AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Passive Seismic Horizontal-to-Vertical Spectral Ratio Measurements at Transportation Infrastructure Sites in New Hampshire, 2022

In 2022, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the New Hampshire Department of Transportation (NHDOT) made 107 horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratio (HVSR) passive seismic geophysical measurements at four transportation infrastructure sites in New Hampshire to determine the benefits of HVSR as an enhancement to traditional geotechnical site characterizations performed by NHDOT. Typically, data are obtained from the subsurface during borings to characterize geotechnical properties but often borings are spaced hundreds of feet apart. Geotechnical site characterization guided by geophysical surveys (such as the HVSR method) between borings will help provide a more thorough characterization. By combining analysis of geophysical and boring data, transportation projects can produce a more comprehensive representation of geotechnical subsurface conditions than can be determined using conventional borings alone.
The HVSR method measures the resonance frequency (f0) induced by ambient seismic noise in unconsolidated sediments overlying bedrock when there is a substantial contrast in shear-wave acoustic impedance between the two layers (&gt; 2:1). Spectral ratio analysis of the horizontal and vertical components of the seismic data is used to determine f0. Overburden thickness can be related to f0 with thicker overburden related to lower frequencies, and higher frequencies with thinner overburden. A three-component seismometer was used to measure the vertical and horizontal components of ambient seismic noise using the HVSR method. This data release contains raw HVSR data and measurement locations.

Tags: canterbury-nh, environment, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, groundwater, horizontal-to-vertical-spectral-ratio-hvsr-seismic, lee-nh, new-hampshire, new-london-nh, passive-seismic, slope-failure, transportation, troy-nh, usgs-62f29815d34eacf5397318cf
Organization: Department of the Interior
Model simulation output from a magnitude 7 eruption: the distal Mazama tephra

This data release contains model input and output for 57 simulations of tephra dispersal during  the 7.8 ka Mazama eruption.  Data were generated during in preparation of the following paper:
Buckland HM, Mastin L, Engwell S, Cashman K (2022 (in pess)) Modelling the transport and deposition of ash following a Magnitude 7 eruption: the distal Mazama tephra. Bull Volcanol.

Tags: biota, cascade-range, explosive-eruptions, explosive-volcanism, mazama-eruption, tephra, usgs-62f2e07bd34eacf5397319e5
Organization: Department of the Interior
Lake Ontario April Prey Fish Bottom Trawl Survey, 1978-2022

This data release includes Lake Ontario prey fish data including species captured, relative abundance, spatial distribution, size structure, and age data from the April or spring prey fish bottom trawl survey, 1978 through 2022. Data from 1978 - 2015 are from U.S. waters of Lake Ontario while data from 2016 - 2022 include both U.S. and Canadian waters of Lake Ontario. Details about the vessel and gear descriptions, sampling protocols, and catch processing protocols are provided in the associated metadata. 
Portions of this data release follows the data model of the USGS Great Lakes Science Center Research Vessel Catalog (RVCAT). The trawl data included in this data release are a subset of the larger RVCAT data base. The RVCAT data can be found here: https://doi.org/10.5066/F75M63X0.

Tags: alewife, biota, bottom-trawl, cisco, field-sampling, fish, freshwater-ecosystems, inlandwaters, lake-ontario, new-york, ontario, population-dynamics, prey-fish, rainbow-smelt, three-spined-stickleback, usgs-62f4fd46d34eacf53973a841
Organization: Department of the Interior
Streamflow Drought Metrics for Selected United States Geological Survey Streamgages in and around the Colorado River Basin from 1981-2020

This metadata record describes a series of tabular datasets containing metrics used to characterize drought for select United States Geological Survey (USGS) streamgages in and surrounding the Colorado River Basin for the climate years (April 1 – March 31) 1981 to 2020. These streamgages are a subset of those used in Geospatial Attributes of Gages for Evaluating Streamflow, version 2 (GAGES-II, Falcone, 2011) with some additional USGS streamgages not in the GAGES-II dataset added. The metrics include streamflow percentiles, identified drought events, annual low streamflow, and statistics for each drought event.

Tags: biota, conus, datasets, drought, hydrology, streamflow, usgs-62f52da9d34eacf53973a908
Organization: Department of the Interior
Stable hydrogen and oxygen isotopic compositions of precipitation samples from selected Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania National Atmospheric Deposition Program (NADP) sites

The stable hydrogen (delta 2H) and oxygen (delta 18O) isotopic compositions of more than 6,400 weekly composite samples of precipitation from nine National Atmospheric Deposition Program (NADP) sites (DE02, MD07, NJ99, NY67, NY68, PA00, PA15, PA72, and PA98) in New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania were analyzed on archived samples obtained from NADP over various time periods from as early as 1992. Measured values range between -255.6 and +25.5 per mil for delta 2H and between -33.66 and +5.39 per mil for delta 18O. This data set includes values from all the samples that were analyzed so that measurement uncertainty related to sample volume can be evaluated. Data on collection begin and end dates, sample volume and precipitation amounts were furnished from NADP and were not evaluated for accuracy.  Due to sample volume and storage times, some isotope-delta values have been flagged as being out of range for natural waters; however, the end user is responsible for evaluating all data for suitability to the intended purpose.
Data files provided here include the metadata as an .xml file, a Microsoft Office Excel .xlsx file with four spreadsheets containing the Introduction, Table 1, Table 2, and Table 3, and the individual data tables as comma-separated value .csv files. A plot of hydrogen versus oxygen isotopic compositions is also provided as a .jpg image. Data analysis was funded by the U.S Geological Survey (USGS) National Research Program and the USGS Next Generation Water Observing System (NGWOS) Program.

Tags: atmospheric-deposition-chemical-amp-particulate, climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, delaware, environment, hydrologic-processes, hydrology, isotope-geochemistry, light-stable-isotope-analysis, maryland, new-jersey, new-york, oxygen-isotope-analysis, pennsylvania, precipitation-atmospheric, usgs-62f53a5ed34eacf53973a940
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data describing infection status and movement ecology of North American waterfowl

These data, which support a USGS authored manuscript, describe how active and previous previous infection with avian influenza impacts the movement ecology of several wild waterfowl species that overwinter in California. Results varied by species and demonstrate that the relationships between avian influenza infection and wild bird movements are context- and species-dependent.

Tags: avian-influenza, biota, california, migration, movement, pacific-flyway, telemetry, usgs-62f54e84d34eacf53973a9de, waterfowl
Organization: Department of the Interior
Contaminant Data from a Survey of Minnesota Source and Finished Drinking Waters, 2019 -2022

The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Minnesota Department of Health, conducted a study to determine the occurrence of unregulated contaminants in source and finished drinking waters throughout Minnesota. Minnesota relies on both groundwater and surface water sources for drinking water, which may be vulnerable to influences such as wastewater discharge and/or agricultural activities. Thus, drinking water facilities apply some form of treatment to source waters prior to distribution.  Although drinking water treatment is mostly focused on satisfying regulatory requirements, it may provide secondary benefits for removal of unregulated contaminants. In 2019, 2021, and 2022, paired source and finished drinking water was collected from 100 facilities and characterized for select organic contaminants. Samples were analyzed for some combination of alkylphenols, benzotriazoles/benzothiazoles, hormones, illicit drugs, personal care products, pesticides, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, pharmaceuticals, plasticizers, and wastewater indicators, depending on potential influences from the watershed.

Tags: groundwater-quality, non-point-source-pollution, pesticide-and-herbicide-contamination, pharmaceutical-contamination, surface-water-quality, usgs-62f65790d34eacf539746ffb
Organization: Department of the Interior
Selected streamgage sites and periods of record for consideration of flood-generating mechanisms in Hawai‘i and Southeast Alaska, 1913-2022

This data release consists of a comma-delimited ascii file with attributes for 21 U.S. Geological Survey streamgage sites in Hawai‘i and Southeast Alaska selected to enable assessment of how floods might change in a future climate. Floods in Hawai‘i and Southeast Alaska have led to loss of human life; damage to agricultural crops, cultural and biological resources, infrastructure, and property; threats to public health; and conditions that are highly disruptive to residents and visitors. Floods are generated by atmospheric and terrestrial processes that may be enhanced or depressed in response to climate change. Understanding the mechanisms that generate floods can be useful for assessing how floods may change in future climates and developing adaptive-management strategies to cope with future floods.
Key to improved understanding of floods in Hawai‘i and Southeast Alaska is identifying sites that are affected by known flood-generating mechanisms and that can be used to potentially assess the effects of these mechanisms on the magnitude and frequency of floods, both historically and in a future climate. Stakeholders representing scientific, public-safety, cultural, and ecologic perspectives from government, academic, and private institutions provided input for developing and refining site-selection criteria and selecting sites. The site-selection criteria were: (1) the site contributes to representing the primary flood-generating mechanisms in the study area, (2) the site's available annual peak-streamflow record contains a minimum of 10 years of record during the 1980-2020 period, with a preference for longer records, (3) streamflow at the site during 1980-2020 was not substantively affected by regulation, urban areas, and basin land-use change, which could confound interpretation of the relation between floods and flood-generating mechanisms, (4) concurrent water years of annual peak-streamflow and daily mean streamflow records are available, which enables assessment of antecedent flood conditions, and (5) the site is preferably currently (2022) active, which indicates current relevance of the site’s data that could continue to be relevant in the future. The 21 selected sites are representative of classes of spatial climatic variations for Hawai‘i and seasonal and other flow regimes for Southeast Alaska. For Hawai‘i, selected sites consist of at least one site each from the drier (leeward) and wetter (windward) side of each of the five largest islands (Kaua‘i, O‘ahu, Moloka‘i, Maui, and Hawai‘i). For Southeast Alaska, selected sites consist of at least one site each from five seasonal streamflow regimes variously controlled by rain, snowmelt, and high-elevation melt (Curran and Biles, 2021), and one site each from flow regimes controlled by large basins and glacial lake outburst floods.

Tags: alaska, drainage, floods, hawaii, hydrographic-datasets, hydrology, inlandwaters, rivers-streams, streamflow, terrestrial-hydrosphere, usgs-62f6c79cd34eacf539747b16
Organization: Department of the Interior
Electron microprobe analyses of sphalerite from Central and East Tennessee mining districts, the Red Dog mining district (AK), and the Metaline mining district (WA)

Electron microprobe analyses of sphalerite (ZnS) were collected on samples from current or past mining operations in the USA with a specific focus on germanium (Ge), a byproduct critical mineral recovered from sphalerite.
Data and methods reported are part of a research study published here: 
Hayes SM, McAleer RJ, Piatak NM, White SJO, Seal RR II (2023), A novel nondestructive workflow for examining germanium and co-substituents in ZnS. Front. Earth Sci. 11:939700. doi: 10.3389/feart.2023.939700

Tags: alaska, cenozoic-era, germanium, hemimorphite, holocene-epoch, mine-wastes, quaternary-period, sphalerite, tennessee, usgs-62fa71edd34e25bd092879ad, washington
Organization: Department of the Interior
Molecular-scale speciation of germanium and copper within sphalerite from Central Tennessee mining district (TN), Red Dog mining district (AK), and Metaline mining district (WA)

Oxidation state and bonding environment of Ge and Cu in ZnS and Zn mineral concentrates from a variety of sources [Central Tennessee mining district (TN), Metaline mining district, (WA), and Red Dog mine (AK)] were determined by linear combination fits from x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) analysis. Sphalerites from the East Tennessee mining district contained Ge in concentrations that were too low to generate a X-ray absorption spectra with an edge step. When applicable, Ge content in quartz was determined using XAS edge steps.
Data and methods reported are part of a research study published here: 
Hayes SM, McAleer RJ, Piatak NM, White SJO, Seal RR II (2023), A novel nondestructive workflow for examining germanium and co-substituents in ZnS. Front. Earth Sci. 11:939700. doi: 10.3389/feart.2023.939700

Tags: alaska, cenozoic-era, germanium, hemimorphite, holocene-epoch, mine-wastes, quaternary-period, sphalerite, tennessee, usgs-62fa73a1d34e25bd092879b3, washington
Organization: Department of the Interior
Daily average soil moisture and ancillary data from the Noah land surface model in the National Land Data Assimilation version 2 extracted for GAGES-II watersheds, 1980 to 2020

This U.S Geological Survey data release contains soil moisture, actual evapotranspiration, precipitation, and potential evapotranspiration by watershed for the United States from 1980 to 2020. Hourly values from NASA's North American Land Data Assimilation System Phase 2 (NLDAS-2) Noah model were aggregated to daily values and extracted by Geospatial Attributes of Gages for Evaluating Streamflow, version II (GAGES-II) watershed. The daily aggregated values include average soil moisture at four depths, 0 to 10 centimeters (SoilM_0_10cm), 10 to 40 centimeters (SoilM_10_40cm), 40 to 100 centimeters (SoilM_40_100cm), and 100 to 200 centimeters (SoilM_100_200cm); and total actual evapotranspiration (Evap), precipitation (Rainf), and potential evapotranspiration (PotEvap). Each daily value is presented in a table with a row from January 1, 1980 to December 31, 2020. Each column represents a GAGES-II watershed.
References:
Falcone, J.A., 2011, GAGES-II: Geospatial Attributes of Gages for Evaluating Streamflow: U.S. Geological Survey dataset, https://doi.org/10.3133/70046617.
Xia, Y.L., Mitchell, K., Ek, M., Sheffield, J., Cosgrove, B., Wood, E., Luo, L.F., Alonge, C., Wei, H.L., Meng, J., Livneh, B., Lettenmaier, D., Koren, V., Duan, Q.Y., Mo, K., Fan, Y., and Mocko, D., 2012, Continental-scale water and energy flux analysis and validation for the North American Land Data Assimilation System project phase 2 (NLDAS-2): 1. Intercomparison and application of model products: Journal Of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, v. 117, D03109, https://doi.org/10.1029/2011jd016048.
Xia, Y.L., Mitchell, K., Ek, M., Cosgrove, B., Sheffield, J., Luo, L.F., Alonge, C., Wei, H.L., Meng, J., Livneh, B., Duan, Q.Y., and Lohmann, D., 2012, Continental-scale water and energy flux analysis and validation for North American Land Data Assimilation System project phase 2 (NLDAS-2): 2. Validation of model-simulated streamflow: Journal Of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, v. 117, D03110, https://doi.org/10.1029/2011jd016051.

Tags: climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, droughts, evaporation, inlandwaters, modeling, precipitation-atmospheric, soil-moisture, soil-resources, soil-water-content, soil-water-storage, usgs-62fa7a89d34e25bd092879cc
Organization: Department of the Interior
Vegetation and soil cover data for long-term monitoring plots within Browns Park National Wildlife Refuge, Colorado, USA

Sixty-eight monitoring plots within the Browns Park National Wildlife refuge in Northwest Colorado were surveyed in the Summer of 2007 and 2021 for vegetation-community changes after grazing cessation in 1986. Surveys consisted of line-point intercept measurements at 0.5m intervals along three 15-m transects arranged in a spoke around plot center at each plot location.

Tags: artemesia-tridentata, biota, bromus-tectorum, cheatgrass, colorado, community-ecology, ecology, environment, great-basin, land-use-and-land-cover, lichens, mosses, sagebrush, usgs-62fab44bd34e25bd09287e9d, vegetation
Organization: Department of the Interior
Depth to Groundwater Measured from Wells Completed in the Chicot and Evangeline (Undifferentiated) and Jasper Aquifers, Greater Houston Area, Texas, 2022

This dataset documents depth to groundwater measurements made from wells screened in the Chicot aquifer, Evangeline aquifer, Jasper aquifer, Burkeville confining unit, Catahoula confining unit, or a combination of these hydrogeologic units in the greater Houston area, Texas for 2022. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) prepared this dataset in cooperation with the Harris‐Galveston Subsidence District, City of Houston, Fort Bend Subsidence District, Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District, and Brazoria County Groundwater Conservation District. This dataset was created to provide resource managers, public officials, researchers, and the general public with ready access to information regarding depths to groundwater in the region. All of the data in this dataset were collected from November 2021 through March 2022 and are stored in the USGS National Water Information System (NWIS), a publicly available, searchable, online database of water information (USGS, 2022).
These digital data accompany a USGS Scientific Investigation Report by Ramage and Braun (2023).

Tags: aquifer, brazoria-county, brazoria-county-groundwater-conservation-district, burkeville-confining-unit, catahoula-confining-unit, chambers-county, chicot-aquifer, city-of-houston, elevation, evangeline-aquifer, fort-bend-county, fort-bend-subsidence-district, galveston, galveston-county, grimes-county, groundwater, harris-county, harris-galveston-subsidence-district, houston, hydrology, hypsometry, jasper-aquifer, liberty-county, lone-star-groundwater-conservation-district, montgomery-county, san-jacinto-county, subsidence, texas, usgs-62fab468d34e25bd09287eb1, walker-county, waller-county, water-level-altitude
Organization: Department of the Interior
MODFLOW-NWT model data used to simulate base flow and groundwater availability under different future climatic conditions for reach 1 of the Washita River alluvial aquifer and Foss Reservoir, western Oklahoma

A previously calibrated MODFLOW-NWT groundwater-flow model (https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20205118) was used to determine the effects of climate variability under a range of future climatic conditions on groundwater resources in the reach 1 of the Washita River alluvial aquifer in western Oklahoma. The study area focuses on reach 1 of the Washita River alluvial aquifer; the entire Washita River alluvial aquifer consists of four administrative sections, or reaches, that are designated as reaches 1–4 by the Oklahoma Water Resources Board (OWRB, 2012). To approximate a range in future base-flow conditions in reach 1 of the Washita River alluvial aquifer and base-flow into Foss Reservoir, the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 Global Climate Model climate data were downscaled to watershed scale using monthly Bias-Correction Spatial Disaggregation techniques. A time series of scaling factors was developed and spatially interpolated for three climate scenarios (central tendency, warmer/drier, and less warm-wetter) representing a range of future climate conditions for the period 2050–2079. These scaling factors were then applied to an existing soil-water-balance model (https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20205118) with climate data for the baseline period 1985–2014 to produce recharge and evapotranspiration estimations for this future period. The downscaled climate data were applied to the groundwater-flow model of the reach 1 of the Washita River alluvial aquifer using MODFLOW-NWT. This data release contains the input and output files for the scenarios described in the associated model documentation report (https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20245082).

Tags: climate-projections, custer-county, global-climate-model, groundwater, groundwater-and-surface-water-interaction, groundwater-flow, mathematical-modeling, modflow-nwt, oklahoma, roger-mills-county, soil-water-balance, usgs-62fbb4aad34e25bd09288663, usgsgroundwatermodel, washita-river-alluvial-aquifer
Organization: Department of the Interior
Alaska permafrost characterization: Geophysical and related field data collected in 2021

Geophysical measurements were collected by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) at five sites in Interior Alaska in September 2021 for the purposes of imaging permafrost structure and quantifying variations in subsurface moisture content in relation to thaw features. Electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) measurements were made along transects 110-222 meters (m) in length to quantify subsurface permafrost characteristics. ERT transects were collected across a fireline boundary within the Bonanza Creek Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) site where repeat measurements have been made since 2014; across and adjacent to two thermokarst lakes, Vault Lake and Goldstream Lake; and along two profiles at the North Star golf course in Fairbanks, Alaska. Models of electrical resistivity produced from these data revealed the distribution of frozen and thawed soil to depths of 10-40 m below the surface. Borehole nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) data were collected at two sites in order to determine liquid water content at depth in shallow boreholes. NMR data were collected in a 2.25 m-deep borehole at the North Star golf course adjacent to one of the ERT profiles, and in another two 1.625 m-deep boreholes adjacent to Big Trail Lake where previous NMR measurements were made in 2019 and 2020. Manual permafrost-probe measurements of thaw depths were collected at set intervals along each ERT transect and adjacent to NMR measurement locations used for comparison to the geophysical measurements, except at the North Star golf course where shallow permafrost was absent.

Tags: active-layer-thickness, alaska, bonanza-creek, borehole-nuclear-magnetic-resonance, disturbance, electrical-resistivity-imaging, electrical-resistivity-tomography, environment, fairbanks-north-star-borough, field-monitoring-stations, geology-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center, geoscientificinformation, gggsc, hydrologic-processes, land-change-science-program, landcarbon-program, permafrost, soil-moisture, soil-temperature, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-62fbe26ed34eb7e309ca28c3
Organization: Department of the Interior