AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Post-wildfire rain gage data for Fourmile Canyon, Colorado

This Data Release section presents tipping-bucket rain gage data collected following the 2010 Fourmile Canyon Fire near Boulder, Colorado. Further details are provided in: https://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2011/5236 and https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/hyp.9424.

Tags: environment, usgs-65e61744d34e5855ff4e6752
Organization: Department of the Interior
Land-Cover, Surface-water, and Streambed-sediment data Collected Upstream from and Within an Area of Oil and Natural-Gas Production, South Texas, 2008-17

The extensive development of oil and natural-gas resources in south Texas during the past 10 years has led to questions regarding possible environmental effects of processes associated with oil and natural-gas production, in particular the process of hydraulic fracturing, on water and other natural resources. Part of the lower San Antonio River watershed intersects an area of oil and natural-gas production from the sedimentary rocks that compose the Eagle Ford Group. The rapid expansion of infrastructure associated with oil and natural-gas production increases potential pathways for inorganic and organic contaminants to enter surface-water systems. The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the San Antonio River Authority, analyzed geospatial data from different years (2008 and 2015) to evaluate changes in land cover associated with oil and natural-gas production activities in the lower San Antonio River watershed. Additionally, during 2015-17 surface-water samples collected from 5 sites and streambed-sediment samples collected from 17 sites in the lower San Antonio River watershed were analyzed for a broad range of constituents that might be associated with oil and natural-gas production.

Tags: bexar-county, cibolo-creek, comal-county, dewitt-county, ecleto-creek, elmendorf, falls-city, floresville, guadalupe-county, karnes-city, karnes-county, kenedy, oil-resources, petroleum, polycyclic-aromatic-hydrocarbons, poth, runge, san-antonio-river, sediment-quality, selma, st-hedwig, stockdale, sutherland-springs, texas, urbanization, usgs-5a95b893e4b06990606a7eda, water-quality, wilson-county
Organization: Department of the Interior
Offshore baseline for the South Carolina (SC) coastal region generated to calculate shoreline change rates

Sandy ocean beaches are a popular recreational destination, often surrounded by communities containing valuable real estate.  Development is on the rise despite the fact that coastal infrastructure is subjected to flooding and erosion.  As a result, there is an increased demand for accurate information regarding past and present shoreline changes.  To meet these national needs, the Coastal and Marine Geology Program of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is compiling existing reliable historical shoreline data along open-ocean sandy shores of the conterminous United States and parts of Alaska and Hawaii under the National Assessment of Shoreline Change project.
There is no widely accepted standard for analyzing shoreline change.  Existing shoreline data measurements and rate calculation methods vary from study to study and prevent combining results into state-wide or regional assessments.  The impetus behind the National Assessment project was to develop a standardized method of measuring changes in shoreline position that is consistent from coast to coast.  The goal was to facilitate the process of periodically and systematically updating the results in an internally consistent manner.

Tags: atlantic-coast, baseline, bull-island, cape-romain, capers-island, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, coastal-processes, digital-shoreline-analysis-system, dsas, edisto-island, effects-of-coastal-change, environment, erosion, geoscientificinformation, hilton-head, james-island, kiawah-island, little-river-inlet, magnolia-beach, myrtle-beach, national-assessment-of-shoreline-change-project, north-america, oceans, santee-point, sc, shoreline, shoreline-accretion, shoreline-change, shoreline-erosion, south-carolina, st-helena-sound, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-58b8906de4b01ccd5500c2a5, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Brodifacoum toxicity in American kestrels (Falco sparverius) with evidence of increased hazard upon subsequent anticoagulant rodenticide exposure

Range finding trial in which kestrels were fed diets containing varying quantities of brodifacoum and signs of intoxication were monitored.

Tags: anticoagulant, birds, brodifacoum, chlorophacinone, clotting-time, hazard, non-target-effects, risk, secondary-poisoning, usgs-5d4d95e7e4b01d82ce8e0622
Organization: Department of the Interior
Model Archive Summary for acoustic derived suspended-sediment concentration at 13269000 Snake River at Weiser, ID

Model archive summary describing the development of an acoustic derived suspended sediment time series computation model. The model archive summary describes the methods and techniques used to develop the model for the Snake River at Weiser, ID – USGS site ID# 13269000.  The model can be used to develop a time series of suspended sediment concentration based on acoustic backscatter and tributary flow data to determine the suspended sediment concentration at the site in real-time.  The suspended sediment time series will help enable science entities, managers, and others, track the movement of sediment in the Snake River above Brownlee Reservoir.

Tags: geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, hydrology, inlandwaters, sedimentology, snake-river, usgs-64b6b0edd34e70357a2b2009, washington-county, water-quality, weiser-id
Organization: Department of the Interior
Basin characteristics and point locations of road crossings in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island for highway-runoff mitigation analyses using the Stochastic Empirical Loading and Dilution Model

This data release documents the location of intersections between roads and streams, referred to as road crossings, and associated basin characteristics to support highway-runoff mitigation analyses using the Stochastic Empirical Loading and Dilution Model (SELDM, Granato, 2013) in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. The data set of road crossings was generated from the intersections of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Transportation Dataset (roads) and the StreamStats modified National Hydrography Dataset (streams) and in addition to the three-state study area, includes areas of  New York, Vermont, and New Hampshire that are within drainages that cover the three states. Pertinent basin characteristics were defined for sites within CT, MA, and RI and include the following: drainage area, 10-85 slope, longest flow path, number of road crossings by road class, impervious cover, length of roads by road class, and length of streams. Coordinates, street name, and road classification associated with the road crossing point also are included. Users can delineate basins and compute these characteristics, among others, on the USGS StreamStats web application.
This data release contains one shapefile in a zipped folder and two tables: RoadCrossingsShapefile.zip, BasinCharacteristics.txt, and BasinCharacteristics_Definitions.txt. The basin characteristics are included in the metadata file and as a separate table for the user’s preference.

Tags: basin-characteristics, connecticut, environment, highway-runoff, inlandwaters, massachusetts, new-england, rhode-island, runoff, seldm, stochastic-empirical-loading-and-dilution-model, stormwater, transportation, usgs-5f52847082ce4c3d123ccdfc
Organization: Department of the Interior
GeoTIFF image of shaded-relief bathymetry of the sea floor southwest of Montauk Point, New York, in 1998 (3-m resolution, Mercator, WGS 84)

Surveys of the bathymetry and backscatter intensity of the sea floor south of Long Island, New York, were carried out in November 1998 using a Simrad EM1000 multibeam echosounder mounted on the Canadian Coast Guard ship Frederick G. Creed. The purpose of the multibeam echosounder surveys was to explore the bathymetry and backscatter intensity of the sea floor in several areas off the southern coast of Long Island along the 20-meter isobath. Survey areas offshore of Fire Island Inlet, Moriches Inlet, Shinnecock Inlet, and southwest of Montauk Point were about 1 kilometer (km) wide and 10 km long. The area was mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey with support from the Canadian Hydrographic Service and the University of New Brunswick.

Tags: 3-m-resolution-image, canadian-coast-guard-ship-ccgs-frederick-g-creed, canadian-hydrographic-service, coastal-and-marine-geology-program-cmgp, computational-methods, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, geotiff-image, imagerybasemapsearthcover, long-island, marine-geophysics, mid-atlantic-bight, middle-atlantic-bight, montauk-point, multibeam, multibeam-sonar, new-york, new-york-bight, north-atlantic-ocean, oceans, sea-floor, sea-floor-characteristics, sea-floor-mapping, shaded-relief-bathymetry, simrad-em1000, u-s-geological-survey-usgs, university-of-new-brunswick, usgs-56cdc943e4b0b1892d9f0c33, whcmsc-field-activity-1998-015-fa, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center-whcmsc
Organization: Department of the Interior
XYZ files of lidar, single-beam, and multibeam sonar data of Minnesota Point near the Duluth Entry of Lake Superior, Duluth, MN, October 2021

This dataset consists of three files containing northing, easting, and elevation ("XYZ") information for light detection and ranging (lidar) data representing the beach topography and near-shore bathymetry of Minnesota Point near the Duluth Entry of Lake Superior, Duluth, Minnesota. The point data is the same as that in the LAS dataset used to create a digital elevation model (DEM) for the approximate 1.87 square kilometer surveyed area. Lidar data were collected using a boat mounted Velodyne VLP-16 unit. Multibeam sonar data were collected using a Norbit integrated wide band multibeam system compact (iWBMSc) sonar unit. Single-beam sonar data were collected using a Ceescope sonar unit. All elevation data were collected October 5-11, 2021. Methodology similar to Wagner, D.M., Lund, J.W., and Sanks, K.M., 2020 was used.

Tags: bathymetry, bathymetry-and-elevation, digital-elevation-models, duluth, elevation, great-lakes, inlandwaters, lake-superior, lidar, limnology, southwestern-lake-superior, superior, usgs-63343ba5d34e900e86c6793d
Organization: Department of the Interior
MGL1111bathygeo.tif: Multibeam bathymetry data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey in the Bering Sea in 2011 during cruise MGL1111, 100-meter gridded data in GeoTIFF format, geographic (latitude, longitude) coordinates

This raster dataset represents approximately 49,581 square kilometers of Simrad EM122 multibeam backscatter-intensity data collected in the Bering Sea during U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) cruise MGL1111 aboard the R/V Marcus G. Langseth. Calibrated backscatter-intensity time-series data were adjusted for range-angle, beam pattern, and power-gain distortions.

Tags: bathymetry, bathymetry-and-elevation, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, continental-shelf, environment, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, marine-geophysics, multibeam-echo-sounder, multibeam-sonar, oceans, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, physical-habitats-and-geomorphology, seismic-methods, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-568c3728e4b0983143b61a95
Organization: Department of the Interior
Trackline navigation data collected in Nantucket Sound Massachusetts in the vicinity of Horseshoe Shoal, during USGS Field Activity 2022-001-FA using a Teledyne SeaBat Integrated Dual-Head (IDH) T20-P multibeam echosounder (Esri polyline shapefile, Geographic, WGS 84)

In June 2022, the U.S. Geological Survey, in collaboration with the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management, collected high-resolution geophysical data, in Nantucket Sound to understand the regional geology in the vicinity of Horseshoe Shoal. This effort is part of a long-term collaboration between the USGS and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to map the State’s waters, support research on the Quaternary evolution of coastal Massachusetts, resolve the influence of sea-level change and sediment supply on coastal evolution, and strengthen efforts to understand the type, distribution, and quality of subtidal marine habitats. This collaboration produces high-resolution geologic data that serve the needs of research, management, and the public. Data collected as part of this mapping cooperative continue to be released in a series of USGS Open-File Reports and Data Releases https://www.usgs.gov/centers/whcmsc/science/geologic-mapping-massachusetts-seafloor.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, backscatter, bathymetry, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, czm, department-of-the-interior, doi, eldridge-shoal, field-activity-number-2022-001-fa, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, horseshoe-shoal, imagerybasemapsearthcover, marine-geology, massachusetts, massachusetts-office-of-coastal-zone-management, massczm, multibeam-bathymetry, multibeam-echosounder, multibeam-sonar, nantucket-sound, navigational-data, r-v-rafael, reson, sea-floor, seafloor, shapefile, succonnesset-shoal, t20-p, teledyne, u-s-geological-survey, united-states-of-america, usgs, usgs-63e3f946d34e9fa19a9bba0a, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center, wreck-shoal
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hydrogeologic Areas of the Southwest Principal Aquifer (SWPA) study

This raster dataset represents the boundaries of the hydrogeologic areas of the 
Southwest Principal Aquifer (SWPA) study of the National Water Quality 
Assessment (NAWQA) program.  It is a compilation of the pre-existing 
Hydrogeologic Areas of the Southwest Ground-Water Resources Project, 
with additional data from the Central and Coastal basins of California, 
Northern New Mexico Rio Grande Valley, and South Central Colorado 
San Luis Valley.

Tags: alluvial-basin, arizona, basin-and-range-province, boundaries, california, drainage-basin, geoscientificinformation, great-basin, new-mexico, rio-grande-valley, southern-california-deserts, southwest-united-states, surface-water-ground-water-interactions, usgs-3f8df72b-7efc-4821-a64d-35aa3b8a427a, utah, watershed
Organization: Department of the Interior
Monitoring Data to Support the Operation of the Electric Dispersal Barrier System on the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal at Romeoville, Illinois, October 1, 2018, to September 30, 2019

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) monitors water surface flow reversals, commercial vessel traffic, and water temperature and specific conductance in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Electric Dispersal Barrier System (EDBS) on the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, Chicago, Illinois. These data are planned to be released on USGS ScienceBase annually. This data release is the summary of all the data collected from water year 2019 (October 1, 2018, to September 30, 2019). Meyers and others (2019) describe all the data collected during October 1, 2018, to September 30, 2019. Water surface flow reversals at the EDBS were monitored using surface velocity radar. Commercial vessel traffic patterns through the EDBS were documented using a motion-activated video camera. Commercial vessel traffic data are only available from October 1, 2018, to July 3, 2019. Water temperature and specific conductance were reported in near real-time from USGS sensors at streamgage 05536995, installed just downstream from the EDBS.

Tags: chicago-sanitary-and-ship-canal, commercial-barges, hydrodynamics, illinois, romeoville, specific-conductance, surface-water-quality, usgs-6585cf40d34eff134d435626, water-temperature, will-county
Organization: Department of the Interior
Water velocity profiling at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Electric Dispersal Barrier in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal during passage of fully-loaded commercial tows in August 2017: Run Information

In 2017, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Geological Survey, and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers undertook a large-scale interagency field study to determine the influence of commercial barge vessels on the efficacy of the Electric Dispersal Barrier System (EDBS) in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal (CSSC) in preventing fish passage. This study included a series of trials in which a tow, consisting of a tug vessel and fully-loaded barges, transited the EDBS in both upstream-bound (n = 65) and downstream-bound (n = 66) directions. Wall-mounted velocity probes were located at (41.6423629, -88.060329). The configuration of the barges for each run, and the time at which the bow and stern of the tow pass the wall-mounted velocity probes are provided in this Comma Separated Value (CSV) file.

Tags: acoustic-doppler-current-profiling, chicago-sanitary-and-ship-canal, hydrodynamics, illinois, romeoville, usgs-5a00be0ae4b0531197b5c4e6, will-county
Organization: Department of the Interior
Wind rose plots for the volcano: 300240  Tolbachik

This zip folder contains ASCII text files of vectors at the specified volcano at 
12-hour intervals, 
from January 1, 1990 through December 28, 2009.  
The wind vectors are divided into five files, names by their elevation range above 
sea level in the atmosphere: 00-05km.txt; 05-11km.txt; 11-16km.txt; 16-24km.txt; 
and 24-30km.txt. 
The zip folder also contains a subfolder "figures", with Wind rose plots of wind 
direction and speed over 
this time period.  The plots are by season, and by elevation, given a total of 20 
plots (4 seasons, 5 
elevation ranges).  A summary plot is also included which gives the year-round 
wind pattern at the volcano, 
at 0-5 km elevation.  Plots are in both jpg and pdf format.

Tags: meteorology, usgs-58d014a6e4b0236b68f52e6d, volcanic-ash, volcanic-eruption-forecasting, wind
Organization: Department of the Interior
Location Data for mtDNA Samples

Location information regarding samples taken for each individual.

Tags: admixture, california, carrizo-plain, cuyama-river-watershed, endangered-species, gambelia-sila, panoche-plateau, panoche-valley, radseq, san-joaquin-desert, san-joaquin-valley, usgs-583603dce4b0d9329c801c11
Organization: Department of the Interior
Croton setiger predators, herbivores, and damage collected in California 2013-2014

A pollen addition experiment was conducted on the leaves of Croton setiger, a Californian forb.  Pollen was added to leaves of randomly selected plants, and control plants had no pollen added.  Over 2013 and 2014 the number of predatory and herbivorous insects were counted on each plant, and the number of damager leave and plant size were measured.

Tags: biota, croton-setiger, herbivory, indirect-defense, insects, plant-defense, pollen, usgs-5d0bb918e4b0e3d3116204d2
Organization: Department of the Interior
Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument Seboeis Unit Vegetation Mapping Project: Vegetation Points (Accuracy Assessment Sites and Vegetation Plots)

During summer 2019, botanists with the Maine Natural Areas Program collected data from 94 vegetation plots for plant community characterization. The sampling data were entered into the National Park Service PLOTS version 4.0 (National Park Service 2018) for analyses to characterize vegetation associations in the U.S. National Vegetation Classification.
An accuracy assessment was performed on the draft version of the vegetation map layer. During the summer of 2020, field crews collected data from 107 stratified and randomly selected sites for evaluating the accuracy of the vegetation map layer for those map classes representing U.S. National Vegetation Classification associations. The accuracy assessment field data were then compared to the vegetation map data. Results from the accuracy assessment study show an overall accuracy of 87.6% (kappa index of 87.0%) based on an analysis of data from 105 of the 107 accuracy assessment sites.

Tags: accuracy-assessment, biota, data-collection, environment, katahdin-woods-and-waters-national-monument, maine, map, national-park-service, national-vegetation-classification-standard, natural-resources-preservation-program, nvcs, observation, u-s-national-vegetation-classification, united-states, usgs-6334b99ed34e900e86c6dc1c, usnvc, vegetation-plot
Organization: Department of the Interior
Study Site Information

These data contain the study site locations and elevation information where bolts (tree stem sections) infected with Ceratocystis lukuohia and/or C. huliohia were collected on Hawai'i Island.

Tags: ambrosia-beetle, biota, frass, hawaii, hawaii-island, rapid-hia-death, usgs-5f121b1582ce21d4c409d395
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2016 Site 0341 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-5b5f52b3e4b006a11f66ea75, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior