AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Digitized Contours from Georeferenced Plate from "Analog simulation of water-level declines in the Sparta Sand, Mississippi Embayment" (Reed, 1972)

A digital dataset of analog simulation of water-level declines in the Sparta Sand, Mississippi Embayment  in Missouri, Kentucky, Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Mississippi was developed from J.E. Reed's "Analog simulation of water-level declines in the Sparta Sand, Mississippi Embayment" (1972). The plate was georeferenced to North American Datum 1983 and projected to USA Contiguous Albers Equal Conic (U.S. Geological Survey version) projection (standard parallels 29.5 and 45.5 degrees, central meridian -96 degrees, and latitude of origin 23 degrees). Once georeferenced (using ArcMap v 10.4.1), individual potentiometric contours were digitized manually. Figures included in the digital dataset are figures 2 through 5 (predevelopment to predicted declines for 1990).

Tags: 1886, arkansas, groundwater, kentucky, louisiana, memphis-aquifer, mississippi, mississippi-embayment, missouri, potentiometric-surface, sparta-sand, tennessee, usgs-5c9cd86be4b0b8a7f62e0616
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digitized Contour from Georeferenced Plate 2012  from "Potentiometric Surface, 2012, and Water-Level Differences, 2005-2012, of the Sparta Aquifer in North-Central Louisiana" (McGee and Brantly, 2015)

The Sparta aquifer is used in 15 parishes in north-central Louisiana, primarily for public supply and industrial purposes. Of those parishes, eight (Bienville, Claiborne, Jackson, Lincoln, Ouachita, Union, Webster, and Winn) rely on the Sparta aquifer as their principal source of groundwater. In 2010, withdrawals from the Sparta aquifer in Louisiana totaled 63.11 million gallons per day (Mgal/d), a reduction of more than 11 percent from 1995, when the highest rate of withdrawals (71.32 Mgal/d) from the Sparta aquifer were documented. The Sparta aquifer provides water for a variety of purposes which include public supply (34.61 Mgal/d), industrial (25.60 Mgal/d), rural domestic (1.50 Mgal/d), and various agricultural (1.40 Mgal/d). Of the 13 major aquifers or aquifer systems in Louisiana, the Sparta aquifer is currently (2012) the sixth most heavily pumped. The Sparta aquifer is the second most heavily pumped aquifer in Arkansas, which borders Louisiana to the north. In 2005, 170 Mgal/d were withdrawn from the Sparta aquifer in eastern and southern Arkansas; of that total, about 15.55 Mgal/d were withdrawn from the aquifer in Union County, which borders Claiborne and Union Parishes to the north. By 1997, a large cone of depression (a cone-shaped depression in the potentiometric surface caused by and centered on a pumping well or wells) in the Sparta aquifer centered over Union County had merged with the cone of depression at West Monroe. In 2004, the rate of withdrawal from the Sparta aquifer in Union County began to decline and water levels in the aquifer began to rise in nearby areas of Arkansas and Louisiana.

Tags: bienville-parish, bossier-parish, caddo-parish, caldwell-parish, claiborne-parish, control-point-and-well-number, de-soto-parish, freshwater-extent, jackson-parish, lincoln-parish, louisiana, march-april-2012, morehouse-parish, natchitoches-parish, ouachita-parish, outcrop, potentiometric-surface, red-river-parish, richland-parish, sabine-parish, sparta-aquifer, union-parish, usgs-5c9cd9f5e4b0b8a7f62e0629, water-level-differences, webster-parish, winn-parish
Organization: Department of the Interior
Water temperature data from the Pend Oreille River, Washington and Idaho, 2016-2018

The data were collected summer, 2016, 2017, and 2018. Continuous temperature loggers were deployed along the Pend Oreille River between Albeni Falls Dam and the Box Canyon Dam. Loggers were checked every 1-2 weeks throughout the summer.

Tags: bonner-county, environment, geoscientificinformation, idaho, inlandwaters, pend-oreille-county, river-systems, usgs-5c9d0e2ee4b0b8a7f62e0903, washington, water-quality, water-temperature
Organization: Department of the Interior
Natural and managed components of the water-budget for 2010 for 43 HUC10s in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin, Georgia, U.S.

