AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Multibeam backscatter data collected in Nantucket Sound Massachusetts in the vicinity of Horseshoe Shoal, during USGS Field Activity 2022-001-FA using a Teledyne SeaBat Integrated Dual-Head (IDH) T20-P multibeam echosounder (8-bit GeoTIFF, UTM Zone 19N, WGS 84, 1-m resolution)

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

Tags: atlantic-ocean, backscatter, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, czm, department-of-the-interior, doi, eldridge-shoal, field-activity-number-2022-001-fa, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, geotiff, horseshoe-shoal, imagerybasemapsearthcover, marine-geology, marine-geophysics, massachusetts, massachusetts-office-of-coastal-zone-management, massczm, multibeam-backscatter, multibeam-echosounder, multibeam-sonar, nantucket-sound, r-v-rafael, reson, sea-floor, sea-floor-acoustic-reflectivity, seafloor, succonnesset-shoal, t20-p, teledyne, time-series, u-s-geological-survey, united-states-of-america, usgs, usgs-63eb9bf7d34efa0476af1f7a, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center, wreck-shoal
Organization: Department of the Interior
USGS National and Global Oil and Gas Assessment Project—Northwest Montana Bakken Formation: Assessment Unit Boundaries, Assessment Input Data, and Fact Sheet Data Tables

This data release contains the boundaries of assessment units and input data for the assessment of undiscovered continuous oil and gas resources in the Bakken formation of Northwest Montana. The Assessment Unit is the fundamental unit used in the National Assessment Project for the assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources.  The Assessment Unit is defined within the context of the higher-level Total Petroleum System.  The Assessment Unit is shown herein as a geographic boundary interpreted, defined, and mapped by the geologist responsible for the province and incorporates a set of known or postulated oil and (or) gas accumulations sharing similar geologic, geographic, and temporal properties within the Total Petroleum System, such as source rock, timing, migration pathways, trapping mechanism, and hydrocarbon type.  The Assessment Unit boundary is defined geologically as the limits of the geologic elements that define the Assessment Unit, such as reservoir rock, geologic structures, source rock, and seal lithologies.  The only exceptions to this are Assessment Units that border a Federal-State water boundary.  In these cases, the Federal-State water boundary forms part of the Assessment Unit boundary.  In addition to the shapefile, for U.S. assessments, allocation tables are provided that enumerate percentages assigned to various land categories. Machine-readable tables are also provided that contain the input and results for each assessment unit summarized in the USGS Fact Sheet. Methodology of assessments are documented in USGS Data Series 547 for continuous assessments (https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/547) and USGS DDS69-D, Chapter 21 for conventional assessments (https://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-069/dds-069-d/REPORTS/69_D_CH_21.pdf).  See supplemental information for a detailed list of files included this data release.

Tags: assessment-unit, continuous-assessment-unit, energy-resources, geology, geoscientificinformation, national-assessment-of-oil-and-gas, natural-gas, natural-gas-resources, noga2000, nw-montana-bakken-formation-continuous-gas, nw-montana-bakken-formation-continuous-oil, oil, oil-resources, oilgas, petroleum, resource-assessment, state-of-montana, unconventional-assessment-unit, united-states-of-america, usgs-63ea78c2d34efa0476aece68
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geospatial Database of Hydroclimate Variables, Spring Mountains and Sheep Range, Clark County, Nevada

This point feature class contains 81,481 points arranged in a 270-meter spaced grid that covers the 
Spring Mountains and Sheep Range in Clark County, Nevada. Points are attributed with hydroclimate 
variables and ancillary data compiled to support efforts to characterize ecological zones.

Tags: actual-evapotranspiration, basin-characterization-model, bcm, biota, clark-county, climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, ecological-zones, ecosystem, elevation, environment, et, evapotranspiration, geology, geoscientificinformation, hydroclimate, inlandwaters, las-vegas, nevada, potential-evapotranspiration, precipitation, prism, recharge, sheep-range, soil, spring-mountains, ssurgo, temperature, usgs-63ea2634-69cc-4675-ae90-834699a68973, vegetation
Organization: Department of the Interior
Ground magnetic data, Spring Valley, White Pine County, Nevada

Rattlesnake Knoll is a small, isolated 30-meter-high mound of igneous breccia in the center of Spring Valley, White Pine County, Nevada.  There is a small gravity anomaly associated with the knoll which, when combined with an initial, limited ground magnetic survey, indicates that rocks of the knoll probably extend northward in the subsurface.  To explore this possibility, a 16-kilometer ground magnetic traverse was conducted in 2006 mainly along U.S. Route6/50, just north of the knoll.Magnetic data were obtained using a portable cesium vapor magnetometer integrated with a differential GPS receiver.  The magnetometer was mounted on a non-magnetic aluminum fame and towed behind a vehicle, with measurements taken at 1-second  intervals.

Tags: geophysics, geoscientificinformation, majors-place, nevada, spring-valley, usgs-63e814e7d34efa0476ae845f
Organization: Department of the Interior
Biological Indicators and Mercury Concentrations in Smallmouth Bass

Biological indicators including morphometric (length, weight), age, sex and health indicators including organismal (health assessment index, condition factor), organ (hepatosomatic index, gonadosomatic index), cellular (intersex, parasite density, macrophage aggregate density), subcellular (plasma vitellogenin, estradiol, testosterone, 11-keto testosterone) and molecular (hepatic transcript abundance) were measured in smallmouth bass from tributaries in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Total mercury was measured in these fish and correlations between mercury and biological indicators were assessed.

Tags: antietam-creek, biota, chillisqaque-creek, endocrine-disruptor, fish-health, immunity, mercury, monocacy-river, north-branch-potomac-river, pine-creek, reproductive-health, south-branch-potomac-river, usgs-63e7bc7fd34efa0476ae8429, west-branch-mahantango-creek
Organization: Department of the Interior
Simulated potentiometric surface contours at end of simulation (1998) in model layer 16 of the transient ground-water flow model of the Death Valley regional ground-water flow system, Nevada and California

These contours represent the simulated potentiometric surface at the end of simulation (1998) in model 
layer 16 of the Death Valley regional ground-water flow system (DVRFS), an approximately 45,000 
square-kilometer region of southern Nevada and California. The numerical ground-water flow model 
simulates prepumping conditions before 1913 and transient-flow conditions from 1913 to 1998 after 
pumping of ground water began. The DVRFS transient ground-water flow model is the most recent in 
a number of regional-scale models developed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) for the U.S. 
Department of Energy (DOE) to support investigations at the Nevada Test Site (NTS) and at Yucca 
Mountain, Nevada (see "Larger Work Citation", Chapter A, page 8, for details).

Tags: amargosa-desert, ash-meadows, california, california-valley, chicago-valley, china-ranch, clark-county, clayton-valley, coal-valley, death-valley, death-valley-regional-ground-water-flow-system, environment, esmeralda-county, eureka-valley, flow-model, franklin-lake, franklin-well, garden-valley, geoscientificinformation, ground-water, hydraulic-head, hydraulic-head-observation, hydrogeology, hydrology, inlandwaters, inyo-county, kern-county, las-vegas-valley, lincoln-county, mesquite-valley, mineral-county, modflow-2000, mono-county, nevada, nevada-test-site, nye-county, oasis-valley, owlshead-mountains, pahranagat-range, pahrump-valley, panamint-range, penoyer-valley, railroad-valley, resting-spring, saline-valley, san-bernadino-county, sarcobatus-flat, sheep-range, shoshone, silurian-valley, southern-nevada, spring-mountains, steady-state-ground-water-model, stewart-valley, stone-cabin-valley, tecopa, transient-ground-water-model, usgs-63e6d11f-6f49-41a1-9b5e-a1f9579d91ad, yucca-mountain
Organization: Department of the Interior
St. Louis Geotechnical Database, v2003

