AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Sonde data of continuous surface water flow-through system for the West Florida Shelf: USGS Cruise 11CEV02

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) is conducting a study on the effects of climate change on ocean acidification within the Gulf of Mexico; dealing specifically with the effect of ocean acidification on marine organisms and habitats. To investigate this, the USGS participated in cruises in the West Florida Shelf and northern Gulf of Mexico regions aboard the R/V Weatherbird II, a ship of opportunity lead by Dr. Kendra Daly, of the University of South Florida (USF). This cruise occurred February 17-23, 2011, leaving from and returned to Saint Petersburg, Florida. The USGS collected data pertaining to pH, dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC), and total alkalinity in discrete samples. Seventy-one underway discrete samples were collected approximately hourly over a span of 1628 kilometer (km) track line, additionally 34 samples were taken at 10 stations. Flow-through conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) data were collected, which includes temperature, salinity, and pH. Corroborating the USGS data are the vertical CTD profiles collected by USF, using the following sensors: CTD, oxygen, chlorophyll fluorescence, optical backscatter, and transmissometer. Additionally, discrete depth samples for nutrients, chlorophyll, and particulate organic carbon/nitrogen were collected.

Tags: assessments, bathypelagic, carbon-flux, chemical-analysis, chemical-oceanography, environmental-chemistry, epipelagic, florida, marine-chemistry, mesopelagic, ocean-acidification, ocean-chemistry, ocean-surface, pco2, ph, physical-chemical-features, salinity, temperature, total-carbon, united-states, usgs-cb2b591c-857a-445c-aa3b-4d097f7261b0, west-florida-shelf
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2018, and 2021 Site 0147 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 six land-water products (2005, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2018, and 2021).  The resulting matrix has 64 possible classes defined by the combination of land and water categories on those six 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-64dfbb1dd34e5f6cd553c06b, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, 2015 and 2018 Site 0645 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-611f13fed34e40dd9c01d283, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2018 Site 0641 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-611d2cc5d34e40dd9c012a6b, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Survey of velocity at cross sections in the Des Plaines River near Brandon Road Lock and Dam, Joliet, Illinois (October 19, 2015)

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 Trimble AG132 differential Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver with submeter accuracy.  The data were processed in the Velocity Mapping Toolbox (Parsons and others, 2013) to obtain a mean velocity field for each cross section from individual transects at each cross section.  These data were collected in support of the US Army Corps of Engineers Great Lakes and Mississippi River Interbasin Study (GLMRIS), and were concurrent with a dye-tracing study.  NOTE: Any data assigned a value of "-9999" are invalid 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: brandon-road-lock-and-dam, des-plaines-river, illinois, usgs-573617ede4b0dae0d5df6d08, velocity, will-county
Organization: Department of the Interior
RockType to Permeability Crosswalk Table, Northwest U.S.

This table is a crosswalk or lookup table that classifies rock type (surface geology) by its permeability, or the ability to pass substances, such as liquids or gases.  The rock types that are classified are located in the Northwest U.S. -- Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Wyoming, and Montana.

Tags: geology, geoscientificinformation, idaho, montana, nevada, nhd-region-17, oregon, pacific-northwest, permeability, usgs-5c61e983e4b0fe48cb32feca, utah, washington, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Visible, Near Infrared, Shortwave Infrared and Thermal Infrared Laboratory Spectra of Samples of Compositionally Variable Dune Fields in the Western United States and Alaska - Sample DS7

This data represents laboratory reflectance and emissivity spectral measurements of dune sand samples collected from a variety of dune types and mineralogical compositions from eight dune field locations in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada and New Mexico (labeled and designated as samples DS-1 through DS-8). Each sample were sieved into various size classes and measured both prior to and after sieving. Visible through Near Infrared through Shortwave Infrared (~0.4 - 2.5 microns) reflectance were measured using an artificial light source attached to an Analytical Spectral Devices (ASD) spectrometer. Hemispherical reflectance measurements spanning Mid-IR wavelengths, including the Thermal Infrared (~2.0 - 15.0 microns), were measured using a Nicolet FTIR spectrometer with a gold integrating sphere attachment. These latter measurements were converted from wavenumber to wavelength, and inverted to measure emissivity. TIR spectral measurements were conducted for most of our eight dune samples prior to sieving and does not include measurements of various size fractions, except for one sample (DS-8). VSWIR reflectance measurements are included for each of the full composite samples prior to sieving, as well as selected size fractions after sieving such as the smallest (e.g. pan fraction) and largest measurable size fractions. This metadata entry describes the CSV spectral files associated with sample DS-7, in particular.

