AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Cherry River from Richwood to Fenwick, West Virginia, Flood Map Files from June 2016

The mapped area boundary, flood inundation extents, and depth rasters were created to provide an estimated extent of flood inundation along the Cherry River within the communities of Richwood and Fenwick, West Virginia. These geospatial data include the following items: 
1. cherry_bnd; shapefile containing the polygon showing the mapped area boundary for the Cherry River flood maps, 
2. cherry_hwm; shapefile containing high-water mark points, 
3. polygon_cherry_hwm; shapefile containing mapped extent of flood inundation, derived from the water-surface elevation surveyed at high-water marks, 
4. depth_hwm; raster file for the flood depths derived from the water-surface elevation surveyed at high-water marks, 
5. polygon_cherry_dem; shapefile containing mapped extent of flood inundation, derived from the height above ground recorded at high-water marks and the digital elevation model (DEM) raster, 
6. depth_dem; raster file for the flood depths derived from the height above ground recorded at high-water marks and the digital elevation model raster. 
The upstream and downstream mapped area extent is limited to the upstream-most and downstream-most high-water mark locations. In areas of uncertainty of flood extent, the mapped area boundary is lined up with the flood inundation polygon extent. The mapped area boundary polygon was used to extract the final flood inundation polygon and depth raster from the water-surface elevation raster file. Depth raster files were created using the "Topo to Raster" tool in ArcMap (ESRI, 2012). For this study two sets of inundation layers were generated for each reach. One raster file showing flood depths, "depth_hwm", was created by using high-water mark water-surface elevation values on the land surface and a digital elevation model. However, differences in elevation between the surveyed water-surface elevation values at HWM’s and the land-surface elevation from the digital elevation model data provided uncertainty in the inundation extent of the generated layers. Often times elevation differences of +/- 20 feet were noticed between the surveyed elevation from a HWM on the land surface and the digital elevation model land-surface elevation. Due to these elevation differences, we incorporated a second method of interpolating the water-surface layer. The recorded height above ground value from the surveyed HWM was added to the digital elevation model land-surface elevation at that point. This created a new water-surface elevation value to be used with the “Topo to Raster” interpolation method to create a second depth raster, "depth_dem". Both sets of inundation layers are provided.

Tags: boundary, cherry-river, extent, fenwick, flood, flood-inundation-maps, flooded-area, geospatial-analysis, high-water-marks, richwood, river-stream, study-area, usgs-59bfea02e4b091459a5e0929, west-virginia
Organization: Department of the Interior
Estrogen Equivalents of Surface Water in the Upper Chesapeake Bay Watershed (2008 - 2011)

Intersex in small- and largemouth bass has been observed in the upper Chesapeake Bay Watershed since 2003. This observation is indicative of exposure to estrogenic endocrine disrupting chemicals. In order to complement biological data sets and better identify the spatial and temporal nature of this end-point, discrete grab water samples were collected throughout the upper Chesapeake Bay Watershed for the evaluation of estrogenic activity. Data reported here are estrogenicity values derived from bioassay screening of OASIS-HLB extracts discrete grab water samples. Estrogenicity was determined using a bioluminescent yeast estrogen screen. Here we report estrogenicity data for selected sites in the Chesapeake Bay water shed collected between 2008 and 2011.

Tags: bioassay, environmental-health, estrogenicity, field-monitoring-stations, field-sampling, maryland, pennsylvania, usgs-59bfc56de4b091459a5e08ad, virginia, west-virginia
Organization: Department of the Interior
l876np.m77t - MGD77 data file for Geophysical data from field activity L-8-76-NP in Northern Pacific from 09/29/1976 to 10/21/1976

Single-beam bathymetry, magnetics, and gravity data along with transit satellite navigation data was collected as part of field activity L-8-76-NP in Northern Pacific from 09/29/1976 to 10/21/1976, http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/l/l876np/html/l-8-76-np.meta.html
These data are reformatted from space-delimited ASCII text files located in the Coastal and Marine Geology Program (CMGP) InfoBank field activity catalog at http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/l/l876np/html/l-8-76-np.bath.html http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/l/l876np/html/l-8-76-np.grav.html http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/l/l876np/html/l-8-76-np.mag.html into MGD77T format provided by the NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center(NGDC). The MGD77T format includes a header (documentation) file (.h77t) and a data file (.m77t). More information regarding this format can be found in the publication listed in the Cross_reference section of this metadata file.

Tags: bathymetry, bathymetry-and-elevation, bathymetry-measurement, distributions, geoscientificinformation, gravimeter-measurement, gravimetry, magnetic-field-observations, magnetometer-measurement, marine-geology, marine-geophysics, marine-gravity, marine-magnetics, marine-seismic, north-pacific-ocean, northern-pacific, northern-pacific-ocean, oceans, seafloor-topography, single-beam-bathymetry, single-beam-echo-sounder, usgs-59bec03c-a491-4d2f-bf22-3cfc8f56c923, water-depth
Organization: Department of the Interior
Discrete water-quality data for the Kansas River and tributaries, July 2012 - September 2016

This U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Data Release provides discrete water-quality data collected from four sites on the Kansas River and four of its tributaries during July 2012 through September 2016. The water-quality constituents included in this data release are the cyanotoxins microcystin and cylindrospermopsin, the taste-and-odor compounds geosmin and 2-methylisoborneol, major ions, alkalinity, nutrients, suspended sediment, indicator bacteria, and actinomycetes bacteria.

Tags: 2-methylisoborneol, actinomycetes-bacteria, alkalinity, big-blue-river-nr-manhattan-ks, chlorophyll, cyanobacteria, cyanotoxins, cylindrospermopsin, delaware-river-at-perry-ks, discrete-data-collection, dissolved-oxygen, freshwater, geosmin, indicator-bacteria, kansas, kansas-river, kansas-river-at-de-soto-ks, kansas-river-at-lawrence-ks, kansas-river-at-wamego-ks, kansas-river-nr-lake-quivira-ks, lower-kansas-river-basin, major-ions, mib, microcystin, nutrients, ph, phycocyanin, republican-river-at-junction-city-ks, river, specific-conductance, suspended-sediment, taste-and-odor-compounds, turbidity, united-states, usgs-59bc4c69e4b091459a591394, usgs-station-number-06857100, usgs-station-number-06887000, usgs-station-number-06887500, usgs-station-number-06890900, usgs-station-number-06891080, usgs-station-number-06891500, usgs-station-number-06892350, usgs-station-number-06892518, wakarusa-river-nr-lawrence-ks, water-quality-sample, water-temperature
Organization: Department of the Interior
Comparison with the 1999 Global Seismic Hazard Assessment (GSHAP) model

A comparison of the 2017 USGS South America seismic hazard model and the 2010 USGS South America seismic hazard model was made to see how the models differ.  The comparison was made as the ratio of PGA at 10% probability of exceedance in 50 years.

Tags: argentina, bolivia, brazil, chile, colombia, earthquake, ecuador, french-guiana, guyana, hazard, panama, paraguay, peru, risk, seismic, south-america, suriname, trinidad-and-tobago, uruguay, usgs-59bc448ce4b091459a591380, venezuela
Organization: Department of the Interior
Annual California Sea Otter Census: 2017 Extra Limit Observations Shapefile

The GIS shapefile "Extra limit counts of southern sea otters 2017" is a point layer representing the locations of sea otter sightings that fall outside the officially recognized range of the southern sea otter (Enhydra lutris nereis) in mainland California. These data were collected during the spring 2017 range-wide census. The USGS range-wide sea otter census has been undertaken twice a year since 1982, once in May and once in October, using consistent methodology involving both ground-based and aerial-based counts. The spring census is considered more accurate than the fall count, and provides the primary basis for gauging population trends by State and Federal management agencies. Sea otter distribution in California (the mainland range) is considered to comprise a band of potential habitat stretching along the coast of California, and bounded to the north and south by range limits defined as "the points farthest from the range center at which 5 or more otters are counted within a 10km contiguous stretch of coastline (as measured along the 10m bathymetric contour) during the two most recent spring censuses, or at which these same criteria were met in the previous year". However, a few individual sea otters (almost always males) can frequently be found outside this officially recognized range, and these "extra-limital" animals are also counted during the census.

