AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Geophysical and Other Data From an Irrigation Monitoring Experiment at Haddam Meadows, CT, July 2019.

An irrigation monitoring experiment was performed in Haddam Meadows State Park, Connecticut, on July 16, 2019. Prior to this experiment, ground penetrating radar (GPR), frequency domain electromagnetics (FDEM), and electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) geophysical data were collected over a 20 meter by 10-meter grid to provide baseline information. A vertical soil moisture probe was installed in the center of this area that recorded volumetric water content, temperature, and electrical conductivity at 9 discrete depths down to 1 meter below land surface. Over the next 8 hours, 5,300 liters of irrigation water (with specific conductance of 1,000 microSiemens per centimeter) was sprayed as evenly as practical over an 8 meter by 3-meter area in the center of the study grid. During this time, 3 ERT datasets were collected. At the end of the experiment, another ERT dataset was collected, as well as a final GPR and FDEM data grid. Finally, a push-style probe was used to gather post-irrigation soil moisture conditions from several points and depths (maximum of 0.75 meters below land surface) within the study grid (62 total data points were collected).

Tags: ambient-monitoring, boundaries, connecticut, electromagnetic-surveying, environment, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, groundwater, haddam-meadows, hydrogeology, real-time-monitoring, stratigraphy, surface-geophysics, usgs-626b151cd34e76103cd18517, usgs-science-data-catalog-sdc, water-resources
Organization: Department of the Interior
The Vigil Network: North Tippah Creek, Mississippi

Long-term monitoring data of geomorphic, hydrological, and biological characteristics of landscapes. This information provides an effective means of relating observed change to possible causes of the change. Identification of changes in basin characteristics, especially in arid areas where the response to altered climate or land use is generally rapid and readily apparent, might provide the initial direct indications that factors such as global warming and cultural impacts have affected the environment. The Vigil Network provides an opportunity for earth and life scientists to participate in a systematic monitoring effort to detect landscape changes over time, and to relate such changes to possible causes. This data release includes 70 sites and basins used to monitor landscape features. This data release includes information for Vigil Network sites monitored in the United States. The data and information in this data release are historical and were obtained from original documents.

Tags: geomorphology, land-surveying, sedimentation, sedimentology, streamflow, usgs-5fe9fdc2d34ea5387ded6a7b, vegetation
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data release for Piloting Urban Ecosystem Accounting for the United States

In this study, we develop urban ecosystem accounts in the U.S., using the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting Experimental Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EEA) framework. Most ecosystem accounts focus on regional and national scales, which are appropriate for many ecosystem services. However, ecosystems provide substantial services in cities, improving quality of life and contributing to resiliency for substantial parts of the population. Our models estimate energy savings for indoor cooling resulting from heat mitigated by trees and rainfall intercepted by trees. Both models cover major cities in the contiguous U.S. and report the results through physical supply and use tables for multiple accounting periods (2011 and 2016). Using conservative assumptions, urban trees provide substantial heat mitigation (4,098 and 4,229 GWh, valued at $523 and $539 million in 2011 and 2016, respectively) and rainfall interception (2,422 and 2,627 million m3, valued at $434 and $425 million for 2011 and 2016, respectively). Interannual differences largely reflect variations in weather patterns. Our work shows how Earth observation data can support urban ecosystem accounting. We provide model code within a public repository to facilitate model runs elsewhere, enabling the SEEA EEA and Earth observation user communities to reuse our models and provide feedback for improvement.

Tags: experimental-ecosystem-accounting, rainfall-interception, system-of-environmental-economic-accounting, urban-ecosystem-services, urban-heat-mitigation, urban-trees, usgs-5f6e4cf282ce38aaa24a4bd5
Organization: Department of the Interior
Flood Inundation Depth for a Flow of 800 cfs (stage 9) at Gage 14211500, Johnson Creek near Sycamore, Oregon (sycor_9.tif)

The basis for these features is U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigation Report 2017-5024 Flood Inundation Mapping Data for Johnson Creek near Sycamore, Oregon. The domain of the HEC-RAS hydraulic model is a 12.9 mile reach of Johnson Creek from just upstream of SE 174th Avenue in Portland, Oregon to its confluence with the Willamette River. Some of the hydraulics used in the model were taken from Federal Emergency Management Agency, 2010, Flood Insurance Study, City of Portland, Oregon, Multnomah, Clackamas and Washington Counties, Volume 1 of 3, November 26, 2010. The Digital Elevation Model (DEM) utilized for the project was developed from LiDAR data flown in 2015 and provided by the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries. Bridge decks are generally removed from DEMs as standard practice. Therefore, these features may be shown as inundated when they are not. Judgement should be used when estimating the usefulness of a bridge during flood flow. Comparing the bridge to the surrounding ground can be more informative in this respect than simply looking at the bridge itself. Two model plans were used in the creation of the flood layers. The first is a stable model plan using unsteady flow in which the maximum streamflow is held in place for a long period of time (a number of days) in order to replicate a steady model using an unsteady plan. The stable model plan produced the areas of uncertainty contained in the sycor_breach.shp shapefile. The second is an unstable model plan that uses unsteady flow in which the full hydrograph (rising and falling limb) is represented based on the hydrograph shape of the December 2015 peak annual flood.  The unstable model plan produced the flood extent polygons contained in the sycor.shp shapefile and the depth rasters and represents the best estimate of flood inundation for the given streamflow at U.S. Geological Survey streamgage 14211500.

Tags: digital-elevation-models, floods, hydrology, inlandwaters, johnson-creek, portland-oregon, stream-discharge, streamflow, usgs-58f787e4e4b0b7ea5451f0b8, willamette-valley
Organization: Department of the Interior
Juvenile coho salmon growth differences track biennial pink salmon spawning patterns

Spawning salmon provide marine derived resources to freshwater ecosystems that can benefit stream-dwelling fish foraging and growth. Pink salmon are widely distributed throughout watersheds along the north pacific ocean, and display distinct biennial fluctuations in spawning abundance. These data were collected from a coastal watershed in northern southeast Alaska (Montana Creek) to explore the hypothesis that juvenile coho salmon growth would track biennial patterns of pink salmon spawning abundance.

Tags: biota, coho-salmon, fish-growth, pink-salmon, usgs-6661e2afd34e4d5e8483de6f
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data Release: Buttonland Swamp, population projection

This dataset is part of a population model of Buttonland Swamp in the Cache River Watershed of Illinois. The modeling spans three decades of data from 1990 to 2021. This dataset is used to compare regeneration of Taxodium distichum along a moisture gradient of drier to wetter: Section 8 Woods (2006-2011), Crawford Tract mid-elevation, Eagle Pond, Deer Pond, Wildcat Bluff, Snake Hole, Crawford Tract low elevation, Section 8 Woods (2012-2021), and Heron Pond. Section 8 Woods had a change in hydrology due to a leave break.

Tags: biota, buttonland-swamp, cache-river, illinois, modeling, population-and-community-ecology, population-dynamics, southern-illinois, swamp, united-states, usgs-6363dbf3d34ebe44250706b7
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital Orthorectified Aerial Image of Cottonwood Lake Study Area Wetland P2 from 1984

Orthorectified image from aerial photograph of wetland P2 in the Cottonwood Lake Study Area, Stutsman County, North Dakota. This image is part of a collection of photographs of the study area acquired during July and early August from 1975 to 2015.

Tags: aerial-photography, chase-lake-wetland-management-districtgtstutsman-county-waterfowl-production-areagteddy, chase-lake-wetland-management-districtgtstutsman-county-waterfowl-production-areagtshuler, cottonwood-lake-study-area, earth-sciencegtbiospheregtecosystemsgtaquatic-ecosystemsgtwetlands, earth-sciencegtbiospheregtecosystemsgtterrestrial-ecosystemsgtwetlands, environment, image-collections, imagerybasemapsearthcover, inlandwaters, north-dakota, northern-great-plains, platformgtaerial-photographs, prairie-pothole-region, stutsman-county, surface-water-non-marine, united-states-of-america, usgs-5873b91de4b0a829a31e314e, wetland-ecosystems
Organization: Department of the Interior
Beach Profile Data Collected from Madeira Beach, Florida (May 25, 2023)

This dataset, prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center (SPCMSC), provides beach profile data collected at Madeira Beach, Florida. Data were collected on foot by a person equipped with a Global Positioning System (GPS) antenna affixed to a backpack outfitted for surveying location and elevation data (XYZ) along pre-determined transects. The horizontal position data are given in the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) projected coordinate system, Zone 17 North (17N), referenced to the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD 83); the elevation data are referenced to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88), GEOID12B.

Tags: altimetry, bathymetry-and-elevation, beach, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, distributions, earth-science-gt-land-surface-gt-topography-gt-terrain-elevation, earth-science-gt-oceans-gt-coastal-processes-gt-beaches, elevation, elevation-data, florida, geology, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, global-positioning-system-gps-observations, gps-measurement, gulf-of-mexico, madeira-beach, marine-geology, oceans, providers-gt-government-agencies-u-s-federal-agencies-gt-doi-gt-usgs-gt-doi-usgs-cmg-gt-coastal, spcmsc, st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, topographic-mapping, topography, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-a7277c45-ef1e-4dfb-b43a-c64498c34e28
Organization: Department of the Interior
Water and sediment data used to evaluate selenium hazards in the Salton Sea ecosystem

Due to declining water levels and increasing salinity in the Salton Sea which may increase the hazards to wildlife, the U.S. Geological Survey and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation are re-evaluating selenium concentrations in the region. As part of this work, selenium concentrations in water and sediment samples and selected other inorganic constituents were compiled from published reports, public databases, and unpublished archives into a tabulated spreadsheet. This spreadsheet represents a rapid synthesis of available data on selenium concentrations in water and sediment in the region surrounding the Salton Sea, however it does not include all data ever published in the region. Additionally, the data compilation was done with an emphasis on selenium concentrations measured after 2005, therefore earlier selenium data may be under-represented.

Tags: california, chemical-analysis, environment, geoscientificinformation, groundwater-quality, salton-sea, selenium, surface-water-quality, unconsolidated-deposits, usgs-5f85e10082cebef40f14c674
Organization: Department of the Interior
An Unvegetated to Vegetated Ratio (UVVR) for coastal wetlands of the Atlantic Coast - 2012

Prior research has shown that sediment budgets, and therefore stability, of microtidal marsh complexes scale with areal unvegetated to vegetated marsh ratios (UVVR) suggesting these metrics are broadly applicable indicators of microtidal marsh vulnerability. This effort has developed the UVVR metric using readily available satellite imagery for the coastal areas of the contiguous United States (CONUS). These datasets provide annual averages of the 1) unvegetated fraction, 2) vegetated fraction, 3) water fraction and 4) an unvegetated to vegetated ratio (UVVR) at 30-meter resolution over the coastal areas of the contiguous United States for the year 2012. Additionally, multi-year average values of vegetated ratio, its standard deviation and a UVVR based on the annually-averaged vegetated ratio are provided for the coastal wetlands of the contiguous United States.

Tags: atlantic-coast, coastal-wetlands, connecticut, conterminous-united-states, delaware, florida, fractional-cover, georgia, maine, maryland, massachusetts, new-hampshire, new-jersey, new-york, north-carolina, rhode-island, south-carolina, unvegetated, unvegetated-to-vegetated-ratio, usgs-66e1cec3d34ecba8b86777e5, uvvr, vegetation, virginia, wetland-change, wetland-gain, wetland-loss, wetlands
Organization: Department of the Interior
Conceptual salt marsh units for wetland synthesis: Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, New Jersey

The salt marsh complex of the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge (EBFNWR), which spans over Great Bay, Little Egg Harbor, and Barnegat Bay (New Jersey, USA), was delineated to smaller, conceptual marsh units by geoprocessing of surface elevation data. Flow accumulation based on the relative elevation of each location is used to determine the ridge lines that separate each marsh unit while the surface slope is used to automatically assign each unit a drainage point, where water is expected to drain through. Through scientific efforts associated with the Hurricane Sandy Science Plan, the U.S. Geological Survey has started to expand national assessment of coastal change hazards and forecast products to coastal wetlands. The intent is to provide federal, state, and local managers with tools to estimate their vulnerability and ecosystem service potential. For this purpose, the response and resilience of coastal wetlands to physical factors need to be assessed in terms of the ensuing change to their vulnerability and ecosystem services. EBFNWR was selected as a pilot study.
Recent research shows that sediment budgets of microtidal marsh complexes on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States consistently scale with areal unvegetated/vegetated marsh ratio (UVVR) despite differences in sea-level rise, tidal range, elevation, vegetation, and stressors. This highlights UVVR as a broadly applicable indicator of microtidal marsh stability. It is also relatively quicker and less labor intensive compared to quantifying integrative sediment budgets and the associated transport mechanisms that requires extended tidal-timescale observations of sediment transport. UVVR indicates the link between open-water conversion processes and sediment transport, providing consistent results across a geomorphic and climatic spectrum of microtidal marshes, hence can be an independent measure of marsh health. Potentially, tracking future changes to UVVR may allow for widespread mapping of spatially variable vulnerability across microtidal marshes worldwide.

Tags: barnegat-bay, coastal-ecosystems, coastal-processes, edwin-b-forsythe-national-wildlife-refuge, estuary, great-bay, little-egg-island, marsh-health, new-jersey, salt-marsh, united-states, usgs-57fe81fbe4b0824b2d148389, vegetation, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-functions
Organization: Department of the Interior
Simulation to evaluate response of population models to annual trends in detectability

In 'Simulation to evaluate response of population models to annual trends in detectability', we provide data and R code necessary to create simulation scenarios and estimate trends with different population models (Monroe et al. 2019). Literature cited: Monroe, A. P., G. T. Wann, C. L. Aldridge, and P. S. Coates. 2019. The importance of simulation assumptions when evaluating detectability in population models. Ecosphere 10(7):e02791. 10.1002/ecs2.2791

Tags: bias, biota, centrocercus-urophasianus, detection-process, environment, nevada, population-models, population-trends, sage-grouse, united-states, usgs-5ce7057fe4b0f6dd9d25505b
Organization: Department of the Interior
Earth Observing-1 Hyperion: 2001-Present

'The Earth Observing-1(EO-1) satellite was launched on November 21, 2000 by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as a one-year technology demonstration mission to evaluate the performance of advanced capabilities for future space missions. The EO-1 mission validated highly integrated multispectral data from the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) sensor and hyperspectral imaging data from the Hyperion sensor. After the initial technology mission was accomplished, NASA and the USGS agreed to continue the EO-1 program due to high interest in the specialized data from scientific communities. 
EO-1 Data products consist of imagery collected during the original one-year mission, as well as more recent Data Acquisition Requests (DARs) from the EO-1 Extended Mission. EO-1 scenes are processed to Level 1Gst (L1Gst) and images with adequate ground control points are processed to Level 1T (L1T). L1Gst and L1T products are provided in GeoTIFF format. Scenes that have been processed to L1T are also available as Full Resolution Browse and GIS Ready Bundle products in JPEG format. Level 1R (L1R) products in HDF format are only available for Hyperion data.
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Tags: earth-science, eo-1, hyperion, hyperspectual, imagery, land-surface, landforms, landsat, nasa, photography, radiance, usgs, usgs-eros5e83a1255d5fa4fd
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geology and geomorphology--Monterey Canyon and Vicinity Map Area, California

This part of DS 781 presents data for the geologic and geomorphic map of Monterey Canyon and Vicinity, California. The vector data file is included in "Geology_MontereyCanyon.zip," which is accessible from http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/781/MontereyCanyon/data_catalog_MontereyCanyon.html. These data accompany the pamphlet and map sheets of Dartnell, P., Maier, K.L., Erdey, M.D., Dieter, B.E., Golden, N.E., Johnson, S.Y., Hartwell, S.R., Cochrane, G.R., Ritchie, A.C., Finlayson, D.P., Kvitek, R.G., Sliter, R.W., Greene, H.G., Davenport, C.W., Endris, C.A., and Krigsman, L.M. (P. Dartnell and S.A. Cochran, eds.), 2016, California State Waters Map Series—Monterey Canyon and Vicinity, California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2016–1072, 48 p., 10 sheets, scale 1:24,000, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20161072.
Marine geology and geomorphology were mapped in the Monterey Canyon and Vicinity map area from approximate Mean High Water (MHW) across the continental shelf, as well as in Monterey Canyon to a water depth of about 1,750 m. This map area includes much of central Monterey Bay, extending just beyond the limit of California’s State Waters (note that the California’s State Waters limit, which generally is 3 nautical miles [5.6 km] from shore, extends farther offshore (as much as 12 nautical miles) between Santa Cruz and Monterey, so that it encompasses all of Monterey Bay. Offshore geologic units were delineated on the basis of integrated analyses of adjacent onshore geology with multibeam bathymetry and backscatter imagery, seafloor-sediment and rock samples, digital camera and video imagery, and high-resolution seismic reflection profiles. Aerial photographs taken in multiple years were used to map the nearshore area (0 to 10 m water depth) and to link the offshore and onshore geology.

Tags: bathymetry, castroville, distributions, environment, geologic-maps, geoscientificinformation, imagerybasemapsearthcover, marina, marine-geology, monterey-county, moss-landing, oceans, pacific-ocean, physical-habitats-and-geomorphology, scientific-interpretation, seabed, seafloor-topography, state-of-california, structural-geology, usgs-556f91afe4b0d9246a9fd0be
Organization: Department of the Interior
Experimental Results for Vertical Placement of Colloidal Borescope Flowmeter

The effects of vertical flowmeter placement relative to the vertical fracture opening were examined using the colloidal borescope flowmeter (HB). For these measurements, the HB measurement interval was located at a depth equal to 0.5-inch above and below the top and bottom edges of the fracture, respectively; at upper and lower edge of the fracture; at the center of the fracture; and 0.25-inch above and below the center of the fracture. The HB measurement interval was radially centered in the borehole. For those tests, the simulated flow direction was 180, aperture was 1.0-inch and the velocity was held steady at 297 ft/d. This sub-study was intended to identify potential influence of turbulent eddies on measured values and the importance of optimal flowmeter placement. The HH was not used to make measurements for the sub-study because the tool has a larger measurement interval and could not make measurements at depths as precisely as the HB.

Tags: fracture-geologic, geoscientificinformation, groundwater-flow, groundwater-movement, hydrologic-processes, laboratory-experiments, usgs-5cc21162e4b09b8c0b74716a, usgs-hydrologic-instrumentation-facility, usgs-ohio-kentucky-indiana-water-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
OpenFOAM models of low- and high-relief sites from the coral reef flat off Waiakane, Molokai, Hawaii

OpenFOAM Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) models were developed to simulate wave energy dissipation across natural rough reef surfaces on the reef flat off Waiakane, Molokai, Hawaii, to understand this process in the context of reef restoration design. A total of 140 models were developed (70 per low- and 70 per high-bed-relief domains). Models were calibrated and validated with oceanographic datasets collected in 2018.  This data release presents the 140 model scenarios that can be readily input into OpenFOAM to recreate the results, in addition to a csv file indicating the parameters used for each model scenario. These model data accompany Norris and others (2023) [Norris, B.K., Storlazzi, C.D., Pomeroy, A.W.M., Rosenberger, K.J., Logan, J.B., and Cheriton, O.M., 2023, Combining field observations and high-resolution numerical modeling to demonstrate the effect of coral reef roughness on turbulence and its implications for reef restoration design: Coastal Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2023.104331].

Tags: chmrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, coastal-processes, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, molokai, oceans, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, state-of-hawaii, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-62045796d34ec05caca1cfe4, waiakane, wave-energy-production
Organization: Department of the Interior