AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Visible-light orthomosaic images collected by drone for two cold-water tributary confluences within the Housatonic River, CT, USA

The University of Connecticut and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) collected low-altitude (30-50 m above ground level) airborne visible-light imagery data via a quadcopter, small unoccupied aircraft system (UAS or ‘drone’) deployed along two tributary confluence locations within the Housatonic River: Mill Brook (latitude: 42°52’18” N, longitude: 73°21’48” W) and Furnace Brook (latitude: 41°49’16” N, longitude: 73°22’17” W). Both tributary confluence sites serve as critical summer thermal refuge for cold water-adapted poikilotherms. The objectives for this data collection included the creation of high-resolution orthomosaic images of the two tributary confluences to 
infer bank and instream structures and mixing processes at the tributary confluences. Detailed site-scale maps such as these are important tools for managers and researchers aiming to protect and conserve populations at risk. The UAS (Mavic 2 Zoom, DJI Enterprises) was flown several times per day, at wind speeds below 10 mph, capturing RGB imagery from March 24-25, 2021. The UAV flights collected single RGB JPG images at 30-50m above ground level using the double-grid flight pattern on the third-party app Pix4D Capture (https://www.pix4d.com/product/pix4dcapture). The images were stitched automatically into several orthomosaic images using Agisoft Metashape (Agisoft LLC, St. Petersburg, Russia) 
software as described in the ‘processed_data’ subfolders of this data release. Structure from Motion techniques were also applied to the visual imagery to derive time-specific, digital surface models (DSM) of the exposed banks and some subsurface features.

Tags: aerial-photography, connecticut, drone, environment, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, groundwater, groundwater-and-surface-water-interaction, housatonic-river-watershed, hydrogeology, hydrology, image-collections, inlandwaters, litchfield-county, remote-sensing, surface-water, surface-water-non-marine, uas, unmanned-aircraft-system, unoccupied-aircraft-system, usgs-60772608d34e018b32041fbe, water-temperature
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mahogany Ledge Digital Structure Contour Lines of the Piceance Basin, Colorado

The Mahogany ledge structure contour lines were needed to perform overburden calculations in the Piceance Basin, Colorado as part of a 2009 National Oil Shale Assessment.

Tags: co, colorado, earth-science, economic-geology, energy-resources, eocene-green-river-formation, geology, geoscientificinformation, mahogany, mahogany-ledge, natural-resources, oil, oil-shale, oil-shale-resources, oilshale, piceance-basin, piceanceoilshale, resource-assessment, structure, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-60ac0ecdd34ea221ce51ffa0
Organization: Department of the Interior
Microbial Community and N-cycling gene abundance from Ponds and Groundwater on Cape Cod, MA (2015 - 2018)

Surface water, pore water, pond bottom sediments, and groundwater were sampled within and downgradient from five groundwater flow-through ponds that ranged from oligotrophic to eutrophic in Cape Cod, Massachusetts during different seasons from 2015 – 2018.  The sampled ponds included Ashumet, Santuit, Snake, Shubael, and Longs.  Pore water was collected between 15 to 100 cm below the pond bottoms on the upgradient and downgradient sides of the ponds.  Groundwater was collected on the downgradient side where the pond water recharges the groundwater resulting in a “pond shadow”.  Within the pond shadow, groundwater is under the direct influence of surface water.  The pond shadows were sampled vertically and at various distances from their respective surface water sources.  This set of data provides the microbial water quality data derived from the collection of DNA from this set of water and sediment samples.  Data includes concentrations of DNA, N-cycling gene abundance for bacterial amoA, narG, nirK, and nosZ, taxonomy, and alpha and beta diversity from the amplification of 16S rRNA.

