AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Water chemistry and biological data of Rainbow Trout following aquatic exposure to weathered wildland fire retardants after application to substrate

We investigated whether the length of time fire chemical weathers on a terrestrial substrate before mixing into aquatic environments alters the chemical’s toxicity when encountered by juvenile rainbow trout. We also looked at whether the type of substrate where the chemical is applied affects its toxicity to juvenile rainbow trout after mixing into water. Two fire chemicals (Phos Chek LC95A-R and Phos Chek MVP-Fx) were applied to four substrate media (low organic content soil, high organic content soil, duff, and gravel) and allowed to age on the substrate for 7, 14, 28 or 56 days. At the end of the assigned weathering period, 96-hour assays were conducted by adding water to the dosed substrate and stocking each experimental unit with juvenile rainbow trout. The fish were added to the experimental units after allowing the substrate to settle for 60 minutes. Water chemistry parameters were measured at the initiation of each assay, including water temperature, dissolved oxygen, specific conductance, pH, alkalinity, hardness, and total ammonia. Observations on mortality of rainbow trout were made daily and dead fish were removed upon discovery. The experiment concluded 96 hours after fish entered the experiment.

Tags: ammonia, biota, boone-county-missouri, columbia-environmental-research-center, ecotoxicology, fire-suppression, fires, fish, usgs-65158704d34e469cabfcd50f
Organization: Department of the Interior
CMIP6 LOCA2 Monthly Water Balance Model Projections 1950-2100 for the Contiguous United States

A monthly water-balance model (MWBM) is applied to simulate components of the water balance for the period 1950-2100 under ssp245, ssp370, and ssp585 scenarios for the Contiguous United States. The statistically downscaled LOCA2 temperature and precipitation projections from 27 GCMs from the Climate Model Intercomparison Program Phase 6 (CMIP6) are use as input to the water balance model. This data set supports the USGS National Climate Change Viewer (ver. 2).
The statistically downscaled data set is: 
CMIP6-LOCA2: Localized Constructed Analogs (Pierce et al. 2023, bias corrected by a modified version of Livneh et al. 2013)
Users interested in the downscaled temperature and precipitation files are referred to the data set home page:
LOCA: https://loca.ucsd.edu
Bias correction data set: https://cirrus.ucsd.edu/~pierce/nonsplit_precip/
The 27 included GCMs are:
ACCESS-CM2, ACCESS-ESM1-5, AWI-CM-1-1-MR, BCC-CSM2-MR, CESM2-LENS, CNRM-CM6-1, CNRM-CM6-1-HR, CNRM-ESM2-1, CanESM5, EC-Earth3, EC-Earth3-Veg, FGOALS-g3, GFDL-CM4, GFDL-ESM4, HadGEM3-GC31-LL, HadGEM3-GC31-MM, INM-CM4-8, INM-CM5-0, IPSL-CM6A-LR, KACE-1-0-G, MIROC6, MPI-ESM1-2-HR, MPI-ESM1-2-LR, MRI-ESM2-0, NorESM2-LM, NorESM2-MM, TaiESM1
There are 72 simulations in total (ssp245=24, ssp370=23, ssp585=25). While the LOCA2 data set supports multiple realizations per model; one MWBM realization per model is provided herein (predominately r1i1p1f1, except when this realization was not available).

Tags: cmip6, effects-of-climate-change, evaporation, hydrologic-processes, loca2, runoff, snow-and-ice-cover, soil-moisture, usgs-65148dccd34e469cabfcb6f9
Organization: Department of the Interior
Illinois River basin silver carp and bighead carp eDNA gradient study from 2015

This data was collected by the US Fish and Wildlife Service to see if environmental DNA (eDNA) varied across pools and within pools in the Illinois River basin. The data was collected in 2015 from three different habitat types: shoreline, main channel, and bays. The resulting data were then analyzed using an occupancy model.

Tags: biota, environment, environmental-dna, fish, invasive-species, statistical-modeling, usgs-651c64acd34e44db0e2ce1c3
Organization: Department of the Interior
Bibliography of hydrological and ecological research in the Great Basin terminal lakes, USA

This database contains literature citations and associated abstracts pertaining to the ecology and hydrology of terminal lakes in the Great Basin region of the western United States. This is not meant to be an exhaustive list, nor did we perform a systematic meta-analysis; rather, literature records were included based on topical relevance.

Tags: biota, birds, ecosystems, environment, great-basin, inlandwaters, limnology, saline-lakes, surface-water-non-marine, terminal-lakes, usgs-65148339d34e469cabfcb673, waterbirds, western-united-states, worldwide
Organization: Department of the Interior
San Diego River Shot Hole Borer Study (ver. 2.0, August 2024)

Data presented are results of vegetation sampling conducted in 2019-20 and 2023 in 24 survey plots to document the status of infestation by shot hole borers (Euwallacea sp.) on the riparian vegetation at the San Diego River. This dataset presents location, percent cover of different vegetation types, and number of seedlings for each survey plot. In addition, for each tree and sapling in each plot we present species, size, tree status (live, resprouting, recently dead from shot hole borer, or dead from another cause or unknown cause), infestation status (infested by shot hole borer, not infested by shot hole borer, or infestation not confirmed as shot hole borer), and crown condition. For every tree we also present location, tree tag number, and density of shot hole borer entrance holes.

Tags: beetle, biota, field-inventory-and-monitoring, infestation, kuroshio-shot-hole-borer, san-diego-county, san-diego-river, shot-hole-borer, southern-california, usgs-65147807d34e469cabfcb60b, vegetation, wetland-ecosystems
Organization: Department of the Interior
Topographic survey data of Oxbow Reservoir, Placer County, California, October 2022

This portion of the data release presents topographic survey data of portions of Oxbow Reservoir in Placer County, California. These data were collected on 26 October 2022, when the reservoir was partially de-watered to allow repairs to the dam infrastructure following the Mosquito Fire. Although the gates of the dam were open during this time, significant portions of the reservoir site remained inaccessible to surveyors due to the continued flow of the Middle Fork American River. Consequently, these data cover approximately 50 percent of the total surface area of the reservoir at full pool. The data were collected using two RTK GNSS backpack rovers which were referenced to a temporary GNSS base station occupying a fixed control point ("CP512") located less than 1 kilometer from the survey area. Precise coordinates for the GNSS base station were derived using the National Geodetic Survey (NGS) Online Positioning User Service (OPUS). The GNSS data are presented as a comma-delimited text file.

Tags: alabama-bar, bathymetry-and-elevation, chmrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, elevation, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, middle-fork-american-river, oxbow-bar, oxbow-reservoir, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, placer-county, rubicon-river, state-of-california, topographic-mapping, topographic-maps, topography, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-65135fb4d34eeedefc13c1fc
Organization: Department of the Interior
Laboratory fluorescence and total dissolved nitrogen measurements for surface water samples collected from the Rio Grande during a 24-hr time period near Albuquerque, New Mexico

Here, we present data supporting temporal variability and sources of PFAS in the Rio Grande through an arid urban area using high-frequency sampling and novel samplers. Data are compiled into two tables: 1) full fluorescence spectra in vectorized format, and 2) summary file of concentrations of total dissolved nitrogen and commonly extracted field-based sensor arrays. Data are reported from two sites at Rio Grande, New Mexico during a 24-hour collection period. Two field blanks, one field replicate, and two laboratory replicates are reported for 26 environmental samples.

Tags: california, continuous-monitoring, environment, fdom, fluorescence, high-frequency, in-situ, optical-sensor, organic-matter, organic-matter-research-lab, sacramento, tdn, total-dissolved-nitrogen, usgs-65134735d34eeedefc139edf, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Thermal Infrared Images of Groundwater Seeps in the Upper Shawsheen River Watershed, Massachusetts

This USGS data release contains datasets and metadata associated with identifying locations of groundwater seepage to streams in the Upper Shawsheen River Watershed in Massachusetts. Data were collected in August 2023 to characterize the spatial distribution of groundwater seeps along streambanks within Elm Brook, Hartwell Brook, and the Shawsheen River.  Discharge measurements were made at 19 locations within the Upper Shawsheen River Watershed to help identify areas of groundwater influx. Thermal-infrared imaging was combined with field measurements of temperature to identify groundwater seepage to surface waters. This data release contains locations of discharge measurements, GPS locations of identified groundwater seeps, thermal-infrared and visible-light image data, and direct riverbank and stream temperature measurements. 
This dataset contains 2 main files:
1) Image.zip is a zipped directory containing thermal-infrared and visible-light images collected by handheld cameras along Elm Brook, Hartwell Brook, and the Shawsheen River.
2) Groundwater_seeps.txt is a tab delimited text file containing latitude and longitude coordinates, direct temperature measurements in degrees Celsius (deg C), and forward-looking infrared (FLIR) image number of groundwater seeps throughout the Upper Shawsheen River Watershed. FLIR image number corresponds to FLIR images in Images.zip.

Tags: elm-brook, groundwater, groundwater-and-surface-water-interaction, hartwell-brook, infrared-imaging, inlandwaters, shawsheen-river, usgs-65134723d34eeedefc139edb
Organization: Department of the Interior
Insular mole skinks: Area of habitat still above water given projected sea level rise and proportion of habitat at risk of storm surge in the Florida Keys, Cedar Keys region, and Egmont Key, Florida

The primary habitats for insular mole skinks in Florida are sand beaches, beach berms, and dunes, making them particularly vulnerable to sea level rise (SLR) and storm surge. We used the most recent SLR projections, high resolution lidar-based digital elevation models, a combination of a comprehensive land cover and hand-digitized aerial imagery, and the latest storm surge simulations to predict the impact of SLR and storm surge on habitat for insular mole skinks in Florida, by decade, from 2030 – 2150 using a modified bathtub model. Data include the predicted area of mole skink habitat still above water (units = number of pixels) from SLR per decade for 3 SLR scenarios, for the Florida Keys Mole Skink (Plestiodon egregius egregius), the Cedar Key Mole Skink (P. e. insularis), and the Egmont Key Mole Skink (known from a single occurrence). Data also include the risk of storm surge from simulated tropical cyclones (categories 1-5), per habitat type, as both the percent of habitat at risk of being submerged by storm surge water and the average depth of storm surge water.

Tags: cedar-keys, cedar-keys-region, coastal-ecosystems, egmont-key, florida, florida-keys, gulf-of-mexico, reptiles, sea-level-change, storm-surge, usgs-6515cad2d34e469cabfcdcb8
Organization: Department of the Interior
MODFLOW 6 model scenario used to simulate transient stresses, heads, and flows in the Regional Aquifer System of Long Island, New York, 2005-2019

This data release contains the input, output, and model code used to run a transient simulation of a previously published (Walter and others, 2020) steady-state regional model of Long Island, N.Y. The original model code was updated to MODFLOW 6 (version 6.3.0) and incorporates monthly transient stress periods to simulate conditions from 2005-2019 following methods described in Walter and others (2020). Selected remedial stresses (groundwater extraction and return) were incorporated for select locations in southeastern Nassau County. No modifications were made to the hydrologic boundaries, model layers, or hydraulic properties specified in the original model. A uniform value of 0.25 was used to represent specific yield (unconfined storage) and a uniform value of 0.00001 was used to represent specific storage (confined storage) which are typical values for Long Island sediments. Monthly values for natural recharge from precipitation were calculated using a Soil-Water Balance model (Finkelstein and others, 2022). Components of anthropogenic recharge--wastewater return flow, storm water inflow, and inflow from leaky infrastructure--were estimated for monthly stress periods consistent with the methods described in Walter and others (2020). Monthly groundwater withdrawals for various sources, including public-water supply, industrial, remediation, and agricultural, were compiled or estimated for the same period. No additional calibration was conducted for this scenario and as such, it is possible that in some locations the model simulation results may not accurately represent the temporal responses to monthly hydrologic stresses.

Tags: environment, geoscientificinformation, groundwater, groundwater-model, inlandwaters, kings-county, long-island, long-island-aquifer-system, modflow6, nassau-county, new-york, queens-county, soil-water-balance-model, suffolk-county, swb, usgs-6513470ed34eeedefc139ed6, usgsgroundwatermodel
Organization: Department of the Interior
Summary of the Characteristics of Near-Surface Flow Reversals at the Electrical Dispersal Barrier System on the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal at Romeoville, Illinois, October 1, 2017, to September 30, 2018

This dataset contains a summary of the characteristics of near-surface flow reversals at the Electrical Dispersal Barrier System (EDBS) on the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal at Romeoville, Illinois during Water Year 2018 (October 1, 2017, to September 30, 2018). Water velocity near the water surface is measured on a five-minute sampling interval in the EDBS using surface velocity radar at nine measurement cells on a cross section near U.S. Geological Survey streamgage 05536995 (Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal at Romeoville, Illinois). Flow reversal events are analyzed for each individual cell as well as for the average velocity over all nine cells. For the analysis of individual cells, a flow reversal event is defined as a period of time in which the velocity in an individual cell is negative (flowing upstream). For the analysis of the average velocity, a flow reversal event is defined as a period of time in which the average velocity over all nine cells is negative (flowing upstream). Velocity observations and statistics for each flow reversal event are provided in Comma Separated Values (CSV) files stored in a zipped folder named 05536995-WY2018-Flow-Reversal-Events.zip.

Tags: chicago-sanitary-and-ship-canal, hydrodynamics, illinois, romeoville, usgs-6511f97cd34e823a0275de8b, will-county
Organization: Department of the Interior
Summary of the Characteristics of Commercial Tows Passing Through the Electrical Dispersal Barrier System on the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal at Romeoville, Illinois, October 1, 2017, to September 30, 2018

A motion-activated video camera documented the passage of commercial tows through the Electric Dispersal Barrier System (EDBS) on the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal at Romeoville, Illinois, over the period October 1, 2017, to September 30, 2018. Videos were manually screened and analyzed to extract tow characteristics including: date and time of video recording, number and configuration of barges, loading of barges (loaded, unloaded, or mixed), direction of travel, and bow type (rake or box). Only commercial vessels were logged and no identifying data about the tow vessels were maintained. All videos triggered by recreational vessels or other objects were permanently removed from the database during analysis. Any periods of missing data due to instrument malfunction are documented in the metadata.

Tags: chicago-sanitary-and-ship-canal, commercial-barges, hydrodynamics, illinois, romeoville, usgs-6511f8fad34e823a0275de87, will-county
Organization: Department of the Interior
82.4-kilometer long profiles of waterborne self-potential and water-quality data measured August 28–September 1, 2023, in the Trinity River between the Elm Fork confluence and a pump station in Scurry, Texas

This data release contains 82.4-kilometer (km) long spatial profiles of geophysical and water-quality properties data acquired along five semi-continuous segments of the Trinity River that were surveyed August 28 – September 1, 2023. The surveyed reaches start at the Elm Fork confluence in the Dallas, Texas metropolitan area and end at a pump station in Scurry, Texas. The geophysical dataset consists of a spatial profile of waterborne self-potential (WaSP) voltages attributed to changes in electrical potential along the surveyed reach. The water-quality properties data consist of spatial profiles of temperature, specific conductance, turbidity, pH, oxidation-reduction potential, and dissolved-oxygen concentration measured in-situ in the surface water. The combined datasets consist of 78,745 measurements of WaSP voltages and water-quality properties, and the geospatial coordinates of each measurement.

Tags: dallas-texas, elm-fork, geophysics, gradient-self-potential, hydrology, optical-dissolved-oxygen, ph, self-potential, specific-conductance, surface-water-and-groundwater-exchanges, surface-water-conductivity, surface-water-temperature, texas, trinity-river, turbidity, usgs-6511f08ad34e823a0275de22, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Spatial profiles of waterborne self-potential and water-quality-property data acquired September 8–11, 2023, in Elm and Hartwell Brooks and the Shawsheen River near Hanscom Air Force Base, Bedford, Massachusetts, to identify groundwater seepage locations.

This data release contains geophysical and water-quality property data measured by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) along downstream continuous profiles in surveyed reaches of Elm Brook, Hartwell Brook, and the Shawsheen River near Hanscom Air Force Base in Bedford, Massachusetts. The geophysical data consist of spatial profiles of waterborne self-potential (WaSP) voltages attributed to changes in electrical potential along the respective reaches of each stream. The water-quality data consist of spatial profiles of temperature, specific conductance, turbidity, pH, and optical dissolved-oxygen concentration measured in situ in the streams on September 8 and September 10, 2023. A 190-meter (m) long reach of Hartwell Brook was surveyed by attaching two WaSP electrodes and a multi-parameter water-quality sonde (QW sonde) to the bottom of a small wooden raft that was floated and steered downstream by using ropes  . A 2.06-kilometer (km) long reach of Elm Brook was surveyed on September 9, 2023, by using the same raft deployment, and a 1.4-km long reach of the Shawsheen River was surveyed on September 11, 2023, by attaching the WaSP electrodes and QW sonde to the end of a kayak; one person floated and paddled the kayak downstream. The combined WaSP and water-quality property datasets consist of 6,793 measurements of WaSP voltages and surface-water temperature, specific conductance, turbidity, pH, and optical dissolved oxygen, and the geospatial coordinates of each measurement.

Tags: bedford-massachusetts, elm-brook, geophysics, gradient-self-potential, hanscom-air-force-base, hartwell-brook, hydrology, massachusetts, optical-dissolved-oxygen, percent-hydrogen, seep, seepage, self-potential, shawsheen-river, specific-conductance, surface-water-and-groundwater-exchanges, surface-water-conductivity, surface-water-temperature, turbidity, usgs-6511ec2ed34e823a0275de01, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
GIS Data from Chapter D and E of the Conceptual Hydrogeologic Framework and Groundwater Budget Near the Southeastern Part of Puget Sound, Washington

The data within this data release presents information used to characterize the groundwater-flow system and the development of a groundwater-flow model in the active model area. Conceptual and numerical models of groundwater flow were developed by the U.S. Geological Survey Washington Water Science Center, in close cooperation with 18 water-resource agencies and stakeholders, to assess the potential hydrologic and anthropogenic impacts to groundwater and the connected surface-water resources.

Tags: geoscientificinformation, model, potentiometric-surface, usgs-651c6020d34e44db0e2ce153
Organization: Department of the Interior
LANDFIRE 2022 Forest Canopy Cover (CC) HI

LANDFIRE's (LF) 2022 Forest Canopy Cover (CC) describes the percent cover of the tree canopy in a stand. CC is a vertical projection of the tree canopy cover onto an imaginary horizontal plane. CC supplies information for fire behavior models to determine the probability of crown fire initiation, provide input in the spotting model, calculate wind reductions, and to calculate fuel moisture conditioning. To create this product, plot level CC values are calculated using the canopy fuel estimation software, Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS). Pre-disturbance CC and Canopy Height (CH) are used as predictors of disturbed CC using a linear regression equation per Fuel Vegetation Type (FVT), disturbance type/severity, and time since disturbance. CC is used in the calculation of Canopy Bulk Density (CBD) and Canopy Base Height (CBH). In LF 2022, fuel products are created with LF 2016 Remap vegetation in areas that were un-disturbed in the last ten years. 
To designate disturbed areas where CC is modified, the aggregated Annual Disturbance products from 2013 to 2022 in the Fuel Disturbance (FDist) product are used. All existing disturbances between 2013-2022 are represented in the LF 2022 update, and the products are intended to be used in 2023 (the year of release). The "capable" year terminology used in LF 2020 and LF 2016 Remap is no longer specified, due to reduction in latency from when a disturbance occurs to the release date of fuel products accounting for that disturbance. However, users should still consider adjusting fuel layers for disturbances that occurred after the end of the 2022 fiscal year (after October 1st, 2022) when using the LF 2022 fuel products. Because those changes would not be accounted for. Learn more about LF 2022 at https://landfire.gov/lf_230.php .

Tags: biota, canopy-cover, cc, fires, geographic-information-systems, geospatial-datasets, hawaii, hazard-preparedness, hi, image-collections, imagerybasemapsearthcover, landfire-2022, lf-2022, oconus, raster-digital-data, remote-sensing, u-s-forest-service-usfs, u-s-geological-survey-usgs, united-states, us, usgs-65665f99d34e3aa43a43faa8
Organization: Department of the Interior