AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
California Groundwater Ambient Monitoring and Assessment (GAMA) Program Priority Basin Project Study Areas and grid cells for assessment of groundwater resources used for public drinking-water supply.

The California Groundwater Ambient Monitoring and Assessment Program (GAMA) is a statewide, comprehensive assessment of groundwater quality designed to help better understand and identify risks to groundwater resources. GAMA is being implemented by the California State Water Resources Control Board. The USGS is the technical lead for the Priority Basin Project (PBP), one of the components of the GAMA Program. The initial focus of the GAMA Priority Basin Project in 2004 to 2012 was on assessment of water-quality in groundwater resources used for public drinking water supply (Belitz and others, 2003; 2015). Groundwater basins and sub-basins (472 in total) were prioritized based upon a number of factors (Belitz and others 2003). Two hundred and twenty-seven of these basins and additional areas outside of basins were subsequently grouped into 35 study units comprising 87 Study Areas. The basin and sub-basin boundaries, local geology, local knowledge, and watershed data were used to define the Study Areas.
The Study Areas each were divided into equal-area grid cells collectively referred as a "study area grid". The number and size of cells generated for each Study Area was based upon the size of the area being sampled, and the number of public-supply wells available to sample. Three Study Areas contained an insufficient number of public-supply wells for division into a study area grid and were instead directly sampled. The number of cells in a study area grid ranged from 7 to 122 (median 20), and the size of the cells ranged from 4 to 471 km2 (median 25 km2). Additional information about the design of individual study area grids can be found in the reports listed below. The 87 Study Areas are collected and assembled here into one GIS dataset.

Tags: california, drinking-water, gama, groundwater, priority-basin-project, public-supply, united-states, usgs-5936e071e4b0f6c2d0d884c8, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
A Baseline Assessment of Contaminant Concentrations in Sediment and Biota in Proximity to Coal Transport Tracks in the Pacific Northwest (2014)

This dataset provides baseline concentrations (from 2014) of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH), other aromatic organic compounds, mercury (Hg), and trace metal concentrations in sediment and biota collected from two sites along an existing rail line used for coal transport in the Columbia River Gorge, Washington. For this study, aquatic surface sediments, aquatic insects, and juvenile fish were collected in 2014 from Horsethief Lake in Columbia Hills State Park and Steigerwald Lake National Wildlife Refuge (NWR), both located in close proximity to the rail line and within the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area. Samples were collected from two subsites in each area: one closer to the rail line and one farther from the rail line. Fish species collected for analysis included anadromous salmonids and resident yellow perch, sculpin, pumpkinseed, northern pikeminnow, and smallmouth bass.

Tags: contamination-and-pollution, fish, food-web, freshwater-ecosystems, human-impacts, usgs-5936cc25e4b0f6c2d0d80e00, water-resources
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2015 Site 2189 Land-Water Classification Data

Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection, and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring efforts to determine the efficacy of these efforts. 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.  A DOQQ is a raster image in which displacement in the image caused by sensor orientation and terrain relief has been removed and combines the image characteristics of a photo with geometric qualities of a map. The DOQQs generated for this project consist of 2015 Color Infrared (CIR) Digital Imagery.  These images were classified into land and water categories using a threshold of the near infrared (NIR) band, followed by supervised and unsupervised classification.  Initial classification results are then reviewed by multiple image analysts to identify and manually recode errors.  The final land-water classifications are intended to serve as both geographic and quantitative assessments of landscape composition on the date of acquisition.  Three previous assessments have been conducted (2005, 2008, and 2012).  Once the program creates enough data points for statistical analyses, these data will be used for land area change rate calculation.

Tags: cartography, coastal, crms, doqq, geographic-information-system, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-water, louisiana, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, state-of-louisiana, usgs-5938770be4b0764e6c5d6c93, wetland
Organization: Department of the Interior
Northeastern Hydrologic Benchmark Network (HBN) Soil Chemistry and Catskill Mountain Water-Quality Data

This data product contains soil chemistry data from 4 locations. Two of the locations were located in the Neversink River watershed near Claryville, NY (01435000) in the Catskill Mountains of New York (Fall Brook and Winnisook Creek), 1 of the locations was the Young Woman’s Creek watershed near Renovo, PA (01545600) and the last site was the Wild River watershed at Gilead, Maine (01054200). Soil chemistry was collected at 2 times at each location: in 2001 and 2011 in Fall Brook, Young Woman’s Creek and Wild River and in 1993 and 2012 in Winnisook. This data product also contains water-quality data from 5 water-quality stations: West Branch Neversink River at Winnisook Lake [01434021], East Branch Neversink River northeast of Denning [0143400680], Rondout Creek above Red Brook at Peekamoose [01364959], Biscuit Brook above Pigeon Brook at Frost Valley [01434025], Neversink River at Claryville [01435000]. The data were collected from water year 1992 to 2014. Stream water discharge is included with each water quality sample. For 3 of the stations (01434021, 0143400680, 01364959) discharge was discontinued in 2012. For those stations, discharge from 2012 to 2014 was estimated using linear regression analyses of nearby or downstream stations. The results of those regression analyses are also included in this data product.

Tags: acid-neutralizing-capacity, ammonium, anc, catskill-mountains, chloride, conductivity, delaware-county, doc, exchangeable-aluminum, exchangeable-calcium, exchangeable-magnesium, exchangeable-potasium, exchangeable-sodium, flow, greene-county, hydrogen-ion-concentration, loss-on-ignition, monomeric-aluminum, nitrate, otsego-county, percent-carbon, percent-nitrogen, ph, schoharie-county, silica, soil-chemistry, soil-horizons, soil-science, soils-data, specific-conductance, sulfate, sullivan-county, ulster-county, usgs-59359d71e4b06a58eb67560e, water-quality, water-temperature
Organization: Department of the Interior
PRISM late Pliocene (Piacenzian) alkenone - derived SST data

This dataset collects sea surface temperature data generated through alkenone analysis of late Pliocene sediments collected from cores and outcrops

Tags: alkenone, arctic-ocean, atlantic-ocean, cenozoic, greenland-sea, nansemond-river, neogene, ocean-records, pacific-ocean, paleoclimate, phanerozoic, piacenzian, pliocene, sea-surface-temperature-reconstruction, south-china-sea, suffolk, tertiary, united-states, usgs-593599dee4b06a58eb675608, virginia
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, and 2015 Site 0650 Land-Water Matrix

Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection, and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring efforts to determine the efficacy of these efforts. 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 Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection, and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring efforts to determine the efficacy of these efforts. 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 four land-water products (2005, 2008, 2012, and 2015).  The resulting matrix has 16 possible classes defined by the combination of land and water categories on those four dates.

Tags: cartography, coastal, crms, doqq, geographic-information-system, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-water, louisiana, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, state-of-louisiana, usgs-59387712e4b0764e6c5d6c95, wetland
Organization: Department of the Interior
Bathymetric surveys of the Neosho River, Spring River, and Elk River, northeastern Oklahoma and southwestern Missouri, 2016–17

In February 2017, the Grand River Dam Authority filed to relicense the Pensacola Hydroelectric Project with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The predominant feature of the Pensacola Hydroelectric Project is Pensacola Dam, which impounds Grand Lake O’ the Cherokees (locally called Grand Lake) in northeastern Oklahoma. Identification of information gaps and assessment of project effects on stakeholders are central aspects of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission relicensing process. Some upstream stakeholders have expressed concerns about the dynamics of sedimentation and flood flows in the transition zone between major rivers and Grand Lake O’ the Cherokees. To relicense the Pensacola Hydroelectric Project with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the hydraulic models for these rivers require high-resolution bathymetric data along the river channels. In support of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission relicensing process, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Grand River Dam Authority, performed bathymetric surveys of (1) the Neosho River from the Oklahoma border to the U.S. Highway 60 bridge at Twin Bridges State Park, (2) the Spring River from the Oklahoma border to the U.S. Highway 60 bridge at Twin Bridges State Park, and (3) the Elk River from Noel, Missouri, to the Oklahoma State Highway 10 bridge near Grove, Oklahoma. The Neosho River and Spring River bathymetric surveys were performed from October 26 to December 14, 2016; the Elk River bathymetric survey was performed from February 27 to March 21, 2017. Only areas inundated during those periods were surveyed.
The bathymetric surveys covered a total distance of about 76 river miles and a total area of about 5 square miles. Greater than 1.4 million bathymetric-survey data points were used in the computation and interpolation of bathymetric-survey digital elevation models and derived contours at 1-foot intervals. The minimum bathymetric-survey elevation of the Neosho River was 709.18 feet above North American Vertical Datum of 1988, which corresponds to a maximum depth of 34.22 feet. The minimum bathymetric-survey elevation of the Spring River was 714.18 feet above North American Vertical Datum of 1988, which corresponds to a maximum depth of 29.22 feet. The minimum bathymetric-survey elevation of the Elk River was 715.62 feet above North American Vertical Datum of 1988, which corresponds to a maximum depth of 27.78 feet.

Tags: bathymetry, digital-elevation-models, elk-river, environment, geoscientificinformation, grand-lake-o-the-cherokees, inlandwaters, missouri, neosho-river, oklahoma, single-beam-echo-sounder, spring-river, topographic-maps, usgs-59357d5be4b06a58eb675596
Organization: Department of the Interior
Terrestrial laser scanner data from the 2011 Horseshoe Two fire, Chiricahua Mountains, southeastern Arizona

Point cloud data collected on a steep, severely burned hillslope below Barfoot Peak near Rustler Park in the Chiricahua Mountains, AZ. The data were collected June 21, July 18, August 1, August 23, 2011 and March 14, 2012. The data were collected with a Leica Scanstation C10 High Definition Scanner. The data are delivered as georeferenced (WGS UTM zone 12N ellipsoid) and classified point clouds. 
The included files are:  
Chiri_20120314.laz 
Chiri_20110611.laz 
Chiri_20110718.laz 
Chiri_20110801.laz 
Chiri_20110823.laz

Tags: lidar, usgs-5931c205e4b0e9bd0eaa4530
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data from Decadal Change in Groundwater Quality Web Site, 1988-2012

Groundwater quality data were collected in 5,000 wells between 1988-2001 by the National Water-Quality Assessment Project. About 1,500 of these wells were sampled again between 2002-2012 to evaluate decadal changes in groundwater quality. Monitoring wells, domestic supply wells, and some public supply wells were included in this study. All water was collected prior to treatment. Groundwater samples used to evaluate decadal change were collected from networks of wells with similar characteristics. Some networks, consisting of domestic or public supply wells, were used to assess changes in the quality of groundwater used for drinking water supply. Other networks, consisting of monitoring wells, assessed changes in the quality of shallow groundwater underlying key land use types such as agricultural or urban lands. Networks were chosen based on geographic distribution across the Nation and to represent the most important water-supply aquifers and specific land-use types. Decadal changes in concentrations of pesticides, nutrients, metals, and organic contaminants in groundwater were evaluated in 67 networks across the Nation and displayed on an interactive web mapping tool. Decadal changes in median concentrations for a network are classified as large, small, or no change in comparison to a benchmark concentration. For example, a large change in chloride concentrations indicates that the median of all differences in concentrations in a network is greater than 5 percent of the chloride benchmark. For chloride, this would mean the change in concentration exceeded 12.5 mg/L.

Tags: groundwater, groundwater-quality, trends, usgs-593191c9e4b0e9bd0eaa447e, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Workflow to create global species distribution model for Bombina orientalis, Xenopus laevis, and Pomacea from GBIF data and climate, land cover, topography, and MODIS derived predictors

This data bundle contains some of the inputs, all of the processing instructions and all outputs from a single VisTrails/SAHM workflow.  This model specifically includes location data for Bombina orientalis and random background locations.  Predictors include climatic, topographic, and land cover rasters.  The three bundle documentation files are:
1) '_archive_bundle_metadata.xml' (this file) which contains FGDC metadata describing the archive bundle.
2) '_archive_raster_inputs.csv' a list of the raster inputs that were used to generate these model results. These are not included in the archive bundle due to size constraints but are identified in this file as well as the metadata document.
3) '_archive_workflow_Final runs.vt' where Final runs is the name of the history node being archived in this bundle. Contains a VisTrails/SAHM workflow document which contains the workflow that was used to create these outputs.
The remaining data files are the intermediate workflow products as well as the complete spatial and diagnostic model outputs.

Tags: biota, earth, globe, sahm, software-for-assisted-habitat-modeling, species-distribution-modeling, united-states, usgs-5930627fe4b0e9bd0ea8eaee, vistrails
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, and 2015 Site 0589 Land-Water Matrix

Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection, and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring efforts to determine the efficacy of these efforts. 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 Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection, and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring efforts to determine the efficacy of these efforts. 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 four land-water products (2005, 2008, 2012, and 2015).  The resulting matrix has 16 possible classes defined by the combination of land and water categories on those four dates.

Tags: cartography, coastal, crms, doqq, geographic-information-system, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-water, louisiana, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, state-of-louisiana, usgs-593875d8e4b0764e6c5d6bfc, wetland
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2015 Site 2219 Land-Water Classification Data

Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection, and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring efforts to determine the efficacy of these efforts. 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.  A DOQQ is a raster image in which displacement in the image caused by sensor orientation and terrain relief has been removed and combines the image characteristics of a photo with geometric qualities of a map. The DOQQs generated for this project consist of 2015 Color Infrared (CIR) Digital Imagery.  These images were classified into land and water categories using a threshold of the near infrared (NIR) band, followed by supervised and unsupervised classification.  Initial classification results are then reviewed by multiple image analysts to identify and manually recode errors.  The final land-water classifications are intended to serve as both geographic and quantitative assessments of landscape composition on the date of acquisition.  Three previous assessments have been conducted (2005, 2008, and 2012).  Once the program creates enough data points for statistical analyses, these data will be used for land area change rate calculation.

Tags: cartography, coastal, crms, doqq, geographic-information-system, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-water, louisiana, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, state-of-louisiana, usgs-59387713e4b0764e6c5d6c96, wetland
Organization: Department of the Interior
Sediment trap and water column chemistry, Baltimore Canyon, U.S. Mid-Atlantic Bight

Time-series of sediment chemistry, including organic biomarker composition and bulk inorganic geochemical analytes, from samples collected over a one-year period in a sediment trap. The sediment traps were deployed at a depth between 603 m to 1318 m, and they were programmed to rotate a 250 mL sample bottle at 30 d intervals, delivering 12 samples during the 1-year deployment between August 2012 and June 2013. In addition, dissolved water column nutrient concentrations and water column trace element particulate concentrations were collected in Baltimore Canyon on the U.S. Mid-Atlantic Bight (MAB).

Tags: animal-sediment-interactions, assessments, atlantic-ocean, baltimore-canyon, carbon-14-analysis, chemical-analysis, environment, gas-chromatography, geochemistry, geoscientificinformation, light-stable-isotope-analysis, marine-chemistry, marine-sediments, oceans, particle-flux, radiometric-dating, sediment-chemistry, sediment-deposition, sediment-erosion, sediment-geochemistry, sediment-transport, usgs-593060d0e4b0e9bd0ea8eae6
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2015 Site 2334 Land-Water Classification Data

Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection, and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring efforts to determine the efficacy of these efforts. 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.  A DOQQ is a raster image in which displacement in the image caused by sensor orientation and terrain relief has been removed and combines the image characteristics of a photo with geometric qualities of a map. The DOQQs generated for this project consist of 2015 Color Infrared (CIR) Digital Imagery.  These images were classified into land and water categories using a threshold of the near infrared (NIR) band, followed by supervised and unsupervised classification.  Initial classification results are then reviewed by multiple image analysts to identify and manually recode errors.  The final land-water classifications are intended to serve as both geographic and quantitative assessments of landscape composition on the date of acquisition.  Three previous assessments have been conducted (2005, 2008, and 2012).  Once the program creates enough data points for statistical analyses, these data will be used for land area change rate calculation.

Tags: cartography, coastal, crms, doqq, geographic-information-system, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-water, louisiana, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, state-of-louisiana, usgs-5938771ae4b0764e6c5d6c99, wetland
Organization: Department of the Interior