AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
UMRS Floodplain Inundation Depths - 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 a time series of daily surface water inundation depths (in feet) for floodplain surfaces in the UMRS. The time series data are for the months of April through September of every year since 1940. These months were chosen because it approximates the period during which most biophysical processes such as vegetation metabolism and biogeochemical cycling are likely to be strongest across the longitudinal gradient of the UMRS.  Data were derived from a geospatial model of surface water inundation developed for the UMRS and 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-65f876c8d34e97daac9ff59d
Organization: Department of the Interior
R code used to estimate public supply consumptive water use

This child item describes R code used to determine public supply consumptive use estimates. Consumptive use was estimated by scaling an assumed fraction of deliveries used for outdoor irrigation by spatially explicit estimates of evaporative demand using estimated domestic and commercial, industrial, and institutional deliveries from the public supply delivery machine learning model child item. This method scales public supply water service area outdoor water use by the relationship between service area gross reference evapotranspiration provided by GridMET and annual continental U.S. (CONUS) growing season maximum evapotranspiration. This relationship to climate at the CONUS scale could result in over- or under-estimation of consumptive use at public supply service areas where local variations differ from national variations in climate. This method also assumes that 50% of deliveries for total domestic and commercial, industrial, and institutional deliveries is used for outdoor purposes. This dataset is part of a larger data release using machine learning to predict public supply water use for 12-digit hydrologic units from 2000-2020. This page includes the following file:
PS_ConsumptiveUse.zip - a zip file containing input datasets, scripts, and output datasets

Tags: alabama, arizona, arkansas, california, colorado, community-water-system, connecticut, consumptive-use, conterminous-united-states, delaware, district-of-columbia, drinking-water, florida, georgia, idaho, illinois, indiana, iowa, kansas, kentucky, louisiana, maine, maryland, massachusetts, michigan, minnesota, mississippi, missouri, modeling, montana, nebraska, nevada, new-hampshire, new-jersey, new-mexico, new-york, north-carolina, north-dakota, ohio, oklahoma, oregon, pennsylvania, public-supply, rhode-island, south-carolina, south-dakota, tennessee, texas, usgs-65f869add34e97daac9ff4d2, utah, vermont, virginia, washington, water-availability, water-supply-and-demand, water-use, west-virginia, wisconsin, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Fish communities in PA and MD Piedmont mixed agricultural streams, 2023

From 2-27 June, 2023, a Virginia Tech team of 5 sampled the fish community in 30 Piedmont streams (lower Susquehanna River and upper Chesapeake Bay tributaries, Pennsylvania and Maryland, USA) spanning a gradient of agricultural intensity as part of a larger stream-health study including other teams who surveyed geomorphology, water quality, flow, temperature, and macroinvertebrates at the same 30 streams. Upstream drainage area of these 30 streams ranged from approximately 10 to 50 sq. km, and width from 2 to 10 m. At each stream, we sampled fish from two reaches using two-pass backpack electrofishing and seining. Reach A was the main reach surveyed by all the interdisciplinary teams; Reach B was surveyed for fish communities only. Reach length was 20 wetted channel widths, capped at 150 meters. Fish were identified to species, assigned to a length class, inspected for anomalies, and released. Other measurements included water temperature, electrical conductivity, pH, dissolved oxygen, and clarity, and streambed area comprising pool, riffle, and run habitats. 

Tags: baltimore-county-md, biota, carroll-county-md, chester-county-pa, community-ecology, farming, field-sampling, fish, freshwater-ecosystems, harford-county-md, lancaster-county-pa, lower-susquehanna, maryland, pennsylvania, river-systems, united-states, upper-chesapeake, usgs-65f486a0d34ebfb8e16780ac, york-county-pa
Organization: Department of the Interior
Bumble bees and flowering plants in Glacier National Park 2023

USGS personnel surveyed bumble bees and flowering plants in and around Glacier National Park during the summer of 2023. These data include 1) a .csv file of all bumble bee - plant interactions observed across surveys and 2) all flowering plants observed in bloom across all surveys

Tags: biota, flowering-plants, glacier-national-park, montana, pollinators, usgs-65f379b1d34e9853bbf0dee6
Organization: Department of the Interior
Rasters Representing Greater Sage-grouse Space Use, Habitat Selection, and Survival to Inform Habitat Management (ver. 3.0, September 2025)

We expanded on previously developed methodology to incorporate information on habitat selection and survival during reproductive life stages and specific seasons with updated sage-grouse location and known fate datasets, while also including brood-rearing areas that are understood to be threatened and important for population persistence. We combined predictive habitat map surfaces for each life stage and season with updated information on current occupancy patterns to classify habitat based on its suitability and probability of occupancy. We carried out additional steps to delineate specific example habitat management areas, specifically (1) incorporated corridors connecting key nesting and brood-rearing habitat, (2) corrected outputs for pre-wildfire habitat conditions within areas burned in the last 16 years, and (3) masked out areas of anthropogenic development. Our methodological example of deriving habitat management areas was intended to help inform decisions by BLM and other land managers regarding conservation and management of sage-grouse. Associated data products in the form of habitat maps provide updated, detailed, and comprehensive information about the status of habitats and can be useful to partner agencies in their efforts to designate and rank habitats for this species of high conservation concern in Nevada and California, with full recognition that on-the-ground field data and local sources of information and expertise should be used in conjunction with inferences from these models.

Tags: biota, california, great-basin, native-species, nevada, shrubland-ecosystems, united-states-of-america, usgs-65f37677d34e9853bbf0db38, wildlife
Organization: Department of the Interior
Vascular plant data collected at the North Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park, ND, USA in 1997

This data release contains three data sets.  The data were collected in 1997 at the North Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park, ND, USA.  The main data set comprises the list of plant species observed and includes the transect, plot number, plot size, and vegetation type where each species was found.  A second data set has the locations of the transects, along with their IDs which can be linked to the species list.  The final data set is a list of nomenclature updates and species that had duplicates in ITIS, along with the currently accepted scientific names of these species.

Tags: biota, community-ecology, flowering-plants, grassland-ecosystems, north-dakota, theodore-roosevelt-national-park, usgs-65f35c3ed34e9853bbf0cfdb, vascular-plants
Organization: Department of the Interior
UMRS Floodplain Inundation Depths - Pool 3

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 a time series of daily surface water inundation depths (in feet) for floodplain surfaces in the UMRS. The time series data are for the months of April through September of every year since 1940. These months were chosen because it approximates the period during which most biophysical processes such as vegetation metabolism and biogeochemical cycling are likely to be strongest across the longitudinal gradient of the UMRS.  Data were derived from a geospatial model of surface water inundation developed for the UMRS and 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-65f356aed34e9853bbf0cfc6
Organization: Department of the Interior
Bathymetric data for Selected Resacas in the Brownsville, Texas area, September 2021 through April 2023

The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the City of Brownsville, Texas, collected bathymetric data for selected resacas (former distributary channels and oxbow lakes of the Rio Grande that are now cut off from the river) in the Brownsville, Texas area during September 2021 through April 2023. Bathymetric survey points were collected using real-time network Global Navigation Satellite System (RTN-GNSS) equipment and a single-beam echo sounder.

Tags: bathymetry-measurement, brownsville, cameron-county, elevation, texas, usgs-65f3545fd34e9853bbf0cfb3
Organization: Department of the Interior
UMRS Floodplain Inundation Depths - Open River Reach - South - Section 2

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 a time series of daily surface water inundation depths (in feet) for floodplain surfaces in the UMRS. The time series data are for the months of April through September of every year since 1940. These months were chosen because it approximates the period during which most biophysical processes such as vegetation metabolism and biogeochemical cycling are likely to be strongest across the longitudinal gradient of the UMRS.  Data were derived from a geospatial model of surface water inundation developed for the UMRS and 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-65f34d9ad34e9853bbf0cf94
Organization: Department of the Interior
UMRS Floodplain Inundation Depths - Open River Reach - South - Section 1

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 a time series of daily surface water inundation depths (in feet) for floodplain surfaces in the UMRS. The time series data are for the months of April through September of every year since 1940. These months were chosen because it approximates the period during which most biophysical processes such as vegetation metabolism and biogeochemical cycling are likely to be strongest across the longitudinal gradient of the UMRS.  Data were derived from a geospatial model of surface water inundation developed for the UMRS and 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-65f3498ed34e9853bbf0cf7c
Organization: Department of the Interior
UMRS Floodplain Inundation Model - Open River Reach - North - Section 2

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-65f3493ad34e9853bbf0cf78
Organization: Department of the Interior
UMRS Floodplain Inundation Model - Open River Reach - North - Section 1

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-65f34741d34e9853bbf0cf6d
Organization: Department of the Interior
UMRS Floodplain Inundation Model - Illinois River - Marseilles 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-65f344f1d34e9853bbf0cf5d
Organization: Department of the Interior
Lake Erie Pelagic Prey Fish Community Data, 2022-2023

Since 2005, the U.S. Geological Survey - Great Lakes Science Center's Lake Erie Biological Station (LEBS) has participated in a collaborative, multiagency effort to assess pelagic prey fish populations in the western (WB), central (CB), and eastern (EB) basins of Lake Erie through a combination of hydroacoustic and midwater trawl sampling. Assessing lake-wide distribution and abundance of pelagic prey species over time facilitates evaluation of large-scale drivers of fish production while also considering food-web dynamics at a smaller sub-basin scale.  Information from this survey will support decision making within an ecosystem-based fishery management framework. In support of binational Great Lakes fishery management, the objectives of this survey are to provide density estimates of key pelagic prey species across Lake Erie, to assess spatial distributions of fishes, and annual fluctuations in abundance. A stratified-random sampling approach including 24 strata was carried out during July (Summer), starting in 2022. This data release adds 2023 data to the set for a total of 2 years using the standardized survey design and data processing workflow.

Tags: aquatic-biology, biota, environment, field-inventory-and-monitoring, fishery-management, forage-fish, great-lakes, lake-erie, pelagic-fish, pelagic-prey-fish, transect-sampling, usgs-65f1f4c2d34e140332984615
Organization: Department of the Interior
Site characterization of National Strong Motion Program earthquake monitoring stations across Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Kern, and Imperial Counties: with emphatic geophysical survey work along the El Centro Array

Site characterization, with the goal of measuring VS30, was performed at 27 strong motion stations across Central and Southern California. These stations, belonging to the National Strong Motion Program, spanned four counties and varied geophysical environments. Primarily employed were the Simplified Site Characterization Procedures (SSCP) as an efficient yet robust method for measuring VS30.  The active-source SSCP were designed for Rayleigh-wave MASW analysis, while the passive-source methods were designed with ESAC analysis in mind. Also employed along the El Centro Array were conventional large-array MASW and ambient microtremor techniques, and HVSR site characterization techniques.

Tags: biota, el-centro, geophysics, imperial-county, kern-county, los-angeles, san-bernardino, seismology, site-characterization, usgs-65f10f88d34e1403329842b8
Organization: Department of the Interior
Precariously balanced rock data from northern New York and Vermont, USA

This work describes observations of boulders and their pedestals at five sites in New York and Vermont, which are used to calculate scaling factors for the 2023 time-independent National Seismic Hazard Model site-specific hazard curves (Petersen, M.D., Shumway, A.M., Powers, P.M., Field, E.H., Moschetti, M.P., Jaiswal, K.S., Milner, K.R., Rezaeian, S., Frankel, A.D., Llenos, A.L. and Michael, A.J., 2024. The 2023 US 50-State National Seismic Hazard Model: Overview and implications. Earthquake Spectra, 40(1), pp.5-88). This approach represents the current best-practice for validating hazard curves using precariously balanced rocks (e.g., Rood, A.H., Rood, D.H., Stirling, M.W., Madugo, C.M., Abrahamson, N.A., Wilcken, K.M., Gonzalez, T., Kottke, A., Whittaker, A.C., Page, W.D. and Stafford, P.J., 2020. Earthquake hazard uncertainties improved using precariously balanced rocks. AGU Advances, 1(4), p.e2020AV000182).
The files are organized into categories of data and results. The results consist of three tabular CSV files with filenames beginning with the prefix "results_". These files contain the geometric parameters necessary to calculate precariously balanced rock fragilities as well as the scaling factors calculated during validation of the site-specific hazard curves. The data files are in three subcategories: (1) lidar-derived point clouds as CSV data beginning with the prefix 'adkpbr_', which can be opened with standard open-source software such as CloudCompare (https://github.com/cloudcompare/cloudcompare); (2) seismometer recordings stored as miniseed binaries (https://ds.iris.edu/ds/nodes/dmc/data/formats/miniseed/), with recordings for each site in a compressed folder beginning with the prefix 'miniseed_'; and (3) summary figures as PDF files with a TXT file for the captions, beginning with the prefix 'figures_', which include pictures of all boulders. The file names specify the sites.

Tags: biota, earthquake-occurrences, geomorphology, lake-champlain, new-york, seismology, usgs-65f0b4d9d34e1403329840c8, vermont
Organization: Department of the Interior
GPS Locations of Free-roaming Burros in Utah and Arizona, USA, 2016 to 2020

This dataset includes locations of burros between 2016 and 2020 from two study areas where burros were located every 2 hours continuously using GPS telemetry collars for Lotek collars, and every 13 hours continuously for Vectronic Aerospace collars. Location data are from adult female burros, not males. Study areas are the Lake Pleasant Herd Management Area in Arizona, USA and the Sinbad Herd Management Area in Utah, USA. Some burro location data from the Lake Pleasant Herd Management Area were collected by the Arizona Game and Fish Department, covering the same time period and methods as USGS-collected data

Tags: arizona, biota, burro, equus, feral-donkey, feral-horse, foal, lake-pleasant, mortality, sinbad, usgs-65f09b89d34e140332983f8b, utah, vertebrates, wild-horse
Organization: Department of the Interior
Repeat Lidar and Orthoimagery of Headwater Streams in the Donner und Blitzen River Basin, Oregon: Orthoimagery, June 2022

In June and September, 2022, NV5 Geospatial collected aerial imagery and near-infrared (NIR) lidar from crewed aircraft over 62 square kilometers over headwater streams in the Donner und Blitzen River watershed in southeastern  Oregon. Repeat data were collected along Mud Creek and Bridge Creek on the western slope of Steens Mountain. This data release includes orthoimagery and lidar data, including point clouds, bare-earth elevation rasters, and intensity rasters, from both June and September 2022, and a tiling index. This documentation describes the orthoimagery from the June data collection. Documentation is adapted from information provided by NV5 Geospatial to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Tags: aerial-photography, big-bridge-creek, bridge-creek, geoscientificinformation, harney-county, hydrology, imagerybasemapsearthcover, inlandwaters, lambing-creek, lidar, little-bridge-creek, malheur-national-wildlife-refuge, mud-creek, orthoimagery, remote-sensing, steens-mountain, usgs-65f09aead34e140332983f83
Organization: Department of the Interior
Water quality and contaminants in stream surface waters collected in the Delmarva Peninsula, 2022

This data release contains the concentration and quality assurance results for 29 streams, sampled twice, and 1 stream, sampled once, in the Chesapeake Bay Delmarva row crop region (Maryland and Delaware, USA) for the following constituent classes (count of constituents); field and water-quality parameters (9), nutrients/anions (13), dissolved organic carbon (1), per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) (34), aqueous hazards (52), net estrogenicity (1), and major cations and trace elements (55). Samples were collected between May and July 2022. PFAS, nutrient, and water-quality class constituents were analyzed at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Water Quality Laboratory (NWQL) Denver, Colorado. Anions, dissolved organic carbon, major cations, and trace elements were analyzed at the USGS Analytical Trace Element Chemistry-Common Services Laboratory (ATEC-CLS) in Boulder, Colorado. Aqueous hazards were analyzed at the USGS Integrated Water Chemistry Laboratory (IWCL) in Boulder, Colorado. Estrogenicity was analyzed at the USGS Eastern Ecological Science Center (EESC, previously Leetown Science Center) in Kearneysville, West Virginia. The respective methods associated with the analyses for constituents is listed in Table_2_Methods.

Tags: anthropogenic-contaminants, aquatic-ecosystem-health, complex-chemical-mixtures, delaware, delmarva-row-crop, environment, inlandwaters, inorganic-contaminants, maryland, neonicotinoids, nutrients, organic-contaminants, organic-matter-characterization, per-and-polyfluoroalkyl-substances, pfas, stream-health, surface-water-non-marine, surface-water-quality, united-states, usgs-65ef2848d34e1403329839fc, water-quality, world
Organization: Department of the Interior