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Chesapeake Bay Region Virginia River Bluff and Wetland Extent Mapping - 2020 Field Survey Data

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) scientists conducted field data collection efforts during June 11th - 16th, 2020, using a combination of remote sensing technologies to map riverbank and wetland topography and vegetation at five sites in the Chesapeake Bay Region of Virginia.  The five sites are located along the James, Severn, and York Rivers.  The work was initiated to evaluate the utility of different remote sensing technologies in mapping river bluff and wetland topography and vegetation for change detection and sediment transport modeling.  The USGS team collected Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), total station, and ground based lidar (GBL) data while the VIMS team collected aerial imagery using an Unmanned Aerial System (UAS).  This data release contains shapefiles of the processed GNSS and total station data, point clouds in the form of lidar data exchange (las) files from the ground lidar data and aerial imagery produced via Structure from Motion (SfM).

Tags: bathymetry, captain-sinclairs-recreational-area, carters-grove, chesapeake-bay, chippokes-plantation-state-park, coastal-national-elevation-database-applications-project, coned, earth-resources-observation-and-science-center, elevation, eros, gbl, global-navigation-satellite-system, gloucester-point, glouster-county, gnss, ground-based-lidar, james-city-county, james-river, king-and-queen-county, lands-end, lidar, light-detection-and-ranging, mobjack-bay, mount-folly, river-bluffs, satellite-derived-bathymetry, sdb, severn-river, sfm, state-of-virginia, structure-from-motion, surry-county, terrestrial-laser-scanning, tls, topography, total-station, uas, uav, usgs-61d86c3ed34ed79294009f20, vims-ccrm, virginia-institute-of-marine-science, virginia-institute-of-marine-science-center-for-coastal-resources-management, wetlands, york-county, york-river, york-river-state-park
Organization: Department of the Interior
USGS EcoDrought Stream Discharge, Gage Height and Water Temperature Data in Massachusetts (ver. 2.1, August 2025)

The USGS Water Mission Area (WMA) - Ecosystems Mission Area (EMA) EcoDrought project is comprised of interdisciplinary teams in five pilot regions across the country. The over-arching project goal is to measure streamflow in headwater streams and to relate flow variation to stream fish population dynamics. 
In the northeast, the New England Water Science Center (NewEngWSC) partnered with the fish ecology group at the S.O. Conte Anadromous Fish Research Lab (Conte), a part of the EMA’s Eastern Ecological Science Center. The Conte fish ecology team has been collecting ecological and stream water temperature data in the West Brook watershed located in Whately, Massachusetts, since 1997, where they developed novel methods to track individual fish and populations. The Conte team has leveraged these data to understand growth, survival, habitat use, genetic structure, population abundance and movement of Atlantic Salmon, Brook Trout and Brown Trout as well as stream temperature impacts on Brook Trout in the West Brook. However, they have not historically had the expertise or equipment to accurately measure discharge in these headwater streams, which hindered their ability to examine the role of streamflow in fish ecology. 
Starting in August of 2019 the NewEngWSC trained a team from Conte to install and maintain in-stream pressure gaging sites including surveying to monitor and account for any movement of the pressure sensor, performing streamflow measurements, developing rating curves to relate gage height and discharge, and carrying out routine and emergency maintenance. 
This data set is comprised of the continuous gage height, discharge, water temperature, air temperature, and air pressure data, as well as discrete discharge measurements and site information for ten headwater stream gaging stations located in the West Brook watershed in Whately, Massachusetts. The date range for this data set is 2019-04-01 through 2025-01-03. Once collected, the continuous gage height data were reviewed, and offsets were applied to correct for instrument movement and instrument drift under the guidance of NewEngWSC Hydrologic Monitoring Program staff. Continuous gage height is converted to a continuous discharge record by relating discrete gage height and discharge measurements with a rating model developed in accordance with USGS WMA standards. Please note that the "EcoDrought_Continuous_MA.csv" data file has over 1.7 million rows, meaning it is too large to open and manipulate in Microsoft Excel. Please take caution when working with these data in Excel.

Tags: biota, climate-change, drought, fragmentation, gaging-station, groundwater, headwater, precipitation, stream-flow, stream-water-temperature, streamflow, usgs-61d853a5d34ed79294009eef, west-brook-river, whatley-massachusetts
Organization: Department of the Interior
Chesapeake Bay Region Virginia River Bluff and Wetland Extent Mapping - 2018 Field Survey Data

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) scientists conducted field data collection efforts during the week of April 8th - 14th, 2018, using a combination of remote sensing technologies to map riverbank and wetland topography and vegetation at four sites in the Chesapeake Bay Region of Virginia.  The four sites are located along the James, Severn, and York Rivers.  The work was initiated to evaluate the utility of different remote sensing technologies in mapping river bluff and wetland topography and vegetation for change detection and sediment transport modeling.  The USGS team collected Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), total station, and ground based lidar (GBL) data while the VIMS team collected aerial imagery using an Unmanned Aerial System (UAS).  This data release contains shapefiles of the processed GNSS and total station data, point clouds in the form of lidar data exchange (las) files from the ground lidar data and aerial imagery produced via Structure from Motion (SfM).

