AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Geomorphic Reference Reach Data for the Kalamazoo River upstream of Plainwell, Michigan, 2021

The Kalamazoo River Area of Concern (AOC) has multiple dam removals in various stages of completion. Following dam removal, river restoration activities will occur in impacted reaches. Hydrogeomorphic data from relatively undisturbed and hydraulically stable river reaches are commonly used to inform the design parameters of  river restoration projects. Reference reaches should have similar prevailing boundary conditions as target restoration reaches, including water and sediment regime, valley and channel slope, valley confinement, bank heights, and riparian vegetation. This dataset characterizes the geomorphology of one reference reach, an approximately 500m reach upstream of Plainwell, MI. The reach has a drainage area of 3166 square kilometers. It is located in the middle of a zone of relatively consistent valley slope of 0.056%, and had a channel slope of 0.035% measured from the water surface profile during this study. The reach has tree lined banks about 0.5 meters (m) high, with abundant large wood along channel margins, and a riffle-pool structure in which gravel riffles common. Bankfull width in the reach varies from 50m to 85m, and valley width varies from 150m to 300m. The reach is predominantly laterally unconfined, but abuts the valley margin at the lower end of the reach.
Bathymetric and topographic data were collected in October, 2021 and combined with aerial lidar data collected in 2015 to develop a digital elevation model (DEM) covering the bed, banks, and floodplain. The DEM was used to create 30 cross-sections spanning the river channel and 5 cross-sections spanning the entire valley bottom. Bankfull hydraulic geometry attributes, complexity metrics, and floodplain inundation metrics across a range of flow stages were calculated for each cross section. The DEM was also used to map hydrogeomorphic units in the channel and floodplain using the geomorphon and geomorphic unit tool (GUT) approaches. Large woody debris in the channel was mapped from vegetation returns in the terrestrial lidar data. Additionally, substrate size data were collected in the reference reach in August, 2022. These geomorphic data are delivered in a variety of file formats, organized in a nested structure. Details on the overall structure and organization of the files in the data release are contained in a README file. Additional details on methods and uses of the datasets are contained within the metadata files associated with each particular dataset.

Tags: bathymetry, digital-elevation-models, elevation, geomorphology, geospatial-datasets, great-lakes, inlandwaters, kalamazoo-county-mi, kalamazoo-river-huc-04050003, lidar, sediment-transport, sedimentation, sonar-methods, topography, usgs-62fe8413d34e3a4442875d10
Organization: Department of the Interior
Astrogeology Science Center Monthly Report, January 1971

Monthly report to show updates on highlights and noteworthy results, publications, conferences and scientific meetings, talks or papers presented, visitors, and mapping progress tables. Includes unpublished works and works in progress.

Tags: astrogeology, astrogeology-branch-history, branch-history, geoscientificinformation, planetary-sciences, usgs-631292bed34e36012efa17fb
Organization: Department of the Interior
Shenandoah Valley Stream Habitat and Riparian Assessments in West Virginia and Virginia, 2021 (ver. 3.0, December 2025)

U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists completed a data collection campaign from the 26th of July to the 13th of August in 2021, using various methods to record geomorphic and habitat indicators throughout streams in the Shenandoah Valley. Field methods included GNSS surveys, gravelometer-based pebble count readings, visual assessments, and riparian analyses. This metadata record contains all recorded observations from the campaign as well as numerous summary metrics to be used in model development. Those "model-ready" data can be found in Typ1_Summary_Metrics.csv in the parent item, while the two child items containing recorded in-channel observations and recorded survey data.
Attached to this release is a data dictionary containing general information about Typ1_Summary_Metrics.csv. This information can be found in the Summary_Metrics_Dictionary.csv file.
The various data collected in this data release fall into the following categories describing both reach average and heterogeneity:
- Study Information
- Internal site ID
- Riparian Statistics
- Monarch Presence
- Riparian assessment score
- Riparian canopy cover
- Active floodplain width
- Bank Statistics
- Bank erosion rates
- Bank vegetation
- Modified BEHI score
- Total to bankfull ratio
- Bank angle
- Total bank height
- Legacy sediment depth
- In-Channel Statistics
- Wetted width
- Average
- Heterogeneity metrics
- Bankfull width
- Average
- Heterogeneity metrics
- Bankfull height
- Pebble count
- Average
- Heterogeneity metrics
- Embeddedness
- Average
- Heterogeneity metrics
- Fine sediment depth
- Average
- Heterogeneity metrics
- Water depth
- Average
- Heterogeneity metrics
- Flow type
- Average
- Heterogeneity metrics
- In-channel canopy cover
- Vegetation coverage
- Average
- Heterogeneity metrics
- Fish habitat coverage
- Average
- Heterogeneity metrics
- Woody debris
- Survey Metrics
- Thalweg sinuosity
- Longitudinal roughness
- Water surface slope
- Cross section
- Bankfull area
- Total channel area
- Total to bankfull area ratio
- Cross sectional roughness
- Wetted perimeter
Additionally, the following child items can be found attached to this data release:
- Recorded Field Observations: All unsummarized data collected by field team members from the Habitat Assessment field teams.
- Recorded Survey Data: All coordinate data from surveying campaign collected by Habitat Assessment field teams.
Any use of trade, firm, or product names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.

Tags: agriculture, chesapeake-bay, dendrogeomorphology, environmental-health-human, erosion, geography, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, gps-measurement, habitat, hydrology, inland-waters, riparian, river-reaches, shenandoah-valley, stream-survey, streams, transect-sampling, u-s-geological-survey, usa, usgs, usgs-62fe82b1d34e3a4442875d07, virginia, west-virginia
Organization: Department of the Interior
Meteorological data at Grand Falls dune field, Arizona, collected from April 2021 to December 2021.

A meteorological station equipped with a rain gauge, atmospheric pressure sensor, temperature and relative humidity sensor, soil moisture sensor, and an anemometer (measuring wind speed, gust speed, and direction) was deployed at Grand Falls dune field, Arizona. This dataset has been collecting data every 15 minutes with the goal to provide context for ripple and dune migration at an active dune field site.

Tags: air-temperature, arizona, climate-data, climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, geoscientificinformation, grand-falls, meteorological-data, navajo-indian-reservation, relative-humidity, usgs-62fe7a6cd34e3a4442875b5b, wind
Organization: Department of the Interior
16) Surface-water diversions from the East Walker, West Walker, and Walker Rivers in Smith Valley and Mason Valley, Nevada, 1931-2020

This tabular dataset is compiled surface-water diversion data from the West Walker River in Smith Valley, Nevada, and the East Walker, West Walker, and Walker Rivers in Mason Valley, Nevada, 1931-2020. Data for 1931-1995 are compiled from Pahl (2000), data for 1996-2011 from C. Garner (Desert Research Institute, written commun., 2020), and data for 2012-2020 from B. Bryan (Walker River Irrigation District, written commun., 2021). Data were compiled directly from data sources without alteration.

Tags: geoscientificinformation, great-basin, inlandwaters, lyon-county, mason-valley, nevada, smith, smith-valley, streamflow, surface-water-diversion, surface-water-non-marine, usgs-62fe6b21d34e3a4442875139, yerington
Organization: Department of the Interior
14) Monitoring well locations and median groundwater-level altitudes used to develop groundwater-level contours for Smith Valley and Mason Valley, Nevada, 1995

This dataset consists of points representing selected monitoring well locations and median groundwater-level altitudes for the water year period 1991-1995 that were used to develop groundwater-level contours in Smith and Mason Valleys, Nevada.  Groundwater-level measurements were collected by the USGS and the Nevada Division of Water Resources (NDWR).

Tags: geoscientificinformation, great-basin, groundwater, inlandwaters, lyon-county, mason-valley, nevada, smith, smith-valley, usgs-62fe6a72d34e3a444287512f, water-level-altitude, yerington
Organization: Department of the Interior
Astrogeology Science Center Monthly Report, February 1971

Monthly report to show updates on highlights and noteworthy results, publications, conferences and scientific meetings, talks or papers presented, visitors, and mapping progress tables. Includes unpublished works and works in progress.

Tags: astrogeology, astrogeology-branch-history, branch-history, geoscientificinformation, planetary-sciences, usgs-6312b6a8d34e36012efa1800
Organization: Department of the Interior
02) Groundwater-level contours for Smith Valley and Mason Valley, Nevada, 1995

These contours represent static groundwater levels based on depth-to-water measurements made at 96 monitoring wells during water years 1991-1995 in Smith Valley and Mason Valley, Nevada. For each monitoring well, the median groundwater-level altitude during the five-year period (1991-1995) was used for developing the groundwater-level contours. Depth-to-water measurements were collected by the USGS and the Nevada Division of Water Resources (NDWR).

Tags: geoscientificinformation, great-basin, groundwater, inlandwaters, lyon-county, mason-valley, nevada, smith, smith-valley, usgs-62fe65cfd34e3a44428750f7, water-level-altitude, yerington
Organization: Department of the Interior
Alaska permafrost characterization: Borehole Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) data collected in 2021

Geophysical measurements were collected by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) at five sites in Interior Alaska in September 2021 for the purposes of imaging permafrost structure and quantifying variations in subsurface moisture content in relation to thaw features. Borehole nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) data were collected at two sites in order to determine liquid water content at depth in shallow boreholes. NMR data were collected in a 2.25 m-deep borehole at the North Star golf course adjacent to one of the ERT profiles, and in another two 1.625 m-deep boreholes adjacent to Big Trail Lake where previous NMR measurements were made in 2019 and 2020.

Tags: active-layer-thickness, alaska, bonanza-creek, borehole-nuclear-magnetic-resonance, disturbance, electrical-resistivity-imaging, electrical-resistivity-tomography, environment, fairbanks-north-star-borough, field-monitoring-stations, geology-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center, geoscientificinformation, gggsc, hydrologic-processes, land-change-science-program, landcarbon-program, permafrost, soil-moisture, soil-temperature, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-62fe5acad34e3a44428750c6
Organization: Department of the Interior
Alaska permafrost characterization: Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT) data collected in 2021

Geophysical measurements were collected by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) at five sites in Interior Alaska in September 2021 for the purposes of imaging permafrost structure and quantifying variations in subsurface moisture content in relation to thaw features. Electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) measurements were made along transects 110 - 222 m in length to quantify subsurface permafrost characteristics. ERT transects were collected across a fireline boundary within the Bonanza Creek Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) site where repeat measurements have been made since 2014; across and adjacent to two thermokarst lakes, Vault Lake and Goldstream Lake; and along two profiles at the North Star golf course in Fairbanks, Alaska. Models of electrical resistivity produced from these data revealed the distribution of frozen and thawed soil to depths of 10-40 m below the surface. Manual permafrost-probe measurements of thaw depths were collected at set intervals along each ERT transect used for comparison to the geophysical measurements, except at the North Star golf course where shallow permafrost was absent.

Tags: active-layer-thickness, alaska, bonanza-creek, borehole-nuclear-magnetic-resonance, disturbance, electrical-resistivity-imaging, electrical-resistivity-tomography, environment, fairbanks-north-star-borough, field-monitoring-stations, geology-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center, geoscientificinformation, gggsc, hydrologic-processes, land-change-science-program, landcarbon-program, permafrost, soil-moisture, soil-temperature, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-62fe55a6d34e3a44428750a5
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital elevation models (DEMs) of beach topography and near-shore bathymetry of Minnesota Point near the Duluth Entry of Lake Superior, Duluth, MN, October 2021

This dataset represents post-nourishment digital elevation models (DEMs) of the beach topography and near-shore bathymetry of Minnesota Point near the Duluth Entry of Lake Superior, Duluth, Minnesota. The Lidar DEM has a 1-meter (m; 3.28084 feet) cell size and was created from a LAS dataset of terrestrial light detection and ranging (lidar) data representing the beach topography. The topobathy DEMs have a 10-meter (m; 32.8084 feet) or a 5-meter (m; 16.4042 feet) cell size, and were created from a combined LAS dataset of lidar data representing the beach topography, and single-beam and multibeam sonar data representing the bathymetry. The survey area extends approximately 0.85 kilometers (0.5 miles) offshore, for an approximate 1.87 square kilometer surveyed area. Lidar data were collected using a boat mounted Velodyne VLP-16 unit. Multibeam sonar data were collected using a Norbit integrated wide band multibeam system compact (iWBMSc) sonar unit. Single-beam sonar data were collected using a Ceescope sonar unit. All elevation data were collected October 5-11, 2021. Methodology similar to Wagner, D.M., Lund, J.W., and Sanks, K.M., 2020 was used.

Tags: bathymetry, bathymetry-and-elevation, digital-elevation-models, duluth, elevation, great-lakes, inlandwaters, lake-superior, lidar, limnology, southwestern-lake-superior, superior, usgs-62fe47b8d34e3a4442874cc3
Organization: Department of the Interior
American alligator demographic and harvest data from Georgetown County, South Carolina, 1979–2017

The American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) is a species of ecological and economic importance in the southeastern United States. Within South Carolina, alligators are subject to private and public harvest programs, as well as nuisance removal. These management activities can have different impacts across alligator size classes that may not be apparent through widely-used monitoring techniques such as nightlight surveys. We synthesized multiple datasets within an integrated population model (IPM)  to estimate size class-specific survival and abundance estimates, that would not be estimable through separate, non-integrated modeling frameworks. The IPM framework included a multistate mark-recapture-recovery model that used mark-recapture-recovery data from the Tom Yawkey Wildlife Center and growth transition probabilities that were estimated outside of the IPM framework. The IPM also included a state-space count model, which used nightlight survey counts of alligtaors from two survey routes: 1) Great Pee Dee and Waccamaw Rivers; and 2) South Santee Rivers. The IPM modeling framework also used mean clutch size data from the Tom Yawkey Wildlife Center and public and private harvest data within the state model. Lastly, we evaluated the effects of capture effort on capture probability, as well as the effects of water temperature and relative water level on count detection probability, and provide all covariate datasets. Our IPM framework determined that size class-specific survival rates were relatively high for all non-hatchling size classes, and abundance trends differed between the two nightlight survey sites.

Tags: alligator-mississippiensis, bayesian, biota, crocodilian, ecology, georgetown, harvest, hierarchical-model, integrated-population-model, pee-dee, population-dynamics, santee, south-atlantic, south-carolina, south-carolina-coastal, state-uncertainty, usgs-62fd7de6d34e3a444286da07, waccamaw
Organization: Department of the Interior
Spring 2022 Arcata to Eureka California, Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) experiment

These data are from a 2-month long Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) Experiment in Arcata, CA, that was conducted jointly by the U.S. Geological Survey, Cal Poly Humboldt University, and OptaSense Inc. An OptaSense QuantX DAS interrogator was installed in the Arcata Police Station and connected to a fiber owned by Vero Communications that runs from Arcata to Eureka

Tags: arcata-california, biota, distributed-acoustic-sensing, earthquakes, eureka-california, gorda, usgs-62fd776fd34e3a444286cd54
Organization: Department of the Interior
Reported and inventoried crop type and irrigated acreage in Escambia County, Florida, 1982-2021

A table summarizing the inventoried acreage by crop type and irrigation system was compiled for Escambia County, Florida. The irrigated acreage totals were derived from analyses of satellite and aerial imagery.  Crop types and irrigation system types were verified during field trips that started in May 2021 and concluded in August 2021. In addition, the table provides acreage totals by crop type reported by the U.S. Department of Commerce for 1982, the U.S. Department of Agriculture from 1987 through 2017, and Florida Statewide Agricultural Irrigation Demand for 2018-19.

Tags: crop-type, environment, escambia-county, farming, florida, florida-department-of-agriculture-and-consumer-services, groundwater, image-collections-aerial-photography, inlandwaters, irrigation-type, land-use, land-use-classification-codes, northwest-florida-water-management-district, surface-water, usgs-62ffaa30d34e37cba73e1e85
Organization: Department of the Interior
Habitat suitability index for greater sage-grouse during the late brood rearing life stage, Nevada and California

These data represent habitat selection of greater sage-grouse during the late portion of the brood rearing process.

Tags: adaptive-habitat-selection, chick-survival, ecological-trap, ecosystems, fires, great-basin, habitat-functional-response, human-impacts, maladaptive-habitat-selection, native-species, resource-selection-function, shrubland-ecosystems, usgs-62fd72ffd34e3a444286cd4d, western-united-states
Organization: Department of the Interior
Sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) scale of effect for Greater Sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) population trends in southwest Wyoming, USA 2003-2019

The distance within which populations respond to features in a landscape (scale of effect) can indicate how disturbance and management may affect wildlife. Using annual counts of male Greater Sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) attending 584 leks in southwest Wyoming (2003-2019) and estimates of sagebrush cover from the Rangeland Condition Monitoring Assessment and Projection (RCMAP), we used a scale selection approach to jointly estimate the scale of effect and the effect of sagebrush cover in the surrounding landscape for sage-grouse population trends. We estimated these parameters using a state-space model fit with a Bayesian approach. Data formatting necessary for this analysis produced data stored in two lists, one for model constants (nimbleconstants_sg_wlci.txt, including number of years, number of sites [leks], number of scales, number of visits, indicators for site and year, and number of detection parameters) and one for model data (nimbledata_sg_wlci.txt, including lek counts/surveys in both long- and array-format, a matrix for detection covariates, an array for sagebrush cover [scaled], and unscaled arrays for sagebrush, ordinal date, and time since sunrise).

Tags: biota, density-dependence, landscape, population-dynamics, scale, southwest-wyoming, united-states-of-america, usgs-62fd4103d34e3a444286a0d4, wyoming, wyoming-landscape-conservation-initiative
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geomorphic Reference Reach Data for the Kalamazoo River Basin, Michigan Area of Concern (ver 2.0, October 2024)

The Kalamazoo River Area of Concern (AOC) in Michigan has multiple dams in various stages of removal. Following dam removal, river restoration activities will occur in impacted reaches. Hydrogeomorphic data from relatively undisturbed and hydraulically stable river reaches are commonly used to inform the design parameters of river restoration projects. Reference reaches should be selected that operate under similar prevailing boundary conditions as target restoration reaches, including water and sediment regime, valley and channel slope, valley confinement, bank heights, and riparian vegetation. The datasets contained in this data release represent the results of a geomorphic assessment of the Kalamazoo River to identify and characterize reference reaches that are potential analogues for dam removal and restoration sites in various channel and valley settings along the Kalamazoo River from the city of Kalamazoo downstream through the towns of Plainwell and Allegan. The reference reach data include a digital elevation model, channel and floodplain cross-sections, a longitudinal profile, mapped hydrogeomorphic units and large woody debris, and substrate size data. Reference reaches are nested as separate child items on this page. As of late 2024, data from five potential reference reaches have been published: one reach upstream of Plainwell, MI, contained in the child item, "Geomorphic Reference Reach Data for the Kalamazoo River upstream of Plainwell, Michigan, 2021"; and four reaches between Trowbridge Dam and Allegan, MI, all contained in the child item, "Geomorphic Reference Reach Data for the Kalamazoo River Basin, Michigan Area of Concern: Kalamazoo River Between Trowbridge Dam and Allegan, Michigan, 2023." Additional reaches may be added to the dataset in the future.

Tags: bathymetry, digital-elevation-models, elevation, geomorphology, geospatial-datasets, great-lakes, inlandwaters, kalamazoo-county-mi, kalamazoo-river-huc-04050003, lidar, sediment-transport, sedimentation, sonar-methods, topography, usgs-62fd578cd34e3a444286c78e
Organization: Department of the Interior
Sediment-size distribution data from the Upper Colorado River, April 6-8, 2022

This child page contains sediment-size distribution data collected from five sites on the Upper Colorado River, Colorado, during April 6-8, 2022. The five sites selected for monitoring were located at the Pumphouse Recreation Area, Radium Recreation Site, State Bridge, above Catamount, and below Sweetwater Creek. Pebble counts were performed at each of the five monitoring sites to document sediment-size distributions. All the sediment-size distribution data are presented in CSV files, with one file for each monitoring site.

Tags: bedload-transport, biota, colorado, cross-section, eagle-county, geomorphology, sediment-transport, upper-colorado-river, usgs-634eab58d34e47431c1543b7
Organization: Department of the Interior