AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
2010 Virginia USACE Lidar-Derived Dune Crest, Toe and Shoreline

The Storm-Induced Coastal Change Hazards component of the National Assessment of Coastal Change Hazards project focuses on understanding the magnitude and variability of extreme storm impacts on sandy beaches. Lidar-derived beach morphologic features such as dune crest, toe and shoreline help define the vulnerability of the beach to storm impacts. This dataset defines the elevation and position of the seaward-most dune crest and toe and the mean high water shoreline derived from the 2010 Virginia U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) lidar survey. Beach width is included and is defined as the distance between the dune toe and shoreline along a cross-shore profile. The beach slope is calculated using this beach width and the elevation of the shoreline and dune toe.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, coastal-processes, elevation, environment, geoscientificinformation, hazards, marine-geology, ocean-sciences, oceans, spcmsc, st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, u-s-geological-survey, united-states-of-america, usgs, usgs-65958406-88a8-4d21-92a2-ac5b863d517b, virginia
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hydrodynamic model of the Colorado River, Glen Canyon Dam to Lees Ferry in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Arizona: tables of model results and accuracy assessment

These data were compiled to provide a resource for other researchers interested in water-surface elevations and flow velocity across a wide range of discharge in the study reach for the project. Objective(s) of our study were to construct a two-dimensional hydrodynamic model for the 15.8 mile tailwater reach of the Colorado River in Glen Canyon between Glen Canyon Dam and Lees Ferry, Arizona. These data represent the results of the two-dimensional modeling effort with each data table (50) including the results of each run of the model. Additionally, other data represent a comparison of modeled water surface elevations to measured water surface elevations for historic Bureau of Reclamation cross sections in the study reach. These data were generated by U.S. Geological Survey personnel on PC-based computers in Flagstaff, Arizona in 2019 using the FaSTMECH solver in the iRIC modeling interface (https://i-ric.org/en/solvers/fastmech/). These data can be a useful resource to researchers interested in water-surface elevations, shoreline extents, water depths, velocities, and other hydraulic characteristics across a range of discharges within the 15.8 mile tailwater reach of the Colorado River in Glen Canyon between Glen Canyon Dam and Lees Ferry, Arizona.

Tags: accuracy-assessment, arizona, bathymetry, bathymetry-measurement, bed-shear-stress, coconino-county, colorado-river, data-release, digital-elevation-models, elevation, flow-velocity, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, glen-canyon, glen-canyon-dam, glen-canyon-national-recreation-area, hydraulic-characteristics, hydrodynamics, hydrographic-datasets, inlandwaters, lees-ferry, mathematical-modeling, shoreline-extents, stream-discharge, streamflow, tailwater-reach, topography, two-dimensional-hydrodynamic-model, usgs-6595800dd34e3265ab152e47, velocities, water-depths, water-surface-elevation
Organization: Department of the Interior
Fish Datasets for Evaluation and Review of Ecology-Focused Stream Studies, Fountain Creek Basin, Colorado

These data from Evaluation and Review of Ecology-Focused Stream Studies to Support Cooperative Monitoring, Fountain Creek Basin, Colorado were used to describe temporal trends in fish communities in the basin. Fish data were collected at U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) sites between 2003 and 2022. Datasets include fish frequency of occurrence, flathead chub catch per unit of effort, and a list of fish species collected.

Tags: aquatic-biology, aquatic-ecosystems, biota, colorado, ecology, freshwater-ecosystems, population-and-community-ecology, surface-water-non-marine, united-states, usgs-6596e740d34e3265ab158ca9
Organization: Department of the Interior
Grade and tonnage data for disseminated flake graphite deposits

Crystalline graphite is a primary material in lithium-ion battery anodes which are essential in moving towards green energy. Forecasts for 2040 anticipate an order of magnitude increase in graphite demand driven by sustainable development policies to reduce carbon emissions. Domestic production of graphite ceased in the 1980s after a steady decline post-World War I, meaning the United States relies on natural graphite imports from producers such as China or high-cost synthetic graphite. The current crystalline graphite flake model was released in 1992 and used 100 sites with graphite production. The updated grade and tonnage model uses 72 graphite sites with reports of flake graphite. The updated model implies economically relevant deposits likely contain a median of 23 million metric tons (Mt) of contained graphite. Ore tonnages range from 3.1 Mt in the 10th quantile (Q10) to 170 Mt in the 90th quantile (Q90). Grades range from 3.5 wt% graphitic carbon (Cg) in Q10 to 16 wt% Cg in Q90, with a median of 7.7 wt% Cg. The updated grade and tonnage model provides essential information for evaluating domestic graphite resources and highlights the potential for mining graphite from crystalline rocks in Alabama and Alaska.

