AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Selected Basin Boundaries for USGS Streamgages in Alaska through 2014

This dataset contains 474 drainage basin boundaries for U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) streamgages in Alaska, including supplemental drainage basin boundaries for alternate conditions for 3 of the 471 streamgages. The basin boundaries were delineated from the streamgage location to the nearest USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset (WBD) HUC boundary and along HUC boundaries from that intersection to the basin headwaters. The dataset also includes the streamgage locations used for delineation, which consist of points snapped from the streamgage coordinates in the USGS National Water Information System to the USGS National Hydrography Dataset flowline representing the respective streams. Streamgages selected for drainage basin delineation included: (1) streamgages having at least 10 years of peak-streamflow data through water year 2012, used for a statewide flood frequency study (Curran and others, 2016), and (2) streamgages in Cook Inlet Basin, regardless of record length, used for development of Cook Inlet Basin Streamstats in 2016 (https://streamstats.usgs.gov/ss/). For three streamgages, a supplemental drainage basin boundary was delineated for the drainage area associated with regulated (diverted) streamflow conditions contemporaneous with a period of streamflow record other than the present. Selected basins were previously published in the WBD as "NWISDrainageArea" features.

Tags: discharge-flow, hydrographic-datasets, hydrology, inlandwaters, rivers-streams, terrestrial-hydrosphere, usgs-66440867d34e1955f5a427fa
Organization: Department of the Interior
Basin Characterization Model (BCMv8) for the Salton Sea Watershed - Monthly Historical (water years 1896-2023) Climate and Hydrology

This data release contains monthly 270-meter gridded Basin Characterization Model (BCMv8) climate inputs and hydrologic outputs for the Salton Sea Watershed, which crosses the international border into Mexico in the southern part of the basin. Downscaled gridded climate inputs (Daly et al., 2008) for the California portion of the BCM (Flint et al, 2021) include: precipitation (ppt), minimum temperature (tmn), maximum temperature (tmx), and potential evapotranspiration (pet). Historical climate data covering the Mexico portion of the watershed was unavailable. Climate data for the California portion of the watershed was regridded using regression techniques described in Flint &amp; Flint (2012) to extend climate inputs into Mexico. Other model inputs include elevation, soil, land use, geology, and soil thickness data. These data were collected and processed for the Mexico portion of the watershed and merged with the BCM model inputs for the California portion of the watershed. 
Gridded hydrologic variables include: actual evapotranspiration (aet), climatic water deficit (cwd), snowpack (pck), recharge (rch), runoff (run), and soil storage (str). The units for temperature variables are degrees Celsius, and all other variables are in millimeters. Monthly historical variables from water years 1896 to 2023 are summarized into water year files and long-term average summaries for water years 1981-2010 and 1991-2020. Raster grids are in the the North American Datum 1983 (NAD83) California Teale Albers (meters) projection in an open format ascii text file (*.asc). 
References cited:
Daly, C., Halbleib, M., Smith, J.I., Gibson, W.P., Doggett, M.K., Taylor, G.H., Curtis, J. and Pasteris, P.P., 2008. Physiographically sensitive mapping of climatological temperature and precipitation across the conterminous United States. International Journal of Climatology: a Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 28(15), pp.2031-2064.https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.1688 
Flint, L.E., Flint, A.L., and Stern, M.A., 2021, The Basin Characterization Model - A monthly regional water balance software package (BCMv8) data release and model archive for hydrologic California (ver. 4.0, May 2024): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9PT36UI.

Tags: atmospheric-and-climatic-processes, california, climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, environment, evaporation, geoscientificinformation, hydrology, inlandwaters, mathematical-modeling, mexico, permeability, precipitation-atmospheric, snow-and-ice-cover, soil-moisture, streamflow, surface-water-non-marine, transpiration, united-states, usgs-6643ea9bd34e1955f5a42789, water-budget, water-cycle, water-resources, watershed-management
Organization: Department of the Interior
Paired Watershed and Characteristic Trait Data for the Los Planes Basin Research Ranch Watersheds: U.S. Geological Survey Data Release

Watershed pairing is an approach used to assess effects of restoration on a landscape by comparing conditions across a treatment watershed and a control watershed, and then quantifying the differences. When the watersheds are statistically paired, the control watershed can serve as a baseline of conditions compared to the treatment watershed. 
We apply a watershed pairing analysis across a series of five watersheds within a research ranch in Baja California Sur, Mexico. We use a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) to develop the watershed boundaries. We then collected a series of structural and biophysical  traits to characterize the watersheds. Finally, we applied a hierarchical clustering analysis to identify the paired watersheds. 
This data release consists of a shapefile of the five watersheds with attributes for each of the structural and biophysical traits, in addition to an attribute identifying the direct pairs.

Tags: baja-california, baja-california-sur, biophysical-traits, correlation, environment, geographic-information-systems, hierarchical, hierarchical-clustering, mexico, remediation, remote-sensing, structural-traits, usgs-6643d150d34e1955f5a426e0, watershed-management, watershed-pairing
Organization: Department of the Interior
Landslide Inventory for Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) 2003 - 2022

Landslides hazards pose a serious threat to people and infrastructure in Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). To develop a comprehensive understanding of the landslides hazards in FSM, the USGS-USAID Landslide Disaster Assistance Team (LDAT) has put together landslide inventories for each state using satellite imagery.
Mapping was done using RGB satellite imagery from Maxar, Planet Labs, and Google Earth. This inventory is for Chuuk state and covers all available imagery between July 2003 and September 2022. Landslides are dated by a window of occurrence based on the last images before and first image after the occurrence of the landslide. Each event was mapped using a point at the center of the headscarp (points_Chu), and, when possible, affected area polygons (area_Chu), runout lines (runout_Chu), and headscarp lines (headscarp_Chu). Due to the dense vegetation, frequent cloud cover, and poor spatial and temporal resolution of available imagery, it was difficult to map headscarps and runouts for every event. However, headscarp width and runout distance are mapped where possible. The attribute table for points_Chu, contains a visual-based classification of the land use and vegetation, as well as if the event affected streams, buildings, or utilities (for example, roads). Each event is also labeled with a level of confidence for occurrence and location.
Any use of trade, firm, or product names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.

Tags: bha, chuuk, federated-states-of-micronesia, geoscientificinformation, landslide-hazards-program, landslide-inventory, landslide-mapping, ldat, usaid, usgs, usgs-6643b00fd34e1955f5a423f7
Organization: Department of the Interior
Predicted connectivity pathways for grizzly bears between the Selkirk and Cabinet-Yaak Ecosystems: spatial data

Grizzly bear (Ursus arctos) connectivity pathways for the Selkirk to Cabinet-Yaak Ecosystems delineate predicted movement routes for grizzly bears between these federally designated recovery zones. These raster data build on the official data release for Sells et al. (2023b), "Predicted connectivity pathways between grizzly bear ecosystems in Western Montana." In summary, Sells et al. (2023b) built on recent work by Sells et al. (2022, 2023a) to simulate movements using integrated step selection functions (iSSFs) developed from GPS-collared grizzly bears (F = 46, M = 19) in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem (NCDE). We applied the iSSFs to the Selkirk and Cabinet-Yaak Ecosystems to simulate habitat use between ecosystems. Following Sells et al. (2023b), we simulated directed movements (randomized shortest paths with the level of exploration identified as most appropriate in Sells et al. 2023b, theta = 0.0001) between start and end nodes across populations. We summarized and binned results as classes 1 (lowest relative predicted use) - 10 (highest relative predicted use). Connectivity pathways were primarily associated with mountainous areas and secondarily with river and stream courses in open valleys. Our predictive maps can facilitate on-the-ground application of this research for prioritizing habitat conservation, human-bear conflict mitigation, and transportation planning.

Tags: bears, biota, cabinet-yaak-ecosystem, connectivity, dispersal-organisms, grizzly-bears, idaho, integrated-step-selection-functions, montana, movement-ecology, natural-resource-management, northern-continental-divide-ecosystem, selkirk-ecosystem, ursus-arctos, us-northern-rocky-mountains, usgs-6643affbd34e1955f5a423f4, washington
Organization: Department of the Interior
Predicted grizzly bear movement pathways in Central Montana: spatial data

Grizzly bears (Ursus arctos) have been increasingly observed in central Montana’s plains in recent years. To assist with conservation planning, we sought to predict habitat use and connectivity pathways for grizzly bears east of the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem (NCDE) and northeast of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE). We used the methods described in Sells et al. (2023b), "Predicted connectivity pathways between grizzly bear ecosystems in Western Montana," to simulate grizzly bear movements along the edges of the NCDE and GYE and into central Montana. Simulated grizzly bears used riparian areas in the plains most heavily, along with isolated mountain ranges. Based on known outlier locations and locations from GPS-collared bears, our resulting maps had high predictive capacity, with mean values at outlier or GPS locations of ≥7.1 and Spearman rank correlations of ≥0.84. The maps produced by these simulations are provided in this data release to contribute to conservation planning.

Tags: bears, biota, connectivity, greater-yellowstone-ecosystem, grizzly-bears, habitat-use, integrated-step-selection-functions, montana, movement-ecology, natural-resource-management, northern-continental-divide-ecosystem, united-states, ursus-arctos, us-northern-rocky-mountains, usgs-6643afcbd34e1955f5a423f1, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Compilation of surface water diversion sites and daily withdrawals in the Upper Colorado River and Little Colorado River Basins, 1980-2022

This data release contains an inventory of 1,358 major surface water diversion structures with associated daily time series withdrawal records (1980-2022) for structures within the Upper Colorado River and Little Colorado River Basins. Diversion structures were included in this dataset if they were determined to have the capacity to divert water at rates greater than 10 cubic feet per second. Since those river basins encompasses portions of five states, water use data are dispersed among numerous federal and state agency databases and there is no centralized dataset that documents surface water use within the entire UCOL at a fine spatial and temporal resolution. 
Diversion structures and locations were identified from a mix of state reports, maps, and satellite imagery. A Python script was developed to automate retrieval of daily time series withdrawal records from multiple state and federal databases. The script was also used to process, filter, and harmonize the diversion records to remove outlier values and estimate missing data. The original withdrawal data, the processed datasets, and the Python script are included in this data release.

Tags: arizona, colorado, colorado-river, environment, farming, hydrology, inlandwaters, little-colorado-river, new-mexico, surface-water-non-marine, usgs-6642ad62d34e1955f5a41e4f, utah, water-use, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Water level, inundation, longitudinal profile, geomorphic change, and landform data for the Bad River (Mashkiiziibii) Estuary, WI, between 2014 and 2023

Some of the richest coastal wetland and estuarine habitats are found along the Great Lakes, but the dynamic, sediment-rich contributions from episodic river flooding are poorly 
understood. In 2016, record flooding of the sediment-rich Bad River (Mashkiiziibii) caused total inundation of the Bad and Kakagon Sloughs feeding Lake Superior and 
Chequamegon Bay.  Water level and river flow data, longitudinal profiles, inundation maps, landform maps, and geomorphic change maps were used to determine river-related inundation and sedimentation patterns in the estuary. Details about the individual datasets and the methods used to produce them are contained within metadata files packaged with each dataset.

Tags: ashland-county, bad-river, chequamegon-bay, coastal-wetlands, elevation, environment, estuary, floods, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, kakagon-river, lake-superior, mashkiiziibii-river, sedimentation, usgs-664283bad34e1955f5a41d24, wisconsin
Organization: Department of the Interior
Trackline navigation collected in the vicinity of Woods Hole, Massachusetts, during USGS Field Activity 2021-037-FA using a dual-head Teledyne Seabat T20-R multibeam echo sounder (Esri polyline shapefile, UTM Zone 19N, WGS 84)

In November 2021, the U.S. Geological Survey collected high-resolution multibeam sonar data in the vicinity of Eel Pond, in Woods Hole, Massachusetts using a dual-head Teledyne Seabat T20-R multibeam echo sounder (MBES). The main objective of this survey was to evaluate new sonar system features prior to their use in future field activities. In addition to bathymetry and relative acoustic backscatter data, normalized acoustic backscatter data were also collected. Unlike relative backscatter data, normalized backscatter data compensate for adjustments made to sonar power, gain, absorption, spreading, and frequency parameters made during acquisition. In order for backscatter intensity levels to remain consistent along survey lines, and from line to line, relative backscatter data require that minimal adjustments are made to these parameters during acquisition, which can degrade the sonar performance for a given survey site. However, the ability to allow the sonar acquisition software to change sonar parameters based on variations in bathymetry and the survey environment during acquisition allows these parameters to be optimized. Having these parameters optimized for this survey allowed the USGS to evaluate this new normalized backscatter capability to ensure the collected backscatter intensity levels were referenced to a factory calibrated level.
Eel Pond in Woods Hole, MA was chosen as a test area for its proximity to the USGS Coastal and Marine Science Center. It provides a variety of substrates on which to evaluate the performance of the sonar, and bathymetric/backscatter data of this area may prove useful to other projects and institutions in the area.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, barnstable-county, bathymetry, cape-cod, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, department-of-the-interior, doi, eel-pond, falmouth, field-activity-number-2021-037-fa, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, great-harbor, imagerybasemapsearthcover, massachusetts, multibeam-bathymetry, multibeam-echo-sounder, multibeam-sonar, r-v-rafael, sea-floor, seabat, seafloor, shapefile, t20-r, teledyne, u-s-geological-survey, united-states-of-america, usgs, usgs-663e4f5dd34eaf9729f7af14, vineyard-sound, whcmsc, woods-hole, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Time-varying greater sage-grouse habitat selection and survival indices in the Bi-State region of California and Nevada

We used movement and demographic data to simultaneously evaluate habitat selection by sage-grouse across multiple seasons, and measures of survival during key reproductive life stages (nesting and brood-rearing) to identify priority habitat by linking resource selection to demographic performance. We calculated and mapped composite selection and survival indices across the Bi-State Distinct Population Segment (DPS) to differentiate productive habitat that supported high selection and survival compared to areas of maladaptive selection where selection and survival were misaligned.

Tags: animal-behavior, bi-state, biota, california, demographic-response, ecology, greater-sage-grouse, habitat-selection, life-stages, native-species, nevada, reproduction, shrubland-ecosystems, survival, usgs-6648175cd34e1955f5a4564b
Organization: Department of the Interior
Multibeam backscatter data collected in the vicinity of Woods Hole, Massachusetts, during USGS Field Activity 2021-037-FA using a dual-head Teledyne Seabat T20-R multibeam echo sounder (8-bit grayscale GeoTIFF, UTM Zone 19N, WGS 84, 50-cm resolution)

In November 2021, the U.S. Geological Survey collected high-resolution multibeam sonar data in the vicinity of Eel Pond, in Woods Hole, Massachusetts using a dual-head Teledyne Seabat T20-R multibeam echo sounder (MBES). The main objective of this survey was to evaluate new sonar system features prior to their use in future field activities. In addition to bathymetry and relative acoustic backscatter data, normalized acoustic backscatter data were also collected. Unlike relative backscatter data, normalized backscatter data compensate for adjustments made to sonar power, gain, absorption, spreading, and frequency parameters made during acquisition. In order for backscatter intensity levels to remain consistent along survey lines, and from line to line, relative backscatter data require that minimal adjustments are made to these parameters during acquisition, which can degrade the sonar performance for a given survey site. However, the ability to allow the sonar acquisition software to change sonar parameters based on variations in bathymetry and the survey environment during acquisition allows these parameters to be optimized. Having these parameters optimized for this survey allowed the USGS to evaluate this new normalized backscatter capability to ensure the collected backscatter intensity levels were referenced to a factory calibrated level.
Eel Pond in Woods Hole, MA was chosen as a test area for its proximity to the USGS Coastal and Marine Science Center. It provides a variety of substrates on which to evaluate the performance of the sonar, and bathymetric/backscatter data of this area may prove useful to other projects and institutions in the area.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, backscatter, barnstable-county, cape-cod, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, department-of-the-interior, doi, eel-pond, falmouth, field-activity-number-2021-037-fa, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, geotiff, great-harbor, imagerybasemapsearthcover, massachusetts, multibeam-backscatter, multibeam-echo-sounder, multibeam-sonar, r-v-rafael, sea-floor, sea-floor-acoustic-reflectivity, sea-floor-characteristics, seabat, seafloor, t20-r, teledyne, u-s-geological-survey, united-states-of-america, usgs, usgs-663e4260d34eaf9729f7ae77, vineyard-sound, whcmsc, woods-hole, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Multibeam bathymetric data collected in the vicinity of Woods Hole, Massachusetts, during USGS Field Activity 2021-037-FA using a dual-head Teledyne Seabat T20-R multibeam echo sounder (32-bit GeoTIFF, UTM Zone 19N, WGS 84, GEOID 18 (MSL) Vertical Datum, 50cm resolution)

In November 2021, the U.S. Geological Survey collected high-resolution multibeam sonar data in the vicinity of Eel Pond, in Woods Hole, Massachusetts using a dual-head Teledyne Seabat T20-R multibeam echo sounder (MBES). The main objective of this survey was to evaluate new sonar system features prior to their use in future field activities. In addition to bathymetry and relative acoustic backscatter data, normalized acoustic backscatter data were also collected. Unlike relative backscatter data, normalized backscatter data compensate for adjustments made to sonar power, gain, absorption, spreading, and frequency parameters made during acquisition. In order for backscatter intensity levels to remain consistent along survey lines, and from line to line, relative backscatter data require that minimal adjustments are made to these parameters during acquisition, which can degrade the sonar performance for a given survey site. However, the ability to allow the sonar acquisition software to change sonar parameters based on variations in bathymetry and the survey environment during acquisition allows these parameters to be optimized. Having these parameters optimized for this survey allowed the USGS to evaluate this new normalized backscatter capability to ensure the collected backscatter intensity levels were referenced to a factory calibrated level.
Eel Pond in Woods Hole, MA was chosen as a test area for its proximity to the USGS Coastal and Marine Science Center. It provides a variety of substrates on which to evaluate the performance of the sonar, and bathymetric/backscatter data of this area may prove useful to other projects and institutions in the area.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, barnstable-county, bathymetry, cape-cod, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, department-of-the-interior, doi, eel-pond, elevation, falmouth, field-activity-number-2021-037-fa, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, geotiff, great-harbor, imagerybasemapsearthcover, massachusetts, multibeam-bathymetry, multibeam-echo-sounder, multibeam-sonar, r-v-rafael, sea-floor, sea-floor-characteristics, seabat, seafloor, t20-r, teledyne, u-s-geological-survey, united-states-of-america, usgs, usgs-663e403fd34eaf9729f7ae0b, vineyard-sound, whcmsc, woods-hole, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior