AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Tabular Input/Output Data and Model Files for a Two-dimensional Hydraulic and Sediment Transport Model of the Lower 10 Kilometers of the Snow River Near Seward, Alaska

This dataset includes the input (raw survey data, computational mesh, hydrologic boundary conditions) and output data for a 2-dimensional hydraulic and sediment transport model of the lower Snow River flood plain near Seward, Alaska. Four outburst flood scenarios were simulated, including 3 historical floods and one hypothetical larger flood. The methods of deriving these datasets and using them to calculate scour are described in the associated USGS Scientific Investigations Report "Recent history of glacial outburst floods, analysis of channel changes, and development of a 2-dimensional flow and sediment transport model of the Snow River near Seward, Alaska". 

Tags: alaska, alluvial-fans, erosion-sedimentation, floods, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, hydrology, inlandwaters, kenai-lake, kenai-peninsula-borough, lidar, river-bank, river-channel, river-systems, rivers, rivers-streams, sediment-transport, snow-river, surface-water, terrestrial-hydrosphere, usgs-asc477, water-depth
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mapping enhanced grazing potential based on the NAWQA Wall-to-wall Anthropogenic Land-use Trends (NWALT) product, 1974-2012

This dataset provides an additional "Grazing Potential" land use class to the previously published U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Water-Quality Program (NAWQA) Wall-to-Wall Anthropogenic Land-use Trends (NWALT) product (Falcone, 2015, USGS Data Series 948).   As with the NWALT, the dataset consists of five national 60-m land use grids, for the years 1974, 1982, 1992, 2002, 2012.  The only change to the dataset is, for every year, some pixels which are class 50 "Low-use" in the NWALT, are reclassified to a new class 46 "Grazing Potential Expanded". The purpose of the re-classification is to identify areas which are likely to have had at least some grazing activity based on agreement of historical land cover/use datasets, and not already captured as another land use class by the original NWALT.  The re-classification occurred as follows: pixel would otherwise be in class 50 (Low Use), is in an Agriculture or Grazed class in Marschner and Anderson (1967), is in an Agriculture or Rangeland class in 1970s-era GIRAS, and is in a Grassland/Herbaceous class (71) in the NLCD 2011, without restrictions to proximity to water or slope.
Falcone, J.A., 2015, U.S. conterminous wall-to-wall anthropogenic land use trends (NWALT), 1974–2012: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 948, 33 p. plus appendixes 3–6 as separate files, http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ds948.
Marschner, F.J. and Anderson, J.R., 1967, Major land uses in the United States, U.S. Geological Survey, http://water.usgs.gov/GIS/metadata/usgswrd/XML/na70_landuse.xml

Tags: alabama, arizona, arkansas, california, colorado, connecticut, conterminous-us, delaware, district-of-columbia, florida, georgia, grazing, idaho, illinois, indiana, inland-waters, iowa, kansas, kentucky, land-cover, land-use, land-use-trends, louisiana, maine, maryland, massachusetts, michigan, minnesota, mississippi, missouri, montana, nebraska, nevada, new-hampshire, new-jersey, new-mexico, new-york, north-carolina, north-dakota, ohio, oklahoma, oregon, pennsylvania, rhode-island, south-carolina, south-dakota, tennessee, texas, usgs-57052247e4b0d4e2b756a0fb, utah, vermont, virginia, washington, west-virginia, wisconsin, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Disturbance characteristics, vegetation and biocrust cover from the northern Great Basin (USA) 2012-2013

Fifteen fires from the Chronosequence dataset (see Knutson et al. 2014) were visited in 2012 and 2013 and surveyed for cover of lichens and mosses. Fires were selected to cover the range of average precipitation for each of three water years following fire, fire severity, time since fire, season of ignition, total acres burned and grazing intensity. Cattle grazing was characterized by distance from water sources for cattle, cow dung density counts and Animal Unit Months from the Rangeland Administration System of the Bureau of Land Management. Fire was characterized by whether or not a site burned, time since fire, the area burned, and an estimated amount of shrub cover consumed by the fire as compared to seemingly comparable unburned sites. In total, 99 plots were surveyed.

