AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Single Beam Bathymetry XYZ Data Collected in June 2015 from the Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana

As part of the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring (BICM) Program, scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center conducted a single beam bathymetry survey around the Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana in June 2015. The goal of the program is to provide long-term data on Louisiana’s barrier islands and use this data to plan, design, evaluate, and maintain current and future barrier island restoration projects. The data described in this report, along with USGS bathymetry data collected in 2013 as a part of the Barrier Island Evolution Research project covering the northern Chandeleur Islands, and data collected in 2014 in collaboration with the Louisiana CPRA Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring project around Breton Island, will be used to assess bathymetric change since 2006-2007 and serve as a bathymetric control in supporting modeling of future changes in response to restoration and storm impacts. The survey area encompasses approximately 435 square kilometers (km2) of nearshore and back-barrier environments around Hewes Point, the Chandeleur Islands, and Curlew and Grand Gosier Shoals. This Data Series serves as an archive of processed single beam bathymetry data, collected in the nearshore of the Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana from June 17-24, 2015 during USGS Field Activity Number (FAN) 2015-317-FA. Geographic information system data products include: a 200 meter-cell-size interpolated bathymetry grid, trackline maps, and xyz point data files. Additional files include error analysis maps, Field Activity Collection System logs, and formal Federal Geographic Data Committee metadata.

Tags: 15bim01, 15bim02, 15bim03, 2015-317-fa, barrier-island-comprehensive-monitoring-program, barrier-island-mapping, base-station, bathymetry, benchmark, bicm, chandeleur-islands, chandeleur-sound, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, curlew-islands, datum, elevation, field-monitoring-stations, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, goisier-island, grand-goisier-islands, gulf-of-mexico, hewes-point, hydrography, imagerybasemapsearthcover, kinematic, location, louisiana, marine-geology, oceans, odom-cv100, shoreline, single-beam, single-beam-bathymetry, spcmsc, st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, trackline, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-3e9220ff-d9a0-4e90-bfd0-d8778fa58adb, water
Organization: Department of the Interior
Erosion and deposition for Fanno Creek, Oregon 2012

In 2010, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) began investigating the sources and sinks 
of organic matter in Fanno Creek, a tributary of the Tualatin River, Oregon. Organic matter, 
more specifically organic carbon, is abundant in Fanno Creek and has been tied to a 
variety of water-quality concerns. Since organic carbon is commonly found in the fine-grained, 
organic-rich sediment covering much of the watershed, developing a better understanding of 
sediment transport dynamics should greatly improve the quality of restoration efforts underway. 
To address this, a geomorphic approach was adopted, including mapping fine sediment erosion 
and deposition and measuring changes in sediment. Erosion and deposition mapping within 
the geomorphic floodplain in the summer of 2012 was used to identify specific sources and 
sinks of fine sediment and other features that might potentially contribute to the sediment 
cycle. The distribution of mapped features along Fanno Creek varies by reach. Areas having 
a high potential for erosion were greatest in the uppermost basin although other middle and 
lower basin reaches had relatively large areas subject to erosion. Areal deposition is largest 
in wide, low gradient wetland reaches such as in the middle basin.

Tags: beaverton, carbon, deposition, environment, erosion, fanno-creek, floodplain, fluvial-geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, inlandwaters, oregon, organic-matter, pacific-northwest, sediment-transport, tigard, tualatin-river, urban-stream, usgs-3e7ddcf8-9ff8-4f86-af38-399df7c117c1
Organization: Department of the Interior
Text Files of the GPS Navigation Logged with an ASHTECH G12 Sensor During OSV Bold Cruise 2010-015-FA of May 24 to May 28, 2010 (GPS NAVIGATION)

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), is producing detailed geologic maps of the coastal sea floor. Bathymetry and sidescan-sonar imagery, originally collected by NOAA for charting purposes, provides a fundamental framework for research and management activities in Long Island Sound, shows the composition and terrain of the seabed, and provides information on sediment transport and benthic habitat. During October 2008 NOAA completed hydrographic survey H11997 offshore in eastern Long Island Sound, and during May 2010 bottom photographs and surficial sediment data were acquired as part of a ground-truth reconnaissance survey of this area. Two interpretive data layers were derived from the multibeam echo-sounder and the ground-truth data used to verify them. For more information on the ground-truth survey see https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fa=2010-015-FA.

