AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Nitrapyrin, 6-CPA, and Herbicide Concentrations in Subsurface Drains in the Midwestern US (April 2017 to June 2017)

Nitrapyrin, a nitrification inhibitor, 6-CPA, a nitrapyrin degradate, and three co-applied herbicides (acetochlor, atrazine, and metolachlor) were measured in surface drains from eights sites in Illinois. Water samples were collected from April to June 2017. The compounds studied are applied to corn, Illinois is one of the largest corn producing states in the U.S. Water samples (1-L) were collected in amber glass bottles using a grab or depth weighted approach. Water samples were filtered (0.7 micrometers), extracted via solid phase extraction (Oasis® MAX cartridge), and analyzed (nitrapyrin and herbicides by gas chromatography with mass-spectrometry; 6-CPA by liquid chromatography tandem mass-spectrometry).

Tags: contaminant-transport, corn-belt-region, ecotoxicity, herbicide, illinois, nitrapyrin, spring, stormwater, stream-discharge, summer, tile-drainage, united-states, usgs-5b04767ae4b0d8682b963581, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Components of the USGS National Crustal Model (ver. 2.0, September 2025)

Seismic hazard assessments depend on an accurate prediction of ground motion, which in turn depends on a base knowledge of three-dimensional variations in density, seismic velocity, and attenuation. The datasets here are components of a National Crustal Model that couples geologic characteristics and geophysical parameters using a physical theoretical foundation combined with measured data for calibration. The model is intended to be internally consistent and seamless on a national scale; care is also taken to maximize consistency with existing regional models. An initial version of the model components are defined for the western U.S. on a 1-km grid. While the current focus of this effort is on improving estimates of site response in seismic hazard analysis, this model can benefit other fields of research.

Tags: arizona, basement, basins, california, cggsc, colorado, depth-to-basement, earthquake-hazards, earthquake-response, earthquakes, geologic-hazards-science-center, geology-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center, geoscientificinformation, ghsc, gravity, hazards, idaho, kansas, montana, national-crustal-model, nebraska, nevada, new-mexico, north-dakota, oklahoma, oregon, regional-study, sediments, south-dakota, texas, three-dimensional-mapping, unconsolidated-sediments, usgs-5b046c6ce4b0d8682b96353a, washington, western-united-states, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data to Estimate Water Use Associated with Continuous Oil and Gas Development, Williston Basin, United States, 1980-2017 (ver. 3.0, October 2022)

This U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Data Release provides data to estimate water use associated with continuous oil and gas development in the Williston Basin during 1980-2017.  Data included: 
1.  Data records from the national hydraulic fracturing chemical registry, FracFocus, including the state, county, latitude and longitude of each well, and the year and volume of water used for hydraulic fracturing for the years 2010-2017 in Montana and North Dakota.
2.  IHS Markit (TM) data reported in 2018 including the number of wells used for hydraulic fracturing treatments; the volume of oil, gas and water produced; well counts for produced oil, gas, and water.
3.  Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation (MTDNRC) water permit records associated with oil and gas development including the county, source type, use type, and volume of water use reported for the years 2012-2017.
4.  North Dakota Industrial Commission (NDIC) records of individual well permits including county, latitude, longitude, depth of casings, number of sacks of cement used for casings, volume of wastewater injected or disposed, volume of water, oil and gas produced, and the volume of water used for hydraulic fracturing stimulation for the years 1980-2017.
5.  North Dakota State Water Commission (NDSWC) records of individual water permits including the county, latitude, longitude, source type, use type, and volume of water use reported, and allocations allowed for the years 1980-2017.
6.  Annual population estimates by county for Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota for the years 1980-2017 from the United States Census Bureau's (USCB) Population Estimates Program.
7.  Spatially interpolated monthly total precipitation and average monthly daily minimum, maximum, and mean air temperature from the PRISM Climate Group for the conterminous United States for the years 1980-2017 at a 4 km resolution.
First posted September 30, 2019
Revised December 17, 2019, ver.2.0
Revised October 18, 2022, ver. 3.0

