AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Little Ice Age Maximum Glacier Extent, Exit and Paradise Glaciers, Alaska

This dataset is a single polyline file that depicts the boundary of the Little Ice Age maximum advance of the terminus of Exit and Paradise Glaciers. The data were collected and digitized for the purpose of identifying, as nearly as possible, the maximum extent of the Little Ice Age (1800s) expansion of the terminal margin of Exit Glacier and Paradise Glacier. Fragments of moraines previously dated by other investigators capture only a small portion of the boundary of that glacier expansion, so this dataset was developed to provide a complete map of the LIA maximum boundary, without requiring definitive dating of any particular portion of the boundary. It is assumed that the entire mapped boundary was occupied by glacier ice sometime during the LIA maximum (nominally 1815-1899 A.D.), but within that time range some portions of the glacier may have reached their maximum extents before or after others.

Tags: alaska, alluvial-fans, deglaciation, environment, exit-creek, exit-glacier, flood-plains, flooding, glaciers, harding-icefield, ice-ages, inlandwaters, kenai-fjords-national-park, kenai-peninsula, little-ice-age, paradise-creek, paradise-glacier, resurrection-river, rivers, seward, usgs-asc131
Organization: Department of the Interior
Time-domain electromagnetic soundings to estimate the extent of saltwater intrusion on Shelter Island, New York (2017-2018)

Twenty-six time-domain electromagnetic (TDEM) soundings were collected on Shelter Island, New York between March of 2017 and October of 2018.  
Soundings were collected using the Geonics ProTEM and ABEM WalkTEM acquisition systems. Depending on the size of the site, one of the following square-loop transmitter geometries was used: 1) 20 by 20 meter, 2) 40 by 40 meter, or 3) 100 by 100 meter. A high-frequency receiver with an effective area of 31.4 m^2 was used with the Geonics ProTEM system. With the ABEM WalkTEM system, a central induction array was used with two square receiver loops (0.5 by 0.5 meters and 10 by 10 meters) setup within the transmitter loop; the two receiver loops created effective receiver areas of 5 m^2 and 200 m^2, respectively. Two to three measurements were made at each site using various time-gate scripts and the data were filtered, stacked 10 times, and averaged.
This data release contains XML metadata, a site location map, and the raw and processed TDEM data.

Tags: electromagnetic-surveying, geophysics, groundwater, new-york, resistivity, salinity, saltwater-intrusion, shelter-island, suffolk-county, usgs-5f06400782ce21d4c3f8aee6
Organization: Department of the Interior
Uncalibrated EAARL-B Submerged Topography--Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 2014 (WGS84)

Binary point-cloud data of a portion of the submerged environs of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, were produced from remotely sensed, geographically referenced elevation measurements by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Elevation measurements were collected over the area using the second-generation Experimental Advanced Airborne Research Lidar (EAARL-B), a pulsed laser ranging system mounted onboard an aircraft to measure ground elevation, vegetation canopy, and coastal topography. The system uses high-frequency laser beams directed at the Earth's surface through an opening in the bottom of the aircraft's fuselage. The laser system records the time difference between emission of the laser pulse and the reception of the reflected laser signal in the aircraft. The plane travels over the target area at approximately 60 meters per second at an elevation of approximately 300 meters, resulting in a laser swath of approximately 240 meters with an average point spacing of 0.5-1.6 meters. The EAARL, developed originally by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) at Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, measures ground elevation with a vertical resolution of 3 centimeters. A peak sampling rate of 15-30 kilohertz results in an extremely dense spatial elevation dataset. Over 100 kilometers of coastline can be surveyed easily within a 3- to 4-hour mission. When resultant elevation maps for an area are analyzed, they provide a useful tool to make management decisions regarding land development.

Tags: airborne-lidar-processing-system, alps, altimetry, atlantic-ocean, bathymetry-and-elevation, cessna-310, dem, digital-elevation-model, digital-elevation-models, distributions, doi-usgs-cmg-gt-coastal-and-marine-geology-u-s-geological-survey-u-s-department-of-interior, eaarl-b, elevation, experimental-advanced-airborne-research-lidar, florida, fort-lauderdale, land-surface-gt-topography-gt-terrain-elevation, laser-hydrography, lidar, lidar-gt-light-detection-and-ranging, ocean-gt-bathymetry-seafloor-topography-gt-seafloor-topography, ocean-gt-coastal-processes-gt-coastal-elevation, ocean-gt-coastal-processes-gt-shoreline-displacement, remote-sensing, south-florida-testing-facility, topographic-mapping, topography, usgs-b4a00738-b72a-4f18-99e9-f6670808127e
Organization: Department of the Interior
Location and analysis of sediment samples collected by the U.S. Geological Survey in 2014 along the Delmarva Peninsula,  MD and VA (Esri point shapefile and CSV file, Geographic, WGS 84)

The Delmarva Peninsula is a 220-kilometer-long headland, spit, and barrier island complex that was significantly affected by Hurricane Sandy. A U.S. Geological Survey cruise was conducted in the summer of 2014 to map the inner continental shelf of the Delmarva Peninsula using geophysical and sampling techniques to define the geologic framework that governs coastal system evolution at storm-event and longer timescales. Data collected during the 2014 cruise include swath bathymetry, sidescan sonar, chirp and boomer seismic-reflection profiles, acoustic Doppler current profiler, and sample and bottom photograph data. Processed data in raster and vector format are released here for the bottom photographs and sediment samples.  More information about the USGS survey conducted as part of the Hurricane Sandy Response-- Geologic Framework and Coastal Vulnerability Study can be found at the project website or on the WHCMSC Field Activity Web pages: https://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/project-pages/delmarva/ and https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2014-002-FA

Tags: assateague-island, assateague-island-national-seashore, assawoman-bay, atlantic-ocean, berlin, bethany-beach, cape-henlopen, carbonate, chincoteague-bay, chincoteague-island, chincoteague-national-wildlife-refuge, clay, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, delaware, delaware-bay, delaware-seashore-state-park, environment, esri-shapefile, fenwick-island, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, grain-size-analysis, gravel, ground-truth, isle-of-wight-bay, location, m-v-scarlett-isabella, marine-geology, maryland, navigational-data, north-america, ocean-city, oceans, parramore-island, rehoboth-beach, sand, sea-floor, sea-floor-characteristics, seabed, seaboss-sampler, seafloor, seafloor-samples, seafoor, sediment-data, sediment-samples, sediments, silt, stations, surficial-sediment-classification, toms-cove, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-8a1e32e4-9e3f-4f1f-97a0-eb6579d562b8, van-veen-grab-sampler, virginia, wallops-island, whcmsc, whcmsc-field-activity-serial-number-2014-002-fa, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Subsurface Facies within the Susquehanna River Valley in South-Central Broome County, Towns of Conklin and Kirkwood, New York

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is providing a polygon feature class delineating and describing the subsurface facies within the Binghamton East 1:24,000 quadrangle of south-central Broome County, New York, 2014-2021. The shapefile was created and intended for use with geographic information system (GIS) software. A companion report, USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2021-5026 (Van Hoesen and others, 2021; https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20215026) further describes data collection and map preparation.

Tags: broome-county, conklin, geology, glacial, groundwater, hydrogeology, kirkwood, new-york, susquehanna-river, united-states, usgs-5ec404ed82ce476925eabd99
Organization: Department of the Interior
Surficial Sediment Distributions off Eastern Cape Cod, Massachusetts (CC_SEDDIST.SHP, Geographic, WGS84)

This data set shows the distribution of surficial sediments offshore of northern and eastern Cape Cod, Massachusetts.  This interpretation is based on data collected with a multibeam sea floor mapping system during USGS survey 98015, conducted November 9 - 25, 1998 and on data collected with a bottom sampling and photographic system during USGS survey 04011, conducted during May and June, 2004.

Tags: arcview-shapefile, atlantic-ocean, cape-cod, cape-cod-national-seashore, clayey-silt, cmgp, coastal-ad-marine-geology-program, distributions, field-activity-number-04011, field-activity-number-98015, geologic-interpretation, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, grain-size, gravel, gravelly-sediment, interpretation, marine-geology, massachusetts, north-america, oceans, sand, scientific-interpretation, sea-floor-characteristics, sediment-distribution, sediment-interpretation, sediments, silty-sand, surficial-sediment, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-97fb5da2-21a2-4c5a-bfd5-0f876c66c364, whsc, woods-hole-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, and 2015 Site 0680 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-5938778ee4b0764e6c5d6cbd, wetland
Organization: Department of the Interior
Astrogeology Science Center Monthly Report, November 1968

Monthly report to show updates on highlights and noteworthy results, significant changes in projects, new projects, publications, personnel, conferences and scientific meetings, talks or papers presented, visitors, and mapping progress tables. Includes unpublished works and works in progress.

Tags: astrogeology, astrogeology-branch-history, branch-history, geoscientificinformation, planetary-sciences, usgs-631283e0d34e36012efa17bb
Organization: Department of the Interior
Predicting water temperature in the Delaware River Basin: 2 Water temperature and flow observations

&lt;p&gt;Observations related to water and thermal budgets in the Delaware River Basin. Data from reservoirs in the basin include reservoir characteristics (e.g., bathymetry), daily water levels, daily depth-resolved water temperature observations,  and daily inflows, diversions, and releases. Data from streams in the basin include daily flow and temperature observations.   Data were compiled from a variety of sources to cover the modeling period (1980-2021), including the National Water Inventory System,  Water Quality Portal, EcoSHEDS stream water temperature database, ReaLSAT, and the New York Department of Environmental Conservation. The data are formatted as a single csv (comma separated values) or zipped csv. 
&lt;p&gt;For modeling purposes, we sought to create a test set of flow and temperature observations that were representative of  dynamics throughout the Delaware River basin from water year 1980-present. Test holdouts are documented in the  flow and temperature files. To minimize the possibility of the correlation  between sites and temporal autocorrelation at single sites causing artificially high test performance, we created temporal  holdouts (time periods where data from all sites were reserved for testing), and spatial holdouts (sites where all data were  reserved for testing). In all, this resulted in a train/test split of 66.2%/33.8% for observed temperature reach days,  and 71.4%/28.6% for observed flow reach days. 
&lt;p&gt;For temporal holdouts: All data in the water years 1980-84, 2011-15, and 2021 were reserved for the test set.  These windows were chosen to attempt to balance the ability to test on the most recent data (critical to assess  performance in an operational setting) and historical periods, while still training on a sufficient amount of  modern continuous data. For spatial holdouts: We chose eight reaches of the PRMS network to reserve all data for testing,  based on representing key parts of the Delaware basin (mainstem, headwaters, reservoir-adjacent reaches), representing  the distribution catchment attributes (e.g. fraction of impervious surfaces) and minimizing the number of observations  within a 20 km distance along the network ('fish radius').

Tags: de, deep-learning, delaware, environment, forecast, hybrid-modeling, inlandwaters, machine-learning, maryland, md, modeling, new-jersey, new-york, nj, ny, pa, pennsylvania, reservoirs, streams, temperature, united-states, us, usgs-5f6a287382ce38aaa2449131, water, water-resources
Organization: Department of the Interior
QFASA Robustness to Assumption Violations: Computer Code

Quantitative fatty acid signature analysis (QFASA; Iverson et al. 2004. Ecological Monographs 74:211-235) has become a common method of estimating diet composition, especially for marine mammals, but the performance of the method has received limited investigation.  This software was developed to compare the bias of several QFASA estimators using computer simulation and develop recommendations regarding estimator selection (Bromaghin et al. 2015. Assessing the robustness of quantitative fatty acid signature analysis to assumption violations. Methods in Ecology and Evolution (publication expected in late 2015 or early 2016).

Tags: aitchison, aitchison-distance-measure, bias, biota, diet-composition, diet-estimation, estimator-robustness, kullback-leibler, kullback-leibler-distance, linear-mixing-model, measure, model-assumption-violations, numerical-optimization, predator-prey, qfasa, simulation, usgs-asc132
Organization: Department of the Interior
Synthetic storm-driven flood-inundation grids for coastal communities along the Atlantic Ocean and the Manasquan River and adjacent to the Manasquan tide gage from Spring Lake to Manasquan, NJ

Digital flood-inundation maps for coastal communities within Monmouth County in New Jersey were created by water surfaces generated by an Advanced Circulation hydrodynamic (ADCIRC) and Simulating Waves Nearshore (SWAN) model from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Region II coastal analysis and mapping study (Federal Emergency Management Agency, 2014). Six synthetic modeled tropical storm events from a library of 159 events were selected based on parameters including landfall location or closest approach location, maximum wind speed, central pressure, and radii of winds. Two storm events were selected for the tide gage providing two "scenarios" and accompanying inundation-map libraries. 
The contents of this data release support the following publication:
Suro, T.P., Niemoczynski, M.J., Boetsma, A.C., and Niemoczynski, L.M., 2023, Moderate flood level scenarios: synthetic storm-driven flood-inundation maps for coastal communities in 10 New Jersey counties: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2023-5005, 64 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20235005.
The landing page on which this and 24 other storm scenarios reside is:
Niemoczynski, L.M., Niemoczynski, M.J., Boetsma, A.C., and Suro, T.P., 2023, Synthetic storm-driven flood-inundation grids for coastal communities in 10 New Jersey counties: U.S Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9RVF9P8.
References cited:
Federal Emergency Management Agency, 2014, FEMA Region II Coastal Analysis and Mapping Study, accessed November 2, 2018, at http://www.region2coastal.com/resources/about-the-coastal-flood-study/

Tags: digital-maps, flood-inundation-maps, floods, monmouth-county, new-jersey-coastal, oceans, tide-gages, usgs-623e08d5d34e915b67d6bf07
Organization: Department of the Interior
Greater White-fronted Goose (Anser albifrons) Nest Characteristics and Nesting Behavior Classifications from Time-lapse Photographs and Nest Visit Data; Point Lonely, Alaska, 2013-2014

This data release contains three tables of information on behavior and productivity of greater white-fronted geese nesting near Point Lonely, Alaska, 2013-2014: 1) transcriptions of nest photographs obtained by time-lapse photography at 1-minute intervals in 2013, 2) transcriptions of nest photographs obtained by time-lapse photography at 1-minute intervals in 2014, and 3) characteristics of nests monitored with cameras and via periodic nest visits during 2013-2014.  Data were collected as part of the USGS Changing Arctic Ecosystems Initiative to understand the effects of industrial and researcher disturbance on Arctic-nesting geese. Images are available upon request be contacting gs-ak_asc_datamanagers@usgs.gov.

Tags: alaska, animals-vertebrates, arctic-goose, biota, birds, ducks-geese-swans, environment, greater-white-fronted-goose, lonely-air-station, migratory-birds, nesting-activity, nesting-behavior, nests, north-slope, usgs-asc133, waterfowl
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2016 Site 0115 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 2016 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: 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-5b5f5175e4b006a11f66e984, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Airborne electromagnetic inverted resistivity models, Western Yukon Flats, Alaska, February 2016

Airborne electromagnetic (AEM) and magnetic survey data were collected during February 2016 along 300 line kilometers in the western Yukon Flats near Stevens Village, Alaska. Data were acquired with the CGG RESOLVE frequency-domain helicopter-borne electromagnetic systems together with a Scintrex Cesium Vapour CS-3 magnetometer. The AEM average depth of investigation is about 100 m. The survey was flown at a nominal flight height of 30 m above terrain along widely spaced reconnaissance lines. This data release includes raw and processed AEM data and laterally-constrained inverted resistivity depth sections along all flight lines. This release also includes unprocessed and processed magnetic data that has been drift corrected and draped to terrain.

Tags: aeromagnetic-surveying, alaska, alaska-division-of-geological-and-geophysical-surveys, cggsc, crustal-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center, electromagnetic-surveying, environment, geology-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, gggsc, nasa-above, permafrost, resistivity, stevens-village, usgs-58af0d32e4b01ccd54f9ef31, yukon-flats
Organization: Department of the Interior
National Park Service Thematic Burn Severity Mosaic for CONUS in 2010

The National Park Service (NPS) requests burn severity assessments through an agreement with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to be completed by analysts with the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) Program. The MTBS Program assesses the frequency, extent, and magnitude (size and severity) of all large wildland fires (wildfires and prescribed fires) in the conterminous United States (CONUS), Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico for the period 1984 and beyond. All fires reported as greater than 1,000 acres in the western U.S. and greater than 500 acres in the eastern U.S. are mapped across all ownerships. MTBS produces a series of geospatial and tabular data for analysis at a range of spatial, temporal, and thematic scales and are intended to meet a variety of information needs that require consistent data about fire effects through space and time. This map layer is a thematic raster image of burn severity classes for all NPS-requested burn severity fires, occurring in CONUS during calendar year 2010. Fires omitted from this mapped inventory are those where suitable satellite imagery was not available, or fires which were not discernable from available imagery.

Tags: ak, alaska, burn-severity, burned-area, continental-u-s, conus, differenced-normalized-burn-ratio, fire-location, fire-occurrence, hawaii, hi, imagerybasemapsearthcover, landsat, location, normalized-burn-ratio, nps, pr, prescribed-fire, puerto-rico, sentinel, united-states, us, usgs-6307a048d34e3b967a8c0ee2, wildfire, wildland-fire
Organization: Department of the Interior