AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Louisiana Outer Coast Restoration Project – 2022 habitat map, Shell Island

This data release includes 2022 data for the Louisiana Outer Coast Restoration Project for Shell Island. Specifically, this data release includes a detailed habitat map, general habitat map, and georeferenced imagery. These habitat maps are developed using the methods and classification scheme from Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority’s (CPRA) Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring (BICM) program. For more details on BICM habitat classes, see the Entity and Attribute Information section of the metadata. Please consult the accompanying readME.txt file for information and recommendations on the contents of this dataset (that is, dataset and recommended symbology). For more information about BICM habitat mapping, see Enwright and others (2020).
Enwright, N.M., SooHoo, W.M., Dugas, J.L., Conzelmann, C.P., Laurenzano, C., Lee, D.M., Mouton, K., and Stelly, S.J., 2020, Louisiana Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring Program—Mapping habitats in beach, dune, and intertidal environments along the Louisiana Gulf of Mexico shoreline, 2008 and 2015–16: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2020–1030, 57 p.,
https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20201030.

Tags: environment, geoscientificinformation, gulf-of-mexico, imagerybasemapsearthcover, louisiana, usgs-65a7f52ed34e02097d049a89, vermilion
Organization: Department of the Interior
Louisiana Outer Coast Restoration Project – 2022 habitat map, Chenier Ronquille

This data release includes 2022 data for the Louisiana Outer Coast Restoration Project for Chenier Ronquille. Specifically, this data release includes a detailed habitat map, general habitat map, and georeferenced imagery. These habitat maps are developed using the methods and classification scheme from Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority’s (CPRA) Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring (BICM) program. For more details on BICM habitat classes, see the Entity and Attribute Information section of the metadata. Please consult the accompanying readME.txt file for information and recommendations on the contents of this dataset (that is, dataset and recommended symbology). For more information about BICM habitat mapping, see Enwright and others (2020).
Enwright, N.M., SooHoo, W.M., Dugas, J.L., Conzelmann, C.P., Laurenzano, C., Lee, D.M., Mouton, K., and Stelly, S.J., 2020, Louisiana Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring Program—Mapping habitats in beach, dune, and intertidal environments along the Louisiana Gulf of Mexico shoreline, 2008 and 2015–16: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2020–1030, 57 p.,
https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20201030.

Tags: environment, geoscientificinformation, gulf-of-mexico, imagerybasemapsearthcover, louisiana, plaquemines, usgs-65a7f3cdd34e02097d049a67
Organization: Department of the Interior
Louisiana Outer Coast Restoration Project – 2017 habitat map, Chenier Ronquille

This data release includes 2017 data for the Louisiana Outer Coast Restoration Project for Chenier Ronquille. Specifically, this data release includes a detailed habitat map, general habitat map, and georeferenced imagery. These habitat maps are developed using the methods and classification scheme from Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority’s (CPRA) Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring (BICM) program. For more details on BICM habitat classes, see the Entity and Attribute Information section of the metadata. Please consult the accompanying readME.txt file for information and recommendations on the contents of this dataset (that is, dataset and recommended symbology). For more information about BICM habitat mapping, see Enwright and others (2020).
Enwright, N.M., SooHoo, W.M., Dugas, J.L., Conzelmann, C.P., Laurenzano, C., Lee, D.M., Mouton, K., and Stelly, S.J., 2020, Louisiana Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring Program—Mapping habitats in beach, dune, and intertidal environments along the Louisiana Gulf of Mexico shoreline, 2008 and 2015–16: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2020–1030, 57 p.,
https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20201030.

Tags: environment, geoscientificinformation, gulf-of-mexico, imagerybasemapsearthcover, louisiana, plaquemines, usgs-65a7f0a9d34e02097d049a4d
Organization: Department of the Interior
Four Mile Canal Terracing and Sediment Trapping (TV-18): 2015 and 2018 land-water classifications

The Louisiana State Legislature created the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in order to conserve, restore, create and enhance Louisiana's coastal wetlands. The wetland restoration plans developed pursuant to these acts specifically require an evaluation of the effectiveness of each coastal wetlands restoration project in achieving long-term solutions to arresting coastal wetlands loss. This data set includes mosaicked aerial photographs for the Four Mile Canal Terracing and Sediment Trapping (TV-18) project for 2015 and 2018. This data is used as a basemap land-water classification. It also serves as a visual tool for project managers to help them identify any obvious problems or land loss within their project boundary. To better evaluate the effectiveness of restoration efforts, a land-water classification is performed on specific CWPPRA sites to help assess landscape changes.

Tags: aerial-photography, conservation, cwppra, digital-elevation-models, ecosystem-monitoring, environment, geographic-information-systems, gulf-of-mexico, image-collections, image-mosaics, louisiana, louisiana-coastal, remote-sensing, tv-18, united-states-of-america, usgs-65a7e35dd34e02097d0499f9, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Timing of coral (Swiftia exserta) spawning in U.S.G.S. Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, Gainesville, FL

The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill injured mesophotic and deep-sea environments over a vast area. In order to restore the mesophotic and deep-sea coral species impacted by the spill, information on fundamental ecosystem processes such as reproduction is needed. During expeditions in 2021 and 2022, fragments of the mesophotic octocoral Swiftia exserta were collected from the northern Gulf of Mexico and transported to aquaria at federal facilities in South Carolina, Florida, and Texas. In the fall of 2021 and 2022, several of the fragments spawned in captivity, providing an opportunity to learn about their reproduction and inform future restoration activities. Broadcast spawning occurred on 19 and 20 October, 2021 and  for 20 days from 29 September to 7 November, 2022. These spawning events permitted detailed observations of spawning behavior and timing, and colonies yielded over 2400 oocytes. Individual spawns were preceded by a distinctive “spawning posture” in the polyps, lasting between five minutes and two hours, and may have been cued by light. Swiftia exserta larvae settled and developed at comparable rates to other broadcast spawning octocorals, becoming swimming planulae by three days post spawn (dps) and starting to settle by 14 dps. These observations represent the first such records in S. exserta, and more broadly, a mesophotic coral in the Gulf of Mexico, providing important insights for the restoration of these species such as spawning season. Also, this investigation lays the foundation for future work to explore the influences of seasonal environmental variables, such as light and temperature, on spawning and reproductive seasonality in this species. This dataset contains the timing and dates of parent colonies with how many eggs they produced.

Tags: biota, coral-spawning-and-larval-aggregation, mesophotic, oocytes, soft-coral, soft-corals, spawning, usgs-65a7df8bd34e02097d0499b4
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mont Carlo Simulation Program from the World Petroleum Assessment 2000, DDS-60 (emcee.xls).xml

Monte Carlo programs described in chapter MC, Monte Carlo Simulation Method.  Emc2.xls was the program used to calculate the estimates of undiscovered resources for the World Petroleum Assessment 2000.  The emcee.xls program is a more generalized version of the program, with options for different distribution types.  Directions for the use of both programs are fully documented in chapter MC.

Tags: 2000assessment, coalbed-methane-resources, earth-science, economic-geology, economy, environment, geology, geoscientificinformation, methane, natural-gas, natural-gas-resources, natural-resources, oil, oil-sand-resources, oil-shale-resources, petroleum, resource-assessment, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-65a7007ad34e5af967a46814, wep, world-energy-assessment, world-petroleum-assessment
Organization: Department of the Interior
Demonstration of simulating agricultural water demands using the MODFLOW-OWHM2 Farm Process with an example from Paso Robles Basin

The Paso Robles groundwater basin (PR) encompasses approximately 500,000 acres and is located in the upper portion of the Salinas River watershed in the San Luis Obispo (SLO) and Monterey counties, Central Coast region of California (.\ancillary\Figures\Figure 1. Site Map.tif from this data release; California Department of Water Resources, 2003). Agriculture makes up a large part of the regional economy and agricultural water demand is the single largest component of total water demands in San Luis Obispo County (SLO; Fugro West, Inc and others, 2005). As such, future water supply sustainability is an important water management objective. To quantitatively evaluate long-term trends in groundwater levels, inflow, and outflow to and from the basin, and to implement as a groundwater resource management tool, a hydrologic model, called the Paso Robles Basin Model (PRBM), was developed and updated by several consulting firms (GEOSCIENCE Support Services, Inc and others, 2014; GEOSCIENCE Support Services, Inc, 2016;  Montgomery &amp; Associates, 2018). The PRBM was developed with MODFLOW-2005 (Harbaugh, 2005) software and incorporates external spreadsheet-based methods for estimation of agricultural water demands, associated groundwater pumpage, groundwater recharge, and riparian evapotranspiration. The PRBM can be downloaded from the County of San Luis Obispo Groundwater Sustainability website (GEOSCIENCE Support Services, Inc and others, 2014; GEOSCIENCE Support Services, Inc, 2016;  Montgomery &amp; Associates, 2018). This data release documents the conversion of a single year of the Paso Robles Basin Model (PRBM) to the MODFLOW-One Water Hydrologic Flow Model (MF-OWHM2) software (Boyce and others, 2020) and illustrates how to set up the MODFLOW Farm Process (FMP; Boyce and others, 2020) using the input file structures from MF-OWHM2. This update to the PRBM, referred to as the Paso Robles Demonstration (PRDS), improves the ability to maintain, modify, and extend the model for future work. The updated PRDS model input file structures will provide future studies with the flexibility to easily incorporate new model input data. This data release shows how climate data, watershed inflows, groundwater extraction and injection wells, and agricultural wells can all be easily updated. This ability to update the model will keep the model relevant to decision-making and contribute to improved understanding of the source, movement, and use of surface water and groundwater.

Tags: atascadero, california, environment, groundwater, groundwater-flow, hydrology, monterey-county, paso-robles, san-luis-obispo-county, streamflow, surface-water-non-marine, usgs-65a6cd2dd34e5af967a466c6, water-resources-management, watershed-management
Organization: Department of the Interior
Comparisons of dissolved-oxygen calibration methods at various elevations, Oregon

Two dissolved-oxygen experiments were completed using internally logging water-quality monitors. Dissolved-oxygen sensors on the water-quality monitors were calibrated using various settings and at various elevations in Oregon, USA. Data from these experiments can be used 1) to assess how elevation affects dissolved-oxygen values recorded by continuous water-quality monitors, and 2) to inform best practices for calibrating and recording dissolved oxygen at various elevations. 
Experiment #1 started by calibrating six YSI 6-series optical dissolved-oxygen sensors in Bend, Oregon, at an elevation of approximately 3,700 feet above sea level: 3 sensors were calibrated to 100% saturation, and 3 sensors were calibrated to 100% solubility (in mg/L) based on USGS DO Tables. During the experiment, sensors always remained in a 100% saturated environment. All calibrations and calibration checks were performed in a 100% air-saturated water environment (air-purged bucket of water). Sensors were kept in a water-saturated air environment (referred to as the wet-towel method) when in transport; the wet-towel method allowed the sensors to remain in a 100% saturated environment while the elevation and barometric pressure changed. Monitors were set to log internally at 15-minute intervals, and the monitors were transported over a pass in the Cascade Range and then to Salem, Oregon, which is at approximately 200 feet elevation. In Salem, sensor calibrations were checked, and then dissolved-oxygen sensors were calibrated again using the same settings as previously described. Monitors were transported back to Bend, Oregon, following the same route, where calibrations were checked.
Experiment #2 started by calibrating six YSI optical dissolved-oxygen sensors in Bend, Oregon: 2 YSI 6-series sensors were calibrated to 100% saturation, 2 YSI 6-series sensors were calibrated to 100% solubility (in mg/L) based on USGS DO Tables, and 2 YSI EXO sensors were calibrated to 100% local saturation. Similar to experiment #1, sensors always remained in 100% saturated environments; calibration and calibration checks were performed in air-saturated water, and sensors were kept in a water-saturated air environment when in travel status. Monitors were transported over a pass in the Cascade Range and then to downtown Portland, Oregon, which is approximately 20 feet above sea level. Sensor calibrations were not checked or changed in Portland. Monitors were transported back to Bend, Oregon, following the same route, where calibrations were checked.

Tags: inlandwaters, oregon, oxygen-content-water, united-states, usgs-65a6bfced34e5af967a46684, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Continuous laser rangefinder measurements of lava lake and crater filling at the summit of Kilauea volcano, Island of Hawai`i, 2021-2024

The surface elevation of lava lakes is an important parameter that can provide insight on the underlying magma reservoir pressure as well as outgassing dynamics of the magmatic system (Patrick and others 2019a). Lava lake elevation may also be useful in forecasting potentially hazardous eruptions on a volcano’s flanks (Burgi and others 2014; Patrick and others 2015).  Precise measurements of lava lake elevation have been challenging in the past, due to thick volcanic gas plumes and the inaccessibility of most lava lakes.  New technologies, such as laser rangefinders, provides new opportunities to measure lava levels with high accuracy and sample rates (Patrick and others 2019b). 
In this data release, we include data from a continuous (1 Hz) laser rangefinder (Safran Vectronix LRF 7047) measuring the surface elevation of active lava lakes and the solidified crater floor at the summit of Kīlauea Volcano, Island of Hawaiʻi, from 2021 to 2024.  These data span five summit eruptions, which gradually filled Halemaʻumaʻu crater with new lava (Mulliken and others 2024).  These data may be useful for understanding lava lake behavior, as well as crater refilling processes.  A detailed description of the methodology is included in Younger and others (2024).  Related digital elevation models of the summit during this period are provided in Carr and others (2023). 
References 
Burgi PY, Darrah TH, Tedesco D, Eymold WK. 2014. Dynamics of the Mount Nyiragongo lava lake.  J. Geophys.Res. Solid Earth 119, 4106–4122,  https://doi.org/10.1002/2013JB010895 
Carr BB, LeWinter AL, Finnegan DC, Zoeller MH, Patrick MR. 2023. Rapid-response digital elevation models of the 2020–present summit eruptions at Kīlauea Volcano, Island of Hawaiʻi (updated 2023-10-24). U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P99NLP4E 
Mosbrucker AR, Zoeller MH, Ramsey DW (2020) Digital elevation model of Kīlauea Volcano, Hawaiʻi, based on July 2019 airborne lidar surveys. U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9F1ZU8O 
Mulliken KM, Kauahikaua JP, Swanson DA, Zoeller MH. 2024. Chronology of recent volcanic activity on the Island of Hawai‘i, Hawaii. U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9V3NQYB 
Patrick MR, Anderson KR, Poland MP, Orr T, Swanson D. 2015. Lava lake level as a gauge of magma reservoir pressure and eruptive hazard. Geology 43:831-834. https://doi.org/10.1130/G36896.1 
Patrick MR, Swanson DA, Orr T. 2019a. A review of controls on lava lake level: insights from Halemaʻumaʻu Crater, Kīlauea Volcano. Bulletin of Volcanology 81:13.

Tags: elevation, halemaumau, island-of-hawaii, kaluapele, kilauea, laser-rangefinder, lava-lake, usgs-65a4dcb5d34e5af967a45d2c, volcanic-crater
Organization: Department of the Interior
Orthophotograph of the Columbia River between Portland and The Dalles, Oregon, acquired in 1935

This data release consists of high quality georeferenced orthophoto mosaics of a 160 kilometer long portion of the Columbia River between Portland and The Dalles, Oregon created from aerial photographs collected in 1935 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The dataset comprises three GeoTIFF files, each covering about 40-60 kilometers. This metadata document summarizes the entire data release. See attached metadata records for information on the individual mosaics.

Tags: aerial-photography, bridal-veil, camas, columbia-river, geospatial-datasets, historical-imagery, hood-river, imagerybasemapsearthcover, inlandwaters, mosier, oregon, portland, structure-from-motion, the-dalles, usgs-65a1dad5d34e5af967a450d7, vancouver, washington, wishram
Organization: Department of the Interior
High resolution double-difference relocations of earthquakes in and offshore Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands during the deployment of ocean bottom seismometers from mid-2015 to mid-2016

Puerto Rico is a Caribbean Island with a population of about 3.2 million people who are exposed to natural hazards including earthquakes and submarine landslides that can generate tsunamis. Previous work has shown seismicity offshore Puerto Rico especially between the coastline and the Puerto Rico Trench north of the island. The Puerto Rico Seismic Network maintains the local seismic network to record earthquakes, but these earthquake locations rely on seismic instruments that are all located on land. As part of the assessment of these natural hazards to Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands, six ocean bottom seismometers (OBS) were deployed from mid-2015 to mid-2016 to help understand offshore seismic hazards especially those north of the islands near the Puerto Rico Trench. This data release presents earthquake information recorded during the deployment and attempts to relocate these events by merging the earthquake phase arrival data from the Puerto Rico Seismic Network and the OBS deployment.

Tags: british-virgin-islands, caribbean, caribbean-islands, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, earthquake-epicenter, earthquake-occurrences, earthquake-relocation, geoscientificinformation, land-seismometers, marine-geology, marine-geophysics, ocean-bottom-seismometers, oceans, p-wave, puerto-rico, puerto-rico-seismic-network, puerto-rico-trench, s-wave, seismic-phases, seismology, subduction-zone, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-65a186fcd34e5af967a3f410, velocity-model, virgin-islands-of-the-united-states, waveform-cross-correlation, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hydrodynamic metrics from particle tracking simulations of two sub-reaches of the Upper Missouri River near Wolf Point, MT

This dataset contains hydrodynamic metrics from particle tracking simulations for two sub-reaches of the Upper Missouri River near Wolf Point, MT. The upstream reach is referred to as the “upper” reach while the downstream reach is referred to as the “lower” reach. Simulations were performed for 16 flows in the range of 185-635 cms at increments of 30 cms.

Tags: aquatic-biology, biota, hydrology, missouri-river, montana, usgs-65a18327d34e5af967a3f1bc, water-resources
Organization: Department of the Interior
Retention and transport time metrics from particle tracking simulations of two sub-reaches of the Upper Missouri River near Wolf Point, MT

This dataset contains retention and transport time metrics from particle tracking simulations for two sub-reaches of the Upper Missouri River near Wolf Point, MT. The upstream reach is referred to as the “upper” reach while the downstream reach is referred to as the “lower” reach. Simulations were performed for 16 flows in the range of 185-635 cubic meters per second (cms) at increments of 30 cms. Simulations were performed in each reach for all 16 flows for a combination of 1 of 3 vertical movement methods (passive, active60pct, and active75pct)* and 1 of 3 lateral eddy viscosity (LEV) scenarios (0.5, 1, and 2 times the base value, referred to as LEVx0p5, LEVx1, or LEVx2, respectively), resulting in 288 total simulations.
*passive =vertical movement determined by random walk; active60pct = vertical movement modeled as sine wave constrained to 60% of flow depth; active75pct = vertical movement modeled as sine wave constrained to 75% of flow depth

Tags: aquatic-biology, biota, hydrology, missouri-river, montana, usgs-65a182d6d34e5af967a3f1b7, water-resources
Organization: Department of the Interior
Breakthrough curves from particle tracking simulations of a July 1, 2019, larval drift experiment on the Upper Missouri River near Wolf Point, MT

This dataset contains breakthrough curves calculated from particle tracking simulations of a July 1, 2019, larval drift experiment conducted on the Upper Missouri River near Wolf Point, MT. Breakthrough curves were generated using a custom script written in the Python programming language that counts the number of particles per time step passing through sampling locations. Breakthrough curves were generated for particles using passive, active75pct, and active60pct vertical movement methods at the first two sampling stations downstream of the release location.

Tags: aquatic-biology, biota, hydrology, missouri-river, montana, usgs-65a18106d34e5af967a3f1ae, water-resources
Organization: Department of the Interior
Animations of particle tracking simulations of the July 1, 2019, larval drift experiment on the Upper Missouri River near Wolf Point, MT

This dataset contains animations of particle tracking of the July 1, 2019, larval drift experiment on the Upper Missouri River near Wolf Point, MT. Animations do not contain audio and depict particles moving from the top of the reach (left side) to the bottom of the reach (right side). A total of 9 animations are included with each corresponding to the combination of 1 of 3 vertical movement methods (active60pct, active75pct, or passive) and 1 of 3 lateral eddy viscosity scenarios (LEVx0p5, LEVx1, or LEVx2).

Tags: aquatic-biology, biota, hydrology, missouri-river, montana, usgs-65a1800ad34e5af967a3f1a5, water-resources
Organization: Department of the Interior