AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
RBR sensor pressure and tidal data for two sites in the coastal marsh at Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Mississippi, from April 2019 through January 2020

To better understand sediment deposition in marsh environments, scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center (USGS-SPCMSC) selected four study sites (Sites 5, 6, 7, and 8) along the Point Aux Chenes Bay shoreline of the Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (GNDNERR), Mississippi. These datasets were collected to serve as baseline data prior to the installation of a living shoreline (a subtidal sill). Each site consisted of five plots located along a transect perpendicular to the marsh-estuary shoreline at 5-meter (m) increments (5, 10, 15, 20, and 25 m from the shoreline). Each plot contained six net sedimentation tiles (NST) that were secured flush to the marsh surface using polyvinyl chloride (PVC) pipe. NST are an inexpensive and simple tool to assess short- and long-term deposition that can be deployed in highly dynamic environments without the compaction associated with traditional coring methods. The NST were deployed for three month sampling periods, measuring sediment deposition from July 2018 to January 2020, with one set of NST being deployed for six months. Sediment deposited on the NST were processed to determine physical characteristics, such as deposition thickness, volume, wet weight/dry weight, grain size, and organic content (loss-on-ignition [LOI]). For select sampling periods, ancillary data (water level, elevation, and wave data) are also provided in this data release. Data were collected during USGS Field Activities Numbers (FAN) 2018-332-FA (18CCT01), 2018-358-FA (18CCT10), 2019-303-FA (19CCT01, 19CCT02, 19CCT03, and 19CCT04, respectively), and 2020-301-FA (20CCT01). Additional survey and data details are available from the U.S. Geological Survey Coastal and Marine Geoscience Data System (CMGDS) at, https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/. Data from a related NST study in the GNDNERR (Middle Bay and North Rigolets) can be found in Smith and others (2020). Data collected after the living shoreline (subtidal sill) installation can be found in Terrano and others (2025). For additional information on data processing and analysis, refer to the accompanying journal publication Smith and others (2025). Please read the full metadata for details on data collection, dataset variables, and data quality.

Tags: coastal-processes, datasets, depth, environment, field-inventory-and-monitoring, geology, geoscientificinformation, grand-bay-national-estuarine-research-reserve, gulf-of-mexico, hydrogeology, mississippi, nerr, ocean-sciences, ocean-wave-measurement, ocean-waves, oceans, rbr, sea-pressure, spcmsc, tidal-slope, u-s-geological-survey, u-s-geological-survey-st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, united-states, usgs, usgs-9d6d79e0-4337-4e21-b631-8bf4c30d1609, water-level
Organization: Department of the Interior
Acoustic backscatter data from USGS Field Activity S-8-08-SC, northern Santa Barbara Channel, southern California

Acoustic backscatter data were collected by the U.S. Geological Survey in July 2008 in the northern Santa Barbara Channel in southern California. Data were collected aboard the R/V Parke Snavely, during USGS Field Activity S-9-08-SC, using a bathymetric sidescan system.

Tags: acoustic-methods, bathymetry-and-elevation, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, el-capitan-beach, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, imagerybasemapsearthcover, marine-geophysics, multibeam-sonar, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, refugio-beach, santa-barbara, santa-barbara-channel, sea-floor-acoustic-reflectivity, sea-floor-characteristics, state-of-california, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-9d57cef6-ffa0-4cfb-9998-0377341468c6
Organization: Department of the Interior
Sea Turtle Nesting Decision Points and Cross-Shore Beach Profile Data Collected on August 20, 2019, from Melbourne Beach, Florida

On August 20, 2019, surveys were conducted on ‘high-density’ sea turtle nesting areas located on Melbourne Beach, Florida. This dataset, Melbourne_20190820.zip, was collected and processed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center (SPCMSC) and includes sea turtle nesting decision point locations (.csv) and cross-shore beach profiles (.xyz) at those locations. Utilizing previously published methods for collecting beach profile data (Henderson and others, 2016; Brown and others, 2018), data were acquired by USGS scientists walking along cross-shore transect lines while carrying a survey backpack that was equipped with a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver and GNSS antenna. The horizontal position data are provided in the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinate system, Zone 17 North (17N), referenced to the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83), and the elevation data are referenced to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88), GEOID12B.

