation of total organic carbon and pyrolysis analysis data for Cretaceous marine shales in the Raton Basin-Sierra Grande Uplift Province, Colorado and New Mexico

This compilation presents total organic carbon and pyrolysis analysis data for the Pierre Shale, Niobrara Formation, and other Cretaceous marine shales in the Raton Basin-Sierra Grande Uplift Province. The data was used to characterize these potential source rock intervals in support of the oil and gas resource assessment in the province. The data was compiled from the publicly available files at the USGS Core Research Center in Lakewood, Colorado and from published literature.

Tags: colorado, cretaceous-shales, geoscientificinformation, new-mexico, niobrara-formation, pierre-shale, programmed-pyrolysis, raton-basin, source-rock-potential, total-organic-carbon, usgs-649db6e0d34ef77fcb03fdd6
Organization: Department of the Interior
Electron microprobe geochemical data for glass from the Khonkho tephra

These data are presented to geochemically characterize glass from  the informally named Khonkho tephra, an ashfall deposit that crops out at the Khonkho Wankane archaeological site in Jesus de Machaca, Bolivia.  The Khonkho tephra appears to have been emplaced by a major explosive eruption from a currently unknown volcanic source.  The unit forms a marker bed at an archaeologically important stratigraphic level.  These data are to accompany a publication that describes the tephra-fall deposit and its implications and will eventually be used to correlate the unit to samples from other locations where it crops out and to identify its source volcano and eruption.  Any use of trade, firm, or product names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.

Tags: archaeology, bolivia, geochemical-analysis, geoscientificinformation, glass-composition, jesus-de-machaca, usgs-649dbea5d34ef77fcb03fdf0, volcanic-ash
Organization: Department of the Interior
Streamflow, Dissolved Organic Carbon, and Nitrate Input Datasets and Model Results Using the Weighted Regressions on Time, Discharge, and Season (WRTDS) Model for Buck Creek Watersheds, Adirondack Park, New York, 2001 to 2021

This data release supports an analysis of changes in dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and nitrate concentrations in Buck Creek watershed near Inlet, New York 2001 to 2021. The Buck Creek watershed is a 310-hectare forested watershed that is recovering from acidic deposition within the Adirondack region. The data release includes pre-processed model inputs and model outputs for the Weighted Regressions on Time, Discharge and Season (WRTDS) model (Hirsch and others, 2010) to estimate daily flow normalized concentrations of DOC and nitrate during a 20-year period of analysis. WRTDS uses daily discharge and concentration observations implemented through the Exploration and Graphics for River Trends R package (EGRET) to predict solute concentration using decimal time and discharge as explanatory variables (Hirsch and De Cicco, 2015; Hirsch and others, 2010). Discharge and concentration data are available from the U.S. Geological Survey National Water Information System (NWIS) database (U.S. Geological Survey, 2016). The time series data were analyzed for the entire period, water years 2001 (WY2001) to WY2021 where WY2001 is the period from October 1, 2000 to September 30, 2001. This data release contains 5 comma-separated values (CSV) files, one R script, and one XML metadata file. There are four input files (“Daily.csv”, “INFO.csv”, “Sample_doc.csv”, and “Sample_nitrate.csv”) that contain site information, daily mean discharge, and mean daily DOC or nitrate concentrations. The R script (“Buck Creek WRTDS R script.R”) uses the four input datasets and functions from the EGRET R package to generate estimations of flow normalized concentrations. The output file (“WRTDS_results.csv”) contains model output at daily time steps for each sub-watershed and for each solute. Files are automatically associated with the R script when opened in RStudio using the provided R project file ("Files.Rproj"). All input, output, and R files are in the "Files.zip" folder.

Tags: adirondack-park, buck-creek, concentration-discharge-relation, dissolved-organic-carbon, inlandwaters, new-york, nitrate, stream-discharge, usgs-649dd383d34ef77fcb04026a, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior