AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
UMRS Floodplain Inundation Model - Pool 5

Floodplain inundation is believed to be the dominant physical driver of an array of ecosystem patterns and processes in the Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS). Here, we present the relative elevation of a slope-detrended floodplain terrain surface and river mile location used to map surface water depths derived from gaging locations along UMRS, as described in Van Appledorn et al. (2021; doi: 10.1002/rra.3628). We excluded areas permanently wetted (aquatic areas), surfaces in agricultural production, roads, and developed areas. The data are intended for use in geospatial analyses of UMRS floodplain ecosystem patterns and processes.

Tags: flood-plain, floods, freshwater-ecosystems, hydrology, river-systems, usgs-661eaa17d34e7eb9eb7e3d54
Organization: Department of the Interior
Cosmogenic Be-10 Exposure Data for a Boulder Field in Zepp, VA

We have dated a boulder field in Zepp, VA using cosmogenic Be-10 exposure dating.  Three samples taken from boulders at three elevations in the boulder field (804 m asl, 818 m asl, and 831 m asl) were processed at the Reston Cosmogenic Nuclide (RECON) Lab and measured via accelerator mass spectrometry at the Purdue Rare Isotope Measurement (PRIME) Lab.  The results of this work are summarized in the file “Zepp_Exposure_Beryllium10_Odom.csv”.  This file contains all relevant sample location data, as well as input variables for exposure age calculations.  We employed the CRONUS v.3 exposure age calculator (Balco et al., 2008) to estimate exposure ages for these samples and report exposure ages derived using the LSDn time-dependent production rate scaling scheme (Lifton et al., 2014).  From highest to lowest elevation, the boulders increased in exposure age: 53 ± 4 ka at 831 m, 84 ± 6 ka at 818 m, and 113 ± 7 ka at 804 m.  These exposure ages are generally younger than boulder field exposure ages calculated ~330 km to the northeast at Hickory Run, PA (Denn et al., 2017), but older than the Last Glacial Maximum.  They produce a linear inverse trend in elevation vs. exposure age (R2 = 0.998), indicating a mean downslope movement rate of approximately -0.45 m/ky for boulders. Future study will include Al-26 measurements to evaluate the possibility of boulder reorientation and changes in cosmic ray shielding over time.
References:
Balco, G., Stone, J. O., Lifton, N. A., &amp; Dunai, T. J. (2008). A complete and easily accessible means of calculating surface exposure ages or erosion rates from 10Be and 26Al measurements. Quaternary Geochronology, 3(3), 174–195. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2007.12.001
Denn, A. R., Bierman, P. R., Zimmerman, S. R. H., Caffee, M. W., Corbett, L. B., &amp; Kirby, E. (2018). Cosmogenic nuclides indicate that boulder fields are dynamic, ancient, multigenerational features. GSA Today, 4–10. https://doi.org/10.1130/GSATG340A.1
Lifton, N., Sato, T., &amp; Dunai, T. J. (2014). Scaling in situ cosmogenic nuclide production rates using analytical approximations to atmospheric cosmic-ray fluxes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 386, 149–160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2013.10.052

Tags: beryllium-10, boulder-field, exposure-dating, geochronology, geology, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, usgs-65f48317d34ebfb8e1677fad
Organization: Department of the Interior
UMRS Floodplain Inundation Model - Pool 15

Floodplain inundation is believed to be the dominant physical driver of an array of ecosystem patterns and processes in the Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS). Here, we present the relative elevation of a slope-detrended floodplain terrain surface and river mile location used to map surface water depths derived from gaging locations along UMRS, as described in Van Appledorn et al. (2021; doi: 10.1002/rra.3628). We excluded areas permanently wetted (aquatic areas), surfaces in agricultural production, roads, and developed areas. The data are intended for use in geospatial analyses of UMRS floodplain ecosystem patterns and processes.

Tags: flood-plain, floods, freshwater-ecosystems, hydrology, river-systems, usgs-661ead72d34e7eb9eb7e3d9c
Organization: Department of the Interior
UMRS Floodplain Inundation Model - Pool 14

Floodplain inundation is believed to be the dominant physical driver of an array of ecosystem patterns and processes in the Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS). Here, we present the relative elevation of a slope-detrended floodplain terrain surface and river mile location used to map surface water depths derived from gaging locations along UMRS, as described in Van Appledorn et al. (2021; doi: 10.1002/rra.3628). We excluded areas permanently wetted (aquatic areas), surfaces in agricultural production, roads, and developed areas. The data are intended for use in geospatial analyses of UMRS floodplain ecosystem patterns and processes.