Tags: australia, brazil, canada, china, geoscientificinformation, graphite, greenland, guinea, madagascar, malawi, mexico, mineral-resources, mozambique, namibia, norway, russia, south-africa, south-korea, sweden, tanzania, ukraine, united-states, usgs-65942760d34e3265ab14f6c5
Organization: Department of the Interior
PHREEQC files for geochemical simulations in the Ohio River alluvial aquifer of West Virginia

This data release includes PHREEQC files used for geochemical models in the Ohio River alluvial aquifer of West Virginia. The associated publication by McAdoo and Connock (2024) should be consulted to understand the purpose and limitations of these simulations and data. The wateq4f database (Ball and Nordstrom, 1991) was used for the PHREEQC simulation.  A report by Parkhurst and Appelo (2013) serves as the formal documentation for PHREEQC, and the software is publicly available from the U.S. Geological Survey at https://www.usgs.gov/software/phreeqc-version-3. Text files of the input and output information from PHREEQC are included to document information without needing the PHREEQC program.

Tags: alluvium, groundwater-and-surface-water-interaction, hydrogeology, usgs-65941f57d34e3265ab14f6b2
Organization: Department of the Interior
Airborne geophysical survey: Western Baird Mountains

Aeromagnetic data were collected along flight lines by instruments in an aircraft that recorded magnetic-field intensity values and location. In surveys such as this one where the data were originally collected in digital form and not digitized from contour maps, the information we provide typically includes latitude, longitude, magnetic anomaly in nanoTeslas, and intermediate values used to derive the magnetic anomaly such as total magnetic field.

Tags: aeromagnetic-surveying, f02185-north-slope, f02188-northwest-arctic, field-monitoring-stations, geophysics, geospatial-datasets, magnetic-field-earth, usgs-65934fe3-1ba7-4dec-b505-5eb518c41d0b
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data for experimental conservation translocations of an aquatic invertebrate (Gammarus lacustris) in Minnesota USA from years 2017-2020

The dataset accompanies the scientific article, "Experimental conservation translocations of an aquatic invertebrate (Gammarus lacustris) within prairie and forest-transitional wetlands". In this study, we conducted a before-after/control-impact experiment to test the efficacy of conservation translocation for re-establishing abundant populations of the freshwater amphipod Gammarus lacustris in years 2017-2020. Each site (n=19) comprised at least 2 wetland basins, generally with one basin receiving translocated G. lacustris from a local donor and the other serving as a nearby control basin. The dataset contains information about the sites and the number of amphipods and density of amphipods detected at each basin.

Tags: amphipod, biota, gammarus-lacustris, minnesota-usa, north-america, prairie-pothole-region, prairie-wetland-invertebrate, usgs-65903ff1d34e3265ab14ebac, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-functions
Organization: Department of the Interior
Red River of the North low flow water-balance model and supporting data

A water-balance model of the Red River Basin upstream from Emerson, Manitoba was coupled with stochastic weather inputs to simulate possible future low-streamflow conditions and to present results of model simulations for evaluating the risk of drought in the Red River Basin upstream from Emerson, Manitoba.
The data release directories contain model, land cover analysis, ancillary, and output folders with 
the necessary files for the running the model and producing results: (1) The folder “model” contains all the necessary files for running the water balance model and experiments for running the model with stochastically generated weather.; 2) The folder “land cover analysis” contains the data sources and code used to perform the land cover analysis for the Red River Basin North of Emerson, Manitoba.; 3) The folder “ancillary” contains code and analysis used to support the main model runs and analysis within the “model” folder. ; 4) The folder “output” is initially set up to be empty. But this folder is designated to be the output folder for all the figures and tables generated by the scripts within the “model” folder.
This USGS data release contains all input and output files for the model described in the 
associated report (https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20255002).

Tags: climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, droughts, emerson-manitoba, geoscientificinformation, inlandwaters, mathematical-modeling, north-dakota, red-river-of-the-north, streamflow, usgs-65903e8cd34e3265ab14eba7
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, 2015, 2018, and 2021 Site 0603 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 six land-water products (2005, 2008, 2012, 2015, 2018, and 2021).  The resulting matrix has 64 possible classes defined by the combination of land and water categories on those six 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-6569ff72d34e6dde1a4ae2d1, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Field-informed plant functional cover and model predicted fire behavior, as well as digitally-sourced soils, weather/climate, and topography information related to fuels treatments observed between 2018 and 2021 in southwestern Idaho

Data includes functional group cover of annual grasses, perennial grasses and shrubs, and model predicted fire behavior for the years of 2018-2021.

Tags: biota, climate, community-ecology, ecology, environment, exotic-annual-grasses, fire-modeling, fires, fuel-treatments, habitat-alteration-and-disturbance, idaho, mathematical-modeling, oregon, shrubland-ecosystems, snake-river-plain, soil, usgs-6594acc8d34e3265ab14f8dc, vegetation, weather, wildfire-science
Organization: Department of the Interior
Airborne geophysical survey: cook

Aeromagnetic data were collected along flight lines by instruments in an aircraft that recorded magnetic-field intensity values and location. In surveys such as this one where the data were originally collected in digital form and not digitized from contour maps, the information we provide typically includes latitude, longitude, magnetic anomaly in nanoTeslas, and intermediate values used to derive the magnetic anomaly such as total magnetic field.

Tags: aeromagnetic-surveying, f02020-anchorage, f02122-kenai-peninsula, f02170-matanuska-susitna, field-monitoring-stations, geophysics, geospatial-datasets, magnetic-field-earth, usgs-658fc91c-ce5b-4731-9df5-026f25b43f85
Organization: Department of the Interior
Shorelines used to calculate shoreline change statistics from the South Shore coastal region from Hewitts Cove in Hingham to the Cape Cod Canal in Sandwich (SouthShore_shorelines.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) 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 (MA CZM) 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: atlantic-coast, cape-cod-canal, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, coastal-processes, coastal-services-center, csc, digital-shoreline-analysis-system, dsas, endpoint-rate, environment, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, hingham, linear-regression-rate, ma-czm, massachusetts, massachusetts-coastal-zone-management, massachusetts-shoreline-change-project, national-assessment-of-shoreline-change-project, national-oceanic-and-atmospheric-administration, new-england, noaa, oceans, sandwich, shoreline-change-rate, south-shore, u-s-army-corps-of-engineers, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usace, usgs, usgs-658f0a5c-2c81-4504-9b9a-172dbbd5ab12, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Classified land cover and vegetation canopy cover data for an aeolian dune field near Lees Ferry, AZ

These data were compiled for assessing how geomorphic changes measured as topographic differences from repeat surveys represent measured and modelled estimates of aeolian sediment transport and dune mobility. Objective(s) of our study were to investigate whether topographic changes can serve as a proxy for aeolian transport and sediment mobility in dunefield environments. This was accomplished by relating topographic changes to modeled and observed estimates of sediment transport and dune mobility over months to decades within a partially vegetated dunefield starved of upwind sediment supplies. We specifically tested if topographic changes measured as net and total volume changes and topographic surface roughness differences provide evidence for intra-annual differences and decadal changes in sediment mobility for dune sand that is either currently bare, vegetated, or biocrust-covered. Lastly, these data were used as a framework for interpreting how aeolian transport and sediment mobility has changed for current land cover types over the preceding four decades. These data represent monthly topographic surveys and in-field sediment transport data collected between February 13, 2020 and December 16, 2020, piloted aerial imagery collected in 1984, 2002, 2009, 2013, and 2021, unoccupied aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery collected in March 2021, classification of land cover, and tabular summaries of topographic changes derived from these datasets. These data were collected between 1984 and 2021 within a small aeolian dunefield near the confluence of the Paria and Colorado Rivers, upstream of Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. These data were collected by the U.S. Geological Survey. These data can be used to 1) to evaluate how dune surfaces with bare sand, sand with vegetated cover, and sand with biological soil crust cover (biocrust) change on a monthly time scale with differences in wind strength and 2) assess how the dunefield surface changed with vegetation loss and expansion over almost 4 decades. Additionally, these data could be used to assess detailed changes in landscape cover over monthly and decadal time scales.

Tags: aeolian, aerial-photography, arizona, bare-sand, biocrust-sand, biogeography, biological-soil-crusts, biota, change-detection, climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, colorado-river, data-release, disturbed, dune-field, dune-mobility, dune-surface, elevation, environment, geomorphic-change, geomorphology, glen-canyon-national-recreation-area, grand-canyon, grand-canyon-national-park, gravel-bar, gravel-deposits, image-collections, imagerybasemapsearthcover, in-field-sediment-transport-data, land-use-and-land-cover, land-use-change, lees-ferry, paria-river, planningcadastre, remote-sensing, repeat-surveys, sediment-transport, topographic-differences, topographic-surveys, topography, uav-imagery, unconsolidated-deposits, unoccupied-aerial-vehicle-imagery, usgs-658efcd9d34e3265ab14d2bc, vegetated-sand, vegetation, wind, wind-strength, woody-vegetation
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, 2015, 2018, and 2021 Site 0599 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 six land-water products (2005, 2008, 2012, 2015, 2018, and 2021).  The resulting matrix has 64 possible classes defined by the combination of land and water categories on those six 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-6569ff65d34e6dde1a4ae2cc, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mercury in soil, water, sediment, and biota in headwater streams associated with wildfires in the northwestern U.S., 2021-2022

Comma-separated values (.csv) files containing data related to mercury in soil, water, sediment, in-stream leaf litter, periphyton, and aquatic invertebrates collected in 2021-2022 from headwater streams associated with wildfires in the northwestern U.S.

Tags: biota, environment, fires, idaho, inlandwaters, mercury-contamination, oregon, usgs-6594a907d34e3265ab14f8ce, washington
Organization: Department of the Interior
Lidar point cloud data for an aeolian dune field near Lees Ferry, AZ

These data were compiled for assessing how geomorphic changes measured as topographic differences from repeat surveys represent measured and modelled estimates of aeolian sediment transport and dune mobility. Objective(s) of our study were to investigate whether topographic changes can serve as a proxy for aeolian transport and sediment mobility in dunefield environments. This was accomplished by relating topographic changes to modeled and observed estimates of sediment transport and dune mobility over months to decades within a partially vegetated dunefield starved of upwind sediment supplies. We specifically tested if topographic changes measured as net and total volume changes and topographic surface roughness differences provide evidence for intra-annual differences and decadal changes in sediment mobility for dune sand that is either currently bare, vegetated, or biocrust-covered. Lastly, these data were used as a framework for interpreting how aeolian transport and sediment mobility has changed for current land cover types over the preceding four decades. These data represent monthly topographic surveys and in-field sediment transport data collected between February 13, 2020 and December 16, 2020, piloted aerial imagery collected in 1984, 2002, 2009, 2013, and 2021, unoccupied aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery collected in March 2021, classification of land cover, and tabular summaries of topographic changes derived from these datasets. These data were collected between 1984 and 2021 within a small aeolian dunefield near the confluence of the Paria and Colorado Rivers, upstream of Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. These data were collected by the U.S. Geological Survey. These data can be used to 1) to evaluate how dune surfaces with bare sand, sand with vegetated cover, and sand with biological soil crust cover (biocrust) change on a monthly time scale with differences in wind strength and 2) assess how the dunefield surface changed with vegetation loss and expansion over almost 4 decades. Additionally, these data could be used to assess detailed changes in landscape cover over monthly and decadal time scales.

Tags: aeolian, aerial-photography, arizona, bare-sand, biocrust-sand, biogeography, biological-soil-crusts, biota, change-detection, climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, colorado-river, data-release, disturbed, dune-field, dune-mobility, dune-surface, elevation, environment, geomorphic-change, geomorphology, glen-canyon-national-recreation-area, grand-canyon, grand-canyon-national-park, gravel-bar, gravel-deposits, image-collections, imagerybasemapsearthcover, in-field-sediment-transport-data, land-use-and-land-cover, land-use-change, lees-ferry, paria-river, planningcadastre, remote-sensing, repeat-surveys, sediment-transport, topographic-differences, topographic-surveys, topography, uav-imagery, unconsolidated-deposits, unoccupied-aerial-vehicle-imagery, usgs-658ef3c5d34e3265ab14d293, vegetated-sand, vegetation, wind, wind-strength, woody-vegetation
Organization: Department of the Interior