Tags: barnstable, cape-cod, microbial-community, nitrogen, pocasset, sandwich, usgs-607747aad34e018b32042049
Organization: Department of the Interior
Water-Quality, Streamflow, and Quality-Control Data Supporting Estimation of Nutrient and Sediment Loads in the Scituate Reservoir Drainage Area, Rhode Island, Water Years 2016-19

Annual loads of selected constituents were estimated for five stations in the Scituate Reservoir drainage area, Rhode Island, for water years 2016 to 2019 as part of a long-term monitoring program in cooperation with the Providence Water Supply Board. This data release includes the water-quality and streamflow data used to estimate annual loads of total phosphorus, dissolved phosphorus, total nitrogen, dissolved nitrogen, and suspended sediment with a custom regression model in the LOADEST program (Runkel and others, 2004) and by direct computation using streamflow and mean constituent concentration. Daily mean values of base flow and event-based stormflow volumes were determined by fixed-base hydrograph separation to partition constituent loads. Quality-control data for water-quality samples collected by the U.S. Geological Survey at 12 stations in the drainage area during water years 2009 to 2019 are also reported. This data release includes 8 tab-delimited text files: StationInfo.txt, QCData.txt, StormEvents.txt, Outliers.txt, CalibrationData_LOADEST.txt, EstimationData_LOADEST.txt, AnnualLoadEstimates.txt, and ModelSummaries.txt.
Reference:
Runkel, R.L., Crawford, C.G., and Cohn, T.A., 2004, Load estimator (LOADEST)—A FORTRAN program for estimating constituent loads in streams and rivers: U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods, book 4, chap. A5, 69 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/tm4A5.

Tags: drinking-water-use, environment, north-scituate, nutrient-content-water, rhode-island, scituate-reservoir, surface-water-quality, suspended-material-water, usgs-60779e1cd34e018b3205291f, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Outcrop or clinker contact of the Robinson or "lower Robinson" Coal Bed, Powder River Basin, Montana (rbocg.shp)

This ArcView shapefile contains a line (arc)
representation of the Robinson coal bed outcrop.
This theme was created specifically for the National
Coal Resources Assessment in the Northern Rocky
Mountains and Great Plains Region.

Tags: big-horn-county, clinker-contact, coal, coal-bed, colstrip-coalfield, economy, environment, geoscientificinformation, montana, nca2000, nrockiescoal, outcrop, powder-river-basin, powderbasincoal, robinson-coal-bed, rosebud-county, rosebud-robinson-coal-zone, treasure-county, usgs-60ad1ddfd34e4043c850e631
Organization: Department of the Interior
Dataset for Analyses in Assessment of Runoff Volume Reduction Associated with Soil Amendments Added to Portions of Highway Median-Strip Catchments in Ohio.

Rainfall and runoff data were collected during non-winter months between 2018 and 2020 at 10 rain gages and 12 calibrated H-flumes located in Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) highway median-strip catchments. The data were used to compute event-based summary statistics of rainfall and runoff. A rainfall-runoff “event” was defined to begin at the time of the first measured rainfall and end when rainfall and runoff (if any) ceased and remained ceased for at least 3 hours. The summary statistics (along with selected metadata) are included in this data release.

Tags: best-management-practice, crawford-county, double-mass-analyses, empirical-distribution-function, hydrology, licking-county, muskingum-county, ohio, regression-analyses, runoff-volume, soil-amendments, stark-county, usgs-60784d9dd34e018b32067bd8, wayne-county
Organization: Department of the Interior
Puerto Rico N-day Low-Flow Regression Files

A generalized least squares (GLS) technique was used with at-site n-day low-flow time series and frequencies, from SWToolbox (Kiang and others, 2018), and 14 basin characteristics (basin perimeter, drainage area, maximum basin elevation, mean total annual reference evapotranspiration, groundwater head, length of longest flow path, minimum basin elevation, runoff-curve number, relief, ruggedness, slope ratio, percentage of hydrologic soil type B, available water capacity, and total length of streams in a basin) for 28 selected streamflow gaging stations in Puerto Rico to calculate regional n-day low-flow frequency regression equations for ungaged stream locations. The GLS approach assigns weights based on uncertainty of the observations (ie. record length and variance) and accounts for correlated streamflows and time-sampling errors (Eng and others, 2009).  Performance metrics from the Weighted-multiple-linear REGression Program (WREG) were analyzed to determine drainage area, mean total annual reference evapotranspiration, and minimum basin elevation as the explanatory variables that provided the best results. Values for the correlation smoothing function in were alpha equal to 0.003 and theta equal to 0.96.  
This data release includes a SWToolbox_output_files folder that contains supporting data used to format the WREG input files, xday_lowflow folders (where x refers to 1, 7, 14, or 30) that contain (1) the WREG input files FlowChar, LP3G, LP3K, LP3s, SiteInfo, and the 28 station nday timeseries files (USGSxxxxxxxx); and (2) a WREG_gls_results folder that contains output for the 2yr, 5yr, and 10yr nonexceedance probability flows. 
References Cited:  
Eng, K., Chen, Y., and Kiang, J.E., 2009, User’s guide to the weighted-multiple-linear-regression program (WREG version 1.0): U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods, book 4, chap. A8, 21 p., https://pubs.usgs.gov/tm/tm4a8. 
Kiang, J.E., Flynn, K.M., Zhai, T., Hummel, P., and Granato, G., 2018, SWToolbox—A surface-water tool-box for statistical analysis of streamflow time series: U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods, book 4, chap. A–11, 33 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/tm4A11.