A simple water budget includes precipitation, streamflow, change in storage, evapotranspiration, and residuals: P=Q + ET + ΔS + e. It is essential to include the managed component (i.e., the “human” component) to close the water budget and reduce the magnitude of the residuals from “natural” water budgets. Some of the largest components of managed water withdraws are public supply, irrigation, and thermoelectric. The modified water budget is: P=Q + ET + ΔS + (PS + Irr + TE) + e, where PS is public supply, Irr is irrigation, and TE is thermoelectric water use.  This data release contains both the natural and managed components of the water budget for a region within the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) River Basin, GA, U.S. The natural components include precipitation, evapotranspiration, and discharge and the managed components include public supply, irrigation, and thermoelectric.  
This table contains HUC 10 IDs, the natural components of the water budget, and two estimates of the managed components for only the year 2010: (1) water-use data downscaled from counties to HUC 10s and (2) water-use data aggregated from sites to HUC 10s. The county-level data is downloaded directly from the USGS 5-year compilation while the site-specific data is derived from various sources (see further description in the readme).

Tags: apalachicola-river, chattahoochee-river, flint-river, georgia, gulf-coast, human-component, modeling, southeastern-united-states, usgs-5c9d24bce4b0b8a7f62e0af0, water-budget, water-management, water-use
Organization: Department of the Interior
Beach topography of the Columbia River littoral cell, Washington and Oregon, 2014

This portion of the USGS data release presents topography data collected during surveys performed in the Columbia River littoral cell, Washington and Oregon, in 2014 (USGS Field Activity Number 2014-631-FA). Topographic profiles were collected by walking along survey lines with global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receivers mounted on backpacks. Prior to data collection, vertical distances between the GNSS antennas and the ground were measured using a tape measure. Hand-held data collectors were used to log raw data and display navigational information allowing surveyors to navigate survey lines spaced at 100- to 1,000-m intervals along the beach. Profiles were surveyed from the landward edge of the study area (either the base of a bluff, engineering structure, or just landward of the primary dune) over the beach foreshore, to wading depth on the same series of transects as nearshore bathymetric surveys that were conducted during the same time period. Additional topographic data were collected between survey lines in some areas with an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) equipped with a GNSS receiver to constrain the elevations and alongshore extent of major morphological features. During the 2014 survey, mechanical problems resulted in limited data collection with the ATV.
Positioning data from the survey platforms were referenced to a GNSS base station with known horizontal and vertical coordinates relative to the North American Datum of 1983. Differential corrections from the GNSS base stations to the survey platforms were either applied in real-time with a VHF radio link, or post-processed using Trimble Business Center software. Orthometric elevations relative to the NAVD88 vertical datum were computed using National Geodetic Survey Geoid12a offsets.
The average estimated vertical uncertainty of the topographic measurements is 4 cm. The final point data are provided in comma-separated text format and are projected in Cartesian coordinates using the Washington State Plane South, meters coordinate system.

Tags: bathymetry-and-elevation, clatsop-county, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, columbia-river, elevation, global-positioning-system-gps-observations, gps-global-positioning-system, gps-measurement, grays-harbor-county, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pacific-county, pacific-ocean, pcmsc, topography, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-5c9d3782e4b0b8a7f62e0b98
Organization: Department of the Interior
Water quality data from the Goose Lake Study Site Eastern Montana 1989-2018

The data set contains temporal chloride concentrations (mg/L) and specific conductance (uS/cm) values for 32 wetlands and groundwater monitoring wells as well as the date(s) sampled and the laboratory where the water quality analyses were conducted.  The ratio of chloride concentration to specific conductance is referred to as the Contamination Index. In this region, values greater than 0.035 are used to identify water quality samples that are contaminated with co-produced water from energy development.

Tags: energy-resources, environment, geochemistry, hydrology, land-use-change, montana, united-states, usgs-5c9d4213e4b0b8a7f62e0be8, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mass-wasting deposits within the SIS-1000 1999 USGS sidescan sonar survey of the Upper Continental Slope offshore of Louisiana (MASSWASTING.SHP)

Since 1982 the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has collected a large amount of surficial and shallow subsurface geologic information in the deep parts of the Gulf of Mexico.  These data include digital sidescan sonar imagery, digital seismic-reflection data, and descriptions and analyses of piston and gravity cores.  The data were collected during several different projects that addressed surficial and shallow subsurface geologic processes.  Some of these data sets have already been published, but the growing interest in the occurrence and distribution of gas hydrates in the Gulf of Mexico warrants integrating these existing data and associated interpretations into a GIS to provide regional background information for ongoing and future gas hydrate research.

Tags: arcview, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, eez, geologic-interpretation, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, gulf-of-mexico, gulf-of-mexico-gis-database, information-archives-field-activity-99002, interpretation, louisiana-continental-slope, marine-geology, mass-wasting-deposits, north-america, oceans, polygon, scientific-interpretation, sea-floor-characteristics, shapefile, u-s-exclusive-economic-zone, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-5c9d8d20-690e-4c87-a9d0-d8dea3a99628, whsc, woods-hole-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Bringing the South Dakota southern Black Hills Mammoth Site formation and fossil discovery to light: a chronological reassignment using Luminescence Dating

The Mammoth Springs (MS) fossil site at Hot Springs, South Dakota, provides a unique opportunity to reconstruct paleoenvironmental conditions. We used luminescence dating on fine sand sized potassium feldspars to establish a chronological framework for the site. In addition, we dated a late Pleistocene paludal proxy site using luminescence and incorporated those results with previous radiocarbon dating. Radiocarbon dating of the MS sinkhole organics suggested that the ages of the sediments that hosted the fossils was ~22-26 ka, while luminescence dating on feldspar grains suggested substantially older ages of ~130-255 ka. Analysis of the equivalent dose dispersion of the luminescence samples showed that the sediments were mostly well bleached prior to deposition. This analysis suggests that eolian and shallow fluvial processes were the dominant transport for sediments into the sinkhole, and that luminescence provides a reliable, more rigorous chronology of the MS fossil site. The luminescence ages (n = 6), show that the fossil-bearing sediments span all of Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 6 and MIS 7 with the sinkhole drying, cementing, and completely infilling at the start of the MIS 5 at the end of the global penultimate glacial maximum.

Tags: black-hills, fall-river, hot-springs, lacustrine, luminescence-dating, mammuthus, paludal, pleistocene, radiation-dosimetry, sinkhole, south-dakota, terraces, usgs-5c9e37cce4b0b8a7f62f5b16
Organization: Department of the Interior
Historic Lake Superior shorelines near Odanah, Wisconsin (1852 - 2013)

This USGS data release presents historic shorelines of Lake Superior near Odanah, Wisconsin encompassing the delta complex of the Bad River from 1852 to 2013 compiled in a Geographic Information System. The coverage of the shorelines starts approximately 8 km northeast of Ashland and  extends for about  40 km to approximately 3 km east of the Bad River mouth. The shorelines were derived from land survey maps, topographic maps (USGS), and aerial photographs. The data set includes 10 shorelines for the years 1852, 1934, 1939, 1953, 1963, 1979, 1986, 1992, 1999, and 2013.

Tags: ashland, biota, coastal-zones, odanah, shore, usgs-5c9e410ce4b0b8a7f62f5ba0, wisconsin
Organization: Department of the Interior
Pika presences in the western USA, 2012-2015

USGS researchers surveyed talus patches across the western USA, in conjunction with numerous partners during 2012-2015, inclusive.  Data are locations at which American pikas were detected, via either vocalizations (C), fresh haypile (HP), or sighting (S).

Tags: american-pika, biota, ecology, non-stationarity, species-distribution-modeling, talus-habitat, usgs-5c9e80bfe4b0b8a7f62f5e38
Organization: Department of the Interior
Tackifier impacts on growth of Great Basin moss Bryum argenteum, 2017-2018

The dataset supports a larger study that examined the impacts of three tackifiers (guar, psyllium, and polyacrylamide) on growth of two dryland mosses (Bryum argenteum and Syntrichia ruralis). Moss fragments were grown in petri dishes and subjected to individual tackifiers in one of three possible concentrations (0.5x, 1x, or 2x) of the respective manufacturer's recommended application rate. Distilled water was used as a control treatment, giving a total of ten treatments (nine tackifier-concentration combinations and a water control). Bryum fragments were watered four times daily for six weeks and Syntrichia fragments were watered twice daily for five weeks, after which the experiments were concluded. Shoot length, shoot number, gemma presence, protonema presence, bound sand mass, and moss organic matter mass were all measured at the end of the experiments. This dataset reports all measurements and calculations related to Bryum argenteum.

