AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Gridded hazard curve data for annual rate of exceedance versus spectral response acceleration, peak ground acceleration, and peak ground velocity, 2021 update to the National Seismic Hazard Model for Hawaii

Output from the 2021 National Seismic Hazard Model for Hawaii includes probabilistic seismic hazard curves calculated for a 0.02° x 0.02° grid of latitude/longitude locations across Hawaii.  The new model provides an expanded suite of hazard curves for twenty-three different ground motion intensity measures, including PGA, PGV, and spectral accelerations for 0.01, 0.02, 0.03, 0.05, 0.075, 0.1, 0.15, 0.2, 0.25, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.75, 1, 1.5, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7.5  and 10 second, and eight separate soil site classes (VS30 = 1500, 1080, 760, 530, 365, 260, 185, and 150 m/sec), representing NEHRP site classes A/B, B, B/C, C, C/D, D, D/E, and E.
This data set represents the hazard curves for a grid of points with a spacing of 0.02 degrees in latitude and longitude.  It represents the annual rate of exceedance versus spectral response acceleration and peak ground acceleration.  Two different sets of hazard curves are available, FULL and TRUNCATED. The FULL gridded hazard curve data include ground motions at long return periods, while the TRUNCATED curves are designed to be used for return periods of 10,000 years (annual frequency of exceedance of 10-4) and less.  The National Seismic Hazard Models are developed for determining seismic design values for building codes concerned with return periods of 10,000 years and less, calculated from the TRUNCATED hazard curves, therefore, we have provided these hazard curves as well as the FULL hazard curves. We recommend using the TRUNCATED hazard data sets, since they will give the same results as the FULL hazard curves for return periods of 10,000 years or less.

Tags: earthquakes, hawaii, hazards, seismology, united-states, usa, usgs-60be189bd34e86b9389103d4
Organization: Department of the Interior
Maximum Considered Eearthquake Geometric mean Peak Ground Accleration, Site Class B for the conterminous United States, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and United States Virgin Islands, 2009 NEHRP.

For designing buildings and other structures to safely resist earthquakes, the 2009 NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions and the 2010 ASCE/SEI 7 Standard contain maps of Maximum Considered Earthquake Geometric Mean (MCEG) peak ground accelerations.
These peak ground accelerations are each for the geometric mean of two horizontal components and a site shear wave velocity (VS30) of 760 m/s. For more information, see Chapters 11, 21, and 22 of the 2009 NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions and the 2010 ASCE/SEI 7 Standard.

Tags: 2009, 2010, 2010-asce-sei-7, alabama, alaska, arizona, arkansas, california, colorado, connecticut, delaware, district-of-columbia, earthquakes, engineering-sciences, florida, georgia, hawaii, hazards, idaho, illinois, indiana, iowa, kansas, kentucky, louisiana, maine, maryland, massachusetts, michigan, minnesota, mississippi, missouri, montana, nebraska, nehrp-2009, nevada, new-hampshire, new-jersey, new-mexico, new-york, north-carolina, north-dakota, ohio, oklahoma, oregon, pennsylvania, puerto-rico, rhode-island, risk, seismic, seismology, south-carolina, south-dakota, standards, tennessee, texas, united-states, united-states-virgin-islands, usa, usgs-60bd68bcd34e86b93890dd1c, utah, vermont, virginia, washington, west-virginia, wisconsin, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Maps of earthquake ground motions for the 2009 NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions and the 2010 ASCE/SEI 7 Standard

For designing buildings and other structures to safely resist earthquakes, the 2009 NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions and the 2010 ASCE/SEI 7 Standard contain maps of Uniform Hazard response accelerations, risk coefficients, 84th-percentile spectral accelerations, and Risk-Targeted Maximum Considered Earthquake (MCER) spectral response accelerations, all at spectral periods of 0.2-second and 1.0-second.
The spectral accelerations are for the direction of maximum horizontal response and a site shear wave velocity (VS30) of 760 m/s, in units of the percent g, the acceleration of gravity. For more information, see Chapters 11, 21, and 22 of the 2009 NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions and the 2010 ASCE/SEI 7 Standard.

Tags: 2009, 2010, 2010-asce-sei-7, alabama, alaska, arizona, arkansas, california, colorado, connecticut, delaware, district-of-columbia, earthquakes, engineering-sciences, florida, georgia, hawaii, hazards, idaho, illinois, indiana, iowa, kansas, kentucky, louisiana, maine, maryland, massachusetts, michigan, minnesota, mississippi, missouri, montana, nebraska, nehrp-2009, nevada, new-hampshire, new-jersey, new-mexico, new-york, north-carolina, north-dakota, ohio, oklahoma, oregon, pennsylvania, puerto-rico, rhode-island, risk, seismic, seismology, south-carolina, south-dakota, standards, tennessee, texas, united-states, united-states-virgin-islands, usa, usgs-60bd6852d34e86b93890dcf2, utah, vermont, virginia, washington, west-virginia, wisconsin, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Object-Based Image Analysis Detection of Aquatic Vegetation, Lake Erie, Eastern Basin, 2018

The USGS developed the second in a series of informative spatial distribution datasets of submersed aquatic vegetation (SAV) in the eastern basin of Lake Erie. The second dataset was developed by object-based image analysis of high-resolution imagery (US waters &lt; 6 meters deep) collected during peak biomass in 2018 to allow assessments of changes in SAV distribution. Assessing SAV abundance may contribute to inform the long-term impacts of Grass Carp, Common Carp, eutrophication, wind fetch and sedimentation on vegetation communities throughout Lake Erie and the impact these stressors may have on other organisms in the ecosystem. These data may also help inform the deployment of toxic bait deployments targeting Grass Carp. Bait placement can be strategically aligned with the spatial distribution and diet preferences of Grass carp to maximize control efforts while minimizing impacts to native species. These data provide a good baseline of SAV at an early point in the invasion/population growth curve for grass carp from which later assessments/models might project from, and are valuable for bioenergetic modeling efforts to project grass carp biomass or other species dependent on SAV.

Tags: aquatic-vegetation, biota, ctenopharyngodon-idella, eastern-lake-erie, freshwater-ecosystems, glri, great-lakes, image-analysis, lake-erie, remote-sensing, usgs-60aea858d34e4043c853a024, usgs-cc-asian-carp, usgs-cc-great-lakes
Organization: Department of the Interior
Risk-Targeted Maximum Considered Earthquake Spectral Response Accelerations for the 2009 NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions and 2010 ASCE/SEI 7 Standard

For designing buildings and other structures to safely resist earthquakes, the 2009 NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions and the 2010 ASCE/SEI 7 Standard contain maps of Risk-Targeted Maximum Considered Earthquake (MCER) spectral response accelerations and maps of Maximum Considered Earthquake Geometric Mean (MCEG) peak ground accelerations. Identical values from the MCER maps are also in the 2013 ASCE/SEI 41 Standard and the 2012 and 2015 editions of the International Building Code. The MCER and MCEG ground motion maps are derived from USGS National Seismic Hazard Models via the gridded values of this data release. The data files in the "Child Items" below also underlie the corresponding USGS Seismic Design Web Services. See the "Related External Resources" below for links to the building code reference documents, the USGS National Seismic Hazard Models used, and the corresponding USGS web services.

Tags: 2009, 2009-nehrp, 2010, 2010-asce-sei-7, alabama, alaska, arizona, arkansas, california, colorado, connecticut, delaware, district-of-columbia, earthquakes, engineering-sciences, florida, georgia, hawaii, hazards, idaho, illinois, indiana, iowa, kansas, kentucky, 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, puerto-rico, rhode-island, risk, seismic, seismology, south-carolina, south-dakota, standards, tennessee, texas, united-states, united-states-virgin-islands, usa, usgs-60bd64b0d34e86b93890dc0b, utah, vermont, virginia, washington, west-virginia, wisconsin, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
GIS shapefile and related summary data describing irrigated agricultural land use for the 14 counties fully or partially within the Suwannee River Water Management District Florida for 2020

A Geographic Information System (GIS) shapefile and summary tables of irrigated agricultural land-use are provided for the fourteen counties that are fully or partially within the Suwannee River Water Management District, Florida compiled through a cooperative project between the U.S Geological Survey and the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Office of Agricultural Water Policy. Information provided in the shapefile includes the location of irrigated lands that were verified during field trips that started in January 2020 and concluded in December 2020, and the crop type, irrigation system type, and primary water source used. A map image of the shapefile is provided. Previously published estimates of irrigation acreage for years since 1982 are included in summary tables.

Tags: alachua-county, baker-county, bradford-county, columbia-county, crop-type, dixie-county, environment, farming, florida, florida-department-of-agriculture-and-consumer-services, gilchrist-county, groundwater, hamilton-county, image-collections-aerial-photography, inlandwaters, irrigation-type, jefferson-county, lafayette-county, land-use, land-use-classification-codes, levy-county, madison-county, st-johns-river-water-management-district, surface-water, suwannee-county, suwannee-river-water-management-district, taylor-county, union-county, usgs-60ba5a80d34e86b9388d8717
Organization: Department of the Interior
Oregon spotted frog (Rana pretiosa) telemetry and habitat use at Crane Prairie Reservoir in Oregon, USA

We used radio-telemetry to study late-season movement and habitat use by Oregon spotted frogs (Rana pretiosa) at Crane Prairie Reservoir in Oregon. This dataset includes individual frog location data and habitat use during each tracking event that occurred roughly weekly between September and late November of 2018.

Tags: animal-behavior, aquatic, aquatic-biology, biota, day, deschutes-county, deschutes-river, environment, fall, habitats, inlandwaters, land-surface, modern, native-species, oregon, oxbow, river, slough, usgs-60ba5a00d34e86b9388d86bc, wetland, winter
Organization: Department of the Interior
Tule greater white-fronted goose migration tracks (2019-2020) and atmospheric smoke concentrations (2020)

April through May (spring) and August through September (fall) locations for tule greater white-fronted geese (Anser albifrons elgasi) marked with GPS collars at Summer Lake Wildlife Area, OR in 2018 and 2019.  Locations may include pre-migration and post-migration designations. Locations occurring between September 11, 2020, and arrival at, or within 50 kilometers of the Summer Lake Wildlife Area stopover location also provided with elevation information and smoke concentrations derived from the experimental HRRR-Smoke model. Median predicted smoke concentrations extrapolated from ground level through 5,000 meters also provided.

Tags: alaska, biota, birds, migratory-species, oregon, pacific-northwest, pacific-ocean, smoke, summer-lake-oregon, usgs-60b959f8d34e86b9388aadd3, washington
Organization: Department of the Interior
Evidence of Mammalian Carnivores at the Desert Tortoise Research Natural Area, Western Mojave Desert, USA, between 1989 and 2012.

During a multi-year demographic study of Agassiz’s desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) at the Desert Tortoise Research Natural Area (Natural Area), in the western Mojave Desert, USA, we recorded evidence of evidence of mesocarnivores that commonly prey on desert tortoises on a 7.77 square-kilometer study area. The study area included land inside and outside the fenced boundary of the Natural Area. We recorded locations, condition and recency of sign, and type of sign present at burrows, dens, and den complexes used by desert kit foxes (Vulpes macrotis), coyotes (Canis latrans), American badgers (Taxidea taxus), and bobcats (Lynx rufus). We also recorded scat piles by species using them, amount, and relative ages of the scats. Scats were checked for evidence of desert tortoise remains. Observations of live mesocarnivores were noted also. We compared differences in predator pressure inside and outside the boundary fence of the Natural Area and whether mesocarnivores were a driver for changes in tortoise demography.

Tags: biota, california, carnivores, desert-tortoise-research-natural-area, mojave-desert, usgs-60b9467cd34e86b9388aa1b3, usgs-ema-low-pl-mojave-desert-sw-desert
Organization: Department of the Interior
CMIP5 MACAv2-METDATA Monthly Water Balance Model Projections 1950-2099 for the Contiguous United States

We apply a monthly water-balance model (MWBM) to simulate components of the water balance for the period 1950-2099 under RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 for the Contiguous United States. We use the statistically downscaled MACAv2-METDATA temperature and precipitation data from 20 General Circulation Models (GCMs) from the Climate Model Intercomparison Program Phase 5 (CMIP5) as input to the water balance model. This dataset supports the USGS National Climate Change Viewer.
The statistically downscaled dataset is: 
MACAv2-METDATA: Multivariate Adaptive Constructed Analogs (Abatzoglou &amp; Brown, 2012, bias corrected by METDATA, Abatzoglou, 2013)
Users interested in the downscaled temperature and precipitation files are referred to the dataset home page:
MACAv2-METDATA: http://maca.northwestknowledge.net
The 20 included GCMs are:
bcc-csm1-1-m, bcc-csm1-1, BNU-ESM, CanESM2, CCSM4, CNRM-CM5, CSIRO-Mk3-6-0, GFDL-ESM2G, GFDL-ESM2M, HadGEM2 CC365, HadGEM2-ES365, inmcm4,IPSL-CM5A-LR, IPSL CM5A-MR, IPSL-CM5B-LR, MIROC5, MIROC-ESM, MIROC ESM CHEM, MRI-CGCM3, NorESM1-M

Tags: climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, effects-of-climate-change, environment, evaporation, hydrologic-processes, macav2-metdata, runoff, snow-and-ice-cover, soil-moisture, usgs-60b9129ed34e86b9388a7b48
Organization: Department of the Interior
CMIP5 MACAv2-METDATA Monthly Water Balance Model Projections 1950-2099 for the Contiguous United States

We apply a monthly water-balance model (MWBM) to simulate components of the water balance for the period 1950-2099 under RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 for the Contiguous United States. We use the statistically downscaled MACAv2-METDATA temperature and precipitation data from 20 General Circulation Models (GCMs) from the Climate Model Intercomparison Program Phase 5 (CMIP5) as input to the water balance model. This dataset supports the USGS National Climate Change Viewer.
The statistically downscaled dataset is: 
MACAv2-METDATA: Multivariate Adaptive Constructed Analogs (Abatzoglou &amp; Brown, 2012, bias corrected by METDATA, Abatzoglou, 2013)
Users interested in the downscaled temperature and precipitation files are referred to the dataset home page:
MACAv2-METDATA: http://maca.northwestknowledge.net
The 20 included GCMs are:
bcc-csm1-1-m, bcc-csm1-1, BNU-ESM, CanESM2, CCSM4, CNRM-CM5, CSIRO-Mk3-6-0, GFDL-ESM2G, GFDL-ESM2M, HadGEM2 CC365, HadGEM2-ES365, inmcm4,IPSL-CM5A-LR, IPSL CM5A-MR, IPSL-CM5B-LR, MIROC5, MIROC-ESM, MIROC ESM CHEM, MRI-CGCM3, NorESM1-M

Tags: climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, effects-of-climate-change, environment, evaporation, hydrologic-processes, macav2-metdata, runoff, snow-and-ice-cover, soil-moisture, usgs-60b91285d34e86b9388a7b36
Organization: Department of the Interior
Southwest Gravity Program Absolute Gravity Database (updated 2022-07-08)

This dataset contains absolute-gravity data collected by the USGS Southwest Gravity Program, a collaborative effort of the Arizona, California, and New Mexico Water Science Centers to monitor and model groundwater-storage change. Data were collected following the methods in "Procedures for Field Data Collection, Processing, Quality Assurance and Quality Control, and Archiving of Relative and Absolute-Gravity Surveys", U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods book 2, chapter D4 (https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/tm2D4). All data are reviewed and approved. Additional data, including network-adjusted relative- and absolute-gravity data, may be available in ScienceBase Data Releases (https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/5910bebae4b0e541a03ac8f8). Last update: 2022-07-08

Tags: geoscientificinformation, location, repeat-microgravity, southwest-gravity-program, usgs-60c0f325d34e86b938940a93
Organization: Department of the Interior
CMIP5 MACAv2-METDATA Monthly Water Balance Model Projections 1950-2099 for the Contiguous United States

We apply a monthly water-balance model (MWBM) to simulate components of the water balance for the period 1950-2099 under RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 for the Contiguous United States. We use the statistically downscaled MACAv2-METDATA temperature and precipitation data from 20 General Circulation Models (GCMs) from the Climate Model Intercomparison Program Phase 5 (CMIP5) as input to the water balance model. This dataset supports the USGS National Climate Change Viewer.
The statistically downscaled dataset is: 
MACAv2-METDATA: Multivariate Adaptive Constructed Analogs (Abatzoglou &amp; Brown, 2012, bias corrected by METDATA, Abatzoglou, 2013)
Users interested in the downscaled temperature and precipitation files are referred to the dataset home page:
MACAv2-METDATA: http://maca.northwestknowledge.net
The 20 included GCMs are:
bcc-csm1-1-m, bcc-csm1-1, BNU-ESM, CanESM2, CCSM4, CNRM-CM5, CSIRO-Mk3-6-0, GFDL-ESM2G, GFDL-ESM2M, HadGEM2 CC365, HadGEM2-ES365, inmcm4,IPSL-CM5A-LR, IPSL CM5A-MR, IPSL-CM5B-LR, MIROC5, MIROC-ESM, MIROC ESM CHEM, MRI-CGCM3, NorESM1-M

Tags: climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, effects-of-climate-change, environment, evaporation, hydrologic-processes, macav2-metdata, runoff, snow-and-ice-cover, soil-moisture, usgs-60b9124cd34e86b9388a7b10
Organization: Department of the Interior
CMIP5 MACAv2-METDATA Monthly Water Balance Model Projections 1950-2099 for the Contiguous United States

We apply a monthly water-balance model (MWBM) to simulate components of the water balance for the period 1950-2099 under RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 for the Contiguous United States. We use the statistically downscaled MACAv2-METDATA temperature and precipitation data from 20 General Circulation Models (GCMs) from the Climate Model Intercomparison Program Phase 5 (CMIP5) as input to the water balance model. This dataset supports the USGS National Climate Change Viewer.
The statistically downscaled dataset is: 
MACAv2-METDATA: Multivariate Adaptive Constructed Analogs (Abatzoglou &amp; Brown, 2012, bias corrected by METDATA, Abatzoglou, 2013)
Users interested in the downscaled temperature and precipitation files are referred to the dataset home page:
MACAv2-METDATA: http://maca.northwestknowledge.net
The 20 included GCMs are:
bcc-csm1-1-m, bcc-csm1-1, BNU-ESM, CanESM2, CCSM4, CNRM-CM5, CSIRO-Mk3-6-0, GFDL-ESM2G, GFDL-ESM2M, HadGEM2 CC365, HadGEM2-ES365, inmcm4,IPSL-CM5A-LR, IPSL CM5A-MR, IPSL-CM5B-LR, MIROC5, MIROC-ESM, MIROC ESM CHEM, MRI-CGCM3, NorESM1-M

Tags: climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, effects-of-climate-change, environment, evaporation, hydrologic-processes, macav2-metdata, runoff, snow-and-ice-cover, soil-moisture, usgs-60b91238d34e86b9388a7b02
Organization: Department of the Interior
Injection of Deuterium and Yeast Extract at USGS Birney Field Site, Powder River Basin, Montana, USA, 2016-2020

Subsurface microbial (biogenic) methane production is an important part of the global carbon cycle and has resulted in natural gas accumulations in many coal beds worldwide. Laboratory experiments indicate coal beds can act as natural geobioreactors and produce additional low carbon renewable natural gas with algal or yeast compounds, yet the effectiveness of these nutrients in situ are unknown. This study uses down-well monitoring methods in combination with deuterated water (99.99% D2O) and a 200-liter injection of 0.1% yeast extract to stimulate and isotopically label newly generated methane.  A total dissolved gas pressure sensor was placed down-well into the Flowers-Goodale coal bed at the USGS Birney Test Site in the Powder River Basin, USA, to facilitate long-term real-time gas measurements 641 days pre-injection and for 478 days post-injection. Calculations from isotopic labeling from D2O indicates the methane concentration increased 132% above pre-injection levels 266 days post-injection. This study demonstrates the ability to both isotopically label newly generated methane in situ and monitor increases which has immediate implications for investigating methane generation in other environments.

Tags: birney, coal-resources, fort-union-formation, methane, methanogenesis, montana, paleocene-epoch, paleogene-period, powder-river-basin, tongue-river-member, usgs-60b8e6d5d34e86b9388a6238
Organization: Department of the Interior
Surveillance and reports of Brown Treesnakes on Saipan, 1980-2020

Available active surveillance efforts for Brown Treesnakes on the island of Saipan via nocturnal visual encounter surveys and trapping from 1999-2018 were collected and summarized into 3 csv files (TRAP1999, BTSRRTSaipanTRAP, and BTSRRTSaipanVISUAL). Location and date of non-confirmed reports of snakes 1982-2013 via passive surveillance were compiled into a fourth file (Saipan BTSSightings1980_2020.csv) with their associated credibility score of 1-5 (5 = completely credible) defined by a panel or small group of Brown Treesnake experts.
Trapping surveillance efforts used a modified minnow trap as a snake trap. Traps are suspended horizontally from natural vegetation or fences 1-1.5 meter (m) off the ground. Within each trap, a chamber houses and protects a live attractant mouse. Traps are checked each morning, and the grain mix and potatoes providing food and water for lure mice are replenished as needed. Dead mice are replaced immediately when possible, or within two days; dead mice have been shown to be roughly as attractive as live mice for the first 2-3 days. Traps are deployed along transects-which may be the same transects where nocturnal visual surveys occur-and are spaced roughly 20-40 m apart.
Visual surveys occur along forest edges, roadsides, and forest interior (via measured and flagged transects). Observers use headlamps to search for snakes in the vegetation or on the ground. Survey transects are sized so that observers can complete one transect per hour (approximately 450 m/hour(h)) and capped at four transects per searcher per night to avoid searcher fatigue. Observers record start and end times, total actual search time, all vertebrates detected (to gain baseline knowledge of snake prey abundance), and distance in kilometers traversed. Surveys begin 30 minutes after sunset. 
Since 2004, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands residents have been implored by radio jingles, posters, and trucks with prominent signage to immediately report sightings of snakes. The islands have a Brown Treesnake Hotline with a memorable number (28-SNAKE) to facilitate reporting. Non-confirmed reports of snakes prior to 2004 were obtained via natural resource and port authority agency memos and memory.

Tags: biota, invasive-species, usgs-60b80c52d34e86b93887588c, usgs-ema-low-is-detection-tool-development-and-testing
Organization: Department of the Interior