Tags: flood-plain, floods, freshwater-ecosystems, hydrology, river-systems, usgs-661ead55d34e7eb9eb7e3d94
Organization: Department of the Interior
UMRS Floodplain Inundation Model - Illinois River Reach - Peoria Pool

Floodplain inundation is believed to be the dominant physical driver of an array of ecosystem patterns and processes in the Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS). Here, we present the relative elevation of a slope-detrended floodplain terrain surface and river mile location used to map surface water depths derived from gaging locations along UMRS, as described in Van Appledorn et al. (2021; doi: 10.1002/rra.3628). We excluded areas permanently wetted (aquatic areas), surfaces in agricultural production, roads, and developed areas. The data are intended for use in geospatial analyses of UMRS floodplain ecosystem patterns and processes.

Tags: flood-plain, floods, freshwater-ecosystems, hydrology, river-systems, usgs-661eac8bd34e7eb9eb7e3d72
Organization: Department of the Interior
UMRS Floodplain Inundation Model - Pool 4

Floodplain inundation is believed to be the dominant physical driver of an array of ecosystem patterns and processes in the Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS). Here, we present the relative elevation of a slope-detrended floodplain terrain surface and river mile location used to map surface water depths derived from gaging locations along UMRS, as described in Van Appledorn et al. (2021; doi: 10.1002/rra.3628). We excluded areas permanently wetted (aquatic areas), surfaces in agricultural production, roads, and developed areas. The data are intended for use in geospatial analyses of UMRS floodplain ecosystem patterns and processes.

Tags: flood-plain, floods, freshwater-ecosystems, hydrology, river-systems, usgs-661ea9e3d34e7eb9eb7e3d51
Organization: Department of the Interior
UMRS Floodplain Inundation Model - Pool 26

Floodplain inundation is believed to be the dominant physical driver of an array of ecosystem patterns and processes in the Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS). Here, we present the relative elevation of a slope-detrended floodplain terrain surface and river mile location used to map surface water depths derived from gaging locations along UMRS, as described in Van Appledorn et al. (2021; doi: 10.1002/rra.3628). We excluded areas permanently wetted (aquatic areas), surfaces in agricultural production, roads, and developed areas. The data are intended for use in geospatial analyses of UMRS floodplain ecosystem patterns and processes.

Tags: flood-plain, floods, freshwater-ecosystems, hydrology, river-systems, usgs-661eac2bd34e7eb9eb7e3d6c
Organization: Department of the Interior
SNP data for Karner blue butterfly samples from across the species range

This dataset contains sample information about the origin of the butterflies sequenced, and their  corresponding SNP genotype data. These data were used to examine patterns of genomic structure of the Karner blue butterfly from throughout its range. The raw sequence data are archived in the GenBank Bioproject PRJNA995790 at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/

Tags: biota, karner-blue-butterfly, usgs-661ea223d34e7eb9eb7e3d0a
Organization: Department of the Interior
UMRS Floodplain Inundation Model - Pool 22

Floodplain inundation is believed to be the dominant physical driver of an array of ecosystem patterns and processes in the Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS). Here, we present the relative elevation of a slope-detrended floodplain terrain surface and river mile location used to map surface water depths derived from gaging locations along UMRS, as described in Van Appledorn et al. (2021; doi: 10.1002/rra.3628). We excluded areas permanently wetted (aquatic areas), surfaces in agricultural production, roads, and developed areas. The data are intended for use in geospatial analyses of UMRS floodplain ecosystem patterns and processes.

Tags: flood-plain, floods, freshwater-ecosystems, hydrology, river-systems, usgs-661eabecd34e7eb9eb7e3d69
Organization: Department of the Interior
Annual Estimates of Suspended Sediment Concentration and Load to Support Trend Analysis on the Lower Mississippi River and Atchafalaya River, 1978–2021

This data release contains annual estimates of total, fine (&lt;0.0625 millimeter [mm]), and coarse (≥0.0625 mm) suspended sediment concentration and load for 11 sites located on the Lower Mississippi River and Atchafalaya River through 2021.  Annual and flow-normalized estimates were calculated using WRTDSplus, an extension of the Weighted Regressions on Time, Discharge, and Season (WRTDS) model which allows users to add a fourth explanatory variable to the model formulation (DeCicco and others, 2024). Input streamflow and suspended sediment data for these models were retrieved from Murphy and others (2022). Details about data processing and model specifications can be found in the companion publication to this data release (Murphy and others, 2025).