Tags: thermal-infrared-emissivity-spectral-unmixing-linear-deconvolution-aeolian-sorting-terrestrial-, usgs-5a626b7fe4b06e28e9c3d97e
Organization: Department of the Interior
Water-quality data from the Providence Water Supply Board for tributary streams to the Scituate Reservoir (ver. 4.0, December 2025)

Water-quality data were collected by Providence Water, formerly referred to as Providence Water Supply Board (PWSB), from tributaries in the Scituate Reservoir drainage area, October 1, 2017 through September 30, 2024 (water years 2018 through 2024). Water-quality samples were collected by the PWSB either monthly or quarterly at fixed stations on 38 tributaries in the Scituate Reservoir drainage area, Rhode Island. These data were used to calculate instantaneous loads and yields of constituents in reports by the U.S. Geological Survey. Water-quality samples were collected following a strict sampling schedule so that water-quality samples would be representative of various weather conditions. Samples were analyzed at the PWSB water-quality laboratory at the P.J. Holton Water Purification Plant in Scituate, Rhode Island. Water-quality properties and constituent concentrations were measured by using unfiltered water samples. These water-quality properties included pH, alkalinity, color, turbidity, and concentrations of chloride, nitrite, nitrate, orthophosphate, and bacteria (Escherichia coli [E. coli] and total coliform). This data release will be updated to append additional water-quality data collected by the PWSB.
First posted May 2021, ver. 1.0
Revised July 2022, ver. 2.0
Revised November 2023, ver. 3.0
Revised December 2025, ver. 4.0

Tags: bacteria, chloride, cranston, drinking-water-use, foster, johnston, nutrient-content-water, rhode-island, scituate, scituate-reservoir, sodium, surface-water-quality, turbidity, usgs-5ef2465582ced62aaae3bc30, water-ph, water-properties, water-quality, water-resources
Organization: Department of the Interior
Passive water-quality sampling at discrete vertical intervals to support the development of a conceptual site model at the Geneva Industries/Fuhrmann Energy Superfund Site, Houston, Texas, 2023

The Geneva Industries/Fuhrmann Energy Superfund Site (hereinafter referred to as "the Site") in southeastern Houston, Texas was historically used as a site for petroleum exploration and petrochemical production and is currently (2024) inactive. Previous remedies to clean up the contaminated site included the excavation and off-site disposal of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB)-contaminated soils, capping the Site and surrounding it with a perimeter slurry wall to contain remaining constituents in the soil and groundwater, the recovery and treatment of trichloroethylene (TCE)-contaminated groundwater, and institutional controls (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency [EPA], 2018). A conceptual site model (CSM) does not yet exist and is needed to (1) understand how site conditions have changed since earlier investigations; (2) re-evaluate contaminants of concerns at the Site; and (3) determine whether additional remedial actions are needed. A five-phase approach was proposed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to obtain the data needed to develop a CSM. As the third phase in that approach, the USGS in cooperation with the EPA, collected groundwater samples at discrete vertical sampling intervals from four wells, former recovery well RW-1R and monitoring wells MW-24, MW-101, and MW-102, using three types of passive samplers at the Site in September 2023.

Tags: agi-gore-sampler, conceptual-site-model, diffusion, environmental-protection-agency, geneva-industries-fuhrmann-energy-superfund-site, geoscientificinformation, groundwater, harris-county, houston, hydrology, low-density-polyethylene-strip, passive-diffusion-bag, passive-sampling, polychlorinated-biphenyls, semivolatile-organic-compounds, superfund, texas, usgs-65394acad34ee4b6e05bbbe8, volatile-organic-compounds
Organization: Department of the Interior
Physical Properties of Sediment Collected during India's National Gas Hydrate Program NGHP-02 Expedition in the Krishna-Godavari Basin Offshore Eastern India, 2015

During the spring and summer of 2015, the U.S. Geological Survey participated in India’s National Gas Hydrate Program NGHP-02 expedition in the Krishna-Godavari Basin offshore eastern India.  The expedition included conventional and pressure coring of sediment, samples of which were transferred to the U.S. Geological Survey in Woods Hole, MA for post-cruise testing.  This data release contains measurement results for physical properties measured on recovered core material, including measurements on gas-hydrate-bearing sediment preserved in pressure cores, and physical properties of gas hydrate-free sediment recovered from conventional cores.  This work is part of an international NGHP-02 collaboration culminating in a comprehensive collection of publications in a special volume of the journal Marine and Petroleum Geology.

Tags: bay-of-bengal, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, core-analysis, drilling-and-coring, geoscientificinformation, grain-size-analysis, indian-ocean, krishna-godavari-basin, marine-geology, oceans, sedimentology, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-5b0415b5e4b0da30c1c36710, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
The North Central Regional Invasive Species and Climate Change (NC RISCC) 2021 Survey of Regional Practitioners

The North Central Regional Invasive Species and Climate Change (NC RISCC) network includes ~150 members working at the nexus of climate change and invasive species. In late 2021, the NC RISCC leadership team surveyed regional practitioners working on issues related to invasive species management to understand their priorities and practices. Survey participants represented a variety of entities, with the most representation from: county government, academia/universities, federal government, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and state government. Survey participants volunteered to complete the survey that contained 19-20 questions depending on if they self identified as a researcher or manager. The NC RISCC Survey Results dataset contains the de-identified responses from the 69 survey respondents. This data release also includes the analysis code used to clean and summarize the data.

Tags: biota, colorado, invasive-species, kansas, montana, nebraska, north-dakota, social-sciences, south-dakota, usgs-6707e2afd34e969edc5a16ad, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mauna Loa 2022 summit and Northeast Rift Zone eruption — lava flow chronology polygons

In the late evening of November 27, 2022, an effusive eruption began inside Moku'aweoweo caldera at the summit of Mauna Loa volcano. Within a few hours, lava had covered most of the caldera floor, and several fissures just outside caldera sent short lava flows up to 3 kilometers (2 miles) to the southwest. Later in the morning of November 28, summit effusion ceased and the eruption moved into the volcano's Northeast Rift Zone. Several rift zone fissures were initially active, but by November 30 effusion had focused at a vent known as fissure 3. For another 10 days, fissure 3 fountained and fed lava flows that eventually stretched 18 kilometers (11 miles) to the north, threatening but not reaching the Daniel K. Inouye Highway across the island's interior. Effusion from fissure 3 began declining overnight December 7–8 and ceased on December 10, by which time the eruption had covered approximately 36 square kilometers (14 square miles) of Mauna Loa with new lava. In this report, the authors have sought to chronicle this sequence of events using geospatial data in the form of an Esri file geodatabase, Esri shapefiles, and Google Earth KMZs, as well as rapid-response orthomosaic and thermal map rasters.

Tags: basalt, hawaii, holocene, lava-flow, mafic-volcanic-rock, mauna-loa, mlo_2022, mokuweoweo, northeast-rift-zone, pacific, pacific-islands, quaternary, united-states, usgs-669f002bd34eef99d5abbba3, volcanic-activity, volcanic-rock, volcanic-rocks
Organization: Department of the Interior
Sea Turtle Nesting Decision Points and Cross-Shore Beach Profile Data Collected on August 03, 2022, from South Hutchinson Beach, Florida

On August 03, 2022, surveys were conducted on ‘high-density’ sea turtle nesting areas located on South Hutchinson Beach, Florida. This dataset, SouthHutchinson_20220803.zip, was collected and processed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center (SPCMSC) and includes sea turtle nesting decision point locations (.csv) and cross-shore beach profiles (.xyz) at those locations. Utilizing previously published methods for collecting beach profile data (Henderson and others, 2016; Brown and others, 2018), data were acquired by USGS scientists walking along cross-shore transect lines while carrying a survey backpack that was equipped with a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver and GNSS antenna. The horizontal position data are provided in the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinate system, Zone 17 North (17N), referenced to the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83), and the elevation data are referenced to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88), GEOID12B.

Tags: altimetry, beach, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, distributions, earth-science-gt-land-surface-gt-topography-gt-terrain-elevation, earth-science-gt-oceans-gt-coastal-processes-gt-beaches, elevation, elevation-data, florida, geology, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, global-navigation-satellite-system-gnss-observations, gnss-measurement, marine-geology, oceans, providers-gt-government-agencies-u-s-federal-agencies-gt-doi-gt-usgs-gt-doi-usgs-cmg, south-atlantic, spcmsc, st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, topographic-mapping, topography, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-cc1d2fc9-b96f-4f10-b84c-87f89d8c9d10
Organization: Department of the Interior
Baseline coastal oblique aerial photographs collected at the Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana, and Dauphin Island, Alabama, July 24, 2010

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) conducts baseline and storm-response photography missions to document and understand the changes in the vulnerability of the Nation's coasts to extreme storms. On July 24, 2010, the USGS conducted an oblique aerial photographic survey at the Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana, and Dauphin Island, Alabama, aboard a Beechcraft BE90 King Air aircraft at an altitude of 500 feet (ft) and approximately 1,200 ft offshore. This mission was conducted to collect data for assessing incremental changes in the beach and nearshore area and can be used to assess future coastal change. The photographs provided are Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) images. The photograph locations are an estimate of the aircraft's position and do not indicate the location of the features in the images. These photographs document the configuration of the barrier islands and other coastal features at the time of the survey. ExifTool (version 4.0) was used to add the following to the header of each photograph: time of collection, GPS latitude, GPS longitude, keywords, credit, artist (photographer), caption, copyright, and contact information. Photographs can be opened with any JPEG-compatible image viewer by clicking on a thumbnail on the contact sheet. All image times are recorded in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

Tags: alabama, barrier-island-evolution-research, barrier-islands, baseline-survey, beach-erosion, chandeleur-islands, coastal-aerial-photography, coastal-processes, coastline, dauphin-island, environment, erosion, geomorphology, image-collections, imagerybasemapsearthcover, louisiana, marine-geology, national-assessment-for-coastal-change-hazards, national-assessment-for-coastal-change-hazards-project, oblique-aerial-photography, ocean-characteristics, ocean-processes, oceans, photographs, photography, structure, u-s-geological-survey, usgs-65f6dd09-ae5c-4598-9fa1-6552c4f36486
Organization: Department of the Interior