AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Flood Inundation Geospatial data for the August and September 2017 flood event in Texas

Hurricane Harvey made landfall near Rockport, Texas on August 25 as a category 4 hurricane with wind gusts exceeding 150 miles per hour. As Harvey moved inland the forward motion of the storm slowed down and produced tremendous rainfall amounts to southeastern Texas and southwestern Louisiana. Historic flooding occurred in Texas and Louisiana as a result of the widespread, heavy rainfall over an 8-day period in Louisiana in August and September 2017.  Following the storm event, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) hydrographers recovered and documented 2,123 high-water marks in Texas, noting location and height of the water above land surface. Many of these high-water marks were used to create flood-inundation maps for selected communities of Texas that experienced flooding in August and September, 2017.  
Nineteen flood-inundation maps in 11 river and coastal basins were created by using GIS for areas near rivers that flooded as a result of Harvey in southeastern Texas and southwestern Louisiana. The study area consists of the Brazos, Neches, Pine Island Bayou, Sabine, San Bernard, and San Jacinto River Basins along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, also including six smaller coastal basins that drain directly to the Gulf of Mexico, and coastal areas from Port Aransas to Matagorda Bay. The HWM elevation data from the USGS Short-tern Network (STN) was used to create the flood water-surface raster file (U.S. Geological Survey [USGS], 2018, Short-Term Network Data Portal: USGS flood information web page, accessed February 13, 2018, at https://water.usgs.gov/floods/FEV.). The water-surface raster was the basis for the creation of the final flood inundation polygon and depth layer to support the development of flood inundation map for the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) response and recovery operations.

Tags: big-cow-creek, brazos-river, cow-bayou, depth, east-matagorda-bay, extent, flood, flood-inundation-mapping, gulf-of-mexico, high-water-marks, inland-waters, neches-river, pine-island-bayou, sabine-river, san-bernard-river, san-jacinto-river, texas, tres-palacios, usgs-5a85f30fe4b00f54eb36d3a9
Organization: Department of the Interior
USGS Denver Mesozoic Catalog for 14595 fossil localities from the Rocky Mountain Region (1933-2017)

Collection consist of Western Interior Upper Cretaceous ammonites and Inoceramids featuring stratigraphic and spatial data. Data is primarily type fossils from the USGS Denver Mesozoic Invertebrate Catalog created and maintained by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Data was collected by paleontologist William A. Cobban during his sixty years of service within the USGS Paleontology And Stratigraphy Branch and Geologic Mapping Team. His catalogs were converted into digital form, Excel and Filemaker Pro database. The Catalog is 14595 fossil localities. His supplementary data has been added whenever possible - sources field map locality points, E&amp;R files with enhanced faunal lists, as well as formal publications

Tags: biota, campanian, cenomanian, coniacian, cretaceous, fossils, maastrichtian, mesozoic, santonian, turonian, united-states, usgs-5a85f259e4b00f54eb36d398, western-interior
Organization: Department of the Interior
Reexamining silver (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) and bighead (H. nobilis) carp hearing: Data

Silver and bighead carp frequency detection was evaluated in response to 100 Hz to 9 kHz using auditory evoked potentials (AEPs). AEPs, consisting of measured minimum Sound Pressure Levels (SPL; dB re 1 ms-2) and Particle Acceleration Thresholds (PAT; dB re 1 ms-2). SPL and PAT were recorded every 100 Hz from 100 Hz to 1000 Hz plus 1500, 2000, 3000, 4000, and 5000 Hz for five individual Silver Carp and five individual Bighead Carp. Minimum detectable PAT and SPLs were measured at 100, 200, 400, 600, 800, 1000, 2000, 4000, and 5000 Hz for three individual Common Carp.

Tags: asian-carp, auditory-evoked-potentials, deterrents, duluth-minnesota, sound, university-of-minnesota-duluth, usgs-5a85db88e4b00f54eb366789
Organization: Department of the Interior
Rotifera in Lake Pepin in the Upper Mississippi River from  2012 to 2015: Data

Limited information is known regarding the rotifer community on the Upper Mississippi River (UMR). Studies have shown that rotifers are a common prey for invasive bighead carp (Hypophthalmichthys nobilis) and silver carp (H. molitrix) as well as native fishes of the UMR and there is concern these invasive carp will compete with native fishes for food resources. This study was conducted to provide baseline rotifer community data before range expansion of these invasive carps into the upper reaches of the UMR. Vertical tows were taken to collect rotifer samples over a four year period in Lake Pepin, a natural riverine lake in Pool 4 of the UMR. Four dominant genera (Keratella, Polyarthra, Trichocerca and Brachionus) comprised the samples and significant correlations between rotifer abundance and temperature, volatile suspended solids and chlorophyll-a were observed. Our results identify potential drivers of rotifer abundance and provide robust rotifer abundance and composition data. These pre-invasion data are critical to recognizing the effects invasive carp have on zooplankton communities and the UMR ecosystem.

Tags: biota, invasive-carp, lake-pepin, rotifers, upper-mississippi-river, usgs-5a842ee2e4b00f54eb33f867, zooplankton
Organization: Department of the Interior
Electrical Resistivity Tomography Data at Fort Irwin National Training Center, San Bernardino County, California, 2015 and 2017

The U.S. Army Fort Irwin National Training Center (NTC), approximately 35 mi north-northeast of Barstow, California, covers approximately 1,177 square miles, and is comprised of ten groundwater basins, three of which have been subdivided into subbasins on the basis of additional hydrologic testing. Since the early 1990s, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has been studying water resources issues at Fort Irwin. One issue of concern is the potential effect of groundwater development resulting from planned training expansion and infrastructure at the NTC on natural springs and seeps, an important water source for wildlife. In 2010, the USGS entered into cooperative agreements with the U.S. Army to complete studies of groundwater resources focusing primarily on undeveloped basins within the NTC. Electrical resistivity data were collected in 2015 and 2017 at three groups of springs in undeveloped basins in order to quantify the spatial extent of groundwater associated with each spring and to detect hydrologic change over this two year time period. In 2017, electrical resistivity data were also collected at the airstrip on Bicycle Lake (a dry lakebed) to provide insight on ground failures and data regarding the depth of the known surface cracks and macropolygon features.

Tags: bicycle-lake, california, california-water-science-center, cawsc, desert-ecosystems, electrical-resistivity-tomography, environment, fort-irwin, geology-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, gggsc, groundwater, hydrologic-processes, lakebed-characteristics, mojave, mojave-desert, resistivity, san-bernardino-county, usgs-5a83873de4b00f54eb3299b2, water-resources
Organization: Department of the Interior
Supplemental Data for Conceptual Framework and Trend Analysis of Water-Level Responses to Hydrologic Stresses, Pahute Mesa Oasis Valley Groundwater Basin, Nevada, 1966-2016.

This data release consists of four directories: GroundwaterWithdrawals, Precipitation, WaterLevelDatabase, and WLMs. The GroundwaterWithdrawals directory contains a Microsoft Excel workbook with groundwater withdrawal data from 1996-2015 for water-supply wells in Beatty and Bullfrog Hills, Nye County, Nevada. The Precipitation directory contains four Microsoft Excel workbooks with data from precipitation stations and analyses used to construct long-term precipitation index records. The WaterLevelDatabase directory contains a Microsoft Excel workbook with hydrographs and well information for the 79 wells analyzed in the larger work. The WLMs directory contains 11 water-level models that were used to determine hydrologic stresses affecting water-level trends in wells.

Tags: beatty, biota, environment, groundwater-level, mid-valley, nevada, nevada-national-security-site, nevada-test-site-area-12, nevada-test-site-area-18, nevada-test-site-area-19, nevada-test-site-area-20, nye-county, oasis-valley, pahute-mesa, precipitation-atmospheric, rainier-mesa, usgs-5a8371efe4b00f54eb32998c, yucca-mountain
Organization: Department of the Interior
SAR 2017 Native Fish Population and Habitat Study, Santa Ana River, California

This dataset includes: 1) microhabitat use data for fish 100 mm or larger; 2) reach fish data; and 3) reach habitat data for the Santa Ana Sucker (Catostomus santaanae) and the Arroyo Chub (Gila orcutti) in the Santa Ana River, California. Habitat availability data was not collected in 2017.

Tags: arroyo-chub-gila-orcutti, habitat-use, population-estimate, santa-ana-sucker-catostomus-santaanae, usgs-5a837189e4b00f54eb329984
Organization: Department of the Interior
Flood Region C

To  improve flood-frequency estimates at rural streams in Mississippi, annual exceedance probability (AEP) flows at gaged streams in Mississippi and regional-regression equations, used to estimate annual exceedance probability flows for ungaged streams in Mississippi, were developed by using current geospatial data, additional statistical methods, and annual peak-flow data through the 2013 water year. The regional-regression equations were derived from statistical analyses of peak-flow data, basin characteristics associated with 281 streamgages, the generalized skew from Bulletin 17B (Interagency Advisory Committee on Water Data, 1982), and a newly developed study-specific skew for select four-digit hydrologic unit code (HUC4) watersheds in Mississippi. Four flood regions were identified based on residuals from the regional-regression analyses. No analysis was conducted for streams in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain flood region because of a lack of long-term streamflow data and poorly defined basin characteristics.  Flood regions containing sites with similar basin and climatic characteristics yielded better regional-regression equations with lower error percentages. The generalized least squares method was used to develop the final regression models for each flood region for annual exceedance probability flows. The peak-flow statistics were estimated by fitting a log-Pearson type III distribution to records of annual peak flows and then applying two additional statistical methods: (1) the expected moments algorithm to help describe uncertainty in annual peak flows and to better represent missing and historical record; and (2) the generalized multiple Grubbs-Beck test to screen out potentially influential low outliers and to better fit the upper end of the peak-flow distribution. Standard errors of prediction of the generalized least-squares models ranged from 28 to 46 percent. Pseudo coefficients of determination of the models ranged from 91 to 96 percent.  Flood Region C, located in the southwest corner of Mississippi, contained 120 streamgages with drainage areas that ranged from 0.05 to 1,010 square miles.  The 1% annual exceedance probability had a standard error of prediction of 41 percent.

Tags: environment, usgs-5a834168e4b00f54eb329837
Organization: Department of the Interior
Western US Ruggedness Reclassified into 6 Classes

"Vector Ruggedness Measure (VRM) measures terrain ruggedness as the variation in three-dimensional orientation of grid cells within a neighborhood. Vector analysis is used to calculate the dispersion of vectors normal (orthogonal) to grid cells within the specified neighborhood. This method effectively captures variability in slope and aspect into a single measure. Ruggedness values in the output raster can range from 0 (no terrain variation) to 1 (complete terrain variation). Typical values for natural terrains range between 0 and about 0.4. 
VRM was adapted from a method first proposed by Hobson (1972). VRM appears to decouple terrain ruggedness from slope better than current ruggedness indices, such as TRI or LSRI. See Sappington et al. 2007, for further details" (Sappington 2012).
After calculating raw VRM values we, binned the values into 6 classes using Jenks Natural Breaks for use in the Land Treatment Exploration Tool Similarity Index. Classes range from very low to very high.

Tags: environment, roughness, ruggedness, terrain, united-states, usgs-5a8482b7e4b00f54eb34d6a3, western-north-america, western-united-states
Organization: Department of the Interior
Region B

To improve flood-frequency estimates at rural streams in Mississippi, annual exceedance probability (AEP) flows at gaged streams in Mississippi and regional-regression equations, used to estimate annual exceedance probability flows for ungaged streams in Mississippi, were developed by using current geospatial data, additional statistical methods, and annual peak-flow data through the 2013 water year. The regional-regression equations were derived from statistical analyses of peak-flow data, basin characteristics associated with 281 streamgages, the generalized skew from Bulletin 17B (Interagency Advisory Committee on Water Data, 1982), and a newly developed study-specific skew for select four-digit hydrologic unit code (HUC4) watersheds in Mississippi. Four flood regions were identified based on residuals from the regional-regression analyses. No analysis was conducted for streams in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain flood region because of a lack of long-term streamflow data and poorly defined basin characteristics.  Flood regions containing sites with similar basin and climatic characteristics yielded better regional-regression equations with lower error percentages. The generalized least squares method was used to develop the final regression models for each flood region for annual exceedance probability flows. The peak-flow statistics were estimated by fitting a log-Pearson type III distribution to records of annual peak flows and then applying two additional statistical methods: (1) the expected moments algorithm to help describe uncertainty in annual peak flows and to better represent missing and historical record; and (2) the generalized multiple Grubbs-Beck test to screen out potentially influential low outliers and to better fit the upper end of the peak-flow distribution. Standard errors of prediction of the generalized least-squares models ranged from 28 to 46 percent. Pseudo coefficients of determination of the models ranged from 91 to 96 percent.  Flood Region B, located along the eastern border of Mississippi, contained 134 streamgages with drainage areas that ranged from 0.15 to 1,750 square miles.  The 1% annual exceedance probability had a standard error of prediction of 35 percent.

Tags: environment, usgs-5a83410de4b00f54eb32982a
Organization: Department of the Interior
Surface water and bottom sediment chemical data and landscape variable input datasets for predicting the occurrence of chemicals of emerging concern in 25 U.S. river basins in the Great Lakes basin

This data release includes concentrations of contaminants of emerging concern (CEC), by chemical class, for sites sampled within 25 river basins in the U.S. portion of the Great Lakes basin and associated watershed characteristics. The CEC data include concentrations in surface water and sediment samples that were collected during 2010-2014. During the first 3 years, sample sites near mostly urban areas were chosen. The last two years of study focused on other point sources and few nominal reference sites. Water and sediment samples were analyzed for a diverse suite of CECs including, but not limited to, pharmaceuticals, industrial chemicals, flame retardants, pesticides, fragrances, and plasticizers. Statistical models were developed to define the relationships between watershed characteristics within a river basin and the occurrence of specific CEC classes using boosted regression tree models.

Tags: boosted-regression-tree, freshwater, great-lakes, illinois, michigan, minnesota, newyork, non-point-source-pollution, ohio, pesticide-and-herbicide-contamination, pharmaceutical-contamination, sediment, surface-water, usgs-5a833fcfe4b00f54eb3297ee, water-resources, wisconsin
Organization: Department of the Interior
Flood Region A

To improve flood-frequency estimates at rural streams in Mississippi, annual exceedance probability (AEP) flows at gaged streams in Mississippi and regional-regression equations, used to estimate annual exceedance probability flows for ungaged streams in Mississippi, were developed by using current geospatial data, additional statistical methods, and annual peak-flow data through the 2013 water year. The regional-regression equations were derived from statistical analyses of peak-flow data, basin characteristics associated with 281 streamgages, the generalized skew from Bulletin 17B (Interagency Advisory Committee on Water Data, 1982), and a newly developed study-specific skew for select four-digit hydrologic unit code (HUC4) watersheds in Mississippi. Four flood regions were identified based on residuals from the regional-regression analyses. No analysis was conducted for streams in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain flood region because of a lack of long-term streamflow data and poorly defined basin characteristics.  Flood regions containing sites with similar basin and climatic characteristics yielded better regional-regression equations with lower error percentages. The generalized least squares method was used to develop the final regression models for each flood region for annual exceedance probability flows. The peak-flow statistics were estimated by fitting a log-Pearson type III distribution to records of annual peak flows and then applying two additional statistical methods: (1) the expected moments algorithm to help describe uncertainty in annual peak flows and to better represent missing and historical record; and (2) the generalized multiple Grubbs-Beck test to screen out potentially influential low outliers and to better fit the upper end of the peak-flow distribution. Standard errors of prediction of the generalized least-squares models ranged from 28 to 46 percent. Pseudo coefficients of determination of the models ranged from 91 to 96 percent.  Flood Region A, located in north-central Mississippi, contained 27 streamgages with drainage areas that ranged from 1.41 to 612 square miles.  The 1% annual exceedance probability had a standard error of prediction of 31 percent which was lower than the prediction errors in Flood Regions B and C.

Tags: boundaries, usgs-5a8334dfe4b00f54eb32973c
Organization: Department of the Interior
Susceptibility of Nanophyetus salmonicola cercariae to formalin, hydrogen peroxide and seawater

The ability of formalin, PEROX-AID® (hydrogen peroxide), and seawater to kill waterborne Nanophyetus salmincola cercariae was evaluated in vitro.   Newly emerged waterborne cercariae survived for extended periods in freshwater, with 50-74% survival occurring in negative control groups after 24 hr.  Exposure to dilutions of formalin reduced this survival time, with 0% of cercariae surviving after 30 min. in 167 ppm, 40 min. in 83 ppm, and 180 min. in 42ppm.   Exposure to PEROX-AID® (hydrogen peroxide) for one hour resulted in reduced cercariae survival (16.4%) only at the highest concentration (100 ppm), compared to 100% survival in the untreated controls and all lesser concentrations.   Dilutions of seawater resulted in reduced cercariae survival only at high salinities (15.2 – 30.3 ‰), where 10 min. exposures resulted in 0 – 16% survival.  These results provide insights into prophylactic water treatment options for salmonid enhancement facilities that experience high mortalities due to infections with Nanophyetus salmincola.  Further, the intolerance of cercariae to high salinities indicates that exposures of fish to infectious waterborne cercariae occur primarily in the freshwater portions of watersheds.

Tags: cercariae, nanophyetus, treatment, usgs-5a832a3ce4b00f54eb32972c
Organization: Department of the Interior
Regional scale magnetotelluric data from the Rio Grande Rift and southern Rocky Mountains, Station rgr318

This dataset consists of 102 magnetotelluric (MT) stations collected in 2012-2014 in the Rio Grande Rift and southern Rocky Mountains. The U.S. Geological Survey acquired these data to improve regional conductivity models of the western United States. This work is in support of studies of the effect of lithospheric modification on electrical resistivity structure and tectonic evolution of the western United States.

Tags: apparent-resistivity, electromagnetic-surveying, geology-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, gggsc, great-plains, impedance, magnetic-field-earth, magnetotelluric, mineral-resources-program, mrp, mt, new-mexico, phase, regional-conductivity-models, rio-grande-rift, time-series, tipper, usgs-5ada0edbe4b0e2c2dd28d3ac
Organization: Department of the Interior
Histopathological analyses of liver and kidney tissue from small rodents collected from breccia pipe uranium mines in the Grand Canyon watershed

These data are comprised of histopathological analysis of liver and kidney tissues collected from small rodents collected in close proximity to brecchia pipe uranium mines in the Grand Canyon watershed.

Tags: arizona, breccia-pipe, columbia-environmental-research-center, elements, grand-canyon, grand-canyon-watershed, kanab-north, radionuclides, rodents, uranium, uranium-mine, usgs-5ae07de8e4b0e2c2dd2e9c41
Organization: Department of the Interior