AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Groundwater, surface water, bed sediment, soil, benthic macroinvertebrate taxa, habitat, and biological indices data collected near and at the Open Burning/Open Detonation (OB/OD) Areas at the Letterkenny Army Depot, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, (ver. 3.0, September 2025)

Groundwater, surface water, sediment and soil sampling was conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) at nine groundwater wells, eight surface water sites, three bed sediment retention ponds, and two fields, respectively at areas near and within the Open Burning/Open Detonation (OB/OD) areas in the Ammunition Area (AA) of Letterkenny Army Depot. Analytical results for groundwater samples collected from 2018-2023 are provided in “OBOD_wells_data_2018-2023.xlsx”. Analytical results for surface-water samples from 2018-2023 are provided in “OBOD_sw_data_2018-2023.xlsx”. Benthic macroinvertebrate taxonomic data collected from 2018-2023 at three streams are also provided in “OBOD_benthic_taxa_2018-2023.xlsx”. The field and habitat data for benthic-macroinvertebrate sampling are provided in “OBOD_benthic_field_data_2018-2023.xlsx” and “OBOD_benthic_habitat_data_2018-2023.xlsx”, respectively. The form used to assess habitat is provided in “OBOD_benthic_habitat_assessment_form.xlsx”. The biological metrics for the benthic macroinvertebrate data are provided in “OBOD_benthic_metrics_2018-2023.xlsx”. Analytical results for soil samples collected from 2019-2023 are provided in “OBOD_soil_data_2019-2023.xlsx”. Analytical results for bed sediment samples collected from 2018-2023 are provided in “OBOD_bed_sediment_data_2018-2023.xlsx”. The data files with analytical results also include quality assurance/quality control sample results. 
NOTE: While previous versions are available from the author, all the records in the previous versions can be found in version 3.0. In this version, water-quality data from 2022 and 2023 were appended to the files. Additional columns with parameter,  data qualifier, and remark code information were added to 5 of the data files.
First Posted - September 23, 2022 (available from author)
Revised - April 18, 2024 (version 2.0 - available from author)
Revised - September 2, 2025 (version 3.0)

Tags: bed-sediment-chemical-quality, biota, franklin-county, groundwater-quality, macroinvertebrates, pennsylvania, soil-chemical-quality, surface-water-quality, usgs-619ba8ebd34eb622f692fbf8
Organization: Department of the Interior
Central Valley Hydrologic Model version 2 (CVHM2): Subsidence and Aquifer-System Compaction Data Used as Observations (ver. 2.1, August 2023)

The Central Valley, and particularly the San Joaquin Valley, has a long history of land subsidence caused by groundwater development. The extensive withdrawal of groundwater from the unconsolidated deposits of the San Joaquin Valley lowered groundwater levels and caused widespread land subsidence—reaching 9 meters by 1981. More than half of the thickness of the aquifer system is composed of fine-grained sediments, including clays, silts, and sandy or silty clays that are susceptible to compaction. In an effort to aid water managers in understanding how water moves through the aquifer system, predicting water-supply scenarios, and addressing issues related to water competition, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) developed a new hydrologic modeling tool, the Central Valley Hydrologic Model (CVHM; Faunt and others 2009). 
The data presented in this data release will be used to facilitate updates to the original CVHM and represent subsidence and aquifer-system compaction observations (measurements) using various methods during 1926–2018. In the context of this report, subsidence is defined as the lowering of the land-surface elevation as a result of aquifer-system compaction and is calculated by differencing repeated elevation measurements derived from geodetic surveys, continuous GPS (CGPS), and Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) techniques. Aquifer-system compaction is measured using vertical borehole extensometers to monitor changes in the distance between the top of a cable or pipe that is anchored or placed at depth, and a reference point at or near land surface. For more detailed information on the methods discussed in this data release, please see Sneed and others, 2013; 2018).

Tags: california, central-valley, environment, subsidence, united-states, usgs-61e7561ad34e3618e01cf6fb
Organization: Department of the Interior
Shapefiles of hydrogeologic unit extents and top-surface altitude contours used in the revised hydrogeologic framework for the Virginia Coastal Plain Southwest of the James River

A revision to the hydrogeologic framework of the Virginia coastal plain southwest of the James River was developed by USGS during 2019-2021. This revision includes modifications to existing understanding of the groundwater system in Prince George, Surry, Sussex, Isle of Wight, and Southampton counties and the cities of Franklin and Suffolk in southeast Virginia. This USGS data release contains a csv file of interpreted borehole hydrogeologic-unit top-surface altitudes, a shapefile of the study area extent, a shapefile of faults within the study area, shapefiles of altitude contours for 12 hydrogeologic-unit top surfaces, shapefiles of hydrogeologic-unit margins for 10 hydrogeologic-units  in the coastal plain of Virginia southwest of the James River. 
This data supports the following publication 
Caldwell, S. H., and McFarland, E. R., 2022 , Revision to the Virginia Coastal Plain Hydrogeologic Framework Southwest of the James River: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2022-XXXX, 33 p., DOILINK

Tags: aquifer, borehole-logging, confining-unit, franklin-city, groundwater, hydrogeologic-framework, hydrogeology, hydrology, isle-of-wight-county, james-river, prince-george-county, southampton-county, suffolk-city, surry-county, sussex-county, usgs-61e821f0d34e3618e01e481a, virginia
Organization: Department of the Interior
Gravity and related derivative GeoTIFF grids and data for the United States and Canada

Several evidential layers calculated from a compilation of gravity data from the  national-scale gravity anomaly map of the conterminous United States (Phillips and others, 1993), Alaska (Saltus and others, 2006) and Canada (Geological Survey of Canada, 2017) are presented here. This directory includes GeoTIFF grids of Bouguer gravity, the horizontal gradient magnitude of the Bouguer gravity, the Bouguer gravity upward continued 30 km, and the horizontal gradient magnitude of the upward continued gravity, The directory also includes shapefiles of locations that trace the maxima of the horizontal gradient magnitude of the gravity and of the maxima of the horizontal gradient magnitude of the upward continued gravity. Otherwise known as “worms”, the points tracking the maxima mark the edges of shallow density sources (in the case of the Bouguer gravity) and deeper density sources (calculated from the upward continued gravity). The shapefile of worms also includes attribute fields related to the steepness of the gradient and to the trend or strike of the gradient. The reader is encouraged to read the metadata provided in the zip file that is specific to each data layer for details related to the calculation and derivation of each gravity grid and derivative products.
References
Geological Survey of Canada, 2017, Canada-gravity data compilation: Natural Resources Canada, https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/5a4e46fe-3e52-57ce-9335-832b5e79fecc.
Phillips, J.D., Duval, J.S., and Ambroziak, R.A., 1993, National geophysical data grids; gamma-ray, gravity, magnetic, and topographic data for the conterminous United States: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 9, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds9.
Saltus, R.W., Brown, P.J. II, Morin, R.L., and Hill, P.L., 2008, 2006 compilation of Alaska gravity data and historical reports: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 264, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds264.

Tags: bouguer-gravity, canada, cmmi, critical-minerals, critical-minerals-mapping-initiative, exploring-for-the-future-program, ga, geological-survey-of-canada, geology-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center, geophysics, geoscience-australia, geoscientificinformation, gggsc, gravity, gravity-anomaly, gravity-worms, ground-gravity, gsc, horizontal-gradient-magnitude, horizontal-gradient-magnitude-maxima, lead, magnetic-field-earth, maps-and-atlases, metallic-mineral-resources, mineral-resources, mineral-resources-program, mrp, targeted-geoscience-initiative, tgi, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, upward-continued-gravity, usgs, usgs-619a9f02d34eb622f692f96c, zinc
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hydrodynamic Data for a Near-Shore Area of the Laguna Madre near South Padre Island, Texas, August 2021 to April 2022

The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the City of South Padre Island, Texas, collected base line hydrodynamic (tidal water level and current velocity) data for a near-shore area of the Laguna Madre near South Padre Island from August 18, 2021, to April 27, 2022. The data included in this data release are presented in a comma-separated values (csv) file format.

Tags: cameron-county, current-velocity-data, hydrodynamics, laguna-madre, south-padre-island, texas, tidal-water-levels, usgs-61982afed34eb622f692ef8d
Organization: Department of the Interior
Input and output data from streamflow and water-quality regression models used to characterize streamflow and water-quality conditions in the Upper White River Basin, Colorado, from 2000-2020

This dataset includes input and output data from streamflow and water-quality regression models used to characterize streamflow and water-quality conditions in the Upper White River Basin, Colorado, from 2000 to 2020. All input data, including discrete and continuous streamflow records and discrete concentrations of inorganic nitrogen, total nitrogen, and total phosphorus, were compiled from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Water Information System (NWIS) database. Input data were used in multiple models including Maintenance of Variance Extension Type 2 (MOVE.2) and Weighted Regressions on Time, Discharge, and Season (WRTDS) to estimate continuous streamflow records, daily concentrations and loads, and streamflow-normalized annual mean concentrations and loads of selected water-quality constituents.

Tags: datasets, nitrogen, phosphorus, streamflow, usgs-61981d64d34eb622f692ef2a, utilitiescommunication, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Groundwater-Level Altitudes and Long-Term Groundwater-Level Changes in the Chicot and Evangeline (Undifferentiated) and Jasper Aquifers, Greater Houston area, Texas, 2021

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the Harris‐Galveston Subsidence District, City of Houston, Fort Bend Subsidence District, Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District, and Brazoria County Groundwater Conservation District produced this dataset of groundwater‐level altitudes and groundwater‐level altitude changes in the Chicot and Evangeline aquifers (undifferentiated), and Jasper aquifer in the greater Houston area, Texas. This dataset shows current‐year (2021) groundwater‐level altitudes for each aquifer, 1–year (2020–21), 5‐year (2016–21) groundwater‐level changes for each aquifer, long‐term (1990–2021 and 1977–2021) groundwater‐level changes for the Chicot and Evangeline aquifers (undifferentiated), and long‐term (2000–2021) groundwater‐level change for the Jasper aquifer. The groundwater‐level measurements from which the dataset was built are stored in the USGS National Water Information System (NWIS) (http://doi.org/10.5066/F7P55KJN) and are accessible through the NWIS Web Interface. In 2021, measured groundwater-level-altitudes for the Chicot and Evangeline aquifers (undifferentiated) ranged from about 295 feet (ft) below the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 to about 214 ft above datum. Measured groundwater-level-altitudes for Jasper aquifer ranged from about 235 ft below datum to about 272 ft above datum. This dataset was created by the USGS to provide resource managers, public officials, researchers, and the general public with ready access to accurate, impartial, scientific information regarding groundwater‐level changes and altitudes in Harris, Galveston, Fort Bend, Montgomery, Brazoria, Chambers, Grimes, Liberty, San Jacinto, Walker, and Waller Counties, Texas.

Tags: aquifer, brazoria-county, chambers-county, chicot-aquifer, elevation, evangeline-aquifer, fort-bend-county, galveston-county, grimes-county, groundwater, groundwater-level-altitude, harris-county, houston, hydrology, hypsometry, jasper-aquifer, liberty-county, montgomery-county, san-jacinto-county, subsidence, texas, usgs-61981a3cd34eb622f692ef25, walker-county, waller-county
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data Release to Multi-proxy record of ocean-climate variability during the last 2 millennia on the Mackenzie Shelf, Beaufort Sea (2013)

A 2,000 year-long oceanographic history of a Canadian Beaufort Sea continental shelf site (60-meters water depth) near the Mackenzie River outlet is reconstructed from various proxies: ostracode faunal assemblages, shell stable isotope ratios (δ18O, δ13C) and sediment biogenic silica. These proxies are extracted from three sediment cores that made a composite section, HLY1302 JPC32, GGC30, MC29. The composite core has chronology derived from radiocarbon dating and 137Cs and 210Pb correlations.

Tags: beaufort-sea, usgs-6197a410d34eb622f692ce0e
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hydrogeologic framework model of the Russian River Watershed, Sonoma and Mendocino Counties, California

This data release contains digital data generated by the U.S. Geological Survey under cooperative agreements with Sonoma County Water Agency and the California State Water Resources Control Board to characterize the three-dimensional hydrogeology of the Russian River Watershed, located in the northern part of the California Coast Ranges section of the Pacific Border province. This dataset contains  geospatial data of a three-dimensional hydrogeologic framework model (3D HFM). The 3D HFM was constructed using methods from previously published reports. Sources of 3D HFM construction methods can be found in the metadata.
The geospatial database contains a polygon feature class that is a 2-dimensional representation of the 3D HFM. The polygon feature class is a cellular array where each model cell has multiple attributes including XY location, and interpolated elevations and thicknesses of hydrogeologic units.

Tags: california, farming, groundwater, hydrogeology, lithostratigraphy, sonoma, usgs-6196dc96d34eb622f691acf2
Organization: Department of the Interior
Select borehole data of the Russian River Watershed, Sonoma and Mendocino Counties, California

This data release contains digital data generated by the U.S. Geological Survey under cooperative agreements with Sonoma County Water Agency and the California State Water Resources Control Board to characterize the three-dimensional hydrogeology and water quality of the Russian River Watershed, located in the northern part of the California Coast Ranges section of the Pacific Border province. This dataset contains borehole lithologic and hydrologic data used to support development of the framework model . 
The borehole dataset is released as a series of .csv ascii files including (1) individual borehole location and construction information, (2) downhole lithologic interval data derived from well driller’s lithology logs and parsed to a series of textural descriptors, and (3) calculated specific capacity from driller’s pumping tests. In addition to the borehole data, a folder containing drillers logs used in the dataset, but not in California Department of Water Resources database of scanned driller’s logs is contained within the data release for reference.

Tags: california, farming, groundwater, groundwater-level, hydrogeology, lithostratigraphy, sonoma, usgs-6196dc58d34eb622f691acef, water-use
Organization: Department of the Interior
Current-use pesticides, nutrients, chloride, and metals in ponds and stormwater basins of the New Jersey Pinelands, 2018-20

The data presented in this data release include concentrations of current-use pesticides, nutrients, chloride, and metals in surface water collected from 60 wetlands including natural ponds, excavated ponds (Xponds), and stormwater basins in the New Jersey Pinelands, 2018-20. Site information, basic water-quality parameters, and method information also are included.

Tags: chloride, environment, inlandwaters, metal-elements, new-jersey, new-jersey-pinelands, nutrient-content-water, pesticide-and-herbicide-contamination, ponds, stormwater-basins, surface-water-quality, usgs-61e827dfd34e3618e01e4823
Organization: Department of the Interior
Sr-, U-, H- and O-isotope data used to evaluate water sources in the Potrero Creek Wetlands, Upper Santa Cruz Basin, southern Arizona, USA

This data release includes a table of 87Sr/86Sr, 234U/238U, δ2H, and δ18O isotope data used to evaluate groundwater- and surface-water-sources contributing to water in perennial wetlands near the mouth of Potrero Creek within the Upper Santa Cruz Basin near Nogales, AZ. Interpretations of those data are discussed in the pamphlet accompanying the USGS Scientific Investigations Map SIM-XXXXX

Tags: arizona, isotope-geochemistry, potrero-creek, upper-santa-cruz, usgs-6196bbf3d34eb622f691acb0
Organization: Department of the Interior
Environmental and Vegetation Data from Marsh-Forest Transgression Experiment at Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, MD, USA

We conducted a field experiment at the Moneystump Swamp in the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge in Dorchester, MD, USA to simulate a natural forest disturbance event (e.g., storm-induced flooding) by inducing the death of established trees (coastal loblolly pine, Pinus taeda) at the marsh-upland forest ecotone. There were three treatment components: Cut- where the trees were cut and removed, Girdled- where the bark was stripped from the base of the trees killing them and leaving them standing, and Control- where the trees were left alive. After this simulated disturbance in 2015, we monitored changes in vegetation along an elevation gradient in control and treatment areas to determine if disturbance can lead to an ecosystem shift from forested upland to wetland vegetation by measuring vegetation indices such as Wetland Prevalence Index, Shannon’s Diversity Index, and Shannon’s Evenness Index. Separately, the recovery of the pine trees was tracked over time, with measurements of pine tree height, cover, and density. In addition to vegetation, other environmental variables were measured across the same elevation and treatment gradient including light availability and inundation.

Tags: coastal-submergence, inundation, usgs-6196b7cad34eb622f691ac94, utilitiescommunication, wetland
Organization: Department of the Interior
Main channel river water temperature collected along the East Branch, West Branch, and mainstem Delaware River near Handcock, NY, USA in summer 2021

The Upper Delaware River is a unique example of an aquatic system where summer river temperature is actively managed for ecological purposes. River temperature at the mainstem Delaware River at Lordville, NY gage (USGS 01427207) is targeted to remain below 25°C, with warm events potentially mitigated via directed upstream reservoir releases, a process guided by predictive tools. 
These directed releases currently occur at the Cannonsville Dam on the West Branch, though the temperature criteria at the Lordville gage is also influenced by releases from the Pepacton Dam on the east branch. To increase the spatial resolution of summer river temperature data available for understanding river temperature processes and informing predictions, 40 Onset Tidbit water temperature loggers 
(models MX2203 and v2 running at 15 min collection intervals) were attached to masonry bricks and deployed temporarily along the riverbed along the East Branch, West Branch, and mainstem Delaware River down to the Lordville gage. The common deployment period for these temperature loggers was 7/23/21 to 8/29/21, and due in part to several high flow events over that period, 26 loggers were ultimately recovered with data. 
There were three consecutive days (8/10 to 8/12/21) of thermal mitigation dam releases during the logger deployment period. While most of the recovered temperature loggers were relatively clean of sediments when found, four sites showed accumulation of alluvial fines over the loggers which may have impacted recorded river water temperatures, as listed in the read.me file on this root page. Potential deposition of sediments 
on the temperature loggers at other points over this record is unknown, though several turbid river flows did occur during the period. This public data release contains raw instrument export files (.csv format) and ‘processed’ temperature data. River temperature data in the ‘Combined_Temperature_Data.csv’ file have been trimmed to individual logger deployment times, the time zone may have been adjusted to UTC-05:00, and all records were resampled at a common 15-min interval; but have otherwise not been manipulated from the raw data. 
The Tidbit temperature loggers were all newly purchased when deployed and were assumed therefore to be calibrated and operating at the manufacturers reported specifications (accuracy +/- 0.2°C, resolution 0.01°C).

Tags: environment, geoscientificinformation, groundwater-and-surface-water-interaction, headwater-streams, hydrogeology, hydrology, inlandwaters, new-york, remote-sensing, sullivan-county, surface-water-non-marine, upper-delaware-river, usgs-619693e7d34eb622f6915636, water-temperature
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hydrologic Data Sites for Sanpete County, Utah

This map shows the USGS (United States Geologic Survey), NWIS (National
Water Inventory System) Hydrologic Data Sites for Sanpete County, Utah.
		
The scope and purpose of NWIS is defined on the web site:
		
http://water.usgs.gov/public/pubs/FS/FS-027-98/

Tags: altitude, environment, estuary, geoscientificinformation, hole-depth, hydrologic-data-site, inlandwaters, lake, reservoir, sanpete, sanpete-county, spring, state-of-utah, stream, usgs-6195f233-9476-4c59-bb11-d50357027bcc, utah, water-use, well, well-depth
Organization: Department of the Interior
Magnetotelluric and TEM Data from the Umatilla Indian Reservation Geothermal Resources  Assessment: Phase 2, 2020: Station um232

This data set consists of 19 wideband magnetotelluric (MT) and 23 transient electromagnetic (TEM) soundings collected by the U.S. Geological Survey in June 2020 as part of the Umatilla Indian Reservation Geothermal Resources Assessment: Phase 2 project. Each MT station had 4 components, 2 orthogonal magnetic induction coils and 2 horizontal orthogonal electric dipoles.  Data were collected for an average of 18 hours on a repeating schedule of alternating sampling rates of 256 samples/second for 5 hours and 50 minutes and 4096 samples/second for 10 minutes.  The schedules were set such that each station was recording the same schedule to allow for remote reference processing.  Data were processed with a bounded-influence robust remote reference processing scheme (BIRRP v5.2.1, Chave and Thomson, 2004).  Data quality were generally poor due to episodic spikes in the electromagnetic fields likely caused by the power grid.  TEM data were collected in 100 x 100 m loops or 40 x 40 m loops along 4 profiles in areas of interest for geothermal potential.  Files included in this publication include measured electric- and magnetic-field time series for MT data, and TEM soundings and 1-D resistivity models.

Tags: apparent-resistivity, blue-mountains, cenozoic, conductivity, electromagnetic-surveying, energy-resources-program, exploration, geologic-structure, geology-minerals-energy-and-geophysics-science-center, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, gmegsc, impedance, magnetic-field-earth, magnetotelluric-surveying, magnetotellurics, mesozoic, miocene, mt, nevada, phase, quaternary, tectonics, time-series, tipper, umatilla, umatilla-county, usgs-6195d5ead34eb622f690d501
Organization: Department of the Interior