Tags: additive, base-fluids, biota, cementing, conterminous-u-s, county, decennial-census, estimates, hydraulic-fracturing, industrial, injection, irrigation, maximum-temperature, mean-temperature, minimum-temperature, montana, municipal, north-dakota, oil-and-gas, population, precipitation, production, source, south-dakota, stimulation, treatment, usgs-5b02edfee4b0da30c1c1d363, volume, wastewater, water-permits, water-use, well-drilling, well-permit, williston-basin
Organization: Department of the Interior
Electron microprobe analyses of amphibole, pyroxene, and carbonate minerals from the Ironwood Iron-Formation, Gogebic Iron Range, Wisconsin, USA

These data comprise chemical analyses in weight percent of oxides, as well as chlorine and fluorine, conducted using a JEOL JXA-8900 electron microprobe analyzer (EPMA) on amphiboles, pyroxenes, and carbonates in the Ironwood Iron-Formation.

Tags: ashland-county, iron-county, iron-formation, metamorphism-geological, mineral-deposits, particle-beam-spectroscopy, usgs-5b02ea2be4b0da30c1c1d2a1, wisconsin
Organization: Department of the Interior
West Portrillo Mountains Scaled Quail Adult Survival 2014-2015

Grassland birds are among the most imperiled bird guilds in North America. Scaled quail (Callipepla squamata) are a semi-arid grassland bird whose populations have declined over the past half century. We monitored scaled quail in New Mexico to study the effects of habitat, temperature and precipitation on survival of scaled quail adults, nests, and broods.

Tags: new-mexico, scaled-quail, southwestern-united-states, southwestern-us, usgs-5b02cbffe4b0da30c1c1d192
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coosa River Bank Topography and Comparisons at Logan Martin Dam sites LM102 and LM108, near Vincent, Alabama, October 2014 - July 2017

These datasets contain XYZ locations and other attributes of points from topographic bank surveys of sites LM102 and LM108 downstream from Logan Martin Dam near Vincent, Alabama, from October 16, 2014, through July 18, 2017.  Topographic data were collected using a tripod-based terrestrial LiDAR (T-LiDAR) system at several tripod setups distributed throughout the reach.  Data collection software integrated and stored the range and angular measurements from the T-LiDAR.  PolyWorks software was utilized to process the raw data, align the various scans in reference to one another, and extract the topography data in a useable format.  Point cloud comparison software was then used to compute the distance and volume gain or loss between surveys.

Tags: al, alabama, ascii, coosa-river, elevation, geology, geoscientificinformation, imagerybasemapsearthcover, inland-waters, inlandwaters, lidar, location, structure, u-s-geological-survey, usa, usgs, usgs-5afdfef0e4b0da30c1bdb987, vincent, xyz
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data release for Applying high-resolution imagery to evaluate restoration-induced changes in stream condition, Missouri River Headwaters Basin, Montana

Degradation of streams and associated riparian habitat across the Missouri River Headwaters Basin has motivated several stream restoration projects across the watershed. Many of these projects install a series of beaver dam analogues (BDAs)
to aggrade incised streams, elevate local water tables, and create natural surface water storage by reconnecting streams with their floodplains. Satellite imagery can provide a spatially continuous mechanism to monitor the effects of these in-stream
structures on stream surface area. However, remote sensing-based approaches to map narrow (e.g., &lt;5 m wide) linear features such as streams have been under-developed relative to efforts to map other types of aquatic systems, such as wetlands or
lakes. We mapped pre- and post-restoration (one to three years post-restoration) stream surface area and riparian greenness at four stream restoration sites using Worldview-2 and 3 images as well as a QuickBird-2 image. We found that panchromatic
brightness and eCognition-based outputs (0.5 m resolution) provided high-accuracy maps of stream surface area (overall accuracy ranged from 91% to 99%) for streams as narrow as 1.5 m wide. Using image pairs, we were able to document increases in
stream surface area immediately upstream of BDAs as well as increases in stream surface area along the restoration reach at Robb Creek, Alkali Creek and Long Creek (South). Although Long Creek (North) did not show a net increase in stream surface
area along the restoration reach, we did observe an increase in riparian greenness, suggesting increased water retention adjacent to the stream. As high-resolution imagery becomes more widely collected and available, improvements in our ability to
provide spatially continuous monitoring of stream systems can effectively complement more traditional field-based and gage-based datasets to inform watershed management.

Tags: beaver-dam-analogues, missouri-river-headwater-basin, montana, quickbird-2, stream, surface-area, usgs-5afdf7bae4b0da30c1bdb929, worldview-2, worldview-3
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coosa River Bank Topography and Comparisons at Neely Henry Dam sites NH104 and NH108, near Gadsden, Alabama, January 2015 - July 2017

These datasets contain XYZ locations and other attributes of points from topographic bank surveys of sites NH104 and NH108 downstream from H. Neely Henry Dam near Gadsden, Alabama, from January 30, 2015, through July 19, 2017. Topographic data were collected using a motion-compensated LiDAR (MC-LiDAR) system mounted on a marine survey vessel equipped with an inertial navigation system (INS). Data were collected as the vessel traversed the river along a survey line near sites NH104 and NH108. Data collection software integrated and stored the range and angular measurements from the LiDAR, and the horizontal and vertical position and attitude data of the vessel from the INS in real time. Data processing required computer software to extract topography data from the raw data files and to summarize and map the information. Point cloud comparison software was then used to compute the distance and volume gain or loss between surveys.

Tags: al, alabama, ascii, coosa-river, elevation, gadsden, geology, geoscientificinformation, imagerybasemapsearthcover, inland-waters, inlandwaters, lidar, location, structure, u-s-geological-survey, usa, usgs, usgs-5afdf13fe4b0da30c1bdb8d0, xyz
Organization: Department of the Interior
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) images from the Ironwood Iron-Formation, Gogebic Iron Range, Wisconsin, USA

These data comprise various SEM images from drill cores and outcrops in the Ironwood Iron-Formation.

Tags: ashland-county, iron-county, iron-formation, metamorphism-geological, mineral-deposits, usgs-5b041899e4b0da30c1c36716, wisconsin
Organization: Department of the Interior
Arizona Grasshopper Sparrow nest monitoring data 2011 to 2013

These data include nest-specific information about Arizona Grasshopper Sparrow nests monitored during 2011 to 2013.  The data are formatted as we used them in Program MARK to evaluate factors affecting daily nest survival.  Data includes information on when the nest was found, when it was last known to be active, nest fate, and nest age.  In addition, we provide vegetation data from the nest site itself and the nest plot as well as summary seasonal precipitation data collected from other sources and used in these analyses.

Tags: biota, birds, grassland-ecosystems, ornithology, usgs-5afde9eae4b0da30c1bdb88e
Organization: Department of the Interior
Louisiana Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring Program – 2016 habitat map, Early Lafourche Delta Region (ver. 1.1, May 2020)

The Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring (BICM) program was developed by Louisiana’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) and is implemented as a component of the System Wide Assessment and Monitoring (SWAMP) program. The program uses both historical data and contemporary data collections to assess and monitor changes in the aerial and subaqueous extent of islands, habitat types, sediment texture and geotechnical properties, environmental processes, and vegetation composition. Examples of BICM datasets include still and video aerial photography for documenting shoreline changes, shoreline positions, habitat mapping, land change analyses, light detection and ranging (lidar) surveys for topographic elevations, single-beam and swath bathymetry, and sediment grab samples. For more information about the BICM program, see Kindinger and others (2013).
The U.S. Geological Survey, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center provides support to the BICM program through the development of habitat map products using aerial imagery and lidar elevation data and assessing change in habitats over time. These data provide a snapshot of barrier island habitats and can be combined with other past and/or future maps to monitor these valuable natural resources over time. The current effort of this habitat mapping program includes developing habitat maps for 2008 and 2015-2016 for the following BICM regions: 1) West Chenier, 2) East Chenier; 3) Acadiana Bays (only Marsh Island); 4) Early Lafourche Delta; 5) Late Lafourche Delta; 6) Modern Delta (only Chaland Headland and Shell Island); and 7) Chandeleur Islands. Additionally, a habitat change analysis will be conducted for reaches mapped in 2005 by Fearnley et al. (2009) and 2015-2016. The BICM program has developed two habitat classification schemes which include a detailed 15-class habitat scheme and a general eight-class habitat scheme. The detailed scheme was developed specifically for this habitat mapping effort and builds off the general scheme used in previous BICM habitat mapping efforts (Fearnley and others, 2009). The additional classes developed in the detailed scheme are primarily used to further delineate various dune habitats, separate marsh and mangrove, and distinguish between beach and unvegetated barrier flat habitats. To ensure comparability between this effort and previous BICM map products, we have crosswalked the detailed classes to general habitat classes previously used by Fearnley and others (2009).

Tags: barrier-islands, barrier-vegetation, beach, coastal-wetlands, dune, early-lafourche-delta-region, environment, geoscientificinformation, gulf-of-mexico, habitat-map, imagerybasemapsearthcover, louisiana, louisiana-coastal, mangrove, marsh, remote-sensing, scrub-shrub, st-mary-parish, terrebonne-parish, usgs-5afde848e4b0da30c1bdb878
Organization: Department of the Interior
Genetic analyses of Astragalus sect. Humillimi data in the southwest USA

These data were compiled to support effective conservation for species within Astragalus sect. Humillimi. Two species, A. cremnophylax var. cremnophylax and A. humillimus are federally listed as endangered taxa. The data provided herein were used to resolve the relationaships among taxa, the population structure within taxa, and genetic diversity within taxa. The data are provided in a STRUCTURE-formatted file that includes taxa, individuals, sampling localities, and the genotype scores per individual for 690 Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphisms (AFLPs).

Tags: arizona, astragalus-sect-humillimi, biota, colorado-plateau, conservation-genetics, fabaceae, grand-canyon-national-park, new-mexico, phylogenetics, southwestern-united-states, usgs-5afdac53e4b0da30c1bdb459
Organization: Department of the Interior
Datasets to reproduce the exploratory Bayesian network developed in USGS SIR 2018-5053 for estimating water-quality parameters at streamgage 03374100 White River at Hazleton, Indiana, 1973-2016

This U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) data release contains the data used in the USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2018-5053 entitled "An exploratory Bayesian network for estimating the magnitudes and uncertainties of selected water-quality parameters at streamgage 03374100 White River at Hazleton, Indiana, from partially observed data." The four datasets, which contain only ASCII characters in a column-oriented format, are:
(1) sel_qw_parm_full_time_series.csv: A comma-delimited file containing an irregular time series of 713 rows of discrete water-quality measurements that start on February 21, 1973 and end on September 14, 2016.  
(2) baye_network_initialize.cas: This tab-delimited file can be used to initialize a Bayesian network for the water quality parameters analyzed in the subject report.
(3) baye_network_training.cas: This tab-delimited file was used to identify the structure (directed acyclic graph) and the conditional probability tables used for estimation in the Bayesian network.
(4) baye_network_testing.cas: This tab-delimited file has the same format as the training data set, but includes 117 rows of data that were reserved for testing the accuracy of the Bayesian network.
This data release supports the following publication:
Holtschlag, D.J., 2018, An exploratory Bayesian network for estimating the magnitudes and uncertainties of selected water-quality parameters at streamgage 03374100 White River at Hazleton, Indiana, from partially observed data: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2018-5053, 30 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20185053.

Tags: bayesian, bayesian-network, conditional-probability, d-separation-directional-separation, directed-acyclic-graph-dag, hazleton, indiana, stream-gage-measurement, streamflow, surface-water-non-marine, surface-water-quality, usgs-5afd9d5be4b0da30c1bdb2d2, water-quality, white-river
Organization: Department of the Interior
Nitrapyrin, 6-CPA, and herbicide concentrations in agricultural soils, subsurface drains, and corresponding streams in the Midwestern US

Nitrapyrin is a nitrification inhibitor that is co-applied with N-fertilizer in agroecosystems. Over the course of one year (March 2016 to June 2017), 192 water samples from seven streams across Iowa and Illinois were analyzed for nitrapyrin, its degradate 6-chloropicolinic acid (6-CPA), and three widely used herbicides acetochlor, atrazine, and metolachlor. Additional environmental samples were collected and analyzed in spring 2017: 63 water samples from eight subsurface drains, and 33 soil samples from a field in Iowa that received direct application of nitrapyrin (only for nitrapyrin and herbicides). Nitrapyrin was detected in all seven streams (56% detection) with concentrations ranging from 4 to 1,200 ng/L; 6-CPA was detected in six of the seven streams (13% detection) with concentrations ranging from 2 to 13 ng/L. Nitrapyrin was detected in only two of the eight subsurface drains and in 10% of drain samples (10% detection), and with concentrations ranginged from 3 to 12 ng/L; 6-CPA was detected in six of the eight subsurface drains and in (33% of drain samples withdetection), and concentrations ranginged from 2 to 6 ng/L. Nitrapyrin was detected in 67% of the soil samples collected, and concentrations ranged from 0.9 to 42 ng/g. Generally, all three herbicides were detected more frequently and at higher concentrations than nitrapyrin in the streams, subsurface drains, and soils. There are 3 csv datasets related to this data release. Please find in each of the child items the data and metadata.

Tags: agricultural-soils, agriculture, contaminant-transport, corn-belt-region, ecotoxicity, fall, herbicide, illinois, iowa, nitrapyrin, spring, stormwater, stream-discharge, summer, tile-drainage, united-states, usgs-5afca5e3e4b0da30c1bc2177, water-quality, winter, year
Organization: Department of the Interior
Habitat and fish assemblages along four river mainstems in Ontario, Canada, 1997 to 2001, with supporting spatial data

This dataset includes information about valley segment and catchment summaries, valley characteristics, instream habitat, and fish for valley segments, sites, and transects along four river mainstems in Ontario, Canada. Moving west to east, the rivers include the Grand River which ends in Lake Erie at Port Maitland, the Ganaraska River which ends in Lake Ontario at Port Hope, the Trent River which ends in the Bay of Quinte at Trenton, and the Petawawa River which ends in the Ottawa River at Petawawa. These rivers vary in natural character, anthropogenic development, and fish assemblages. Riverine sites along the mainstems of all four rivers included a total of one hundred and twelve sites. Sampling on the Grand, Trent, and Petawawa Rivers focused on non-wadeable lower river mainstems, whereas all sites on the Ganaraska River mainstem were wadeable and incorporated a wider range of stream sizes. Sites were sampled between 1997 and 2001, with many sites sampled in multiple years. The study design for the Grand, Trent, and Petawawa Rivers include a hierarchical design where data collection was nested at three spatial scales -- shoreline and channel transect data are nested within sites, and sites are nested within valley segments. In the Ganaraska River, data collection was by site and nested within valley segments. A complementary set of shapefiles for each river supports these tabular data and provides items needed to map watersheds, valley segments, and sites, and to calculate additional variables for sites and site catchments. The metadata specific to these spatial data is associated with the shapefiles and is not described here.

Tags: canada, community-ecology, fish, ganaraska-river, habitats, inlandwaters, ontario, petawawa-river, river-systems, usgs-5afc91e1e4b0da30c1bc20ca, world-north-and-central-america-canada-ontario-grand-river, world-north-and-central-america-canada-ontario-trent-river
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data for Elevated Manganese Concentrations in United States Groundwater, Role of Land Surface-Soil-Aquifer Connections

Chemical data from 43,334 wells were used to examine the role of land surface-soil-aquifer connections in producing elevated manganese concentrations (&gt;300 µg/L) in United States (U.S.) groundwater. Elevated manganese and dissolved organic carbon (DOC) concentrations were associated with shallow water tables and organic-carbon rich soils, suggesting soil-derived DOC supported manganese reduction. Manganese and DOC concentrations were higher near rivers than farther from rivers, suggesting river-derived DOC also supported manganese reduction. Anthropogenic nitrogen may also affect manganese concentrations in groundwater. In parts of the northeastern U.S. containing poorly buffered soils, ~40% of the samples with elevated manganese concentrations had pH values &lt;6 and elevated concentrations of dissolved oxygen and nitrate relative to samples with pH ≥6, suggesting acidic recharge produced by the oxidation of ammonium in fertilizer helped mobilize manganese. An estimated 2.6 million people potentially consume groundwater with elevated manganese concentrations, the highest densities of which occur near rivers and in areas with organic-carbon rich soil. Results from this study indicate land surface-soil-aquifer connections play an important role in producing elevated manganese concentrations in groundwater used for human consumption.

Tags: cycle-3, drinking-water, groundwater, groundwater-quality, land-surface-soil-aquifer-connections, manganese-concentrations, nawqa, usgs-5afc7b8ce4b0da30c1bc1fff, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior