AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Data for assessing the penetration depth post-1950s water in the Central Valley aquifer system, California (July 2022)

This dataset provides groundwater ages estimates that were used in an assessment of the penetration depth of modern groundwater in the Central Valley aquifer system (CVAL). Groundwater ages were estimated by calibration of environmental tracers (tritium, tritiogenic helium-3, chlorofluorocarbons, sulfur hexafluoride, carbon-14 and radiogenic helium-4) to lumped parameter models (LPMs) for samples from 650 sample locations. Groundwater samples were collected from wells (mainly drinking-water) in the CVAL between 2004 and 2017 as part of the California State Water Resources Control Board Groundwater Ambient Monitoring and Assessment Priority Basin Project (GAMA-PBP) and the National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Project. Table 1 reports the primary results of this assessment including mean groundwater age and the input for calculation of mean groundwater age: results of the tritium age classification, condensed results from dissolved gas modeling, and calculated environmental tracer concentrations. Calibrated lumped parameter models provide the optimal mean age and mixing parameter(s) used to compute the distribution of ages that explain the measured tracer concentrations in a sample. Tables 2, 3, and 4 provide results in support of Table 1. Table 2 reports detailed results for the calibration of dissolved gas models to neon, argon, krypton, xenon, and nitrogen. Calibrated dissolved gas models provide the optimal water temperature, excess air, entrapped air, fractionation of gases, and excess nitrogen gas (mainly from denitrification) that explain the measured dissolved gases in a sample. Table 3 reports measured concentrations and the detailed calculations of environmental tracer concentrations derived from the dissolved gas modeling results in Table 2. Calculated concentrations of environmental tracers that can be used in groundwater age calculations are the dry air mixing ratio of sulfur hexafluoride or chlorofluorocarbons, tritiogenic helium-3, which is the concentration of helium-3 from the decay of tritium, and radiogenic helium-4. Table 4 reports information used to calculate the partial exponential model ratios used in the groundwater age modeling. In addition to these four tables, two ancillary tables are included to provide more detailed information about the fields and the abbreviations used in tables 1-4.

Tags: central-valley-aquifer, dissolved-gases, gama, groundwater, groundwater-age, groundwater-quality, lumped-parameter-model, nawqa, recharge-temperature, usgs-5f29c0f382cef313ed9edae4, western-principal-aquifers
Organization: Department of the Interior
Records of selected wells for the Detailed Aquifer Mapping in the Susquehanna River Valley in South-Central Broome County, Towns of Conklin and Kirkwood

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is providing a compilation of geologic well records (n=221) collected from 2014-2020 within the Binghamton East 1:24,000 quadrangle in south-central Broome County, New York. The well records were obtained from: 1) previous U.S. Geological Survey groundwater investigations, 2) the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Water Information System (NWIS), 3) the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) Water Well Contractor Program, and 4) the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT). The dataset is in comma-separated values (CSV) format. A companion report, USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2021-5026 (Van Hoesen and others, 2021; https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20215026) further describes data collection and map preparation.

Tags: aquifer, broome-county, conklin, geology, glacial, groundwater, hydrogeology, kirkwood, new-york, susquehanna-river, united-states, usgs-5f29883682cef313ed9e92b0, water-levels, wells, yields
Organization: Department of the Interior
Surficial Geology within the Susquehanna River Valley in South-Central Broome County, Towns of Conklin and Kirkwood, New York

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is providing a polygon feature class containing the delineated areas of postglacial and glacial deposits within the Binghamton East quadrangle of south-central Broome County, New York, 2014-2021. Surficial units included are alluvium, alluvial fans, outwash, glacial lake clay, ice-contact deposit, and variable thicknesses of till. The shapefile was created and intended for use with geographic information system (GIS) software. A companion report, USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2021-5026 (Van Hoesen and others, 2021; https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20215026) further describes data collection and map preparation.

Tags: broome-county, conklin, geology, glacial, groundwater, hydrogeology, kirkwood, new-york, susquehanna-river, united-states, usgs-5f297a9782cef313ed9e82b0
Organization: Department of the Interior
Surface Geophysical Data Used for Mapping the Top of the Dockum Group on Cannon Air Force Base in Curry County, New Mexico, 2020.

The hydrogeology of the Cannon Air Force Base (AFB) in Curry County, is being investigated to better understand the mechanics of groundwater flow in the area, including the identification of preferential groundwater flow paths. Mapping the top of the Dockum Group was done to help identify potential paleochannels that may have eroded the surface of the Dockum Group and subsequently filled in with coarse-grained sediments of the overlying Ogallala Formation. The Dockum Group is composed of sandstone, siltstone, mudstone, and shale that were originally deposited in fluvial and lacustrine environments (McGowen and others, 1979). The upper part of the Dockum Group is a thick layer of red clay referred to locally as the “red beds” and is a confining unit between the Ogallala aquifer and the Dockum aquifer. The lower part of the Ogallala Formation consists of heterogeneous sequences of gravel and coarse-grained sand that grades upward into sand, silt, and clay (Peckham and Ashworth, 1993). Paleochannels in the top part of the Dockum Group are believed to be preferential flow paths for groundwater in the area. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the U.S. Air Force Civil Engineer Center (AFCEC) used surface geophysical resistivity methods to analyze the subsurface hydrogeology and map potential paleochannels within the Dockum Group, which can further aid in the understanding of the groundwater flow beneath Cannon AFB. This data release contains the results of 60 time-domain electromagnetic (TDEM) soundings and two electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) profiles collected on the AFB that will be used map the top of the Dockum Group.

Tags: cannon-air-force-base, curry-county, dockum-group, electrical-resistivity-tomography, electromagnetic, geologic, geophysical-survey, groundwater, hydrogeologic, new-mexico, ogallala-group, resistivity, time-domain, usgs-5f2978e682cef313ed9e82aa
Organization: Department of the Interior
Diet of Chinook and coho salmon in the Elwha River estuary, Washington, before and during dam removal

This portion of the data release presents fish diet data from Chinook and coho salmon collected in the Elwha River estuary, Washington, in 2006, 2007, 2013, and 2014 (there are no associated USGS Field Activities numbers because data were collected predominantly by biologists from the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe). Fish were collected using a beach seine at six locations throughout the estuary. Fish were transferred to buckets containing aerated ambient water and kept cool until handling. We anesthetized fish in a diluted solution of tricaine methanesulfonate (MS-222) to count, identify, and measure fork length (FL) to the nearest mm and weight to the nearest 0.1 g. After recovery from anesthesia, all fish were released at the point of capture. Stomach contents from a sub-sample of Chinook and coho were extracted via non-lethal gastric lavage and preserved in ethanol. When possible, stomach contents from ten individuals of each species between 55–199 mm fork length were collected at each site during each sampling event. Fish with no regurgitated prey were recorded as empty stomachs. Fish diet samples were sent to a professional taxonomist for processing and identification to the lowest practical taxonomic level. Aquatic taxa were typically identified to the genus or species level and terrestrial taxa to family or genus. Some less-common taxa or partially-digested prey items were identified to Order or Class. The locations of samples were determined with a hand-held global positioning system. Fish diet data are provided in a comma-delimited spreadsheet.

Tags: animals-invertebrates, biota, clallam-county, elwha-river, fishes, invertebrates, oceans, olympic-peninsula, species-diversity, state-of-washington, strait-of-juan-de-fuca, usgs-5f287fa082cef313ed9e1c96, vertebrates
Organization: Department of the Interior
Environmental DNA detection and survival, influence of sediment, and stream transport in a Lake Michigan watershed, 2018

The data released are associated with an examination of eDNA from round goby fish (Neogobius melanostomus) in a series of field sample collections (lake nearshore and stream transport) and in vitro laboratory experiments. The round goby was used as a model for our source of eDNA in the field collections and mesocosm experiments. The field samples for lake nearshore (water and sediment) were collected from two Lake Michigan shoreline locations (Portage Lakefront, Portage, Indiana and Washington Park, Michigan City, Indiana) to examine the detectability of eDNA, the influence of sediment on eDNA estimates, and eDNA spatial and temporal resolution. The field samples for stream transport (water) were collected from Brown Ditch, a Lake Michigan stream, and were used to model and test eDNA transport. Rates for eDNA shedding and decay in water and sediment were developed using in vitro laboratory experiments and provided a comparison of eDNA behavior (persistence and degradation) and detection in water and sediment.

Tags: biota, brown-ditch, environment, environmental-dna, field-methods, freshwater-ecosystems, indiana-dunes-national-park, inlandwaters, lake-michigan, polymerase-chain-reaction, portage-lakefront, usgs-5f284b6782cef313ed9de66a, washington-park
Organization: Department of the Interior
Standard deviation of vegetated fraction of the U.S. coastal wetlands: Standard deviation of masked multiyear-composite computed from Landsat data (2014 - 2018)

Prior research has shown that sediment budgets, and therefore stability, of microtidal marsh complexes scale with areal unvegetated to vegetated marsh ratios (UVVR) suggesting these metrics are broadly applicable indicators of microtidal marsh vulnerability. This effort has developed the UVVR metric using Landsat 8 satellite imagery for the coastal areas of the contiguous United States (CONUS). These datasets provide annual averages of 1) developed, 2) vegetated, 3) unvegetated fractional covers and 4) an unvegetated to vegetated ratio (UVVR) at 30-meter resolution over the coastal areas of the contiguous United States for the years 2014-2018. Additionally, multi-year average values of vegetated fractional cover and its standard deviation are provided for the coastal wetlands of the contiguous United States based on the National Wetland Inventory delineation. Finally, a UVVR based on the annually-averaged vegetated fractional cover is also provided for the same extent.

Tags: coastal-ecosystems, coastal-processes, geotiff, inlandwaters, marsh-health, marsh-stress, pacific-ocean, resilience, salt-marsh, sedimentation, society, united-states, usgs-5f28109582cef313ed9cd788, vegetation, vulnerability, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-functions
Organization: Department of the Interior
Unvegetated to Vegetated Ratio (UVVR) of the U.S. coastal wetlands: UVVR based on masked multiyear-composite computed from Landsat data (2014 - 2018)

Prior research has shown that sediment budgets, and therefore stability, of microtidal marsh complexes scale with areal unvegetated to vegetated marsh ratios (UVVR) suggesting these metrics are broadly applicable indicators of microtidal marsh vulnerability. This effort has developed the UVVR metric using Landsat 8  satellite imagery for the coastal areas of the contiguous United States (CONUS). These datasets provide annual averages of 1) developed, 2) vegetated, 3) unvegetated fractional covers   and 4) an unvegetated to vegetated ratio (UVVR) at 30-meter resolution over the coastal areas of the contiguous United States for the years 2014-2018. Additionally, multi-year average values of vegetated fractional cover and its standard deviation are provided for the coastal wetlands of the contiguous United States based on the National Wetland Inventory delineation. Finally, a UVVR based on the annually-averaged vegetated fractional cover is also provided for the same extent.

Tags: coastal-ecosystems, coastal-processes, geotiff, inlandwaters, marsh-health, marsh-stress, pacific-ocean, resilience, salt-marsh, sedimentation, society, united-states, usgs-5f28109582cef313ed9cd787, vegetation, vulnerability, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-functions
Organization: Department of the Interior
Precipitation and Groundwater Level Inputs for a Rain Garden on Sandy Soil, Gary, Indiana, 2016-18

A rain garden and other stormwater control measures (SCM) were installed at Gary City Hall in Gary, Indiana to retain water, increase infiltration and divert stormwater from city sewers. These input data were collected from a rain gage ((USGS site 413611087201301, City Hall Weather Station at Gary, IN.) and five monitoring wells with installed pressure transducers at different locations (see site description). The Episodic Master Recession (EMR) method is applied using these data as the singular input to estimate the amount of groundwater recharge at each of the five sites during the indicated period of time.
References cited:
Heppner, C.S., and Nimmo, J.R., 2005, A computer program for predicting recharge with a master recession curve: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2005–5172, 10 p., [Also available at https://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2005/5172/].
Nimmo, J.R., Horowitz, C., and Mitchell, L., 2015, Discrete-storm water-table fluctuation method to estimate episodic recharge: Groundwater, v.53, no. 2, https://doi.org/10.1111/gwat.12177.
Lampe, D.C., Bayless, E.R., and Follette, D.D., 2022, Stormwater reduction and water budget for a rain garden on sandy soil, Gary, Indiana, 2016–18: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2022–5101, 39 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20225101.

Tags: biota, coterminous-united-states, episodic-master-recession-emr, gary-indiana, green-infrastructure, rain-garden, recharge, united-states, usgs-5f2594f082cef313ed9828d1
Organization: Department of the Interior
Unoccupied Aircraft Systems (UAS) video of the 2018 lower East Rift Zone eruption of Kīlauea Volcano, Hawaii

This dataset contains Unoccupied Aircraft Systems (UAS) footage from the 2018 eruption of Kīlauea Volcano’s lower East Rift Zone (LERZ), Island of Hawai‘i. The four-month-long eruption, from May 3 to September 5, produced lava flows that destroyed 723 structures, inundated 35.5 km2 of land, and added 3.5 km2 of new land to the Island of Hawai‘i. There are 1178 UAS videos in this publication, recorded from May 27 to September 8, which have been separated into sub-pages by month. Videos taken during each month are separated into zipped files by date (YYYY/MM/DD) and location. Sub-pages for each month also contain a ReadMe text file with information pertaining to the videos, including flight end time, video duration, take off/landing location, visible active and inactive fissures, keywords, and aircraft name. A subset of these videos represents hover videos collected at nadir sites along the fissure 8 lava channel and several other locations for the purpose of measuring flow velocities and other channel monitoring. A document on the landing page describes the locations of these channel monitoring sites and the methodology used for video acquisition and recommendations for processing.

Tags: aerial-video, basalt, east-rift-zone, field-inventory-and-monitoring, geoscientificinformation, hawaii, hawaii-county-2, hi, kapoho, kilauea-volcano, lava-fields, lava-flow, leilani-estates, puna-district, usa, usgs-5ebb3b7482ce25b513618276, video-observation, videos, volcanic-activity, volcanic-features, volcanic-gas-emission, volcanic-rocks
Organization: Department of the Interior
Unoccupied Aircraft Systems (UAS) video of the 2018 lower East Rift Zone eruption of Kīlauea Volcano, Hawaii

This dataset contains Unoccupied Aircraft Systems (UAS) footage from the 2018 eruption of Kīlauea Volcano’s lower East Rift Zone (LERZ), Island of Hawai‘i. The four-month-long eruption, from May 3 to September 5, produced lava flows that destroyed 723 structures, inundated 35.5 km2 of land, and added 3.5 km2 of new land to the Island of Hawai‘i. There are 1178 UAS videos in this publication, recorded from May 27 to September 8, which have been separated into sub-pages by month. Videos taken during each month are separated into zipped files by date (YYYY/MM/DD) and location. Sub-pages for each month also contain a ReadMe text file with information pertaining to the videos, including flight end time, video duration, take off/landing location, visible active and inactive fissures, keywords, and aircraft name. A subset of these videos represents hover videos collected at nadir sites along the fissure 8 lava channel and several other locations for the purpose of measuring flow velocities and other channel monitoring. A document on the landing page describes the locations of these channel monitoring sites and the methodology used for video acquisition and recommendations for processing.

Tags: aerial-video, basalt, east-rift-zone, field-inventory-and-monitoring, geoscientificinformation, hawaii, hawaii-county-2, hi, kapoho, kilauea-volcano, lava-fields, lava-flow, leilani-estates, puna-district, usa, usgs-5ebb3b4182ce25b513618273, video-observation, videos, volcanic-activity, volcanic-features, volcanic-gas-emission, volcanic-rocks
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data Layers for the National Hydrologic Model, version 1.1