Tags: atchafalaya-river, louisiana, mississippi, mississippi-and-atchafalaya-river-basin, mississippi-river, suspended-sediment, suspended-sediment-concentration, suspended-sediment-load-estimation, total-suspended-sediment-sand-silt-and-clay, usgs-661e81cbd34e7eb9eb7e3c28, weighted-regressions-on-time-discharge-and-season-wrtds, wrtdsplus
Organization: Department of the Interior
UMRS Floodplain Inundation Model - Pool 17

Floodplain inundation is believed to be the dominant physical driver of an array of ecosystem patterns and processes in the Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS). Here, we present the relative elevation of a slope-detrended floodplain terrain surface and river mile location used to map surface water depths derived from gaging locations along UMRS, as described in Van Appledorn et al. (2021; doi: 10.1002/rra.3628). We excluded areas permanently wetted (aquatic areas), surfaces in agricultural production, roads, and developed areas. The data are intended for use in geospatial analyses of UMRS floodplain ecosystem patterns and processes.

Tags: flood-plain, floods, freshwater-ecosystems, hydrology, river-systems, usgs-661eabc3d34e7eb9eb7e3d66
Organization: Department of the Interior
UMRS Floodplain Inundation Model - Pool 13

Floodplain inundation is believed to be the dominant physical driver of an array of ecosystem patterns and processes in the Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS). Here, we present the relative elevation of a slope-detrended floodplain terrain surface and river mile location used to map surface water depths derived from gaging locations along UMRS, as described in Van Appledorn et al. (2021; doi: 10.1002/rra.3628). We excluded areas permanently wetted (aquatic areas), surfaces in agricultural production, roads, and developed areas. The data are intended for use in geospatial analyses of UMRS floodplain ecosystem patterns and processes.

Tags: flood-plain, floods, freshwater-ecosystems, hydrology, river-systems, usgs-661eab7fd34e7eb9eb7e3d64
Organization: Department of the Interior
UMRS Floodplain Inundation Model - Pool 10

Floodplain inundation is believed to be the dominant physical driver of an array of ecosystem patterns and processes in the Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS). Here, we present the relative elevation of a slope-detrended floodplain terrain surface and river mile location used to map surface water depths derived from gaging locations along UMRS, as described in Van Appledorn et al. (2021; doi: 10.1002/rra.3628). We excluded areas permanently wetted (aquatic areas), surfaces in agricultural production, roads, and developed areas. The data are intended for use in geospatial analyses of UMRS floodplain ecosystem patterns and processes.

Tags: flood-plain, floods, freshwater-ecosystems, hydrology, river-systems, usgs-661eab3dd34e7eb9eb7e3d62
Organization: Department of the Interior
UMRS Floodplain Inundation Model - Pool 5A

Floodplain inundation is believed to be the dominant physical driver of an array of ecosystem patterns and processes in the Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS). Here, we present the relative elevation of a slope-detrended floodplain terrain surface and river mile location used to map surface water depths derived from gaging locations along UMRS, as described in Van Appledorn et al. (2021; doi: 10.1002/rra.3628). We excluded areas permanently wetted (aquatic areas), surfaces in agricultural production, roads, and developed areas. The data are intended for use in geospatial analyses of UMRS floodplain ecosystem patterns and processes.

Tags: flood-plain, floods, freshwater-ecosystems, hydrology, river-systems, usgs-661eaa48d34e7eb9eb7e3d56
Organization: Department of the Interior
UMRS Floodplain Inundation Model - Pool 9

Floodplain inundation is believed to be the dominant physical driver of an array of ecosystem patterns and processes in the Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS). Here, we present the relative elevation of a slope-detrended floodplain terrain surface and river mile location used to map surface water depths derived from gaging locations along UMRS, as described in Van Appledorn et al. (2021; doi: 10.1002/rra.3628). We excluded areas permanently wetted (aquatic areas), surfaces in agricultural production, roads, and developed areas. The data are intended for use in geospatial analyses of UMRS floodplain ecosystem patterns and processes.

Tags: flood-plain, floods, freshwater-ecosystems, hydrology, river-systems, usgs-661eab19d34e7eb9eb7e3d60
Organization: Department of the Interior
Climate Impact Meteorological Stations (CLIM-MET) data from the Mojave National Preserve, California (2016-2022)

These CLIM-MET stations are meteorological/geological stations that is designed to function in remote areas for long periods of time without human intervention. These stations measure meteorological and wind-erosion parameters under varying climatic and land-use conditions to detect and describe ongoing landscape changes. These data represent multiple years of local detailed landscape and environmental change observations. These data were collected at several discrete locations within southeastern California and in Mojave National Preserve, California, from 31 July 2016 to 23 March 2022. These data were collected by U.S. Geological Survey researchers utilizing site visits and automated data collection data loggers. These data can be used to inform studies of local and regional landscape change as well as to provide input into regional climatic models.

Tags: air-temperature, atmospheric-and-climatic-processes, atmospheric-deposition-chemical-amp-particulate, baker, barometric-pressure, battery-voltage, california, climate, climate-change, climate-trends, climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, data-logger, data-release, devils-playground, downwelling-shortwave-flux, dryland-systems, elevation, elevational-gradient, environment, evapotranspiration, field-inventory-and-monitoring, field-monitoring-stations, hanks-mountain, latitudinal-gradient, location, mesquite-hills, meteorological-data, meteorology, mojave-national-preserve, net-radiation, peak-windspeed, photosynthetic-photon-flux-density, precipitation-atmospheric, precipitation-gauge, relative-humidity, sensit-kinetic-energy-count, sensit-particle-count, soil-moisture, solar-radiation, spatial-location, terrestrial-ecosystems, time-series-datasets, topography, upwelling-shortwave-flux, usgs-66197403d34e7eb9eb7dccef, volumetric-water-content, weather-events, weather-station, wind, wind-direction, wind-speed
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geochemical Analyses of Water, Mine Tailings, Fluvial Suspended Sediments, Fluvial Bed Sediments, and Fluvial Flood Deposit Sediments from the Big River and Meramec River Drainage Basins, Missouri

Geochemical data for aqueous, mine tailings, and sediment samples collected from the Big River and Meramec River drainage basins in southeastern Missouri are presented. The Big River drains historical lead, zinc, and barite mining districts, including the Old Lead Belt (OLB). Underground mining in the OLB resulted in large mine-waste chat piles and tailings impoundments that have released material laden with lead, zinc, and other trace elements to the Big River drainage basin. The Meramec River has also been affected by mining-related material transported by the Big River. Since the late 1980s, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has been involved in investigations into the effects of mining on the Big River. The data presented here were generated as part of collaborations between the USGS Central Midwest Water Science Center, the USGS Mineral Resources Program, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Flood deposit sediments were collected immediately after major flooding of the Big and Meramec Rivers in December 2016 and April 2017. Bed sediments and suspended sediments were collected by various methods during several field efforts from 2018 through 2022. Mine tailings were collected by coring on the former Federal mine tailings impoundment within St. Joe State Park in 2018. Concentrations of major and trace elements were determined for multiple particle size fractions of solid-phase samples, and multi-element analyses of deionized water leaches and sequential extractions were performed on select samples. Aqueous samples were collected from the Big River, tributaries, and mine and mine-waste seeps at near baseflow conditions during three different field efforts in 2018, 2019, and 2021. Aqueous samples were analyzed for anions and major and trace elements. Concentrations of major and trace elements in streambed and suspended sediments collected from the Big River drainage basin in 1988 and 1999 are also reported; these data were previously published in a USGS report but are provided here for convenient comparison.

Tags: chemical-analysis, environment, geoscientificinformation, inorganic-pollutants, mine-waste, missouri, sediment-geochemistry, sediment-transport, united-states, usgs-65e60792d34e5855ff4e66b8
Organization: Department of the Interior
When and where could rising seas cross thresholds for initiating wetland drowning across conterminous United States?

Recent data syntheses have clarified future relative sea-level rise exposure and sensitivity thresholds for drowning. We integrated these advances to estimate when and where rising sea levels could cross thresholds for initiating wetland drowning across the conterminous United States. We evaluated three sea-level rise thresholds for wetland drowning (4, 7, and 10 mm/yr). Our study area spans the coastal conterminous United States, which includes Washington, D.C. and 22 coastal states along the Pacific Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, and Atlantic Ocean. Within the study area, we created a grid of 168 1-degree resolution cells for data acquisition and analyses. We examined three alternative sea-level rise scenarios, the Intermediate-Low, Intermediate, and Intermediate-High relative sea-level rise scenarios identified by the most recent United States interagency sea-level rise technical report. These three scenarios correspond to 0.5, 1.0, and 1.5-m global mean sea-level rise levels by 2100, respectively. Our results show that there is much spatial variation in relative sea-level rise rates, which impacts the potential timing and extent of wetlands crossing thresholds. High rates of relative sea-level rise along wetland-rich parts of the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic coasts highlight areas where wetlands are already drowning or could begin to drown within decades, including large wetland landscapes within the Mississippi River Delta, Greater Everglades, Chesapeake Bay, Texas, Georgia, and the Carolinas.

Tags: alabama, atlantic-coast, biota, california, coastal, coastal-wetland, connecticut, conterminous-united-states, delaware, district-of-columbia, environment, florida, georgia, gulf-of-mexico-coast, louisiana, maine, maryland, massachusetts, mississippi, new-hampshire, new-jersey, new-york, north-carolina, oregon, pacific-coast, pennsylvania, rhode-island, sea-level-rise, south-carolina, texas, tidal-saline-wetland, united-states, usgs-662fabf1d34ea70bd5f25fdd, virginia, washington, wetland-drowning, wetland-drowning-threshold, wetland-loss
Organization: Department of the Interior
Corrected Fire Perimeters of Alaska's National Wildlife Refuges

This data package includes 481 geospatial vector polygons of historic fire perimeters associated with National Wildlife Refuges in Alaska. These polygons, originally held within the Alaska Large Fire Database (ALFD), were reviewed and found to have geospatial inaccuracies with respect to the fire they represent. They were corrected and updated based on a variety of remote sensing resources; the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) database (https://www.mtbs.gov/viewer/index.html), geospatial rasters of historic fire activity derived from Landsat 1-9 imagery in the Google Earth Engine(https://earthengine.google.com) environment, and historical air photos acquired through EarthExplorer (https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/). Wildfire records occurring within Alaska Wildlife Refuge units and considered for necessary updates, spanned the 1943-2022 time period and comprised 1,229 recorded fires. After reviewing all fire records, 400 fire perimeters were updated and 81 previously unrecorded fires were added to the database. These updated records spanned 1954-2021.

Tags: alaska, alaska-peninsula-national-wildlife-refuge, arctic-national-wildlife-refuge, becharof-national-wildlife-refuge, disturbance, environment, fires, habitat-alteration-and-disturbance, innoko-national-wildlife-refuge, izembeck-national-wildlife-refuge, kanuti-national-wildlife-refuge, kenai-national-wildlife-refuge, kodiak-national-wildlife-refuge, koyukuk-national-wildlife-refuge, land-use-land-cover, landsat, landscape, landscape-processes, nowitna-national-wildlife-refuge, remote-sensing, selawik-national-wildlife-refuge, tetlin-national-wildlife-refuge, togiak-national-wildlife-refuge, usgs-662c581ad34ea70bd5f12402, wildland-fire, yukon-delta-national-wildlife-refuge, yukon-flats-national-wildlife-refuge
Organization: Department of the Interior
USGS NWHC Diagnostic Case Data to retrospectively evaluate NWHC’s diagnosis likelihoods for different kinds of cases collected in the United States submitted to the NWHC from January 1st, 2000 to December 31st, 2021.

Diagnostic case-level data recorded by the USGS National Wildlife Health Center (NWHC) in their Laboratory Information Management system (LIMs) and wildlife health information sharing partnership event reporting system (WHISPers). The LIMs database tracks carcass and tissue submissions to the NWHC laboratories, test results, and ultimate cause of death as determined through forensic pathology for individual animals or tissues. The WHISPers database tracks reported morbidity and mortality (m/m) events, defined as one or more animals found dead linked in time and space, around the United States, reported by NWHC partners. 9,488 diagnostic cases submitted between January 1st, 2000 and December 31st, 2021 are included in this dataset.

Tags: biota, outbreak, surveillance, usgs-662c26efd34ea70bd5f123a6, wildlife-disease
Organization: Department of the Interior