AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Raw and modified raw continuous resistivity profile data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey in Great South Bay on Long Island, New York, on Sept. 24, 2008

An investigation of submarine aquifers adjacent to the Fire Island National Seashore and Long Island, New York, was conducted to assess the importance of submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) as a potential nonpoint source of nitrogen delivery to Great South Bay. More than 200 kilometers (km) of continuous resistivity profiling (CRP) data were collected to image the fresh-saline groundwater interface in sediments beneath the bay. In addition, groundwater sampling was performed at sites (1) along the northern shore of Great South Bay, particularly in Patchogue Bay, that were representative of the developed Long Island shoreline, and (2) at sites on and adjacent to Fire Island, a 50-km-long barrier island on the southern side of Great South Bay. Other field activities included sediment coring, stationary electrical resistivity profiling, and surveys of in-situ pore water conductivity. The onshore and offshore shallow hydrostratigraphy of the Great South Bay shorelines, particularly the presence and nature of submarine confining units, appears to exert primary control on the dimensions and chemistry of the submarine groundwater flow and discharge zones. Sediment coring has shown that the confining units commonly consist of drowned and buried peat layers likely deposited in salt marshes. Based on CRP data, low-salinity groundwater extends from 10 to 100 meters (m) offshore along much of the northern and southern shores of Great South Bay, especially off the mouths of tidal creeks, and beneath shallow flats to the north of Fire Island adjacent to modern salt marshes. Human modifications of much of the shoreline and nearshore areas along the northern shore of the bay, including filling of salt marshes, construction of bulkheads and piers, and dredging of navigation channels, has substantially altered the natural hydrogeology of the bay's shorelines by truncating confining units and increasing recharge near the shore in filled areas. Better understanding of the nature of SGD along developed and undeveloped shorelines of embayments such as this could lead to improved models and mitigation strategies for nutrient overenrichment of estuaries. For more information on the surveys involved in this project, see https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2008-007-FA and https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2008-037-FA.

Tags: agi-supersting, bathymetry, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, continuous-resistivity-profile, continuous-resistivity-profiling, crp, elevation, field-activity-number-2008-037-fa, fire-island, geoscientificinformation, great-south-bay, groundwater, info-bank-id-t-37-08-li, location, long-island, lowrance-gps, navigation, navigational-data, new-york, north-america, north-atlantic, oceans, r-v-terrapin, raw-data, submarine-groundwater, suffolk-county, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-56cafa39-e090-43c5-a72f-7f71a509a429, water-temperature, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Alpha spectroscopy radioisotopic data for box core sediments collected from Barnegat Bay, New Jersey in May 2014 (U.S. Geological Survey Field Activity Number 2014-310-FA)

Barnegat Bay, located along the eastern shore of New Jersey, was significantly impacted by Hurricane Sandy in October 2012. Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) developed a multidisciplinary study of sediment transport and hydrodynamics to understand the mechanisms that govern estuarine and wetland responses to storm forcing.  This report details the physical and chemical characteristics of surficial and downcore sediments from two areas within the bay. Eleven sites were sampled in both the central portion of the bay near Barnegat Inlet and in the southern portion of the bay in Little Egg Harbor. Laboratory analyses include Be-7, Pb-210, bulk density, porosity, x-radiographs, and grain-size distribution. These data will serve as a critical baseline dataset for understanding the current sedimentological regime and can be applied to future storms for understanding estuarine and wetland evolution. This report serves as an archive for sedimentological and radiochemical data derived from the surface sediments and box cores. Downloadable data are available as Excel spreadsheets, PDF files, and JPEG files, and includes sediment core data plots and x-radiographs, as well as, physical-properties, grain-size, alpha-spectoscopy, and gamma-spectroscopy data. Federal Geographic Data Committee metadata are available for analytical datasets in the data downloads page of this report.

Tags: alpha-spectroscopy, barnegat-bay, box-core, geoscientificinformation, little-egg-harbor, new-jersey, oceans, pb-210, radiochemistry, sediment, subsurface, u-s-geological-survey, u-s-geological-survey-st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, usgs, usgs-56c4ffa1-f2f1-4b22-b568-10f359a04266
Organization: Department of the Interior
Average annual rates of evapotranspiration, quick-flow runoff, and recharge for the CONUS, 2000-2013

This dataset includes 800m resolution long-term average estimates of the distribution of incoming precipitation and groundwater-sourced irrigation into contributions to the evapotranspiration (ET), quick-flow runoff, and effective recharge water budget components over the 2000-2013 time period, as well as annual estimates for the individual years. It also includes other data supporting the methods development that produced these maps, corresponding to the figures in the associated journal article. The estimates were developed with new empirical regressions for (1) quick-flow runoff data generated from a USGS-developed hydrograph separation program (PART) for 1434 gages as a function of surficial geology type (USGS), precipitation (PRISM), and soil hydraulic conductivity (STATSGO); and (2) long-term evapotranspiration from water balance estimates at 679 gages as a function of land cover (NLCD), precipitation (PRISM), and maximum, minimum, and mean daily temperature (PRISM), and a separate estimate for ET over open water. The recharge quantites close the water budget to sum to the total influx from precipitation. Irrigated water quantities reported in the 2005 USGS Water Use dataset are incorporated as effective additional precipitation. Estimates are included for both effective recharge, which reflects the quantity of water available to replenish the groundwater table, and total recharge, which also includes an estimate for the recharge quantity that was subsequently intercepted by riparian vegetation and converted to evapotranspiration. Methods are fully described in the associated accepted publication; this dataset will be updated with its complete citation when published.

Tags: evapotranspiration, runoff, usgs-56c49126e4b0946c65219231, water-budget, water-cycle, water-resources
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geospatial data collected from tagged sea otters in central California, 1998-2012

The data are .csv files of tagged sea otter re-sighting locations (henceforth, resights) collected in the field using a combination of VHF radio telemetry and direct observation using high powered (80x) telescopes.  Sea otters were tracked by shore based observers from the date of tagging until the time of radio battery failure or the animal’s death, whichever comes first. The frequency of re-sighting was opportunistic, depending on logistical factors such as coastal access, but generally ranged from daily to weekly.  Location coordinates are reported as X and Y coordinates in the projection/datum California Teale-Albers NAD 1927. Each file contains resight data for one individual sea otter collected over a period of 1-10 years. Fields include individual identification number, geographic coordinates, the date and time of the sighting location, and associated behavioral state of the individual at the time of re-sighting.

Tags: animal-movement, california, half-moon-bay, santa-barbara, santa-barbara-channel-islands, sighting-locations, southern-sea-otter, space-use, usgs-56c396e1e4b0946c6520aa5c, vhf-radio-telemetry
Organization: Department of the Interior
DATA Water-Level Measurement Data Collected during 2015-2016 and Approximate Long-term Water-Level Altitude Changes of Wells Screened in the Chicot, Jasper, and Evangeline Aquifers in the Houston-Galveston Region, Texas.

The U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the Harris‐Galveston Subsidence District, City of Houston, Fort Bend Subsidence District, and Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District has produced this dataset of water‐level altitudes and water‐level changes in the Chicot, Evangeline, and Jasper aquifers in the Houston‐Galveston region, Texas.This dataset shows current‐year (2015-2016) water‐level altitudes for each aquifer, 5‐year (2011‐16) water‐level changes for each aquifer, long‐term (1990‐2016 and 1977‐2016) water‐level changes for the Chicot and Evangeline aquifers, and long‐term (2000‐2016) water‐level change for the Jasper aquifer. For the 1‐year (2015-16) water‐level changes, data were computed as the difference in water‐level altitude at each point (well) for which a water‐level measurement was made in 2015 and 2016. Five‐year (2011‐16) water‐level changes were computed the same as for the 1‐year water-level changes; the difference in water‐level altitude at each point for which a water‐level measurement was made in 2011 and 2016. The water‐level measurements in the dataset are built upon and stored in the National Water Information System: Web Interface, groundwater information, field measurements website located here:
http://dx.doi.org/10.5066/F7P55KJN
This site is a publicly available, searchable, online database of water information.

Tags: aquifer, brazoria-county, chambers-county, chicot-aquifer, elevation, evangeline-aquifer, fort-bend-county, galveston-county, grimes-county, groundwater, harris-county, hydrology, hypsometry, jasper-aquifer, liberty-county, montgomery-county, san-jacinto-county, subsidence, texas, usgs-56c235f5e4b0946c651fc290, walker-county, waller-county, water-level-altitude
Organization: Department of the Interior
2023-310-FA_trkln: Digital Chirp Subbottom Profile Trackline Data Collected During USGS Field Activity Number 2023-310-FA Offshore of Kailua, Hawaii, May 2023

From May 7-13, 2022, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) conducted a geologic assessment, including bathymetric mapping, near Kailua, Hawaii in support of efforts to construct an artificial coral reef offshore of Marine Corps Base Hawaii (MCBH). Geophysical data were collected as part of the Coastal Sediment Availability and Flux and Defense Advanced Research Protection Agency (DARPA) Reefense projects. This shapefile represents a line dataset of field activity number (FAN) 2023-310-FA chirp tracklines.

Tags: 2023-310-fa, barrier-island-mapping, chirp, coastal-processes, geology, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, hawaii, kailua, location, marine-geology, navigational-data, oahu, oceans, seismic-reflection, southwest-pacific, sub-bottom-profiling, trackline, usgs-56c8502a-171e-417d-b5a2-7d84771cecd8
Organization: Department of the Interior
Sally_R1_elevation: Modeling the impacts of sand placement strategies on barrier island evolution in a semi-enclosed bay system: model input and results

Using version 5527 of the XBeach numerical model (Roelvink and others, 2009), barrier island morphological change was simulated at Little Dauphin Island, Alabama (AL) under different storm scenarios and restoration alternatives as described in Passeri and others (2025). The two-dimensional XBeach model can be applied to barrier islands to solve for time-dependent elevations (topography and bathymetry). The XBeach model setup requires the input of topographic and bathymetric elevations at each grid cell. Model inputs and outputs in the form of elevation at each grid cell are provided in this data release. For further information regarding model input generation and visualization of model output, refer to Passeri and others (2025).

Tags: alabama, bathymetry, coastal-processes, digital-elevation-models, elevation, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, gulf-of-mexico, little-dauphin-island, north-america, oceans, spcmsc, st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, storm-surge, topography, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-53d02573-290e-4928-b327-d44aa71ce6aa
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hydrologic and Landscape Database for the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge and Contributing Watersheds, Florida and Georgia

This hydrologic and landscape database was developed by the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge and contributing watersheds in Florida and Georgia. The database was developed as an assessment and evaluation tool to use in examining refuge-specific hydrologic patterns and trends as related to water availability and water quality for refuge ecosystems, habits, and target species. The database includes hydrologic time series data, statistics on landscape and hydrologic time series data, and hydro-ecological metrics that can be used to assess refuge hydrologic conditions. The database is described in detail in Open File Report 2017-1018.

Tags: data-packaging, ecosystems, florida, georgia, groundwater-level, hydrology, land-use-and-land-cover, population-human, runoff, soil-horizons, stream-discharge, stream-gage-measurement, usgs-56be3528e4b06458514af163, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hydrologic and Landscape Database for the Lower Suwannee River National Wildlife Refuge and Contributing Watersheds, Florida and Georgia

This hydrologic and landscape database was developed by the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for the Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge and contributing watersheds in Florida and Georgia. The database was developed as an assessment and evaluation tool to use in examining refuge-specific hydrologic patterns and trends as related to water availability and water quality for refuge ecosystems, habits, and target species. The database includes hydrologic time series data, statistics on landscape and hydrologic time series data, and hydro-ecological metrics that can be used to assess refuge hydrologic conditions. The database is described in detail in Open File Report 2017-1018.

Tags: data-packaging, ecosystems, florida, georgia, groundwater-level, hydrology, land-use-and-land-cover, population-human, runoff, soil-horizons, stream-discharge, stream-gage-measurement, usgs-56be33d1e4b06458514af15f, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hydrologic and Landscape Database for the Clarks River National Wildlife Refuge and Contributing Watersheds, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi

This hydrologic and landscape database was developed by the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for the Clarks River National Wildlife Refuge and contributing watersheds in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi. The database was developed as an assessment and evaluation tool to use in examining refuge-specific hydrologic patterns and trends as related to water availability and water quality for refuge ecosystems, habits, and target species. The database includes hydrologic time series data, statistics on landscape and hydrologic time series data, and hydro-ecological metrics that can be used to assess refuge hydrologic conditions. The database is described in detail in Open File Report 2017-1018.

Tags: data-packaging, ecosystems, groundwater-level, hydrology, kentucky, land-use-and-land-cover, mississippi, population-human, runoff, soil-horizons, stream-discharge, stream-gage-measurement, tennessee, usgs-56be3187e4b06458514af159, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hydrologic and Landscape Database for the Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge and Contributing Watersheds, Alabama

This hydrologic and landscape database was developed by the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for the Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge and contributing watersheds in Alabama. The database was developed as an assessment and evaluation tool to use in examining refuge-specific hydrologic patterns and trends as related to water availability and water quality for refuge ecosystems, habits, and target species. The database includes hydrologic time series data, statistics on landscape and hydrologic time series data, and hydro-ecological metrics that can be used to assess refuge hydrologic conditions. The database is described in detail in Open File Report 2017-1018.

Tags: data-packaging, ecosystems, groundwater-level, hydrology, land-use-and-land-cover, population-human, runoff, soil-horizons, stream-discharge, stream-gage-measurement, usgs-56be1f08e4b06458514af034, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Shapefiles and Historical Aerial Photographs, Little Missouri River, 1939-2003

The data archive contains the aerial photographs and channel delineations used in our analysis. The images have been geo-referenced to the 1995 digital orthophoto quarter quadrangles as described by Miller and Friedman (2009). The separate images for each year can be viewed as a composite along with that year’s channel delineation using a geographic information system (GIS). The 2003 IKONOS satellite imagery is proprietary and, therefore, cannot be served here. The pre1939 shapefile serves as a reference for the original location of the flood plain that formed before the earliest photos were taken in 1939, and is not associated with any aerial images. The channel delineations for all photo years (including 2003) and the delineation of the outer flood-plain boundary are stored as shapefiles. These shapefiles can be manipulated using GIS applications to reproduce the spatial analyses reported in Miller and Friedman (2009).
This metadata record is associated with the project landing page that describes the entire data package. There are nine child items on the main landing page; one represents the pre1939 reference shapefile and the other eight child items are each associated with a different repeat photography year. Each of these eight child items provide all images taken in that year (with the exception of 2003) and a SHP file that delineates channel location. Each year's photography consists of 4-8 scanned and referenced aerial photographs or digital satellite imagery in a geoTIFF format. SHP files from any year can be overlaid on top of the images to visualize change in channel location. TIFF images and associated SHP files are included as attachments or external sources and can be downloaded directly from the ScienceBase page.
Reference: Miller, J.R., and J.M. Friedman. 2009. Influence of flow variability on flood-plain formation and destruction, Little Missouri River, North Dakota. Geological Society of America Bulletin 121:752-759.

Tags: aerial-photography, central-us, channel-adjustment, erosion, flood, flood-plain-formation, geoscientificinformation, little-missouri-river, mckenzie-county, nd, north-dakota, plains-cottonwood, theodore-roosevelt-national-park, united-states, usgs-56bcd3d6e4b08d617f66a8b4
Organization: Department of the Interior
Rangeland Ecology Monitoring Data : 1967-2013

The dataset describes rangeland monitoring results from the Hanksville, UT (USA) area. Monitoring results consist of canopy cover of plant species and functional types according to ecological site group from 1967 to 2013. The study area is bordered on the north by the Wayne-Emery County line, on the west by Capitol Reef National Park, and on the south and east by the Colorado River, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, and Canyonlands National Park. Cover was estimated every 1 to 5 years (except the last measurement that had a 12 year interval) from 1967 to 2013 at 36 permanently marked sites in 15 livestock grazing allotments/pastures. Canopy cover of perennial plant species was estimated to the nearest tenth of a percent inside permanently marked 1.5 x 1.5 m plots using a frame that was divided into 6 x 6 cm sections.

Tags: climate-change, colorado-plateau, ecological-sites, garfield-county, grazing, hanksville, land-use-change, landscape-scale, plant-responses, precipitation, rangeland-monitoring, san-juan-county, soils, state-and-transition-models, united-states, usgs-56c73ae9e4b0946c6524083f, utah, vegetation, wayne-county
Organization: Department of the Interior
Electrical Conductivity Data for the Snake River, Yellowstone National Park and Grand Teton National Park

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the National Park Service (NPS) have collaborated on monitoring the chloride flux in the major rivers of Yellowstone National Park by periodically sampling the rivers and analyzing chloride concentrations in discrete water samples since the 1970's. However, restrictions of winter travel, great distances between sites, and sampling and analytical costs have limited collection to approximately 28 samples per site annually. Electrical conductivity data can be used as a proxy for chloride concentrations in many of the major rivers of Yellowstone National Park. Electrical conductivity is a measure of the ability of water to pass an electrical current, and it is affected by the presence of inorganic ions such as chloride and other geothermal solutes. In 2012, an electrical conductivity probe was installed in the Snake River above Jackson Lake near Flagg Ranch. Continuous (every 15 minutes) electrical conductivity measurements provide high-resolution data that can be used to rapidly calculate chloride flux in the Snake River.

Tags: electrical-conductivity, specific-conductance, usgs-56bb6e84e4b08d617f657860
Organization: Department of the Interior