Tags: biota, botany, community-ecology, environment, great-basin, idaho, lichens, mosses, nevada, oregon, usgs-5a78d1a5e4b00f54eb1e84f4, utah, vascular-plants
Organization: Department of the Interior
Telemetry and habitat data for Oregon spotted frogs (Rana pretiosa) in Oregon, USA

We used radio-telemetry to study late-season movement and habitat use by the Oregon spotted frog (Rana pretiosa) at 9 sites from 4 populations along the Cascade Mountains in Oregon. This dataset includes individual frog morphometrics, location data, and habitat use during each tracking event that occurred roughly weekly between September and January of 2011, 2012, and 2016.

Tags: animal-behavior, aquatic, aquatic-ecology, day, deschutes-county, deschutes-river, fall, habitats, klamath-county, land-surface, modern, native-species, oregon, oxbow, population-dynamics, river, slough, usgs-5b7c7604e4b0f5d57886091f, wetland, winter
Organization: Department of the Interior
Vegetated fraction of the U.S. coastal wetlands: Mean of masked multiyear-composite computed from Landsat data (2014 - 2018)

Prior research has shown that sediment budgets, and therefore stability, of microtidal marsh complexes scale with areal unvegetated to vegetated marsh ratios (UVVR) suggesting these metrics are broadly applicable indicators of microtidal marsh vulnerability. This effort has developed the UVVR metric using Landsat 8 satellite imagery for the coastal areas of the contiguous United States (CONUS). These datasets provide annual averages of 1) developed, 2) vegetated, 3) unvegetated fractional covers and 4) an unvegetated to vegetated ratio (UVVR) at 30-meter resolution over the coastal areas of the contiguous United States for the years 2014-2018. Additionally, multi-year average values of vegetated fractional cover and its standard deviation are provided for the coastal wetlands of the contiguous United States based on the National Wetland Inventory delineation. Finally, a UVVR based on the annually-averaged vegetated fractional cover is also provided for the same extent.

Tags: coastal-ecosystems, coastal-processes, geotiff, inlandwaters, marsh-health, marsh-stress, pacific-ocean, resilience, salt-marsh, sedimentation, society, united-states, usgs-5f5aa37082cefd9f20868a9c, vegetation, vulnerability, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-functions
Organization: Department of the Interior
Grand_Canyon_Springs-MiniSipper_water_quality_data_ScienceBase_06-10-2020

This dataset comprises water quality results from spring sites in and near Grand Canyon that were sampled using a MiniSipper autosampler.  Samples were analyzed by the USGS Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center Laboratory.

Tags: arizona, grand-canyon, lower-colorado-river-basin, uranium-mining, usgs-5e94a84182ce172707f034b9, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Kaua‘i Avian Botulism Surveillance Using Detector Canines 2017-2018

Hawai‘i’s endangered waterbirds have experienced epizootics caused by ingestion of prey that accumulated a botulinum neurotoxin produced by the anaerobic bacterium Clostridium botulinum (avian botulism; Type C). Waterbird carcasses, necrophagous flies, and their larvae initiate and spread avian botulism, a food-borne paralytic disease lethal to waterbirds. Each new carcass has potential to develop toxin-accumulating necrophagous vectors amplifying outbreaks and killing hundreds of endangered birds. Early carcass removal is an effective mitigation strategy for preventing avian intoxication, toxin concentration in necrophagous and secondary food webs, and reducing the magnitude of epizootics. However, rapid detection of carcasses can be problematic and labor intensive. Therefore, we tested a new method using scent detection canines for avian botulism surveillance on the island of Kaua‘i. During operational surveillance and a randomized double-blind field trial, trained detector canines with experienced field handlers improved carcass detection probability, especially in dense vegetation. Detector canines could be combined with conventional surveillance to optimize search strategies for carcass removal and are a useful tool to reduce risks of the initiation and propagation of avian botulism.
This data release contains three tables: (1) a summary of surveillance GPS track data, (2) a list of surveyed areas and environmental conditions, (3) a summary of detection trial data and environmental conditions. Other data was used in the project, including a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service map of the study area and specific GPS track data on private farmland; however, since both of these data sources contain sensitive geographic data about privately owned land and farms, these data sources are not included in this data release. All references to private land have been assigned unrecognizable alphanumeric identification codes.

