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Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2021 Site 0175 land-water classification data

Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring efforts to determine the efficacy of these efforts. 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 398 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. A DOQQ is a raster image in which displacement in the image caused by sensor orientation and terrain relief has been removed and combines the image characteristics of a photo with geometric qualities of a map. The DOQQs generated for this project consist of 2021 Color Infrared (CIR) Digital Imagery. These images were classified into land and water categories using a threshold of the near infrared (NIR) band, followed by supervised and unsupervised classification.  Initial classification results are then reviewed by multiple image analysts to identify and manually recode errors. The final land-water classifications are intended to serve as both geographic and quantitative assessments of landscape composition on the date of acquisition. Five previous assessments have been conducted (2005, 2008, 2012, 2015/2016, and 2018). Once the program creates enough data points for statistical analyses, these data will be used for land area change rate calculation.

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-653c1db3d34ee4b6e05bc3bc, wetland, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Wetland migration analysis for relative sea-level rise scenarios in Nassau and Duval Counties, Florida

This dataset includes probabilistic outputs for estimating areal coverage of current wetland coverage and potential wetland migration under various relative sea-level rise scenarios in Nassau and Duval Counties, which includes the City of Jacksonville and the U.S. National Park Service's Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve. These data contain potential migration for regularly oceanic-flooded wetlands (that is, flooded by oceanic water daily) and irregularly oceanic-flooded wetlands (that is, flooded by oceanic water less frequently than daily). The products in this data release were created using an approach that involved digital elevation model error reduction in wetlands (that is, overestimation of elevation in wetlands) and the use of uncertainty assumptions regarding contemporary water levels (that is, tides and extreme water levels), and future sea levels to produce probabilistic estimates of wetland migration into upslope/adjacent areas. Specifically, this data release includes results from analyses of two local sea-level rise scenarios for two-time steps — Intermediate-Low and Intermediate-High for 2050 and 2100 from Sweet and others (2022). The data release includes continuous probability layers and layers with probability binned into three classes, and the probability bins with overlapping land cover classes.
Summary References:
Sweet, W.V., B.D. Hamlington, R.E. Kopp, C.P. Weaver, P.L. Barnard, D. Bekaert, W. Brooks,
M. Craghan, G. Dusek, T. Frederikse, G. Garner, A.S. Genz, J.P. Krasting, E. Larour, D. Marcy,
J.J. Marra, J. Obeysekera, M. Osler, M. Pendleton, D. Roman, L. Schmied, W. Veatch, K.D. White,
and C. Zuzak, 2022: Global and Regional Sea Level Rise Scenarios for the United States: Updated Mean Projections and Extreme Water Level Probabilities Along U.S. Coastlines. NOAA
Technical Report NOS 01. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Ocean
Service, Silver Spring, MD, 111 pp. https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/hazards/sealevelrise/noaa-nostechrpt01-global-regional-SLR-scenarios-US.pdf

Tags: biota, duval, environment, florida, nassau, national-park-service-south-atlantic-gulf-region, timucuan-ecological-and-historic-preserve, united-states, usgs-653bf8cbd34ee4b6e05bc29d, wetland-ecosystems
Organization: Department of the Interior
Remotely-sensed vegetation status, trends, and elevation for valley bottoms in Lahontan cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii henshawi) suitable habitat in the Great Basin with summary data from 2013-2022

This dataset was created using remotely-sensed information within the valley bottom extent of Lahontan cutthroat trout  (*Oncorhynchus clarkii henshawi*) suitable habitat as defined and delineated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Each row represents a section of valley bottom for which the attribute was summarized based on information contained in the pixels that overlapped the valley bottom.

Tags: boundaries, central-lahontan, central-nevada-desert-basins, great-basin, nevada, usgs-653ae1dad34ee4b6e05bc094, wetland-ecosystems
Organization: Department of the Interior
Topographic survey data from Moenkopi Wash, AZ

These data were compiled to perform analyses of hydrologic change, changes in sediment transport, and channel change within Moenkopi Wash, Arizona. Objective(s) of our study were to quantify the magnitude and timing of changes in hydrology, sediment transport, and channel form within Moenkopi Wash and to determine the downstream effects of those changes on sediment delivery downstream to the Little Colorado River, and the Colorado River. These data represent instantaneous discharge records, suspended-sediment sample records, topographic survey data, historical aerial imagery, and channel polygons and centerlines mapped on the historical imagery. Instantaneous discharge records in this study began in 1926 and extend to 2022 and were collected at 5 different stream gages within Moenkopi Wash. Suspended-sediment samples were collected between 1948 and 2022 at four stream gage locations. Topographic datasets were collected by field surveys between 1940 and 2016 at five stream gage locations. Aerial imagery datasets were collected in the 1930s, 1952, 1968, 1979, 1992, 1997, 2007, 2013, and 2019. The 1968 and 1979 aerial imagery was collected by the U. S. Geological Survey. The 1952 imagery was collected by the U.S. Army Map Service. The 1992 and 1997 imagery were collected by the National Aerial Imagery Program. The 2007, 2013 and 2019 aerial images were collected by the National Agricultural Program. These data can be used to analyze changes in hydrology, sediment transport, and channel change within Moenkopi Wash.

Tags: active-channel-boundaries, aerial-imagery-data, aerial-photography, arizona, biogeomorphic-feedbacks, biota, cameron, channel-boundaries, channel-centerlines, channel-change, channel-form, channel-narrowing, channel-polygons, colorado-river, cross-section-shape, data-release, dryland-rivers, field-activity-logs, field-inventory-and-monitoring, field-surveys, floods, geomorphology, historical-aerial-imagery, hydrologic-change, hydrology, image-collections, image-mosaics, imagerybasemapsearthcover, inlandwaters, instantaneous-discharge-records, little-colorado-river, moenkopi, moenkopi-wash, national-aerial-imagery-program, national-agricultural-program, northern-arizona, orthoimagery, riparian-vegetation, sediment-delivery, sediment-geochemistry, sediment-transport, sedimentation, sedimentology, shonto, stream-discharge, stream-gage-locations, stream-gage-measurement, stream-gages, suspended-material-water, suspended-sediment-sample-records, topographic-survey-data, tuba-city, u-s-army-map-service, u-s-geological-survey, usgs-653ad045d34ee4b6e05bc017, vegetation, wetland-ecosystems
Organization: Department of the Interior
Suspended-sediment data from Moenkopi Wash, AZ

These data were compiled to perform analyses of hydrologic change, changes in sediment transport, and channel change within Moenkopi Wash, Arizona. Objective(s) of our study were to quantify the magnitude and timing of changes in hydrology, sediment transport, and channel form within Moenkopi Wash and to determine the downstream effects of those changes on sediment delivery downstream to the Little Colorado River, and the Colorado River. These data represent instantaneous discharge records, suspended-sediment sample records, topographic survey data, historical aerial imagery, and channel polygons and centerlines mapped on the historical imagery. Instantaneous discharge records in this study began in 1926 and extend to 2022 and were collected at 5 different stream gages within Moenkopi Wash. Suspended-sediment samples were collected between 1948 and 2022 at four stream gage locations. Topographic datasets were collected by field surveys between 1940 and 2016 at five stream gage locations. Aerial imagery datasets were collected in the 1930s, 1952, 1968, 1979, 1992, 1997, 2007, 2013, and 2019. The 1968 and 1979 aerial imagery was collected by the U. S. Geological Survey. The 1952 imagery was collected by the U.S. Army Map Service. The 1992 and 1997 imagery were collected by the National Aerial Imagery Program. The 2007, 2013 and 2019 aerial images were collected by the National Agricultural Program. These data can be used to analyze changes in hydrology, sediment transport, and channel change within Moenkopi Wash.

Tags: active-channel-boundaries, aerial-imagery-data, aerial-photography, arizona, biogeomorphic-feedbacks, biota, cameron, channel-boundaries, channel-centerlines, channel-change, channel-form, channel-narrowing, channel-polygons, colorado-river, cross-section-shape, data-release, dryland-rivers, field-activity-logs, field-inventory-and-monitoring, field-surveys, floods, geomorphology, historical-aerial-imagery, hydrologic-change, hydrology, image-collections, image-mosaics, imagerybasemapsearthcover, inlandwaters, instantaneous-discharge-records, little-colorado-river, moenkopi, moenkopi-wash, national-aerial-imagery-program, national-agricultural-program, northern-arizona, orthoimagery, riparian-vegetation, sediment-delivery, sediment-geochemistry, sediment-transport, sedimentation, sedimentology, shonto, stream-discharge, stream-gage-locations, stream-gage-measurement, stream-gages, suspended-material-water, suspended-sediment-sample-records, topographic-survey-data, tuba-city, u-s-army-map-service, u-s-geological-survey, usgs-653ad034d34ee4b6e05bc015, vegetation, wetland-ecosystems
Organization: Department of the Interior
Daily total phosphorus concentrations calculated using the USGS Weighted Regression on Time, Discharge, and Season (WRTDS)

This data release contains model inputs, outputs, and source code (written in R) for the calculation of daily total phosphorus (TP) concentrations at a sampling site operated by the Klamath Tribes (WR6000), which is located 5 miles downstream of USGS streamgage 11502500, Williamson River below Sprague River near Chiloquin, Oregon. Daily streamflow data from 11502500 were used to calibrate the model along with data provided for the Klamath Tribes for site WR6000. Daily TP concentrations were calculated from 1991-2019 using the USGS Weighted Regression on Time, Discharge, and Season (WRTDS) model.  Calibration data are bi-weekly (every two weeks) TP concentrations collected at site WR6000 and analyzed by the Klamath Tribes at the Sprague River Water Quality Laboratory (SRWQL).  All concentrations are reported in milligrams per liter (mg/L).

Tags: environment, hydrology, inlandwaters, oregon, surface-water-quality, usgs-653aa6a1d34ee4b6e05bbef8, williamson-river
Organization: Department of the Interior
Sediment chemistry data from sediment traps deployed in the San Juan River watershed, 2021-2022, Four Corners USA

Sediment traps were deployed in thirty-three ephemeral and perennial tributaries to the San Juan River during 2021 and 2022.   This dataset includes the chemical concentrations of the sediment samples collected in sediment traps during storm events. These traps collected sediment during storm events that typically occur as monsoonal convective storms from June to September. Because of the rural nature of the watershed, sediment traps were collected every 3 weeks so the sediment collected is a composite of that time period. The date listed is the date the trap was collected.
Major ions are reported in weight percentage, while all other elements are reported in parts per million. Each sample was split and analyzed following two different methods of sample preparation. In one method, the sample is decomposed using a mixture of hydrochloric, nitric, perchloric, and hydrofluoric acids at low temperature.  In the second method,  samples are fused at 750°C with sodium peroxide and the fusion cake dissolved in a dilute nitric acid. The resulting solution for both methods is analyzed by ICP-OES and ICP-MS.

Tags: arizona, biota, chemical-analysis, colorado, four-corners, geochemistry, new-mexico, san-juan, sedimentology, unconsolidated-deposits, usgs-653a8daed34ee4b6e05bbd4b, utah
Organization: Department of the Interior
Guam, Morphometric and height data for brown treesnakes were detected at four sites on Guam, 2006 - 2023

These data were collected as part of several studies or efforts to remove brown treesnakes (Boiga irregularis) across three sites located in Guam, USA and one site in Cocos Island (Dano), Guam, USA. The various goals of projects were distinct and these data were applied to a more intensive, cross site comparison on the height snakes were detected during visual surveys as a function of their size or body condition.

Tags: arboreal, behavior, biota, cocos-island-guam, condition, guam, size, usgs-6539e335d34ee4b6e05bbd21
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data release: early warning indicators for harmful algal bloom assessments in the Illinois River, 2013 - 2020

Harmful algal blooms (HABs) have recently been observed in rivers, including the Illinois River in the Midwest United States. The Illinois River Basin has a history of eutrophication issues, primarily caused by the excessive loading of nitrogen and phosphorus from urban and agricultural sources. Recent events have seen the emergence of cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms in the area. This data release provides early warning indicator (EWI) metrics derived from a continuous chlorophyll concentration dataset obtained from seven water quality monitoring sites along the Illinois River. These metrics include the first-order autoregressive process (Ar1) and the standard deviation (SD) of chlorophyll, which serve as leading indicators of a potential shift in the ecological system, as documented in the ecological literature. For more in-depth information on the methodology used to calculate these metrics and a detailed interpretation of the results as they relate to the Illinois River, please refer to &lt;a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2024.111970"&gt;Stackpoole et al. 2024&lt;/a&gt;. This work was completed as part of the USGS Proxies Project, an effort supported by the Water Mission Area (WMA) Water Quality Processes program to develop estimation methods for PFAS, harmful algal blooms, and metals, at multiple spatial and temporal scales.

Tags: algal-blooms, early-warning-indicators, environment, harmful-algal-blooms, il, illinois, inlandwaters, modeling, river-reaches, united-states, us, usgs-65399a84d34ee4b6e05bbcd6, water-resources
Organization: Department of the Interior
Simulated growth potential of redband trout in the Donner und Blitzen River Basin, southeastern Oregon, using a bioenergetics model

Growth potential of redband trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss newberri) was simulated across 175 river segments in the Donner und Blitzen River basin for water years 1980 through 2021 using a bioenergetics model.  A previously published framework for assessing climate vulnerability of redband trout was used to simulate the growth potential of redband trout in relation to constraints on body size, physiological responses linked to variable thermal regimes, and variation in physiological adaptive capacity. For body size, three starting sizes of redband trout, 10 g, 50 g, and 150 g, were used for each day of the simulations. For thermal regimes, daily stream temperatures were estimated from PRISM (Parameter-elevation Regressions on Independent Slopes Model;  https://prism.oregonstate.edu/).  To account for variation in adaptive capacity, physiological parameters for an average or baseline, cold-adapted and warm adapted individual were used (Benjamin et al. 2023). Growth potential (g/g/day ) for each river segment, body size, and thermal adaptation are provided in the data files provided below.

Tags: ankle-creek-gnis-id-1116958-stream, bioenergetics, biota, donner-und-blitzen-river-gnis-id-1120027-stream, environment, fish-creek-gnis-id-1120761-stream, frenchglen-gnis-id-1136302-populated-place, ichthyology, indian-creek-gnis-id-1122212-stream, indian-spring-creek-gnis-id-1129761-stream, little-blitzen-river-gnis-id-1123136-stream, mathematical-modeling, mud-creek-gnis-id-1124445-stream, steens-mountain-gnis-id-1127571-summit, usgs-65381be6d34ee4b6e05bba62
Organization: Department of the Interior
Lower Salinas Valley Hydrologic Models: Land Use Data

This digital dataset contains the land use data used for the Salinas Valley Hydrologic Models (SVHM): the Salinas Valley Watershed Model (SVWM), the Salinas Valley Integrated Hydrologic Model (SVIHM), and Salinas Valley Operational Model (SVOM). 
Land use data were compiled from available state, local, and federal datasets. Available multi-year composite land use data were integrated with national scale land use and land cover data and supplemented and refined with information from the California Pesticide Use Reporting (CalPUR) database (California Department of Pesticide Regulation, 2024) to provide a comprehensive edge-to-edge land use map for each year. Native vegetation was defined using the National Land Cover Database (NLCD) (U.S. Geological Survey, 2000; U.S. Geological Survey, 2003; U.S. Geological Survey, 2011; U.S. Geological Survey, 2014; Dewitz, 2021) and intersected in a GIS with other available land use data. If available land use data for an irrigated crop was present where NLCD data showed a native land use cover class, the irrigated land area was preserved. There were 56 land use types developed to represent native vegetation, urban areas, and crops in the Salinas Valley. The land use types can be grouped into the four land use analysis categories based on the frequency with which crops may change (high frequency rotational, annually stable, multi-year) or as native or urban classes (native/urban). There is a climate gradient across the valley that could lead to differences in crop management and demands in the coastal and inland areas, for example, gradients in precipitation and PET. Additionally, coastal areas can have differences in fog occurrence and cloud cover relative to inland areas. Inland and coastal climate zones were used to support the delineation of different growth rates for the land use types. Of the 56 land use types, 40 were defined as irrigated land use with an inland and coastal sub-type. Discriminating crops between these regions and climate zones allows for the simulation of potential differences in climate, water demands, and crop management.

Tags: 180-foot-aquifer, 400-foot-aquifer, california, environment, land-use-and-land-cover, land-use-change, maps-and-atlases, salinas-valley, usgs-65380e73d34ee4b6e05bba08
Organization: Department of the Interior
Estimates of microcystin concentration and content using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay on samples collected from experiments on cyanobacteria in the Great Lakes and field data from the Mississippi River

From 2017-2019, the Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center (UMESC) analyzed microcystin concentrations in samples collected from three different studies.  The first study was on the movement and distribution of invasive carp (Bighead Carp, Silver Carp, Grass Carp) in the upper Mississippi River between lock and dam 16 and lock and dam 19.  Samples were collected from May through October of 2017 and 2018 from backwaters, impounded areas and main channel areas in this reach of the Mississippi River.  The second study was a nutrient and metal amendment study performed on natural phytoplankton communities from Lake Erie and Lake Michigan.  This was a laboratory study where natural phytoplankton communities were incubated for 72 hours with amendments of ammonium, phosphate and metals (iron, zinc, molybdenum, nickel and manganese).  After 72 hours, communities were sampled for microcystin concentration (among other metrics not reported here).  The third study was a nutrient diffusing substrate study, where periphyton were grown on suspended substrates that leached nutrients or metals.  After two weeks of deployment periphyton was collected from the substrates, diluted in purified water and then analyzed for microcystin concentration.  Microcystin concentrations for all experiments were estimated using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) test kits.  We used a Bayesian method to calibrate the absorbance data from the kit and report here on both the microcystin concentrations of the samples analyzed, but also report the raw absorbance data from both samples and calibration standards so that others could recreate the microcystin analysis using other methods if they so choose.

Tags: cyanobacteria-blue-green-algae, elisa, environment, enzyme-linked-immunosorbent-assay, lake-michigan, microcystin, upper-mississippi, usgs-6537e66cd34ee4b6e05bb915, western-lake-erie
Organization: Department of the Interior
2021 Potomac River Phase 2 Topobathymetric Lidar Validation – USGS Field Survey Data

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists conducted field data collection efforts between September 30th and October 9th, 2021 over a large stretch of the Potomac River in Maryland and West Virginia using high accuracy surveying technologies.  The work was initiated as an effort to validate commercially acquired topobathymetric light detection and ranging (lidar) data that was collected coincidentally between October 3 - 5, 2021 for the USGS 3D Elevation Program (3DEP).  The goal was to compare and validate the airborne lidar data to topographic, bathymetric, structural, and infrastructural data collected through more traditional means (e.g., Global Navigational Satellite System (GNSS) surveying).  Evaluating these data will provide valuable information on the performance of inland topobathymetric lidar mapping capabilities and their potential for use and inclusion in the USGS National Geospatial Program 3D Elevation Program.  The primary uses for the airborne topobathymetric lidar data will be hydrodynamic and water supply risk modeling and aquatic habitat assessments.
The data contained within this particular release are comprised of conventional survey (i.e. total station and GNSS) and ground based lidar data.

Tags: 3d-elevation-program, 3dep, airborne-lidar, airborne-topobathymetric-lidar, als, campo-canal, campo-canal-dam-4, campo-canal-dam-5, chesapeake-and-ohio-canal, elevation, four-locks-boat-ramp, gbl, geoscientificinformation, global-navigation-satellite-system, gnss, ground-based-lidar, hancock-boat-ramp, inlandwaters, lidar, light-detection-and-ranging, location, mccoys-ferry-campground, national-conservation-training-center, national-geospatial-program, nctc, ngp-inland-bathymetry-research, potomac-river, state-of-maryland, state-of-west-virginia, terrestrial-laser-scanning, tls, topobathy, topobathymetric-lidar, topobathymetry, topographic, total-station, town-of-hancock, town-of-shepherdstown, town-of-williamsport, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-6536bbc4d34ee4b6e05bb6d0, williamsport-park
Organization: Department of the Interior