AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
MODFLOW-NWT model used to simulate Potential Effects of Changes in Water Use in the Middle Carson River Basin for Eagle, Dayton, and Churchill Valleys, West-Central, Nevada.

A three-dimensional MODFLOW-NWT groundwater flow model was developed to evaluate the impacts of alternative water management scenarios on the groundwater resources of Eagle, Dayton, and Churchill Valleys, Nevada.  In addition, the resulting impact on flows in the Carson River and Lahontan Reservoir are also evaluated.  During the economic boom that occurred from 2004-2006 in northwestern Nevada, municipal and housing growth increased stress on the limited water resources of this semi-arid region. In 2008, when the economy slowed, new housing development stopped, and immediate pressure on finite groundwater resources abated. In anticipation of economic recovery and resumed growth, however, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the Bureau of Reclamation, began a hydrogeologic study of the middle Carson River Basin. The three-dimensional, transient numerical model of groundwater and surface-water flow for the middle Carson River Basin extending from Eagle Valley to Churchill Valley was developed as part of this project. This model was used to evaluate the potential effects of three alternative water-management scenarios, and variations of the scenarios, on groundwater storage within the aquifer system and impact on river flows.  Information from the model can provide a basis for basin-wide investigations seeking to quantitatively evaluate the effects of climate change or yet-to-be-determined alternative management strategies. 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/sir20235008).

Tags: carson-city, carson-river, churchill-county, churchill-valley, dayton-valley-alluvial-aquifer-system, eagle-valley, environment, geoscientificinformation, groundwater, groundwater-model, inlandwaters, lahontan-reservoir, lyon-county, modflow-nwt, nevada, usgs-645d0a6fd34ec179a83888b9, usgsgroundwatermodel, water-management
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2018 Site 5536 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-611f152ad34e40dd9c01d37a, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
SFR Diversions Table for the Rio Grande transboundary integrated hydrologic model and water-availability analysis, New Mexico and Texas, United States, and Northern Chihuahua, Mexico

This tabular dataset represents monthly flow at 61 surface-water points of diversion used to route flow in the Streamflow-Routing (SFR) Package for MODFLOW-One-Water Hydrologic Flow Model in the Rio Grande Transboundary Integrated Hydrologic Model (RGTIHM). Thirty-one of the 61 diversion points represent surface-water deliveries to combined groundwater and surface-water water balance subregions (WBS), and the remaining 30 diversion points represent diversions to canals and laterals along the surface-water conveyance network. Flow in this tabular dataset is specified monthly at each diversion point as either a rate (volume per time) in cubic feet per day, or as a fractional split from the simulated flow in the upstream segment. See the Div_ID attribute in the RGTIHM_SFR_Diversion_Pts and RGTIHM_SFR_Segments feature classes for the location of the points of diversion and the downstream segment to which the flow was routed, respectively.

Tags: aquifer, caballo-reservoir, chihuahua, el-paso, elephant-butte-reservoir, geology, groundwater-pumping, groundwater-system, hydraulic-properties, hydrogeology, hydrology, hydrostratigraphy, las-cruces, new-mexico, rio-grande, texas, transboundary, usgs-5ba044cde4b08583a5c27f5c
Organization: Department of the Interior
Raw X-ray diffraction data of cores from the New England Mud Patch collected on USGS Field Activity 2016-001-FA

Variability in sediment properties with depth and the thickness of individual sedimentary layers are critical determinants of seabed acoustic response. The New England Mud Patch (NEMP), located south of Cape Cod, is an unusual feature on the U.S. Continental Shelf in that it is composed of fine-grained sediment layers containing a relatively-homogeneous mix of sand, silt, and clay-sized particles bounded by more typical sandy shelf sediments.  The unique characteristics and nature of this deposit is due to a derivation of sediments that have been transported to, and deposited in, a basal bowl-shaped depression since the last glacial maximum. Ninety-two piston, vibra-, and gravity cores with a maximum length of 8.2 meters were collected from across the New England Mud Patch during a 2-leg, 10-day cruise aboard the R/V Endeavor in the spring of 2016. Geologic characterization and analysis of a subset of the cores including grain size, CaCO3, mineral composition, and bulk index properties (undrained shear strength, water content, density, and porosity) of discrete samples was carried out at the USGS Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center's (WHCMSC) Sediment Analysis Laboratory. This data release contains the results of these analyses, along with visual core descriptions and summary sheets for each core analyzed for this study.

Tags: acoustic-cores, atlantic, chemical-analysis, clay-deposits, core-analysis, cores, cruise-id-en577, geology, geoscientificinformation, gravity-coring, holocene, marthas-vineyard, massachusetts, mineral-composition, mineral-phases, mineralogy, nemp, new-england-mud-patch, oceans, piston-cores, piston-coring, r-v-endeavor, rigaku-miniflex-600, sand-deposits, seabed-experiment-area, sediment-samples, sedimentology, trigger-cores, u-s-continental-shelf, u-s-geological-survey, unconsolidated-deposits, usgs, usgs-60cb8a22d34e86b938a3a8af, vibracores, vibracoring, whcmsc, whcmsc-field-activity-2016-001-fa, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center, x-ray-diffraction
Organization: Department of the Interior
2020 Update to the Quaternary Fault and Fold Database for Washington State

This release is an update to the online "Quaternary fault and fold database" for Washington State. The online database was last updated for Washington in 2014 – this 2020 update includes newly identified and modified traces and geometries for on-shore faults gleaned from new peer-reviewed studies and mapping of active faults within the state of Washington. These data contain lines representing the location of faults with known or suspected Quaternary (&lt;1,600,000 yrs) activity in the state of Washington. Faults are attributed following the Quaternary fault and fold database attributes, including information such as age, slip sense, dip direction, class, and mapped scale. This data was compiled in conjunction with the Washington State Geological Survey. Significant modifications include: 1) newly mapped active traces of the Sadie Creek fault, Entiat fault system, Spencer Canyon fault system; 2) modified geometry of the Seattle fault zone; and 3) representative lines for the areas of the Mount Saint Helens seismic zone, Western Rainier seismic zone, and Goat Rocks seismic zone.

Tags: earthquakes, faulting-geologic, hazards, quaternary, usa, usgs-5faac34ed34eb413d5df1f7b, washington-state
Organization: Department of the Interior
Horizontal-to-Vertical Seismic Method (HVSR) Soundings in the Northern and Central Parts of the Tug Hill Glacial Aquifer, Jefferson and Oswego Counties, North Central New York

The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, the Tug Hill Commission, the Jefferson County Soil and Water Conservation District, the Oswego County Soil and Water Conservation District, and the Tug Hill Land Trust collected horizontal-to-vertical seismic soundings at 139 locations in the Northern and Central parts of the Tug Hill Glacial Aquifer. The goal of the project was to help determine thickness of the unconsolidated deposits and depth to bedrock. The HVSR technique, commonly referred to as the passive-seismic method, is used to estimate the thickness of unconsolidated sediments and the depth to bedrock (Lane and others, 2008). The passive-seismic method uses a single, broad-band three-component (two horizontal and one vertical) seismometer to record ambient seismic noise. In areas that have a strong acoustic contrast between the bedrock and overlying sediments, the seismic noise induces resonance at frequencies that range from about 0.3 to 40 Hz. The ratio of the average horizontal-to-vertical spectrums produces a spectral-ratio curve with peaks at fundamental and higher-order resonance frequencies. The spectral ratio curve (the ratio of the averaged horizontal-to-vertical component spectrums) is used to determine the fundamental resonance frequency that can be used along with an average shear-wave velocity or a power-law regression equation to estimate sediment thickness and depth to bedrock (Lane and others, 2008; Brown and others, 2013; Fairchild and others, 2013; Chandler and others, 2014; and Johnson and Lane, 2016). The HVSR data presented in this data release were collected at each site in 30 minute intervals using a Tromino Model TEP-3C1 three-component seismometer. The data were processed with Grilla 2012 version 6.21 software to 1) remove anthropogenic noise, 2) convert the time-domain data to frequency domain, 3) compute and plot the spectral ratio curve, and 4) determine the resonance frequency. This data release presents the peaks of resonance frequency identified from the HVSR measurements. Also presented are reported depth-to-bedrock data for wells located at or near HVSR data-collection sites overlying the aquifer in Jefferson and Oswego counties. This exercise is for use in comparison of HVSR forward model depths to reported well depths. Raw and processed data for HVSR measurements are presented in the attached. The HVSR data-collection sites are designated by a county sequential numbering system (JHVSR33, OWHVSR50, etc. where ‘J’ and ‘OW’ indicate Jefferson and Oswego counties, respectively). 1Any use of trade, firm, or product names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.

Tags: aquifer, groundwater, jefferson-county, new-york, oswego-county, seismology, united-states, usgs-5e4c2ba3e4b0ff554f6c6654
Organization: Department of the Interior
Site 14 Missouri River Bathymetry and Velocimetry Data at Structure A5664 on Missouri State Highway 13 at Lexington, Missouri, July 2011 through May 2017

These data are high-resolution bathymetry (riverbed elevation) and depth-averaged velocities in ASCII format, generated from hydrographic and velocimetric surveys of the Missouri River near Structure A5664 on Missouri State Highway 13 at Lexington, Missouri, in 2011, 2013, and 2017.  Hydrographic data were collected using a high-resolution multibeam echosounder mapping system (MBMS), which consists of a multibeam echosounder (MBES) and an inertial navigation system (INS) mounted on a marine survey vessel.  Data were collected as the vessel traversed the river along planned survey lines distributed throughout the reach.  Data collection software integrated and stored the depth data from the MBES and the horizontal and vertical position and attitude data of the vessel from the INS in real time.  Data processing required computer software to extract bathymetry data from the raw data files and to summarize and map the information.  Velocity data were collected using an acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) mounted on a survey vessel equipped with a differential global positioning system (DGPS).  Data were collected as the vessel traversed the river along planned transect lines distributed throughout the reach. Velocity data were processed using the Velocity Mapping Toolbox (Parsons and others, 2013), and smoothed using neighboring nodes.

Tags: acoustic, adcp, ascii, bathymetry, doppler, elevation, geology, geoscientificinformation, imagerybasemapsearthcover, inland-waters, inlandwaters, lexington, location, missouri, missouri-river, mo, multibeam, oceans, structure, u-s-geological-survey, usa, usgs, usgs-5cc34ad6e4b09b8c0b7606a9, water-depth, xyz
Organization: Department of the Interior
Genotype Data for Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnakes (Sistrurus catenatus) from Bois Blanc Island, Michigan at 15 Microsatellite DNA Loci

We investigated fine-scale genetic patterns of the federally threatened Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake (Sistrurus catenatus) on a relatively undisturbed island in northern Michigan, USA. This species often persists in habitat islands throughout much of its distribution due to extensive habitat loss and distance-limited
dispersal. These data are from 102 individual Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnakes sampled at Bois Blanc Island, Michigan and genotyped at 15 microsatellite loci.  Samples were collected as part of a study to examine functional connectivity for the Eastern Massasauga. We found that the entire island population
exhibited weak genetic structuring with spatially segregated variation in effective migration and genetic diversity.

Tags: biological-population-management, biota, bois-blanc-island, endangered-species, environment, evolution, genetic-diversity, genetics, genotype, lake-huron, loci, michigan, microsatellite, usgs-5fc8f3b0d34e4b9faad8a119
Organization: Department of the Interior
California Mule Deer East Tehama Corridors

The East Tehama herd is the largest migratory population of mule deer in California (Hill and Figura, 2020). Population numbers peaked in the 1960s, but have declined in recent decades (Ramsey and others, 1981; California Department of Fish and Wildlife unpublished data). These mule deer migrate from a lower elevation winter range in the foothills east of the Sacramento Valley to upper elevation summer ranges in the southern Cascades and northern Sierra Nevada. Although portions of the herd winter on the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Tehama Wildlife Area and other public lands, the winter range also comprises many private ranchlands. The herd’s summer range includes significant portions of Lassen National Forest as well as Lassen Volcanic National Park and private timberlands. Primarily oak woodlands and annual grasslands characterize the winter range, while the summer range consists of conifer forests, montane meadows, and montane chaparral. Potential threats to the herd include habitat changes resulting from fire management (including fire suppression and catastrophic wildfires), forest succession, vegetation management, and climate change. A small percentage of the herd are residents, inhabiting areas along the Sacramento River and areas of irrigated agriculture.
These mapping layers show the location of the migration corridors for mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) in the East Tehama population in California. They were developed from 63 migration sequences collected from a sample size of 33 animals comprising GPS locations collected every 1-23 hours.

Tags: animal-behavior, biota, california, lassen-national-forest, migration-organisms, migration-route, migratory-species, united-states, usgs-63650bacd34ebe442507ce6f
Organization: Department of the Interior
Shallow lake management enhanced habitat and attracted water birds during fall migration data

Complete dataset that comprised the manuscript, "Shallow lake management enhanced habitat and attracted water birds during fall migration" by Danelle M. Larson and others. The data collection and processing was funded by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.

Tags: aquatic-vegetation, biota, clear-water-state, lake-christina, minnesota, turbid-state, usgs-5f033bcd82ce0afb2446dfe3, water-level-management, wetland, zizania-palustris
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data on flea control using fipronil grain bait with black-tailed prairie dogs at Badlands National Park, South Dakota, 2020-2021

We collected fleas from colonies of black-tailed prairie dogs in Badlands National Park, South Dakota, 2020-2021. Specifically, we tested fipronil grain for flea control on two colonies: Colony A in 2020 and Colony B in 2021. To assess on-host flea numbers (in 2020 and 2021), we anesthetized trapped prairie dogs (and their fleas) with isoflurane in induction chambers for processing. We combed each individual with a fine-tooth comb for 30 seconds to remove and count fleas. We released all animals, after they were recovered from anesthesia, at the location where they were captured. To assess off-host flea numbers (in 2021), we used a plumber’s cable to insert a 20- by 20-centimeter flannel-cloth as deep as possible into burrow tunnels. We then shook the cable for 30 seconds to imitate movement by a host. We removed the cloth from the burrow and counted detected fleas. Total flea counts from individual prairie dogs or burrows were considered an index of flea abundance. 
The first data set (Fleas 2020.csv) includes data from captures and combings of individual prairie dogs in 2020 and the second data set (Fleas 2021.csv) includes data from captures and combings of individual prairie dogs and swabbing of individual burrows in 2021.
Funding and logistical support were provided by the US Geological Survey; Prairie Wildlife Research; National Park Service; US Forest Service; and US Fish and Wildlife Service.

Tags: badlands-national-park, biota, cynomys-ludovicianus, ecology, fipronil, flea, plague, south-dakota, usgs-61d79611d34ed7929400514c
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2018 Site 0622 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 398 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 2018 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. Four previous assessments have been conducted (2005, 2008, 2012, and 2015/2016). 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-611d2ca9d34e40dd9c012a55, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Bathymetry and topography data offshore of Tacoma, Washington

This part of USGS Data Series 935 (Cochrane, 2014) presents bathymetry and topography data for the Offshore of Tacoma, California, map area, a part of the Southern Salish Sea Habitat Map Series. The data for this map area are a combination of topography extracted from a pre-existing Digital Elevation Model (DEM) merged with bathymetry data that were collected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) using multibeam sonar systems. The merged data are available for download in a single zip file (BathyTopo_OffshoreTacoma.zip).

Tags: bathymetry, bathymetry-and-elevation, bathymetry-measurement, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, elevation, field-observation, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, image-mosaics, imagerybasemapsearthcover, king-county, marine-geophysics, multibeam, multibeam-sonar, ocean-floor-topography, oceans, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, pierce-county, puget-sound, salish-sea, sea-floor-characteristics, seabed, seafloor-topography, state-of-washington, tacoma, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-36f989f0-2347-427a-83b2-e793fd4247ea, water-depth
Organization: Department of the Interior
2004 Post-Hurricane Ivan Northern Gulf of Mexico EAARL Lidar-Derived Dune Crest, Toe and Shoreline

The Storm-Induced Coastal Change Hazards component of the National Assessment of Coastal Change Hazards project focuses on understanding the magnitude and variability of extreme storm impacts on sandy beaches. Lidar-derived beach morphologic features such as dune crest, toe and shoreline help define the vulnerability of the beach to storm impacts. This dataset defines the elevation and position of the seaward-most dune crest and toe and the mean high water shoreline derived from the 2004 USGS Post-Ivan EAARL lidar survey (Mississippi to Florida). Beach width is included and is defined as the distance between the dune toe and shoreline along a cross-shore profile. The beach slope is calculated using this beach width and the elevation of the shoreline and dune toe.

Tags: alabama, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, coastal-processes, elevation, environment, florida, geoscientificinformation, gulf-of-mexico, hazards, marine-geology, mississippi, ocean-sciences, oceans, spcmsc, st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, u-s-geological-survey, united-states-of-america, usgs, usgs-43dafd28-7ae1-4394-be63-d64c59c5dbe2
Organization: Department of the Interior