AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Hydraulic Mine Pits of California

This dataset is a compilation of boundary location polygons for 167 hydraulic mine pits located in northern California. This dataset was compiled from three sources, Topographically Occurring Mine Symbols (TOMS) database produced by the California Department of Conservation (2001), Yeend W.E., 1974, and on-screen digitizing, using current (2015) satellite imagery, of additional hydraulic mine pits not contained in either of these sources.

Tags: environment, geoscientificinformation, gold, hydralulic-mining, mining, usgs-571976c2e4b071321fe22947
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hydroacoustic measurements of velocities in and near the rake-to-box junction gap of a moving, fully-loaded commercial barge tow

In August 2015, water velocities around a fully-loaded commercial barge tow were measured as the barge tow traveled upstream through the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal from a starting position in Lockport Pool, and passed through the Electric Dispersal Barrier System at RM 296 near Romeoville, IL. Velocity measurements were made in and alongside the gap formed by the junction between the boxed stern of a rake hopper barge and the raked bow of a rake tanker barge (herein referred to as the rake-to-box junction gap) using two SonTek Argonaut SW 3kHz acoustic Doppler velocity meters (ADVM).  
One ADVM was mounted 0.091 meters below the water surface, facing downward in the center of the rake-to-box junction gap, rotated 35 degrees clockwise to the box side of the gap (Downlooking ADVM). The other ADVM was mounted 1.37 meters below the water surface at the edge of the rake-to-box junction gap, facing outward from the barge tow at an angle of 23 degrees measured counter-clockwise from a line perpendicular to the barge (Side-looking ADVM). Differential GPS (dGPS) receivers were mounted directly above both ADVMs and their output was logged in HYPACK (more information available at http://www.hypack.com). The dGPS mounted above the Downlooking ADVM also logged GPS Doppler-based heading information with an accuracy of ± 0.75°.  
The water velocity data are reported in a stationary, course-oriented reference frame (i.e. corrected for the movement of the barge tow), such that positive course-parallel velocities point in the direction of barge travel (upstream, for this dataset), and positive course-normal velocities point into the gap (toward the right, when facing in the direction of barge travel). Profiles of mean course-parallel velocity and mean course-normal velocity are reported for several ranges of barge tow speed. The distance from the barge (Side-looking ADVM) and the distance below the water surface (Downlooking ADVM) are given for the center of each ADVM measurement cell.

Tags: chicago-sanitary-and-ship-canal, illinois, lockport-locks, romeoville, streamflow, surface-water-non-marine, usgs-5718e4aee4b0ef3b7cabdd27, will-county
Organization: Department of the Interior
Permafrost Soil Measurements; Alaska, 2014

Fire can be a significant driver of permafrost change in boreal landscapes, altering the availability of soil carbon and nutrients that have important implications for future climate and ecological succession.  However, not all landscapes are equally susceptible to fire-induced change.  As fire frequency is expected to increase in the high latitudes, methods to understand the vulnerability and resilience of different landscapes to permafrost degradation are needed. Geophysical and other field observations reveal details of both near-surface (&lt;1 m) and deeper (&gt;1 m) impacts of fire on permafrost along 11 transects that span burned-unburned boundaries in different landscape settings within interior Alaska.  Data collected along the 11 transect locations include: electrical resistivity tomography (ERT), downhole nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), active layer thickness (ALT), organic layer thickness (OLT), and plant species cover.  These geospatial datasets are the foundation for the journal article, "Evidence for non-uniform permafrost degradation after fire in boreal landscapes", published in the Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface.

Tags: alaska, city-of-fairbanks, disturbance, environment, fire, geoscientificinformation, permafrost, soils, tok, usgs-5717e6e2e4b0ef3b7caabad4
Organization: Department of the Interior
Borehole Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Inverted Models; Alaska, 2014

Fire can be a significant driver of permafrost change in boreal landscapes, altering the availability of soil carbon and nutrients that have important implications for future climate and ecological succession.  However, not all landscapes are equally susceptible to fire-induced change.  As fire frequency is expected to increase in the high latitudes, methods to understand the vulnerability and resilience of different landscapes to permafrost degradation are needed. Geophysical and other field observations reveal details of both near-surface (&lt;1 m) and deeper (&gt;1 m) impacts of fire on permafrost along 11 transects that span burned-unburned boundaries in different landscape settings within interior Alaska.  Data collected along the 11 transect locations include: electrical resistivity tomography (ERT), downhole nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), active layer thickness (ALT), organic layer thickness (OLT), and plant species cover.  These geospatial datasets are the foundation for the journal article: Minsley, B. J., N. J. Pastick, B. K. Wylie, D. R. N. Brown, and M. Andy Kass (2016), Evidence for nonuniform permafrost degradation after fire in boreal landscapes,  J. Geophys. Res. Earth Surf., 121, 320–335, doi:10.1002/2015JF003781.

Tags: alaska, city-of-fairbanks, disturbance, environment, fire, geoscientificinformation, permafrost, soils, tok, usgs-5717e65de4b0ef3b7caabac2
Organization: Department of the Interior
Borehole Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Data; Alaska, 2014

Fire can be a significant driver of permafrost change in boreal landscapes, altering the availability of soil carbon and nutrients that have important implications for future climate and ecological succession.  However, not all landscapes are equally susceptible to fire-induced change.  As fire frequency is expected to increase in the high latitudes, methods to understand the vulnerability and resilience of different landscapes to permafrost degradation are needed. Geophysical and other field observations reveal details of both near-surface (&lt;1 m) and deeper (&gt;1 m) impacts of fire on permafrost along 11 transects that span burned-unburned boundaries in different landscape settings within interior Alaska.  Data collected along the 11 transect locations include: electrical resistivity tomography (ERT), downhole nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), active layer thickness (ALT), organic layer thickness (OLT), and plant species cover. These geospatial datasets are the foundation for the journal article: Minsley, B. J., N. J. Pastick, B. K. Wylie, D. R. N. Brown, and M. Andy Kass (2016), Evidence for nonuniform permafrost degradation after fire in boreal landscapes,  J. Geophys. Res. Earth Surf., 121, 320–335, doi:10.1002/2015JF003781.

Tags: alaska, city-of-fairbanks, disturbance, environment, fire, geoscientificinformation, permafrost, soils, tok, usgs-5717e5d7e4b0ef3b7caabab7
Organization: Department of the Interior
Electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) inverted models; Alaska, 2014

Fire can be a significant driver of permafrost change in boreal landscapes, altering the availability of soil carbon and nutrients that have important implications for future climate and ecological succession.  However, not all landscapes are equally susceptible to fire-induced change.  As fire frequency is expected to increase in the high latitudes, methods to understand the vulnerability and resilience of different landscapes to permafrost degradation are needed. Geophysical and other field observations reveal details of both near-surface (&lt;1 m) and deeper (&gt;1 m) impacts of fire on permafrost along 11 transects that span burned-unburned boundaries in different landscape settings within interior Alaska.  Data collected along the 11 transect locations include: electrical resistivity tomography (ERT), downhole nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), active layer thickness (ALT), organic layer thickness (OLT), and plant species cover.  These geospatial datasets are the foundation for the journal article: Minsley, B. J., N. J. Pastick, B. K. Wylie, D. R. N. Brown, and M. Andy Kass (2016), Evidence for nonuniform permafrost degradation after fire in boreal landscapes,  J. Geophys. Res. Earth Surf., 121, 320–335, doi:10.1002/2015JF003781.

Tags: alaska, city-of-fairbanks, disturbance, environment, fire, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, permafrost, soils, tok, usgs-5717e423e4b0ef3b7caaba88
Organization: Department of the Interior
Velocity mapping downstream of Starved Rock Lock and Dam on the Illinois River near Utica, IL

ADCP data were collected on May 22, 2015 immediately downstream of Starved Rock Lock and Dam near Utica, IL.The data were collected as reciprocal pairs of measurements at cross-sections, and as longitudinal lines roughly along the centerline of the channel. The data are provided in:   
(1) a zipped folder containing classic ascii output files exported from WinRiverII software, and a README text file indicating which files are reciprocal pairs   
(2) a zipped folder containing KML files for each transect.

Tags: illinois, illinois-river, starved-rock-lock-and-dam, surface-water-non-marine, usgs-5717a6b9e4b0ef3b7caab139, utica-il, velocity
Organization: Department of the Interior
Electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) data; Alaska, 2014

Fire can be a significant driver of permafrost change in boreal landscapes, altering the availability of soil carbon and nutrients that have important implications for future climate and ecological succession.  However, not all landscapes are equally susceptible to fire-induced change.  As fire frequency is expected to increase in the high latitudes, methods to understand the vulnerability and resilience of different landscapes to permafrost degradation are needed. Geophysical and other field observations reveal details of both near-surface (&lt;1 m) and deeper (&gt;1 m) impacts of fire on permafrost along 11 transects that span burned-unburned boundaries in different landscape settings within interior Alaska.  Data collected along the 11 transect locations include: electrical resistivity tomography (ERT), downhole nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), active layer thickness (ALT), organic layer thickness (OLT), and plant species cover. These geospatial datasets are the foundation for the journal article: Minsley, B. J., N. J. Pastick, B. K. Wylie, D. R. N. Brown, and M. Andy Kass (2016), Evidence for nonuniform permafrost degradation after fire in boreal landscapes,  J. Geophys. Res. Earth Surf., 121, 320–335, doi:10.1002/2015JF003781.

Tags: alaska, city-of-fairbanks, disturbance, environment, fire, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, permafrost, soils, tok, usgs-57154765e4b0ef3b7ca861b9
Organization: Department of the Interior
Selected Environmental Characteristics of Sampled Sites, Watersheds, and Riparian Zones for the U.S. Geological Survey Midwest Stream Quality Assessment

In 2013, the first of several Regional Stream Quality Assessments (RSQA) was done in the Midwest United States. The Midwest Stream Quality Assessment (MSQA) was a collaborative study by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA), the USGS Columbia Environmental Research Center, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) National Rivers and Streams Assessment (NRSA). One of the objectives of the RSQA, and thus the MSQA, is to characterize the relationships between water-quality stressors and stream ecology and to determine the relative effects of these stressors on aquatic biota within the streams (U.S. Geological Survey, 2012a). To meet this objective, a framework of fundamental geospatial data was required to develop physical and anthropogenic characteristics of the study region, sampled sites and corresponding watersheds, and sampled ecological reaches. This dataset comprises of 139 selected environmental characteristics for the 100 sites sampled for the Midwest study.

Tags: basin-characteristics, drainage-area-characteristics, environmental-characteristics, geographic-information-systems, geospatial-analysis, geospatial-datasets, illinois, indiana, inlandwaters, iowa, kansas, kentucky, michigan, midwest, midwest-stream-quality-assessment, minnesota, missouri, msqa, national-water-quality-assessment, nebraska, ohio, regional-stream-quality-assessment, riparian-zone-characteristics, rsqa, site-characteristics, south-dakota, usgs-5714ec24e4b0ef3b7ca85d75, watershed-characteristics, wisconsin
Organization: Department of the Interior
Velocity profiling in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal near the US Army Corps of Engineers Electric Dispersal Barrier near Romeoville, Illinois

On August 31, 2015, U.S. Geological Survey Illinois Water Science Center staff deployed a 2000 kHz side-looking acoustic Doppler velocity meter (ADVM) in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal (CSSC) at the Electric Dispersal Barrier System (EDBS). These data were collected as a fully loaded commercial barge tow traversed the EDBS and passed the ADVM three times, and as several smaller vessels and an unloaded barge tow passed the ADVM. The ADVM was mounted to a rigid 2-inch PVC pipe in compliance with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) operational safety protocols for working in or near the EDBS. The pipe with ADVM was lowered 4.5 feet below the water surface on the west (right) bank of the canal at a location approximately 477 feet upstream of the Romeo Road (135th Street) bridge (41.642050, -88.060383). The pipe was mounted to the walkway guard rail in a vertical orientation. An upstream and downstream guide line were used to provide additional tension to prevent movement or vibration on the PVC pipe.  In this deployment configuration, the ADVM was profiling from the right wall of the canal out towards the center of the channel.  
ADVM data were viewed in real-time on a laptop computer during the deployment and logged simultaneously to the internal memory of the ADVM. The ADVM data were downloaded from the ADVM to a laptop computer while on site and reviewed briefly while in the field. Upon return to the USGS Illinois Water Science Center the ADVM data were downloaded from the field laptop and reviewed following standard USGS data quality assurance protocols.

Tags: chicago-sanitary-and-ship-canal, illinois, romeoville, streamflow, surface-water-non-marine, usgs-57116c51e4b0ef3b7ca55583, will-county
Organization: Department of the Interior
Radionuclide and Pesticide data for sediment age and source analysis in the Midwest Stream-Quality Assessment Region (2013-2014)

A study examining the sources and ages of fine-grained bed material (&lt;0.063 mm) was conducted for 99 sites in the USGS NAWQA Midwest Stream Quality Assessment (MSQA) during the summer of 2014, including 15 suspended sediment and 5 cropland top soil samples.  Bed material samples were analyzed for radionuclides (7Be, 210Pbex, 137Cs) and pesticides (bifenthrin  and DDE); suspended sediment for radionuclides (7Be, 210Pbex, 137Cs): and  cropland top soil was analyzed for 210Pbex and 137Cs. Data set includes only those data specifically discussed in a Journal of Environmental Management entitled, Sources and ages of fine-grained sediment to streams using fallout radionuclides in the Midwestern United States, by Allen C. Gellis, Christopher C. Fuller, Peter C. Van Metre. Journal of Environmental Management. In Press.

Tags: illinois, indiana, iowa, kansas, kentucky, michigan, midwest-stream-quality-assessment, minnesota, missouri, msqa, national-water-quality-assessment, nebraska, ohio, sediment-ages, sediment-sources, south-dakota, usgs-571167b0e4b0ef3b7ca5556a, wisconsin
Organization: Department of the Interior
Groundwater-Quality Data in the Tulare Shallow Aquifer Study Unit, 2014-2015: Results from the California GAMA Priority Basin Project

The U.S. Geological Survey collected groundwater samples from 95 domestic wells in Tulare and Kings Counties, California in 2014-2015. The wells were sampled for the Tulare Shallow Aquifer Study Unit of the California State Water Resources Control Board Groundwater Ambient Monitoring and Assessment (GAMA) Program Priority Basin Project’s assessment of the quality of groundwater resources used for domestic drinking water supply. Domestic wells commonly are screened at shallower depths than are public-supply wells. The Tulare Shallow Aquifer Study Unit includes the Kaweah, Tule, and Tulare Lake subbasins of the San Joaquin Valley groundwater basin and adjacent areas of the Sierra Nevada. The study unit was divided into equal area grid cells and one domestic well was sampled in each cell. Groundwater samples were analyzed for field water-quality parameters, volatile organic compounds, pesticides and pesticide degradates, nutrients, major ions and trace elements, gross alpha and gross beta particle activities, noble gases, tritium, carbon-14 in dissolved inorganic carbon, stable isotopic ratios of water and dissolved nitrate, and microbial indicators.
These data support the following publication:
Fram, M.S., 2017, Groundwater Quality in the Shallow Aquifers of the Tulare, Kaweah, and Tule Groundwater Basins and Adjacent Highlands areas, Southern San Joaquin Valley, California: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2017–3001, 4 p., http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/fs20173001.

Tags: california, environment, gama, groundwater, groundwater-ambient-monitoring-and-assessment-program, kings-county, southern-san-joaquin-valley, tulare-county, tule-county, united-states, usgs-570fda2de4b0ef3b7ca357b5, water-quality, western-united-states
Organization: Department of the Interior
Effects of Late Holocene Climate and Coastal Change in Mobile Bay, Alabama: ADCIRC Model Input and Results (Water_Level_RS_MP)

Using version 52.30 of the ADvanced CIRCulation (ADCIRC) numerical model (Luettich and others, 1992), astronomic tides were simulated at Mobile Bay, Alabama (AL), under scenarios of Holocene geomorphic configurations representing the period of 3500 to 2300 years before present including a breach in the Morgan Peninsula and a land bridge at Pass aux Herons, as described in Smith and others (2020). The two-dimensional ADCIRC model can be applied to coastal and estuarine systems to solve for time-dependent hydrodynamic circulation and transport scenarios. For this study, the ADCIRC unstructured finite element mesh domain spans to the 60th meridian west in the Atlantic Ocean and has higher spatial resolution elements (20 - 100 meters (m)) along the northern Gulf of Mexico coast from Louisiana through the Florida Panhandle. The ADCIRC model setup requires the input of topographic and bathymetric elevations at each mesh node. Model inputs in the form of topography and bathymetry and model outputs in the form of water levels and velocities at each mesh node are provided in this data release. For further information regarding model input generation and visualization of model output, refer to Smith and others (2020).

Tags: alabama, bathymetry, coastal-processes, digital-elevation-models, elevation, estuarine-processes, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, gulf-of-mexico, marine-geology, mobile-bay, morphologic-change, north-america, oceans, spcmsc, st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, tides-oceanic, topography, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-570e7e83-059a-4289-87bd-6da7bff87c19
Organization: Department of the Interior
Public-Supply Water Use in Kansas, 2014

This U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Data Release provides derivative statistics of water used by Kansas public-supply systems in 2014. Gallons per capita per day is calculated using self-reported information in the “Part B: Monthly Water Use Summary” and “Part C: Population, Service Connections, and Water Rates” sections of the Kansas Department of Agriculture, Division of Water Resources' (DWR) annual municipal water use report (see appendixes at http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ds964 for an example of a municipal water use report form.)  Percent unaccounted for water is calculated using self-reported information in “Part B: Monthly Water Use Summary” of the DWR’s municipal water-use report.  The published statistics from the previous 4 years (2010–2013) are also shown with the 2014 statistics and are used to calculate a 5-year average.  Derivative statistics of  2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 5-year averages for gallons per capita per day (gpcd) are also provided by the Kansas Water Authority's 14 regional planning areas, and the DWR regions used for analysis of per capita water use in Kansas.  An overall Kansas average (yearly and 5-year average) is also calculated.  Kansas state average per captia use in 2014 was 108 gpcd.

Tags: gallons-per-capita-per-day-gpcd, municipal-water-supply, municipal-water-use, public-supply-water-use, unaccounted-for-water-ufw, usgs-570d4bebe4b0ef3b7ca14df7, water-consumption, water-right, water-use-reporting
Organization: Department of the Interior
Chemicals of Emerging Concern and Fish Biological Endpoints Data Collected From Select Tributaries of the St. Croix River, Minnesota and Wisconsin, 2011-12

The occurrence of chemicals of emerging concern (CECs) and potential effects to aquatic biota in select tributaries of the St. Croix River in Minnesota and Wisconsin were measured. In 2011, treated wastewater effluent samples were collected from 22 sites in the St. Croix River Basin to determine total estrogenic activity. In 2012, wastewater effluent was collected at five select locations based on total estrogenicity and analyzed for CECs. In addition, surface water, bottom sediment, resident fish, and resident crayfish were collected upstream and downstream from effluent discharges. Water samples were analyzed for CECs (wastewater indicator compounds, steroid hormones, sterols, and pharmaceuticals). Bottom sediment samples were analyzed for a subset of CECs (wastewater indicator compounds, steroid hormones, and sterols). Fish and crayfish tissues were analyzed for select pharmaceuticals, antimicrobial compounds, plastic components, and alkylphenols. Multiple biological endpoints were assessed in resident and caged fish to assess biological effects of exposure to CECs.

Tags: emerging-contaminants, fish-effects, surface-water, usgs-570d0dfce4b0ef3b7ca14ca9
Organization: Department of the Interior