AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Grass Carp detections via stationary receivers and manual tracking on Truman Reservoir, MO, January 2017 to October 2019

Diploid and triploid Grass Carp (Ctenopharyngodon Idella) tagged with acoustic transmitters were observed in Truman Reservoir, Missouri from January 2017 to October 2019 to determine longitudinal movements potentially associated with spawning. Passive acoustic receivers were deployed throughout the reservoir and its tributaries to monitor fish movements as they traversed up and downstream. This dataset consists of the detections made by passive receivers and those made by manual tracking.

Tags: benton-county, biota, grass-carp, harry-s-truman-reservior, hickory-county, invasive-species, migration-behavior, missouri, movement-ecology, seasonal-migration, spawning, st-clair-county, usgs-63c70626d34e92aad3d1210c
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 -- Polygon regions of low-permeability units forming the MAPCU

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 polygon regions of units 
that form the base of the Upper Floridan aquifer. The regions are defined by geographic and 
hydraulic properties.

Tags: alabama, confining-unit, environment, florida, floridan-aquifer-system, geology, georgia, geoscientificinformation, hydrogeology, inlandwaters, mapcu, middle-avon-park, regional-groundwater-availability-study, regions, south-carolina, stratigraphy, united-states-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-b02b88ab-0872-4379-bac8-7f7ae27d505d
Organization: Department of the Interior
Estimated crop irrigation water use withdrawals in Hualapai Valley Groundwater Basin, Arizona for 2021

Observations of irrigated agricultural land within the Hualapai Valley Groundwater Basin in Arizona. Crops were verified in situ once in 2021 on May 20th; based on digitized field boundaries. Field boundaries were digitized from U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Imagery Program images dated 2021 and supplemented with Landsat and Sentinel2 imagery collections accessed via the Sentinel Hub, Sentinel Playground (https://apps.sentinel-hub.com/sentinel-playground). Satellite images were also used to identify the length of the growing season and crop condition. Water withdrawals were calculated using the modified Blaney-Criddle model of calculating consumptive use (U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1992 appendix A) using crop coefficients from Doorenbos and Pruitt (1975), the number of acres with active crops, crop condition, and irrigation system efficiency. The withdrawal equation was modified from "Water withdrawals for irrigation, municipal, mining, thermoelectric-power, and drainage uses in Arizona outside of active management areas, 1991-2000" (Tadayon, 2005) to account for variations in water application.

Tags: agricultural-sites, arizona, groundwater, hualapai-valley-groundwater-basin, irrigation, mohave, usgs-62cf2c53d34e82ff904acb4a, water-use
Organization: Department of the Interior
An Unvegetated to Vegetated Ratio (UVVR) for coastal wetlands of the Gulf of Mexico Coast - 1998

Prior research has shown that sediment budgets, and therefore stability, of microtidal marsh complexes scale with areal unvegetated to vegetated marsh ratios (UVVR) suggesting these metrics are broadly applicable indicators of microtidal marsh vulnerability. This effort has developed the UVVR metric using readily available satellite imagery for the coastal areas of the contiguous United States (CONUS). These datasets provide annual averages of the 1) unvegetated fraction, 2) vegetated fraction, 3) water fraction and 4) an unvegetated to vegetated ratio (UVVR) at 30-meter resolution over the coastal areas of the contiguous United States for the year 1998. Additionally, multi-year average values of vegetated ratio, its standard deviation and a UVVR based on the annually-averaged vegetated ratio are provided for the coastal wetlands of the contiguous United States.

Tags: alabama, coastal-wetlands, conterminous-united-states, florida, fractional-cover, gulf-of-mexico-coast, louisiana, mississippi, texas, unvegetated, unvegetated-to-vegetated-ratio, usgs-66e1cf66d34ecba8b8677819, uvvr, vegetation, wetland-change, wetland-gain, wetland-loss, wetlands
Organization: Department of the Interior
Dataset of Estimated Use of Water by Subbasin (HUC8) in the Colorado River Basin, Southwestern United States,1985-2010

The Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-11) was passed into law on March 30, 2009. Sub-title F of the law, also known as the SECURE (Science and Engineering to Comprehensively Understand and Responsibly Enhance) Water Act, calls for the establishment of a “national water availability and use assessment program” in the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The recommendation for a national assessment of the available water resources was driven by the lack of such an assessment since 1978. In fulfillment of the Act, the USGS developed the National Water Census (NWC), under the auspices of the USGS Water Availability and Use Program, and as part of that activity, among others, collected water withdrawal and wastewater return data, including instream use at hydroelectric powerplants (water use) for purposes of expanding upon national datasets and providing these data to assist in hydrologic studies of the Colorado River Basin. The NWC uses regional geographic studies, of which the Colorado River Basin was one of three pilot study areas, and topical-themed studies that are designed to improve the understanding of resources such as streamflow at non-streamgaged sites, ecological flows, groundwater/surface-water interactions, and effects of snow sublimation on timing and quantity of runoff.  These datasets present instream and offstream water use estimates in 5 year intervals from 1985 to 2010 which are aggregated to the 8-digit (subbasin) hydrologic unit level for the Colorado River Basin.  
These digital  data accompany Maupin, M.A., Ivahnenko T. and Bruce, B., 2018,  Estimates of water use and trends in the Colorado River Basin, southwestern United States, 1985-2010: U.S.Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2018-5049, 61 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20185049 .

Tags: arizona, california, colorado, colorado-river, colorado-river-basin, nevada, new-mexico, usgs-5abbf89fe4b081f61abd5bee, utah, water-use, water-withdrawals, withdrawals, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Boundary of the southwestern Nevada volcanic field from Laczniak and others (1996), for the Death Valley regional ground-water flow system study, Nevada and California

This digital data set defines the boundary of the southwestern Nevada volcanic field (SWNVF), 
an area of thick, regionally distributed volcanic rocks within the Death Valley regional ground-
water flow system (DVRFS), a 100,000-square-kilometer region of southern Nevada and California. 
The SWNVF boundary encompasses an approximate 12,000 square-kilometer region and is 
based on a map of hydrogeologic controls on ground-water flow by Laczniak and others (1996). 
The SWNVF is characterized in part by a thick section of regionally distributed welded tuffs 
derived from a central complex of nested calderas that erupted from about 16 Ma to 5 Ma.  
The SWNVF boundary defines the extent of these particular volcanics and was used to 
distinguish material property zones in the DVRFS.  These zone arrays are used as input to 
the DVRFS transient ground-water flow model, a regional-scale model developed by the U.S. 
Geological Survey (USGS) for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to support investigations 
at the Nevada Test Site (NTS) and at Yucca Mountain, Nevada (see "Larger Work Citation", 
Chapter A, page 8, for details).

Tags: amargosa-desert, ash-meadows, california, california-valley, chicago-valley, china-ranch, clark-county, clayton-valley, coal-valley, death-valley, death-valley-regional-ground-water-flow-system, environment, esmeralda-county, eureka-valley, flow-model, franklin-lake, franklin-well, garden-valley, geoscientificinformation, ground-water, hydrogeologic-material-property, hydrogeology, hydrology, inlandwaters, inyo-county, kern-county, las-vegas-valley, lincoln-county, mesquite-valley, mineral-county, mono-county, nevada, nevada-test-site, nonwelded-tuffs, nye-county, oasis-valley, owlshead-mountains, pahranagat-range, pahrump-valley, panamint-range, penoyer-valley, railroad-valley, resting-spring, saline-valley, san-bernadino-county, sarcobatus-flat, sheep-range, shoshone, silurian-valley, southern-nevada, southwest-nevada-volcanic-field, spring-mountains, stewart-valley, stone-cabin-valley, tecopa, transient-ground-water-model, tuffs, usgs-b12ef33e-a035-4210-8716-1a5505c1f009, volcanic-rocks, welded-tuffs, yucca-mountain
Organization: Department of the Interior
Topographic reference points in Nevada for the regional ground-water potential map by Bedinger and Harrill (2004), Death Valley regional ground-water flow system, Nevada and California

This digital data set is a compilation of reference points representing surface-water features, 
ground-water levels, and topographic settings in Nevada that were used for the regional 
ground-water potential map by Bedinger and Harrill (2004).  The regional ground-water-
potential map was developed to assess potential interbasin flow in the Death Valley 
regional ground-water flow system (DVRFS), a 100,000-square-kilometer region of 
southern Nevada and California. To obtain an adequate network of control points, 
Bedinger and Harrill (2004) also used regional potential altitudes derived from springs 
and deep well data. A set of general guidelines was developed to relate regional 
ground-water potential to these more readily observed surface and near-surface 
ground-water levels and to hydrologic characteristics of ground-water basins in the 
DVRFS (see "Larger Work Citation", Appendix 1).

Tags: amargosa-desert, ash-meadows, california-valley, chicago-valley, china-ranch, clark-county, clayton-valley, coal-valley, death-valley, death-valley-regional-ground-water-flow-system, eastern-california, esmeralda-county, eureka-valley, evapotranspiration, flow-model, franklin-lake, garden-valley, ground-water, ground-water-discharge, ground-water-pumping, ground-water-recharge, hydraulic-conductivity, hydraulic-head, hydraulic-head-observation, hydrogeologic-framework-model, hydrogeology, hydrology, inyo-county, kern-county, las-vegas-valley, lateral-ground-water-flow, lateral-ground-water-model-boundary, lincoln-county, mesquite-valley, mineral-county, mono-county, net-infiltration, nevada, nevada-test-site, nye-county, oasis-valley, owlshead-mountains, pahranagat-range, pahrump-valley, panamint-range, penoyer-valley, railroad-valley, resting-spring, saline-valley, san-bernardino-county, sarcobatus-flat, sheep-range, shoshone, silurian-valley, southern-nevada, spring-flow, spring-mountains, steady-state-ground-water-model, stewart-valley, stone-cabin-valley, tecopa, transient-ground-water-model, usgs-17baab89-371c-4aba-9ac6-83e9812c4de4, water-level, water-well, yucca-mountain
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data collected in 2010 to evaluate habitat availability for surf smelt and eelgrass in response to sea level rise on Bainbridge Island, Puget Sound, Washington, USA

This dataset includes biological variables showing surf smelt spawning presence, geological variables describing beach composition, and sample locations using RTK-GPS.   This field data was also used to run the Sea Level Affecting Marshes Model (SLAMM; Warren Pinnacle Consulting, Inc., Warren, Vt)) to predict the changes to beaches over time, and under different sea level rise scenarios.  Field sampling took place on the northern part of Bainbridge Island, Puget Sound, Washington during summer and fall of 2010.

Tags: bainbridge-island, climate-change, ecology, eelgrass, environment, fay-bainbridge, geoscientificinformation, hypomesus-pretiosus, oceans, point-monroe, puget-sound, sea-level-affecting-marshes-model, sea-level-rise, state-of-washington, surf-smelt, united-states, usgs-5ed93bbd82ce7e579c6755c3, zostera-marina
Organization: Department of the Interior
Short-horned lizard probability of occurrence in the Wyoming Basins Ecoregional Assessment area

Probability map of short-horned Lizard occurrence in relation to vegetation, abiotic, and anthropogenic features.

Tags: biota, colorado, environment, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, idaho, modeling, montana, probability-of-occurrence, scientific-interpretation, short-horned-lizard, shrubland-ecosystems, usgs-6488c89cd34ef77fcafe3fd4, utah, western-united-states, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
SEABOSS Images from the Cruise RAFA09059 in JPEG Format (RAFA09059_BPHOTOGRAPHS)

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 H11251 offshore of Rocky Point, New York and during November 2009, bottom photographs and surficial sediment data were acquired as part of a ground-truth reconnaissance survey of this area. Interpretive data layers were derived from the multibeam echo-sounder and sidescan-sonar data 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=2009-059-FA.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, bottom-photographs, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, digital-photo, field-activity-number-09059, geoscientificinformation, ground-truth, image-collections, jpeg, long-island, long-island-sound, new-york, north-america, oceans, ofr-2010-1007, open-file-report-2010-1007, r-v-rafael, rocky-point, sea-floor, sea-floor-characteristics, seaboss, stations, u-s-geological-survey, underwater-photography, united-states, usgs, usgs-8563fd30-7c1c-484e-8c78-38b931993dc7, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Polyline Shapefile of Bottom Video Tracklines from Cruise SUN03002

Pulley Ridge is a series of drowned barrier islands that extends almost 200 km in 60-100 m water depths. This drowned ridge is located on the Florida Platform in the southeastern Gulf of Mexico about 250 km west of Cape Sable, Florida. This barrier island chain formed during the initial stage of the Holocene marine transgression. These islands were then submerged and left abandoned near the outer edge of the Florida Platform. The southern portion of Pulley Ridge hosts zooxanthellate scleractinian corals, green, red and brown macro algae, and a mix of deep and typically shallow-water tropical fishes. This reef community is in unusually deep water, and its extent and the controls on its distribution were unknown. To address these questions scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey Coastal and Marine Geology Program in cooperation with scientists from the University of South Florida Department of Marine Sciences have completed a detailed mapping of the southernmost 35 km of Pulley Ridge. The area was mapped using multibeam bathymetry, sidescan-sonar imagery, and high-resolution seismic-reflection profiling to define the geologic framework on which the reef is established. Submersible dives, remotely operated vehicle (ROV) transects, and transects of bottom photographs and video were collected to identify the corals and to map their distribution. This extensive suite of data has been compiled and preliminary analysis of the data suggests that the reefs are not tied to the ridge system, but instead are more broadly distributed. Whether reef distribution is controlled by oceanographic conditions or by subtle differences in the substrate that overlies the barrier island system is unclear, and are topics of continued research.

Tags: bottom-photo, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, coral, coral-reef, field-activity-identifier-s-1-03-fl, field-activity-serial-number-03002, florida, florida-shelf, geospatial-datasets, gulf-of-mexico, images, location, navigation, navigational-data, north-america, oceans, of-2005-1089, open-file-report, polyline, pulley-ridge, reef, seaboss, shapefile, u-s-geological-survey, underwater-photography, united-states, usgs, usgs-782d3781-30f4-45b8-a0bf-bb1e1225daa4, video, woods-hole-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
National Water-Well Database (NWWDB): State Water-Well Records for Minnesota

This Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) GeoPackage (.gpkg) contains water-well point features and associated tables for the state of Minnesota that have been reformatted based on a USGS profile of the OGC GroundWaterML2 (GWML2) standard (https://docs.ogc.org/is/19-013/19-013.html). The water-well records provided in this data set have not received additional processing or interpretation by the USGS beyond the GWML2 standardization.
The National Water-Well Database (NWWDB) is a compilation of water-well records from state-managed databases that have been standardized to a common format for consistency across state and administrative boundaries. Water-well completion reports that are submitted to permitting state agencies by licensed drillers constitute a large source of hydrogeologic information, including the locations and distribution of water wells, construction materials and completion depths, lithologic logs, groundwater levels, and the results of pumping or aquifer tests.

Tags: bedrock-geologic-units, data-integration, environment, geography, geoscientificinformation, groundwater, groundwater-level, hydrogeology, inlandwaters, minnesota, north-america, stratigraphy, unconsolidated-deposits, united-states, usgs-63065d7ed34e3b967a8bd833, water-budget, well-drilling
Organization: Department of the Interior
Spatial distribution of layer-averaged velocity (0-4 m above the bed) measured in the ACL slip on the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal near Lemont, IL (December 7, 2010)

These data were collected using a 1200 kHz TRDI Rio Grande acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) in mode 12 with 25 centimeter bins from a moving boat.  The data were georeferenced with a Hemisphere Crescent A100 differential Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver with submeter accuracy.  The data have been layer-averaged over the lower  portion of the water column (0 to 4 meters above the bed).  These data were collected by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) concurrently with environmental DNA (eDNA) sampling in this reach of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). Data were processed using the Velocity Mapping Toolbox (Parsons and others, 2013). NOTE: Any data assigned a value of "-9999" are bad or missing data and should not be used for analysis.
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: chicago-sanitary-and-ship-canal, cook-county, illinois, usgs-5706845fe4b032f77a8a44c6, velocity
Organization: Department of the Interior
LEAN-Corrected Chesapeake Bay Digital Elevation Models, 2019

Lidar-derived digital elevation models often contain a vertical bias due to vegetation. In areas with tidal influence the amount of bias can be ecologically significant, for example, by decreasing the expected inundation frequency. We generated a corrected digital elevation mode (DEM) for Chesapeake Bay using a modification of the Lidar Elevation Adjustment with NDVI (LEAN) technique (Buffington et al. 2016). GPS survey data (3699 points, collected across four tidal marsh sites (Eastern Neck, Bishops Head, Martin, and Blackwater) in 2010 and 2017, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) derived from an airborne multispectral image (2013), a 1 m lidar DEM and a 1 m canopy surface model were used to generate models of predicted bias across the study domain. The modeled predicted bias for each cover type was then subtracted from the original lidar DEM to generate a new DEM.  Across all GPS points, mean initial lidar error was -1.0 centimeters (SD=12.8) and root-mean squared error (RMSE) was 12.8 centimeters. After correction with LEAN, mean error was 0 cm (SD=6.4) and RMSE was 6.4 cm, a 50 percent improvement in accuracy. 
References:
Buffington, K.J., Dugger, B.D., Thorne, K.M. and Takekawa, J.Y., 2016. Statistical correction of lidar-derived digital elevation models with multispectral airborne imagery in tidal marshes. Remote Sensing of Environment, 186, pp.616-625.     

Tags: biota, digital-elevation-models, estuary, lidar, usgs-5d40de0ee4b01d82ce8da08a, wetlands
Organization: Department of the Interior
Migration Routes of Elk in North Bighorn Herd in Wyoming

Elk (Cervus elpahus canadensis) within the northern section of the Bighorn Mountains display altitudinal migration. In the spring, they migrate from the eastern foothills up into the mountains, and in the fall, they head back down to lower elevations (fig. 67). The herd, which numbers around 5,500, primarily winters along the eastern foothills of the northern Bighorn Mountains just west of Sheridan, though some will winter north towards Bighorn Canyon. Winter ranges are a mix of shrubs and herbaceous grasslands, largely supported by private land. During migration animals travel an average one-way distance of 21 mi (34 km) ranging from as little as 5 mi (8 km) to as far as 83 mi (134 km). In spring, animals migrate off winter range and head west up the eastern side of the Bighorn Mountains. They traverse up the slopes generally following clearings between extensive pine forests. Summer ranges consist of evergreen forests that are predominantly lodgepole pine with smaller areas of open herbaceous grasslands. The summer range is almost entirely within the Bighorn National Forest. The population size of the herd has remained relatively steady over the last decade. While there is a higher concern for the animals on their winter range because it largely consists of private land, their migration routes are much safer because they are relatively short, do not cross any highways and are for the most part within the National Forest.
These data provide the location of migration routes for elk in the North Bighorn population in Wyoming. They were developed from 109 migration sequences collected from a sample size of 63 animals comprising GPS locations collected every 2 hours.

Tags: animal-behavior, migration-organisms, migration-route, migratory-species, north-bighorn, united-states, usgs-620e4ab0d34e6c7e83baa360, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Russian River Integrated Hydrologic Model (RRIHM): Stream Network Flow Accumulation

This dataset provides a flow accumulation raster for the stream network. It displays the accumulated weight of all cells flowing into each downslope cell in a raster. The flow accumulation raster was generated using a flow direction raster, which was created from an elevation raster.

Tags: california, environment, groundwater, groundwater-and-surface-water-interaction, groundwater-level, hydrology, modeling, precipitation, russian-river, streamflow, surface-water-non-marine, united-states, usgs-64a381d2d34ef77fcb0578ff, water-resources
Organization: Department of the Interior