AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Ship's log recorded during U.S. Geological Survey field activity 2012-005-FA conducted in Baltimore, Washington, and Norfolk Canyons in a Microsoft Excel 2010 spreadsheet format

A large number of high-resolution geophysical surveys between Cape Hatteras and Georges Bank have been conducted by federal, state, and academic institutions since the turn of the century. A major goal of these surveys is providing a continuous view of bathymetry and shallow stratigraphy at the shelf edge in order to assess levels of geological activity during the current sea level highstand.  In 2012, chirp seismic-reflection data was collected by the U.S. Geologial Survey aboard the motor vessel Tiki XIV near three United States mid-Atlantic margin submarine canyons. These data can be used to further our understanding of passive continental margin processes during the Holocene, as well as providing valuable information regarding potential submarine geohazards. For more information on the U.S. Geological Survey involvement in this effort, see https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2012-005-FA.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, baltimore-canyon, baltimore-canyon-trough, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, excel-spreadsheet, field-activity-2012-005-fa, field-activity-logs, field-activity-number-12005, m-v-tiki-14, m-v-tiki-xiv, marine-geophysics, maryland, mid-atlantic-margin, norfolk-canyon, north-america, oceans, ship-log, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-244510b2-d6af-404f-ae35-cdb8fe5b6c38, usgs-cmg-infobank-id-t-05-12-mc, virginia, washington-canyon, whsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Stream-stage Dataset at Santa Cruz River at Palo Parado Bridge, geographic NAD83 (Water Year 2015)

This dataset contains stream-stage data for Santa Cruz River at Palo Parado Bridge (SC9). The pressure transducer was mounted to a metal post secured in the stream near the left bank below the Palo Parado Bridge. The data were recorded using non-vented Solinst Levelogger for the period of February 12, 2015 to May 16, 2015. The data were logged continuously at a 15-minute interval and manually downloaded. Data were then corrected with the atmospheric pressure collected from a Solinst Barologger located at SC14 and analyzed for erroneous data.

Tags: dna, e-coli, escherichia-coli, stage, tumacacori-national-historical-park, upper-santa-cruz-river, usgs-592efd51e4b0e9bd0ea79397, water, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
North American Grid-Based Offshore Sampling Frame: Hawaii

This shapefile represents the offshore grid-based sampling frame intended for use with the North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat). The grid consists of 10 km x 10 km cells spanning the oceanic waters surrounding Hawaii.

Tags: bats, biota, grid, hawaii, nabat, north-america, sample-frame, usgs-61bd0106d34ee9cd54ed2750
Organization: Department of the Interior
Kilauea 2018 lower East Rift Zone eruption - fissure 18 lava flow

The 2018 lower East Rift Zone eruption of Kilauea Volcano began in the late afternoon of 3 May, with fissure 1 opening and erupting lava onto Mohala Street in the Leilani Estates subdivision, part of the lower Puna District of the Island of Hawai'i. For the first week of the eruption, relatively viscous lava flowed only within a kilometer (0.6 miles) of the fissures within Leilani Estates, before activity shifted downrift (east-northeast) and out of the subdivision during mid-May. Around 18 May, activity along the lower East Rift Zone intensified, and fluid lava erupting at higher effusion rates from the downrift fissures reached the ocean within two days. Near the end of May, this more vigorous activity shifted back uprift into Leilani Estates, where fissure 8 reactivated with lava fountains feeding several 'a'a flows. The southernmost flow lobe developed into a well-defined lava channel and reached the ocean at Kapoho Bay - 11 kilometers (7 miles) away - on 3 June. Fissure 8 continued supplying this lava channel for more than two months, constructing an approximately 3.5-square-kilometer (1.4-square-mile) lava delta along the coastline. Over 4 and 5 August, activity at fissure 8 waned and flow in the lava channel came to a halt, only to be followed by weak activity within the vent in late August and early September. By then, the eruption had covered 35.5 square kilometers (13.7 square miles) of the lower Puna District with lava. In this report, the authors have sought to chronicle this sequence of events using geospatial data in the form of an Esri file geodatabase, Esri shapefiles, and Google Earth KMZs.

Tags: andesite, basalt, basaltic-andesite, east-rift-zone, fissure-18-flow, fissure-18-lava-flow, fissure18flow, geology, green-lake, hawaii, holocene, individual-flow, individual-lava-flow, individualflows, island-of-hawaii, kapoho-bay, kapoho-oe-n-quadrangle, kapoho-quadrangle, kilauea, lava, lava-flow, leilani-estates, lower-east-rift-zone, map, pahoa-north-quadrangle, pahoa-south-quadrangle, puna-district, quaternary, shield-volcano, state-of-hawaii, tholeiitic-basalt, united-states-of-america, usgs-5ebb4ecc82ce25b5136182e9, vacationland-hawaii, volcano, waiopae
Organization: Department of the Interior
Predicted Avian Influenza Prevalence for Wild Waterfowl Species Across the Continental United States

This data release provides the predicted proportion of birds testing positive for IAV for each species at weekly intervals for each county centroid in the continental United States. This data supports a paired USGS publication.

Tags: avian-influenza, biota, usgs-61d87383d34ed79294009f30
Organization: Department of the Interior
Migration Stopovers of Elk in the Egg Lake Herd in California

The Egg Lake Rocky Mountain elk (Cervus canadensis nelsoni) sub-herd range extends northeast from the town of McCloud around Ash Creek to the Big Valley Mountains and as far east as Highway 139 near the community of Hackamore. During the winter, this sub-herd primarily resides to the east of Big Valley Mountains near Egg Lake in Modoc County, California. They migrate east to private timberlands and spend the spring and summer just outside of McCloud, California. Topography of this area is relatively flat, but gradually transitions to steeper slopes around creeks, and typical habitat includes Ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa), Sierran mixed conifer, and montane hardwood conifer forests. Another sub-herd is known to exist on the east side of Highway 139 near Clear Lake and this may present a barrier between the two sub-herds as some mortality has been documented on the highway, but the full extent of this is unknown.
These data provide the location of migration stopovers for elk in the Egg Lake population in California. They were developed from 22 migration sequences collected from a sample size of 11 animals comprising GPS locations collected every 3-8 hours.

Tags: animal-behavior, california, farming, geoscientificinformation, migration, migration-organisms, migratory-species, modoc, united-states, usgs-620e4a89d34e6c7e83baa34a
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2018, and 2021 Site 0523 land-water matrix

Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring to determine the efficacy of these projects. The Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) was developed to assist in a multiple-reference approach that uses aspects of hydrogeomorphic functional assessments and probabilistic sampling for monitoring. The CRMS program includes a suite of approximately 390 sites that encompass the range of hydrological and ecological conditions for each stratum. As part of CRMS, land and water classifications are created from Digital Orthophoto Quarter Quadrangles (DOQQs) approximately every three years at all CRMS sites. This dataset consists of a matrix of six land-water products (2005, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2018, and 2021).  The resulting matrix has 64 possible classes defined by the combination of land and water categories on those six dates.

Tags: alteration-of-wetland-habitats, cartography, coastal, coastal-louisiana, crms, doqq, emergent-wetland, forested-wetland, geographic-information-system, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-water, louisiana, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, scrub-shrub-wetland, state-of-louisiana, usgs-6569fe95d34e6dde1a4ae270, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, 2015, 2018, and 2021 Site 0656 land-water matrix

Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring to determine the efficacy of these projects. The Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) was developed to assist in a multiple-reference approach that uses aspects of hydrogeomorphic functional assessments and probabilistic sampling for monitoring. The CRMS program includes a suite of approximately 390 sites that encompass the range of hydrological and ecological conditions for each stratum. As part of CRMS, land and water classifications are created from Digital Orthophoto Quarter Quadrangles (DOQQs) approximately every three years at all CRMS sites. This dataset consists of a matrix of six land-water products (2005, 2008, 2012, 2015, 2018, and 2021).  The resulting matrix has 64 possible classes defined by the combination of land and water categories on those six dates.

Tags: alteration-of-wetland-habitats, cartography, coastal, coastal-louisiana, crms, doqq, emergent-wetland, forested-wetland, geographic-information-system, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-water, louisiana, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, scrub-shrub-wetland, state-of-louisiana, usgs-6569fffdd34e6dde1a4ae30d, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Clothianidin concentrations in milkweed leaves that leads to prepupal mortality in monarch butterflies

A set of experiments was conducted to determine the dietary clothianidin exposures that cause prepupal mortality in the absence of other adverse effects. Monarch larvae were raised from hatch to pupae on clothianidin contaminated swamp milkweed plants. Larval growth, larval survival, and prepupal survival were monitored throughout the experiments in which the exposures ranged from 1.4 – 2,793.1 ng/g leaf. Exposures of 5.4 – 46.9 ng/g leaf resulted exclusively in prepupal mortality while higher exposures of 1,042.4 – 2,793.1 ng/g leaf resulted exclusively in larval mortality. An LC50 and LC10 of 37 and 6 ng/g, respectively, were estimated based on prepupal mortality.

Tags: biota, butterflies, insecticides, toxicity, usgs-65aad049d34ef34c350649e6
Organization: Department of the Interior
CoSMoS 3.2 Northern California projected flood depth and duration: Humboldt County

These data contain maximum depth of flooding (cm) in the region landward of the present-day shoreline for the sea-level rise (SLR) and storm condition indicated.

Tags: beaches, climate-change, climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, coastal-erosion, earth-sciences, effects-of-climate-change, erosion, extreme-weather, floods, hazards-planning, humboldt-county, mathematical-modeling, northern-california, northern-california-coast, numerical-modeling, ocean-waves, ocean-winds, oceans, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, physical-habitats-and-geomorphology, sea-level-change, sea-level-rise, state-of-california, storm-surge, storms, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-6723cd5bd34e4f57573e8e64, water-depth, waves, wind
Organization: Department of the Interior
Sr/Ca, oxygen isotope, and linear extension data for five Holocene Orbicella faveolata corals from Dry Tortugas and Marquesas Keys, Florida, USA

This data release contains new, 40–70-year long subannual strontium-to-calcium ratio (Sr/Ca) records and linear extension measurements from five mid-to-late Holocene, Orbicella faveolata corals from the Dry Tortugas National Park (DT) and Marquesas Keys (MK), Florida (FL). U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) researchers used these Sr/Ca data to calculate sea-surface temperature (SST) using the Sr/Ca-SST equation from Flannery and others (2018). The data release also provides and stable oxygen isotope snapshots from two of the mid-Holocene corals. These data provide a proof-of-concept for the value coral-based paleoclimate records in the subtropical western Atlantic during the Holocene. Detailed information regarding data collection and processing methods can be found in Jacobs and others (2025).

Tags: biota, coelenterates, dry-tortugas, florida-keys, geochemistry, holocene, marine-geology, oceans, paleoclimate, reef-ecosystems, sclerochronology, sea-surface-temperature, sr-ca, stable-oxygen-isotopes, state-of-florida, strontium-calcium, usgs-2a7b62ec-14b9-4182-933f-938a77689ce1
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hydrologic and soil data associated with selected vacant deconstruction lots in St. Louis, Missouri, 2018-2020

As the urban landscape and municipal infrastructure in U.S. cities changes in response to socio-economic conditions, so does the manner in which water cycles through these cities. The modulation of hydrologic processes (e.g., runoff, infiltration, evapotranspiration) by land use and land cover has implications for resilience, sustainability, and optimizing municipal service functions. The U.S. Geological Survey and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, collaborated  to address the question of how Legacy (standard) and recent (Urban Greening Program or "Green") vacant lots – different approaches to the widespread practice of demolition – differ in terms of how they cycle water and the extent to which they play a role in regulating the resiliency of the landscape to rainfall forcing. The intent of the data collection effort was to build on baseline data and expand on monitoring and field work that can help guide St. Louis as they deploy improved demolition practices and explore potential differences in the hydrologic response of Legacy and Green vacant lots.  Such guidance would be generalizable to other cities who use demolition to control blight and facilitate redevelopment.
The potential hydrologic responses of Legacy and Green demolitions result from differences in the approach.  Legacy demolitions retain the structure foundation but the walls are taken to 12 inches below grade and the floor of the foundation is broken into pieces less than 8 feet with cracks sufficient to allow drainage.  Clean fill from multiple sources is placed on top of the Legacy demolitions to a depth of at least 6 inches.  Green demolitions require full material removal including the foundation.  There is a single source of alluvial fill material that is placed on top of the demolition site to a depth of at least 12 inches.

Tags: environment, geoscientificinformation, saint-louis-county, st-louis, urban-soils-urban-hydrology-urban-hydrology-deconstruction-lots-demolition-lots, usgs-5f4d4dc982ce4c3d123190cc
Organization: Department of the Interior
DisOcean: Distance to the ocean: Myrtle Island, VA, 2014

Understanding how sea-level rise will affect coastal landforms and the species and habitats they support is critical for crafting approaches that balance the needs of humans and native species. Given this increasing need to forecast sea-level rise effects on barrier islands in the near and long terms, we are developing Bayesian networks to evaluate and to forecast the cascading effects of sea-level rise on shoreline change, barrier island state, and piping plover habitat availability. We use publicly available data products, such as lidar, orthophotography, and geomorphic feature sets derived from those, to extract metrics of barrier island characteristics at consistent sampling distances. The metrics are then incorporated into predictive models and the training data used to parameterize those models. This data release contains the extracted metrics of barrier island geomorphology and spatial data layers of habitat characteristics that are input to Bayesian networks for piping plover habitat availability and barrier island geomorphology. These datasets and models are being developed for sites along the northeastern coast of the United States. This work is one component of a larger research and management program that seeks to understand and sustain the ecological value, ecosystem services, and habitat suitability of beaches in the face of storm impacts, climate change, and sea-level rise.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, barrier-island, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, coastal-habitat, delmarva-peninsula, environment, geographic-information-systems, geomorphology, geospatial-analysis, geospatial-datasets, gis, mean-high-water, mhw, myrtle-island, north-america, oceans, st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usa, usgs, usgs-5daa37d3e4b09fd3b0c9cee2, va, virginia, virginia-coast-reserve, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Airborne radiometric survey, Medicine Bow Mountains, Wyoming, 2023

This data release provides digital flight line data for a high-resolution airborne magnetic and radiometric survey over the Medicine Bow Mountains in southern Wyoming. The airborne survey was jointly funded by the Earth Mapping Resources Initiative and the Wyoming State Geological Survey (WSGS). The survey was designed to meet complementary needs related to geologic mapping and characterization of mineral resource potential. A total of 16,400 line km of magnetic and radiometric data were acquired over an irregular-shaped area of 2710 km2. Data were collected from a helicopter flown at a nominal terrain clearance of 80 meters (m) above topography along N-S flight lines spaced at 200 m intervals. The line spacing was tightened to 100 m over the Lake Owen complex, a layered mafic intrusion within the survey area. Tie lines were flown in an E-W direction every 2000 m, and 1000 m over the Lake Owen complex. Data were collected by EON Geosciences Inc. and Woolpert Inc. under contract to the USGS using a helicopter with a magnetometer mounted in a stinger and a fully calibrated gamma-ray spectrometer. The survey operated out of the Laramie, Wyoming, airport from August of 2023 to September of 2023. Files that are available in this publication include flight line data for the magnetic survey, flight line data for the radiometric survey and a report describing the survey parameters, field operations, quality control and data reduction procedures. A zip file is provided that contains the contractor's deliverable products that includes Geosoft databases and grids for the magnetic and radiometric survey and the report describing the survey and data reduction.

Tags: aasg, aeroradiometric-survey, airborne-geophysical-survey, association-of-state-geologists, bear-mountain, beaver-creek-hills, biota, blackhall-mountain, centennial-valley, earth-mapping-resources-initiative, earthmri, economic-geology, geology-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center, geophysics, geospatial-datasets, gggsc, lake-mountain, lake-owen, lookout-mountain, medicine-bow-mountains, medicine-bow-national-forest, medicine-bow-river, mineral-resources, mineral-resources-program, mrp, national-cooperative-geologic-mapping-program, north-platte-river, potassium, rock-mountain, sedimentology, sheep-mountain, snowy-range, spruce-mountain, structural-geology, thorium, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, united-states-of-america, uranium, usa, usgs, usgs-6668ab5dd34e9bcc607b7f75, wood-mountain, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
High and average water table estimates for Clover Creek watershed, Pierce County, Washington

The depths to a high and average water table below the land surface were estimated across the Clover Creek watershed in Pierce County, Washington. Groundwater model simulations provided initial estimates of water-table depths for the analysis. To provide optimized, data-driven estimates of these depths, a continuous bias correction surface was applied to model output according to differences between simulated and observed water levels at observation wells.

Tags: clover-creek-watershed, groundwater-level, groundwater-model, imagerybasemapsearthcover, mathematical-modeling, pierce-county, spatial-analysis, underground-injection-analysis, usgs-64d17819d34ef477cf3c0271, washington, water-table
Organization: Department of the Interior
Sample still images in JPEG format of the sediment surface in the grab sampler, collected on Stellwagen Bank during U.S. Geological Survey field activity 2017-009-FA, aboard the R/V Auk, Jan. 30, 2017

This field activity is part of the effort to map geologic substrates of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary region off Boston, Massachusetts. The overall goal is to develop high-resolution (1:25,000) interpretive maps, based on multibeam sonar data and seabed sampling, showing surficial geology and seabed sediment dynamics. This cruise was conducted in collaboration with the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, and the data collected will aid research on the ecology of fish and invertebrate species that inhabit the region. The Sanctuary's research vessel, R/V Auk, visited 13 locations on Stellwagen Bank at which a customized Van Veen grab sampler (SEABOSS) equipped with a video camera and a CTD was deployed in drift mode to collect sediment for grain-size analysis, video imagery of the seabed, and measurements of water column properties.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, field-monitoring-stations, geoscientificinformation, grab-sample-images, ground-truth, image-collections, jpeg, marine-geology, massachusetts, massachusetts-bay, north-america, oceans, sample-photographs, sbnms, sea-floor-characteristics, seabed-observation-and-sampling-system, seaboss, sediment-sample-images, stellwagen-bank, stellwagen-bank-national-marine-sanctuary, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-6d9838bc-903a-4cd9-a683-5b3713a0111d, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Topographic data from two marshes and adjacent shallows in Northern San Francisco Bay, California, 2022-2023

Topographic data were collected in the Corte Madera Marsh, San Pablo National Wildlife Refuge Marsh, and at the time-series stations in the shallows adjacent to each marsh in Northern San Francisco Bay between April 2022 and September 2023. The topographic data were acquired using global satellite navigation system receivers that were either mounted on backpacks and hiked over the marsh surface or mounted on a survey rod held shipside against a deployed platform or on the water surface. Sometimes an additional staff was used in conjunction with the shipside survey rod to reach the platform, which we refer to as an integrated collection method.

Tags: bathymetry-and-elevation, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, corte-madera-bay, corte-madera-marsh, elevation, global-positioning-system-gps-observations, gps-measurement, marin-county, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, san-francisco-bay, san-pablo-bay, san-pablo-bay-national-wildlife-refuge, sonoma-county, state-of-california, topography, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-d0410af8-8e05-43a1-81bd-7e484344cce4
Organization: Department of the Interior