AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Long-period transition period, TL, for the conterminous United States, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and United States Virgin Islands, 2009 NEHRP.

For designing buildings and other structures to safely resist earthquakes, the 2009 NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions and the 2010 ASCE/SEI 7 Standard contain maps of long-period transition periods, TL.  TL is based on the modal moment magnitude obtained from the disaggregation of a 2% probability of exceedance in 50 years hazard analysis for spectral acceleration at 2-second period for the conterminous United States and Alaska, and 1-second period for Hawaii.  For the U.S. territories of Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa, the long-period transition, TL, is 12 seconds and no maps or shapefiles are provided in this data release.

Tags: 2009, 2010, 2010-asce-sei-7, alabama, alaska, arizona, arkansas, california, colorado, connecticut, delaware, district-of-columbia, earthquakes, engineering-sciences, florida, georgia, hawaii, hazards, idaho, illinois, indiana, iowa, kansas, kentucky, louisiana, maine, maryland, massachusetts, michigan, minnesota, mississippi, missouri, montana, nebraska, nehrp-2009, nevada, new-hampshire, new-jersey, new-mexico, new-york, north-carolina, north-dakota, ohio, oklahoma, oregon, pennsylvania, rhode-island, risk, seismic, seismology, south-carolina, south-dakota, standards, tennessee, texas, united-states, usa, usgs-60ec8d4ed34e3bf20b41fd8b, utah, vermont, virginia, washington, west-virginia, wisconsin, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Seasonal Resource Selection by Pronghorn near Wind Energy Facilities in Wyoming, 2010-2012 and 2018-2020

Wind energy represents an important alternative to oil and gas extraction to meet increasing energy demands, but it has the potential to disrupt wildlife populations. Because behavioral adjustments, such as altered habitat selection, are a primary way that long-lived species respond to novel disturbances, USGS scientists evaluated effects of wind energy development on pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) space use and habitat selection. Using data from GPS-collared female pronghorn in the Shirley Basin of south-central Wyoming, USA, we tested four potential effects of wind turbines on pronghorn space use during the summer and winter: 1) displacement away from wind turbines, 2) increase in size of home ranges, 3) short-term avoidance behavior within home ranges, and 4) changes in avoidance behavior within home ranges over time. We monitored 166 individuals over 5 summers (2010, 2011, 2018, 2019 and 2020) and 142 individuals over 5 winters (2009/10, 2010/11, 2011/12, 2018/19 and 2019/20) and used resource selection functions to evaluate selection relative to turbines after controlling for other habitat factors, such as snow depth. Datasets in this release include .csv files with inputs to evaluate home-range size, home-range selection, and resource selection within home ranges during winter and summer seasons. Data include values of environmental variables and proximity to wind turbines at used and available locations for pronghorn that we used to measure effects of wind turbines on resource selection. This data release also includes a fence map for the study area that we developed based on visual inspection of aerial imagery to evaluate effects of fence density and proximity on resource selection by pronghorn.

Tags: biota, shirley-basin, usgs-60ec840bd34e3bf20b41d421, wildlife, wind-energy, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mean seasonal time-step estimates of daily streamflow and daily baseflow, and loads of total nitrogen, total phosphorus, and total suspended solids at surface-water stations in the southeastern United States, 2001-14

This metadata record describes mean seasonal time-step estimates of daily streamflow and daily baseflow, and total and baseflow estimates of loads of total nitrogen, total phosphorus, and total suspended solids at surface-water stations in the southeastern United States for the period 2001-14. Streamflow and load estimates described in this data release were obtained using the Fluxmaster approach described in Saad and others (2019).
Saad, D.A., Schwarz, G.E., Argue, D.M., Anning, D.W., Ator, S.W., Hoos, A.B., Preston, S.D., Robertson, D.M., and Wise, D.R., 2019, Estimates of long-term mean daily streamflow and annual nutrient and suspended-sediment loads considered for use in regional SPARROW models of the conterminous United States, 2012 base year: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2019-5069, 51 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20195069.

Tags: alabama, florida, fluxmaster, geochemistry, georgia, geoscientificinformation, hydrology, mississippi, north-carolina, nutrients, phosphorus, river-reaches, south-carolina, southeast-region, streamflow, suspended-solids, tennessee, total-nitrogen, usgs-60ec83fad34e3bf20b41d3c8, water-resources
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data release for mean annual runoff and annual runoff variability map for Oklahoma, 1940–2007

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the Oklahoma Water Resources Board, produced this data release that includes vector and raster geographic information systems layers used in the analysis and publication of a mean annual runoff and annual runoff variability map for 1940–2007 for Oklahoma. The data release covers all 69 8-digit hydrologic units with at least 1 square mile of area in Oklahoma; those 8-digit hydrologic units contain 2,870 12-digit hydrologic units that provided the geographic framework for the analysis described in the companion map report (USGS Scientific Investigations Map 3482). 
The mean annual runoff and annual runoff variability values presented in this data release are most representative of runoff conditions in rural, unregulated drainage basins at the 12-digit hydrologic-unit scale. As drainage basins increase in size, they are more likely to be (1) regulated by large dams or irrigation practices, (2) augmented by substantial groundwater contributions, and (3) monitored by streamgages with long period of record. Methods for computing or estimating runoff for gaged basins generally rely on the streamgage record when sufficient data are available. For an ungaged stream reach between two streamgages, the drainage-area-ratio method, rather than the GIS layers in this data release, can be used to obtain a more accurate mean annual runoff or annual runoff variability estimate. The drainage-area-ratio method, which assumes that streamflow generally increases in proportion to increased drainage area, equates the ratio of streamflow at two stream locations to the ratio of the respective drainage areas. The layers were developed by using regression equations formulated on streamgage data for the entire period of record through 2007, but those equations are biased to the period 1940–2007 when streamgages became more numerous and distributed across Oklahoma. Therefore, the data layers are likely most representative of runoff conditions during the period 1940–2007. Because runoff is a function of climate variables that can change over time, caution is warranted when using the information in this data release to project mean annual runoff and annual runoff variability conditions beyond 2007.

Tags: geoscientificinformation, hydrology, inlandwaters, maps-and-atlases, runoff, usgs-60ff34f9d34e3ccd830d8003
Organization: Department of the Interior
Denali Fault Zone Field, Microvein, and Microbeam Data, Kluane Ranges, Yukon, Canada

Detailed geologic mapping and sample collection was conducted in rare bedrock exposures of the Denali fault zone during the summer months of 2013, 2014, and 2015 by the U.S. Geological Survey. Data include measurements of structural geologic orientations and documentation of fault zone and host rock characteristics. Representative samples were selected for measurements of fault vein attributes and electron backscatter diffraction studies to characterize deformation mechanisms. All station locations, pertinent sample information, and associated data are included in this data release.

Tags: bedrock, canada, denali-fault, fault-rock, faulting-geologic, geologic-structure, geoscientificinformation, structural-geology, usgs-60e8e9d9d34e2a7685dc6cc0, yukon-territory
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data release of hydrogeologic data Hat Creek basin, Shasta County, California

This data release contains California Department of Water Resource borehole data that were regularized by the US Geological Survey. This dataset contains borehole lithologic data, and geospatial data of water wells in the Hat Creek basin California, located east of Mount Shasta in southern California. The borehole dataset is released as an excel table and includes (1) individual borehole location, and (2) downhole lithologic interval data derived from well drillers’ lithology logs.

Tags: borehole, cassel-quadrangle, geoscientificinformation, hat-creek-basin, lithology, lower-pit, murken-bench-quadrangle, old-station-quadrangle, shasta-county, usgs-60e8c2a5d34e2a7685dac072, water-well-logs
Organization: Department of the Interior
Large-Scale Marsh Creation Project – Upper Barataria Component (BA-0207): 2018 land-water classification

The Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority and the Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) develop restoration plans in order to conserve, restore, create and enhance Louisiana's coastal wetlands. The wetland restoration plans developed specifically require an evaluation of the effectiveness of each coastal wetlands restoration project in achieving long-term solutions to arresting coastal wetlands loss. This data set includes mosaicked aerial photographs for the Large-Scale Marsh Creation Project – Upper Barataria Component Restoration (BA-0207) project for 2018. This data is used as a basemap land-water classification. It also serves as a visual tool for project managers to help them identify any obvious problems or land loss within their project boundary. To better evaluate the effectiveness of restoration efforts, a land-water classification is performed on specific restoration sites to help assess landscape changes.

Tags: aerial-photography, conservation, digital-elevation-models, ecosystem-monitoring, geographic-information-systems, gulf-of-mexico, image-collections, image-mosaics, louisiana, louisiana-coastal, natural-resource-damage-assessment-nrda, remote-sensing, usgs-60e8888dd34e2a7685d8a3ae, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Annual RSF of translocated greater sage-grouse in North Dakota, 2017 - 2018

These data represent an annual resource selection function (RSF) for translocated sage-grouse in North Dakota. Human enterprise has led to large‐scale changes in landscapes and altered wildlife population distribution and abundance, necessitating efficient and effective conservation strategies for impacted species. Greater sage‐grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus; hereafter sage‐grouse) are a widespread sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) obligate species that has experienced population declines since the mid‐1900s resulting from habitat loss and expansion of anthropogenic features into sagebrush ecosystems. Habitat loss is especially evident in North Dakota, USA, on the northeastern fringe of sage‐grouse’ distribution, where a remnant population remains despite recent development of energy‐related infrastructure. Resource managers in this region have determined a need to augment sage‐grouse populations using translocation techniques that can be important management tools for countering species decline from range contraction. Although translocations are a common tool for wildlife management, very little research has evaluated habitat following translocation, to track individual behaviors such as habitat selection and fidelity to the release site, which can help inform habitat requirements to guide selection of future release sites. We provide an example where locations from previously released radio‐marked sage‐grouse are used in a resource selection function framework to evaluate habitat selection following translocation and identify areas of seasonal habitat to inform habitat management and potential restoration needs. We also evaluated possible changes in seasonal habitat since the late 1980s using spatial data provided by the Rangeland Analysis Platform coupled with resource selection modeling results. Our results serve as critical baseline information for habitat used by translocated individuals across life stages in this study area, and will inform future evaluations of population performance and potential for long‐term recovery.

Tags: biota, habitats, resource-selection-function, sage-grouse, shrubland-ecosystems, usgs-60e88173d34e2a7685d868cb
Organization: Department of the Interior
Groundwater-quality data in the Modesto-Turlock-Merced Domestic-Supply Aquifer Study Unit, 2020-2021: Results from the California GAMA Priority Basin Project

The U.S. Geological Survey collected groundwater samples from 71 wells used for domestic and small system drinking water supplies in Stanislaus and Merced counties of California during 2020-2021. The wells were sampled for the Modesto-Turlock-Merced Domestic-Supply Aquifer Study Unit of the State Water Resources Control Board Groundwater Ambient Monitoring and Assessment (GAMA) Program Priority Basin Project’s assessment of the quality of groundwater resources used for domestic and small system drinking water supplies. The study unit was defined by the extent of the Modesto, Turlock, and Merced subbasins of the San Joaquin Valley groundwater basin. The study unit was divided into 62 grid cells and one or more domestic or small system well was sampled in 60 of the cells. Groundwater samples from a total of 71 sampled wells were analyzed for field water-quality parameters, volatile organic compounds, pesticides and pesticide degradants, stable isotopes of water, nutrients, major ions and trace elements, hexavalent chromium, perchlorate, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), and microbial indicators. Groundwater levels were measured in 56 out 71 wells.

Tags: california, field-parameters, geoscientificinformation, groundwater, major-ions, merced-county, modesto, national-water-quality-laboratory-nwql, nutrients, pesticides, pfas, stanislaus-county, trace-elements, turlock, usgs-60e85b68d34e2a7685d74bd5, volatile-organic-compounds, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Airborne geophysical survey: Yucca Mountain, Nevada

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, f32023-nye, field-monitoring-stations, geophysical-surveys, geophysics, geospatial-datasets, magnetic, magnetic-field-earth, magnetic-surveys, nevada, nv, residual-magnetic-field, total-field, united-states, usgs-60e7d023-6c8f-41bb-bb3d-674d39c05b3e, yucca-mountain, yucca-mtn
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geospatial datasets developed for a hydrogeologic conceptual model of brine discharge to the Dolores River, Paradox Valley, Colorado

Geospatial datasets were developed to estimate the altitude of the top of bedrock, altitude of the top of the Paradox salt, altitude of the water table in the alluvial aquifer, and the thickness and extent of saturated alluvium in the Paradox Valley in western Colorado. This study was completed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the Bureau of Reclamation for modeling of brine discharge to the Dolores River (Heywood and others, 2024; Paschke and others, 2024). One point dataset and 11 surfaces (shapefiles or rasters) are published in this data release. The point dataset (Paradox_well_data.zip) contains water-level and geologic data for groundwater, observation, test, and production wells in the Paradox Valley compiled from several sources in 2010. Five of the surfaces (breccia_extent.zip, brsurface.zip, topbrcontour.zip, topsaltcontour.zip, and valley_alluvium.zip) were derived from published geologic maps and well logs and provide a hydrogeologic framework for the valley. The remaining six surfaces (alluvium_sat_bndy.zip, alluvium_sat_ci5m.zip, alt_wl_krig.zip, paa_sat.zip, wlalt_dwr_m.zip, and wlalt_ed_smooth.zip) were derived from the well dataset and mainly describe the thickness and extent of saturated alluvium in the valley floor. Details of how these geospatial datasets were created are provided in the 'process step' section of the metadata file associated with this data release. In addition to the geospatial datasets, this data release also includes a drilling report and results of several aquifer tests. The text file 'JensenBrineWell#2log.txt' contains the drilling report for Brine Well #2 from an unpublished report titled "Prospectus for Paradox Salt Company, Appendix F" by Jensen and Sorensen, Inc., 1959. The text file 'Specific_capacity_tests_pvu.txt' contains the results of 36 specific-capacity aquifer tests conducted by the Bureau of Reclamation between 1977 and 1984.

Tags: bedrock-surface, brine-discharge, colorado, dolores-river, geoscientificinformation, groundwater-model, montrose-county, paradox-formation, paradox-valley, saturated-alluvium, usgs-60e787ccd34e2a7685d131c1, water-table-surface
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hydrologic and geochemical data and models supporting integrated evaluation of the Captain Jack Superfund Site, Boulder County, Colorado

This child item of the data release contains geochemical and environmental-tracer model inputs, outputs, model results, and a full model archive (model code). Dataset includes environmental-tracer concentrations, modeled recharge conditions (water temperature, excess air), resulting estimated groundwater residence times, and geochemical modeling simulations of aqueous speciation and water-rock interaction. This dataset supports an integrated hydrogeochemical investigation of solute sources, groundwater recharge processes, and groundwater flow in the vicinity of the Captain Jack Superfund Site, Boulder County, Colorado. Data were collected by the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Tags: boulder-county, environment, geochemical-processes, geoscientificinformation, groundwater-age, groundwater-and-surface-water-interaction, groundwater-flow, groundwater-quality, hydrology, inlandwaters, noble-gas-elements, usgs-60e75441d34e2a7685d0d18d, ward, water-level-measurements
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hydrologic and Geochemical Data and Models Supporting Integrated Evaluation of the Captain Jack Superfund Site, Boulder County, Colorado

This child item of the data release contains groundwater-level elevation and water-quality data, both collected by contractors to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and later furnished to U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and water-quality data collected by USGS during 2020. The USGS sampling and analysis resulted in a diverse dataset including major and trace elements, rare earth elements (REE), stable isotopes, radiogenic isotopes, and environmental tracers. This diverse dataset aids in providing a complete hydrologic and geochemical conceptualization of the processes occurring in the mine workings and adjacent groundwater and serves as an example of applications to other sites.

Tags: abandoned-mines-and-quarries, boulder-county, colorado, geochemistry, groundwater-quality, hydrology, mine-drainage, mineral-deposits, noble-gas-elements, oxygen-isotope-analysis, rare-earth-elements, tracer-study, usgs-60e75425d34e2a7685d0d140, ward, water-level-measurements
Organization: Department of the Interior
Town Neck Beach, Massachusetts, 5 cm 2016-2017 Orthomosaics

Low-altitude (80-100 meters above ground level) Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) imagery of Town Neck Beach in Sandwich, Massachusetts, were used in a structure-from-motion (SfM) photogrammetry workflow to create high-resolution topographic datasets. Imagery was collected at close to low tide on twelve days to observe changes in beach and dune morphology. Ground control points (GCPs), which are temporary targets on the ground located by using a real-time kinematic global navigation satellite system (RTK-GNSS) base station and rover, were used to constrain the SfM process. Photoscan (v. 1.2-1.4) was used to create a digital elevation model and orthomosaic for each data collection day. Collection of these data was supported by the U.S. Geological Survey Coastal/Marine Hazards and Resources Program and were conducted under USGS field activity numbers 2016-013-FA, 2016-043-FA, 2016-053-FA, 2016-054-FA, 2016-055-FA, 2017-005-FA, 2017-008-FA, 2017-010-FA, 2017-014-FA, 2017-027-FA, 2017-029-FA, and 2017-050-FA.

Tags: aerial-photography, cape-cod, cmhrp, coastal-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, coastal-processes, dji-phantom-3-quadcopter, fc300x, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, image-collections, imagerybasemapsearthcover, massachusetts, oceans, remote-sensing, sandwich, structure-from-motion, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-60e74f13d34e2a7685d0c89a, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hydrologic and Geochemical Data and Models Supporting Integrated Evaluation of the Captain Jack Superfund Site, Boulder County, Colorado

The Captain Jack Superfund site near Ward, Colorado hosts extensive interconnected underground mine workings, which drain via the Big Five Adit. Drainage from the adit has historically been acidic with elevated concentrations of metals. In 2018 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) utilized a subsurface remediation strategy consisting of the installation of a hydraulic bulkhead within the workings to preclude drainage out of the mine. To understand the processes occurring during water impoundment within the mine workings, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with EPA, completed water-quality sampling and analysis during 2020 as water was again impounded within the mine workings. The USGS sampling and analysis resulted in a diverse dataset including major and trace elements, rare earth elements (REE), stable isotopes, radiogenic isotopes, and environmental tracers. This diverse dataset aids in providing a complete hydrologic and geochemical conceptualization of the processes occurring in the mine workings and adjacent groundwater, and serves as an example of applications to other sites. 
This data release contains data pertaining to groundwater-level elevations and water-quality data furnished to USGS by EPA and collected by USGS. Also included are geochemical model input files to simulate aqueous speciation, mineral equilibrium, and groundwater age and mixing as well as output files. Data are provided in child item "Hydrologic and geochemical data" and model input and output files are provided in child item "Geochemical and environmental tracer models".

Tags: abandoned-mines-and-quarries, boulder-county, colorado, geochemistry, groundwater-age, groundwater-quality, hydrology, mine-drainage, mineral-deposits, noble-gas-elements, oxygen-isotope-analysis, rare-earth-elements, tracer-study, usgs-60e74cbed34e2a7685d0c28c, ward, water-level-measurements
Organization: Department of the Interior