Tags: avian-botulism, avian-disease, biota, canine-detection, clostridium-botulinum, hawaii, kauai, kauai-county, koloa-maoli, taro, usgs-5d8d07e7e4b0c4f70d0c867d, waterbirds, wetlands, wildlife-biology
Organization: Department of the Interior
Wind Power Potential 2010 Colorado Plateau

Areas with high potential for utility-grade wind power were based on wind energy adjusted to 80 m and excluding protected areas and land-cover types unsuitable for wind installations (Elliot et. al. 1986, NREL 2010). Data were originally in classes, 3-7, but were assigned 1/0 values for this dataset, and then averaged to create a 10 km2 grid. See citations for details on raw data.
Elliot, D. L., C. G. Holladay, W. R. Barchet, H. P. Foote, and W. F. Sandusky. 1986. Wind Energy Resource Atlas of the United States. Pacific Northwest Laboratory, prepared for the U.S. Department of Energy, Richland, Washington.
NREL [National Renewable Energy Laboratory]. 2010 wind data: wind power class (exclusions applied). U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency &amp; Renewable Energy, Golden, Colorado, USA.

Tags: arizona, colorado, colorado-headwaters-plateau, nevada, new-mexico, usgs-5a42affae4b0d05ee8bbf60f, utah, utilitiescommunication, wind-energy
Organization: Department of the Interior
Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) parameter data products from Landsat 5, Landsat 8 MODIS and the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), Colorado River Delta, Mexico

These data are a compilation of four mask layers (regions), and enhanced vegetation indices calculated from airborne or satellite imagery. The mask layers were used created to extract satellite EVI data from the four airborne or satellite imagery datasets. The Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) is a key Earth science parameter used to assess vegetation, originally developed and calibrated for the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard the Terra and Aqua satellites. With the impending decommissioning of the MODIS sensors by the year 2020/2022, alternative platforms will need to be used to estimate EVI. These data were created to compare Landsat 5 (2000–2011), 8 (2013–2016) and the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS; 2013–2016) to MODIS EVI (2000–2016) over a 420,083-ha area of the arid lower Colorado River Delta in Mexico. Over large areas with mixed land cover or agricultural ﬁelds, a high correspondence was found between Landsat and MODIS EVI (R2 = 0.93 for the entire area studied and 0.97 for agricultural ﬁelds), but the relationship was weak over bare soil (R2 = 0.27) and riparian vegetation (R2 = 0.48). The correlation between MODIS and Landsat EVI was higher over large, homogeneous areas and was generally lower in narrow riparian areas. VIIRS and MODIS EVI were highly similar (R2 = 0.99 for the entire area studied) and did not show the same decrease in performance in smaller, narrower regions as Landsat. Landsat and VIIRS provide EVI estimates of similar quality and characteristics to MODIS, but scale, seasonality and land cover type(s) should be considered before implementing Landsat EVI in a particular area.

Tags: arizona, biota, california, colorado-river, colorado-river-delta, enhanced-vegetation-index, evi, greenness, imagerybasemapsearthcover, landsat-images, mexico, moderate-resolution-imaging-spectroradiometer, modis, multispectral-imaging, remote-sensing, usgs-5b11ca06e4b092d9651bae27, viirs, visible-infrared-imaging-radiometer-suite
Organization: Department of the Interior
Sodus North digital elevation model (DEM) from low-altitude aerial imagery from unmanned aerial systems (UAS) flights over of the Lake Ontario shoreline in the vicinity of Sodus Bay, New York in July 2017 (32-bit floating point GeoTIFF image)

Low-altitude (80-100 meters above ground level) digital images were obtained from a camera mounted on a 3DR Solo quadcopter, a small unmanned aerial system (UAS), along the Lake Ontario shoreline in New York during July 2017. These data were collected to document and monitor effects of high lake levels, including shoreline erosion, inundation, and property damage in the vicinity of Sodus Bay, New York. This data release includes images tagged with locations determined from the UAS GPS; tables with updated estimates of camera positions and attitudes based on the photogrammetric reconstruction; tables listing locations of the base stations, ground control points, and transect points; geolocated, RGB-colored point clouds; orthomosaic images; and digital elevation models for each of the survey regions. Collection of these data was supported by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the State of New York Departments of State and Environmental Conservation, and the USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program and was conducted under USGS field activity number 2017-042-FA.

Tags: 3dr-solo-quadcopter, aerial-imagery, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, crescent-bar, dem, digital-elevation-model, digital-elevation-models, elevation, federal-emergency-management-agency, field-activity-number-2017-042-fa, geoscientificinformation, geotiff, great-lakes, inlandwaters, lake-level, lake-ontario, lakeshore, location, low-altitude-aerial-imagery, new-york, photographs, photos, raster, remote-sensing, ricoh-grii, shoreline, shoreline-photographs, sodus-bay, sodus-ny, sodus-point, state-of-new-york-department-of-environmental-conservation, state-of-new-york-department-of-state, topography, u-s-geological-survey, uas, unmanned-aerial-system, usa, usgs, usgs-5b1eeb73e4b092d965254a91, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mineral Commodity Summaries 2023 - NITROGEN (FIXED)-AMMONIA Data Release

This data release contains the U.S. salient statistics and world production data extracted from the NITROGEN (FIXED)-AMMONIA data sheet of the USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2023.

Tags: ammonia, ammonium-nitrate, ammonium-phosphates, ammonium-sulfate, anhydrous-ammonia, metallic-abrasives, nitric-acid, nitrogen, nonmetallic-mineral-resources, urea, usgs-63d1a4c1d34e06fef1500750
Organization: Department of the Interior
Whole Rock Major and Trace Element Chemistry for Igneous Rocks from Tyonek, Lime Hills, Talkeetna, McGrath, and Lake Clark Quadrangles, Western Alaska Range, Alaska

This data release contains whole rock major and trace element data for 69 igneous rock samples collected from the Western Alaska Range between 2011 and 2012. The Series field relates to chronological units discussed in Jones et al. (2021). Descriptions are from original collector notebooks and are provided here for informational purposes.

Tags: alaska, alaska-range, earth-science, geochemistry, geology, geoscientificinformation, icp-aes, icp-ms, igneous-rocks, inductively-coupled-plasma-atomic-emission-spectroscopy, inductively-coupled-plasma-mass-spectrometry, lake-clark, lime-hills, mass-spectroscopy, mcgrath, talkeetna, trace-elements, tyonek, usgs-asc478, x-ray-fluorescence
Organization: Department of the Interior
Blood Parasite Infection Data from Emperor Geese (Anser canagicus) and Cackling Geese (Branta hutchinsii minima), Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska, 1998-2014

This dataset includes one table of blood parasite (hematozoa) infection data from 197 Emperor Geese (Anser canagicus) and 110 Cackling Geese (Branta hutchinsii minima) sampled on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska, in 1998 and 2014. Three genera of blood parasites (Leucocytozoon, Haemoproteus, Plasmodium) were detected by molecular sequencing of a 479 bp fragment of the Cytochrome-b gene. The table provides age, sex, infection status, and NCBI GenBank accession numbers of the DNA sequences obtained from infected samples.

Tags: alaska, animals-vertebrates, anser-canigicus, biota, birds, blood-parasites, branta-canadensis-minima, cackling-goose, dna-sequencing, ducks-geese-swans, emperor-goose, environment, genetics, haematozoa, haemoproteus, health, leucocytozoon, manokinak-river, migratory-birds, parasitic-diseases, parasitism, parasitology, plasmodium, polymerase-chain-reaction, protists, species-life-history, tundra-ecosystems, usgs-asc357, vector-borne-diseases, waterfowl, wetland-ecosystems, wildlife, wildlife-disease, yukon-delta-national-wildlife-refuge
Organization: Department of the Interior
Whole Rock Major and Trace Element Chemistry for Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks from the Yukon-Tanana Upland, Alaska

This dataset consists of one table containing whole-rock geochemistry data for 753 igneous and metamorphic rocks from the Yukon-Tanana upland of eastern interior Alaska, collected between 2013 and 2019. All materials were analyzed by ALS Global, between 2014 and 2020, by a range of different techniques, so multiple unique entries for a given element relate to different analytical methods or preparations, as detailed in accompanying metadata.