Tags: daily-mean-streamflow, drainage-basin, flow-duration, low-flows, puerto-rico, regression-analysis, statistical-analysis, usgs-5f8740e182cebef40f1721e4, usgs-60787eded34e018b32067d24
Organization: Department of the Interior
Footprints and producers of source data used to create southern portion of the high-resolution (1 m) San Francisco Bay, California, digital elevation model (DEM)

Polygon shapefile showing the footprint boundaries, source agency origins, and resolutions of compiled bathymetric digital elevation models (DEMs) used to construct a continuous, high-resolution DEM of the southern portion of San Francisco Bay.

Tags: alviso-slough, bathymetry-and-elevation, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, coyote-creek, digital-elevation-model-dem-1-meter, digital-elevation-models, dumbarton-bridge, elevation, geographic-information-systems, geospatial-datasets, multibeam-echo-sounder, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, san-francisco-bay, san-mateo-bridge, single-beam-echo-sounder, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-607df1b6d34e8564d67e3af6
Organization: Department of the Interior
North Park Basin, Colorado, for 1999 National Coal Resource Assessment

This ArcView shapefile contains a polygon representing
the extent of the North Park coal basin boundary. This
theme was created specifically for the National Coal
Resources Assessment in the Northern Rocky
Mountains and Great Plains Region.

Tags: coal, colorado, economy, environment, geology, geoscientificinformation, grand-county, jackson-county, nca2000, north-park-coal-basin, northern-rocky-mountain-and-great-plains-coal-resources-assessment, nrockiescoal, usgs-60ac0eead34ea221ce51ffad
Organization: Department of the Interior
Puerto Rico Flow-Duration Regression Files

An ordinary least squares (OLS) technique was used with at-site flow-duration exceedance probabilities, from SWToolbox (Kiang and others, 2018), and 14 basin characteristics (basin perimeter, drainage area, maximum basin elevation, mean total annual reference evapotranspiration, groundwater head, length of longest flow path, minimum basin elevation, runoff-curve number, relief, ruggedness, slope ratio, percentage of hydrologic soil type B, available water capacity, and total length of streams in a basin) for 28 selected streamflow gaging stations in Puerto Rico to calculate regional flow-duration regression equations for ungaged stream locations. The final flow-duration regression equations were developed in R (R Core Team, 2019) using the “lm” function. Performance metrics were analyzed to determine drainage area, mean total annual reference evapotranspiration, and minimum basin elevation as the explanatory variables that provided the best results. This data release includes a SWToolbox_output_files folder that contains supporting data used to format the R input file, a FlowDuration_regression_models folder that contains .txt files showing the final regression models for the 99th, 98th, 95th, 90th, 80th, 70th, 60th, and 50th percent exceedance probabilities, and a  FlowDuration_regression_model_plots folder that contains .pdf files showing supporting graphics output for the final regression models. 
References Cited:   
Kiang, J.E., Flynn, K.M., Zhai, T., Hummel, P., and Granato, G., 2018, SWToolbox—A surface-water tool-box for statistical analysis of streamflow time series: U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods, book 4, chap. A–11, 33 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/tm4A11. 
R Core Team, 2019, R—A language and environment for statistical computing: R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria, accessed February 11, 2021, at https://www.R-project.org/.

