AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Radar and optical mapping of surge persistence and marsh dieback along the New Jersey Mid-Atlantic coast after Hurricane Sandy

This study combined a radar-based time series of Hurricane Sandy surge and estimated persistence with optical sensor-based marsh condition change to assess potential causal linkages of surge persistence and marsh condition change along the New Jersey Atlantic Ocean coast. Results based on processed TerraSAR-X and COSMO-SkyMed synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images indicated that surge flooding persisted for 12 h past landfall in marshes from Great Bay to Great Egg Harbor Bay and up to 59 h after landfall in many back-barrier lagoon marshes. Marsh condition change (i.e. loss of green marsh vegetation) was assessed from optical satellite images (Satellite Pour l’Observation de la Terre and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) collected before and after Hurricane Sandy. High change in condition often showed spatial correspondence, with high surge persistence in marsh surrounding the lagoon portion of Great Bay, while in contrast, low change and high persistence spatial correspondence dominated the interior marshes of the Great Bay and Great Egg Harbor Bay estuaries. Salinity measurements suggest that these areas were influenced by freshwater discharges after landfall possibly mitigating damage. Back-barrier marshes outside these regions exhibited mixed correspondences. In some cases, topographic features supporting longer surge persistence suggested that non-correspondence between radar and optical data-based results may be due to differential resilience; however, in many cases, reference information was lacking to determine a reason for non-correspondence.

Tags: coincidence, hurricane-sandy, marsh-condition, surge-persistence, usgs-57f28685e4b0bc0bebfff9c0
Organization: Department of the Interior
3D point cloud data from laser scanning along the 2014 South Napa Earthquake surface rupture, California, USA

Point cloud data collected along a 500 meter portion of the 2014 South Napa Earthquake surface rupture near Cuttings Wharf Road, Napa, CA, USA. The data include 7 point cloud files (.laz). The files are named with the location and date of collection and either ALSM for airborne laser scanner data or TLS for terrestrial laser scanner data. The ALSM data re previously released but are included here because they have been precisely aligned with the TLS data as described in the processing section of this metadata. 
The included files are:  
Napa_CuttingsWharf_TLS_31082015_utm.laz 
Napa_CuttingsWharf_TLS_27022015_utm.laz 
Napa_CuttingsWharf_TLS_26082014_utm.laz 
Napa_CuttingsWharf_TLS_22102014_utm.laz 
Napa_CuttingsWharf_TLS_15092014_utm.laz 
Napa_CuttingsWharf_ALSM_09092014_utm.laz 
Napa_CuttingsWharf_ALSM_xx052003_utm.laz

Tags: lidar, usgs-57f26aebe4b0bc0bebfff915
Organization: Department of the Interior
Continuous and optimized 3-arcsecond elevation model for the United States east coast (32-bit GeoTiff, geographic, NAD83)

Investigations of coastal change and coastal resources often require continuous elevation profiles from the seafloor to coastal terrestrial landscapes. Differences in elevation data collection in the terrestrial and marine environments result in separate elevation products that may not share a vertical datum. This data release contains the compilation of multiple elevation products into a continuous digital elevation model at a resolution of 3-arcseconds (approximately 90 meters) from the terrestrial landscape to the seafloor for the contiguous U.S. and portions of Mexico and Canada, focused on the coastal interface. All datasets were converted to a consistent horizontal datum, the North American Datum of 1983, but the native vertical datum for each dataset was not adjusted. Artifacts in the source elevation products were identified visually and replaced with other available elevation products when possible, corrected using various spatial tools, or otherwise marked for future correction.

Tags: alabama, bathymetry, chesapeake-bay, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, connecticut, delaware, depth, digital-bathymetry, digital-elevation-models, elevation, florida, georgia, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, gridded-data, gulf-of-maine, gulf-of-mexico, long-island, louisiana, maine, maryland, massachusetts, middle-atlantic-bight, mississippi, morphology, national-oceanic-and-atmospheric-association, new-england, new-hampshire, new-jersey, new-york, noaa, north-carolina, northwestern-atlantic-ocean, oceans, rhode-island, sea-floor, sea-floor-topography, south-atlantic-bight, south-carolina, texas, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-57f2667ae4b0bc0bebfff906, virginia, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Bathymetric survey of the Brandon Road Dam Spillway, Joliet, Illinois

Bathymetric survey data of the Brandon Road Dam spillway was collected on May 27 and May 28, 2015 by the US Geological Survey (USGS) using Trimble Real-Time Kinematic Global Positioning System (RTK-GPS) equipment. The base station was set up over a temporarily installed survey pin on both days. This pin was surveyed into an existing NGS benchmark (PID: BBCN12) within the Brandon Road Lock property. In wadeable sections, a GPS rover with 2.0 meter range pole and flat-foot was deployed. In sections unable to be waded, a 2.0 meter range pole was fix-mounted to a jon boat, and a boat-mounted Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) was used to collect the depth data. ADCP depth data were reviewed in the WinRiver II software and exported for processing with the Velocity Mapping Toolbox (Parsons and others, 2013). The RTK-GPS survey points of the water surface elevations were used to convert ADCP-measured depths into bed elevations. An InSitu Level Troll collected 1-minute water level data throughout the two day survey. These data were used to verify that a flat-pool assumption was reasonable for the conversion of the ADCP data to bed elevations given the measurement precision of the ADCP. An OPUS solution was acquired for each survey day.
Parsons, D. R., Jackson, P. R., Czuba, J. A., Engel, F. L., Rhoads, B. L., Oberg, K. A., Best, J. L., Mueller, D. S., Johnson, K. K. and Riley, J. D. (2013), Velocity Mapping Toolbox (VMT): a processing and visualization suite for moving-vessel ADCP measurements. Earth Surf. Process. Landforms, 38: 1244–1260. doi: 10.1002/esp.3367

Tags: acoustic-doppler-current-profiling, bathymetry, brandon-road-lock-and-dam, des-plaines-river, gps-measurement, illinois, usgs-57f1b924e4b0bc0bebfee12b, will-county
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 -- Points for the top of the Lower Floridan aquifer below the LISAPCU, constrained

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 data points used to 
generate the Lower Floridan aquifer below the LISAPCU raster. It also includes additional 
points used to constrain the surface to land surface.

Tags: alabama, altitude, below, confining-unit, environment, first, florida, floridan-aquifer-system, geology, georgia, geoscientificinformation, hydrogeology, inlandwaters, lisapcu, lisbon-avon-park, lower-floridan, permeable-zone, regional-groundwater-availability-study, south-carolina, stratigraphy, top, united-states-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-57eefbae-8078-4bc2-a9ba-6b28d5463a8c
Organization: Department of the Interior
Groundwater Quality Data from the National Water Quality Assessment Project, May 2012 through December 2013: data tables and metadata files

Groundwater-quality data were collected from 748 wells as part of the National Water-Quality Assessment Project of the U.S. Geological Survey National Water-Quality Program from May 2012 through December 2013. The data were collected from four types of well networks: principal aquifer study networks, which assess the quality of groundwater used for public water supply; land-use study networks, which assess land-use effects on shallow groundwater quality; major aquifer study networks, which assess the quality of groundwater used for domestic supply; and enhanced trends networks, which evaluate the time scales during which groundwater quality changes. Groundwater samples were analyzed for a large number of water-quality indicators and constituents, including major ions, nutrients, trace elements, volatile organic compounds, pesticides, and radionuclides. These groundwater quality data are tabulated in a U.S. Geological Survey Data Series Report DS-997 which is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ds997 and in this data release. Quality-control samples also were collected; data from blank and replicate quality-control samples are included in the related report (DS-997) and this data release.
This compressed file contains 28 files of groundwater-quality data in ASCII text tab-delimited format and 28 corresponding metadata in xml format for wells sampled for the U.S. Geological Survey National Water-Quality Assessment Project, May 2012 through December 2013.

Tags: groundwater, usgs-57ee8178e4b00abc11480d57, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectroscopy of Filtrate from Lung Tissue Biopsies

We developed and tested a new method for in situ characterization and distribution of inorganic particles in biopsied lung tissue from three diverse human subject groups using field emission scanning electron microscopy with an energy dispersive analyzer. The ICP-MS data table provides the concentrations of elements (in parts per billion) analyzed in the filtrate solutions from the tissue digestion method. This step was done to help determine if the phases identified during the in situ examination might dissolve during tissue digestion in a bleach solution.

Tags: afghanistan, biopsy, colorado, denver, edison, energy-dispersive-spectroscopy, health, inductively-coupled-plasma-mass-spectroscopy-icp-ms, international-institute-for-the-advancement-of-medicine, iraq, lung, lung-tissue, mass-spectroscopy, national-jewish-health, particulate-matter, phase-spectra, scanning-electron-microscopy, tissue, usgs-580e58f2e4b0f497e794b65f
Organization: Department of the Interior
Lake Michigan Fish Acoustic Data from 2011 to 2016

Each line in the file “Lake Michigan fish acoustic data from 2011 to 2016.csv” represents the acoustic data and estimated fish density for a single depth layer of water. Surveys are conducted along transects, transects are divided horizontally into successive intervals, and then within an interval there are multiple successive depth layers.  Area backscattering (ABC), mean acoustic size (sigma), and fish density are reported for each unique transect-interval – layer from Lake Michigan in the years 2011-2016.  Area backscattering (PRC_ABC), mean acoustic size (sigma), and fish density in the intervals and layers of acoustic survey transects of Lake Michigan in the years 2011-2016.  The survey is carried out using a stratified, systematic design with transect locations randomized within each stratum.  As a result, transect location varies each year.

Tags: environment, fish, fishery-resources, hydroacoustic, inlandwaters, usgs-57ed22cfe4b090825011d3f5
Organization: Department of the Interior
Particulate Matter Identification in Lung Tissue from Deployers, Positive, and Negative controls Using Scanning Electron Microscopy and Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (2013-2016)

We developed and tested a new method for in situ characterization and distribution of inorganic particles in biopsied lung tissue from three diverse human subject groups using field emission scanning electron microscopy with an energy dispersive analyzer. Backscattered electron and secondary electron images of particulate matter in lung tissue were acquired. Inorganic particulate matter in the field of view of the image was analyzed using energy dispersive spectroscopy and subsequently identified and cataloged.

Tags: afghanistan, biopsy, colorado, denver, edison, energy-dispersive-spectroscopy, health, inductively-coupled-plasma-mass-spectroscopy-icp-ms, international-institute-for-the-advancement-of-medicine, iraq, lung, lung-tissue, mass-spectroscopy, national-jewish-health, new-jersey, particulate-matter, phase-spectra, scanning-electron-microscopy, tissue, usgs-57ec2b60e4b090825010b86b
Organization: Department of the Interior
Continuous and optimized 3-arcsecond elevation model for the United States west coast (32-bit GeoTiff, geographic, NAD83)

Investigations of coastal change and coastal resources often require continuous elevation profiles from the seafloor to coastal terrestrial landscapes. Differences in elevation data collection in the terrestrial and marine environments result in separate elevation products that may not share a vertical datum. This data release contains the assimilation of multiple elevation products into a continuous digital elevation model at a resolution of 3-arcseconds (approximately 90 meters) from the terrestrial landscape to the seafloor for the contiguous U.S., focused on the coastal interface. All datasets were converted to a consistent horizontal datum, the North American Datum of 1983, but the native vertical datum for each dataset was not adjusted. Artifacts in the source elevation products were replaced with other available elevation products when possible, corrected using various spatial tools, or otherwise marked for future correction.

Tags: bathymetry, california, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, depth, digital-bathymetry, digital-elevation-models, elevation, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, gridded-data, gulf-of-the-farallones, monterey-bay, morphology, national-oceanic-and-atmospheric-association, noaa, oceans, oregon, puget-sound, san-francisco-bay, sea-floor, sea-floor-topography, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-57ebe8dbe4b09082500ef4ad, washington, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Elevation artifacts in digital bathymetric and topographic models for United States east (east_cdem_v1.tif) and west (west_cdem_v.tif) coasts (polygon shapefile, geographic, NAD83)

Investigations of coastal change and coastal resources often require continuous elevation profiles from the seafloor to coastal terrestrial landscapes. Differences in elevation data collection in the terrestrial and marine environments result in separate elevation products that may not share a vertical datum. This data release contains the assimilation of multiple elevation products into a continuous digital elevation model at a resolution of 3-arcseconds (approximately 90 meters) from the terrestrial landscape to the seafloor for the contiguous U.S., focused on the coastal interface. All datasets were converted to a consistent horizontal datum, the North American Datum of 1983, but the native vertical datum for each dataset was not adjusted. Artifacts in the source elevation products were replaced with other available elevation products when possible, corrected using various spatial tools, or otherwise marked for future correction. This data release contains the assimilation of multiple elevation products into a continuous digital elevation model at a resolution of 3-arcseconds (approximately 90 meters) from the terrestrial landscape to the seafloor for the contiguous U.S. that were constructed using this shapefile.

Tags: alabama, california, canadian-hydrographic-service, chesapeake-bay, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, connecticut, delaware, depth, digital-elevation-models, florida, florida-keys, georgia, geoscientificinformation, gulf-of-maine, gulf-of-mexico, land-surface-characteristics, long-island, louisiana, maine, maryland, massachusetts, middle-atlantic-bight, mississippi, national-oceanic-and-atmospheric-association, new-england, new-jersey, new-york, noaa, north-carolina, northwestern-atlantic-ocean, oceans, oregon, puget-sound, south-atlantic-bight, south-carolina, texas, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-57ebe895e4b09082500ef4a8, vector-data, virginia, washington, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Bathymetric surface of lower Sixmile Creek reservoir, Ithaca, New York, 1938

Water depths for the lower Sixmile Creek reservoir in Ithaca, Tompkins County, N.Y. that were measured during 1938 were found in the files of the GIS Program, City of Ithaca. This agency computed bathymetric elevations and created a bathymetric surface (TIN) of the reservoir.

Tags: bathymetry-data, ithaca-ny, new-york, sixmile-creek, tompkins-county-ny, usgs-57eac975e4b09082500db1a1
Organization: Department of the Interior
Transect points collected during bathymetric survey of lower Sixmile Creek reservoir, Ithaca, New York, 2015

Water depths were measured during November 2015 and bathymetric elevations were computed for the lower Sixmile Creek reservoir in Ithaca, Tompkins County, N.Y. These data include ADCP-measured transect data and manually-measured point data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey, Ithaca, N.Y., during November 16-20, 2015. These data were used by the GIS Program, City of Ithaca, N.Y., to create a bathymetric surface (TIN) of the reservoir.

Tags: bathymetry-data, ithaca-ny, new-york, single-beam-echo-sounder, sixmile-creek, tompkins-county-ny, usgs-57eac657e4b09082500db18b
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data in support of manuscript "Evaluation of Chemical Control for Invasive Crayfish at a Warmwater Fish Production Hatchery"

Invasive crayfish are known to displace native crayfish species, alter aquatic habitat and community structure and function, and are serious pests for fish hatcheries.  White River Crawfish (WRC; Procambarus acutus) were inadvertently introduced to a warm-water fish hatchery in Missouri, USA, possibly in an incoming fish shipment.  We evaluated the use of chemical control for crayfish to ensure incoming and outgoing fish shipments from hatcheries do not contain live crayfish.  We conducted acute (less than or equal to 24 hr) static toxicity tests to determine potency, dose-response, and selectivity of pesticides to WRC, Virile Crayfish (VC; Orconectes virilis), and Fathead Minnow (FHM; Pimephales promelas). Data included are: Collection location and size of test organisms; Test chemical concentrations and recovery; Mortality and effect-based responses of test organisms; Water quality of test solutions

Tags: blind-pony-hatchery, chemical-control, cypermethrin, invasive-crayfish, missouri, orconectes-virilis, pimephales-promelas, procambarus-acutus, saline-county, sweet-springs, usa, usgs-57eaa528e4b09082500db05c
Organization: Department of the Interior
Isotopic and chemical composition (δ13C, Δ14C, δ15N, C:N, SUVA254nm, % HPOA) of aquatic carbon and field conditions (water temperature, pH, discharge) in the Upper Mississippi River Basin, October 2014 – February 2016

This dataset contains stable isotope (δ13C) and radioisotope (Δ14C) compositions of dissolved inorganic carbon, dissolved organic carbon, particulate organic carbon, and bed material organic carbon samples collected from rivers in the Upper Mississippi River Basin between October 2014 and February 2016. Rivers were sampled at USGS gaging stations: Minnesota River at Fort Snelling State Park, MN (gage #05330920), Mississippi River at Hwy 610 in Brooklyn Park, MN (gage #05288500), St. Croix River at Prescott, WI (gage #05344490), Mississippi River at Prescott, WI (gage #05344500), and Chippewa River at Durand, WI (gage #05369500). One site was also sampled at a location that is not co-located with a gaging station: Mississippi River at Wabasha (44.38772, -92.03616). Each site was sampled approximately every 3 months.

Tags: biogeochemistry, carbon-cycling, carbon-isotope-analysis, chippewa-river-1578997, minnesota-river-659759, mississippi-river-1629903, river-systems, saint-croix-river-662324, usgs-57e943a9e4b09082500c9129
Organization: Department of the Interior
Concentrations of arsenic in water from public-supply and domestic wells in New Hampshire (2004-2006)

Groundwater samples from public and private drinking water wells throughout the state of New Hampshire were analyzed for total Arsenic (As). Samples were collected after pH, specific conductivity, dissolved oxygen, and water temperature had met stabilization criteria as outlined in the USGS National Field Manual (United States Geological Survey 2005).The As analyses were carried out in the geochemistry laboratory in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of New Hampshire (UNH). Not including replicate analysis, a total of 527 samples were analyzed via a hydride generator-inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (HG-ICP-MS) using a Cetac HGX-200 plumbed into a Nu Instruments Attom high-resolution inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer following procedures adapted from Klaue and Blum (1999). Diluted aliquots of sample were run in triplicate, and the reported uncertainty is the standard deviation on the mean of these analyses. Generally, the data have a detection limit of ~ 0.2 μg/L as determined from repeated assessment of analytical blanks and using the conventional approach of defining the detection limit as the mean blank + ten times the standard deviation around the mean blank.   
These data are sensitive as they include sampling locations from privately owned wells, hence, latitude and longitude information is not included with the data set.

Tags: arsenic, drinking-water, groundwater, usgs-57e55dd1e4b09082500727f6
Organization: Department of the Interior
Sampled Sites 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, 2012). 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 riparian zones. This dataset represents the 100 water-chemistry sites sampled for the MSQA, and is one of the four fundamental geospatial data layers that were developed for the Midwest study.

Tags: 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, rsqa, sampling-site, site, south-dakota, usgs-57e456d8e4b0908250060fa9, wisconsin
Organization: Department of the Interior