Tags: biocrust, biological-soil-crust, bioremediation, biota, bryum-argenteum, desert-ecosystems, ecological-restoration, environment, farming, great-basin, intermountain-west, mosses, natural-resource-management, oregon, remediation, syntrichia-ruralis, usgs-5c9e8a1be4b0b8a7f62f5e85
Organization: Department of the Interior
Tackifier impacts on growth of Great Basin moss Syntrichia ruralis, 2017-2018

The dataset supports a larger study that examined the impacts of three tackifiers (guar, psyllium, and polyacrylamide) on growth of two dryland mosses (Bryum argenteum and Syntrichia ruralis). Moss fragments were grown in petri dishes and subjected to individual tackifiers in one of three possible concentrations (0.5x, 1x, or 2x) of the respective manufacturer's recommended application rate. Distilled water was used as a control treatment, giving a total of ten treatments (nine tackifier-concentration combinations and a water control). Bryum fragments were watered four times daily for six weeks and Syntrichia fragments were watered twice daily for five weeks, after which the experiments were concluded. Shoot length, shoot number, gemma presence, protonema presence, bound sand mass, and moss organic matter mass were all measured at the end of the experiments. This dataset reports all measurements and calculations related to Syntrichia ruralis.

Tags: biocrust, biological-soil-crust, bioremediation, biota, bryum-argenteum, desert-ecosystems, ecological-restoration, environment, farming, great-basin, intermountain-west, mosses, natural-resource-management, oregon, remediation, syntrichia-ruralis, usgs-5c9e8a6ce4b0b8a7f62f5e8b
Organization: Department of the Interior
Spatial Integration of Biological and Social Objectives to Identify Priority Landscapes for Waterfowl Habitat Conservation

The information and data presented herein serve as the supplement to the report, “Spatial Integration of Biological and Social Objectives to Identify Priority Landscapes for Waterfowl Habitat Conservation”. The purpose of this supplemental material is to encourage exploration of the methods used to develop the spatially explicit products presented in the report. The in depth step-by-step methodology is complemented with a geodatabase to facilitate future refinement of the model as new information becomes available in the future. To repeat the process of developing the spatially explicit products (or to create other composite spatial products by varying objectives and weights), follow the methodology described in the Supplemental Information document. Spatial data available for download includes 34 layers (20 waterfowl breeding and non-breeding objectives layers, 9 social objectives layers, and 5 raster mixed model layers) which can be accessed at https://doi.org/10.5066/P9L7J5U4. All sources of raw data are provided and should be cited accordingly. For availability of intermediate spatial products and other data included in the geodatabase contact the corresponding author. For further inquiries or comments about the products or results, contact the corresponding author.

Tags: agriculture, american-black-duck, biological-objectives, breeding-waterfowl, canada, dabbling-ground-nester-guild, diversity, diving-cavity-nester-guild, diving-ground-nester-guild, diving-overwater-nester-guild, duck-use-days-dud, ducks, fertilizer-application, geese, harvest, human-dimensions, hunting-days-afield, impermeable-surfaces, mallard, nitrogen, non-breeding-waterfowl, north-america, northern-pintail, obligate-wetland-birds, percent-developed-land, phosphorus, scaup, simpsons-diversity-index-sdi, social-objectives, spatial-value-model, swans, united-states, urban-centers, usgs-5ca23a5de4b0b8a7f6316ff9, waterbirds, waterfowl, watershed-impairment, wood-duck
Organization: Department of the Interior
Inorganic nutrient input and release from soil data for study along Pocomoke River, Maryland, evaluating the effectiveness of floodplain reconnection on water quality functions

Input and release of phosphate, nitrate, and ammonium measured using stacked ion-exchange resin bags on top of soil in floodplains along Pocomoke River, Maryland, in order to evaluate the effectiveness of floodplain reconnection on water quality functions.

Tags: artificial-levee, biota, floodplain, nitrogen, phosphorus, river-systems, sedimentation, usgs-5ca23fade4b0b8a7f6317050
Organization: Department of the Interior
Pre-restoration soils P release during experimental flood in laboratory and physico-chemistry data for study along Pocomoke River, Maryland, evaluating the effectiveness of floodplain reconnection on water quality function.

Input and release of phosphate, nitrate, and ammonium measured using stacked ion-exchange resin bags on top of soil in floodplains along Pocomoke River, Maryland, in order to evaluate the effectiveness of floodplain reconnection on water quality functions.

Tags: artificial-levee, biota, floodplain, nitrogen, phosphorus, river-systems, sedimentation, usgs-5ca24021e4b0b8a7f631705b
Organization: Department of the Interior
Post-restoration soils P release during experimental flood in laboratory and physico-chemistry data for study along Pocomoke River, Maryland, evaluating the effectiveness of floodplain reconnection on water quality function.

Input and release of phosphate, nitrate, and ammonium measured using stacked ion-exchange resin bags on top of soil in floodplains along Pocomoke River, Maryland, in order to evaluate the effectiveness of floodplain reconnection on water quality functions.

Tags: artificial-levee, biota, floodplain, nitrogen, phosphorus, river-systems, sedimentation, usgs-5ca24099e4b0b8a7f6317060
Organization: Department of the Interior
Crustal Architecture Beneath the Southern Midcontinent (USA) -- Data Grids and 3D Geophysical Models

Regional grid files and 3D voxel models were used to study crustal architecture beneath the Southern Midcontinent (USA) by McCafferty and others (2019).  The study covered a rectangular, multi-state area of 924 by 924 kilometers centered on Missouri, and a corresponding volume extending from the topographic surface to a depth of 50 kilometers below sea level. The grid files consist of surface grids (magnetic field observation surface, topographic surface, Precambrian basement surface, and Moho interface) used to construct templates and initial physical property models for 3D inversions, observed geophysical data grids (Bouguer gravity anomaly and reduced-to-pole (RTP) aeromagnetic anomaly) used in the inversions, and calculated geophysical data grids produced by the inversions.  All grids are sampled at a 2,000 by 2,000-meter grid interval. The 3D voxel models represent the density and magnetic susceptibility of the crust as interpreted using 3D inversion.  The individual voxel elements are 2,000 by 2,000 meters by 500 meters thick.

Tags: aeromagnetic-surveying, arkansas, bouguer-anomaly, bulk-density, crust-earth, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, gravimeter-measurement, gravimetric-methods, gravitational-field-earth, illinois, indiana, iowa, kansas, kentucky, magnetic-field-earth, magnetic-susceptibility, magnetic-susceptibility-analysis, magnetometer-measurement, mississippi, missouri, oklahoma, scientific-interpretation, tennessee, topography, usgs-5ca25ef0e4b0b8a7f63171fb
Organization: Department of the Interior
Repeat microgravity data from Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

These data are microgravity measurements collected in Yellowstone National Park.  Data are collected using multiple instruments, which each data file representing measurements from a specific instrument during a specific time period.  The data dictionary explains the file format and contents, and the dataset will be updated as new data are collected.

Tags: geodesy, gravimeter-measurement, usgs-5ca29720e4b0b8a7f6317321, volcano-monitoring, yellowstone-national-park-north, yellowstone-national-park-south
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digitized Contours from Georeferenced Plate 1996 from "Louisiana Ground-Water Map No. 13: Hydrogeology and Potentiometric Surface of the Sparta Aquifer in Northern Louisiana, October 1996" (Brantly, Seanor, and McCoy 2002)

This report describes the thickness and areal extent of the Sparta aquifer, identifies sands within the fresh-water extent of the aquifer, and presents data and a map that illustrate the generalized potentiometric surface (water levels) during October 1996. The report includes a detailed geophysical log, structure contour maps, hydrogeologic sections, and hydrographs of water levels in selected wells. The potentiometric surface-map can be used for determining direction of ground-water flow, hydraulic gradients, and the effects of withdrawals on the aquifer.

Tags: downdip-limit, groundwater, louisiana, mississippi-embayment, potentiometric-surface, sparta-aquifer, usgs-5ca2dd00e4b0b8a7f6317667, western-extent
Organization: Department of the Interior