AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Boundary of UCERF3 zone

A methodology has been developed at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) for making earthquake catalogs for seismic hazard analysis.  A new catalog is assembled from several preexisting catalogs.  Uniform moment magnitudes and related parameters for estimating unbiased seismicity rates are calculated.  Duplicates, explosions, mining-related earthquakes, and induced earthquakes are flagged, and the catalog is declustered.  Distinct catalogs are made for the central and eastern U.S. and the western U.S.  This data set is the boundary of the UCERF3 zone.

Tags: arizona, california, earthquake, hazard, nevada, oregon, seismic, ucerf3, united-states, usa, usgs-5b292371e4b0592076279c2c
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geotagged low-altitude aerial imagery from unmanned aerial systems (UAS) flights over of the Lake Ontario shoreline in the vicinity of Chimney Bluffs, New York in July 2017

Low-altitude (80-100 meters above ground level) digital images were obtained from a camera mounted on a 3DR Solo quadcopter, a small unmanned aerial system (UAS), in three locations along the Lake Ontario shoreline in New York during July 2017. These data were collected to document and monitor effects of high lake levels, including shoreline erosion, inundation, and property damage in the vicinity of Chimney Bluffs State Park, New York. This data release includes images tagged with locations determined from the UAS GPS; tables with updated estimates of camera positions and attitudes based on the photogrammetric reconstruction; tables listing locations of the base stations, ground control points, and transect points; geolocated, RGB-colored point clouds; orthomosaic images; and digital elevation models for each of the survey regions. Collection of these data was supported by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the State of New York Departments of State and Environmental Conservation, and the USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program and was conducted under USGS field activity number 2017-042-FA.
      

Tags: 3dr-solo-quadcopter, aerial-imagery, aerial-photography, chimney-bluffs, chimney-bluffs-state-park, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, federal-emergency-management-agency, fema, field-activity-number-2017-042-fa, geoscientificinformation, geotagged-photos, great-lakes, huron-ny, image-collections, imagerybasemapsearthcover, jpeg, lake-level, lake-ontario, lakeshore, location, low-altitude-aerial-imagery, new-york, new-york-state-department-of-environmental-conservation, photographs, photos, remote-sensing, ricoh-grii, shoreline, shoreline-photographs, state-of-new-york-department-of-state, u-s-geological-survey, uas, unmanned-aerial-system, usa, usgs, usgs-5b286440e4b0592076260e58, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Chimney Bluffs orthomosaic from low-altitude aerial imagery from unmanned aerial systems (UAS) flights over of the Lake Ontario shoreline in the vicinity of Chimney Bluffs, New York in July 2017 (GeoTIFF image)

Low-altitude (80-100 meters above ground level) digital images were obtained from a camera mounted on a 3DR Solo quadcopter, a small unmanned aerial system (UAS), in three locations along the Lake Ontario shoreline in New York during July 2017. These data were collected to document and monitor effects of high lake levels, including shoreline erosion, inundation, and property damage in the vicinity of Chimney Bluffs State Park, New York. This data release includes images tagged with locations determined from the UAS GPS; tables with updated estimates of camera positions and attitudes based on the photogrammetric reconstruction; tables listing locations of the base stations, ground control points, and transect points; geolocated, RGB-colored point clouds; orthomosaic images; and digital elevation models for each of the survey regions. Collection of these data was supported by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the State of New York Departments of State and Environmental Conservation, and the USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program and was conducted under USGS field activity number 2017-042-FA.
      

Tags: 3dr-solo-quadcopter, aerial-imagery, aerial-photography, chimney-bluffs, chimney-bluffs-state-park, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, federal-emergency-management-agency, fema, field-activity-number-2017-042-fa, geoscientificinformation, geotiff, great-lakes, huron-ny, image-mosaics, imagerybasemapsearthcover, inlandwaters, lake-level, lake-ontario, lakeshore, location, low-altitude-aerial-imagery, new-york, new-york-state-department-of-environmental-conservation, orthomosaic, orthophoto, photo-mosaic, photographs, photos, raster, remote-sensing, ricoh-grii, shoreline, shoreline-photographs, state-of-new-york-department-of-state, u-s-geological-survey, uas, unmanned-aerial-system, usa, usgs, usgs-5b2859cce4b0592076260e4b, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Chimney Bluffs digital elevation model (DEM) from low-altitude aerial imagery from unmanned aerial systems (UAS) flights over of the Lake Ontario shoreline in the vicinity of Chimney Bluffs, New York in July 2017 (32-bit floating point GeoTIFF image)

Low-altitude (80-100 meters above ground level) digital images were obtained from a camera mounted on a 3DR Solo quadcopter, a small unmanned aerial system (UAS), in three locations along the Lake Ontario shoreline in New York during July 2017. These data were collected to document and monitor effects of high lake levels, including shoreline erosion, inundation, and property damage in the vicinity of Chimney Bluffs State Park, New York. This data release includes images tagged with locations determined from the UAS GPS; tables with updated estimates of camera positions and attitudes based on the photogrammetric reconstruction; tables listing locations of the base stations, ground control points, and transect points; geolocated, RGB-colored point clouds; orthomosaic images; and digital elevation models for each of the survey regions. Collection of these data was supported by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the State of New York Departments of State and Environmental Conservation, and the USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program and was conducted under USGS field activity number 2017-042-FA.
      

Tags: 3dr-solo-quadcopter, aerial-imagery, chimney-bluffs, chimney-bluffs-state-park, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, dem, digital-elevation-model, digital-elevation-models, elevation, federal-emergency-management-agency, fema, field-activity-number-2017-042-fa, geoscientificinformation, geotiff, great-lakes, huron-ny, inlandwaters, lake-level, lake-ontario, lakeshore, location, low-altitude-aerial-imagery, new-york, new-york-state-department-of-environmental-conservation, photographs, photos, raster, remote-sensing, ricoh-grii, shoreline, shoreline-photographs, state-of-new-york-department-of-state, topography, u-s-geological-survey, uas, unmanned-aerial-system, usa, usgs, usgs-5b28587de4b0592076260e47, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Flood Inundation Maps for the Amite and Comite Rivers from State Highway 64 to U.S. Highway 190 – City of Central, Louisiana

The State of Louisiana experienced widespread flooding during the extreme rainfall events of March and August 2016. The City of Central, Louisiana, which lies above the confluence of the Amite and Comite Rivers, is bordered on the East and West respectively by these rivers. The city had extensive damage from both events, in particular the August 2016 flood in which the river basins received up to 30 inches of documented rainfall. Many streamgages in the area recorded peak of record flood levels from the event.
The US Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the City of Central, created a digital flood inundation map library to depict estimated areal extents and depth of flooding along 14.5 and 20.2 mile reach lengths of the Amite and Comite Rivers. The maps were created using a 2-dimensional flow model calibrated to the March and August 2016 events as well as to the current stage-discharge ratings at USGS streamgaging stations 07377300 Amite River at Magnolia, Louisiana and 07378000 Comite River near Comite, Louisiana. The maps range from flood stage to the peak of record stage at the gaging stations. Annual peak flow data was analyzed to determine multiple flooding scenario possibilities between the two gages.
This data release provides the ArcGIS files and metadata for these maps. In addition, the maps will be hosted by the USGS on an interactive web mapper accessible to the cooperator and the public at: https://www.usgs.gov/mission-areas/water-resources/science/flood-inundation-mapping-fim-program
Use of the maps aids city officials and emergency managers in pre-planning for a flood event in areas such as road and bridge closures, staging of man power and materials, and estimation of affected population.  The maps also aid the public in foreseeing their flood risk potential and helps them in their decision making regarding life and property.

Tags: amite, comite, floods, louisiana, stream-gage-measurement, streamflow, usgs-5b28123ae4b0592076260622
Organization: Department of the Interior
Audiomagnetotelluric sounding data, station 2, Taos Plateau Volcanic Field, New Mexico, 2009

This dataset includes the audio-magnetotelluric (AMT) sounding data collected in 2009 in and near the San Luis Basin, New Mexico. The U.S. Geological Survey conducted a series of multidisciplinary studies, including AMT surveys, in the San Luis Basin to improve understanding of the hydrogeology of the Santa Fe Group and the nature of the sedimentary deposits comprising the principal groundwater aquifers of the Rio Grande rift. The shallow unconfined and the deeper confined Santa Fe Group aquifers in the San Luis Basin are the main sources of municipal water for the region. The population of the San Luis Basin region is growing rapidly and water shortfalls could have serious consequences. Future growth and land management in the region depend on accurate assessment and protection of the region's groundwater resources.

Tags: amt, apparent-resistivity, aquifer, audiomagnetotelluric, cerro, cerro-de-la-olla, deformation-geologic, electromagnetic-surveying, geologic-framework, geology-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, gggsc, gps-measurement, groundwater, guadalupe-mountain, hydrogeology, impedance, impedance-phase, impedance-strike, magnetic-field-earth, magnetic-surveying, magnetotelluric-surveying, mineral-resources-program, mrp, mt, new-mexico, no-agua-peaks, questa, regional-fluid-flow, rio-grande, rio-grande-basin, rio-grande-rift, san-luis-basin, sangre-de-cristo-mountains, santa-fe-group, sedimentary-deposits, sedimentation, sounding, taos-county, taos-plateau-volcanic-field, tipper, usgs-5b2ab7e2e4b040769c0ed8ec
Organization: Department of the Interior
Historical and projected production well pumping from January 1, 1900 through March 15, 2141, Middle Rio Grande Basin, Albuquerque and vicinity, New Mexico

This data release contains six historical and projected production well pumping scenarios from January 1, 1900 through March 15, 2141 for the Middle Rio Grande Basin, Albuquerque and vicinity, New Mexico. The production well pumping rates and source of these rates are included as tabular files. Tabular files are also included that define the time period over which these rates are applicable, and the location (layer, row, and column) of each well within the Middle Rio Grande Basin groundwater-flow model of McAda and Barroll (2002). This data release also includes tabular files summarizing historical metered production well pumping, and return-flow credit accounting used to estimate future pumping by the City of Rio Rancho.

Tags: albuquerque, aquifer, groundwater-pumping, groundwater-system, hydrology, new-mexico, rio-grande, rio-rancho, usgs-5b280146e4b0592076260496
Organization: Department of the Interior
Attributes for NHDPlus version 2.1 catchments and modified routing of upstream watersheds for the conterminous United States: Combination of landuse and geology.

This tabular data represents the area of combined landuse and surficial materials for the conterminous United States linked to the NHDPlus version 2 data suite by the unique identifier COMID. The source data are the National Land Cover Dataset (NLCD) representing 2011 ground conditions (Homer, 2013) , and  the "Map database for surficial materials in the conterminous United States" produced by the United States Geological Survey (USGS Soller and others, 2009). Surficial materials are defined as an unconsolidated blanket of sediments in which soils commonly are developed. These sediments generally were eroded from underlying rock, and then were transported and deposited (USGS Soller and others, 2009). Reach catchment information characterizes data at the local scale.

Tags: biota, conus, geology, land-use, national, sediment, surficial-material, united-states, usgs-5b23c3e5e4b046b59903aeed
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hourly wave-height observations from 2013 to 2017 at 32 sites throughout the Channel Islands National Park and San Nicolas Island

Hourly wave-height observations at 32 sites throughout the Channel Islands National Park and San Nicolas Island, site-specific hind casts from the Coastal Data Information Program (CDIP), and contemporary wave height, period, and direction from regional buoys taken during intervals between 2013 and 2017.

Tags: california, channel-islands, ocean-waves, oceans, pacific, usgs-5b23044fe4b046b59903ad4e, wave-measurement, wave-sensor
Organization: Department of the Interior
USGS Geomagnetism Program: Magnetic Disturbance Movies

Movie-maps of low-latitude horizontal-intensity magnetic disturbance are derived from magnetic vector time series data collected at multiple ground-based observatories. Using a technique similar to that used in the calculation of Dst, a quiet time baseline is subtracted from the time series from each observatory. The remaining disturbance time series are shown in a polar coordinate system that accommodates both Earth rotation and the universal time dependence of magnetospheric disturbance. Each magnetic storm recorded in the movie-maps is different. While some standard interpretations about the storm time equatorial ring current appear to apply to certain moments and certain phases of some storms, the movie-maps also show substantial variety in the local time distribution of low-latitude magnetic disturbance, especially during storm commencements and storm main phases.

Tags: earth-science, geologic-hazards-science-center, geomagnetic-observatory, geomagnetism-program, ghsc, hazard-mitigation, magnetic-disturbance, magnetic-field, magnetic-storm, magnetic-vector-time-series, real-time-monitoring, usgs, usgs-5b228f72e4b092d9652a2228
Organization: Department of the Interior
Sedimentation Rate Dependence on Pore Fluid Chemistry for Sediment Collected From Area B, Krishna-Godavari Basin, During India's National Gas Hydrate Program Expedition NGHP-02

One goal of the Indian National Gas Hydrate Program's NGHP-02 expedition was to examine the geomechanical response of marine sediment to the extraction of methane from gas hydrate found offshore eastern India in the Bay of Bengal. Methane gas hydrate is a naturally occurring crystalline solid that sequesters methane in individual molecular cages in a lattice of water molecules. Methane gas hydrate is a potential energy resource, but whether extracting methane from gas hydrate in the marine subsurface is technically and economically viable remains an open research topic as of 2018. This data release provides insight about a poorly quantified aspect of this process: the reaction of fine-grained sediment particles (fines) to the change in pore water chemistry that occurs when methane is extracted from gas hydrate. Fines are an issue for production because they can get resuspended in the flow of fluid and gas toward the extraction well. As fines move, they can cluster and subsequently clog pore throats in the sediment, reducing permeability (which controls how easily methane can flow toward the extraction well). There are two main factors in determining the cluster structure (the size and fabric of the cluster) and the cluster formation and settling rates: the type of fine-grained particle and the chemistry of the surrounding pore water. Data in this study provide insight into both factors.
Fine particles interact with each other primarily in response to electrical forces, and changes in pore water chemistry can significantly alter how those forces are communicated between particles. In marine systems, in situ pore water is an electrically conductive brine. As gas hydrate dissociates, however, fresh water is released along with the methane, making the pore water less conductive. Depending on the type of fine-grained particles involved, the pore water chemistry change enhances or diminishes the clustering and changes the rates at which the clusters form and settle.
For this data release, specimens from the NGHP-02 expedition are observed during sedimentation (settling) tests in pore fluids of differing chemistry. The results included in this data release can (1) provide insight into the types of fines present, which can be difficult to quantify if using the more standard x-ray diffraction method for identifying fines and (2) indicate whether the in situ fines are likely to increase or decrease their capacity to clog pore throats as the pore water transitions from higher to lower salinity during gas hydrate dissociation.

Tags: bay-of-bengal, brine, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, core-analysis, deionized-water, earth-material-properties, fine-grained-sediment, gas-hydrate-resources, geoscientificinformation, indian-ocean, kerosene, krishna-godavari-basin, laboratory-experiments, oceans, settling, soil-sciences, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-5b22815fe4b092d9652a211a, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park plant reproductive and rat abundance data,  2016-2017

This data included data and metadata on 1) the number of open fruit of Hibiscidelphus giffardianus, 2) Mark recapture data for rats, 3) location data for rat traps within plots and 4) seedling count data for Hibiscidelphus giffardianus. All sites were within Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. This study aims to evaluate the effect of rat population control on the ability of Hibiscadelphus giffardianus to successfully establish seedlings. We compared H. giffardianus fruiting and recruitment in a stand treated for rats and a neighboring control stand. The study was conducted in two neighboring kīpuka, Kīpuka Puaulu and Kīpuka Kī, which are patches of well-developed forest surrounded by more recent lava flows. These kīpuka lie 2.5 km northwest of Kīlauea Caldera in Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park on the island of Hawai`i. The 700 × 700 m rat-removal treatment area falls within Kīpuka Kī, and Kīpuka Puaulu served as a control. We monitored 181 mature, fruit-bearing individuals of this species, of which there exist 223 total.

Tags: endangered-plants, plant-reproduction, seed-predation, usgs-5b21e028e4b092d96528a18f
Organization: Department of the Interior
Insect and vegetation community composition and abundance after wildfire and restoration seeding treatments in southwestern Idaho, USA

We conducted the first investigation of insect community responses to post-fire seeding on public rangelands by comparing the composition of insect communities at burned-and-seeded (treatment) and burned-and-unseeded (control) sagebrush-steppe ecological sites in southwestern Idaho. Insect communities in burned areas were compared to unburned (reference) areas.  We collected insect and vegetation data within and around the burn perimeter of the 2007 Murphy Fire (652,209 ha), 2002 Big Crow Fire (1,134 ha), and 1995 Clover Fire (78,102 ha) in southwestern Idaho, USA.  We captured and identified 24,862 insects from 130 families at the three study sites in 2010.  We used a nadir photogrid and point-centered quarter method to estimate the percent cover of vegetation at plots within the sampling sites.  To estimate the effect of surrounding landscape on the measured insect communities, we measured the relative percent cover of shrublands and grasslands surrounding each sampling plot using ArcGIS 10 and a LANDFIRE vegetation cover shapefile (LANDFIRE Existing Vegetation Type Layer. U.S. Department of Interior, Geological Survey. Available: http://landfire.cr.usgs.gov [2013, June 26]). We measured interannual variability of insect and vegetation community composition at the 1995 Clover Fire (78, 102 ha) from 2009 through 2011.  We captured 10,104 individual insects from 145 families during this sampling effort.  We used a nadir photogrid method each of the three years and point-centered quarter method in 2009 and 2011 (but not 2010) to estimate the percent cover of vegetation at plots within the sampling site.

Tags: biota, community-ecology, environment, idaho, invasive-species, owyhee, pollinators, terrestrial-ecosystems, united-states, usgs-5b21a540e4b092d9652897a2, wildlife
Organization: Department of the Interior
Trend analysis for sites used in RESTORE Streamflow alteration assessments

Daily streamflow discharge data from 139 streamgages located on tributaries and streams flowing to the Gulf of Mexico were used to calculate mean monthly, mean seasonal, and decile values. Streamgages used to calculate trends required a minimum of 65 years of continuous daily streamflow data. These values were used to analyze trends in streamflow using the Mann-Kendall trend test in the R package entitled “Trends” and a new methodology created by Robert M. Hirsch known as a “Quantile-Kendall” plot. Data were analyzed based on water year using the Mann-Kendall trend test and by climate year using the Quantile-Kendall methodology to: (1) identify regions which are statistically similar for estimating streamflow characteristics; (2) identify trends related to changing streamflow and streamflow alteration over time; and (3) to identify possible correlations with estuary health in the Gulf of Mexico.

Tags: alabama, environmental-flow, florida, gulf-coast, gulf-of-mexico, louisiana, mississippi, network-optimization, reference-hydrology, restore, southeastern-united-states, streamflow-alteration, texas, trend-analysis, usgs-5b218df6e4b092d9652874cd
Organization: Department of the Interior