AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Bathymetry of the Similkameen River Above Enloe Dam Near Oroville, Washington

Shoreline water level shoreline points collected were used as the zero-elevation point. Directly above the dam, the inferred zero elevation point was based on NAIP 2015 imagery corrected to Okanogan County lidar. Bathymetric points were collect using an acoustic doppler continuous profiler (ADCP). Grid cell values record the depth in meters from the water surface to the sediment. Bathymetry surface was interpolated to 3m resolution using Spline Interpolation with Barriers in ArcGIS Pro 2.5.0. Barrier was set using survey_area polygon.

Tags: bathymetry, enloe-dam, similkameen-river, usgs-60075dced34e162231fb1bf6
Organization: Department of the Interior
Full map area for the vegetation map of the Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge Hakalau Forest Unit and adjacent lands, island of Hawaii, 2016.

This data layer identifies the full mapping boundary for a vegetation map of the Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge Hakalau Forest Unit and adjacent lands, island of Hawaii.

Tags: hakalau-forest-national-wildlife-refuge, hawaii, usgs-6007359ad34e162231fb1a15, vegetation, vegetation-map
Organization: Department of the Interior
Accuracy assessment plots for the Hakalau Forest Unit (HFU) map area for the vegetation map of the Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge Hakalau Forest Unit and adjacent lands, island of Hawaii, 2016

This data layer identifies location and boundaries for 100 randomly located plots used to assess the accuracy of the Hakalau Forest Unit (HFU) map area for the vegetation map of the Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge Hakalau Forest Unit and adjacent lands,

Tags: accuracy-assessment, hakalau-forest-national-wildlife-refuge, hawaii, usgs-600733e4d34e162231fb19fc, vegetation, vegetation-map
Organization: Department of the Interior
Daily Loads of Suspended Sediment, Total Nitrogen, and Total Phosphorus Calculated from Instantaneous Regression Model Concentration Estimates from June 23, 2015 through February 6, 2019.

The primary data sets consist of loads  (with upper 95-percent prediction interval, and lower 95-percent prediction interval) of suspended sediment, total nitrogen, and total phosphorus calculated from instantaneous concentrations estimated from regression models from June 23, 2015 to February 6 2019. The secondary dataset consist of daily loads calculated from the cumulative total of instantaneous loads for each day in the primary dataset.

Tags: environment, indiana, midwest, nutrient-content, nutrient-pollution, sediment-transport, statistical-modeling, surface-water-quality, usgs-6007a523d34e162231fb1d40, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Temperature rod sensor data, San Antonio Creek Valley watershed, Santa Barbara County, California, 2016–2019

Heat can be used a tracer for monitoring seepage rates within stream channels. To estimate seepage using temperature, the diel amplitude and attenuation of temperature at several depths below the streambed must be monitored, as well as the frequency and duration of streamflow in a channel (Narranjo and Smith, 2016). Special subsurface temperature rods (TRODS) were developed to address these most of these needs (Narranjo and Turcotte, 2015). A TROD consists of discrete temperature iButton sensors within a .75 inch (in) diameter 1 meter (m) long sealed, water-proof PVC pipe to prevent water damage to the sensors. A TROD is installed into stream channel sediments and measures surface water and sediment temperatures (Narranjo and Turcotte, 2015). TRODS are ideally suited for measuring instream water and sediment temperature as the instruments are constructed with a low profile design mitigating harsh channel conditions, are inexpensive to construct, allow for data transfers without removing the instrument using a simple and efficient dedicated software (Narranjo and Turcotte, 2015). However, TRODS do not measure stream duration or flow frequency and must be paired with other instrumentation.

Tags: environment, geoscientificinformation, groundwater-and-surface-water-interaction, percolation, usgs-60073279d34e162231fb19e5, water-temperature
Organization: Department of the Interior
Streambed electrical resistivity instruments, San Antonio Creek Valley watershed, Santa Barbara County, California, 2015–2019

