AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Water Quality Vertical Profiles in Clear Lake, Lake County, California, 2017-2023 (ver. 4.0, May 31, 2024)

Field data for vertical water quality profiles using Yellow Spring Instruments (YSI) EXO2 sondes during daylight hours in Clear Lake, Lake County, California. This data release includes all measured environmental parameters included in the analysis.
First release: April 13, 2019
Revised: October 29, 2019 (version. 2.0)
Revised - January 24, 2022 (version 3.0)
Revised - May 31, 2024 (version 4.0)

Tags: aquatic-ecosystems, biota, california, clear-lake, environment, inlandwaters, lake-county, limnology, united-states, usgs-5bf2fa20e4b045bfcae0c1a2, vertical-profile, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Ground control points used in UAS operations and positions of installed permanent ground control points on North Core Banks, NC in October 2022

These data map in high detail surficial cross-sections of North Core Banks, a barrier island in Cape Lookout National Seashore, NC, in October 2022. U.S. Geological Survey field efforts are part of an interagency agreement with the National Park Service to monitor the recovery of the island from Hurricanes Florence (2018) and Dorian (2019). Three sites of outwash and overwash were targeted for extensive vegetation ground-truthing, sediment samples, bathymetric mapping with a remote-controlled surface vehicle, and uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) flights to collect multispectral imagery. Five permanent ground control points were also installed and surveyed to act as control for additional aerial imagery collects via plane. UAS imagery were processed in Agisoft Metashape (v. 1.8.1) to produce calibrated multispectral (red, blue, green, red-edge, near-infrared, and panchromatic) orthoimages and digital surface models.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, bathymetry-and-elevation, cape-lookout, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, geolocation-measurement, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, global-positioning-system-gps-observations, gps-measurement, gps-navigation, ground-control-point, hurricane-dorian, hurricane-florence, location, north-core-banks, oceans, physical-habitats-and-geomorphology, remote-sensing-coastal-change, state-of-north-carolina, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-63ae090fd34e92aad3ca5bac, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Tsunami Evacuation Travel Time Map for Del Norte County, CA, 2010, for Bridges Removed and a Fast Walking Speed

The travel time map was generated using the Pedestrian Evacuation Analyst model from the USGS.  The travel time analysis uses ESRI's Path Distance tool to find the shortest distance across a cost surface from any point in the hazard zone to a safe zone.  This cost analysis considers the direction of movement and assigns a higher cost to steeper slopes, based on a table contained within the model.  The analysis also adds in the energy costs of crossing different types of land cover, assuming that less energy is expended walking along a road than walking across a sandy beach. To produce the time map, the evacuation surface output from the model is grouped into 1-minute increments for easier visualization.  The times in the attribute table represent the estimated time to travel on foot to the nearest safe zone at the speed designated in the map title.  The bridge or nobridge name in the map title identifies whether bridges were represented in the modeling or whether they were removed prior to modeling to estimate the impact on travel times from earthquake-damaged bridges.

Tags: evacuation, hazard-preparedness, hazards, tsunamis, usgs-58911b3be4b072a7ac116bd4, vulnerability
Organization: Department of the Interior
Dust and sediment data from Great Salt Lake and northern Utah, 2022

These are physical and geochemical (elemental, strontium isotope) data from dust and sediments collected from and around Great Salt Lake, Utah. Data were collected by the U.S. Geological Survey Utah Water Science Center (West Valley City, Utah) to better understand the degree to which populations in northern Utah are affected by Great Salt Lake dust, dust from other sources, and metals pollution. The samples were processed at the Utah Water Science Center and geochemical analysis was performed at the University of Utah's ICP-MS Metals and Strontium Isotope Facility (Salt Lake City, Utah). These data can be used to evaluate the spatial variability of dust and metals deposition to urban areas and natural ecosystems near Great Salt Lake.

Tags: atmospheric-deposition-chemical-amp-particulate, chemical-analysis, contamination-and-pollution, dust-storms, great-salt-lake, usgs-64a6d315d34ef77fcb0639cd, utah
Organization: Department of the Interior
Core logs from three shallow holes drilled in summer 2000 into the flanks of Mauna Loa volcano, Island of Hawai‘i, Hawaii

This data release includes documentation of rock core recovered from three shallow holes drilled during the summer of 2000 into the flanks of Mauna Loa volcano, on the Island of Hawai‘i, Hawaii. Holes were drilled to accommodate installation of U.S. Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano Observatory volcano-monitoring instruments in the year 2000. Rock core recovered from the holes, which extend 112–119 m (367–392 ft) below the ground surface, were logged to characterize the sub-surface local geology. Core are described by depth below the ground surface, lithologic unit type and class, phenocryst type and abundance, groundmass type, vesicle abundance, morphology, and distribution, alteration, fracturing, and unit contacts. This data release includes a PDF that describes the general geology of the three drilled locations and the core-logging procedure, ML_core_project_description. A separate PDF file—ML_core_log_sheets—contains representations of the drill core logs, with photographs, for each of the three drilled locations. Logged core information is alternatively provided in tabular format as a CSV file—ML_core_log_data.

Tags: basalt, drilling-and-coring, geoscientificinformation, usgs-62881d6fd34e4fef2ec3c32e, volcanology
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2018, and 2021 Site 4572 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 six land-water products (2005, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2018, and 2021).  The resulting matrix has 64 possible classes defined by the combination of land and water categories on those six 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-64dfbbe3d34e5f6cd553c117, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Harrisonville City Lake near Harrisonville and Pleasant Hill, Missouri, 2020

Water supply lakes are the primary source of water for many communities in northern and western Missouri.  Therefore, accurate and up-to-date estimates of lake capacity are important for managing and predicting adequate water supply. Many of the water supply lakes in Missouri were previously surveyed by the U.S. Geological Survey in the early 2000s (Richards, 2013) and in 2013 (Huizinga, 2014); however, years of potential sedimentation may have resulted in reduced water storage capacity. Periodic bathymetric surveys are useful to update the area/capacity table and to determine changes in the bathymetric surface.
Harrisonville City Lake is a water supply lake used by the city of Harrisonville in west-central Missouri. The surface area of Harrisonville City Lake is about 436 acres at the flood pool level of the emergency spillway (897.4 feet above the North American Vertical Datum of 1988).  A previous bathymetric survey was completed in 2007 with a single-beam echosounder.  In July 2020, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources and in collaboration with the City of Harrisonville, completed a bathymetric survey of Harrisonville City Lake using a multibeam echosounder.  The water-surface elevation during the survey was about 895.5 feet. The echosounder data can be combined with light detection and ranging (lidar) data to prepare a bathymetric map and a surface area and capacity table for the lake.
The gridded bathymetric point data (HarrisonvilleLake2020_bathy_pts.zip) were computed on a 1.64-foot (0.50-meter) grid using the Combined Uncertainty and Bathymetry Estimator (CUBE) method, which is used as the source of points to create the bathymetric surface.
Bathymetric quality-assurance data (HarrisonvilleLake2020_QA_raw.zip) were collected to evaluate the vertical accuracy of the gridded bathymetric point data.
Each of these two zip files contains a shapefile with an attribute table. Attribute/column labels of each table are described in the "Entity and attribute" section of the metadata file.
References Cited:
Huizinga, R.J., 2014, Bathymetric surveys and area/capacity tables of water-supply reservoirs for the city of Cameron, Missouri, July 2013: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2014–1005, 15 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20141005.
Richards, J.M., 2013, Bathymetric surveys of selected lakes in Missouri—2000–2008: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013–1101, 9 p. with appendix, https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2013/1101.

Tags: bathymetry, bathymetry-and-elevation, cass-county, harrisonville, harrisonville-city-lake, missouri, multibeam, multibeam-sonar, pleasant-hill, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-6230cf83d34ec9f19eeaf536
Organization: Department of the Interior
Interpretation of Sedimentary Environments from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Survey H12013 Off the Mouth of the Connecticut River in Eastern Long Island Sound (H12013_SEDENV.SHP, Geographic, WGS84)

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (CT DEEP), is producing detailed geologic maps of the coastal sea floor. Bathymetry and sidescan-sonar imagery, originally collected by NOAA for charting purposes, provide a fundamental framework for research and management activities in Long Island Sound, shows the composition and terrain of the seabed, and provides information on sediment transport and benthic habitat. During April-May 2009 NOAA completed hydrographic survey H12013 offshore of the entrance to the Connecticut River, and during November 2009 and April 2010 bottom photographs and surficial sediment data were acquired as part of two ground-truth reconnaissance surveys of this area. Two interpretive data layers were derived from the multibeam echo-sounder and the ground-truth data used to verify them. For more information on the ground-truth surveys see: http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/ia/public_ds_info.php?fa=2009-059-FA and http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/ia/public_ds_info.php?fa=2010-010-FA

Tags: atlantic-ocean, cmgp, coarse-bedload-transport, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, connecticut, connecticut-river, erosion-or-nondeposition, esri-shapefile, field-activity-number-2009-059-fa, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, griswold-point, h12013, hatchett-point, hatchett-reef, info-bank-r-10-10-li, info-bank-r-59-09-li, interpretation, long-island-sound, long-sand-shoal, lynde-point, marine-geology, national-oceanic-and-atmospheric-administration, noaa, noaa-survey-h12013, north-america, oceans, ofr-2012-1103, old-lyme, old-saybrook, open-file-report-2012-1103, polygon, scientific-interpretation, sea-floor-characteristics, sedimentary-environments, sorting-and-reworking, u-s-east-coast, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-8cf3d880-bb1b-4d4d-9eb0-a474a05d36c3, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Sediment Thickness--Point Conception to Hueneme Canyon, California

This part of DS 781 presents data for the sediment-thickness map of the Point Conception to Hueneme Canyon, California, region. The raster data file is included in "SedimentThickness_PointConceptionToHuenemeCanyon.zip," which is accessible from https://doi.org/10.5066/F7891424.
As part of the USGS's California State Waters Mapping Project, a 50-m grid of sediment thickness for the seafloor within the 3-nautical mile limit between Point Conception and Hueneme Canyon was generated from seismic-reflection data collected in 2014 (USGS activity 2014-632-FA) supplemented with outcrop and geologic structure (fault) information following the methodology of Wong (2012). This sediment thickness layer was merged with a previously published sediment thickness grid for the Santa Barbara Channel region (available at https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/781/SantaBarbaraChannel/data_catalog_SantaBarbaraChannel.html).
Reference Cited: Wong, F. L., Phillips, E.L., Johnson, S.Y., and Sliter, R.W., 2012, Modeling of depth to base of Last Glacial Maximum and seafloor sediment thickness for the California State Waters Map Series, eastern Santa Barbara Channel, California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2012-1161, 16 p. (available at https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2012/1161/)

Tags: carpinteria, coal-oil-point, coastal-geology, distributions, environment, gaviota, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, hueneme-canyon, maps-and-atlases, marine-geology, oceans, pacific-ocean, physical-habitats-and-geomorphology, point-conception, refugio-beach, santa-barbara, santa-barbara-channel, santa-barbara-county, sediment-deposition, sediment-thickness, seismic-isopach, seismic-reflection-methods, seismic-reflection-profiling, state-of-california, stratigraphic-thickness, usgs-589cba9fe4b0efcedb764ca2, ventura
Organization: Department of the Interior
Reflectance and spectral fluorescence data from the effect of diagenesis on the preservation of morphology and ultrastructural features of pollen

Pollen morphology and pollen morphology in conjunction with other characteristics have elucidated the origin and evolution of various plant groups. Many studies of fossil pollen rarely discuss the effects of diagenesis and sample preparation on pollen characteristics. This paper examines the relationship of diagenesis, sample preparation (e.g., acetolysis), and staining techniques on the preservation and interpretation of pollen characteristics viewed with light, scanning and transmission electron microscopy. Based on empirical studies, different species under similar experimental conditions have different reflectance values, indicating the individual species respond differently to diagenetic events. The quantitative pollen fluorescence spectra showed significant variability, but an overall increase in the mean wavelength of maximum emission. Increases in these spectral parameters are used to infer thermal maturation and diagenetic pathways in fossil pollen. Assessing the thermal maturity of a dispersed or in situ pollen using Pearson’s Pollen/Spore Color Standard can be an indicator of the quality of morphological and ultrastructural information that can be extricated from fossil pollen. Staining for light or electron microscopy in fossil pollen, although useful for improving contrast in the specimen, must be used with caution when interpreting pollen wall structure. Although single fossil pollen investigations are useful, replication of these studies on similar or the same specimens from the same locality or various localities will collectively provide more information for elucidation of the morphology and ultrastructure of the once living pollen, and is helpful in sorting out characteristics that may be artifacts from post depositional diagenesis.

Tags: acetolysis, cenozoic-era, diagenesis, holocene-epoch, louisiana, pollen, quaternary-period, reflectance, south-africa, ultrastructural-characteristics, usgs-620fe630d34e6c7e83baae76
Organization: Department of the Interior
Results of peak-flow frequency analyses for selected streamgages on the Bighorn, Tongue, and Lower Yellowstone Rivers and tributaries and Home Creek, Montana, based on data through water year 2021

The USGS Wyoming-Montana Water Science Center (WY–MT WSC) completed a report (Sando and McCarthy, 2018) documenting methods for peak-flow frequency analysis following implementation of the Bulletin 17C guidelines. The methods are used to provide estimates of peak-flow quantiles for 66.7-, 50-, 42.9-, 20-, 10-, 4-, 2-, 1-, 0.5-, and 0.2-percent annual exceedance probabilities (AEPs) for selected streamgages operated by the WY–MT WSC. This data release presents peak-flow frequency analyses for selected streamgages on the Bighorn, Tongue, and Lower Yellowstone Rivers and tributaries and Home Creek, Montana, that were based on methods described by Sando and McCarthy (2018).

Tags: annual-exceedance-probability, bighorn, bighorn-county, computational-methods, dawson-county, floods, hazard-preparedness, hazards, hydrologic-processes, hydrology, inlandwaters, land, little-bighorn, lower-bighorn, lower-yellowstone, montana, north-america, peak-flow-frequency, richland-county, rosebud, rosebud-county, statistical-analysis, stream-gage-measurement, streamflow, time-series-analysis, tongue, treasure-county, united-states, usgs-61cdf75ed34ed79293fc871d, usgs-cc-natural-hazards, watershed-management, yellowstone
Organization: Department of the Interior
Stillwater Complex Strike and Dip Database (ver. 2.0, April 2024)

This shapefile includes strike and dip information for the area of the Stillwater Complex, located in southwestern Montana. This dataset was created from pre-existing digital strike and dip information and from digitizing strike and dip locations from georeferenced map images. The data includes information about the strike and dip locations; the geologic unit and rock type the measurement was taken on; information about the source map, such as map title and scale; and other miscellaneous information. Version 2.0 includes additional strike and dip measurements and updated locations for many points resulting from maps that were re-georeferenced using high resolution lidar. For access to the previous version of this data release contact Heather Parks (hparks@usgs.gov) at the Spokane, WA USGS office.

Tags: geologic-structure, geoscientificinformation, montana, stillwater, usgs-5d14fb35e4b0941bde5b75c0
Organization: Department of the Interior
Rail potential habitat, Salton Sea, California, 2016

These data include potential Yuma Ridgway’s rail (Rallus obsoletus yumanensis) habitat classified from concurrently occurring Landsat images taken during telemetry field studies of and call count surveys for Yuma Ridgway's rail in 2016.

Tags: animal-tracking, biota, endangered-species, image-collections, listed-birds, multispectral-imaging, salton-sea, sonny-bono-salton-sea-national-wildlife-refuge, usgs-62509f0cd34e21f8276d18ff, vocalization-methods, wetland-ecosystems, wister-waterfowl-management-area
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2018 Site 0211 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 2018 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. Four previous assessments have been conducted (2005, 2008, 2012, and 2015/2016). 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-611d2a65d34e40dd9c0128ef, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Western U.S. geologic deformation model for use in the U.S. National Seismic Hazard Model 2023, version 1.0

The U.S. National Seismic Hazard Model (NSHM) relies on deformation models to assign slip rates along active faults used in the earthquake rupture forecast. Here, we present the geologic deformation model results in tabular form. We provide model outputs in multiple file formats, as well as the polygons used in analyses throughout the geologic deformation model process.The data presented herein are in support of the following interprative manuscript: 
Hatem, A.E., Reitman, N.G., Briggs, R.W., Gold, R.D., Thompson Jobe, J.A., Burgette, R.J., (2022) ­­­Western US geologic deformation model for use in the U.S. National Seismic Hazard Model 2023, Seismological Research Letters, submitted (IP-140865).

Tags: arizona, california, colorado, earthquake-geology, fault, idaho, montana, nevada, new-mexico, nshm, oregon, slip-rate, texas, usgs-612d61abd34e40dd9c08c7d6, utah, washington, western-united-states, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior