AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
CE–QUAL–W2 water-quality model and supporting LOADEST models for Lake St. Croix, Wisconsin and Minnesota, 2013

A mechanistic, biophysical water-quality model (CE–QUAL–W2) was developed and calibrated for Lake St. Croix, Wisconsin and Minnesota. The Lake St. Croix CE–QUAL–W2 model was simulated and calibrated using data collected from April through November 2013. Loads developed for the model were based on water-quality data collected by various agencies, including the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The calibrated model was used to evaluate good- and optimal-growth habitat availability for lake sturgeon using coldwater fish oxygen and thermal requirements, as part of the associated report, U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2017-5157 (http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/SIR20175157).

Tags: ce-qual-w2, environment, geoscientificinformation, inlandwaters, surface-water, usgs-5a205fb1e4b09fc93ddbaec0, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Determination of water transparency depth in Caño Boquerón, Cabo Rojo and Puerto Mosquito, Isla de Vieques; Puerto Rico, July 2015 - July 2016

A secchi disk is used to estimate the water transparency depth of surface-water bodies. Secchi disk depth was measured monthly at Caño Boquerón, Cabo Rojo, and Puerto Mosquito, Isla de Vieques; Puerto Rico for the period from July 2015 to July 2016. This data release is part of a limnological analysis at Caño Boquerón and Puerto Mosquito to assess the principal factors affecting the hydrology and water-quality conditions. In addition, the study provides baseline information to regulatory agencies responsible for the management and conservation of coastal waters in Puerto Rico. The investigation focused on Caño Boquerón, and Puerto Mosquito surface-water bodies, representing disturbed and undisturbed conditions, respectively.

Tags: aquatic-ecosystems, bahia-de-boqueron, biotic, cabo-rojo, coastal-ecosystems, ecology, lagoon, oceans, productivity-ecotsystems, puerto-mosquito, usgs-5a206cc4e4b09fc93ddbaf0b, vieques, water-quality-data
Organization: Department of the Interior
Estimates of salinity using specific conductance measurements in Caño Boquerón, Cabo Rojo, and Puerto Mosquito, Isla de Vieques; Puerto Rico, July 2015 to July 2016.

The dataset includes estimates of salinity using specific conductance measurements at 1) Caño Boquerón, Cabo Rojo, and 2) Puerto Mosquito, Isla de Vieques; Puerto Rico for the period from July 2015 to July 2016. This dataset is part of a limnological analysis at Caño Boquerón and Puerto Mosquito to assess the principal factors affecting the hydrology and water-quality conditions. In addition, the study provides baseline information to regulatory agencies responsible for the management and conservation of coastal waters in Puerto Rico. The investigation focused on  Caño Boquerón (disturbed conditions); and Puerto Mosquito (undisturbed  conditions). Monthly measurements of specific conductance were collected at both locations.

Tags: aquatic-ecosystems, bahia-de-boqueron, biotic, cabo-rojo, coastal-ecosystems, ecology, lagoon, oceans, productivity-ecotsystems, puerto-mosquito, salinity, usgs-5a206d0ce4b09fc93ddbaf10, vieques, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data on deltamethrin resistance in Oropsylla hirsuta fleas from black-tailed prairie dogs in South Dakota, USA, 2014-2015

Data on deltamethrin resistance in Oropsylla hirsuta fleas from black-tailed prairie dogs in Conata Basin, Buffalo Gap National Grassland and Badlands National Park, South Dakota, 2014-2015. Two data files are available, one from "Mortality trials" and another from "recovery trials".
The data from "Mortality trials" includes information on bioassays in which fleas were subjected to deltamethrin in Petri dishes. In 2014, fleas were collected from colonies of black-tailed prairie dogs that had been treated with a deltamethrin-containing dust since 2005 (Dusted) and colonies that had never been treated with deltamethrin (Not Dusted). The fleas were placed in Petri dishes with deltamethrin. All fleas were alive at the start of these trials. The fleas were assessed for mortality every 5 minutes until all fleas appeared dead (i.e., for 55 minutes). The data includes the treatment category for each line of data (fleas from Dusted or Not Dusted colonies); the minute marks for assays (0 through 55 minutes); and the numbers of fleas alive during each minute mark.
The data from "Recovery trials" includes information on bioassays in which fleas were assessed for recovery after deltamethrin treatment. After the mortality trials (described above), all fleas appeared dead. Fleas were then placed in clean vials or Petri dishes and assessed for recovery 40 hours later (i.e., assessed for an ability to actually survive and recover from deltamethrin treatment). The data (2014 and 2015 separately) includes the years of sampling; the treatment category for each line of data (fleas from Dusted or Not Dusted colonies); the numbers of fleas that recovered (i.e., were resistant to deltamethrin); and the numbers of fleas that were actually dead.
Individual study sites are occupied by species of conservation concern, including endangered black-footed ferrets. Thus, the data are linked to the general study area, Conata Basin, South Dakota.
Funding and logistical support were provided by US Geological Survey, US Forest Service, National Park Service, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Colorado State University, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Prairie Wildlife Research, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, and World Wildlife Fund. This research was supported by Grant-Cooperative Agreement Number G14AC00403 from the US Geological Survey.

Tags: badlands-national-park, biota, conata-basin, deltamethrin, flea, insecticide-resistance, prairie-dog, south-dakota, usgs-5a2081eee4b09fc93ddbafa7
Organization: Department of the Interior
Daily sediment loads during and after dam removal in the Elwha River, Washington, 2011 to 2016

Daily values of discharge and sediment loads were measured and estimated at U.S. Geological Survey gaging station 12046260, on the Elwha River at the diversion near Port Angeles, Washington. Daily data are reported from September 15, 2011 to September 30, 2016. Specific data include (1) date; (2) discharge; (3) suspended-sediment concentration and one standard-deviation bounds; (4) percentage of fine-grained particles (silts and clays) in suspension; (5) loads of total suspended-sediment, fine-grained particles in suspension, and sand in suspension; (6) gauged bedload for particles between 2-16 mm and greater than 16 mm; and (7) estimated bedload for particles smaller than 2 mm.

Tags: cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology, elwha-dam-historical, elwha-river, field-inventory-and-monitoring, glines-canyon-dam-historical, inlandwaters, lake-aldwell-historical, lake-mills-historical, olympic-national-park, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, river-bank, river-channel, sediment-deposition, sediment-transport, state-of-washington, stream-discharge, substrate, u-s-bureau-of-reclamation, u-s-geological-survey, usbr, usgs, usgs-5a25e9f2e4b03852baf67f06
Organization: Department of the Interior
The influence of hydrocarbon seeps on sediment macrofaunal biodiversity and functional traits

Chemosynthetic ecosystems in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) support dense communities of seep megafaunal invertebrates that rely on endosymbiotic bacteria for nutrition. Distinct infaunal communities are associated with the biogenic habitats created by seep biota, where habitat heterogeneity and sediment geochemistry influence local macrofaunal community structure. Here we examine the variance in infaunal communities in the GOM with respect to depth, sediment geochemistry parameters, and distance to known seep habitats. Habitats were mapped based on ROV video of the seafloor. Samples were collected from three sites (AC601, GC852, and AT340) via box core in 2007 and processed for macrofauna and environmental characteristics. A majority of the taxa occurred within 50m of seep habitat, regardless of seep type (carbonate, mussel, mat). Overall, patterns in macrofaunal communities were driven by depth and differences in the distance to carbonate habitat. In contrast, variance in infaunal functional traits was best explained by depth, relative reliance on chemosynthetic productivity, and sediment grain size. Results suggest that northern GOM infaunal community structure and function are structured by factors that influence food availability and habitat heterogeneity.

Tags: benthos, biota, chemosynthetic, deep-sea, macrofauna, seep, usgs-5a21a426e4b03852baf471f1
Organization: Department of the Interior
Stream temperature data in Willow/Rock/Frazer watersheds of northern Nevada, 2015-16

This dataset includes stream temperatures from a network of 112 data loggers that was installed in stream channels throughout the Willow/Rock/Frazer watersheds of northern Nevada between July 31 and August 15, 2015. Ninety-seven data loggers were recovered and downloaded in late July 2016.

Tags: elko-county, frazer-creek, gnis-id-843273, gnis-id-845747, gnis-id-847339, gnis-id-858249, huc_8-16040106, inlandwaters, nevada, rock-creek, stream-river, stream-temperature, streamflow, surface-water-non-marine, usgs-5a21d88ae4b03852baf474a2, water-temperature, watershed, willow-creek, willow-creek-reservoir
Organization: Department of the Interior
Temperature data loggers in Willow/Rock/Frazer watersheds of northern Nevada, 2015

This dataset includes spatial location information from 167 temperature data loggers that were installed throughout the Willow/Rock/Frazer watersheds of northern Nevada between July 30 and August 14, 2015. One hundred twelve data loggers were installed in stream channels (some of which were dry), 50 data loggers were installed outside the stream channel to measure air temperature, and 5 data loggers were installed on ridgetops to measure air temperature across the watershed.

Tags: air-temperature, climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, elko-county, frazer-creek, gnis-id-843273, gnis-id-845747, gnis-id-847339, gnis-id-858249, huc_8-16040106, inlandwaters, nevada, rock-creek, stream-river, stream-temperature, streamflow, surface-water-non-marine, usgs-5a21d8b1e4b03852baf474a4, water-temperature, watershed, willow-creek, willow-creek-reservoir
Organization: Department of the Interior
Exotic invasive giant apple snails (Pomacea maculata) will depredate eggs of frog and toad species of the Southeastern United States.

Frog eggs of three different species were presented to giant apple snails (Pomacea maculata) to determine if the snails will eat the eggs. There were four treatments: control- eggs in water only; control with lettuce- eggs in water and lettuce which was used as snail food; snail- eggs in water with snail; and snail with lettuce- eggs in water with snails and lettuce (as an alternative food for the snail). Eggs were counted at the start and end of the experiment, and if an egg hatched to a tadpole, the tadpoles were counted as un-eaten eggs.

Tags: anuran-egg-predation, biota, frog-egg-predation, giant-apple-snail, invasive-species, island-apple-snail, predation, preditor-prey-selections, toad-egg-predation, usgs-5a256e47e4b03852baf673ea
Organization: Department of the Interior
The impact of lidar elevation uncertainty on mapping intertidal habitats on barrier islands

These data represent low-lying lands and intertidal lands on Dauphin Island, Alabama, USA for January 2015. These data were delineated using airborne lidar elevation data, in situ elevation observations, lidar metadata, and tide gauge information. We applied Monte Carlo simulations to incorporate uncertainty into a digital elevation model and produce probabilistic outputs with regards to elevation relative to tide and water levels. Specifically, these include three error treatments, including leaving error untreated, and treating error via simulating the propagation of error using Monte Carlo simulations with error and bias estimates from the lidar metadata and site-specific Real-time Kinematic Global Position System data, respectively. This data release also includes a sensitivity analysis to help visualize how a suite of alternative error and bias values affect the Monte Carlo simulation results for the identification of low-lying lands. This data release includes the following three components, which are included in the attached ZIP file: 1) low_lying_lands directory which contains presence/absence rasters for low-lying lands (Raster data) and validation points for low-lying lands (Vector data); 2) intertidal_lands which includes presence/absence rasters for intertidal lands (Raster data); and 3) senstivity_analysis which includes presence/absence rasters for low-lying lands for various alternative bias and error parameters (Raster data).

Tags: barrier-island, dauphin-island, elevation, environment, gulf-of-mexico, intertidal-wetland, lidar, mobile, monte-carlo, uncertainty, usgs-5a2575aee4b03852baf673f5
Organization: Department of the Interior
Bias correction of simulated historical daily streamflow at ungauged locations by using independently estimated flow-duration curves: Data release

This dataset contains the observed and simulated streamflow used to produce the results of the journal article entitled “Bias correction of Retrospective Simulation of Daily Streamflow at Ungauged Locations Using Independently Estimated Flow-Duration Curves  ”. Observed streamflow, retrieved from the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Water Information System (https://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis) in Spring of 2017, is included in comma-separated-values files (CSVs) as cubic feet per second. These CSVs also contain computed nonexceedance probabilities and streamflows estimated with pooled, ordinary kriging, with and without bias correction. CSVs of streamflow duration curves (fdc) are also provided. A streamflow and fdc CSV file is provided for each of the 18 2-digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC) areas (HUC 10 is split into 10U and 10L) and the 19 file names are labeled by HUC. An R-script is included; it is capable of recreating the result of the source paper cited above. A README file describes how these results can be interpreted and reproduced.

Tags: all-50-states, streamflow, united-states, usgs-5a2594cce4b03852baf675df
Organization: Department of the Interior
MBES bathymetry of Lake Michigan nearshore near Ogden Dunes/Burns Harbor, Indiana, July 25, 2016

These data are high-resolution bathymetry (lake bottom elevation) in XYZ format, generated from the July 25, 2016, topographic and hydrographic survey of Lake Michigan in an area near Ogden Dunes, Indiana. Hydrographic data were collected using a multibeam echo-sounder (MBES) with integrated inertial navigation solution (INS) mounted on a marine survey vessel. Data were collected as the vessel traversed the lake along survey lines distributed throughout the area. Data collection software integrated and stored the depth data from the multibeam sonar and the horizontal and vertical position and attitude data of the vessel from the INS in real time. Data processing required computer software to extract bathymetric data from the raw data files and to summarize and map the information.

Tags: bathymetry, indiana, lake-michigan, multibeam, odgen-dunes, sonar, united-states-of-america, usgs-5a26deb4e4b03852baf7f1bb, xyz
Organization: Department of the Interior
Microbiology of the greater Bravo Dome region

Bravo Dome is a commercial natural CO2 field that supplies the gas to depleted oil fields for enhanced oil recovery. In order to understand the distribution of CO2 across the greater Bravo Dome region, including southeastern Colorado and northwestern New Mexico, and to assess the impacts of high CO2 concentrations on microbes in the subsurface, 7 samples were collected from sites associated with high natural CO2 concentrations. Four water samples were collected, two from wells producing within Bravo Dome, one from an oil and gas field north of Bravo Dome associated with high CO2 concentrations, the Oakdale field, and one sample from a shallow groundwater well on the Rafter K ranch that effervesces CO2.  Three samples were collected from the associated gas streams from two Oakdale field wellheads and from the Rafter K well.
The samples were filtered for biomass, extracted, amplified, and 16S rRNA gene sequencing was performed on the Illumina MiSeq platform.

Tags: 16s-rrna-sequencing, bravo-dome, co2, effervescing-co2, field-sampling, gas-sampling, illumina-miseq-platform, microbial-ecology, natural-co2-field, northeastern-new-mexico, oakdale-field, oakdale-field-huerfano-county-colorado, oil-field-microbiology, rafter-k-ranch, southeastern-colorado, usgs-5a26ef16e4b03852baf8e234, water-sampling
Organization: Department of the Interior
Sparta-Memphis aquifer water level altitude contour dataset in Arkansas, January-May 2013 (ver. 1.2, June 2021)

This dataset contains 20-ft contours for the 2013 Sparta-Memphis aquifer potentiometric-surface map in Arkansas.  The potentiometric-surface shows altitudes at which the water levels would have risen in tightly-cased wells and represents conditions during the period from January through May 2013. Groundwater-level data from 306 wells cased completely in and with the screened interval open to the Sparta-Memphis aquifer are publicly available from the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Water Information System.

Tags: arkansas, geoscientificinformation, groundwater, groundwater-flow, groundwater-level, hydrogeology, mississippi-embayment-aquifer-system, sparta-memphis-aquifer, usgs-5a270d91e4b03852bafb134c, water-resources
Organization: Department of the Interior
Water chemistry data for Fourmile Creek Watershed, Colorado, 2010-2015

Extreme climate events– such as hurricanes, droughts, ice storms, extreme precipitation, and wildfires– have the potential to cause large changes in watershed processes, response, and function. A five-year post-wildfire study of stream chemistry in the Colorado Front Range USA, enabled the analysis of the effects these events have water quality, which is published in the journal article Murphy, S.F., McCleskey, R.B., Martin, D.A., Writer, J.H., and Ebel, B.A., in review, Fire, flood, and drought: Extreme climate events alter flowpaths and stream chemistry: JGR-Biogeosciences. That article describes how extreme climate events altered concentration-discharge relations in ways that elucidate hydrologic flow paths and the role of material connectivity in stream water chemistry. The datasets provided here contain the data used in that analysis.

Tags: climate-change, droughts, fires, floods, surface-water-quality, usgs-5a2734dee4b03852bafc930c
Organization: Department of the Interior
St. Croix River at outlet to East Grand Lake bathymetric data and Forest City Dam Survey, Enited States-Canadian border in Maine and New Brunswick

These are survey data for the Forest City Dam at the Outlet to East Grand Lake on the St. Croix River between Maine and Canada. And they are bathymetric data surrounding the outlet dam collected with an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP)

Tags: bathymetry-data, canada, east-grand-lake, forest-city, maine, st-croix-river, survey-data, usgs-5a280c4de4b03852bafe0fa0, washington-county
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data on denitrification and ecological characteristics of nontidal floodplains, Chesapeake Bay watershed, USA, 2013-2016

This data set presents attributes of floodplain ecosystem characteristics including floodplain soil denitrification, floodplain soil biogeochemistry, floodplain vegetation, floodplain sedimentation, floodplain and channel morphometry, stream discharge and water quality, floodplain climate, floodplain physiographic region, and catchment land cover. Attributes are associated with 18 floodplains of the Chesapeake Bay watershed. For many of these attributes, mean values are summaries of multiple measurements made within each floodplain site.

Tags: air-temperature, alluvial-soil, biogeochemistry, climate, denitrification, floodplains, land-cover, maryland, nitrogen, pennsylvania, riparian-soil, rivers, season, sediment-deposition, soil, streams, usgs-5a281835e4b03852bafe0fc0, virginia, west-virginia
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data from simulations of ecological and hydrologic response to climate change scenarios at Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota, 1901-2050

This data release contains data discussed in its larger work citation. "ClimateComparisonData.csv" contains summary metrics of six climate projections used as climate input for quantitative simulations of hydrologic and ecological responses to climate change at Wind Cave National Park (WCNP) and the same summary metrics for 38 other climate projections available at the time that these simulations were done. "HydroData.csv" contains mean annual streamflow of a stream in WCNP and mean annual hydraulic head of a subterranean lake in Wind Cave as simulated by the rainfall-response aquifer and watershed flow (RRAWFLOW) model for two climate projections in the climate dataset. The remaining files contain aboveground live forest carbon, frequency of high-fire-danger days, and annual grass production as simulated by the dynamic vegetation model MC1 parameterized for WCNP for combinations of four climate projections in the climate dataset with a variety of management alternatives.

Tags: biota, custer-county, effects-of-climate-change, environment, fires, forest-ecosystems, grassland-ecosystems, mathematical-simulation, natural-resource-management, south-dakota, streamflow, usgs-5a281bbfe4b03852bafe1002, vegetation, wind-cave-national-park
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mean annual water-budget components for the Island of Oahu, Hawaii, for predevelopment conditions, 1978-2007 rainfall and 1870 land cover (version 2.0)

The shapefile associated with this metadata file represents the spatial distribution of mean annual water-budget components, in inches, for the Island of Oahu, Hawaii. The water-budget components in the shapefile were computed by a water-budget model for a scenario representative of predevelopment conditions (1978–2007 rainfall and 1870 land cover), as described in USGS Scientific Investigations Report (USGS SIR) 2015-5164. The model was developed for estimating groundwater recharge and other water-budget components for each subarea of the model. The model-subarea dataset, consisting of 441,315 subareas (polygons), was generated using Esri ArcGIS software by intersecting (merging) multiple spatial datasets. Spatial datasets merged include those that characterize the spatial distribution of hydrologic and physical conditions (rainfall, fog interception, irrigation, reference evapotranspiration, direct runoff, soil type, and land cover) that the model uses to compute groundwater recharge and other water-budget components. Additional spatial datasets merged into the model-subarea dataset include those of select geographic features that assist in analyzing model results. This metadata file describes the process of merging these spatial datasets. The shapefile attribute information associated with each polygon present an estimate of mean annual rainfall, fog interception, irrigation, septic-system leachate, runoff, canopy evaporation, actual evapotranspiration, storm-drain capture, net precipitation, total evapotranspiration, recharge, and seepage from reservoirs and cesspools. This shapefile also includes select geographic and land-cover attributes of the polygons. Brief descriptions of the water-budget components and attributes are included in this metadata file. Refer to USGS SIR 2015-5164 and USGS SIR 2015-5010 for further details of the methods and sources used to determine these components and attributes.

Tags: canopy-evaporation, evapotranspiration, fog-interception, groundwater-recharge, groundwater-resources-program, hawaii, hawaii-volcanic-rock-aquifer-study, inlandwaters, irrigation, oahu, pacific-islands, rainfall, runoff, soil-water-balance, storm-drain-capture, usgs-5a2830dbe4b03852bafe13a5, water-budget-model
Organization: Department of the Interior