AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Visible and Near Infrared (VNIR) and Short Wavelength Infrared (SWIR) Spectra of Select Rock Cores and Waste Material from Nine Uranium Mine Sites in Karnes and Live Oak Counties, Texas

These data represent laboratory reflectance measurements conducted on a suite of sandstone, tuffaceous mudstone and claystone rocks and sediment, which are known host and source materials for roll front Uranium deposits mined throughout the South Texas Coastal Plains. Visible through Near Infrared through Shortwave Infrared (~0.4 - 2.5 microns) reflectance were measured using an artificial light source attached to an Analytical Spectral Devices (ASD) spectrometer. A total of 125 spectra were measured and analyzed, representing samples from nine former open-pit mine sites excavating rocks from four different mapped geologic units, including rocks and sediments from the Jackson Group, Catahoula, Oakville and Goliad Formations. These spectra represent averages of a larger set of 569 random surface reflectance measurements, most of which yielded redundant spectral shapes, which were reduced to a smaller but more representative dataset. The data were obtained in support of studies aimed at mapping uranium mine waste features throughout portions Karnes, Atascosa and Live Oak counties along the South Texas Coastal Plain. Each of the nine mine sites are geolocated within the included point shapefiles. Geographic coordinates are based on those provided within the Uranium assessment report and accompanying GIS supplemental data provided in the following associated reference: 
Hall, S.M., Mihalasky, M.J., Tureck, K.R., Hammarstrom, J.M., and Hannon, M.T., 2017. Genetic and grade and tonnage models for sandstone-hosted roll-type uranium deposits, Texas Coastal Plain, USA. Ore Geology Reviews, volume 80, pages 716-753.

Tags: calcrete, catahoula-formation, claystone, eocene, goliad-formation, hyperspectral-imaging, jackson-group, karnes-county, live-oak-county, mineral-resources, miocene, mudstone, oakville-formation, oligocene, paleocene, pliocene, sandstone, texas, texas-coastal-plain, uranium, uranium-roll-front, usgs-6217e6fed34ec739b2dd26b7, zeolites
Organization: Department of the Interior
Salinity_na_frontal_SLR: Modeling the effects of large-scale interior headland restoration on tidal hydrodynamics and salinity transport in an open coast, marine-dominant estuary: model input and results

Using version 20.1_19 of the Discontinuous-Galerkin Shallow Water Equations Model (DG-SWEM) (Kubatko and others, 2006), astronomic tides and salinity transport were simulated at Grand Bay, Alabama (AL), under scenarios of interior headland restoration and sea level rise, as described in Passeri and others (2023). The two-dimensional DG-SWEM model can be applied to coastal and estuarine systems to solve for time-dependent hydrodynamic circulation and salinity transport. The DG-SWEM model uses the ADCIRC framework (Luettich and others, 1992) and requires inputs of an unstructured finite element mesh. For this study, the mesh domain has an open ocean boundary in the Gulf of Mexico and has higher spatial resolution elements (20 - 100 meters (m)) along the Mississippi and Alabama coast. The model mesh coordinates (latitude and longitude) and simulated average salinity concentrations are included in this data release. For further information regarding model input generation and visualization of model output, refer to Passeri and others (2023).

Tags: alabama, bathymetry, coastal-processes, digital-elevation-models, elevation, estuarine-processes, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, grand-bay, gulf-of-mexico, north-america, oceans, spcmsc, st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, tides-oceanic, topography, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-e655538a-3dbc-477a-af34-3511076ef548
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geological mapping coordinates, and zircon geochemistry, geochronology and isotope geochemistry data, Bobcat Hills, California

This dataset contains geologic mapping coordinates, and geochemical, geochronologic, and isotopic data collected for shonkinite dikes and zircons from Bobcat Hills, California, USA. See accompanying G-Cubed publication described in the "Larger Work" section of this metadata file for a detailed description of this dataset.

Tags: rare-earth-element-deposit-zircon-critical-elements, usgs-6553be4bd34ee4b6e05c3ff1
Organization: Department of the Interior
Wind rose plots for the volcano: 312170  Katmai

This zip folder contains ASCII text files of vectors at the specified volcano at 
12-hour intervals, 
from January 1, 1990 through December 28, 2009.  
The wind vectors are divided into five files, names by their elevation range above 
sea level in the atmosphere: 00-05km.txt; 05-11km.txt; 11-16km.txt; 16-24km.txt; 
and 24-30km.txt. 
The zip folder also contains a subfolder "figures", with Wind rose plots of wind 
direction and speed over 
this time period.  The plots are by season, and by elevation, given a total of 20 
plots (4 seasons, 5 
elevation ranges).  A summary plot is also included which gives the year-round 
wind pattern at the volcano, 
at 0-5 km elevation.  Plots are in both jpg and pdf format.

Tags: meteorology, usgs-58d01588e4b0236b68f52f94, volcanic-ash, volcanic-eruption-forecasting, wind
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mineral Commodity Summaries 2024 - IRON OXIDE PIGMENTS Data Release

This data release contains the U.S. salient statistics and world production data extracted from the IRON OXIDE PIGMENTS data sheet of the USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2024.

Tags: iops, iron-oxide-pigments, metallic-mineral-resources, usgs-65b7d7d9d34e36a39045b4d8
Organization: Department of the Interior
Visual description sheets of sediment cores from the New England Mud Patch collected on USGS Field Activity 2016-001-FA

Variability in sediment properties with depth and the thickness of individual sedimentary layers are critical determinants of seabed acoustic response. The New England Mud Patch (NEMP), located south of Cape Cod, is an unusual feature on the U.S. Continental Shelf in that it is composed of fine-grained sediment layers containing a relatively-homogeneous mix of sand, silt, and clay-sized particles bounded by more typical sandy shelf sediments.  The unique characteristics and nature of this deposit is due to a derivation of sediments that have been transported to, and deposited in, a basal bowl-shaped depression since the last glacial maximum. Ninety-two piston, vibra-, and gravity cores with a maximum length of 8.2 meters were collected from across the New England Mud Patch during a 2-leg, 10-day cruise aboard the R/V Endeavor in the spring of 2016. Geologic characterization and analysis of a subset of the cores including grain size, CaCO3, mineral composition, and bulk index properties (undrained shear strength, water content, density, and porosity) of discrete samples was carried out at the USGS Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center's (WHCMSC) Sediment Analysis Laboratory. This data release contains the results of these analyses, along with visual core descriptions and summary sheets for each core analyzed for this study.

Tags: acoustic-cores, atlantic, clay-deposits, core-analysis, cores, cruise-id-en577, earth-material-properties, geology, gravity-coring, image-collections, marine-stratigraphy, marthas-vineyard, massachusetts, nemp, new-england-mud-patch, oceans, piston-cores, piston-coring, r-v-endeavor, sand-deposits, seabed-experiment-area, sediment-composition, sediment-samples, sedimentary-structures, sedimentology, subsampling, surface-color, trigger-cores, u-s-continental-shelf, u-s-geological-survey, unconsolidated-deposits, usgs, usgs-60552e10d34e1894882d0ab5, vane-shear-strength, vibracores, vibracoring, visual-core-description, whcmsc, whcmsc-field-activity-2016-001-fa, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Fractional Estimates of Multiple Exotic Annual Grass (EAG) Species in the Sagebrush Biome, USA - 2022

This dataset release provides historical (2016 - 2023) estimates of fractional cover for Exotic Annual Grass (EAG) species and a native perennial bunch grass in the arid and semi-arid rangelands of the western United States. The dataset includes four (five for 2023) fractional cover maps per year, accompanied by corresponding confidence maps, for a group of 16 species of EAGs, Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum); Medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae); and Sandberg Bluegrass (Poa secunda). Field Brome (Bromus arvensis) is added as individual map species in 2023. The data were generated using a combination of field observations from Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring (AIM) plots; remotely sensed data from the Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS) product (specifically Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI)), and various environmental, vegetation, remotely sensed, and geophysical drivers. Additionally, artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques were employed in the data generation process. 
It should be noted that the training of regression-tree models and the development of historical maps (2016-2020) utilized a total of 17,536 AIM plots from years 2016 – 2019. For the creation of 2021 maps, 19,415 AIM plots from years 2016 - 2021 were employed, and 2022 maps, 28,901 AIM plots from 2016-2022 were used. In the case of 2016 – 2020 maps, areas above 2250-m elevation and pixels classified other than grassland/herbaceous or shrub (likely rangelands) were masked based on the 2016 National Land Cover Database (NLCD).  2021 onward maps, areas above 2350-m elevation and pixels classified as other than grassland/herbaceous by the 2019 NLCD for 2021 and 2022 and 2021 NLCD for 2023 were masked. The seed source variable from the Rangeland Analysis Platform (RAP) [Jones et al., 2018]) was used as one of the drivers for modeling of 2016 – 2020 maps but was not utilized for modeling of 2021 and later maps. Additionally, HLS NDWI were not used after 2021 maps. All other predictor variables are identical for all sets of maps. For details, please check data quality information section.

Tags: annual-grass, annual-herbaceous, arizona, california, cheatgrass, colorado, exotic, great-basin, harmonized-landsat-sentinel, idaho, invasive-species, kansas, medusahead, montana, ndvi, nebraska, nevada, new-mexico, nonindigenous-species, north-dakota, noxious, oklahoma, oregon, perennial-bunch-grass, poa-secunda, red-brome, remote-sensing, rye-brome, sagebrush, soft-brome, south-dakota, texas, texas-brome, united-states, usgs-66a167c8d34ec831f2c2c350, utah, washington, western-united-states, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Compilation of runoff-generated debris-flow inventories for 17 fires across Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Washington, USA

Summary
This data release is an inventory of runoff-generated postfire debris flows compiled from 17 burn areas across five western U.S. states. Debris-flow data from the following fires are included: 
- Arizona: 2017 Pinal and 2019 Woodbury Fires
- California: 2020 Apple, 2020 Bond, 2015 Butte, 2020 El Dorado, 2014 El Portal, 2018 Ferguson, 2016 Fish (San Gabriel Complex), 2011 Motor, and 2017 Thomas Fires
- Colorado: 2020 Cameron Peak and 2018 Spring Creek Fires
- New Mexico: 2018 Buzzard Fire
- Washington: 2021 Cedar Creek, 2021 Cub Creek 2, and 2021 Muckamuck Fires
The included table, “Combined_Inventory.csv”, contains debris-flow records represented as “1” or “0”, indicating whether a debris flow did occur or did not occur, respectively, in response to a given storm. In addition, for each observation, the corresponding fire name, observation location, storm date, and rainfall intensities are included. The “README.txt” file describes the fields (including units) for “Combined_Inventory.csv” in more detail. "0" values in the "Response" column indicate that no debris flow was observed, but a hydrologic response with lower sediment content may or may not have occurred. 
Assembling these data in a unified format involved a combination of compiling data from published sources and synthesizing new debris-flow records from observations made by US Geological Survey staff and partners. All records in the included file, "Combined_inventory.csv", are credited according to the individuals or publications that provided the observation information in the column labeled “ObservationSource”. To the best of our knowledge, all records included here correspond to debris flows generated by runoff, not by other mechanisms. These records have only limited spatial and temporal extent: they should not be taken as a comprehensive record of the hydrologic response in every catchment in response to every postfire storm. Fields with value “-9999” indicate that data are not available or do not exist. 
Data Credits
Special thanks go to many colleagues who provided or helped to assemble debris-flow observation and/or rainfall data, including: Ann Youberg (Arizona Geological Survey); Paul Burgess, Jeremy Lancaster, Don Lindsay, John Oswald, and Brian Swanson (California Geological Survey); Chad Neptune (California State Water Resources Control Board); Stephanie Kampf, Lee MacDonald, Megan Sears, and Ellen Wohl (Colorado State University);  Luke McGuire (University of Arizona); Maya Daurio (University of British Columbia); Laura Hempel, Jason Kean, Francis Rengers, Brittany Selander, and Matthew Thomas (U.S. Geological Survey); and Mitchell Allen and Kate Mickelson (Washington Geological Survey).

Tags: arizona, california, colorado, debris-flow-inventory, environment, fires, geomorphology, landslides, new-mexico, post-wildfire-debris-flows, rainfall-intensity, usgs-6452c08ed34eefd5da82fe85, washington
Organization: Department of the Interior
Kilauea 2018 lower East Rift Zone eruption - fissure lines

The 2018 lower East Rift Zone eruption of Kilauea Volcano began in the late afternoon of 3 May, with fissure 1 opening and erupting lava onto Mohala Street in the Leilani Estates subdivision, part of the lower Puna District of the Island of Hawai'i. For the first week of the eruption, relatively viscous lava flowed only within a kilometer (0.6 miles) of the fissures within Leilani Estates, before activity shifted downrift (east-northeast) and out of the subdivision during mid-May. Around 18 May, activity along the lower East Rift Zone intensified, and fluid lava erupting at higher effusion rates from the downrift fissures reached the ocean within two days. Near the end of May, this more vigorous activity shifted back uprift into Leilani Estates, where fissure 8 reactivated with lava fountains feeding several 'a'a flows. The southernmost flow lobe developed into a well-defined lava channel and reached the ocean at Kapoho Bay - 11 kilometers (7 miles) away - on 3 June. Fissure 8 continued supplying this lava channel for more than two months, constructing an approximately 3.5-square-kilometer (1.4-square-mile) lava delta along the coastline. Over 4 and 5 August, activity at fissure 8 waned and flow in the lava channel came to a halt, only to be followed by weak activity within the vent in late August and early September. By then, the eruption had covered 35.5 square kilometers (13.7 square miles) of the lower Puna District with lava. In this report, the authors have sought to chronicle this sequence of events using geospatial data in the form of an Esri file geodatabase, Esri shapefiles, and Google Earth KMZs.

Tags: andesite, basalt, basaltic-andesite, east-rift-zone, fissure, fissure-line, fissure-trace, fissurelines, geology, green-lake, hawaii, holocene, island-of-hawaii, kapoho-bay, kapoho-oe-n-quadrangle, kapoho-quadrangle, kilauea, lava, lava-flow, leilani-estates, lower-east-rift-zone, map, pahoa-north-quadrangle, pahoa-south-quadrangle, puna-district, quaternary, shield-volcano, state-of-hawaii, tholeiitic-basalt, united-states-of-america, usgs-5ebb4a9282ce25b5136182a0, vacationland-hawaii, volcano, waiopae
Organization: Department of the Interior
Structure-from-Motion Products - Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge, Delaware - Digital Elevation Model: 2021

Aerial imagery was collected by a contractor using a fixed wing aircraft fitted with Post-Processing Kinematic (PPK) GPS, was processed using Structure-from-Motion (SfM) photogrammetry techniques to produce high-resolution orthomosaic images, three-dimensional (3D) point clouds and digital elevation models (DEMs). Surveyed Ground Control Points (GCPs) visible in the imagery are used to supplement the calculated elevation and PPK position data. This dataset, produced by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) MD-DE-DC Water Science Center, consists of a point cloud generated from the survey of Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuges in Delaware in order to observe annual changes.
Structure-from-Motion software, Agisoft Metashape, was used to perform processing on low-altitude digital aerial imagery acquired by a contractor utilizing a fixed wing aircraft. The aircraft has been modified with a camera port fitted with a Sony A7R camera and equipped with a custom Post-Processing Kinematic GPS device. The surveys were conducted using temporary targets (black and white, 4-square checkered pattern), and pre-existing points (road markings) distributed throughout the flight operations area as GCPs. 
This dataset was produced using the 4D method of Structure-from-Motion, combining multiple years of images and GCPs into a single project to assist in alignment. Each year's chunk was then checked, cleaned, and exported individually. 
All horizontal data are referenced to the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83 (2011)) UTM zone 18N, and elevation is referenced to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88) in meters, GEOID12B.

Tags: coastal-processes, delaware, fowler-beach, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, imagerybasemapsearthcover, location, prime-hook-national-wildlife-refuge, remote-sensing, topographic-maps, topography, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-629627a5d34ec53d276ba948
Organization: Department of the Interior
02031 - Geophysical Surveys of Bear Lake, Utah-Idaho, September 2002 - Shot Point Navigation (CHRPSHT)