Tags: bathymetry, captain-sinclairs-recreational-area, carters-grove, chesapeake-bay, chippokes-plantation-state-park, coastal-national-elevation-database-applications-project, coned, earth-resources-observation-and-science-center, elevation, eros, gbl, global-navigation-satellite-system, gloucester-point, glouster-county, gnss, ground-based-lidar, james-city-county, james-river, king-and-queen-county, lands-end, lidar, light-detection-and-ranging, mobjack-bay, mount-folly, river-bluffs, satellite-derived-bathymetry, sdb, severn-river, sfm, state-of-virginia, structure-from-motion, surry-county, terrestrial-laser-scanning, tls, topography, total-station, uas, uav, usgs-61d75af1d34ed792940050ea, vims-ccrm, virginia-institute-of-marine-science, virginia-institute-of-marine-science-center-for-coastal-resources-management, wetlands, york-county, york-river, york-river-state-park
Organization: Department of the Interior
Extensometer Data Used as Aquifer-System Compaction Observations for Model Calibration, Central Valley, California, 1958-2018

The Central Valley, and particularly the San Joaquin Valley, has a long history of land subsidence caused by groundwater development. The extensive withdrawal of groundwater from the unconsolidated deposits of the San Joaquin Valley lowered groundwater levels and caused widespread land subsidence—reaching 9 meters by 1981. More than half of the thickness of the aquifer system is composed of fine-grained sediments, including clays, silts, and sandy or silty clays that are susceptible to compaction. In an effort to aid water managers in understanding how water moves through the aquifer system, predicting water-supply scenarios, and addressing issues related to water competition, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) developed a new hydrologic modeling tool, the Central Valley Hydrologic Model (CVHM; Faunt and others 2009). 
The data presented in this data release will be used to facilitate updates to the original CVHM, and represent aquifer-system compaction observations (measurements) using borehole extensometer data during 1958–2018 by USGS, California Department of Water Resources, San Luis and Delta-Mendota Water Agency, and Luhdorff and Scalmanini Consulting Engineers. For a more detailed description of borehole extensometer methods, please see Sneed and others (2013; 2018).

Tags: aquifer-system-compaction, biota, california, central-valley, subsidence, usgs-61d74604d34ed79294005087
Organization: Department of the Interior
Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar Data Used as Subsidence Observations for Model Calibration, Central Valley, California (ver. 2.1, August 2023)

The Central Valley, and particularly the San Joaquin Valley, has a long history of land subsidence caused by groundwater development. The extensive withdrawal of groundwater from the unconsolidated deposits of the San Joaquin Valley lowered groundwater levels and caused widespread land subsidence—reaching 9 meters by 1981. More than half of the thickness of the aquifer system is composed of fine-grained sediments, including clays, silts, and sandy or silty clays that are susceptible to compaction. In an effort to aid water managers in understanding how water moves through the aquifer system, predicting water-supply scenarios, and addressing issues related to water competition, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) developed a new hydrologic modeling tool, the Central Valley Hydrologic Model (CVHM; Faunt and others 2009). For a more detailed description of satellite-based InSAR methods, please see Sneed and others (2013; 2018).  For a more detailed description of UAVSAR, please see https://uavsar.jpl.nasa.gov/education/what-is-uavsar.html.  
The data presented in this data release was provided by Sneed and others (2013; 2018) and will be used to facilitate updates from CVHM to CVHM2 and represent subsidence observations (measurements) using satellite and airborne Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) data during 2003–2016. In the context of this report, subsidence is defined as the lowering of the land-surface elevation as a result of aquifer-system compaction and is calculated by differencing repeated elevation measurements. InSAR methods have been used to monitor land subsidence in the Central Valley and are discussed in more detail in the following sections.

Tags: biota, california, central-valley, interferometric-synthetic-aperture-radar, subsidence, usgs-61d745e6d34ed79294005085
Organization: Department of the Interior
Extensometer Data Used as Aquifer-System Compaction Observations for Model Calibration, Central Valley, California, 1958-2018

The Central Valley, and particularly the San Joaquin Valley, has a long history of land subsidence caused by groundwater development. The extensive withdrawal of groundwater from the unconsolidated deposits of the San Joaquin Valley lowered groundwater levels and caused widespread land subsidence—reaching 9 meters by 1981. More than half of the thickness of the aquifer system is composed of fine-grained sediments, including clays, silts, and sandy or silty clays that are susceptible to compaction. In an effort to aid water managers in understanding how water moves through the aquifer system, predicting water-supply scenarios, and addressing issues related to water competition, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) developed a new hydrologic modeling tool, the Central Valley Hydrologic Model (CVHM; Faunt and others 2009). 
The data presented in this data release will be used to facilitate updates to the original CVHM, and represent aquifer-system compaction observations (measurements) using borehole extensometer data during 1958–2018 by USGS, California Department of Water Resources, San Luis and Delta-Mendota Water Agency, and Luhdorff and Scalmanini Consulting Engineers. For a more detailed description of borehole extensometer methods, please see Sneed and others (2013; 2018).

Tags: aquifer-system-compaction, biota, california, central-valley, subsidence, usgs-61d745b8d34ed79294005082
Organization: Department of the Interior
Continuous Global Positioning System Data Used as Subsidence Observations for Model Calibration, Central Valley, California

The Central Valley, and particularly the San Joaquin Valley, has a long history of land subsidence caused by groundwater development. The extensive withdrawal of groundwater from the unconsolidated deposits of the San Joaquin Valley lowered groundwater levels and caused widespread land subsidence—reaching 9 meters by 1981. More than half of the thickness of the aquifer system is composed of fine-grained sediments, including clays, silts, and sandy or silty clays that are susceptible to compaction. In an effort to aid water managers in understanding how water moves through the aquifer system, predicting water-supply scenarios, and addressing issues related to water competition, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) developed a new hydrologic modeling tool, the Central Valley Hydrologic Model (CVHM; Faunt and others 2009).
The data presented in this data release will be used to facilitate updates to the original CVHM, and represent subsidence observations (measurements) using continuous Global Positioning System (CGPS) methods during 1999–2018. For a more detailed description of CGPS methods, please see Sneed and others (2013; 2018).

Tags: biota, california, central-valley, global-positioning-system, subsidence, usgs-61d74020d34ed7929400505b
Organization: Department of the Interior
Salt marsh monitoring during water years 2013 to 2019, Humboldt Bay, CA, 2018

This data release includes monitoring data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Humboldt Bay Water Quality and Salt Marsh Monitoring Project. The datasets include continuous water levels collected at a 6-minute time step collected in two study marshes (Mad River and Hookton). Surface deposition, elevation changes and carbon storage (in marsh edge environments) measured in five USGS study marshes (Mad River, Manila, Jacoby, White and Hookton). The monitoring data presented in this data release represent fundamental datasets needed to manage blue carbon stocks, assess marsh vulnerability, inform sea-level rise (SLR) adaptation planning, and build coastal resiliency to climate change in Humboldt Bay, CA 
Additional documentation is provided in a companion report. Curtis et al, 2022 A Summary of Water-Quality and Salt Marsh Monitoring during Water Years 2013 to 2019, Humboldt Bay, CA.

Tags: accretion, biota, blue-carbon, bulk-density, california, carbon-storage, estuarine-processes, hookton-marsh, humboldt-bay, humboldt-county, inundation, jacoby-marsh, mad-river-marsh, manila-marsh, marsh-ecosystems, salt-marsh, set-mh, surface-deposition, usgs-61d73e21d34ed7929400504d, water-level, white-marsh
Organization: Department of the Interior
Alkenone and foraminifer abundance data from Miocene and Pliocene Atlantic Coastal Plain sediments

Alkenone data were extracted from core and outcrop samples from the Miocene and Pliocene of the mid Atlantic Coastal Plain. The Uk'37 index is used to estimate temperature and total C37 is used to estimate productivity. Planktonic foraminifer abundance's are provided for two cores.

Tags: calvert-county, geochemistry, isle-of-wight-county, miocene-epoch, paleoenvironment, pliocene-epoch, stratigraphy, usgs-61d73cacd34ed79294005048
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, 2015 and 2018 Site 0658 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 five land-water products (2005, 2008, 2012, YYYY and 2018).  The resulting matrix has 32 possible classes defined by the combination of land and water categories on those five 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-611f1409d34e40dd9c01d291, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2018 Site 0421 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 five land-water products (2005, 2008, 2012, YYYY and 2018).  The resulting matrix has 32 possible classes defined by the combination of land and water categories on those five 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-611f1338d34e40dd9c01d1c3, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2018 Site 0465 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 five land-water products (2005, 2008, 2012, YYYY and 2018).  The resulting matrix has 32 possible classes defined by the combination of land and water categories on those five 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-611f133fd34e40dd9c01d1cd, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2018 Site 0482 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 five land-water products (2005, 2008, 2012, YYYY and 2018).  The resulting matrix has 32 possible classes defined by the combination of land and water categories on those five 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-611f1343d34e40dd9c01d1d1, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, 2015 and 2018 Site 0488 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 five land-water products (2005, 2008, 2012, YYYY and 2018).  The resulting matrix has 32 possible classes defined by the combination of land and water categories on those five 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-611f1345d34e40dd9c01d1d3, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, 2015 and 2018 Site 0489 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 five land-water products (2005, 2008, 2012, YYYY and 2018).  The resulting matrix has 32 possible classes defined by the combination of land and water categories on those five 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-611f1348d34e40dd9c01d1d5, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior