AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2016 Site 5414 land-water classification data

Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring efforts to determine the efficacy of these efforts. The Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) was developed to assist in a multiple-reference approach that uses aspects of hydrogeomorphic functional assessments and probabilistic sampling for monitoring. The CRMS program includes a suite of approximately 390 sites that encompass the range of hydrological and ecological conditions for each stratum. As part of CRMS, land and water classifications are created from Digital Orthophoto Quarter Quadrangles (DOQQs) approximately every three years at all CRMS sites. A DOQQ is a raster image in which displacement in the image caused by sensor orientation and terrain relief has been removed and combines the image characteristics of a photo with geometric qualities of a map. The DOQQs generated for this project consist of 2016 Color Infrared (CIR) Digital Imagery. These images were classified into land and water categories using a threshold of the near infrared (NIR) band, followed by supervised and unsupervised classification.  Initial classification results are then reviewed by multiple image analysts to identify and manually recode errors. The final land-water classifications are intended to serve as both geographic and quantitative assessments of landscape composition on the date of acquisition. Three previous assessments have been conducted (2005, 2008, and 2012). Once the program creates enough data points for statistical analyses, these data will be used for land area change rate calculation.

Tags: alteration-of-wetland-habitats, cartography, coastal, coastal-louisiana, crms, doqq, emergent-wetland, forested-wetland, geographic-information-system, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-water, louisiana, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, scrub-shrub-wetland, state-of-louisiana, usgs-5b5f5462e4b006a11f66eb90, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Water-quality data from Bell County, Texas, 1978-2017

Between 2012 and 2015, water-quality samples were collected by the USGS in cooperation with the Clearwater Underground Water Conservation District (CUWCD), the Bell County Adaptive Management Coalition (BCAMC), and other entities, with a primary goal of characterizing the groundwater resources in Bell County, Texas.  Water resources associated with the northern segment of the Edwards aquifer near the Village of Salado were of primary interest, but water resources in the Trinity aquifer were also investigated to a lesser degree (the assessment focused on a springs complex in the Village of Salado). Data associated with other water quality samples collected by the USGS in Bell County during 1978 to 2017, outside of the cooperative agreements with CUWCD and the BCAMC, were also included in this data release. Most samples were analyzed for pesticides, nutrients, major and trace elements, and isotopes (strontium-87, oxygen-18 and deuterium in water, and nitrogen-15 and oxygen-18 in nitrate).

Tags: bell-county, edwards-aquifer, groundwater, karst, spring, texas, trinity-aquifer, usa, usgs-5b7473dde4b0f5d5787ed23d, village-of-salado, williamson-county
Organization: Department of the Interior
Laboratory Assessment of Colloidal Borescope and Heat-Pulse Flowmeters in Measuring Horizontal Flow in Fractured-Rock Simulators

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), at the request of the U.S. Army Environmental Command (USAEC), evaluated the capabilities of two borehole technologies to measure horizontal groundwater velocity and direction of flow in a parallel-plate fractured-rock simulator. A colloidal borescope flowmeter (HB) and a heat-pulse flowmeter (HH) were deployed in 4-inch and 6-inch inner-diameter simulated uncased wells that spanned 0.39- and 1.0-inch apertures with simulated groundwater velocities ranging from 2 to 958 feet per day. Measurements were made at the USGS Hydrologic Instrumentation Facility in the Hydraulics Laboratory and the Indianapolis office of the USGS Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Water Science Center. Ten measurements were made with the HB in the 1-inch fracture aperture intersecting a 6-inch inner-diameter well. Seven measurements were made in the 0.39-inch fracture aperture intersecting a 4-inch inner diameter well and six were made in the 0.39-inch aperture 6-inch inner-diameter well. All measurements were within the velocity limits specified by the manufacturer. Results from these measurements using the HB can be found in the child item, 'Experimental Results for Colloidal Borescope Flowmeter'. Thirty-seven measurements were made with the HH in the 1-inch fracture aperture intersecting a 6-inch inner-diameter well. Eight measurements were made in the 0.39-inch fracture aperture intersecting a 4-inch inner diameter well and eight were made in the 0.39-inch aperture 6-inch inner-diameter well. The tested velocity range (2 to 958 ft/d) was similar to the range examined with the HB (34 to 958 ft/d) but exceeded the range suggested by the manufacturer (0.5-100 ft/d). Results from these measurements using the HH can be found in the child item, 'Experimental Results for Heat-Pulse Flowmeter'. Seven measurements were made with the HB using various vertical placements relative to the fracture. Results from these vertical measurements using the HB can be found in the child item, 'Experimental Results for Vertical Placement of Colloidal Borescope Flowmeter'. The flowmeter systems used in this study are described in Bayless and others (2011), available at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-6592.2010.01324.x.

Tags: fracture-geologic, geoscientificinformation, groundwater-flow, groundwater-movement, hydrologic-processes, laboratory-experiments, usgs-5b741e95e4b0f5d5787e6d5b, usgs-hydrologic-instrumentation-facility, usgs-ohio-kentucky-indiana-water-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Supplemental Data for: Drilling, Construction, Water Chemistry, Water Levels, and Regional Potentiometric Surface of the Upper Carbonate-Rock Aquifer in Clark County, Nevada, 2009-2015 (1:500,000)

This USGS data release contains the regional potentiometric contours representing the regional potentiometric surface for Clark County, Nevada, 2009-2015. Contours represent the groundwater-level altitude with a 250-foot contour interval and were created from groundwater elevations from 58 wells and surface elevations from 5 springs.

Tags: clark-county, geoscientificinformation, groundwater, groundwater-level, inlandwaters, nevada, usgs-5b733b77e4b0f5d5787c6042
Organization: Department of the Interior
Attributes for NHDPlus Version 2.1 Catchments and Modified Routing of Upstream Watersheds for the Conterminous United States: PRISM Monthly Average Temperature (degrees Celsius), 2016-2017

These tabular data sets represent mean monthly temperature (degrees Celsius) data from 800 meter resolution PRISM for the years 2016 and 2017 compiled for two spatial components of the NHDPlus version 2.1 data suite (NHDPlusv2) for the conterminous United States; 1) individual reach catchments and 2) reach catchments accumulated upstream through the river network. This dataset can be linked to the NHDPlus version 2 data suite by the unique identifier COMID. The source data for mean monthly temperature (degrees Celsius) from 800 meter resolution resolution PRISM data was produced by the PRISM Group at Oregon State University. Units are degrees degrees Celsius. Reach catchment information characterizes data at the local scale. Reach catchments accumulated upstream through the river network characterizes cumulative upstream conditions.  Network-accumulated values are computed using two methods, 1) divergence-routed and 2) total cumulative drainage area. Both approaches use a modified routing database to navigate the NHDPlus reach network to aggregate (accumulate) the metrics derived from the reach catchment scale. (Schwarz and Wieczorek, 2018).

Tags: 30-year-1971-2000-mean-annual-maximum-temperature, catchment, inlandwaters, monthly-average-temperature, nawqa, nhdplus, prism, sparrow, usgs-5b73267ce4b0f5d5787c5f6e
Organization: Department of the Interior
Attributes for NHDPlus Version 2.1 Catchments and Modified Routing of Upstream Watersheds for the Conterminous United States: PRISM Monthly Average Precipitation (millimeters), 2016-2017

These tabular data sets represent mean monthly precipitation (millimeters) data from 800-meter PRISM data for the years 2016 and 2017 compiled for two spatial components of the NHDPlus version 2 data suite (NHDPlusv2) for the conterminous United States; 1) individual reach catchments and 2) reach catchments accumulated upstream through the river network. This dataset can be linked to the NHDPlus version 2 data suite by the unique identifier COMID. The source data for mean monthly precipitation (Celsius) from 800-meter PRISM data was produced by the PRISM Group at Oregon State University. Units are degrees Celsius. Reach catchment information characterizes data at the local scale. Reach catchments accumulated upstream through the river network characterizes cumulative upstream conditions.  Network-accumulated values are computed using two methods, 1) divergence-routed and 2) total cumulative drainage area. Both approaches use a modified routing database to navigate the NHDPlus reach network to aggregate (accumulate) the metrics derived from the reach catchment scale. (Schwarz and Wieczorek, 2018).

Tags: 30-year-1971-2000-mean-annual-maximum-precipitation, catchment, inlandwaters, monthly-average-precipitation, nawqa, nhdplus, prism, sparrow, usgs-5b7322e2e4b0f5d5787c5ef8
Organization: Department of the Interior
Agricultural Wells for the Rio Grande transboundary integrated hydrologic model and water-availability analysis, New Mexico and Texas, United States, and Northern Chihuahua, Mexico

This point vector dataset represents 3,959 agricultural well locations and attributes used as input data for the Rio Grande Transboundary Integrated Hydrologic Model (RGTIHM). Attributes include well construction information, historic water use information, and flags indicating assumptions made for modeling purposes. Data were compiled from various sources; see Supplemental Information for details.

Tags: agricultural-well, aquifer, caballo-reservoir, chihuahua, el-paso, elephant-butte-reservoir, elevation, geology, geoscientificinformation, groundwater-pumping, groundwater-system, hydraulic-properties, hydrogeology, hydrology, hydrostratigraphy, inlandwaters, las-cruces, new-mexico, rio-grande, texas, transboundary, usgs-5b929dafe4b0702d0e80a0b4
Organization: Department of the Interior
North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat) Master Sample and Grid-Based Sampling Frame

The NABat sampling frame is a grid-based finite-area frame spanning Canada, the United States, and Mexico consisting of 10-km by 10-km (100-km2) grid cell sample units for the continental United States, Canada, and Alaska and 5- by 5-km (25km2) for Hawaii and Puerto Rico.  This grain size is biologically appropriate given the scale of movement of most bat species, which routinely travel many kilometers each night between roosts and foraging areas and along foraging routes.  A Generalized Random-Tessellation Stratified (GRTS) Survey Design draw was added to the sample units from the raw sampling grids (https://doi.org/10.5066/P9M00P17).  This sampling design produces an ordered list of units such that any ordered subset of that list is also randomized and spatially balanced.

Tags: alaska, biota, canada, ecosystem-monitoring, hawaii, location, mexico, puerto-rico, united-states, usgs-5b731476e4b0f5d5787c5d9c
Organization: Department of the Interior
Positive Openness for North Carolina by HUC8

Rasters of positive openness for the 53 hydrologic unit code (HUC) 8 watersheds in the state of North Carolina. Positive openness uses a line-of-sight approach to measure the surrounding eight zenith angles viewed above the landscape surface out to a specified distance. The central cells gets and average of the eight angles.  An angle of 90 degrees would indicate a flat surface, while angles less than 90 degrees indicate a concave surface. Positive openness was calculated with the Relief Visualization Toolbox (https://iaps.zrc-sazu.si/en/rvt#v, Kokalji et al., 2011; Zakšek et al., 2011) using light detection and ranging (lidar) derived digital elevation models (DEM) with a resolution of 10 ft. (~3m). A length scale of 60 ft.(6 pixels) was used to search surrounding terrain elevations in the eight cardinal directions.

Tags: geomorphology, incision, positive-openness, terrain-analysis, usgs-5b72fcf1e4b0f5d5787c5830
Organization: Department of the Interior
Slope Area Index (SAI) of North Carolina

Slope-Area Index (SAI) is used to predict erosion along a stream channel. It is a function of channel slope, and drainage area upstream raised to the exponent used in equations for flood frequency of 2-percent exceedance floods. The guidelines for use of the coefficient from 2-percent exceedance came from meetings with cooperators describing bankfull discharge as a 2-percent exceedance.
The Slope-Area Index, as defined by Cartwright and Diehl, 2017, is calculated as:
SAI = S *  A^b (1)
where
SAI is the slope-area index,
S is the channel slope,
A is the drainage area (the number of cells draining into the target cell), and b is a user-specified exponent. 
The flood frequency report for NC (Weaver and others, 2009) defines the regional regression equations for exceedance flows for rural basins in the Southeast. The 2-percent chance exceedance flow raises the Drainage Area uses a 0.60 coefficient for all the physiographic provinces other than Small Urban basins in the Piedmont.
The Urban equations drainage area coefficients for 2-percent exceedance flow (Feaster and others, 2014) were used for Piedmont (HLR2) urban basins. Urban basins were defined as catchments which were greater than 10% developed (urban). 
For piedmont (HLR2, small urban le 3 dasqmi and pcturb gt 10%) SAI = slope*da^0.8
For piedmont (HLR2, small urban dasqmi gt 3 and le 436 and pcturb ge 10%) SAI = slope * da^.5

Tags: drainage-area, elevation, geomorphology, sediment, slope, usgs-5b72ee9fe4b0f5d5787c5723
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geomorphon Common Forms in North Carolina

The 10 most common geomorphic features are identified for the state of North Carolina using Lidar derived DEMs at 30 ft. resolution. This product uses r.geomorphon, a feature in GRASS GIS, to calculate the geomorphic features for the state. The tool requires a user input length scale and slope for calculation. This dataset uses 60 cells, or 1800 ft. as the length scale and two different slope values of 1 degree (Blue Ridge/Piedmont ecoregion) and 0.0001 degree (Coastal Plain ecoregion).

Tags: geomorphology, geomorphon, terrain-analysis, usgs-5b72ee50e4b0f5d5787c5720
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hatchery-reared Roundtail Chub Data, Arizona USA

These data were compiled as part of a larger study to evaluate post-stocking survival of hatchery-reared Roundtail Chub. We conducted a two year study (Dec. 2015 – Mar. 2017) in the upper Verde River at the Burnt Ranch stocking location near Paulden, Arizona. Young of year Roundtail Chub were acquired from the Arizona Research and Conservation Center in Cornville, Arizona. Passive integrated transponder (PIT) tags (BioMark, 12.5 mm 134.2 kHz FDX) were implanted into Roundtail Chub each year (n = 333, Year 1; n = 2177, Year 2)  prior to stocking. Each year, fish were measured (total length, TL, mm) before release (reflected in Pre-Stocking data table). We used two methods to recapture stocked fish, one passive and one active. Both portable, submersible PIT antennas and tow barge electrofishing were used to detect fish after being stocked. In both years of our study, antenna arrays were placed downstream and upstream of the stocking site before fish were released and then maintained for approximately two and a half months, while electrofishing methods were implemented at arbitrary intervals within three months of the stocking event (reflected in Recaps By Gear and Recaps By Both Gears Sheets). In Year 2 of sampling, we assessed how effective submersible antennas were at detecting recently released fish from the field site by closing off the study area with fyke nets prior to Roundtail Chub release (reflected in Fyke Net Captures vs Antennas data table). Both submersible antennas and electrofishing methods were used to evaluate which method performed better at detecting fish after stocking.  Antenna performance was also evaluated by size and the width of channel each antenna covered (reflected in Antenna Det Channel Length sheet). Electrofishing methods were largely conducted to assess survival and condition of recaptured fish. Roundtail Chub were passively monitored by portable, rectangular submersible PIT antennas (Marsh and Associates, LLC) from time of stocking to March. Antennas are battery-powered and were programmed to continuously record the date and time of contact as well as PIT tag numbers. Multiple electrofishing efforts were also randomly conducted between December and mid-March of each year to actively monitor fish after release. The site was continuously sampled from the most downstream to upstream antennas with pulsed DC using a generator-powered pulsator (Smith Root 5.0 GPP with two anodes) electrofisher mounted in a towable barge (Smith Root model SR-7). All Roundtail Chub were captured, measured (total length, TL, mm), and weighed (g).

Tags: antenna, arizona, biological-monitoring, biological-sampling, biota, burnt-ranch, capture-recapture-studies, channel-wiidth, data-release, detections, electrofishing, field-sampling, fish, fish-measurements, fish-recapture, fyke-net, hatchery-reared-roundtail-chub, measurement, passive-integrated-transponder-tags, paulden, pit-tags, post-stocking-survival, roundtail-chub, survey, survey-equipment, survey-methods, survival, upper-verde-river, usgs-5b71d158e4b0f5d57879f4fd, verde-river
Organization: Department of the Interior
Chronic toxicity of 4-Nonylphenol to two unionid mussels in water-only exposures

Chronic (28-d) toxicity of 4-nonylphenol (4-NP) to two commonly tested species of mussels: fatmucket (Lampsilis siliquoidea) and rainbow mussel (Villosa iris).

Tags: biota, chronic-toxicity, fatmucket-mussel, freshwater-mussel, organic-pollutant, rainbow-mussel, usgs-5b719c83e4b0f5d57879efb6
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geomorphological Features of North Carolina

For these three statewide datasets of North Carolina, information was extracted and post processed from lidar derived digital elevation models (DEMs) at 10 ft. and 30ft. resolution. Datasets are currently used for the project SPARROW Modeling for North Carolina Watersheds, but have the potential to be used in numerous applications. Slope area index (SAI), the ten most common geomorphons (i.e. geomorphologic feature), and topographic openness are included in this data release and should be utilized based on user needs.

Tags: biota, geomorphology, landscape-change, topographic-openness, usgs-5b719526e4b0f5d57879ef08
Organization: Department of the Interior
Iron fouling associated with drainage from roadway sites constructed with rock-fill in New Hampshire, USA

This data release contains files that are associated with the publication "Understanding and predicting iron fouling associated with drainage from roadway sites constructed with rock-fill in New Hampshire, USA".  Each zipped file contains a data table or raster file and an associated metadata file.  IronFoulingCutFillData.zip contains a .csv file and .xml metadata file related to the roadcut and rock-fill locations used to develop a statistical model to predict the probability of iron fouling at roadway sites constructed with rock-fill in New Hampshire.  Water_Quality_Measurements.zip contains a .csv file and .xml metadata file for water quality field measurements made at drainage areas from a subset of the rock-fill locations in the IronFoulingCutFillData files.  The NHIronFoulingProb.zip file contains a geotiff raster of the predicted probability of iron fouling occurring at any location within New Hampshire where rock-fill from that location is used and contacts drainage.  This is the output from the statistical model prediction.  NHIronFoulingProb.zip also contains an .xml metadata file.  
This data release contains a raster of the probability of obtaining 40 gallons per minute from a 400-foot-deep well in New Hampshire and is from the USGS Professional Paper 1660 (Moore and others, 2002).  The raster originally released with the publication contains categorical ranges of the probability values and not the actual probability values.  These probabilities are a variable in the statistical model developed to predict iron fouling associated with drainage from roadway sites constructed with rock-fill in New Hampshire.

Tags: imagerybasemapsearthcover, inlandwaters, transportation, usgs-5b719490e4b0f5d57879eef6
Organization: Department of the Interior
Application of manure phosphorus generated by grazing cattle to grazing land within the Pacific drainages of the United States (2012)

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is developing SPARROW models (SPAtially  
Related Regressions On Watershed Attributes) to assess the transport of contaminants (e.g., nutrients) through the Pacific drainages of the United States (the Columbia River basin; the coastal drainages of Washington, Oregon, and California; the Klamath River basin; the Central Valley of California, and the west slopes of the Sierra Nevada Mountains). SPARROW relates instream water quality measurements to spatially referenced characteristics of watersheds, including contaminant sources and the factors influencing terrestrial and aquatic transport. Cattle manure applied to grazing land is a potential source of nutrients delivered to streams.  The spatial data set “Application of manure phosphorus generated by grazing cattle to grazing land within the Pacific drainages of the United States (2012)” represents an estimate of the amount of manure phosphorus generated by grazing cattle in 2012 that was applied to grazing land within the counties in which those cattle were located. This data set was created by disaggregating the manure phosphorus generated by grazing cattle within each county to the potential grazing land within that county.

Tags: agriculture, environment, farming, inland-waters, usgs-5b71945de4b0f5d57879eeef
Organization: Department of the Interior
Application of manure phosphorus generated by non-cattle livestock to farmland within the Pacific drainages of the United States (2012)

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is developing SPARROW models (SPAtially Related Regressions On Watershed Attributes) to assess the transport of contaminants (e.g., nutrients) through the Pacific drainages of the United States (the Columbia River basin; the coastal drainages of Washington, Oregon, and California; the Klamath River basin; the Central Valley of California, and the west slopes of the Sierra Nevada Mountains). SPARROW relates instream water quality measurements to spatially referenced characteristics of watersheds, including contaminant sources and the factors influencing terrestrial and aquatic transport. Livestock manure used as fertilizer on farmland is a potential source of nutrients delivered to streams.  The spatial data set “Application of manure phosphorus generated by non-cattle livestock to farmland within the Pacific drainages of the United States (2012)” represents an estimate of the amount of manure phosphorus generated by non-cattle livestock (such as hogs, poultry, sheep, and horses) in 2012 that was applied to farmland within the counties in which those animals were located. This data set was created by estimating the manure phosphorus generated by non-cattle livestock in 2012 within each county and disaggregating that amount to the farmland within that county.

Tags: agriculture, environment, farming, inland-waters, usgs-5b719413e4b0f5d57879eeec
Organization: Department of the Interior