AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Digital Shoreline Analysis System version 4.3 shoreline intersection points used to calculate short-term (End Point Rate) shoreline change statistics for the Elizabeth Islands coastal region from Nonamesset Island southwest of Woods Hole to Cuttyhunk Island north of Martha's Vineyard (ElizabethIslands_intersects_STepr.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, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, coastal-processes, cuttyhunk-island, digital-shoreline-analysis-system, dsas, elizabeth-islands, erosion, esri-point-shapefile, geospatial-datasets, historic-shoreline, intersects, massachusetts, massachusetts-office-of-coastal-zone-management, measurement-locations, new-england, nonamesset-island, oceans, shoreline, shoreline-change-rate, short-term, transect, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-7880f40a-2126-4f2e-a0f6-e8a0d579e210, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Migration Routes of Mule Deer in the Upper San Joaquin Watershed Herd in California

Migratory mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) within the San Joaquin Watershed occupy most of the watershed above Kerckhoff Reservoir, Fresno and Madera Counties, California. Human infrastructure in the watershed is widespread and includes residential, water control, hydroelectric power, and recreational use developments. Steep topography between winter and summer range limit crossing points along the San Joaquin River. Habitat conditions favoring deer declined from a peak around 1950, resulting in a reduction in the deer population. The current deer population is believed to be about 4,000. A massive wildfire burned through most of the watershed in 2020, dramatically changing habitat conditions in some areas.
These data provide the location of migration routes for mule deer in the Upper San Joaquin Watershed population in California. They were developed from 55 migration sequences collected from a sample size of 30 animals comprising GPS locations collected every 2-12 hours.

Tags: animal-behavior, california, economy, environment, migration, migration-organisms, migratory-species, san-joaquin, united-states, usgs-620e4a5cd34e6c7e83baa32c
Organization: Department of the Interior
Attributes for NHDPlus Version 2.1 Reach Catchments and Modified Routed Upstream Watersheds for the Conterminous United States: Average Annual Water Balance Variables over the Period of Record, 2000-2014

This tabular data set represents annual water balance variables as described in Wolock and McCabe (2017) averaged over the years 2000 through 2014, compiled for the NHDPlus version 2.1 data suite (NHDPlusV2) for the conterminous United States. The variables included are: actual evapotranspiration (AET) , potential evapotranspiration (PET), precipitation (PPT), runoff (RUN) , percent of annual precipitation as snow (SNO) , soil moisture storage (STO),  and temperature (TAV). Linkage of these data with NHDPlusV2 is achieved through the common unique identifier COMID. The values are estimated both for: 1) individual reach catchments and 2) reach catchments accumulated upstream through the river network. The reach catchment information characterizes data at the local scale, whereas the catchments accumulated through the river network characterize cumulative upstream conditions.  The network-accumulated values are derived using two methods: 1) divergence routing and 2) total upstream routing. Both approaches use a modified routing database (Schwarz and Wieczorek, 2018) to navigate the NHDPlusV2 reach network and to aggregate (accumulate) the metrics derived from the reach catchment scale.

Tags: actual-evapotranspiration, catchment, inlandwaters, nawqa, nhdplus, percent-snow, potential-evapotranspiration, precipitation, runoff, soil-moisture, sparrow, temperature, usgs-5783e16ae4b0ac0b97f54285, water-balance-model
Organization: Department of the Interior
LANDFIRE 2023 Forest Canopy Bulk Density (CBD) HI

LANDFIRE's 2023 Update (LF 2023) Forest Canopy Bulk Density (CBD) describes the mass of available canopy fuel per unit canopy volume that would burn in a crown fire. A spatially explicit map of CBD supplies information used in fire behavior models to determine the spread characteristics of active crown fires across the landscape. CBD for disturbed and non-disturbed areas is determined via a general linear model (GLM) relating LF’s Forest Canopy Height (CH) and Cover (CC) to CBD (Reeves et al 2009). 
To designate disturbed areas where CBD is modified, the aggregated Annual Disturbance products from 2014 to 2023 in the LF Fuel Disturbance (FDist) product are used. All existing disturbances between 2014-2023 are represented in LF 2023, and the products are intended to be used in 2024 (the year of release).  
When using any product from the LF 2023 fuel product suite, users should consider adjusting fuel layers for disturbances that occurred after the end of the 2023 fiscal year (after October 1st, 2023). Disturbances that occurred after the end of the 2023 fiscal year are not accounted for within LF 2023 fuel products. Learn more about LF 2023 at https://landfire.gov/data/lf2023.

Tags: biota, canopy-bulk-density, cbd, fires, geographic-information-systems, geospatial-datasets, hawaii, hazard-preparedness, hi, image-collections, imagerybasemapsearthcover, landfire-2023, lf-2023, oconus, raster-digital-data, remote-sensing, u-s-forest-service-usfs, u-s-geological-survey-usgs, united-states, us, usgs-673bb9a7d34ee39d4683a71a
Organization: Department of the Interior
Land cover map including wetlands and invasive Phragmites circa 2017 for Green Bay

The first basin-wide map of large stands of invasive Phragmites australis (common reed) in the coastal zone was created through a collaboration between the U.S. Geological Survey and Michigan Tech Research Institute (Bourgeau-Chavez et al 2013). This data set represents a revised version of that map and was created using multi-temporal PALSAR data and Landsat images from 2016-2017. In addition to Phragmites distribution, the data sets shows several land cover types including urban, agriculture, forest, shrub, emergent wetland, forested wetland, and some based on the dominant plant species (e.g., Schoenoplectus, Typha). The classified map was validated using over 400 field visits.This map covers the Green Bay peninsula and surrounding area on Lake Michigan.

Tags: green-bay, imagerybasemapsearthcover, invasive-species, lake-michigan, land-use-and-land-cover, usgs-5d0ce918e4b0941bde51dc97, wetlands, wisconsin
Organization: Department of the Interior
Overland Flow Direction Information for the Upper Colorado River Basin in Maurer et al. (2002) Climate Data resolution (overland_flow_direction_UCRB_Maurer_resolution.asc)

overland_flow_direction_UCRB_Maurer_resolution.asc is an Esri ASCII grid representing overland 
flow direction in the Upper Colorado River Basin using the D8 flow-routing convention.

Tags: arizona, california, colorado, environment, geoscientificinformation, groundwater, groundwater-recharge, inlandwaters, nevada, new-mexico, overland-flow-direction, upper-colorado-river-basin, usgs-f4f235c4-7666-4ba3-bd7d-0b9b56ae1fda, utah, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, 2015 and 2018 Site 1858 land-water matrix

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 five land-water products (2005, 2008, 2012, YYYY and 2018).  The resulting matrix has 32 possible classes defined by the combination of land and water categories on those five 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-611f1456d34e40dd9c01d2d4, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
KauaiS_LT - Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) version 4.2 transects with long-term weighted linear regression rate calculations for the Kauai south region from Waimea to Kipu Kai, Hawaii

Sandy ocean beaches are a popular recreational destination, often surrounded by communities containing valuable real estate.  Development is on the rise despite the fact that coastal infrastructure is subjected to flooding and erosion.  As a result, there is an increased demand for accurate information regarding past and present shoreline changes.  To meet these national needs, the Coastal and Marine Geology Program of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is compiling existing reliable historical shoreline data along open-ocean sandy shores of the conterminous United States and parts of Alaska and Hawaii under the National Assessment of Shoreline Change project.
There is no widely accepted standard for analyzing shoreline change.  Existing shoreline data measurements and rate calculation methods vary from study to study and prevent combining results into state-wide or regional assessments.  The impetus behind the National Assessment project was to develop a standardized method of measuring changes in shoreline position that is consistent from coast to coast.  The goal was to facilitate the process of periodically and systematically updating the results in an internally consistent manner.

Tags: accretion, baseline, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, coastal-processes, continental-island-shore-complex, digital-shoreline-analysis-system, dsas, effects-of-coastal-change, environment, erosion, geoscientificinformation, hawaii, hawaii-ecoregion, historic-shoreline, kauai, kipu-kai-hawaii, national-assessment-of-shoreline-change-project, oceans, shoreline, shoreline-accretion, shoreline-change-rate, shoreline-erosion, south-kauai, transect, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, university-of-hawaii-coastal-geology-group, usgs, usgs-3f900c30-825a-45a8-956c-902091ff6377, waimea-hawaii, weighted-linear-regression-rate, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Difference and Percent Change Between Baseline and Future Period of Fifteen Climate Change Indicators for HUC-8 Watersheds in US FWS Region 3

This dataset contains the means (over 20-year periods) of annual climate change metrics calculated from the climate change inputs and the hydrology outputs from the HAWQS/SWAT model. The metrics are fifteen climate change indicators evenly divided into three categories: temperature, precipitation, and hydrology that were selected by resource managers working in Region 3 of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. The projected change in each of these indicators from the baseline period (1986-2005) to the future period (2040-2059) in terms of difference between the periods and the percent change. The percent change was converted to min-max normalization. This dataset represents the exposure component of the vulnerability assessment.

Tags: adaptation-planning, biota, climate-change-vulnerabilty-assessment, decision-relevant-metrics, nonw, usgs-604290a3d34eb1203119d8b5, watershed-model
Organization: Department of the Interior
Kilauea 2018 lower East Rift Zone eruption - fissures 06 and 13 lava flow

The 2018 lower East Rift Zone eruption of Kilauea Volcano began in the late afternoon of 3 May, with fissure 1 opening and erupting lava onto Mohala Street in the Leilani Estates subdivision, part of the lower Puna District of the Island of Hawai'i. For the first week of the eruption, relatively viscous lava flowed only within a kilometer (0.6 miles) of the fissures within Leilani Estates, before activity shifted downrift (east-northeast) and out of the subdivision during mid-May. Around 18 May, activity along the lower East Rift Zone intensified, and fluid lava erupting at higher effusion rates from the downrift fissures reached the ocean within two days. Near the end of May, this more vigorous activity shifted back uprift into Leilani Estates, where fissure 8 reactivated with lava fountains feeding several 'a'a flows. The southernmost flow lobe developed into a well-defined lava channel and reached the ocean at Kapoho Bay - 11 kilometers (7 miles) away - on 3 June. Fissure 8 continued supplying this lava channel for more than two months, constructing an approximately 3.5-square-kilometer (1.4-square-mile) lava delta along the coastline. Over 4 and 5 August, activity at fissure 8 waned and flow in the lava channel came to a halt, only to be followed by weak activity within the vent in late August and early September. By then, the eruption had covered 35.5 square kilometers (13.7 square miles) of the lower Puna District with lava. In this report, the authors have sought to chronicle this sequence of events using geospatial data in the form of an Esri file geodatabase, Esri shapefiles, and Google Earth KMZs.

Tags: andesite, basalt, basaltic-andesite, east-rift-zone, fissures-06-and-13-flow, fissures-06-and-13-lava-flow, fissures-6-and-13-flow, fissures-6-and-13-lava-flow, fissures06and13flow, geology, green-lake, hawaii, holocene, individual-flow, individual-lava-flow, individualflows, island-of-hawaii, kapoho-bay, kapoho-oe-n-quadrangle, kapoho-quadrangle, kilauea, lava, lava-flow, leilani-estates, lower-east-rift-zone, map, pahoa-north-quadrangle, pahoa-south-quadrangle, puna-district, quaternary, shield-volcano, state-of-hawaii, tholeiitic-basalt, united-states-of-america, usgs-5ebb4f3082ce25b5136182f7, vacationland-hawaii, volcano, waiopae
Organization: Department of the Interior
Sink watershed rasters for Puerto Rico StreamStats

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the Puerto Rico Environmental Quality Board, has compiled a series of geospatial datasets for Puerto Rico to be implemented into the USGS StreamStats application (https://streamstats.usgs.gov/ss/). These geospatial datasets, along with basin characteristics datasets for Puerto Rico published as a separate USGS data release (https://doi.org/10.5066/P9HK9SSQ), were used to delineate watersheds and develop the peak-flow and low-flow regression equations used by StreamStats. The geospatial dataset described herein are the sink watershed grid rasters at a 10-m resolution. A value is assigned to pixels in each sink watershed and the count of cells that drain to that sink. Data are partitioned into three TIFF files, for three of the four 8-digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC) areas for Puerto Rico: 21010002, 21010004, and 21010005. A sink watershed grid raster was not generated for HUC 21010003 because sinks were not present in this HUC area.

Tags: environment, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, hydrology, land-surface-characteristics, puerto-rico, streamflow, topography, u-s-possessions-and-associated-areas, usgs-5d714b76e4b0c4f70cfde2b4, watershed-management
Organization: Department of the Interior
Structure feature orientations for selected boreholes near GMH Electronics Superfund site, Roxboro, NC (2012-2015)

The collection of borehole geophysical logs and images and continuous water-level data was conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey South Atlantic Water Science Center in the vicinity of the GMH Electronics Superfund site near Roxboro, North Carolina, during December 2012 through July 2015. The study purpose was part of a continued effort to assist the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the development of a conceptual groundwater model for the assessment of current contaminant distribution and future migration of contaminants. Previous work by the U.S. Geological Survey South Atlantic Water Science Center at the site involved similar data collection, in addition to surface geologic mapping and passive diffusion bag sampling within monitoring wells (Chapman and others, 2013). The continued data compilation efforts included the delineation of more than 900 subsurface features (primarily fracture orientations) in 10 open borehole wells. Geophysical logs, borehole imagery, pumping data, and heat-pulse flow measurements were collected and are presented within this data release. 
The data on this page contain borehole structural feature data measured on the optical and acoustic televiewer logs. Dip direction and dip angle, along with depth of feature and feature type are described within each spreadsheet.

Tags: fractured-rock-aquifer, geophysical-logging, groundwater, north-carolina, person-county, roxboro, usgs-576ac112e4b07657d1a166df
Organization: Department of the Interior
Dissolved oxygen data used in a USGS National Water Quality Project assessing nutrients in agricultural streams

This dataset includes dissolved oxygen data collected at 5-min intervals over a 24-hour period at three agricultural streams: Maple Creek in NE (2004), Morgan Creek in Delaware (2004) and Stalker Creek in Idaho (2007).

Tags: agriculture, algae, ecosystem-monitoring, freshwater-ecosystems, invertebrates, stream, usgs-5a4e7f7ee4b0d05ee8c6639f
Organization: Department of the Interior
Results from surveys to academic and industry and government geoscientists on the future of coal geoscientists

At recent technical conferences, many coal geoscientists in academia and government institutions as well as in industry organizations have expressed concern about the dwindling number of students and young staff members interested in careers in coal geoscience.  To better understand what is driving these trends and to identify potential ways that the community can increase interest and participation in coal geoscience, two different surveys were sent to 94 coal geoscientists who were current or past members of The Society of Organic Petrology (TSOP) in February 2020. As the trends and perceptions in industry and government organizations may be different than in universities, one distinct survey was sent to members in industry and government organizations, and a different distinct survey was sent to members in academia. In order to capture as much information as possible from the limited number of respondents, surveys were designed as qualitative responses to questions without limiting the responses to a single selection for some of the questions. Evaluation of the responses was performed using qualitative analysis methods. In total, 53 coal geoscientists (25 from industry and government organizations and 28 academic institutions) from 14 countries returned the surveys for a total response rate of 56%. To facilitate analysis of the responses, results were broken down into four broad geographic areas. The geographic areas for the academic survey include 1) North and South America, 2) Europe, 3) Australia, South Asia (Indonesia), and Africa (Nigeria), and 4) East Asia (China), and the areas for the industry and government survey include 1) North America, 2) Europe, 3) Australia and Russia, and 4) East Asia (China). Not every question was answered by each respondent because either the question did not apply (e.g., employees that did not have information on historical trends), or the question was not applicable to the respondent.

Tags: africa, asia, australia, canada, china, coal, coal-geoscience, coal-geoscientist, columbia, denmark, europe, future-of-coal-geoscience, gender, germany, greece, indonesia, last-hire, left-field, nigeria, non-combustion-uses-of-coal, north-america, poland, recruitment, retrained, russia, south-america, spain, staff, students, united-kingdom, united-states, usgs-5f7b188982ce1d74e7d910f8
Organization: Department of the Interior
Empirical data supporting a non-lethal method for characterizing the reproductive status and larval development of freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionida)

Here we present the data collected during a mark-recapture study on freshwater mussels in Bruce Creek, Walton County, Florida. These data were used to evaluate the non-lethal impacts of a gill sampling protocol to assess gravidity of freshwater mussels. Data were collected every four weeks, or as weather permitted, to be able to monitor the reproductive status of each mussel every month of the year. The dataset includes unique tag numbers to identify specific female mussels captured and recaptured during this study. Genus and species were identified, and the gravidity status was evaluated for each individual mussel.

Tags: aquatic-biology, benthic-ecosystems, biota, florida, freshwater-ecosystems, invertebrates, mollusks, united-states, usgs-5d1662a2e4b0941bde5d90b5, walton-county-florida
Organization: Department of the Interior
Global dataset of species-specific inland recreational fisheries harvest for consumption (ver. 1.1, September 2025)

Inland recreational fisheries, found in lakes, rivers, and other landlocked waters, are important to livelihoods, nutrition, leisure, and other societal ecosystem services worldwide. Although recreationally-caught fish are frequently harvested and consumed by fishers, their contribution to food and nutrition has not been adequately quantified due to lack of data, poor monitoring, and under-reporting, especially in developing countries. Beyond limited global harvest estimates, few have explored species-specific harvest patterns, although this variability has implications for fisheries management and food security. Given the continued growth of the recreational fishery sector, understanding inland recreational fish harvest and consumption rates represents a critical knowledge gap. Based on a comprehensive literature search and expert knowledge review, we quantified multiple aspects of global inland recreational fisheries for 81 countries spanning 198 species. For each country, we assembled recreational fishing participation rate and estimated species-specific harvest and consumption rate. This dataset provides a foundation for future assessments, including understanding nutritional and economic contributions of inland recreational fisheries.

Tags: biota, fish, inland, inland-fishery-resources, recreation, usgs-62017ff8d34e622189da6573
Organization: Department of the Interior