Tags: altimetry, beach, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, distributions, earth-science-gt-land-surface-gt-topography-gt-terrain-elevation, earth-science-gt-oceans-gt-coastal-processes-gt-beaches, elevation, elevation-data, florida, geology, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, global-navigation-satellite-system-gnss-observations, gnss-measurement, marine-geology, oceans, providers-gt-government-agencies-u-s-federal-agencies-gt-doi-gt-usgs-gt-doi-usgs-cmg, south-atlantic, spcmsc, st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, topographic-mapping, topography, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-9d539289-2097-4399-8aa7-47c7c0be6e7d
Organization: Department of the Interior
Massachusetts hydrologic unit subdivisions

Impervious surfaces such as paved roads, parking lots, and building roofs can 
affect the natural streamflow patterns and ecosystems of nearby streams.  This 
data set summarizes the percent of impervious surface for hydrologic units in 
Massachusetts using a newly available statewide 1-m binary raster dataset of 
impervious surface for 2005.    A hydrologic unit consists of all or part of a 
drainage basin, or an area of coastal drainage.   Hydrologic units subdivide 
large drainage basins into discrete, non-overlapping areas.   This is one of 
three data layers in this data series publication.

Tags: environment, geoscientificinformation, inland-waters, inlandwaters, usgs-9d533fb8-26a1-4be3-ba76-faa866030ebc
Organization: Department of the Interior
Stream, Ditch or Canal as an Irrigation Source on Agricultural Land in the Conterminous United States, 1992: National Resource Inventory Conservation Practice ISO03

This data set represents the estimated percentage of the 1-km grid cell that is covered by or 
subject to the agricultural conservation practice (CPIS03), Stream, Ditch or Canal as an 
Irrigation Source (SDCIS) on agricultural land by county.  Stream, Ditch or Canal as an I
rrigation Source is described as: "Stream : A flow of water in a channel or bed, as a brook, 
rivulet, or small river. Ditch : A long, narrow trench or furrow dug in the ground, as for irrigation. 
Canal : An artificial waterway used for irrigation." (U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1995)  
This data set was created with geographic information systems (GIS) and database 
management tools. The acres on which SDCIS's are applied were totaled at the county 
level in the tabular NRI database and then apportioned to a raster coverage of agricultural 
land within the county based on the Enhanced National Land Cover Dataset (NLCDe) 
1-kilometer resolution land cover grids (Nakagaki, 2003). Federal land is not considered 
in this analysis because NRI does not record information on those lands.

Tags: agricultural-practices, environment, geoscientificinformation, inlandwaters, national-resources-inventory, stream-ditch-canal, usgs-9d4f207b-b8a9-4887-b49a-d856c196b418
Organization: Department of the Interior
Baseline for Buzzards Bay coastal region generated to calculate shoreline change rates from Nobska Point in Woods Hole to Westport at the Massachusetts-Rhode Island border (BuzzardsBay_baseline.shp)

Due to continued coastal population growth and increased threats of erosion, current data on trends and rates of shoreline movement are required to inform shoreline and floodplain management. The Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management launched the Shoreline Change Project in 1989 to identify erosion-prone areas of the coast. In 2001, a 1994 shoreline was added to calculate both long- and short-term shoreline change rates at 40-meter intervals along ocean-facing sections of the Massachusetts coast.
The Coastal and Marine Geology Program of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management, has compiled reliable historical shoreline data along open-facing sections of the Massachusetts coast under the Massachusetts Shoreline Change Mapping and Analysis Project 2013 Update. Two oceanfront shorelines for Massachusetts (approximately 1,800 km in total length) were (1) delineated using 2008/09 color aerial orthoimagery, and (2) extracted from topographic LIDAR datasets (2007) obtained from NOAA's Ocean Service, Coastal Services Center. The new shorelines were integrated with existing Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management and USGS historical shoreline data in order to compute long- and short-term rates using the latest version of the Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS).

Tags: accretion, atlantic-coast, baseline, buzzards-bay, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, coastal-processes, digital-shoreline-analysis-system, dsas, erosion, geospatial-datasets, massachusetts, massachusetts-office-of-coastal-zone-management, new-england, oceans, transect, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-9d4df4b5-dc14-4162-9c41-add64efe4831, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Color Shaded-Relief GeoTIFF Image Showing the 2-m Bathymetry Generated from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Survey H12023 in Block Island Sound (H12023_MB2M_UTM.TIF, UTM Zone 19, NAD83)

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), is producing detailed geologic maps of the coastal sea floor. Bathymetric and sidescan-sonar data, originally collected by NOAA for charting purposes, provide a fundamental framework for research and management activities along this part of Block Island Sound, show the composition and terrain of the seabed, and provide information on sediment transport and benthic habitat. During June 2012, bottom photographs and surficial sediment data were acquired as part of a ground-truth reconnaissance survey of this area. Interpretations were derived from the multibeam-echosounder, sidescan-sonar, sedimentary, and photographic data collected in Block Island Sound. For more information on the ground-truth survey see &lt;http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/ia/public_ds_info.php?fa=2012-002-FA&gt;.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, bathymetry, block-island-sound, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, computational-methods, elevation, geospatial-datasets, geotiff, h12023, hill-shaded, imagerybasemapsearthcover, info-bank-id-r-02-12-li, marine-geophysics, multibeam-bathymetry, multibeam-sonar, national-oceanic-and-atmospheric-administration, noaa, noaa-survey-h12023, north-america, oceans, ofr-2013-1003, open-file-report-2013-1003, reson-7125, reson-8125, rhode-island, sea-floor-characteristics, u-s-east-coast, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-9cf197f8-b9fc-47ef-8924-95fc6c473c5f, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
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 -- Raster surface depicting the altitude of the top of the OCAPLPZ

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 a gridded surface 
depicting the top of the OCAPLPZ in feet relative to NGVD29.

Tags: above, alabama, altitude, below, clip, contours, environment, extent, florida, floridan-aquifer-system, geology, georgia, geoscientificinformation, gridded, head-differences, head-gradient, hydrogeology, inlandwaters, ocala-avon-park-low-permeability-zone, ocaplpz, open-to-aquifer, raster, regional-groundwater-availability-study, south-carolina, stratigraphy, top, united-states-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-9ce4ecbd-b52b-40f9-9d7e-80e39b29bfe9, wells
Organization: Department of the Interior
l184an.m77t - MGD77 data file for Geophysical data from field activity L-1-84-AN in Antarctica from 01/04/1984 to 02/01/1984

Single-beam bathymetry, gravity, and magnetic data along with DGPS navigation data was collected as part of field activity L-1-84-AN in Antarctica from 01/04/1984 to 02/01/1984, http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/l/l184an/html/l-1-84-an.meta.html
These data are reformatted from space-delimited ASCII text files located in the Coastal and Marine Geology Program (CMGP) InfoBank field activity catalog at http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/l/l184an/html/l-1-84-an.bath.html, http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/l/l184an/html/l-1-84-an.grav.html, and http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/l/l184an/html/l-1-84-an.mag.html into MGD77T format provided by the NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center(NGDC). The MGD77T format includes a header (documentation) file (.h77t) and a data file (.m77t). More information regarding this format can be found in the publication listed in the Cross_reference section of this metadata file.

Tags: antarctic, antarctic-ocean, antarctic-southern-ocean, antarctica, bathymetry, bathymetry-and-elevation, bathymetry-measurement, distributions, geoscientificinformation, gravimeter-measurement, gravimetry, magnetic-anomalies, magnetic-field-observations, magnetometer-measurement, marine-geology, marine-geophysics, marine-gravity-field, marine-magnetic-field, oceans, seafloor-topography, single-beam-echo-sounder, southern-hemisphere, usgs-9cdeae14-9c55-493d-a832-aae3f459fca8, water-depth
Organization: Department of the Interior
Locations of King Eiders implanted with satellite transmitters in northern Alaska, 2002-2009

This study examined the migration routes and spatial distribution of 166 adult and juvenile King Eiders breeding in northern Alaska throughout the annual cycle. Satellite transmitters provided information on migration timing, migration distances, location of important molt, winter, and staging areas, migratory connectivity between those areas, and estimates of annual survival of adult  King Eiders. 

Tags: alaska, arctic, beaufort-sea, chuchki-sea, climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, eider, migration, staging, usgs-9cdddbd1-9b47-4e16-8f0c-f72db05aa9da
Organization: Department of the Interior
Acquisition and observation logs for seabed video and sediment samples from Stellwagen Bank during U.S. Geological Survey field activity 2015-017-FA, aboard the R/V Auk, May 18-19, 29, and June 3, 2015

This field activity is part of the effort to map geologic substrates of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary region off Boston, Massachusetts. The overall goal is to develop high-resolution (1:25,000) interpretive maps, based on multibeam sonar data and seabed sampling, showing surficial geology and seabed sediment dynamics. This cruise was conducted in collaboration with the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, and the data collected will aid research on the ecology of fish and invertebrate species that inhabit the region. The Sanctuary's research vessel, R/V Auk, visited 61 locations on Stellwagen Bank at which a customized Van Veen grab sampler (SEABOSS) equipped with a video camera and a CTD was deployed in drift mode to collect sediment for grain-size analysis, video imagery of the seabed, and measurements of water column properties.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, field-activity-logs, field-monitoring-stations, geoscientificinformation, ground-truth, location, log-book, marine-biology, marine-geology, massachusetts, massachusetts-bay, national-oceanic-and-atmospheric-administration, navigational-data, noaa, north-america, oceans, sbnms, sea-floor-samples, seabed-observation-and-sampling-system, seaboss, sediment-samples, stations, stellwagen-bank, stellwagen-bank-national-marine-sanctuary, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-9cd20321-f221-4623-b26b-3e64c032d88c, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Multibeam Bathymetry Data Collected in 2016 from Grand Bay Alabama/Mississippi: Adjusted processed elevation point data (x,y,z)

A reconnaissance multibeam bathymetry survey was conducted by the U.S Geological Survey (USGS) St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center (SPCMSC) in Grand Bay Alabama/Mississippi on May 12, 2016 as an assessment of the shallow water capabilities of the Teledyne Reson SeaBat T50-P multibeam echosounder, and as an attempt to map the eroding marsh edges at locations of interest around the bay. This dataset, Grand_Bay_2016_MBB_Adjusted_xyz.zip, includes the resulting processed elevation point data (x,y,z), as derived from a half meter resolution surface.

Tags: alabama, applanix-pos-mv-wavemaster-ii, bathymetry, elevation, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, grand-bay, grand-bay-national-wildlife-refuge, hydrography, imagerybasemapsearthcover, location, marine-geology, mississippi, multibeam-sonar, ocean-characteristics, ocean-processes, oceans, sea-level-and-storm-impacts-on-estuarine-environments-and-shorelines, seafloor-mapping, spcmsc, ssiees, st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, teledyne-reson-t50-p, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-9cc87de2-33dd-49b3-b506-3e142493f11c
Organization: Department of the Interior
Airborne geophysical survey: Mt Naomi, Idaho

Aeromagnetic data were collected along flight lines by instruments in an
aircraft that recorded magnetic-field values and locations.  This dataset
presents latitude, longitude, altitude, and magnetic-field values.

Tags: aeromagnetic-data, aeromagnetic-surveying, airborne-surveys, f16007-bear-lake, f16041-franklin, f49005-cache, f49033-rich, field-monitoring-stations, geophysical-surveys, geophysics, geospatial-datasets, id, idaho, magnetic, magnetic-field-earth, magnetic-surveys, mount-naomi, mt-naomi, residual-magnetic-field, total-field, united-states, usgs-9cc4c517-4b99-4288-98be-d043718214c9, ut, utah
Organization: Department of the Interior
A spatially explicit model of long-term mean annual streamflow for the conterminous United States

The data release documents the development of a hybrid 
(statistical-mechanistic) SPARROW (SPAtially Referenced 
Regression On Watershed attributes) model of long-term 
mean annual streamflow applied to streams and rivers of 
conterminous United States. The model coupled previous 
catchment-scale (1-km) water balance predictions of “natural” 
unit-area runoff, which are inclusive of major water cycling 
processes, with additional explanatory variables (e.g., soils, 
vegetation, land use, topography, water losses in streams 
and reservoirs) that account for the effects of natural and 
cultural water supply and demand processes that operate 
over large spatial scales and explain streamflow variability 
across the conterminous United States river basins. The 
model performance was compared with that for six more 
simple models as described in the journal article. This 
USGS data release contains all of the input and output 
files for the execution of all of the models described in the 
journal article (see Table 1; https://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR025001).
An R script is provided that allows users to execute the 
seven models.

Tags: environment, geoscientificinformation, groundwater-and-surface-water-interaction, inlandwaters, sparrow, surfacewater, surfacewater-model, usgs-9c8570be-f2e9-4fc7-beb2-79806f290763, usgssurfacewatermodel
Organization: Department of the Interior
Unprocessed aerial imagery from 9 February 2024 coastal survey of Central California.

This is a set of 4787 oblique aerial photogrammetric images and their derivatives, collected from San Francisco to Ragged Point with a fixed-lens digital camera from a crewed light aircraft, for processing using structure-from-motion photogrammetry and machine learning to study coastal geomorphic processes at high temporal and spatial resolution. JPG files in each folder follow the following naming convention: {CAM###}_{YYYYMMDDHHMMSS_ss}.jpg, where {CAM###} is the last 3 digits of the camera serial number, preceded by the letters "cam", and where {YYYYMMDDHHMMSS_ss} is the image acquisition time in {YearMonthDayHourMinuteSecond_hundredths} expressed in 24-hour time, as recorded by the camera's internal clock and written to the SubSecondDateTime field in the image EXIF data (for example CAM001_202009182311_50 would be the timestamp for an image with a SubSecondDateTime EXIF time/date stamp of September 18th, 2020 at 11:11.50 pm.

Tags: aerial-and-satellite-photography, aerial-photography, agents-of-coastal-change, anthropogenic-agents-of-coastal-change, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, coastal-development, coastal-ecosystems, coastal-erosion, coastal-landslides, coastal-processes, datasets, distributions, earth-sciences, ecology, environment, geography, geologic-processes, geology, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, habitat, image-analysis, image-collections, imagerybasemapsearthcover, infrastructure, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, physical-habitats-and-geomorphology, remote-sensing, slope-processes, structures, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, united-states-and-territories, usgs, usgs-9c7c6d7b-0d86-4c23-9fec-62a9b70ddee9, visible-light-imaging
Organization: Department of the Interior
Archive of digitized analog boomer seismic reflection data collected during U.S. Geological Survey cruise Acadiana 87-2 in the northern Gulf of Mexico, June 1987

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Coastal and Marine Geology Program has actively collected geophysical and sedimentological data in the northern Gulf of Mexico for several decades, including shallow subsurface data in the form of high-resolution seismic-reflection profiles (HRSP). Prior to the mid-1990s most HRSP data were collected in analog format as paper rolls of continuous profiles up to 25 meters long. A large portion of this data resides in a single repository with minimal metadata. As part of the National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation Program, scientists at the USGS St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center are converting the analog paper records to digital format using a large-format continuous scanner.
This data release serves as an archive of seismic profiles with headers, converted Society of Exploration Geophysicists Y format (SEG-Y) files, navigation data, and geographic information system (GIS) data files for digitized boomer seismic-reflection data collected from the Research Vessel (R/V) Acadiana. The Acadiana 87-2 geophysical cruise included seismic data collected in the northern Gulf of Mexico, Chandeleur Sound, and Mississippi Sound from June 15 to June 26, 1987.

Tags: alabama, bim-barrier-island-mapping, cat-island, chandeleur-sound, coastal, geology, geoscientificinformation, gulf-of-mexico, louisiana, marine, marine-geology, mississippi, mississippi-sound, ocean-processes, oceans, r-v-acadiana, sediment-transport, seg-y, seismic-reflection, society-of-exploration-geophysicists, united-states-of-america, usgs-9c757d71-5fc2-4ca4-b72c-536bc7a40990
Organization: Department of the Interior