Tags: alaska, alaska-range, earth-science, geochemistry, geology, geoscientificinformation, igneous-rocks, inductively-coupled-plasma-atomic-emission-spectroscopy, inductively-coupled-plasma-mass-spectrometry, isotopic-analysis, mass-spectroscopy, metamorphic-rocks, trace-elements, usgs-asc479, volcaniclastics, x-ray-fluorescence, yukon-tanana
Organization: Department of the Interior
Survey lines along which EdgeTech SB-512i, EdgeTech SB-424, and Knudsen 3200 chirp seismic-reflection data were collected by the U.S. Geological Survey offshore of Massachusetts within northern Cape Cod Bay (CCB_SeismicTrackline Esri Shapefile, Geographic, WGS84).

These data were collected under a cooperative agreement with the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management (CZM) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center (WHCMSC). Initiated in 2003, the primary objective of this program is to develop regional geologic framework information for the management of coastal and marine resources. Accurate data and maps of sea-floor geology are important first steps toward protecting fish habitat, delineating marine resources, and assessing environmental changes due to natural or human impacts. The project is focused on the inshore waters of coastal Massachusetts, primarily in water depths of 3-30 meters deep. Data collected for the mapping cooperative have been released in a series of USGS Open-File Reports (http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/project-pages/coastal_mass/html/current_map.html). The data collected in the study area located in Northern Cape Cod Bay Massachusetts includes high-resolution geophysics (bathymetry, backscatter intensity, and seismic reflection), and ground validation (sediment samples, video tracklines, and bottom photographs). The data were collected during five separate surveys conducted between 2006 and 2008 and cover 480 square kilometers of the inner continental shelf.
More information about the individual USGS surveys conducted as part of the northern Cape Cod Bay project can be found on the Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center Field Activity webpage: 
06012: https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2006-012-FA
07001: https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2007-001-FA
07002: https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2007-002-FA
07003: https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2007-003-FA
08002: https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2008-002-FA

Tags: 2006, 2007, 2008, 3200, 424, 512i, atlantic-ocean, cape-cod-bay, chirp, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, duxbury, edgetech, field-activity-number-2006-012-fa, field-activity-number-2007-001-fa, field-activity-number-2007-002-fa, field-activity-number-2008-002-fa, geospatial-datasets, gulf-of-maine, knudsen, location, marine-geology, marine-geophysics, massachusetts, navigation-tracklines, navigational-data, north-america, oceans, provincetown, r-v-megan-t-miller, r-v-rafael, sea-floor, seafloor, seismic-navigation, seismic-profile, seismic-reflection, subsurface, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-95b52260-8bd7-4ca7-a55f-4f953a778fc3, whcmsc, whsc-field-activity-serial-number-06012, whsc-field-activity-serial-number-07001, whsc-field-activity-serial-number-07002, whsc-field-activity-serial-number-08002, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Nitrogen, phosphorus, and suspended-sediment loads and trends measured at the Chesapeake Bay Nontidal Network stations: Water years 1985-2018 (ver. 2.0, May 2020)

Nitrogen, phosphorus, and suspended-sediment loads, and changes in loads, in major rivers across the Chesapeake Bay watershed have been calculated using monitoring data from the Chesapeake Bay Nontidal Network (NTN) stations for the period 1985 through 2018. Nutrient and suspended-sediment loads and changes in loads were determined by applying a weighted regression approach called WRTDS (Weighted Regression on  Time, Discharge, and Season).  The load results represent the total mass of nitrogen, phosphorus, and suspended sediment that was exported from each of the NTN watersheds.  To determine the trend in loads, the annual load results are flow normalized to integrate out the year-to-year variability in river discharge.  The trend in load is derived from the flow-normalized load timeseries and represents the change in load resulting from changes in sources, delays associated with storage or transport of historical inputs, and (or) implemented management actions.  Four data tables are provided that describe nitrogen, phosphorus, and suspended-sediment conditions across the NTN: (1) Annual Loads, (2) Monthly Loads, (3) Trends in Annual Loads, and (4) Average Yield (mass per unit area).  Additionally, essential WRTDS Input and Output files are provided. All data tables can be accessed through each respective "Child Item" listed on this page.
First posted: February 18, 2020 (available from author)
Revised: May 2020 (version 2.0)

Tags: chesapeake-bay-watershed, delaware, load-analysis, maryland, new-york, nitrogen, nutrients, pennsylvania, phosphorus, rivers, suspended-sediment, trends, united-states, usgs-5de7f1f5e4b02caea0ec58f3, virginia, washington-dc, water-quality, weighted-regression, west-virginia, wrtds
Organization: Department of the Interior