The St. Louis area has experienced minor earthquake damage at least 12 times in the past 205 years. The St. Louis metropolitan area, with a population of about 2.8 million, faces earthquake hazard from large earthquakes in the New Madrid and Wabash Valley seismic zones, as well as a closer region of diffuse historical and prehistoric seismicity to its south and east. Also, low attenuation of seismic energy in the region and a substantial number of historic older unreinforced brick and stone buildings make the St. Louis area vulnerable to moderate earthquakes at relatively large distances compared to the western United States. This geotechnical database was compiled by James Palmer and others at the Missouri Department of Natural Resources as the product of a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earthquake Hazards Program external grant through the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) supporting urban seismic hazards mapping efforts for the St Louis metropolitan area (https://earthquake.usgs.gov/cfusion/external_grants/reports/05HQGR0019.pdf). The data in Tables.zip have been exported from the original Microsoft Access database and have been reviewed for completeness. See Appendix A in the aforementioned report for additional details. For archival purposes, the Microsoft Access database is also provided here, but the queries within have not been reviewed and the user assumes all responsibility.

Tags: earthquake-hazards-program, earthquake-occurences, earthquakes, ehp, engineering-geology, geologic-hazards-science-center, geoscientificinformation, ghsc, hazards, maps-and-atlases, usgs, usgs-63e56f5ad34efa0476ade544
Organization: Department of the Interior
Unvegetated to vegetated ratio of marsh units in Eastern Shore of Virginia salt marshes

This data release contains coastal wetland synthesis products for the Atlantic-facing Eastern Shore of Virginia (the data release for the Chesapeake Bay-facing portion of the Eastern Shore of Virginia is found here: https://doi.org/10.5066/P997EJYB). Metrics for resiliency, including unvegetated to vegetated ratio (UVVR), marsh elevation, and tidal range are calculated for smaller units delineated from a digital elevation model, providing the spatial variability of physical factors that influence wetland health. The U.S. Geological Survey has been expanding national assessment of coastal change hazards and forecast products to coastal wetlands with the intent of providing federal, state, and local managers with tools to estimate the vulnerability and ecosystem service potential of these wetlands. For this purpose, the response and resilience of coastal wetlands to physical factors need to be assessed in terms of the ensuing change to their vulnerability and ecosystem services.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, cedar-island, chincoteague-national-wildlife-refuge, coastal-ecosystems, coastal-processes, eastern-shore-national-wildlife-refuge, environment, estuary, fisherman-island-national-wildlife-refuge, geospatial-datasets, hog-island, inlandwaters, marsh-health, metompkin-island, mockhorn-island, oceans, parramore-island, salt-marsh, smith-island, united-states, usgs-63e53aced34efa0476ade04c, uvvr, vegetation, virginia, virginia-coast-reserve, wallops-island, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-functions
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mean tidal range of marsh units in Eastern Shore of Virginia salt marshes

This data release contains coastal wetland synthesis products for the Atlantic-facing Eastern Shore of Virginia (the data release for the Chesapeake Bay-facing portion of the Eastern Shore of Virginia is found here: https://doi.org/10.5066/P997EJYB). Metrics for resiliency, including unvegetated to vegetated ratio (UVVR), marsh elevation, and tidal range are calculated for smaller units delineated from a digital elevation model, providing the spatial variability of physical factors that influence wetland health. The U.S. Geological Survey has been expanding national assessment of coastal change hazards and forecast products to coastal wetlands with the intent of providing federal, state, and local managers with tools to estimate the vulnerability and ecosystem service potential of these wetlands. For this purpose, the response and resilience of coastal wetlands to physical factors need to be assessed in terms of the ensuing change to their vulnerability and ecosystem services.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, cedar-island, chincoteague-national-wildlife-refuge, coastal-ecosystems, coastal-processes, eastern-shore-national-wildlife-refuge, environment, estuary, fisherman-island-national-wildlife-refuge, geospatial-datasets, hog-island, inlandwaters, marsh-health, metompkin-island, mockhorn-island, oceans, parramore-island, salt-marsh, smith-island, tidal-range, tides-oceanic, united-states, usgs-63e53ab5d34efa0476ade04a, vegetation, virginia, virginia-coast-reserve, wallops-island, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-functions
Organization: Department of the Interior
Cyanobacterial Picoplankton Data Collected from four Kansas Reservoirs during August 2020 through August 2022

This dataset provides the estimated cell abundance and total biovolume for whole-water picoplankton samples collected by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) at 25 different sites in Kansas between August of 2020 and August of 2022. The samples were analyzed by BSA Environmental Services, Inc. This data is part of a larger multi-agency project between U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and USGS called the Cyanobacteria Assessment Network (CyAN). The goal of the CyAN project is to develop a satellite-based, early warning system to detect harmful algal blooms (HABs) in freshwater systems.

Tags: algae, aquatic-biology, biota, hillsdale-lake, kansas, limnology, marion-reservoir, microscopy, milford-lake, perry-lake, phytoplankton, picoplankton, plankton, relative-abundance-analysis, usgs-63e52736d34efa0476addfe3
Organization: Department of the Interior
DS926 Digital surfaces and thicknesses of selected hydrogeologic units of the Floridan aquifer system in Florida and parts of Georgia, Alabama, and South Carolina -- Points for the top of the LAPPZ

Digital surfaces and thicknesses of selected hydrogeologic units of the Floridan aquifer system 
were developed to define an updated hydrogeologic framework as part of the U.S. Geological 
Survey Groundwater Resources Program. This feature class contains data points used to 
generate the lower Avon Park permeable zone (LAPPZ) raster.

Tags: alabama, altitude, below, clip, confining-unit, environment, extent, florida, floridan-aquifer-system, geology, georgia, geoscientificinformation, hydrogeology, inlandwaters, lappz, lf1, lower, lower-avon-park, permeable-zone, regional-groundwater-availability-study, south-carolina, stratigraphy, thickness, top, united-states-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-63e52494-8631-4474-8b37-db1c435b570a
Organization: Department of the Interior
Distribution Models Predicting Groundwater Influenced Ecosystems in the Northeastern United States

Globally, groundwater dependent ecosystems (GDEs) are increasingly vulnerable to groundwater extraction and land use practices. Groundwater supports these ecosystems by providing inflow, which can maintain water levels, water temperature, and chemistry necessary to sustain the biodiversity that they support. Many aquatic systems receive groundwater as a portion of base flow, and in some systems (e.g., springs, seeps, fens) the connection with groundwater is significant and important to the system’s integrity and persistence. Groundwater management decisions for human use may not consider ecological effects of those actions on GDEs, which rely on groundwater to maintain ecological function. This disconnect between management and ecological needs can affect groundwater resources that have repercussions for both the GDEs and human populations that rely on them. This disparity can be attributed in part to a lack of information about where these systems are found and relationships with the surrounding landscape that may influence the environmental conditions and associated biodiversity. Knowledge of occurrence of GDEs in the northeastern United States is incomplete. As expanding urban areas alter the regional hydrology, threats to groundwater resources may increase. An objective of our research is to predict the occurrence of groundwater influenced ecosystems (GIEs) across the northeastern United States. We are applying geographically referenced information about known GIEs across two ecologically distinct EPA Level II Ecoregions (Atlantic Highlands, Mixed Woods Plains) in the northeastern United States using correlative distribution modeling methods [Generalized Linear Models (GLM), Generalized Additive Models (GAM), Maximum Entropy (MaxEnt), Random Forest] to produce a landscape scale habitat suitability maps for GIEs. We then evaluated the predictive outputs and ensemble model predictions to create consensus models for each Ecoregion.  Knowledge of GIE locations and their contributing watersheds across this region can inform land management decisions, which can enhance conservation of these systems.

Tags: groundwater, groundwater-influenced-ecosystems, imagerybasemapsearthcover, modeling, new-england, northeastern-states, northeastern-united-states, prediction, usgs-63e51f8cd34efa0476addf95
Organization: Department of the Interior
EAARL Coastal Topography--Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana, Post-Hurricane Katrina, 2005: First Surface

ASCII XYZ point cloud data were produced from remotely sensed, geographically referenced elevation measurements acquired by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Elevation measurements were collected over the Chandeleur Islands, post-Hurricane Katrina (August 2005 hurricane), using the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Experimental Advanced Airborne Research Lidar (EAARL), a pulsed laser ranging system mounted onboard an aircraft to measure ground elevation, vegetation canopy, and coastal topography. The system uses high-frequency laser beams directed at the Earth's surface through an opening in the bottom of the aircraft's fuselage. The laser system records the time difference between emission of the laser beam and the reception of the reflected laser signal in the aircraft. The plane travels over the target area at approximately 60 meters per second at an elevation of approximately 300 meters, resulting in a laser swath of approximately 240 meters with an average point spacing of 2-3 meters. The EAARL, developed originally by NASA at Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, measures ground elevation with a vertical resolution of 3 centimeters. A sampling rate of 3 kilohertz or higher results in an extremely dense spatial elevation dataset. Over 100 kilometers of coastline can be surveyed easily within a 3- to 4-hour mission. When resultant elevation maps for an area are analyzed, they provide a useful tool to make management decisions regarding land development.

Tags: 2005, airborne-lidar-processing-system, alps, ascii-xyz-first-surface, chandeleur-islands, doi-usgs-cmg-gt-coastal-and-marine-geology-u-s-geological-survey-u-s-department-of-interior, eaarl, elevation, experimental-advanced-airborne-research-lidar, gulf-of-mexico, land-surface-gt-topography-gt-terrain-elevation, laser-altimetry, lidar, lidar-gt-light-detection-and-ranging, louisiana, ocean-gt-coastal-processes-gt-barrier-islands, ocean-gt-coastal-processes-gt-beaches, ocean-gt-coastal-processes-gt-shoreline-displacement, post-hurricane-katrina, remote-sensing, topography, usgs-63e51b00-e106-48e1-ab7d-8a67c7f26772, usgs-national-assessment-project
Organization: Department of the Interior
FINAL and FINAL_RISK_CALC

This is the FINAL_RISK_CALC shapefile for running the food and water requirements model, and the FINAL shapefile of results of a practical application of a simplified, deterministic model of initial resource requirements in disaster response, connected with the publication, "A Conceptual Framework for Estimation of Initial Emergency Food and Water Resource Requirements in Disasters" (Toland, J., Wein, A., Wu, A. and Spearing, L, 2023).
The model offers a quantitative, comprehensive description of an application within the geophysical hazard context of the “ShakeOut” scenario—a major Mw7.8 earthquake on California’s San Andreas Fault, occurring within the Los Angeles Basin, CA (USA) region. 
Using the framework as a guide, we illustrate model results that estimate that 999,027 households (2,947,130 residents) will require initial emergency food and water resource requirements (about 3 days after the event). Estimates include 6 million meals and 9 million liters of water, concentrated in Lancaster-Palmdale, El Monte-Baldwin Park, East Los Angeles-Downey in Los Angeles County, the Coachella Valley (Riverside County) and in populated areas of San Bernardino County.

Tags: economy, environment, health, shakeout-water-services-resource-demand-critical-infrastructure-services-community-vulnerabilit, society, transportation, usgs-63e1519cd34e9fa19a9b7906
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, 2015/2016, 2018, and 2021 land-water matrices, Western Louisiana

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-63e121afd34e9fa19a9b7856, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior