AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Estimated Use of Water in the United States County-Level Data for 2015

This dataset contains water-use estimates for 2015 that are aggregated to the county level in the United States.  The U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS's) National Water Use Science Project is responsible for compiling and disseminating the Nation's water-use data.  Working in cooperation with local, State, and Federal agencies, the USGS has published an estimate of water use in the United States every 5 years, beginning in 1950.  Water-use estimates aggregated to the State level are presented in USGS Circular 1441, "Estimated Use of Water in the United States in 2015" (Dieter and others, 2018). This dataset contains the county-level water-use data that support the state-level estimates in Dieter and others 2018.  This dataset contains data for public supply, domestic, irrigation, thermoelectric power, industrial, mining, livestock, and aquaculture water-use categories.
First posted September 28, 2017, ver. 1.0
Revised June 19, 2018, ver. 2.0
Version 2.0:  This version of the dataset contains total population data and water-use estimates for 2015 for the following categories:  Public supply, domestic, irrigation, thermoelectric power, industrial, mining, livestock, and aquaculture.  Data are aggregated to the county level.  A value of "--" denotes that values were not estimated for an optional attribute.  Some values in the public supply and domestic categories have been updated from those found in version 1.0 of this dataset.
Version 1.0:  This version of the dataset contains total population data and water-use estimates for the public supply and domestic categories for 2015 that are aggregated to the county level in the United States.  A "--" in the attributes "PS-GWPop" or "PS-SWPop" denotes that values were not estimated for an optional attribute.  All other occurrences of "--" denote data for an attribute in a water-use category that has not yet been released.  Version 1.0 data are available upon request.

Tags: aquaculture, aquaculture-water-use, consumptive-use, domestic, domestic-water-use, industrial, industrial-water-use, irrigation, irrigation-water-use, livestock, livestock-water-use, mining, mining-water-use, public-supply, public-supply-water-use, reclaimed-wastewater, self-supplied-water-use, thermoelectric-power-generation, thermoelectric-power-generation-water-use, usgs-5af3311be4b0da30c1b245d8, water-use
Organization: Department of the Interior
Louisiana Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring Program – 2008 habitat map, Modern Delta Region (ver. 1.1, May 2020)

The Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring (BICM) program was developed by Louisiana’s Coastal Protection Restoration Authority (CPRA) and is implemented as a component of the System Wide Assessment and Monitoring (SWAMP) program. The program uses both historical data and contemporary data collections to assess and monitor changes in the aerial and subaqueous extent of islands, habitat types, sediment texture and geotechnical properties, environmental processes, and vegetation composition. Examples of BICM datasets include still and video aerial photography for documenting shoreline changes, shoreline positions, habitat mapping, land change analyses, light detection and ranging (lidar) surveys for topographic elevations, single-beam and swath bathymetry, and sediment grab samples. For more information about the BICM program, see Kindinger and others (2013).
The U.S. Geological Survey, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center provides support to the BICM program through the development of habitat map products using aerial imagery and lidar elevation data and assessing change in habitats over time. These data provide a snapshot of barrier island habitats and can be combined with other past and/or future maps to monitor these valuable natural resources over time. The current effort of this habitat mapping program includes developing habitat maps for 2008 and 2015-2016 for the following BICM regions: 1) West Chenier, 2) East Chenier; 3) Acadiana Bays (only Marsh Island); 4) Early Lafourche Delta; 5) Late Lafourche Delta; 6) Modern Delta (only Chaland Headland and Shell Island); and 7) Chandeleur Islands. Additionally, a habitat change analysis will be conducted for reaches mapped in 2005 by Fearnley et al. (2009) and 2015-2016. The BICM program has developed two habitat classification schemes which include a detailed 15-class habitat scheme and a general eight-class habitat scheme. The detailed scheme was developed specifically for this habitat mapping effort and builds off the general scheme used in previous BICM habitat mapping efforts (Fearnley and others, 2009). The additional classes developed in the detailed scheme are primarily used to further delineate various dune habitats, separate marsh and mangrove, and distinguish between beach and unvegetated barrier flat habitats. To ensure comparability between this effort and previous BICM map products, we have crosswalked the detailed classes to general habitat classes previously used by Fearnley and others (2009).

Tags: barrier-islands, barrier-vegetation, beach, coastal-wetlands, dune, early-lafourche-delta-region, environment, geoscientificinformation, gulf-of-mexico, habitat-map, imagerybasemapsearthcover, louisiana, louisiana-coastal, mangrove, marsh, plaquemines-parish, remote-sensing, scrub-shrub, usgs-5af32604e4b0da30c1b1e8d2
Organization: Department of the Interior
Grain size, mineralogic, and trace-element data from field samples near Hinkley, California

This data release is part of a study examining the occurrence of chromium and natural and anthropogenic hexavalent Chromium, Cr(VI) in groundwater. Data will be used to estimate  naturally-occurring background Cr(VI) concentrations upgradient, near the plume margins, and downgradient from a mapped Cr(VI) contamination plume near Hinkley, CA (Izbicki and Groover, 2016). 
The data release includes grain size distribution, photographic, and associated chemical and mineral analysis data for 36 sediment core and alluvium samples as well as Scanning Electron Microscopy analysis on select grains from magnetic and heavy mineral separates collected near Hinkley, CA. The cooperator for this study is the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board. Results are provided in this data release organized by analysis type.

Tags: atomic-emission-spectroscopy, background-level, california, chemical-analysis, chromium, contamination-and-pollution, geochemistry, geoscientificinformation, groundwater, health, hinkley, mass-spectroscopy, rocks-and-deposits, scanning-electron-microscopy, soil-chemistry, unconsolidated-deposits, usgs-5af210c5e4b0da30c1b0c8a9, x-ray-fluorescence
Organization: Department of the Interior
Occurrence records and vegetation type data used for species distribution models in the western United States

These data are species distribution information assembled for assessing the impacts of land-use barriers, facilitative interactions with other species, and loss of long-distance animal dispersal on predicted species range patterns for four common species in pinyon-juniper woodlands in the western United States. The layers in the data release are initial distribution records of two kinds: point occurrence records and a raster layer for the general vegetation types where the species is a co-dominant, compiled from other sources. Both types of data are the baseline information in species distribution models for the associated publication(see Larger Work Citation).

Tags: arizona, california, climate-change, colorado, dispersal, facilitation, general-circulation-model, idaho, juniperus-monosperma, juniperus-osteosperma, kansas, land-use, mexico, montana, nebraska, nevada, new-mexico, oklahoma, one-seed-juniper, oregon, pinus-edulis, pinus-monophylla, pinyon-juniper-woodlands, pinyon-pine, single-leaf-pinyon, south-dakota, species-distribution-models, texas, usgs-5af2109fe4b0da30c1b0c8a3, utah, utah-juniper, western-united-states, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
North Carolina (NC) Stochastic Empirical Loading and Dilution Model (SELDM) summary statistics for physical and chemical data at NC highway-runoff and bridge-deck sites

The purpose of this USGS data release is to publish NC SELDM streamflow statistics and summary statistics of physical and chemical data in support of the information provided in the above-referenced report. This data release consists of two data sets, "NC SELDM streamflow statistics..." and "NC SELDM summary statistics for physical and chemical data...". The tables that are uploaded for the "NC SELDM streamflow statistics for 266 streamgages across North Carolina" sub-section are primarily the support files for the StreamStatsDB update that was completed when the report was approved. These files were generated using the GNWISQ and QSTATS computer programs developed and described by Granato (2009, appendices 1 and 4). This is discussed near the end of the "Prestorm streamflow statistics" section in the above-referenced report. A large table of selected site attributes and StreamStats basin characteristics that were compiled for the 266 streamgages is also provided as a part of this data release. A ReadMe file is also included in the sub-section of the data release. The tables that are uploaded for the "NC SELDM summary statistics for physical and chemical data at NC highway-runoff and bridge-deck sites" sub-section of the data release support the statewide medians table (Table 7) discussed within the "Simulating highway-runoff quality" section in the above-referenced report. This is a .csv file for each of the 11 constituents referenced in Table 11. Descriptions of the data fields (or columns) in the .csv tables are provided at the top of each .csv file. A ReadMe file is also included in the sub-section of the data release.

Tags: anthropocene-temporal, floods, flow-durations, hydrology, inlandwaters, mathematical-modeling, north-carolina, statistics, stochastic-empirical-loading-and-dilution-model, stream-gage-measurement, streamflow, streamgage, streams-stratum, streamstats, streamstatsdb, surface-water-non-marine, transportation, usgs-5af1eecae4b0da30c1b0c7fd, utilitiescommunication
Organization: Department of the Interior
Physical and Hydraulic Properties at Recently Burned and Long-Unburned Boreal Forest Areas in Interior Alaska, USA

This dataset includes physical and hydraulic properties at selected sites in interior Alaska. Physical properties include dry bulk density, loss on ignition, saturated soil water content, and particle size distribution. Hydraulic properties include field-saturated hydraulic conductivity.

Tags: alaska, dalton-highway, hydraulic-properties, interior-alaska, permafrost, soil-properties, steese-highway, usgs-5b3fd1ede4b060350a10bfa8
Organization: Department of the Interior
North Carolina (NC) Stochastic Empirical Loading and Dilution Model (SELDM) streamflow statistics for 266 streamgages across North Carolina

The purpose of this USGS data release is to publish NC SELDM streamflow statistics and summary statistics of physical and chemical data in support of the information provided in the above-referenced report. This data release consists of two data sets, "NC SELDM streamflow statistics..." and "NC SELDM summary statistics for physical and chemical data...". The tables that are uploaded for the "NC SELDM streamflow statistics for 266 streamgages across North Carolina" sub-section are primarily the support files for the StreamStatsDB update that was completed when the report was approved. These files were generated using the GNWISQ and QSTATS computer programs developed and described by Granato (2009, appendices 1 and 4). This is discussed near the end of the "Prestorm streamflow statistics" section in the above-referenced report. A large table of selected site attributes and StreamStats basin characteristics that were compiled for the 266 streamgages is also provided as a part of this data release. A ReadMe file is also included in the sub-section of the data release. The tables that are uploaded for the "NC SELDM summary statistics for physical and chemical data at NC highway-runoff and bridge-deck sites" sub-section of the data release support the statewide medians table (Table 7) discussed within the "Simulating highway-runoff quality" section in the above-referenced report. This is a .csv file for each of the 11 constituents referenced in Table 11. Descriptions of the data fields (or columns) in the .csv tables are provided at the top of each .csv file. A ReadMe file is also included in the sub-section of the data release.

Tags: flow-durations, statistics, stochastic-empirical-loading-and-dilution-model, streamflow, streamgage, streamstats, streamstatsdb, usgs-5af1ed4fe4b0da30c1b0c7f1
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geospatial dataset of flood-inundation maps for Cayuga Inlet, Sixmile Creek, Cascadilla Creek, and Fall Creek at Ithaca, New York

Digital flood-inundation maps for a 2.9-square-mile area of Ithaca, New York, were created in 2015–18  by the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the City of Ithaca, New York, and the New York State Department of State. The flood-inundation maps depict estimates of the maximum areal extent and depth of flooding corresponding to selected flood frequencies for Cayuga Inlet, Sixmile Creek, Cascadilla Creek, and Fall Creek and selected water-surface elevations of Cayuga Lake.
Flood profiles for the stream reaches were computed by combining a one-dimensional step-backwater model  for the stream channels and a two-dimensional model for the overbank areas. The resulting hydraulic model was calibrated by using water-surface profiles from five observed storm events. The model was then used to compute 15 water-surface profiles for 5 flood frequencies (50- , 10- , 2- , 1- , and 0.2-percent annual exceedance probabilities, or 2- , 10- , 50- , 100- , and 500-year recurrence intervals) and 3 lake levels (representing average conditions, a 2-year-high condition, and a 100-year-high condition). The simulated water-surface profiles were then combined with a digital elevation model (derived from light detection and ranging data having 0.31-foot vertical accuracy and 3.3-foot horizontal resolution) to delineate the maximum area flooded at each water level.
Flood-inundation maps and geographic information system flood-extent polygons and depth grids are available in the data release associated with this report . These maps can provide emergency management personnel and residents with information that is critical for flood-management planning, flood-response activities, and postflood  recovery efforts.

Tags: cascadilla-creek, cayuga-inlet, cayuga-lake, fall-creek, floods, hazard-preparedness, inlandwaters, inundation-map, ithaca, mathematical-modeling, sixmile-creek, streamflow, tompkins, usgs-5af1ddb7e4b0da30c1b0c3ba
Organization: Department of the Interior
Concentrations of Select Trace Elements Determined By X-Ray Fluorescence in Sediment Deposited on the Flood Plain from the December 2015 Flood and in Underlying Soils, Missouri, 2016.

These data contain concentrations of select trace elements in samples collected on the flood plain from flood deposits from the December 2015 flood and underlying soils. All samples were analyzed by x-ray fluorescence.

Tags: biota, flood-plain, lead, middle-big-river, sediment, southeast-missouri-barite-district, trace-metals, usgs-5af1c3c8e4b0da30c1b0b800, xrf
Organization: Department of the Interior
Select Trace-Element Concentrations Determined using X-Ray Fluorescence in Bulk (Unsieved) Samples from Flood-Plain Cores Along Tributaries Draining the Washington County Barite District, Missouri, 2014

These data contain concentrations of trace elements in unsieved flood-plain samples collected along tributaries draining the Washington County Barite District.

Tags: biota, flood-plain, lead, middle-big-river, sediment, southeast-missouri-barite-district, trace-metals, usgs-5af1bfe4e4b0da30c1b0b7c3, xrf
Organization: Department of the Interior
Select Trace Element Concentrations Determined using X-Ray Fluorescence in Various Size Fractions of Sieved Samples from Flood-Plain Boreholes along Tributaries Draining the Washington County Barite District, Missouri, 2014

These data contain concentrations of trace elements in flood-plain samples in various size fractions measured using x-ray fluorescence. Samples were collected along tributaries draining the Washington County Barite District.

Tags: biota, flood-plain, lead, middle-big-river, sediment, southeast-missouri-barite-district, trace-metals, usgs-5af1b25de4b0da30c1b0b765, xrf
Organization: Department of the Interior
Concentrations of Major and Trace Constituents Determined by Laboratory Analysis of Various Size Fractions of Streambed-Sediment Collected from the Middle Big River and Tributaries Draining the Barite District, Missouri, 2012.

These data contain concentrations of major and trace elements measured by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry at the laboratory of various size fractions (less than 0.063, less than 0.250, and less than 2 millimeters) from the middle Big River and tributaries draining the Barite District.

Tags: biota, flood-plain, lead, middle-big-river, sediment, southeast-missouri-barite-district, trace-metals, usgs-5af1ad45e4b0da30c1b0b758, xrf
Organization: Department of the Interior
Concentrations of Major and Trace Elements in Streambed and Floodplain Sediment along the Middle Big River and Tributaries in the Southeast Missouri Barite District and in Quality-Assurance Samples, 2012-15.

These data contain concentrations of trace elements in various size fractions (less than 0.063 millimeters, 0.063 to 0.250 millimeters, 0.250 to 2 millimeters, and greater than 2 millimeters)  of flood-plain core samples analyzed by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (laboratory) and x-ray fluorescence (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency).

Tags: biota, flood-plain, lead, middle-big-river, sediment, southeast-missouri-barite-district, trace-metals, usgs-5af19a94e4b0da30c1b0b74b, xrf
Organization: Department of the Interior
Location of Streambed-Sediment Samples, Flood-Plain-Sediment Samples, Sediment Deposited on the Flood Plain during the December 2015 Flood and on Underlying Soils, and Flood-Plain Cores Collected from the Middle Big River and Its Tributaries and Tributaries Draining The Barite District, Missouri.

These data contains location information for the various sites covered in the data release. Locations include streambed-sediment, flood-plain core, and flood-plain sediment sampling locations along the Big River, Maddin Creek, Mineral Fork Creek, Old Mines Creek, Mill Creek, and Dry Creek.

Tags: biota, flood-plain, lead, middle-big-river, sediment, southeast-missouri-barite-district, trace-metals, usgs-5aec8301e4b0860c0f73b348, xrf
Organization: Department of the Interior
Molecular and morphological data on two species complexes in the freshwater mussel genus Cyclonaias

We examined species boundaries within an imperiled group of freshwater mussels in the genus Cyclonaias (Bivalvia: Unionidae) using morphometrics, molecular phylogenetics, and multispecies coalescent models to help guide pending conservation assessments and legislative decisions. Congruence across all lines of evidence indicated that current taxonomy overestimates diversity in the C. pustulosa species complex, while underestimating diversity in the C. nodulata species complex. Here we provide all molecular, morphological, and collection information collected and analyzed in our investigation.

Tags: biota, conservation-genetics, cryptic-species, generic-reclassification, imperiled-species, incomplete-lineage-sorting, integrative-taxonomy, phylogenetic-systematics, species-delimitation, species-diversity, systematics-and-taxonomy, usgs-5aeb4c01e4b0860c0f727a11
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data points, corresponding to the bathymetric survey of Puerto Mosquito, Isla de Vieques, Puerto Rico, August 2015

This dataset consists of a shapefile of points corresponding to water depth collected for the bathymetric survey of Puerto Mosquito, in Isla de Vieques, Puerto Rico, on August 11, 2015. The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Puerto Rico Environmental Quality Board, conducted a limnological study at Puerto Mosquito in Vieques to assess the principal mechanisms affecting the hydrology and water quality characteristics. The study characterized hydrologic and physical-chemical properties, sediment deposition rates, bathymetry, and biological conditions. The bathymetric survey system used for the study consisted of coupling a global positioning system (GPS) device with a water depth sounder. Established navigation lines were used to simultaneously collect the water depth and geographic location data using a bathymetric system. A bathymetric map was generated by transferring collected data into a geographic information system (GIS).

Tags: bathymetry, limnology, ocean-sciences, puerto-mosquito, puerto-rico, storage-volume, usgs-5aeb3ae6e4b0860c0f7277bd, vieques
Organization: Department of the Interior
Wetlands of the Yellowknife Study Area, 1962-1965: Physical characteristics

The Yellowknife Study Area (YSA), Northwest Territories, Canada, was established in 1961 by H. W. Murdy, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, for the study of wetland and waterfowl ecology. The study area is located on the western edge of the Precambrian Shield and edge of the taiga and is recognized for its high wetland densities and waterfowl abundance. The region is underlain by discontinuous, warm permafrost and hence vulnerable to a warming climate. The completion of Highway 3 in early 1960s provided the first access to the region for development, research, and monitoring. The YSA is a 38-sq km area centered on Highway 3, extending 48 km in length. In the 1960s, it encompassed 262 natural ponds and 313 man-made ponds created by highway construction. Extensive parts of the highway were moved and substantially improved in 2005, after the last waterfowl study, and portions of the original 1960s highway surface were removed.
Within the first 6 years following highway construction in 1961, Murdy collected extensive data on the YSA’s wetlands and waterfowl. In 1962-1965 he collected detailed information on physical features of wetland basins,water quality, and waterfowl populations for 236 ponds. Murdy died before he was able to analyze or publish the wetland data. The original data and aerial photographs are archived at the U.S. Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center. The YSA also has been an important area for monitoring and research of boreal waterfowl populations and ecology since the 1960s. The unpublished wetland data decribed here provide a unique opportunity to investigate long-term changes in wetland chemistry, plant communities, and effects of road building. The three datasets included here describes the physical characteristics and water chemistry of the basins.  See also companion wetland plant dataset (Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, 2017, Wetland plants of the Yellowknife Study Area, 1961-1962). Other data in archived files but not yet digitally archived include depth to permafrost, plant community and species abundance, weather data, and phenology of plants waterfowl, among other details.

Tags: aquatic-plants, biota, boreal-wetlands, freshwater-ecosystems, freshwater-fish, great-slave-lake, inlandwater, limnology, mammal, northwest-territories, ponds, surface-water, usgs-5aeb32d6e4b0860c0f7276d0, water-chemistry, wetlands, yellowknife-study-area
Organization: Department of the Interior