This U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) metadata release consists of 17 different spatial layers in GeoTIFF format. They are: 1) average water capacity (AWC.zip), 2) percent sand (Sand.zip), 3) percent silt (Silt.zip), 4) percent clay (Clay.zip), 5)  soil texture (TEXT_PRMS.zip), 6)  land use/land cover (LULC.zip), 7)   snow values (Snow.zip), 8)  summer rain values (SRain.zip), 9)  winter rain values (WRain.zip), 10)  leaf presence values (keep.zip), 11)  leaf loss values (loss.zip), 12) percent tree canopy (CNPY.zip), 13) percent impervious surface (Imperv.zip), 14) snow depletion curve numbers (Snow.zip), 15) rooting depth (RootDepth.zip), 16) permeability values (Lithology_exp_Konly_Project.zip), and 17) water bodies.  All data cover the National Hydrologic Model's (NHM) version 1.1 domain. The NHM is a modeling infrastructure consisting of three main parts: 1) an underlying geospatial fabric of modeling units (hydrologic response units and stream segments) with an associated parameter database, 2) a model input data archive, and 3) a repository of the physical model simulation code bases (Regan and others, 2014). The NHM has been used for a variety of applications since its initial development.The 250-meter (m) raster data sets for soils are derived from the OpenGeoHub's LandGIS data (Hengl, 2018).  The 30-meter raster of land use and land cover data are a simplified re-classification version of the North American Land-Change Monitoring System (NALCMS, Latifovic and others, 2012) data following the guidance in Viger and Leavesley (2007). This layer was used to derive rasters representing dominant vegetative cover type, snow, summer and winter rain interception values, leaf cover and loss, and rooting depth. The impervious data was compiled from the Global Man-made Impervious Surface (GMIS) Dataset from Landsat, v1 (NASA, 2010). The tree canopy data was compiled from MOD44B MODIS/Terra Vegetation Continuous Fields Yearly L3 Global 250m SIN Grid V006, (Carroll and others, 2017). The snow depletion data was compiled from data by Liston and others (2009) and further processed using methods by Sexstone and others (2020).  All file formats are in GeoTIFF (Geograhpic Tagged Imaged Format).

Tags: average-water-capacity, boundaries, canada, conterminous-united-states-of-america, geographic-information-systems-gis, geoscientificinformation, hydrologic-modeling, hydrologic-response-units-hrus, inlandwaters, interception, land-cover, leaf-loss, leaf-presence, percent-clay, percent-sand, percent-silt, usgs-5ebb182b82ce25b5136181cf
Organization: Department of the Interior
Topographic derivative datasets for the United States-Canada transboundary Geospatial Fabric

This U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) data release record consists of topographic data themes that cover the United States-Canada Transboundary Geospatial Fabric (TGF) domain. The 30-meter (m) raster data sets included under Topographic Derivatives are: 1) digital elevation (dem.tif) , 2) topographic wetness index (TWI, twi100X.tif) ,3) slope (rise over run, slope100X.tif),  4) aspect (asp100X.tif), and flow direction (fdr.tif). In some instances, values were multiplied by 100 and converted from double precision to integer format to reduce file sizes. All file formats are in GeoTIFF (Geographic Tagged Imaged Format).

Tags: aspect, boundaries, canada, digital-elevation-models, elevation, geographic-information-systems-gis, hydrologic-modeling, hydrologic-response-units-hrus, inlandwaters, slope, topographic-wetness-index, united-states, usgs-5ebb17d082ce25b5136181cb
Organization: Department of the Interior
Static reference point for the correction of real-time kinematic global navigation satellite system (GNSS) surveys at Soldier Meadows, Black Rock Desert - High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area, Nevada

This point shapefile contains information on one static reference location collected using three single-baseline online positioning user service – static (OPUS-S) global navigation satellite system (GNSS) surveys in Soldier Meadows, Black Rock Desert - High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area, Nevada, August 13-15, 2019. Surveys were completed at one temporary benchmark, TBM1. Data were collected by a Leica Viva GS14 GNSS. Processing of static observations was done using the National Geodetic Survey (NGS) online positioning user system (OPUS).

Tags: black-rock-desert, black-rock-desert-high-rock-canyon-emigrant-trails-national-conservation-area, freshwater-ecosystems, inlandwaters, mathematical-modeling, nevada, soldier-meadow, streamflow, surface-water-non-marine, usgs-5ebb097b82ce25b51361813b
Organization: Department of the Interior