AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Saginaw Bay Restoration Assessment Composite Model

This dataset contains all the layers associated with U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Restoration Assessment (GLCWRA) initiative for the Saginaw Bay Restoration Assessment (SBRA) which aims to identify and rank coastal areas with the greatest potential for wetland habitat restoration. Each layer has a unique contribution to the identification of restorable wetlands. The 7 parameters (Parameter 0: Mask, Parameter 1: Hydroperiod, Parameter 2: Wetland Soils, Parameter 3: Flowlines, Parameter 4: Conservation and Recreation Lands, Parameter 5: Impervious Surfaces, and Parameter 6: Land Use) and Index Composite directly correlate to areas that are recommended for restoration. The dikes, degree flowlines, culverts, study area and DEM datasets are supplemental layers that provide additional information around the priority rank values. All layers were produced in collaboration with the USGS Upper Midwest Water Science Center, USGS Great Lakes Science Center, and by the New College of Florida.
For more information on these parameters, see the full data release documentation and the GLCWRA webpage: https://glcwra.wim.usgs.gov/.

Tags: environment, geoscientificinformation, great-lakes, holocene, hydrology, inlandwaters, lake, lake-huron, lake-michigan, lakeshore, michigan, natural-resource-management, remediation, resource-management, river, saginaw, stream, usgs-6536938ed34ee4b6e05bb5f9, water-quality, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data for effects of watershed and in-stream liming on macroinvertebrate communities in acidified tributaries to an Adirondack lake

In 2012, a program was initiated using in-stream and aerial (whole-watershed) liming to improve water quality and Brook Trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) recruitment in three acidified tributaries of a high-elevation Adirondack lake in New York State. Concurrently, macroinvertebrates were sampled annually between 2013 and 2016 at 3 treated and 3 untreated reference sites to assess the effects of each liming technique on this community. Macroinvertebrate communities were monitored at 6 study sites: T16, T8A (50 m upstream of lime application point), T8 (50 m downstream of lime application point), T6 (1230 m downstream of the lime application point), and at two unlimed reference streams, T24 and T20. T24 is of similar orientation, drainage area, discharge, and water chemistry as T16 and was selected as a reference site to assess the impacts of the watershed liming. T20 is a relatively well-buffered tributary that was monitored as a reference site for the in-stream liming effort. This dataset includes macroinvertebrate community data from 4-years (2013-2016) of macroinvertebrate sampling using artificial substrate basket samplers at six sites on tributaries to Honnedaga Lake, NY. Baskets were deployed in pairs at five stations (replicates) distributed longitudinally within each site (10 total baskets per site) and were placed on the bottom in pools where they were unlikely to become desiccated during water level fluctuations. Baskets were deployed between May 12 and May 16 and retrieved between July 10 and July 17 during each year, resulting in a colonization period of approximately two months. At the end of the colonization period, macroinvertebrates were extracted from each basket through a shaking and rinsing process. The contents from each pair of baskets were preserved together in 95-percent ethanol, resulting in 5 replicate samples collected from each site. A 200-organism subsample, or an exhaustive pick when less than 200 organisms were present, was sorted from each replicate using a gridded tray and identified to the lowest possible taxonomic resolution (usually genus or species). These identifications were then used to generate metrics of macroinvertebrate community condition for subsequent analyses. Data are provided in CSV and XLSX (MS Office 2013) format, a sample site location map is also provided (latitude/longitude datum and projection: NAD 1983 UTM Zone 18N).

Tags: acid-deposition, adirondack-mountains, benthic-ecosystems, herkimer-county, honnedaga-lake, liming, macroinvertebrates, new-york, remediation, streams, usgs-59b940a5e4b091459a54d8cf, water-chemistry
Organization: Department of the Interior
Stomach contents and consumption percentage from age-0 Scaphirhynchus sturgeon in the Missouri River, 2016

Diets were quantified in 282 age-0 sturgeon (15-120 mm) from four reaches of the Missouri River, none of which were pure pallid sturgeon. Prey items in the stomach were identified in the laboratory under microscope to taxonomic order and life stage (larvae, pupae, where appropriate), and counted. Consumption percentage (prey weight in the gut as a percentage of body weight) was measured to assess fullness.

Tags: biota, missouri-river, usgs-64076ea8d34e76f5f75e387e
Organization: Department of the Interior
Assateague Island sediment core radiochemistry data from March-April 2014, USGS Field Activity Number 2014-301-FA

The influence of tropical and extratropical cyclones on coastal wetlands and marshes is highly variable in both space and time and depends on a number of climatic, geologic, and physical variables.  The impacts storms can be either positive or negative with respect to the wetland and marsh ecosystems. Small to moderate amounts of inorganic sediment added during storms or other events helps to abate pressure from sea-level rise.  However, if the volume of sediment is large and the resulting deposits thick, the organic substrate may compact causing submergence and a loss in elevation.  Similarly, thick deposits of coarse inorganic sediment may also alter the hydrology of the site and impede vegetative processes.  Alternative impacts associated with storms include shoreline erosion at the marsh edge as well as potential emergence.  Predicting the outcome of these various responses and potential long-term implications can be obtained from a systematic assessment of both historical and recent event deposits.  The objectives of this study are to 1) characterize the surficial sediment of the relict to recent washover fans and back-barrier marshes, and 2) characterize the sediment of 6 marsh cores from the back-barrier marshes and a single marsh island core near the mainland.  These geologic data will be integrated with other remote sensing data collected along Assateague Island, Maryland / Virginia and assimilated into an assessment of coastal wetland response to storms.

Tags: alpha-spectroscopy, april-2014, assateague-island, core, march-2014, maryland, radiochemistry, sediment, subsurface, u-s-geological-survey, u-s-geological-survey-st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, usgs, usgs-6617e0e5-0ca6-467c-bdb8-47ad766b5836, virginia, wetland
Organization: Department of the Interior
Upper Klamath Lake and Clear Lake sampling for suckers from 2015 through 2022

Data in this data set include effort expended to collect suckers for cohort tracking and metrics and observations for each sucker captured from 2015 through 2022. There are two levels of data. All Nets data contains 5102 records and the data file is 609 KB. Captures data contains 3764 records and the data file is 504 KB. The data files can be linked by setID which is a unique identifier for a unique net set. Data files are CSV files that are comma delimited.

Tags: aquatic-biology, biota, clear-lake-national-wildlife-refuge, ecology, endangered-species, upper-klamath-lake, usgs-65650a4ad34e3aa43a43cf8c
Organization: Department of the Interior
Sprague River Oregon Centerline 1975

The Sprague River drains 4090 square kilometers in south-central Oregon before flowing into the Williamson 
River and upper Klamath Lake. In cooperation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the USGS and University 
of Oregon conducted a study to evaluate channel and floodplain processes for the 131 km of the Sprague River 
and its major tributaries, including the lower 20 km of the South Fork Sprague River, the lower 16 km of the North 
Fork Sprague River, and the lower 62 km of the Sycan River. The study involved multiple analyses, including 
assessments of historical channel change, riparian and floodplain vegetation, and surficial geology. To support 
these analyses, digital floodplain and channel maps were prepared from historic notes, maps, and aerial photos 
to depict channel and floodplain conditions at different times between 1866 and 2005. The geospatial database 
of current and historic channel and floodplain conditions will also enable evaluation of long-term trends pertaining 
to aquatic and riparian habitat conditions.

Tags: channel-analysis, floodplain-analysis, geomorphology, inlandwaters, klamath-basin, sprague-river-oregon, usgs-54e18c21-5e0c-4b21-a42b-78cd8dd52995
Organization: Department of the Interior
DS-777 Spatial Location of the Active and Inactive areas of the Model Boundary for the Northern High Plains Groundwater-Flow Model in Parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming

This data set defines the boundary of the northern High Plains aquifer. It is one of 
many developed in support of The High Plains Groundwater Availability Project 
and the U.S. Geological Survey Data Series Report: Geodatabase Compilation 
of Hydrogeologic, Remote Sensing, and Water-Budget-Component data for the 
High Plains aquifer, 2011 (DS 777).
		
The creation of the model grid is an important first step in developing a 
groundwater-flow model, because all model inputs including hydraulic 
properties, wells, and boundary conditions are assigned to the model 
cells. The northern High Plains groundwater-flow model boundary feature 
dataset contains three feature classes; the model grid cells for the northern
 High Plains groundwater-flow model in both polygon (cell) and point (centroid) 
format and the external boundary of the model. The model grid contains 449,175 
cells, 565 rows and 795 columns. Each cell is 1,000 feet per side. The model 
grid is not rotated. The external boundary includes the active and inactive areas 
of the model.

Tags: aquifers, colorado, environment, geoscientificinformation, ground-water, groundwater, high-plains-aquifer, inlandwaters, kansas, nebraska, northern-high-plains, ogallala-aquifer, south-dakota, usgs-2fd666c3-b217-4b0a-b62a-45f63ed65b0d, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Microsatellite loci for Mogollon Narrowheaded Gartersnake (Thamnophis rufipunctatus) and the Northern Mexican Gartersnake (Thamnophis eques megalops) in Arizona and New Mexico (2020-2021)

The Mogollon Narrowheaded gartersnake (Thamnophis rufipunctatus) and the Northern Mexican gartersnake (Thamnophis eques megalops) are both listed as Threatened under the Federal Endangered Species Act. Both species have a strong association with aquatic habitats, and these habitats have been highly altered from impoundments, land-use changes, and the introduction and spread of non-native aquatic species, which have contributed to declines in Arizona and New Mexico over the last 30-40 years. We characterized 125 microsatellite loci per species to generate genetic toolsets for use in long term genetic monitoring of populations. We evaluated microsatellite loci for missing data and several variability thresholds, which resulted in 108 microsatellite loci for T. rufipunctatus and 91 microsatellite loci for T. eques megalops.

Tags: arizona, biota, dna-sequencing, genetic-diversity, laboratory-methods, new-mexico, reptiles, usgs-623a374ed34e915b67cdf717
Organization: Department of the Interior
Long-term shoreline change rate transects for the South Carolina coastal region, calculated with and without the proxy-datum bias using the Digital Shoreline Analysis System version 5.1

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has compiled national shoreline data for more than 20 years to document coastal change and serve the needs of research, management, and the public. Maintaining a record of historical shoreline positions is an effective method to monitor national shoreline evolution over time, enabling scientists to identify areas most susceptible to erosion or accretion. These data can help coastal managers and planners understand which areas of the coast are vulnerable to change. 
This data release includes two new mean high water (MHW) shorelines extracted from lidar data collected in 2010 and 2017-2018. Previously published historical shorelines for South Carolina (Kratzmann and others, 2017) were combined with the new lidar shorelines to calculate long-term (up to 166 years) and short-term (up to 18 years) rates of change. Files associated with the long-term and short-term rates are appended with "LT" and "ST", respectively. A proxy-datum bias reference line that accounts for the positional difference in a proxy shoreline (e.g. High Water Line (HWL) shoreline) and a datum shoreline (e.g. MHW shoreline) is also included in this release.

Tags: accretion, atlantic-coast, baseline, coastal-processes, digital-shoreline-analysis-system, dsas, environment, erosion, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, long-term-change-rates, north-america, oceans, shoreline, shoreline-accretion, shoreline-change, south-carolina, southeast-atlantic, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-6480bf65d34eac007b57a91b, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
FINAL – Food and Water Requirements Model Results

This is the FINAL shapefile of results from practical application of a simplified, deterministic model of initial resource requirements in disaster response, connected with the publication, "A Conceptual Framework for Estimation of Initial Emergency Food and Water Resource Requirements in Disasters" (Toland, J., Wein, A., Wu, A. and Spearing, L, 2023).
The model offers a quantitative, comprehensive description of an application within the geophysical hazard context of the “ShakeOut” scenario—a major Mw7.8 earthquake on California’s San Andreas Fault, occurring within the Los Angeles Basin, CA (USA) region. 
Using the framework as a guide, we illustrate model results that estimate that 999,027 households (2,947,130 residents) will require initial emergency food and water resource requirements (about 3 days after the event). Estimates include 6 million meals and 9 million liters of water, concentrated in Lancaster-Palmdale, El Monte-Baldwin Park, East Los Angeles-Downey in Los Angeles County, the Coachella Valley (Riverside County) and in populated areas of San Bernardino County.

Tags: economy, environment, health, shakeout-water-services-resource-demand-critical-infrastructure-services-community-vulnerabilit, society, transportation, usgs-63f6ba30d34e4f7eda4541e0
Organization: Department of the Interior
Magnetotelluric data from Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Illinois, and Kentucky, 2016-2019, station rfr209

This dataset consists of 127 wideband and 21 long-period magnetotelluric (MT) stations collected from 2016-2019 across parts of Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Illinois, and Kentucky. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) acquired these data as part of regional investigations into the geologic and tectonic framework of the area and to support mineral resource and geologic hazard investigations. These data have been used to generate a 3D regional conductivity model of the area. Files included in this publication include measured electric- and magnetic-field time series as well as estimated impedance and vertical-magnetic field transfer functions. The data included here are for MT station rfr209 in the Reelfoot Rift survey region. A shapefile with station information for all stations in this dataset is available at https://doi.org/10.5066/P9F7HFH7.

Tags: apparent-resistivity, arkansas, conductivity, electromagnetic-surveying, exploration, geologic-structure, geology-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, gggsc, illinois, impedance, kentucky, magnetic-field-earth, magnetotelluric-surveying, magnetotellurics, mineral-resources, mineral-resources-program, mississippi-embayment, missouri, mrp, mt, ozark-plateau, phanerozoic, phase, precambrian, quaternary, reelfoot-rift, saint-francois-mountains, tectonics, tennessee, time-series, tipper, usgs-5f8b1a5382ce3241879051d5
Organization: Department of the Interior
Uptake of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances by Fish, Mussel, and Passive Samplers in Mobile Laboratory Exposures using Groundwater from a Contamination Plume at a Historical Fire Training Area, Cape Cod, Massachusetts - Chemical and Biological Data from August to September 2018

This data release presents chemical and biological results from an investigation of the uptake of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from groundwater contaminated by fire training activities on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Exposure experiments were conducted from August 29 to September 21, 2018 using groundwater from a relatively uncontaminated reference site and a fire training area contaminated site. To assess the uptake characteristics of the PFAS mixtures present in the 2 groundwater sources, 21-day mobile laboratory exposure experiments were conducted using fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas), polar organic chemical integrative samplers, and polyethylene tube samplers. Freshwater mussel (Ligumia subrostrata) exposure experiments were conducted for 14 days, beginning on day 7 of the fish and passive sampler exposures. Groundwater samples were collected daily (with a few exceptions). Samples for male fish and passive samplers were collected on days 0, 4, 7, 14, and 21. Samples for female fish were collected on days 0, 7, 14, and 21. The 14 day mussel exposures began on day 7 of the fish and passive sampler exposures, and mussel samples were collected on days 7, 11, 14, and 21. Groundwater site locations and well characteristics are presented in Table 1. Information on the various PFAS and co-occurring contaminants measured in the different media are presented in Table 2. Quality assurance results for PFAS analysis of the different media are presented in Table 3. Results for PFAS in groundwater are presented in Table 4. Results for co-occurring contaminants in groundwater are presented in Table 5. Results for fish biomarkers are presented in Table 6. Results for PFAS in male and female fish tissue are presented in Table 7. Results for PFAS in mussel tissue are presented in Table 8. Results for PFAS in polar organic chemical integrative samplers are presented in Table 9. Results for PFAS in polyethylene tube samplers are presented in Table 10.

Tags: abiotic-concentration, biota, biotic-concentration, cape-cod, joint-base-cape-cod, massachusetts, mobile-laboratory-exposure-experiments, polar-organic-chemical-integrative-sampler, polyethylene-tube-sampler, united-states, usgs-5f4d821082ce4c3d12319214
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geophysical data for assessment of karst drainage features in Genesee County, New York

In September and November 2023, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, collected geophysical surveys of 5 karst drainage features (sinkholes) in eastern Genesee County, New York, in order to study the nature of the subsurface fill material, bedrock topography, and karst dissolution features. Sites were surveyed using multiple geophysical techniques, including frequency-domain electromagnetics, ground-penetrating radar, electrical-resistivity tomography, passive seismic, and seismic refraction tomography.

Tags: electrical-resistivity-imaging, electromagnetic-surveying, genesee-county, ground-penetrating-radar, karst, new-york, seismology, united-states, usgs-663e29fbd34eaf9729f7ad3a
Organization: Department of the Interior
Potential Wetland Extent Along Wildcat Creek Between USGS Gaging Stations 03333450 and 03334000

The Wetland Reserve Program (WRP) is a voluntary program administered by the NRCS. It provides technical and financial assistance to private landowners and Tribes to restore, protect, and enhance wetlands in exchange for retiring eligible land from agriculture. For a site to be a wetland eligible for restoration, it must be in a zone with sustained or frequent flooding for a period of 7 consecutive days on average at least once every 2 years (a value termed the 7MQ2). This study calculated the 7MQ2 flows for all the U.S. Geological Survey streamgages within the selected study reaches. These flows were related to the stage discharge tables for each streamgage and a corresponding elevation was determined. By use of the water-surface elevations (“inundation elevations”) along the rivers, an approximate extent of potential wetland for a restoration in agricultural land can be mapped. As part of the study, a set of maps representing the estimated potential wetland extents for each study reach was generated in a geographic information system (GIS) application by combining (1) a digital water-surface plane representing the surface of inundation elevation that sloped in the downstream direction of flow and (2) land-surface elevation data. The map products from this study will aid the NRCS and its partners with the onsite inundation-zone verification in agricultural land for a potential restoration.

Tags: 7mq2, carroll-county, environment, extent, floods, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-analysis, geospatial-datasets, howard-county, hydrology, inlandwaters, inundation, jerome, kokomo, lafayette, maps-and-atlases, owasco, state-of-indiana, streamflow, surface-water-level, tippecanoe-county, usgs-5bae5eb1e4b08583a5d30eed, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-functions, wetland-reserve-program, wildcat-creek
Organization: Department of the Interior
Long-term precipitation reduction experiment in the Colorado Plateau - Survival and mortality data from 2010 to 2018

From 2011-2018 USGS biologists recorded vegetation and biological soil crust (BSC) cover by species and tracked survival of tagged individual plants (388 in total) across 40 locations where paired experimental plots had been installed in 2010. Plant cover was visually estimated using four 75 x 100 cm survey frames.  Each site contained a two plots measuring 1.5 by 2.0 meteres: a control plot and a  plot covered by a shelter that excluded 35% of incoming precipitation. Plots were selected to represent shallow vs. deep soils, sandstone vs. shale parent material, and dominant plant species on the Colorado Plateau around Moab, Utah. We used an information theoretic approach using generalized linear models to determine the combination of factors that best predicted mortality. We included treatment, year, and species as fixed effects in our first order models to test for treatment effects on mortality while accounting for the influence of interannual-climate variability and species-level differences. Models also included individual plant ID nested within site as random effects to account for pseudo-replication across sites and tagged individuals. We continued with a second set of models by adding abiotic variables including elevation (m), soil depth (shallow or deep), and parent material as additional explanatory variables to the best-fit model.

Tags: biogeography, biological-soil-crust, biota, bromus, canyonlands, cheatgrass, climate-change, colorado-plateau, control-plot, deep-soils, experimental-plot-data, geology, graminoids, grand-county, grass, grassland-ecosystem, indian-creek, moab, parent-material, perennial, plant-populations, plant-species, plot-sampling, salsola, san-juan-county, sandstone, shale, shallow-soils, shelter-plots, shrubland-ecosystem, shrubs, soil-sciences, species-cover, usgs-5be0b552e4b0b3fc5cf341bd, utah, vegetation
Organization: Department of the Interior