Tags: aerial-counts, biota, california, central-california-coastal, coast, distribution, environment, ocean, range, sea-otter-census, sea-otters, shore-counts, southern-california-coastal, usgs-59bc41f2e4b091459a59136a
Organization: Department of the Interior
Acoustic Doppler current profiler velocity and discharge measurements collected in and near the lock chamber of Brandon Road Lock and Dam, Joliet, Illinois, USA in December 2014

Water velocities and discharge were measured in the lock chamber and immediately downstream of Brandon Road Lock on the Des Plaines River at river mile 286 on December 9-10, 2014 using Teledyne RDI Rio Grande 600 and 1200 kHz acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCP). The data were georeferenced with a differential GPS receiver with submeter accuracy. These ADCP measurements were collected in support of the US Army Corps of Engineers Great Lakes and Mississippi River Interbasin Study (GLMRIS). Velocity measurements were processed using the Velocity Mapping Toolbox (Parsons and others, 2013) to derive temporally- and spatially-averaged water velocity values. Discharge measurements were processed with the QRev discharge computation and review software (Mueller, 2016).
Mueller, D.S., 2016, QRev—Software for computation and quality assurance of acoustic Doppler current profiler moving-boat streamflow measurements—User’s manual for version 2.8: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2016–1052, 50 p., http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20161052.
Parsons, D. R., Jackson, P. R., Czuba, J. A., Engel, F. L., Rhoads, B. L., Oberg, K. A., Best, J. L., Mueller, D. S., Johnson, K. K. and Riley, J. D. (2013), Velocity Mapping Toolbox (VMT): a processing and visualization suite for moving-vessel ADCP measurements. Earth Surf. Process. Landforms, 38: 1244-1260. doi: 10.1002/esp.3367

Tags: acoustic-doppler-current-profiling, brandon-road-lock-and-dam, des-plaines-river, hydrodynamics, illinois, joliet, rockdale, stream-discharge, usgs-59bc33cfe4b091459a591308, will-county
Organization: Department of the Interior
Water Balance Model Inputs and Outputs for the Conterminous United States, 1900-2015

This metadata record describes monthly input and output data covering the period 1900-2015 for a water-balance model described in McCabe and Wolock (2011).  The input datasets are precipitation and air temperature from the PRISM group at Oregon State University. The model outputs include estimated potential evapotranspiration (PET), actual evapotranspiration (AET), runoff (RUN) (streamflow per unit area), soil moisture storage (STO), and snowfall (SNO). The datasets are arranged in tables of monthly total or average values measured in millimeters or degrees C and then multiplied by 100. The data are indexed by the identifier PRISMID, which refers to an ASCII raster of cells in an associated file named PRISMID.asc. Water-balance model inputs and outputs also can be linked to a file (PRISMID_LL.csv) of latitude and longitude values in a separate comma separated data file based on PRISMID values.  
Each input and output variable comma separated file contains 10 years of monthly data for all 481639 PRISMID raster cells in the conterminous United States. The files containing input and output data can be georeferenced by joining them to an ASCII raster of PRISMID cells, named prismid.asc. The source for the input data is the PRISM (Parameter-elevation Relationships on Independent Slopes Model) Group at Oregon State University (http://www.prism.oregonstate.edu/historical/ and http://www.prism.oregonstate.edu/recent/). These data were downloaded from the PRISM web site on various dates.

Tags: evaporation, precipitation, streamflow, temperature, usgs-59bc197de4b091459a5912a1
Organization: Department of the Interior
Southern Pacific Pond Turtle Data, Elizabeth Lake, Los Angeles County, California, 2014

These data were compiled to study the effects of severe drought and a concurrent large wildfire on a large population of southern Pacific pond turtles living in a rapidly drying lake. The study was done in collaboration with biologists from Ecorp Consulting in Santa Ana, California with funding from the Desert Tortoise Council. Data were collected in August and September of 2014. This worksheet contains the data that were used to analyze straight-line carapace length in cm and create a histogram of the size distribution and sex ratio of the population of southern Pacific pond turtles (n = 122) in Elizabeth Lake, Los Angeles County, California (Figure 4 from manuscript.) Carapace length was measured with tree calipers accurate to within + or - 1 mm. This worksheet also contains the data that were used to estimate abundance survivorship of southern Pacific pond turtles (Actinemys pallida) in Elizabeth Lake, Los Angeles County, California, USA based on daily survivorship calculations from August to September, 2014 (Figure 5 from manuscript).