Streambed instruments that measure electrical resistivity were constructed and installed along the main channel in San Antonio Creek and along tributary streambeds in order to provide insight into intermittent streamflow not recorded by traditional stream gaging stations. These instruments can record high-resolution temporal and geographic responses of streamflow to precipitation in intermittent streams. Streambed electrical resistivity sensors (SERS) and stream temperature, intermittency, and conductivity sensors (STICs) are small, cost-effective, instruments that can be installed (and re-installed) along stream reaches to measure stream intermittency. These instruments employ water contact electrodes to record wet and dry periods—dry periods with no streamflow are characterized by no or small electrical signals, whereas wet periods with streamflow are characterized by large electrical signals due to the presence of water. SERS are constructed by repurposing commercial temperature sensors to record electrical conductivity by removing the sensor thermistor and replacing it with water contact electrodes (Blasch, and others, 2002). STICs serve the same function as SERS but are constructed by repurposing optical sensors so that a temperature and conductivity signal can be recorded (Chapin, and others, 2014).   
Twenty one SERS and four STICS were constructed and installed in protective casings at bed level along the main channel in San Antonio Creek, and in tributary streams in order to provide insight into stream intermittency. The SERS and STICs were in use between August 2015 and February 2019; the period of record for each instrument varied depending on the date of installation and removal.

Tags: environment, geoscientificinformation, groundwater-and-surface-water-interaction, inlandwaters, streamflow, streams, usgs-6007324ed34e162231fb19e1
Organization: Department of the Interior
Infiltrometer data, San Antonio Creek Valley watershed, Santa Barbara County, California, 2017

Infiltrometers are devices used to measure the infiltration rates of water into soils or porous media (Bouwer, 1986). Cylinder infiltrometers are generally constructed from metal shaped into cylinders which are driven into the ground and flooded with water. The rate at which water infiltrates into the ground is measured until the rate of infiltration is constant to capture unsaturated infiltration rates and beyond steady state to measure saturated infiltration rates and conductivity (Bouwer, 1986). Infiltrometers are typically employed to measure the rate of infiltration on inundated soils such as surface irrigation, seepage from surface water such as streams or reservoirs, or infiltration basins for groundwater recharge (Bouwer, 1986). Single ring and double ring infiltrometer tests can be performed using constant head or falling head conditions. A single ring infiltrometer consists of one metal ring that is used to measure infiltration. A double ring infiltrometer consists of a smaller nested infiltrometer within a larger cylinder. Equal water levels are maintained in both rings to mitigate divergent infiltration so that vertical infiltration can be measured in the inner infiltrometer (Bouwer, 1986). Under the constant head condition, Mariotte bottles (Schwertz, 1950) are used to maintain a constant head (water-level elevation) in the infiltrometer ring. For falling head tests, the water level is allowed to drop with time and the amount of water that infiltrates is measured. Several tests should be performed at the same location to obtain accurate measurements (Bouwer, 1986). 
Infiltrometer tests were performed at 12 streambed sites within the San Antonio Creek Valley watershed (SACVW) in order to quantify infiltration potential along San Antonio Creek and its tributaries. Data were collected over the course of five days beginning on August 22, 2017 and ending on August 26, 2017.  Five sites (SAC-STB1 through SAC-STB5) were selected along the main channel of San Antonio Creek, and seven sites (SAC-UPL1 through SAC-UPL7) were selected along tributary channels.

Tags: environment, geoscientificinformation, groundwater-and-surface-water-interaction, inlandwaters, percolation, streamflow, streams, usgs-60073221d34e162231fb19da
Organization: Department of the Interior
Accuracy assessment plots for the full map area for the vegetation map of the Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge Hakalau Forest Unit and adjacent lands, island of Hawaii, 2016

This data layer identifies location and boundaries for 100 randomly located plots used to assess the accuracy of a vegetation map of the Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge Hakalau Forest Unit and adjacent lands,

Tags: accuracy-assessment, hakalau-forest-national-wildlife-refuge, hawaii, usgs-600726ddd34e162231fb1996, vegetation, vegetation-map
Organization: Department of the Interior
Species observations from pitfall trap arrays, species pool matrices, and patch locations in Southern California from 1995-2015

Observations (reduced to detected/not detected) of 45 vertebrate species (seven mammals, seven amphibians, and 31 reptiles) across Southern California pitfall sampling projects conducted between 1995 through 2015. Habitat patch locations of every pitfall sampling project presented in a shapefile.  Habitat patches were measured based on the size when pitfall sampling began within each.  Sampling projects within the same geographic area may have different sized patches based on date of project sampling and if patch erosion occurred.  A matrix of whether each species was expected within each habitat patch's species pool based on range maps and published records is also included.
These data support the following publication:
Amburgey, S.M., Miller, D.A.W., Rochester, C.J., Delaney, K.S., Riley, S.P.D., Brehme, C.S., Hathaway, S.A. and Fisher, R.N., 2020. The influence of species life history and distribution characteristics on species responses to habitat fragmentation in an urban landscape. Journal of Animal Ecology.

Tags: amphibian, amphibians, biodiversity, biogeography, biota, climate-change, density-compensation, ecology, los-angeles-county, mammal, mammals, multi-species-occupancy-model, orange-county, reptile, reptiles, riverside-county, san-bernardino-county, san-diego-county, southern-california, urbanization, usgs-60022807d34e592d8671ffde, ventura-county
Organization: Department of the Interior
Dissolved Oxygen, temperature, particle-size distribution, and groundwater flux in the nearshore of Lake Ozette, WA, October 2018 to May 2019

This release contains data collected to study the impacts of vegetation removal on the condition of Lake Ozette Sockeye spawning habitat. From October 2018 to May 2019, continuous sediment temperature and subsurface dissolved oxygen were collected at sites near Olsen's Beach on the eastern shore of Lake Ozette, WA. Data were collected from 3 sites; a spawning control (SC) where sockeye currently return to spawn; a vegetation control (VC) where nearshore vegetation inhibits the amount of sockeye spawning; and a vegetation treatment (TR) area where nearshore vegetation was manually removed to assess if habitat quality can be improved. In addition to the continuous data, particle size data from the nearshore were determined at the beginning (October 2018) and end (May 2019) of the study period. 
Details of data collection methods and data quality, are available in three child items (1) Estimates of groundwater flux from vertical temperature profiles within lakebed sediments at Lake Ozette, WA, October 2018 to April 2019, (2) Nearshore lake sediment particle-size distribution data, Lake Ozette, WA, October 2018 and May 2019, and (3) Subsurface dissolved oxygen and sediment temperature at Lake Ozette, WA, October 2018 to May 2019.

Tags: 1dtemppro, clallam-county, downwelling, environment, grain-size-analysis, groundwater-and-surface-water-interaction, hydrology, inlandwaters, lake-ozette, olympic-national-park, oxygen-content-water, sediment-temperature-modeling, sediment-vertical-temperature-profiles, specific-discharge, upwelling, usgs-600219a1d34e592d8671ff97, washington-state, water-temperature
Organization: Department of the Interior
United States Wind Turbine Database (ver. 8.2, December 2025)

This dataset provides locations and technical specifications of wind turbines in the United States, almost all of which are utility-scale. Utility-scale turbines are ones that generate power and feed it into the grid, supplying a utility with energy. They are usually much larger than turbines that would feed a house or business. The regularly updated database contains wind turbine records that have been collected, digitized, and locationally verified. Turbine data were gathered from the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Digital Obstacle File (DOF) and Obstruction Evaluation Airport Airspace Analysis (OE-AAA), American Clean Power (ACP) Association (formerly American Wind Energy Association (AWEA)), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), and the United States Geological Survey (USGS), and were merged and collapsed into a single dataset. Verification of the turbine positions was done by visual interpretation using high-resolution aerial imagery in ESRI ArcGIS Desktop. A locational error of plus or minus 10 meters for turbine locations was tolerated. Technical specifications for turbines were assigned based on the wind turbine make and models as provided by manufacturers and project developers directly, and via FAA datasets, information on the wind project developer or turbine manufacturer websites, or other online sources. Some facility and turbine information on make and model did not exist or was difficult to obtain. Thus, uncertainty may exist for certain turbine specifications. Similarly, some turbines were not yet built, not built at all, or for other reasons cannot be verified visually. Location and turbine specifications data quality are rated, and confidence is recorded for both. None of the data are field verified.

Tags: acp, acp-formerly-awea, american-clean-power, database, energy, lawrence-berkeley-national-laboratory, lbnl, national, renewable, shapefile, turbine, turbine-characteristics, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-6001e327d34e592d8671fae0, uswtdb, verified, wind, wind-facility, wind-farm, wind-turbine
Organization: Department of the Interior
Survival and ancillary data associated with Cisco acoustic tagging experiment conducted in 2018 and 2019

These data include survival information for Cisco in the laboratory for up to 30 days after surgical implantation of two different sizes of Lotek acoustic tags. Three-hundred fish of a range of sizes were used for the implantation and controls of this experiment, which was repeated three time. Ancillary data of surgical condition, recovery, and time until death or tag expulsion were also recorded, as well as sizes at beginning and end of observation period and estimated growth.

Tags: biota, coregonus, coregonus-artedi, cortland, cortland-county, fish, great-lakes, lake-ontario, natural-resource-management, new-york, usgs-6001adc8d34e592d8671f893
Organization: Department of the Interior
Colorado River Delta Project: A compilation of vegetation indices, phenology assessment metrics, and estimates of evapotranspiration for circular bird plots in the Colorado River delta between 2000-2020 (ver. 1.0)

These data were compiled to understand the effects of riparian vegetation health on local abundance and species diversity of land birds. The primary objective of our study was to to determine the effects of riparian restoration on birds in the Colorado River delta. These tabular data represent vegetation indices and evapotranspiration (ET) data at varying spatial scales that correspond to avian use circles of 100 to 2000 meters. Three vegetation reflectance indices (VIs): NDVI, EVI, and EVI2 were obtained from Landsat imagery with a biweekly temporal frequency, and covering the entire period of bird surveys (2002-2020). The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) and two-band EVI, named EVI2, were produced as tabular data sets. ET was then produced using EVI and EVI2. Also, ET was calculated from EVI2 using an empirical equation (Nagler et al., 2013). Data acquisition and processing were performed at the University of Arizona VIP lab (vip.arizona.edu) using their large Linux cluster of computing and storage resources.

Tags: arizona, avian-use-circles, avian-use-data, biota, bird-abundance, bird-diversity, bird-richness, bird-species, bird-vegetation-relationships, birds, california, circular-plots, colorado-river-delta, data-release, datasets, enhanced-vegetation-index, evapotranspiration, evi, evi2, land-use-and-land-cover, marshland-habitat, mexico, morelos-dam, ndvi, normalized-difference-vegetation-index, plot-sampling, relative-abundance-analysis, riparian, riparian-habitat, sampling-sites, time-series-datasets, two-band-evi, usgs-6000cd57d34e592d8671f64a, vegetation, vegetation-greenness, vegetation-index, water-use, wetland-ecosystems, yuma
Organization: Department of the Interior
Volcanic plume heights from the summit of Kilauea Volcano, Hawai'i

This data release provides volcanic plume heights from the summit of Kīlauea Volcano for 2008-2015, and during the eruptive events of 2018. For 2018, a Secacam Wild Vision Full HD camera with a 7mm focal length was located at 1717 m elevation approximately 15 m south of the Mauna Loa Strip Road within Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, 19.475843°N, 155.363560°W (WGS84). The camera was pointed southeast to capture images of the Kīlauea caldera every two minutes. These images were used to calculate maximum plume heights within the frame of the camera. For each 2-minute image, the maximum plume heights above the Halemaʻumaʻu crater rim, and in the overall image, were calculated using the horizontal distance to the plume feature, the inclination angle, camera focal length, pixel size, and basic trigonometry. For 3,518 images the plume height above Halemaʻumaʻu crater represents the maximum height in the image, and a '0' is indicated for the camera frame plume height. For 4,325 images, no plume was discernable in the image directly above Halemaʻumaʻu (as a result of fog, clouds, plume moving downwind, or other factors), and the maximum plume height in the entire camera frame is reported, with a '0' indicated for the Halemaʻumaʻu plume height. Included in the release are all 83,320 images from 9 April, 2018 to 16 August, 2018. These images include both day and night, whether or not a plume is visible.
Plume height data from 31 March, 2008 to 23 April, 2015 were recorded by an observer using a handheld inclinometer while standing close to the corner of the low rock wall at the Jaggar overlook at 19.251065°N, 155.171629°W (WGS84). Date, time, approximate location of the highest plume feature, and inclination angle were recorded. The horizontal distance to the highest plume feature, the inclination angle, and basic trigonometry were used to calculate the maximum plume height above the elevation of the vent within Halemaʻumaʻu.

Tags: eruption-plume, halemaumau, klauea-crater, klauea-volcano, plume-height, usgs-6000a312d34e592d8671f57f
Organization: Department of the Interior
Cottonwood Lake Study Area - Specific Conductance

This dataset contains the specific conductance values of water for all wetlands in the Cottonwood Lake Study Area, Stutsman County, North Dakota.

Tags: chase-lake-wetland-management-districtgtstutsman-county-waterfowl-production-areagteddy, chase-lake-wetland-management-districtgtstutsman-county-waterfowl-production-areagtshuler, climatic-change, cottonwood-lake-study-area, effects-of-climate-change, hydrodynamics, hydrology, inlandwaters, land-use, land-use-change, northern-great-plains, prairie-pothole-region, state-of-north-dakota, stutsman-county, usgs-5fff6992d34e592d8671ef63, water-properties, water-resources, water-sampling, wetland-agriculture, wetland-functions, wetlands
Organization: Department of the Interior
Pharmaceutical Data from the California Groundwater Ambient Monitoring and Assessment Priority Basin Project (GAMA-PBP) Domestic Well Groundwater Quality Studies, 2014 - 2021

The U.S. Geological Survey collected groundwater samples from 537 domestic wells for pharmaceutical compounds between 2014 and 2021 from 9 different study units. These wells were sampled as part of the California State Water Resources Control Board Groundwater Ambient Monitoring and Assessment (GAMA) Program Priority Basin Project’s assessment of the quality of groundwater resources used for domestic drinking water supply. The 9 study units are in parts of the San Joaquin Valley, Sacramento Valley, Sierra Nevada Foothills, and the Southern California Desert basins where domestic wells are extensively used for drinking water supply. The well selection for the study units were selected by using a grid-based approach to ensure a representative sampling of the extent of the area where the groundwater resource is being used.

Tags: california, censored, datasets, dissolved-organic-compounds, environment, gama-pbp, groundwater, groundwater-ambient-monitoring-and-assessment-program-priority-basin-project, groundwater-quality, laboratory-methods, pharmaceuticals, united-states, usgs-5fff63d6d34e592d8671eef2
Organization: Department of the Interior
Peak-flow frequency analysis for seven selected U.S. Geological Survey streamgages in the Floyd and Little Sioux River Basins, Iowa, based on data through water year 2019

This data release presents peak-flow frequency analyses by the U.S. Geological Survey based on methods described by Eash and others (2013) for streamgages 06600100, Floyd River at Alton, Iowa; 06600300, West Branch Floyd River near Struble, Iowa; 06600500, Floyd River near James, Iowa; 06605000, Ocheyedan River near Spencer, Iowa; 06605850, Little Sioux River at Linn Grove, Iowa; 06607200, Maple River at Mapleton, Iowa; and 06607500, Little Sioux River near Turin, Iowa. These methods are used to provide estimates of peak-flow quantiles for 50-, 20-, 10-, 4-, 2-, 1-, 0.5-, and 0.2-percent annual exceedance probabilities (AEPs). Annual peak-flow data used in the peak-flow frequency analyses for these streamgages were retrieved from the U.S. Geological Survey National Water Information System webpage (U.S. Geological Survey, 2020)  and used with USGS flood-frequency analysis software PeakFQ (Veilleux and others, 2014). This data release contains annual peak-flow data (floyd_ffa_2019_WATSTORE.txt), PeakFQ specifications (floyd_ffa_2019.psf), and a series of tables describing the methods and results of the peak-flow frequency analysis (floyd_ffa_2019.xlsx).
References Cited:
Eash, D.A., Barnes, K.K., and Veilleux, A.G., 2013, Methods for estimating annual exceedance-probability discharges for streams in Iowa, based on data through water year 2010: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2013-5086, 63 p. with appendix., http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2013/5086/.
U.S. Geological Survey, 2020, USGS water data for the Nation: U.S. Geological Survey National Water Information System database, accessed June 25, 2020, at https://doi.org/10.5066/F7P55KJN.
Veilleux, A.G., Cohn, T.A., Flynn, K.M., Mason, R.R., Jr., and Hummel, P.R., 2014, Estimating magnitude and frequency of floods using the PeakFQ 7.0 program: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2013–3108, 2 p., https://dx.doi.org/10.3133/fs20133108.

Tags: annual-exceedance-probability, floyd-river, hydrology, iowa, little-sioux-river, peak-flow-frequency, streamflow, usgs-5fff2c49d34e592d8671ecf6
Organization: Department of the Interior