Bear Lake is a tectonic lake that has existed for at least several hundred thousand years. The lake basin is a relatively simple half graben, a spoon-shaped depression tilted toward the main fault on the east side of the lake. The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with researchers from several universities, has been studying the sediments of Bear Lake since 1996. The general purpose of this effort is to reconstruct past limnological conditions and regional climate on a range of timescales, from hundreds of years to hundreds of thousands of years. This research relates to a variety of human concerns, including water usage in the Bear River basin. Past work has included several coring operations, a seismic-reflection survey, sediment-trap deployments, a barge-mounted drilling operation with the GLAD800 drill rig, and a variety of other studies.
The objectives of the September, 2002 operations, preliminarily reported here, were (1) to compile a detailed bathymetric map of the lake using swath-mapping techniques, in order to provide baseline data for a variety of applications and studies, and (2) to complete a sidescan-sonar survey of the lake, providing a nearly complete acoustic image of the lake floor. Limited amounts of subbottom acoustic-reflection data (chirp) were also collected, along with samples of lake-floor sediments representative of different kinds of backscatter patterns.  These surveys followed an earlier subbottom acoustic-reflection survey (1997), using boomer and 3.5 kHz systems (S. M. Colman, unpublished data).

Tags: bear-lake, chirp, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, geophysics, geospatial-datasets, idaho, location, navigation, navigational-data, north-america, seg-y, seismic-reflection, shot-point, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-06f548de-d30e-4089-a7a3-03c8771a8085, utah, whsc-field-activity-number-02031, woods-hole-field-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Multibeam Echosounder, Reson T-20P bathymetry overview (10-m), USGS field activity 2017-003-FA, Mississippi River Delta front offshore of southeastern Louisiana (32-bit GeoTIFF, UTM Zone 16N, NAD 83, NAVD 88 Vertical Datum)

High resolution bathymetric, sea-floor backscatter, and seismic-reflection data were collected offshore of southeastern Louisiana aboard the research vessel Point Sur on May 19-26, 2017, in an effort to characterize mudflow hazards on the Mississippi River Delta front. As the initial field program of a research cooperative between the U.S. Geological Survey, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, and other Federal and academic partners, the primary objective of this cruise was to assess the suitability of sea-floor mapping and shallow subsurface imaging tools in the challenging environmental conditions found across delta fronts (for example, variably distributed water column stratification and widespread biogenic gas in the shallow subsurface). Approximately 675 kilometers (km) of multibeam bathymetry and backscatter data, 420 km of towed chirp data, and 550 km of multichannel seismic data were collected. Varied mudflow (gully, lobe), prodelta morphologies, and structural features were imaged in selected survey areas from Pass a Loutre to Southwest Pass.

Tags: bathymetry, boem, bureau-of-ocean-energy-management, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, elevation, field-activity-number-2017-003-fa, geoscientificinformation, geotiff, gulf-of-mexico, imagerybasemapsearthcover, marine-geology, marine-geophysics, mississippi-river-delta-front, multibeam-bathymetry, multibeam-echosounder, multibeam-sonar, oceans, pass-a-loutre, reson, sea-floor, seafloor, south-pass, southeast-louisiana, southwest-pass, t20p, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-5a945c08e4b069906068fab4, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Water level data from select wetlands at Saint Marks National Wildlife Refuge:2010 - 2015

This USGS Data Release represents geospatial and tabular data for a study investigating linkages between local terrain and wetland hydroperiod. The data release was produced in compliance with the new 'open data' requirements as way to make the scientific products associated with USGS research efforts and publications available to the public.
The dataset consists of 3 separate items:
1. water level monitoring site Locations (tabular data)
2. surveyed wetland perimeters (GIS vector data)
3. water level and water temperature data for 58 select wetlands  (tabular data)

Tags: amphibians, florida, hydroperiod, saint-marks-national-wildlife-refuge, usgs-56cf65dee4b015c306ed1855, wakulla-county, wetland
Organization: Department of the Interior
Yukon River Basin - Active Layer Network: Raw soil moisture, soil temperature, and air temperature data

This dataset contains .csv files of unprocessed, raw, soil moisture, soil temperature, and air temperature data.  This data is collected annually from sensors as part of the Active Layer Network.  Sensors are set to collect data at 30 minute intervals from 1 soil moisture and 1 soil temperature sensor placed ten centimeters below the soil surface, 1 soil moisture and 1 soil temperature sensor placed at the maximum depth of the active layer, and an air temperature sensor.

Tags: permafrost, soil-mositure, soil-temperature, usgs-58f79ecae4b0b7ea5451f3d3
Organization: Department of the Interior