AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2016 Site 0514 land-water classification data

Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring efforts to determine the efficacy of these efforts. The Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) was developed to assist in a multiple-reference approach that uses aspects of hydrogeomorphic functional assessments and probabilistic sampling for monitoring. The CRMS program includes a suite of approximately 390 sites that encompass the range of hydrological and ecological conditions for each stratum. As part of CRMS, land and water classifications are created from Digital Orthophoto Quarter Quadrangles (DOQQs) approximately every three years at all CRMS sites. A DOQQ is a raster image in which displacement in the image caused by sensor orientation and terrain relief has been removed and combines the image characteristics of a photo with geometric qualities of a map. The DOQQs generated for this project consist of 2016 Color Infrared (CIR) Digital Imagery. These images were classified into land and water categories using a threshold of the near infrared (NIR) band, followed by supervised and unsupervised classification.  Initial classification results are then reviewed by multiple image analysts to identify and manually recode errors. The final land-water classifications are intended to serve as both geographic and quantitative assessments of landscape composition on the date of acquisition. Three previous assessments have been conducted (2005, 2008, and 2012). Once the program creates enough data points for statistical analyses, these data will be used for land area change rate calculation.

Tags: alteration-of-wetland-habitats, cartography, coastal, coastal-louisiana, crms, doqq, emergent-wetland, forested-wetland, geographic-information-system, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-water, louisiana, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, scrub-shrub-wetland, state-of-louisiana, usgs-5b5f5331e4b006a11f66eada, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Generalized 1:500,000-scale geology of the Upper Colorado River Basin

This generalized geology dataset was developed as input to a total dissolved solids Spatially Referenced Regressions on Watershed Attributes (SPARROW) model for the Upper Colorado River Basin (UCRB; Kenney and others, 2009) and for a more recent update to that model. The largest source of naturally generated dissolved solids in streams of the UCRB is the rocks underlying stream basins, particularly rocks high in dissolvable minerals.  For the purposes of modeling, the scale of the geologic dataset optimally should be similar to the scale of the stream-catchment network used in the model but simplified to reduce the number of geologic units represented in the data.  This dataset was developed to meet both scale and simplification requirements by grouping lithologic units found in five 1:500,000-scale state geologic maps into broad lithologic units based on 1:2,500,000-scale King and Beikman Geology. 
References cited:
Kenney, T.A., Gerner, S.J., Buto, S.G., and Spangler, L.E., 2009, Spatially referenced statistical assessment of dissolved-solids load sources and transport in streams of the Upper Colorado River Basin: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5007, 50 p. Available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2009/5007.

Tags: arizona, colorado, geologic-formation, geology, geoscientificinformation, inlandwaters, new-mexico, upper-colorado-river-basin, usgs-5893d187e4b0fa1e59b739ea, utah, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Final Bulk Sediment Concentrations of Bifenthrin from Mesocosms

Direct and indirect ecological effects of the widely used insecticide bifenthrin on stream ecosystems are largely unknown. To investigate such effects, a manipulative experiment was conducted in stream mesocosms that were colonized by aquatic insect communities and exposed to bifenthrin-contaminated sediment; implications for natural streams were interpreted through comparison of mesocosm results to a survey of 100 Midwestern streams, USA. In the mesocosm experiment, direct effects of bifenthrin exposure included reduced larval macroinvertebrate abundance, richness, and biomass at concentrations (EC50s ranged 197.6 – 233.5 ng bifenthrin/ g organic carbon) previously thought safe for aquatic life. Indirect effects included a trophic cascade in which periphyton abundance increased after macroinvertebrate scrapers decreased. Adult emergence dynamics and corresponding terrestrial subsidies were altered at all bifenthrin concentrations tested. Extrapolating these results to the Midwestern stream assessment suggests pervasive ecological effects, with altered emergence dynamics likely in 40% of streams and a trophic cascade in 7% of streams. This study provides new evidence that a common pyrethroid might alter aquatic and terrestrial ecosystem function at the regional scale.   
This data file contains information about the bifenthrin concentrations measured in sediment collected from mesocosms at the end of the experiment.

Tags: adult-emergence, aquatic-insect-communities, aquatic-terrestrial-linkages, bifenthrin, contaminants, illinois, indiana, iowa, kansas, kentucky, mesocosm, michigan, midwest-united-states, minnesota, missouri, nebraska, ohio, pesticides, sediment-quality, south-dakota, suspended-sediment, trophic-cascade, usgs-5797dffde4b0589fa1c61b9f, water-quality, wisconsin
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data release for Time series of high-resolution images enhances efforts to monitor post-fire condition and recovery, Waldo Canyon fire, Colorado, USA

Interpretations of post-fire condition and rates of vegetation recovery can influence management priorities, actions, and perception of latent risks from landslides and floods. In this study, we used the Waldo Canyon fire (2012, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA) as a case study to explore how a time series (2011-2016) of high-resolution images can be used to delineate burn extent and severity, as well as quantify post-fire vegetation recovery. We applied an object-based approach to map burn severity and vegetation recovery using Worldview-2, 3, and QuickBird-2 imagery. The burned area was classified as 51% high, 20% moderate and 29% low burn-severity. Across the burn extent, the shrub cover class showed a rapid recovery, resprouting vigorously within one year, while four years post-fire, areas previously dominated by conifers were divided approximately equally between being classified as dominated by quaking aspen saplings with herbaceous species in the understory or minimally recovered. Relative to using a pixel-based Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), our object-based approach showed higher rates of revegetation. High-resolution imagery can provide an effective means to monitor post-fire site conditions and complement more prevalent efforts with moderate- and coarse-resolution sensors.

Tags: burned-area, colorado-springs-colorado, quickbird-2, revegetation, severity, usgs-5b689a7be4b006a11f75b7dd, waldo-canyon-fire, wildfire, worldview-2, worldview-3
Organization: Department of the Interior
Suspended-sediment concentration and loss-on-ignition from water samples at Thompsons Beach and Stone Harbor, New Jersey, collected between September 2018 and December 2022

In 2012, Hurricane Sandy struck the Northeastern US causing devastation among coastal ecosystems. Post-hurricane marsh restoration efforts have included sediment deposition, planting of vegetation, and restoring tidal hydrology. The work presented here is part of a larger project funded by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) to monitor the post-restoration ecological resilience of coastal ecosystems in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. The U.S. Geological Survey Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center made in-situ observations during 2018-2019 and 2022-2023 at two sites: Thompsons Beach, NJ and Stone Harbor, NJ. Marsh creek hydrodynamics and water quality including currents, waves, water levels, water temperature, salinity, pH, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, organic matter, chlorophyll-a, and suspended-sediment concentration and organic content were measured at both sites.  Additionally, marsh accretion and erosion were evaluated and used to interpret sediment budgets. These ecological data will be coupled with topographic lidar and imagery to explain the processes responsible for coastline evolution, and to evaluate restoration techniques and assess whether storm vulnerability has decreased relative to unaltered environments.

Tags: atlantic, cmhrp, hurricane-sandy, inlandwaters, loss-on-ignition, marsh-resilience, national-fish-and-wildlife-foundation, new-jersey, oceans, sediment-transport, stone-harbor, suspended-material-water, thompsons-beach, u-s-geological-survey, usgs-64920c64d34ef77fcb004e2a, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Marine Arctic polygon distribution of Ribbed Sculpin (Triglops pingelii) (Reinhardt, 1837)

Region(s) of distribution of Ribbed Sculpin (Triglops pingelii) (Reinhardt, 1837) in the Arctic as digitized for U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2016-5038. For details on the project and purpose, see the report at https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20165038. Complete metadata for the collection of species datasets is in the metadata document "Dataset_for_Alaska_Marine_Fish_Ecology_Catalog.xml" at https://doi.org/10.5066/F7M61HD7. Source(s) for this digitized data layer are listed in the metadata Process Steps section. Note that the original source may show an extended area; some datasets were limited to the published map boundary. Distributions of marine fishes are shown in adjacent Arctic seas where reliable data are available. The data were clipped to show only the marine distribution areas although some species also may have an inland presence.

Tags: alaska, arctic, beaufort-sea, bering-sea, bering-strait, biogeography, chukchi-beaufort-lease-area, chukchi-sea, distributions, ecology, fish, marine, marine-fishery-resources, northeast-russia, northwest-canada, northwest-territories, nunavut, reinhardt-1837, ribbed-sculpin, triglops-pingelii, u-s-exclusive-economic-zone, usgs-58812e8fe4b00a062356ffe9, yukon
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) Project Priority List (PPL) 32 proposed project vector data

Geospatial dataset of the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) Priority Project List (PPL) 32 candidate projects. Geodatabase contains line and polygon feature classes that contain proposed restoration project features and boundaries.

Tags: biota, geodatabase, louisiana-wetlands, restoration-project-boundaries, usgs-64d14d88d34ef477cf3bfe02, vector-data, wetland-restoration, wetlands
Organization: Department of the Interior
MODFLOW-NWT and MODPATH models, capture zones and uncertainty analysis for the Partridge River Basin, Minnesota

A MODFLOW-NWT model was used to simulate the groundwater/surface-water interactions
in the Partridge River Basin, MN using the Streamflow Routing and Unsaturated Zone Flow 
packages. The base model represents 2011-2013 average mining conditions and was used 
to build five mining scenario models, as described in the report. The base model and mining
scenarios were used to estimate the base flow at 6 stream locations, pit inflows rates for the
new hypothetical pits, and the average depth to water in twelve wetlands. PEST utilities were
used to estimate an uncertainty with each of these forecasts. Particle tracking was performed
with the MODFLOW solution (using MODPATH 7) and Monte Carlo techniques to create 
probabilistic capture zones. This USGS data release contains all of the input and output files
for the simulations described in the associated model documentation report 
(https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20215038).

Tags: environment, geoscientificinformation, groundwater, groundwater-model, inlandwaters, mesabi-range, minnesota, modflow-nwt, modpath7, partridge-river, pest, saint-louis-county, sfr, usgs-d8c3f7f7-c78e-4204-9ebf-ce5536ae8438, usgsgroundwatermodel, uzf
Organization: Department of the Interior
Composite sidescan-sonar mosaic collected by the U.S. Geological Survey in Woods Hole, MA on the Vineyard Sound side of the western Elizabeth Islands, MA, 2010 (2010-003-FA_SSmosaic_MVsound.tif, UTM Zone 19N GeoTIFF)

These data were collected under a cooperative agreement between the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management (CZM) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center (WHCMSC). Initiated in 2003, the primary objective of this program is to develop regional geologic framework information for the management of coastal and marine resources. Accurate data and maps of seafloor geology are important first steps toward protecting fish habitat, delineating marine resources, and assessing environmental changes due to natural or human impacts. The project is focused on the inshore waters of coastal Massachusetts, primarily in water depths of 2-30 meters. Data collected for the mapping cooperative have been released in a series of USGS Open-File Reports (&lt;http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/project-pages/coastal_mass/&gt;). The data collected in this study area located around the western extent of the Elizabeth Islands includes high resolution bathymetry, acoustic-backscatter intensity, seismic-reflection, and navigation data. These data were collected during a nearshore cruise in September 2010 onboard the R/V Rafael using the following equipment: an SEA Ltd SwathPlus interferometric sonar (234 kHz), Klein 3000 dual frequency sidescan sonar, an Edgetech 424 chirp subbottom profiling system, and 4 GPS antennae. More information about the cruise conducted as part of the project: Geologic Mapping of the Seafloor Offshore of Massachusetts can be found on the Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center Field Activity webpage:
&lt;http://quashnet.er.usgs.gov/data/2010/10003/&gt;

Tags: atlantic-ocean, backscatter, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, composite-image, cuttyhunk-island, elizabeth-islands, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, geotiff-image, grey-scale, image-mosaics, imagerybasemapsearthcover, info-bank-id-r-3-10-bz, klein-3000, marine-geophysics, massachusetts, mosaic, nashawena-island, north-america, oceans, sea-floor-acoustic-reflectivity, side-scan-sonar, sidescan, sidescan-sonar, sow-and-pigs-reef, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-1b0b035c-fbae-4d36-aa4c-312cffe96f81, vineyard-sound, whcmsc, whcmsc-field-activity-report-number-2010-003-fa, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
EAARL Coastal Topography--Western Florida, Post-Hurricane Charley, 2004: First Surface

A first-surface elevation map (also known as a Digital Elevation Model, or DEM) of a portion of western Florida, post-Hurricane Charley, was produced from remotely sensed, geographically referenced elevation measurements cooperatively by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Elevation measurements were collected over the area using the NASA Experimental Advanced Airborne Research Lidar (EAARL), a pulsed laser ranging system mounted onboard an aircraft to measure ground elevation, vegetation canopy, and coastal topography. The system uses high-frequency laser beams directed at the Earth's surface through an opening in the bottom of the aircraft's fuselage. The laser system records the time difference between emission of the laser beam and the reception of the reflected laser signal in the aircraft. The plane travels over the target area at approximately 50 meters per second at an elevation of approximately 300 meters. The EAARL, developed by NASA at Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, measures ground elevation with a vertical resolution of +/-15 centimeters. A sampling rate of 3 kilohertz or higher results in an extremely dense spatial elevation dataset. Over 100 kilometers of coastline can be surveyed easily within a 3- to 4-hour mission. When subsequent elevation maps for an area are analyzed, they provide a useful tool to make management decisions regarding land development.
For more information on Lidar science and the Experimental Advanced Airborne Research Lidar (EAARL) system and surveys, see http://ngom.usgs.gov/dsp/overview/index.php and http://ngom.usgs.gov/dsp/tech/eaarl/index.php .

Tags: airborne-lidar-processing-system, alps, altimetry, bathymetry-and-elevation, dem, digital-elevation-model, digital-elevation-models, distributions, eaarl, elevation, experimental-advanced-airborne-research-lidar, http-remotesensing-usgs-gov, hurricane-charley, laser-altimetry, lidar, remote-sensing, topographic-mapping, topography, usgs-eed42477-cdc7-4510-b601-0c83f2e250d0, western-florida
Organization: Department of the Interior
Deep (15-second) seismic reflection profiles CC-1 and CC-2 extending from the eastern California Coast Ranges across the Great Valley into the Sierran foothills at about latitude 37.25° N

This data release contains deep seismic reflection profiles CC-1 and CC-2, which extend eastward from within the California Coast Ranges across the Great Valley and into the Sierran foothills, with a combined east-west length of about 140 km at about the latitude of the town of Merced (37.25° north latitude). The records are processed to 15 seconds two-way time and thus extend deep into the lithosphere as well as capturing detail in the shallow crust. Field data (no longer available) were collected in 1982-85 with vibrator source, an 800-channel, split-spread receiver array using SIGN-BIT technology, and a maximum offset of 12.2 km. Line CC-1 extends from Franciscan Complex of the eastern Coast Ranges east to Merced in the Great Valley; line CC-2 is offset 12.75 km to the south with a 10.8 km overlap of CC-1 and extends east into batholithic rocks of the Sierran Foothills. The included data consist of (1) raster images of stacked and migrated profiles and (2) the ground location of their reconstruction lines and points as scans of 1:4,000-scale paper plots and their digital representations.

Tags: basement-velocity, california, coast-ranges, deep-crustal-structure, franciscan-complex, franciscan-wedge, geoscientificinformation, great-valley, great-valley-complex, obduction, roof-thrust, san-joaquin-valley, seismic-reflection-profile, seismic-velocity, sierran-basement, sierran-foothills, sign-bit, subduction-zone, usgs-630526bfd34ed6dc55933fc8, wedge-tectonics
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2018 Site 0463 land-water matrix

Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring to determine the efficacy of these projects. The Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) was developed to assist in a multiple-reference approach that uses aspects of hydrogeomorphic functional assessments and probabilistic sampling for monitoring. The CRMS program includes a suite of approximately 390 sites that encompass the range of hydrological and ecological conditions for each stratum. As part of CRMS, land and water classifications are created from Digital Orthophoto Quarter Quadrangles (DOQQs) approximately every three years at all CRMS sites. This dataset consists of a matrix of five land-water products (2005, 2008, 2012, YYYY and 2018).  The resulting matrix has 32 possible classes defined by the combination of land and water categories on those five dates.

Tags: alteration-of-wetland-habitats, cartography, coastal, coastal-louisiana, crms, doqq, emergent-wetland, forested-wetland, geographic-information-system, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-water, louisiana, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, scrub-shrub-wetland, state-of-louisiana, usgs-611f133cd34e40dd9c01d1c9, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hydrologic event-based water-quality and streamflow data for three oxbow tributaries in northwestern Mississippi, 2007-2016

For about 10 years, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has monitored water quality and streamflow in three agricultural drainage ditches in an effort to evaluate the influence of best management practices on water quality. These ditches are small tributaries to oxbow lakes located in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain of northwestern Mississippi--two sites (LWSR and LWT2) drain to Lake Washington and one site (BLT1) drains to Bee Lake. Streamflow was intermittent at these sites and the ditches were dry much of the year. When streamflow was present, flows were measured on 15-minute intervals and water-quality samples were collected over the course of the flow event using an automated sampler. These datasets were aggregated by flow event and include various flow statistics (mean flow, peak flow, total flow volume, and event duration), flow-weighted mean concentration (total constituent load divided by total flow volume) and total constituent load for each flow event. The water-quality constituents include total nitrogen, organic nitrogen, ammonia, ammonia plus organic nitrogen (total Kjeldahl nitrogen), nitrate plus nitrite, total phosphorus, organic carbon, chloride and suspended sediment; USGS parameter codes 00600, 00605, 00610, 00625, 00630, 00665, 00680, 99220, and 80154. All samples were unfiltered. Data were collected from approximately 2007-2016, depending on the site.

Tags: agriculture, best-management-practices, conservation-practices, nutrient-content-water, runoff, sediment-transport, usgs-5aac3cfce4b081f61aaf0809
Organization: Department of the Interior
Elevation TIN, Cannonsville Reservoir, 2015

From 2013 to 2015, bathymetric surveys of New York City’s six West of Hudson reservoirs (Ashokan, Cannonsville, Neversink, Pepacton, Rondout, and Schoharie) were performed to provide updated capacity tables and bathymetric maps.  Depths were surveyed with a single-beam echo sounder and real-time kinematic global positioning system (RTK-GPS) along planned transects at predetermined intervals for each reservoir.  A separate set of echo sounder data was collected along transects at oblique angles to the main transects for accuracy assessment.  Field survey data was combined with water-surface elevations in a geographic information system to create three-dimensional surfaces representing reservoir-bed elevations in the form of triangulated irregular networks (TINs); the TINs were linearly enforced to better represent geomorphic features within the reservoirs.  The linearly enforced TINs were used to create bathymetric maps of the reservoirs; contours were mapped at 2-foot intervals and capacity was calculated at 0.01-foot intervals. This dataset contains the TIN surface.

Tags: bathymetry, cannonsville-reservoir, delaware-county, gps-measurement, single-beam-echo-sounder, usgs-58599240e4b01224f329b45f
Organization: Department of the Interior
Habitat suitability index for greater sage-grouse 50 days into the brood rearing life stage, Nevada and California

These data represent habitat selection of greater sage-grouse at the 50 day mark of their brood rearing process. Sage-grouse and their broods were monitored on their own individual time lines, so one group's 50th day may not necessarily be the same as any other bird's 50th day.

Tags: adaptive-habitat-selection, chick-survival, ecological-trap, ecosystems, fires, great-basin, habitat-functional-response, human-impacts, maladaptive-habitat-selection, native-species, resource-selection-function, shrubland-ecosystems, usgs-62fd6e59d34e3a444286cd4b, western-united-states
Organization: Department of the Interior