AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Bethany New City Lake near Bethany, Missouri, 2020

Water supply lakes are the primary source of water for many communities in northern and western Missouri.  Therefore, accurate and up-to-date estimates of lake capacity are important for managing and predicting adequate water supply. Many of the water supply lakes in Missouri were previously surveyed by the U.S. Geological Survey in the early 2000s (Richards, 2013) and in 2013 (Huizinga, 2014); however, years of potential sedimentation may have resulted in reduced water storage capacity. Periodic bathymetric surveys are useful to update the area/capacity table and to determine changes in the bathymetric surface.
Bethany New Lake is a water supply lake used by the city of Bethany in northwestern Missouri. The surface area of Bethany New Lake is about 85 acres at the flood pool level of the emergency spillway (924.0 feet above the North American Vertical Datum of 1988).  No previous bathymetric survey has been completed at this lake.  In March 2020, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources and the City of Bethany, completed a bathymetric survey of Bethany New Lake using a multibeam echosounder.  The water-surface elevation during the survey was about 920.65 feet. The echosounder data can be combined with light detection and ranging (lidar) data to prepare a bathymetric map and a surface area and capacity table for the lake.
The gridded bathymetric point data (BethanyNewLake2020_bathy_pts.zip) were computed on a 0.82-foot (0.25-meter) grid using the Combined Uncertainty and Bathymetry Estimator (CUBE) method, which is used as the source of points to create the bathymetric surface.
Bathymetric quality-assurance data (BethanyNewLake2020_QA_raw.zip) were collected to evaluate the vertical accuracy of the gridded bathymetric point data.
Each of these two zip files contains a shapefile with an attribute table. Attribute/column labels of each table are described in the "Entity and attribute" section of the metadata file.
References Cited:
Huizinga, R.J., 2014, Bathymetric surveys and area/capacity tables of water-supply reservoirs for the city of Cameron, Missouri, July 2013: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2014–1005, 15 p., http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20141005.
Richards, J.M., 2013, Bathymetric surveys of selected lakes in Missouri—2000–2008: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013–1101, 9 p. with appendix, http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2013/1101.

Tags: bathymetry, bathymetry-and-elevation, bethany, harrison-county, missouri, multibeam, multibeam-sonar, new-city-lake, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-5f6c924582ce38aaa2463099
Organization: Department of the Interior
Conservation Planning for the Colorado River in Utah - Open Areas for Open Land Species Model

This dataset represents the relative average amount of non-woody cover within 2 ha) of bottomland along the Colorado River from the Colorado state line (San Juan and Grand Counties, Utah) to the southern Canyonlands NP boundary, as of September 2010. Traditional image interpretation cues were used to develop the polygons, such as shape, size, pattern, tone, texture, color, and shadow, from high resolution, true color, aerial imagery (0.3m resolution), acquired for the project. Additional, public available aerial photos (NAIP, 2011) were used to cross-reference cover classes. As with any digital layer, this layer is a representation of what is actually occurring on the ground. Errors are inherent in any interpretation of ground qualities. Due to the "snapshot" nature of the aerial photos, this cover layer reflects conditions that existed when the imagery was collected (September, 2010). This mapping was conducted as part of the Colorado River Conservation Planning Project, a joint effort between the National Park Service, The Nature Conservancy, US Geological Survey, Bureau of Land Management, and Utah Forestry Fire and State Lands.

Tags: arches-national-park, biota, canyonlands-national-park, colorado-river, conservation-planning, environment, grand-county, habitat-suitability, inlandwaters, moab, riparian, san-juan-county, tamarisk, upper-colorado-river, usgs-5866d950e4b0cd2dabe7c697, utah
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2018 Site 4548 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 398 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 2018 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. Four previous assessments have been conducted (2005, 2008, 2012, and 2015/2016). 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-611d2e06d34e40dd9c012b53, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Airborne geophysical survey: White and Inyo Mountains, Part D, California and Nevada Survey Part 4 of 4

Aeromagnetic data were collected along flight lines by instruments in an
aircraft that recorded magnetic-field values and locations.  This dataset
presents latitude, longitude, altitude, and magnetic-field values.

Tags: aeromagnetic-data, aeromagnetic-surveying, airborne-surveys, ca, california, eureka-valley, f06027-inyo, f06051-mono, f32009-esmeralda, field-monitoring-stations, geophysical-surveys, geophysics, geospatial-datasets, inyo-mountains, inyo-mtns, magnetic, magnetic-field-earth, magnetic-surveys, nevada, nv, residual-magnetic-field, saline-valley, total-field, united-states, usgs-13211369-b9e3-4bcf-8071-32e6e63d80af, white-mountains, white-mtns
Organization: Department of the Interior
Potential structural barriers to ground-water flow, Death Valley regional ground-water flow system, Nevada and California

This digital dataset defines the surface traces of regional geologic structures designated as potential 
ground-water flow barriers in an approximately 45,000 square-kilometer area of the Death Valley 
regional ground-water flow system (DVRFS) in southern Nevada and California. Most geologic 
structures representing potential flow barriers were faults that were identified on the basis of length, 
offset, type of slip, orientation with respect to predominate ground-water flow directions, the location 
of springs, abrupt water level offsets, and hydraulic characteristics (Sweetkind and others, 2004). 
A subset of the potential ground-water flow barriers was incorporated into a transient ground-water 
flow model of the DVRFS (Faunt and others, 2004). This model is the most recent in a number of 
regional-scale models developed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) for the U.S. Department 
of Energy (DOE) to support investigations at the Nevada Test Site (NTS) and at Yucca Mountain, 
Nevada (see "Larger Work Citation", Chapter A, page 8).

Tags: amargosa-desert, ash-meadows, california, california-valley, chicago-valley, china-ranch, clark-county, clayton-valley, coal-valley, death-valley, death-valley-regional-ground-water-flow-system, esmeralda-county, eureka-valley, flow-model, franklin-lake, franklin-well, garden-valley, ground-water, ground-water-flow-barrier, horizontal-flow-barrier, hydrogeologic-framework-model, hydrogeology, hydrology, inyo-county, kern-county, las-vegas-valley, lincoln-county, mesquite-valley, mineral-county, mono-county, nevada, nevada-test-site, nye-county, oasis-valley, owlshead-mountains, pahranagat-range, pahrump-valley, panamint-range, penoyer-valley, railroad-valley, resting-spring, saline-valley, san-bernadino-county, sarcobatus-flat, sheep-range, shoshone, silurian-valley, southern-nevada, spring-mountains, stewart-valley, stone-cabin-valley, tecopa, transient-ground-water-model, usgs-551556d9-069b-4f67-8c63-9b8ce4896047, yucca-mountain
Organization: Department of the Interior
Non-listed disease report to OIE (World Organisation for Animal Health) for the 1st semester of 2019

As a member of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), and the reporting authority for the United States, the USGS National Wildlife Health Center (NWHC) is responsible for reporting wildlife disease outbreaks that involve diseases which are not OIE-listed (https://www.oie.int/wahis_2/public/wahidwild.php#  ).  These outbreaks are to be reported on a semesterly basis via OIE’s WAHIS-Wild reporting system. The data fields described within are based on those in WAHIS-Wild. Since OIE’s reporting mechanism is based primarily on domestic and agricultural animals, several of the variables are not applicable to wildlife (i.e. vaccination, slaughtered, etc.).  In an effort to use a consistent data source that is broad in scope and captures information from around the country, from various natural resource management authorities, NWHC will use the Wildlife Health Information Sharing Partnership - Event Reporting System (WHISPers - https://whispers.usgs.gov/home ) as the sole source to generate and supply the requested information to OIE.  Data supplied to OIE have been restricted to publicly available information on wildlife morbidity/mortality and surveillance events in WHISPers.

Tags: biota, usgs-5ef37e4582ced62aaae3eec6, wildlife-disease, world-organisation-for-animal-health-oie
Organization: Department of the Interior
Walleye Thermal Optical Habitat Area (TOHA) of selected Minnesota lakes: 1 Lake information for 881 lakes

This dataset provides shapefile outlines of the 881 lakes that had temperature modeled as part of this study. The format is a shapefile for all lakes combined (.shp, .shx, .dbf, and .prj files). A csv file of lake metadata is also included. This dataset is part of a larger data release of lake temperature model inputs and outputs for 881 lakes in the U.S. state of Minnesota (https://doi.org/10.5066/P9PPHJE2).

Tags: climate-change, deep-learning, environment, hybrid-modeling, inlandwaters, machine-learning, minnesota, mn, modeling, reservoirs, sd, south-dakota, temperate-lakes, temperature, thermal-profiles, united-states, us, usgs-5e5c1c1ce4b01d50924f27e7, water, water-resources
Organization: Department of the Interior
FiCli: Fish and Climate Change Database (ver. 3.0, October 2024)

Inland fishes provide important ecosystem services to communities worldwide and are especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Fish respond to climate change in diverse and nuanced ways which creates challenges for practitioners of fish conservation, climate change adaptation, and management. Although climate change is known to affect fish globally, a comprehensive online, public database of how climate change has impacted inland fishes worldwide and adaptation or management practices that may address these impacts does not exist. We conducted an extensive, systematic primary literature review to identify peer-reviewed journal publications describing projected and documented examples of climate change impacts on inland fishes. From this standardized Fish and Climate Change database, FiCli, researchers and managers can query fish families, species, response types, or geographic locations to obtain summary information on inland fish responses to climate change and recommended management actions. The FiCli provides access to comprehensive published information to inform inland fish Inland fishes provide important ecosystem services to communities worldwide and are especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.

Tags: africa, americas, asia, biological-informatics, biota, climate-adaptation, climate-change, climate-impacts, climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, database, effects-of-climate-change, environment, europe, fish, fisheries-management, freshwater-ecosystems, freshwater-fishes, inland, inland-fishery-resources, middle-east, oceania, systematic-literature-review, usgs-63eff8edd34efa0476b039b7
Organization: Department of the Interior
Regional Trends of Isotopic Composition in Total Gaseous Mercury Across the United States

The dataset presented here represents the concentrations and stable isotopic composition of gaseous mercury (Hg) for 31 sites across the United States. This national-scale monitoring effort was performed by the National Atmospheric Deposition Program (NADP) and the USGS over a two-year period (March 2016 - May 2018).  The network includes a highly diverse set of sites ranging from remote (e.g. Denali National Park, AK and Mauna Loa, HI) to highly urbanized (e.g. Bronx, NY and Boston, MA). Air samples were collected using a custom designed bulk air sampler, in which air was pumped at approximately 1 L/min through particulate and soda lime filters prior to passing through two quartz tubes containing gold coated glass beads where gaseous Hg was collected. Each sampling period was two weeks long. The Hg was thermally desorbed from the gold beads and collected in a liquid oxidizing trap. The total Hg concentration and isotopic composition was determined on this solution. The average total gaseous Hg concentration across sites was 1.23 ± 0.28 ng/m3, but higher concentrations were observed at sites closer to known Hg sources, such as Oak Ridge National Lab (6.53 ng/m3). For all sites, the average odd isotope mass independent fractionation (MIF, Δ199Hg), an indicator of photochemistry, was -0.20 ± 0.07‰ and had a range of -0.43 to 0.01 ‰. Mass dependent fractionation (MDF, δ202Hg), the commonly used isotope ratio for source tracking, was generally positive with a mean value of 0.45 ± 0.40‰, although intermittent negative MDF was also observed at some sites. Urban sites were consistently lighter in δ202Hg (0.34‰) compared to remote background sites (0.65‰), potentially indicating differences between emission sources. Though regional differences in odd MIF and MDF were small, we observed a trend showing enrichment of δ202Hg in the northeastern United States, from the Ohio River Valley to remote sites in northern Maine and Nova Scotia, suggesting a shift from localized emission sources to globally transported Hg across this region.

Tags: atmospheric-deposition-chemical-amp-particulate, bad-river-wi, boston-ma, bronx-ny, clifty-falls-state-park-in, consumnes-river-ca, denali-national-park-ak, devils-lake-state-park-wi, el-paso-tx, fernberg-mn, hills-creek-state-park-pa, horicon-march-wi, huntington-wildlife-refuge-ny, isotope-geochemistry, juneau-ak, kejimikujik-national-park, mansfield-vt, marcell-experimental-forest-mn, mauna-loa-hi, mercury-contamination, middleton-wi, oglesby-park-wv, oxbow-id, page-az, piney-reservoir-md, poplar-creek-tn, presque-isle-me, rochester-ny, salt-lake-city-ut, seattle-wa, south-bass-island-oh, stilwell-ok, usgs-5d51e54de4b01d82ce8e205f, wilamette-river-or
Organization: Department of the Interior
Appendices for Planetary Geologic Mapping: Program Status and Future Needs

Appendices include the original survey, response data, and collated results related to the Open File Report. Geoscience maps, regardless of target body, are spatial and temporal representations of materials and processes recorded on planetary surfaces (Varnes, 1973; Spencer, 2000). The information and context provided by these maps promote basic and applied research within and across various geoscience disciplines. They also provide an important basis for programmatic and policy decisions (for example, H.R. 2763 – 102nd Congress, National Geologic Mapping Act of 1992). Since 1961, planetary (that is, all solid surface bodies in the Solar System beyond Earth) geoscience maps have been used in nearly every facet of planetary exploration, from landing site characterization for human (for example, Grolier, 1970) and robotic (for example, Anderson and Bell, 2010) missions to mineralogical analyses of water-alteration on Mars (for example, Loizeau and others, 2007). Modern planetary geoscience maps are either standardized (those published by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) that require adherence to cartographic standards, conventions, and principles) or non-standardized (those published by other venues that are not required to, but might, adhere to cartographic standards, conventions, and principles). Geoscience mapping and its resultant product, whether standardized or non-standardized, is widely considered a routine contextual investigation that should be performed in advance of and (or) in tandem with surface science investigations. Geoscience mapping campaigns are systematically included in mission proposals as anticipated derivative products (for example, Williams and others, 2014), along with other high-order cartographic data products such as controlled image mosaics and digital terrain models. Additionally, planning documents from multiple planetary science focused programs, organizations, and institutions identify geoscience maps as key scientific and technical contributors to planetary exploration (Planetary Decadal Survey, 2011; MEPAG, 2015; Roadmap to Ocean Worlds, 2018). In line with these community uses and priorities, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), in cooperation with the USGS Astrogeology Science Center (Flagstaff, AZ), has built and maintained a non-trivial infrastructure dedicated not only to producing geoscience maps but also to building and disseminating mapping-based resources to the planetary science community.

Tags: astrogeology, geology, geoscientificinformation, planetary-science, usgs, usgs-5beb65dde4b0b3fc5cf90ed7
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data release for Lake levels in a discontinuous permafrost landscape: Late Holocene variations inferred from sediment oxygen isotopes, Yukon Flats, Alaska

During recent decades, lake levels in the Yukon Flats region of interior Alaska have fluctuated dramatically. However, prior to recorded observations, no data are available to indicate if similar or more extreme variations occurred during past centuries and millennia. This study explores the history of Yukon Flats lake origins and lake levels for the past approximately 5,500 years from sediment analyses guided by previous work on permafrost extent, thermokarst, and modern isotope hydrology. Sediments dated by 210Pb and AMS radiocarbon indicate stable chronologies following initial lake initiation. Subsequent lithology is autochthonous, and oxygen isotope ratios of endogenic carbonate reflect lake level change at multiple time scales. Sediment results indicate high lake levels between approximately 4000 and 1850 cal yr BP, which is interpreted to reflect wetter-than-modern conditions. Lower lake levels with short-lived high stands during the past approximately 800 years reflect generally arid conditions with brief wet intervals similar to the regions moisture regime today. The millennial trend is one of increasing aridity and corresponds closely with fire reconstructions and regional paleoclimatic trends. We conclude that high-magnitude lake-level fluctuations and decadal scale trends occurred before the observational period and are persistent hydroclimatic features of the Yukon Flats region.

Tags: alaska, biota, holocene, lake-sediment, oxygen-isotopes, paleoclimate, thermokarst, usgs-5b844b4de4b05f6e321b6288, yukon-flats
Organization: Department of the Interior
Attributes for MRB_E2RF1 Catchments by Major River Basins in the Conterminous United States: Basin Characteristics, 2002

This tabular data set represents basin characteristics for the year 2002 compiled for every MRB_E2RF1 
catchment of selected Major River Basins (MRBs, Crawford and others, 2006).   These characteristics 
are reach catchment shape index, stream density, sinuosity, mean elevation, mean slope and number 
of road-stream crossings. The source data sets are based on a modified version of the U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency's (USEPA) RF1_2 and include enhancements to support national and regional-scale 
surface-water quality modeling (Nolan and others, 2002; Brakebill and others, 2011) and the U.S. Census 
Bureau's TIGER/Line Files (U.S. Census Bureau,2006).
		
The MRB_E2RF1 catchments are based on a modified version of the U.S. Environmental Protection 
Agency's (USEPA) ERF1_2 and include enhancements to support national and regional-scale 
surface-water quality modeling (Nolan and others, 2002; Brakebill and others, 2011).
		
Data were compiled for every MRB_E2RF1 catchment for the conterminous United States covering 
New England and Mid-Atlantic (MRB1), South Atlantic-Gulf and Tennessee (MRB2), the Great Lakes, 
Ohio, Upper Mississippi, and Souris-Red-Rainy (MRB3), the Missouri (MRB4), the Lower Mississippi, 
Arkansas-White-Red, and Texas-Gulf (MRB5), the Rio Grande, Colorado, and the Great basin (MRB6), 
the Pacific Northwest (MRB7) river basins, and California (MRB8).

Tags: basin-characteristics, cali, california, catchment, cogb, conterminous-united-states, environment, geoscientificinformation, glmr, great-lakes-ohio-upper-mississippi-and-souris-red-rainy, inlandwaters, lmtg, lower-mississippi-arkansas-white-red-and-texas-gulf, major-river-basins, missouri, mori, mrb, mrb1, mrb2, mrb3, mrb4, mrb5, mrb6, mrb7, mrb8, mrb_e2rf1, mrb_e2rf1ws, nawqa, nema, new-england-and-mid-atlantic, pacific-northwest, panw, rio-grande-colorado-and-great-basin, sagt, south-atlantic-gulf-and-tennessee, sparrow, usgs-d586d006-47b7-4dc0-b425-60c929616047
Organization: Department of the Interior