Tags: abundance, actinemys-pallida, california, daily-survivorship-estimates, elizabeth-lake, los-angeles-county, southern-pacific-pond-turtles, straight-line-carapace-length, usgs-59bae481e4b091459a563d4b
Organization: Department of the Interior
High-resolution bathymetry data collected in 2005 in Skagit Bay, Washington

These metadata describe the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center (PCMSC) 2005 bathymetry data collected in Skagit Bay Washington that is provided as a 1-m resolution TIFF image, as well as a 1-m resolution shaded-relief TIFF image. In 2004, 2005, 2007, and 2010 the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center (PCMSC) collected bathymetry and acoustic backscatter data in Skagit Bay, Washington using an interferometric bathymetric sidescan sonar system mounded to the USGS R/V Parke Snavely and the USGS R/V Karluk. The research was conducted in coordination with the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, Skagit River System Cooperative, Skagit Watershed Council, Puget Sound Nearshore Ecosystem Restoration Project, and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to characterize estuarine habitats and processes, including the sediment budget of the Skagit River and the influence of river-delta channelization on sediment transport. Information quantifying the distribution of habitats and extent that sediment transport influences habitats and the morphology of the delta is useful for planning for salmon recovery, agricultural resilience, flood risk protection, and coastal change associated with sea-level rise.

Tags: bathymetry, bathymetry-and-elevation, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, environment, geology, geoscientificinformation, imagerybasemapsearthcover, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, puget-sound, sea-floor-acoustic-reflectivity, seabed, seafloor-topography, skagit-bay, state-of-washington, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-59bae410e4b091459a563d48
Organization: Department of the Interior
High-resolution bathymetry data collected in 2007 in Skagit Bay, Washington

These metadata describe the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center (PCMSC) 2007 bathymetry data collected in Skagit Bay Washington that is provided as a 1-m resolution TIFF image, as well as a 1-m resolution shaded-relief TIFF image. In 2004, 2005, 2007, and 2010 the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center (PCMSC) collected bathymetry and acoustic backscatter data in Skagit Bay, Washington using an interferometric bathymetric sidescan sonar system mounded to the USGS R/V Parke Snavely and the USGS R/V Karluk. The research was conducted in coordination with the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, Skagit River System Cooperative, Skagit Watershed Council, Puget Sound Nearshore Ecosystem Restoration Project, and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to characterize estuarine habitats and processes, including the sediment budget of the Skagit River and the influence of river-delta channelization on sediment transport. Information quantifying the distribution of habitats and extent that sediment transport influences habitats and the morphology of the delta is useful for planning for salmon recovery, agricultural resilience, flood risk protection, and coastal change associated with sea-level rise.

Tags: bathymetry, bathymetry-and-elevation, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, environment, geology, geoscientificinformation, imagerybasemapsearthcover, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, puget-sound, sea-floor-acoustic-reflectivity, seabed, seafloor-topography, skagit-bay, state-of-washington, strait-of-juan-de-fuca, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-59bae032e4b091459a563d3d
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hydrologic Response Units (HRUs) for the Southern Guam watershed model, PRMS_2016

The hydrologic response units (HRUs) available here were used in the Precipitation Runoff Modeling System (PRMS) of southern Guam documented by Rosa and Hay (2017). A Geographic Information System (GIS) file for the HRUs is provided as a shapefile with attributes ParentHRU, Region, and RegionHRU identifying the numbering convention used in the PRMS_2016 southern Guam model parameter files and Rosa and Hay (2017) report. Hydrologic response units (HRUs) were delineating using the processing steps outlined  in Viger and Leavesley (2007) and a 5-meter digital elevation model (DEM)  derived by Johnson (2012) using the Joint Airborne LIDAR Bathymetry Technical Center of Expertise topobathy data (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2007). Johnson (2012) used the procedures described in Taylor and Nelson Jr. (2008) to derive the DEM and delineate internally drained areas in the karst topography, or areas with closed depressions and their surface drainage basins that contribute runoff to the closed depression. These internally drained areas were then intersected with the initial HRUs to derive the final 317 HRUs for the southern Guam watershed model, PRMS_2016.

Tags: hydrology, mathematical-modeling, usgs-59889e07e4b05ba66e9ffe99
Organization: Department of the Interior
Revised Data and Supporting Information for Seven Sites located on the Lower Mississippi and Atchafalaya Rivers sampled as part of a cooperative sediment program with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, October 1989 through February 2015

Suspended-sediment concentration, percent by mass finer than 0.0625 millimeters, instantaneous stream discharge, and suspended-sediment discharge for seven sites in the Lower Mississippi-Atchafalaya River Basin have been revised following a program review.  This dataset provides the pre- and post-review revised values, along with supporting information as described in the associated publication (Norton and others, 2018).  Data are included for October 1989 through February 2015 at seven sites, represented by nine sampling stations.  The stations are located near the Old River Control Complex and the lower Atchafalaya River.  The original data were collected as part of a cooperative program between the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District.

Tags: atchafalaya-river, lower-atchafalaya-river, mississippi-river, old-river, old-river-control-complex, old-river-control-structure, red-river, suspended-sediment-transport, usgs-59bad675e4b091459a563d26
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data Release for Water-quality and chemical loading data from the Geronimo Creek and Plum Creek watersheds, south-central Texas, April 2015—March 2016.

Located in south-central Texas, the Geronimo Creek and Plum Creek watersheds have long been characterized by elevated nitrate concentrations. From April 2015 through March 2016, an investigation was done by the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority (GBRA) and the Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board (TSSWCB), to assess nitrate (as nitrogen) concentrations and to document possible sources of elevated nitrate as nitrogen in these two watersheds. Water-quality samples were collected from 20 groundwater, spring, and stream sites across the two watersheds, along with precipitation samples and wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) effluent samples from the Plum Creek watershed. Stream, spring, and groundwater samples were collected from both watersheds during four synoptic sampling events to characterize spatial and temporal variations in water quality and chemical loadings. Water-quality and quantity data from the wastewater treatment plants and stream discharge data were also considered. Samples were analyzed for major ions, selected trace elements, nutrients, stable isotopes of water and nitrogen isotopes. Data collected for this project was used to calculate selected chemical loadings and used in interpretation of sources of nitrate in both watersheds.

Tags: alluvium, buda, caldwell-county, comal-county, deuterium-isotopic-analysis, fluviatile-terrace-deposits, geronimo-creek, guadalupe-county, hays-county, hydrogeology, kyle, leona-formation, lockhart, luling, nitrate-sources, nitrogen-isotopes-analysis, nutrients, oxygen-isotopic-analysis, plum-creek, south-central-texas, texas, usgs-59bad30be4b091459a563d1d, usgs-station-id-08172065, usgs-station-id-08172400, usgs-station-id-08172475, usgs-station-id-08172980, usgs-station-id-08173000, usgs-station-id-08173080, usgs-station-id-08173200, usgs-station-id-293739097565801, usgs-station-id-293802097563800, usgs-station-id-293851097570301, usgs-station-id-294011097575800, usgs-station-id-294108097374000, usgs-station-id-295204097384100, usgs-station-id-295212097373300, usgs-station-id-295220097432601, usgs-station-id-295228097440600, usgs-station-id-295303097394800, usgs-station-id-295309097400100, usgs-station-id-295805097500600, usgs-station-id-300519097503100, water-chemistry, water-quality-sampling
Organization: Department of the Interior
Concentrations of tetrachloroethylene in interpolated tetrachloroethylene soil data at the Vienna Wells site, Vienna, Missouri, 2012-2015.

Interpolated dataset of concentrations of tetrachloroethylene in soil samples at the Vienna Wells site, Vienna, Missouri. Interpolated soil data are from a published soil sample dataset (doi: https://doi.org/10.5066/F71835D8) using inverse-distance weighting at a 1-m interval, a power of 2, minimum and maximum neighbor search of 10 and 15, and within 50 meters of tree-core data collected on July 29, 2014. Also contains information on distances between each tree and soil location within a 50-meter radius of each tree.

Tags: contamination-and-pollution, environment, phytoforensics, soil-chemistry, soil-resources, soil-sciences, superfund-site, usgs-59937c68e4b02da3062a17c1, vegetation
Organization: Department of the Interior