Tags: daily-mean-streamflow, drainage-basin, flow-duration, low-flows, puerto-rico, regression-analysis, statistical-analysis, usgs-5f8740e182cebef40f1721e4, usgs-60787f2ed34e018b32067d2b
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geologic setting and geomorphic history of the La Botica area, south-central Colorado

La Botica is positioned on a topographic bench sharply inset into the gentle eastern slope of the high San Juan Mountains and perched ~70-80 meters above La Jara Creek (fig. 1), a tributary to the Rio Grande. Quaternary surface processes have modified the Tertiary bedrock deposits that underlie La Botica to shape the physical environment. Bedrock deposits consist of Oligocene to Pliocene volcanic and sedimentary deposits related to the Rio Grande rift and the San Juan volcanic locus of the Southern Rocky Mountains volcanic field. Bedrock deposits are mildly deformed by normal faulting and eastward tilting related to the onset of extensional deformation in the Oligocene and formation of the San Luis Basin. Bedrock incision by La Jara Creek is connected with evolution of the Rio Grande, and precursors, since middle to late Pleistocene regional alpine glacial cycles over the last 500 k.y.

Tags: age-estimation-methods, geochronology, la-botica, la-jara-creek, luminescence-dating, optically-stimulated-luminescence, radiation-dosimetry, rio-grande, san-juan-mountains, south-central-colorado, usgs-6079d719d34ef501d6b4ad3b
Organization: Department of the Interior
Macroinvertebrate community and sediment toxicity data from the Buffalo River Area of Concern, New York (ver. 2.0, September 2021)

A data release containing information on macroinvertebrate communities and sediment toxicity in the Buffalo River Area of Concern (AOC) and reference areas immediately upstream of the AOC collected during 2017 and 2020. Macroinvertebrate community samples were collected using bottom-deployed multiplate artificial substrate samplers and organisms were identified to the lowest practical taxonomic resolution and used to calculate metrics of biological integrity following standard New York State Department of Environmental Conservation procedures. Bed sediments were collected using a petite Ponar dredge and used for toxicity tests with two test species, Chironomus dilutus and Hyalella azteca, following USEPA test methods 100.2 and 100.1, respectively. In situ habitat measurements and sediment samples for determination of grain size distribution and total organic carbon concentration were also taken at the time of sample collection at all sites. The data release has four separate tables: one containing site locations and habitat information, one containing the results of 10-day sediment toxicity tests, one containing macroinvertebrate identifications, and one containing standard New York State Department of Environmental Conservation metrics of macroinvertebrate community integrity calculated from the macroinvertebrate identifications.
First posted – May 10, 2019 (version 1.0, available from author)
Revised – September 17, 2021 (version 2.0)
Version 1.0:  This version of the dataset contains one table that contains the results of sediment toxicity tests from 2017. All data in Version 1.0 are contained in Version 2.0.
Version 2.0:  This version of the dataset has four separate tables with data from 2017 and 2020 sampling events: one containing site locations and habitat information, one containing the results of 10-day sediment toxicity tests, one containing macroinvertebrate identifications, and one containing standard New York State Department of Environmental Conservation metrics of macroinvertebrate community integrity calculated from the macroinvertebrate identifications. Additionally, the title of the data release has been changed from "Data for Assessing the Status of Macroinvertebrate Communities and Sediment Toxicity in the Buffalo River Area of Concern, New York" to "Macroinvertebrate community and sediment toxicity data from the Buffalo River Area of Concern, New York (ver. 2.0)". All data in Version 1.0 have been retained in Version 2.0 and are unchanged.

Tags: benthic-ecosystems, buffalo-river, contamination-and-pollution, erie-county, macroinvertebrates, new-york, usgs-607d6baad34ef501d6b8405c
Organization: Department of the Interior
ASCII Text File of the Original 1-m Bathymetry from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Survey H11320 in Rhode Island Sound (H11320_1M_UTM19NAD83.TXT)

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) is working cooperatively with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to interpret the surficial geology in estuaries along the coast of the northeastern United States. The purpose of our present study is to define the sea floor morphology and sedimentary environments in an area of Rhode Island Sound using sidescan sonar imagery, multibeam bathymetry, and seismic records. The mosaic, bathymetry, and their interpretations serve many purposes, including: (1) defining the geological variability of the sea floor, which is one of the primary controls of benthic habitat diversity; (2) improving our understanding of the processes that control the distribution and transport of bottom sediments and the distribution of benthic habitats and associated infaunal community structures; and (3) providing a detailed framework for future research, monitoring, and management activities. The sidescan sonar mosaics and bathymetry images also serve as base maps for subsequent sedimentological, geochemical, and biological observations, because precise information on environmental setting is important for selection of sampling sites and for accurate interpretations of point measurements.

Tags: ascii-text, atlantic-ocean, bathymetry, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, elevation, geospatial-datasets, grid, marine-geophysics, multibeam-bathymetry, multibeam-sonar, national-oceanic-and-atmospheric-administration, noaa, noaa-ship-rude, north-america, oceans, rhode-island, rhode-island-sound, sakonnet-point, sea-floor-characteristics, survey-h11320, u-s-east-coast, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-607dac1d-09ce-4042-8fe4-e2a43bba45d8, whsc, woods-hole-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Dataset: Acute oral toxicity and tissue residues of saxitoxin in the mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)

This data set is composed of data collected from an experimental study inoculating mallard ducks (Anas platyrhynchos) with Saxitoxin and associated control ducks. Data includes the specific of inoculation, observational behavioral data, daily weights, dosing, results of inoculation, testing of samples collected throughout the study, and necropsy results.

Tags: algal-toxin, anas-platyrhynchos, biota, mallard, saxitoxin, usgs-607dc31ed34ef501d6b863be, wildlife
Organization: Department of the Interior
Footprints and producers of source data used to create central portion of the high-resolution (1 m) San Francisco Bay, California, digital elevation model (DEM)

Polygon shapefile showing the footprint boundaries, source agency origins, and resolutions of compiled bathymetric digital elevation models (DEMs) used to construct a continuous, high-resolution DEM of the central portion of San Francisco Bay.

Tags: bathymetry-and-elevation, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, digital-elevation-model-dem-1-meter, digital-elevation-models, elevation, geographic-information-systems, geospatial-datasets, golden-gate, lidar, multibeam-echo-sounder, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pacific-ocean, pcmsc, san-francisco-bay, single-beam-echo-sounder, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-607df19dd34e8564d67e3af3
Organization: Department of the Interior
Florida invasive Leiocephalus carinatus ecological niche model, thermal environment, and thermal tolerance, 1991-2020

The publication "Invaders from Islands: Thermal Matching, Potential, or Plasticity?" is comprised of data derived from multiple datasets. These datasets include climactic and temperature variables used in ecological niche models for predicting suitable habitat for Leiocephalus carinatus in its invaded and native ranges. Also included are thermal tolerance measurements assessed in March 2020 for Leiocephalus carinatus from Key Largo and Cocoa Beach, USA.
Additionally, we include weatherstation data for local minimum and maximum ambient temperatures for the experimentally assessed populations at short (months) and long (decades) timescales. 
The dataset "curly_thermal_limits" describes thermal tolerance data for Leiocephalus carinatus captured in March 2020 from two nonnative populations in Florida.
The dataset "pre_study_ambient_temps_long" contains ambient minimum and maximum temperatures derived from weather stations near Cocoa Beach and Key Largo, Florida, spanning from 1991 to 2020. 
The dataset "pre_study_ambient_temps_short" contains ambient minimum and maximum temperatures derived from weather stations near Cocoa Beach and Key Largo, Florida, spanning from October 1 2019 to March 8, 2020 (the last day of lizard thermal lizard sampling for this study).
There are three occurrence datasets with GPS locations used to develop ecological niche models representing all points, invasive points, and native points, respectively. (ALL_occurrences.csv , INVADED_occurrences.csv, NATIVE_occurrences.csv). 
There are two datasets describing background points (GPS locations) used in ecological niche models for the invaded and native ranges, respectively (background_points_invad.csv , background_points_NR.csv ).
There is one dataset (thresholded_differences.csv) containing thresholded relative suitability data extracted from two ecological niche models. 
There are three sets of six raster files used to develop ecological niche models (described in detail in Step 3), for native range (files ending with "n"), full model (invaded + native range; files ending with "f") and model projection area (files ending with "p").
In addition to data, we included scripts and model output as part of this data release. One zipped folder (R_scripts) contains various R scripts used in the analysis, and another zipped folder (Ensemble_model_output) contains output files from ensemble model analyses using BIOMOD (a free open-source package implemented in R).

Tags: bahamas-the, cuba, ecological-niche-model, ecology, farming, florida, geoscientificinformation, invasive-species, physiology, species-distribution, united-states, usgs-607df429d34e8564d67e3afc
Organization: Department of the Interior