Tags: ashtech-g12-gps-sensor, bottom-photographs, bottom-video, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, connecticut, connecticut-department-of-environmental-protection, ct-dep, field-activity-serial-number-2010-015-fa, info-bank-id-b-15-10-li, inlandwaters, location, long-island-sound, navigation, navigational-data, new-york, north-america, north-atlantic, northeast-united-states, oceans, ofr-2010-1150, osv-bold, point, seaboss, u-s-geological-survey, underwater-photography, united-states, usgs, usgs-404b77df-8750-4190-b775-3fe72c3b8df3, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Study-Unit Investigations in the conterminous United States 2001-2012

This is a coverage of the boundaries and codes used for the
U.S. Geological Survey's National Water-Quality Assessment 
(NAWQA) Program Study-Unit investigations in the conterminous United
States, excluding the High Plains Regional Ground-Water Study.
The data set represents the areas to be studied during the second cycle
of the NAWQA Program, from 2001-2012 ("cycle 2").

Tags: aquifer-system, environment, geoscientificinformation, ground-water, inlandwaters, national-water-quality-assessment-program, nawqa, river-basin, surface-water, usgs-3e632aa6-4e8f-4122-ac9a-e3955f617cd0, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Airborne geophysical survey: Platoro 79, Colorado

Aeromagnetic data were collected along flight lines by instruments in an
aircraft that recorded magnetic-field values and locations.  This dataset
presents latitude, longitude, altitude, and magnetic-field values.

Tags: aeromagnetic-data, aeromagnetic-surveying, airborne-surveys, co, colorado, f08007-archuleta, f08021-conejos, f08079-mineral, f08105-rio-grande, field-monitoring-stations, geophysical-surveys, geophysics, geospatial-datasets, magnetic, magnetic-field-earth, magnetic-surveys, platoro, residual-magnetic-field, total-field, united-states, usgs-3e57fc60-4f1b-4139-a3a4-f1ad853848fc
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) version 4.3 transects with end-point rate calculations for sheltered shorelines between the U.S.-Canadian border and the Okpilak-Hulahula River Delta for the time period 1947 to 2003

The Arctic Coastal Plain of northern Alaska is an area of strategic economic importance to the United States, is home to remote Native American communities, and encompasses unique habitats of global significance. Coastal erosion along the north coast of Alaska is chronic, widespread, may be accelerating, and is threatening defense and energy-related infrastructure, natural shoreline habitats, and Native communities. There is an increased demand for accurate information regarding past and present shoreline changes across the United States. To meet these national needs, the Coastal and Marine Geology Program of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is compiling existing reliable historical shoreline data along sandy shores of the conterminous United States and parts of Alaska and Hawaii under the National Assessment of Shoreline Change project.
There is no widely accepted standard for analyzing shoreline change. Existing shoreline data measurements and rate calculation methods vary from study to study and prevent combining results into state-wide or regional assessments. The impetus behind the National Assessment project was to develop a standardized method of measuring changes in shoreline position that is consistent from coast to coast. The goal was to facilitate the process of periodically and systematically updating the results in an internally consistent manner.

Tags: accretion, alaska, anwr, arctic, arctic-national-wildlife-refuge, barrow, baseline, beaufort-sea, beaufort-sea-continental-coast-and-shelf-ecoregion, cape-halkett, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, coastal-processes, colville-river, continental-island-shore-complex, demarcation-bay, digital-shoreline-analysis-system, drew-point, dsas, effects-of-coastal-change, elson-lagoon, end-point-rate, environment, erosion, geoscientificinformation, harrison-bay, historic-shoreline, jago-river, national-petroleum-reserve-alaska, north-slope, npr-a, oceans, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, peard-bay, sagavanirktok-river, shoreline, shoreline-accretion, shoreline-change-rate, shoreline-erosion, smith-bay, staines-river, tangent-point, transect, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-3e55e3bc-6eb2-47c9-a032-319444dda96a
Organization: Department of the Interior
DS926 Digital surfaces and thicknesses of selected hydrogeologic units of the Floridan aquifer system in Florida and parts of Georgia, Alabama, and South Carolina -- Raster surface depicting the top of the Floridan aquifer system

Digital surfaces and thicknesses of selected hydrogeologic units of the Floridan aquifer 
system were developed to define an updated hydrogeologic framework as part of the U.S. 
Geological Survey Groundwater Resources Program. This feature class contains a gridded 
surface depicting the top of the FAS in feet relative to NGVD29.

Tags: alabama, altitude, environment, extent, fas, florida, floridan-aquifer-system, geology, georgia, geoscientificinformation, hydrogeology, inlandwaters, raster, regional-groundwater-availability-study, regions, south-carolina, stratigraphy, thickness, top-of-system, united-states-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-3e54d81b-6623-4c08-bdb0-41d1ee1f5ca3
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data from: Tool use increases mechanical foraging success and tooth health in southern sea otters (Enhydra lutris nereis)

One CSV file with data from basic field surveys of southern sea otters at five sites in California, USA, including (from north to south) Elkhorn Slough, Monterey, Big Sur, Piedras Blancas, and San Luis Obispo, are provided. These are the data used to fit models in Law et al. 2024 (full citation in the larger work) publication in Science.  The data consist of otter age, sex, and size morphometrics, measured from sea otter captures; associated forage information collected by visual surveys; and hardness of forage prey species.  Complete description of the study objectives, methods, field sites, and uses of these data for analyses and interpretations can be found in Law et al. 2024.
      
      Although it is well documented that tool use can enable the utilization of novel resources, the fitness benefits associated with this innovative behavior are difficult to test. Using longitudinal data from 196 radio-tagged southern sea otters, we found that individuals, particularly females, with frequent tool use gained access to harder, larger prey items. In turn, the mechanical advantages of tool use during food processing translated to reduced tooth damage in tool users. We also found that tool use diminishes trade-offs between access to different prey types, tooth health, and caloric intake that are highly dependent on the relative availability of prey in the environment. Overall, tool use allows individuals to maintain caloric requirements through the processing of alternative prey that are otherwise inaccessible without the use of tools, indicating that this innovative behavior is a necessity for the survival of southern sea otters in environments with depleted preferred prey.

Tags: alisal-elkhorn-sloughs, animal-behavior, big-sur, biota, central-california-coastal, ecology, estuary, marine-nearshore, monterey, moss-landing, piedras-blancas, san-luis-obispo, sea-otters, usgs-3e51948b-450d-4ee6-940b-197f6884034a
Organization: Department of the Interior
Shallow ATRIS Seafloor Images - West Turtle Shoal Patch Reef, Rawa PatchReef, Dustan Rocks Patch Reef, and Thor Patch Reef, Florida, 2011

Underwater digital images, single-beam bathymetry, and global-positioning system (GPS) data were collected September 29-30, 2011 around Dustan Rocks Patch Reef, Thor Patch Reef, West Turtle Shoal Patch Reef, and Rawa Patch Reef in the Florida Keys.  A total of 101,734 images were collected, covering 4672 square meteres (m2) of reef habitat. This data release contains a subset of 1,420 images, organized into four sets: Track1, Track2, Track3, and Track4. These images were used for coral bleaching assessments, contain GPS data and also include additional, survey-specific Exchangable Image File format (EXIF) header information. The data were collected using the USGS shallow Along-Track Reef-Imaging System (sATRIS), a boat-based, pole-mounted sensor package for mapping shallow-water benthic environments.  Two other implementations exist:  A towed system called Deep ATRIS and a profiling system called Drift ATRIS.  All three ATRIS implementations incorporate a digital still camera, a video camera, and an acoustic depth sounder.  In this study, sATRIS images were collected at a rate of 10 hertz (Hz), the single-beam depth soundings at 10 Hz, and the GPS data at 1 Hz.  The survey was conducted using the USGS research vessel (R/V) Halimeda, running at a nominal speed of 2 knots.

Tags: aquatic-biology, benthic-surveys, bleaching-assessment, coral-bleaching, coral-reef-monitoring, digital-imagery, doi-usgs-cmg-gt-coastal-and-marine-geology-u-s-geological-survey-u-s-department-of-interior, dustan-rocks-patch-reef, earth-remote-sensing-instruments-gt-passive-remote-sensing-gt-photon-optical-detectors-gt-camer, florida, florida-keys, geoscientificinformation, habitat-mapping, imagerybasemapsearthcover, marine-geology, ocean-gt-bathymetry-seafloor-topography-gt-bathymetry, ocean-gt-coastal-processes-gt-coral-reefs, oceans, rawa-patch-reef, remote-sensing, satris, seafloor-imagery, shallow-along-track-reef-imaging-system, shallow-marine-habitat-mapping, thor-patch-reef, usgs-3e3e046e-060e-499a-a75b-fd2d637fd031, west-turtle-shoal-patch-reef
Organization: Department of the Interior
Surface water data for samples collected approximately hourly along the West Florida Shelf: USGS Cruise 11BHM03

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) is conducting a study on the effects of climate change on ocean acidification within the Gulf of Mexico; dealing specifically with the effect of ocean acidification on marine organisms and habitats. To investigate this, the USGS participated in two cruises in the West Florida Shelf and northern Gulf of Mexico regions aboard the R/V Weatherbird II, a ship of opportunity lead by Dr. Kendra Daly, of the University of South Florida (USF). The cruises occurred September 20 - 28 and November 2 - 4, 2011. Both left from and returned to Saint Petersburg, Florida, but followed different routes (see Trackline). On both cruises the USGS collected data pertaining to pH, dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC), and total alkalinity in discrete samples. Discrete surface samples were taken during transit approximatly hourly on both cruises, 95 in September were collected over a span of 2127 km, and 7 over a trackline of 732 km line on the November cruise. Along with the surface samples, another set of samples were taken at various depths at stations; 27 in September at four stations and 15 in November at five stations. In addition to the discrete samples flow-through data was also collected on both cruises in a variety of forms. Surface CTD data was collected every five minutes which includes temperature, salinity, and pH. In addition, two more flow-through instruments were setup on both cruises that recorded pH and CO2 every 15 minutes. Corroborating the USGS data is the vertical CTD profiles collected by USF, using the following sensors: CTD, oxygen, chlorophyll fluorescence, optical backscatter, and transmissometer. Additionally, discrete depth samples for nutrients, chlorophyll, and particulate organic carbon/nitrogen were collected.

Tags: assessments, bathypelagic, carbon-flux, chemical-analysis, chemical-oceanography, environmental-chemistry, epipelagic, florida, marine-chemistry, mesopelagic, ocean-acidification, ocean-chemistry, ocean-surface, pco2, ph, physical-chemical-features, salinity, temperature, total-carbon, united-states, usgs-3e2df309-4c0b-455e-9fc5-52df6290f627, west-florida-shelf
Organization: Department of the Interior
Navigation data recovered from 9 track tape (1988-008-FA-LN-001-01)

Navigation data recovered from 9 track tape

Tags: acadiana, central-louisiana-coast-and-inner-shelf, fan-1988-008-fa, gulf-of-mexico, loran-c, marine-geophysics, navigation, navigational-data, north-america, north-atlantic, united-states, usgs-3e2c903d-d070-46b6-bc32-a39c48bc4ccc, west-of-mississippi-river-delta
Organization: Department of the Interior
Survey tracklines along which bathymetric data were collected with a SEA Ltd., SWATHplus-H interferometric sonar with in the Barnegat Bay, New Jersey by the U.S. Geological Survey in 2011, 2012, and 2013 (Esri polyline shapefile, Geographic, WGS 84)

Water quality in the Barnegat Bay-Little Egg Harbor estuary along the New Jersey coast is the focus of a multidisciplinary research project begun in 2011 by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. This narrow estuary is the drainage for the Barnegat Watershed and flushed by just three inlets connecting it to the Atlantic Ocean, is experiencing degraded water quality, algal blooms, loss of seagrass, and increases in oxygen -depletion events, seaweed, stinging nettles, and brown tide. The scale of the estuary and the scope of the problems within it necessitate a multidisciplinary approach that includes characterizing its physical characteristics (for example, depth, magnitude and direction of tidal currents, distribution of seafloor and subseafloor sediment) and modeling how the physical characteristics interact to affect the estuary's water quality. Scientists from USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program offices in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and St. Petersburg, Florida, began mapping the seafloor of the Barnegat Bay-Little Egg Harbor estuary in November 2011 and completed in September 2013. With funding from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and logistical support from the USGS New Jersey Water Science Center, they collected data with a suite of geophysical tools, including swath bathymetric sonar for measuring seafloor depth, a sidescan sonar for collecting acoustic-backscatter data (which provides information about seafloor texture and sediment type), and a subbottom profiler for imaging sediment layers beneath the floor of the estuary. 2011-041-FA: http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/ia/public_ds_info.php?fa=2011-041-FA 2012-003-FA: http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/ia/public_ds_info.php?fa=2012-003-FA 2013-014-FA: http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/ia/public_ds_info.php?fa=2013-014-FA 2013-030-FA: http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/ia/public_ds_info.php?fa=2013-030-FA

Tags: 2011, 2012, 2013, barnegat-bay, barnegat-inlet, bathymetry, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, field-activity-serial-number-2011-041-fa, field-activity-serial-number-2012-003-fa, field-activity-serial-number-2013-014-fa, field-activity-serial-number-2013-030-fa, forked-river, geospatial-datasets, interferometric-sonar, little-egg-harbor, little-egg-inlet, location, mantoloking, marine-geology, marine-geophysics, metedeconk-river, navigational-data, oceans, polyline-shapefile, rv-rafael, state-of-new-jersey, swathplus-h, toms-river, tuckerton, u-s-geological-survey, united-states-of-america, usgs, usgs-3e2a4d6a-2af3-4a73-8923-fade324e22b4, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
BS_Q06.TIF - Bering Sea U.S. EEZ GLORIA sidescan-sonar data mosaic (6 of 30) (LCC, 50 m, Clarke1866)

In 1984, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Office of Marine Geology, launched a program using the Geological LOng-Range Inclined Asdic (GLORIA) sidescan-sonar system to study the entire U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). From 1986 through 1989, the USGS and IOS (Institute of Oceanographic Sciences, U.K.) scientists conducted several surveys within the U.S. EEZ off Alaska. Four surveys during that time period (1986-1987) focused on the Bering Sea region. The results of these surveys were 30 digital mosaics of a 3 degree by 2 degree area with a 50-meter pixel resolution.

Tags: acoustic-receivers, acoustic-reflectivity, agattu-island, alaska, aleutian-basin, aleutian-islands-ecoregion, aleutian-ridge, attu-island, backscatter, bering-canyon, bering-channel, bering-fan, bering-sea, beringian-margin, bowers-ridge, buldir-island, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, continental-island-rise, continental-island-slope, distributions, eez, exclusive-economic-zone, exclusive-economic-zone-eez, geological-long-range-inclined-asdic, geoscientificinformation, geotiff-image, gloria, gloria-gt-geological-long-range-inclined-asdic, grey-scale-image, image-mosaics, imagerybasemapsearthcover, infobank-identifier-f-1-87-bs, infobank-identifier-f-2-86-bs, infobank-identifier-f-3-86-bs, infobank-identifier-f-4-86-bs, little-sitkin-island, marine-basin-floor, marine-geology, marine-geophysics, marine-oceanic, ocean-gt-pacific-ocean, ocean-gt-pacific-ocean-gt-north-pacific-ocean, ocean-gt-pacific-ocean-gt-north-pacific-ocean-gt-bering-sea, oceans, oceans-gt-ocean-acoustics-gt-acoustic-reflectivity, physical-habitats-and-geomorphology, pribilof-canyon, sea-floor-acoustic-reflectivity, sea-floor-characteristics, seabed, semisopochnoi-island, shemya-island, side-scan-sonar, sidescan-sonar, sidescan-sonar-mosaic, u-s-geological-survey, umnak-plateau, usgs, usgs-3e0beae1-f45f-450a-9aed-7aab13fda0aa, wcmg, western-coastal-and-marine-geology, zhemchug-canyon
Organization: Department of the Interior