AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Attributes for NHDPlus Version 2.1 Reach Catchments and Modified Routed Upstream Watersheds for the Conterminous United States: Average Yearly Freshwater Withdrawals

This data set represents annual freshwater withdrawals averaged over the years 1995-2000 compiled for two spatial components of the NHDPlus version 2.1 data suite (NHDPlusv2) for the conterminous United States; 1) individual reach catchments and 2) reach catchments accumulated upstream through the river network. This dataset can be linked to the NHDPlus version 2.1 data suite by the unique identifier COMID.  The source data for county-level estimates of freshwater withdrawals from 1995-2000 was produced by the United States Geological Survey (James Falcone,  USGS, written communication, 2015). Units are megaliters per year per square kilometer.  Reach catchment information characterizes data at the local scale. Reach catchments accumulated upstream through the river network characterizes cumulative upstream conditions.  Network-accumulated values are computed using two methods, 1) divergence-routed and 2) total cumulative drainage area. Both approaches use a modified routing database to navigate the NHDPlus version 2.1 reach network to aggregate (accumulate) the metrics derived from the reach catchment scale. (Schwarz and Wieczorek, 2018).

Tags: catchment, fresh-water-withdraws, inlandwaters, nawqa, nhdplus, sparrow, usgs-57c9dc05e4b0f2f0cec192f2
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital Orthorectified Aerial Image of Cottonwood Lake Study Area Wetland T3 from 1987

Orthorectified image from aerial photograph of wetland T3 in the Cottonwood Lake Study Area, Stutsman County, North Dakota. This image is part of a collection of photographs of the study area acquired during July and early August from 1975 to 2015.

Tags: aerial-photography, chase-lake-wetland-management-districtgtstutsman-county-waterfowl-production-areagteddy, chase-lake-wetland-management-districtgtstutsman-county-waterfowl-production-areagtshuler, cottonwood-lake-study-area, earth-sciencegtbiospheregtecosystemsgtaquatic-ecosystemsgtwetlands, earth-sciencegtbiospheregtecosystemsgtterrestrial-ecosystemsgtwetlands, environment, image-collections, imagerybasemapsearthcover, inlandwaters, north-dakota, northern-great-plains, platformgtaerial-photographs, prairie-pothole-region, stutsman-county, surface-water-non-marine, united-states-of-america, usgs-587548d0e4b0a829a325c82a, wetland-ecosystems
Organization: Department of the Interior
Site data (depth, pH, conductivity) at Blackrock and Togwotee Pass, Wyoming 2015-2016

These data detail the pH, depth and conductivity of a set of sites that are associated with the project detailed in the abstract below: Amphibian decline is a problem of global importance, with over 40% of species considered at risk. This phenomenon is not limited to the tropics or to other countries. Amphibian species in the U.S. are also declining, contributing to the larger, global phenomenon. For example, in the State of Wyoming, the Wyoming toad has been extirpated in the wild and the boreal toad is a species of special concern. Understanding biotic and abiotic factors that influence amphibian persistence is critical for amphibian conservation. This work in northern Wyoming has focused on demography, habitat alteration and creation, and disease in the context of multiple amphibian populations. One of the foci has been to identify the capacity for mitigation wetlands (those created to offset losses due to, for example, road construction) to serve as habitat for amphibians.  Four species of amphibians native to Wyoming, including the boreal toad, reside in this region. Our previous research indicates that the toad population at Blackrock is declining at 5-6% per year and that disease due to the amphibian chytrid fungus is contributing to this decline. Our demographic work at this site began in 2003, focusing solely on the boreal toad. Additional funding in 2012 allowed us to increase the scope of the project and assess chorus frog, salamander and Columbia spotted frog populations, invertebrate assemblages,  work to quantify the use of mitigation sites by amphibians, and to expand efforts to include sites on Togwotee Pass a short distance away from Blackrock. Because most previous studies of amphibian use of created wetlands have taken place in the eastern United States, this project, incorporating demographic and disease dynamics as well as community composition and mitigation effects of created wetlands, is unique and provides  a case study in the Intermountain West. By 2015, all four native amphibian species were observed at one of the created wetlands, and all of them, including the boreal toad, were breeding (evidenced by breeding behavior, eggs or tadpoles).

Tags: amphibians, biota, blackrock, togwotee, usgs-59f9f2bae4b0531197aff07f, wetland-ecosystems
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data for the occurrence and distribution of strontium in U.S. groundwater

Water-quality data for groundwater samples collected from 4,824 sites, and ancillary data and information on sampled wells and principal aquifers, were used to assess the occurrence and distribution of strontium in U.S. groundwater from 32 principal aquifers. This data release includes one tab-delimited text file detailing these data.
Table 1. Chemical data from the U.S. Geological Survey National Water Information System and ancillary data considered for assessment of strontium concentration in U.S. groundwater.

Tags: cycle-3, drinking-water, drinking-water-use, groundwater, hawaii, nawqa, oahu, strontium, united-states, usgs-5f43b6e882ce4c3d1222d2b0, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
St. Louis River estuary (Minnesota-Wisconsin) EFDC model scenarios for velocity profiles around Munger Landing, selected years (2012-2019)

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, ran a series of model scnearios using a predictive, mechanistic, three-dimensional hydrodynamic model for the St. Louis River Estuary (SLRE), Minnesota-Wisconsin. The original SLRE model was developed and published in the U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2020-5028. The model scenarios for this model archive were run to to produce velocity profiles for the Munger Landing area (City of Duluth, Minnesota) within the St. Louis River Estuary. Although velocity profiles can be output for any cell within the model framework, the velocity profile time series around Munger Landing in the original model release (P990OUS6) were not included. Therefore, the velocity profile time series are included in this model release for the following years: 2012, 2016, 2017, and 2019. Additionally, nested model scenarios are included for the Munger Landing area, including selected velocity profiles within the Munger Landing reach. Model grid changes to the calibrated model did not affect the overall original model calibration, with calibration statistics included with the 2016 and 2017 coarse model runs (SLRE_2016_newgrid; SLRE_2017_newgrid).

Tags: efdc, minnesota, st-louis-river, st-louis-river-estuary, surface-water, usgs-5e7e7290e4b01d5092771866, water-budget, wisconsin
Organization: Department of the Interior
Santa Ana River Native Fish Population and Habitat Data, Santa Ana River, California, 2023

This dataset includes 2023 reach fish data and reach habitat data collected to support development of the upper Santa Ana River Habitat Conservation Plan for the Santa Ana Sucker (Catostomus santaanae) and the Arroyo Chub (Gila orcuttii) in the Santa Ana River, California.

Tags: arroyo-chub-gila-orcutti, biota, habitat-use, ichthyology, population-estimate, santa-ana-sucker-catostomus-santaanae, usgs-65a6ec78d34e5af967a46794
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2018 Site 0376 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 398 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 2018 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. Four previous assessments have been conducted (2005, 2008, 2012, and 2015/2016). 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-611d2b56d34e40dd9c012970, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) age data from vibracores collected offshore central California, during field activity 2019-651-FA (ver 2.0, August 2023)

This dataset includes optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) age data from sediment cores collected offshore central California in the vicinity of Morro Bay. These data were collected aboard the M/V Bold Horizon in October 2019 for use in regional hazard assessments relating to the Hosgri Fault.

Tags: cambria, cayucos, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, coastal-processes, core-analysis, diablo-canyon, estero-bay, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, morro-bay, oceans, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pacific-ocean, pcmsc, san-luis-obispo-county, sediment, state-of-california, substrate, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-7158636b-0157-405e-a79f-5d45954dae7e
Organization: Department of the Interior
Foraminifera biostratigraphy of sediment cores from the New England Mud Patch collected on USGS Field Activity 2016-001-FA

Variability in sediment properties with depth and the thickness of individual sedimentary layers are critical determinants of seabed acoustic response. The New England Mud Patch (NEMP), located south of Cape Cod, is an unusual feature on the U.S. Continental Shelf in that it is composed of fine-grained sediment layers containing a relatively-homogeneous mix of sand, silt, and clay-sized particles bounded by more typical sandy shelf sediments.  The unique characteristics and nature of this deposit is due to a derivation of sediments that have been transported to, and deposited in, a basal bowl-shaped depression since the last glacial maximum. Ninety-two piston, vibra-, and gravity cores with a maximum length of 8.2 meters were collected from across the New England Mud Patch during a 2-leg, 10-day cruise aboard the R/V Endeavor in the spring of 2016. Geologic characterization and analysis of a subset of the cores including grain size, CaCO3, mineral composition, and bulk index properties (undrained shear strength, water content, density, and porosity) of discrete samples was carried out at the USGS Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center's (WHCMSC) Sediment Analysis Laboratory. This data release contains the results of these analyses, along with visual core descriptions and summary sheets for each core analyzed for this study.

Tags: acoustic-cores, atlantic, benthic, biostratigraphy, clay-deposits, core-analysis, cores, cruise-id-en577, faunal-and-floral-census-microscopic, foraminifera, fossils, geology, globobulimina, gravity-coring, holocene, marthas-vineyard, massachusetts, microfossils, micropaleontology, nemp, new-england-mud-patch, oceans, paleontology, piston-cores, piston-coring, planktonic, r-v-endeavor, sand-deposits, seabed-experiment-area, sediment-samples, sedimentology, stratigraphy, trigger-cores, u-s-continental-shelf, u-s-geological-survey, unconsolidated-deposits, usgs, usgs-60551da9d34e1894882d0a73, vibracores, vibracoring, whcmsc, whcmsc-field-activity-2016-001-fa, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Ecoregion sections of California deserts

The dataset delineates ecological sections within California deserts. These deserts occupy the southeastern portion of California and include two ecoregional provinces comprised of five desert regions ("ecological sections"; Miles and Goudey 1997). The American Semi-Desert and Desert Province (warm deserts) includes the Mojave Desert, Sonoran Desert, and Colorado Desert sections in the southern 83% of the California desert. The Intermountain Semi-Desert Province (cold deserts) includes the Southeastern Great Basin and Mono sections in the northern 17% of the region.

Tags: california, colorado-desert, deserts, great-basin, mojave-desert, mono, sonoran-desert, usgs-5835e1cae4b0d9329c801b7b, wildfire-regimes
Organization: Department of the Interior
Capture-mark-recapture data for chorus frogs at Blackrock, Wyoming 2010-2016

These capture-mark-recapture data for chorus frogs are associated with the project that is abstracted below:
Amphibian decline is a problem of global importance, with over 40% of species considered at risk. This phenomenon is not limited to the tropics or to other countries. Amphibian species in the U.S. are also declining, contributing to the larger, global phenomenon. For example, in the State of Wyoming, the Wyoming toad has been extirpated in the wild and the boreal toad is a species of special concern. Understanding biotic and abiotic factors that influence amphibian persistence is critical for amphibian conservation. This work in northern Wyoming has focused on demography, habitat alteration and creation, and disease in the context of multiple amphibian populations. One of the foci has been to identify the capacity for mitigation wetlands (those created to offset losses due to, for example, road construction) to serve as habitat for amphibians.  Four species of amphibians native to Wyoming, including the boreal toad, reside in this region. Our previous research indicates that the toad population at Blackrock is declining at 5-6% per year and that disease due to the amphibian chytrid fungus is contributing to this decline. Our demographic work at this site began in 2003, focusing solely on the boreal toad. Additional funding in 2012 allowed us to increase the scope of the project and assess chorus frog, salamander and Columbia spotted frog populations, invertebrate assemblages,  work to quantify the use of mitigation sites by amphibians, and to expand efforts to include sites on Togwotee Pass a short distance away from Blackrock. Because most previous studies of amphibian use of created wetlands have taken place in the eastern United States, this project, incorporating demographic and disease dynamics as well as community composition and mitigation effects of created wetlands, is unique and provides  a case study in the Intermountain West. By 2015, all four native amphibian species were observed at one of the created wetlands, and all of them, including the boreal toad, were breeding (evidenced by breeding behavior, eggs or tadpoles).

Tags: biota, blackrock, chorus-frogs, usgs-59f9f2bae4b0531197aff07b, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
A reference genome assembly for the endangered Aga or Mariana Crow (Corvus kubaryi)

The Aga, also known as the Mariana Crow, is an endangered endemic crow of the Northern Mariana Islands, a Commonwealth of the United States of America. The only known population currently extant is on the island of Rota and has been in decline over the past two decades. Unknown pathogens are among the factors that may be contributing to this decline. To support metagenomic and transcriptomic analysis of potential disease agents, a reference genome was generated and gene features comprehensively annotated. The methods used and data availability are described. 
This data release consists of:
1. Gene annotations for the endangered Aga or Mariana Crow, including summary statistics, that are available from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/annotation_euk/Corvus_kubaryi/100/
2. Raw.data.accessions.txt. A summary of raw data accessions deposited in NCBI databases used to complete the reference genome and gene annotation. The format is tab-delimited text, available at https://doi.org/10.5066/P9XSS01V.  
3. Supernova.assembly.report.txt. A table describing the input data for genome assembly and output statistics of the final assembly, as computed by the supernova assembly program, in tab-delimited text and available at https://doi.org/10.5066/P9XSS01V.  Additional information about these assembly parameters, including the algorithms used to compute them and expected ranges, are described in Weisenfeld et al. 2017.

Tags: biota, birds, genetics, northern-mariana-islands, rota, usgs-634715e4d34ec63c539cdc3d
Organization: Department of the Interior
Watershed characteristics for study sites of the Surface Water Trends project, National Water Quality Program

This product consists of 29 datasets of tabular data and associated metadata for watershed characteristics of 1,530 study sites of the Surface Water Trends (SWT) project of the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) National Water Quality Program (NWQP).  The project is conducting national studies of trends in water quality of streams and rivers for periods ranging from 10 to 40 years, between 1972 and 2012. The data here include both static and time-series characteristics.  Static data include primarily physical characteristics which have changed little over this period, such as geology, soils, and topography.  Time-series data represent characteristics which may or may not have changed over time, such as land use, agricultural practices, precipitation, hydrologic modifications, atmospheric deposition, and population changes.

Tags: atmospheric-deposition, basin-morphology, census-of-agriculture, conterminous-us, crop-practices, crop-reserve-program, fertilizer, forest-canopy, geographic-information-systems, geology, geospatial-analysis, geospatial-datasets, housing, hydrologic-modifications, hydrology, imperviousness, income, inlandwaters, land-use, land-use-change, manure, minerals-and-metals, net-primary-productivity, nhdplus, nitrogen-application, normalized-difference-vegetation-index, oil-and-gas, phenology, phosphorus-application, point-source, population-change, precipitation, protected-areas, puerto-rico, regions, riparian-land-use, roads, snow-cover, soils, temperature, topography, trends, united-states, urbanization, usgs-58a5b804e4b057081a24f20c, water-use, watershed, watershed-boundaries
Organization: Department of the Interior
04: National Land Cover Database land cover at 15 watersheds in Gwinnett County, Georgia from 2001 to 2019

This dataset contains the percentage of 14 National Land Cover Database (NLCD) land cover classes within the drainage areas of 15 watersheds in Gwinnett County, Georgia from 2001 to 2019. The dataset includes scenes from eight years, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2011, 2013, 2016, and 2019, which were analyzed using a consistent approach so that they could be used to assess land cover changes. The NLCD dataset is derived from Landsat imagery and has a grid size of 30 meters. The fourteen land cover classes were categorized into eight land cover groups to simplify the presentation of watershed land cover characteristics (1. developed, low intensity; 2. developed, medium intensity; 3. developed, high intensity; 4. developed, open space; 5. agriculture; 6. forest; 7. fields/open; and 8. water/wetlands).

Tags: environment, gwinnett-county, imagerybasemapsearthcover, inlandwaters, land-use-and-land-cover, state-of-georgia, usgs-63503d4ed34e47431c15c5a1, watershed
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastal Interferometric Swath Bathymetry Data Collected in 2015 from the Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana: 2015_Chand_IFB_5m_NAD83_NAVD88_GEOID09_XYZ

The U.S. Geological Survey St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center (USGS SPCMSC), collected swath bathymetry data offshore of the Northern Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana in September 2015.  This USGS Data Release includes the resulting processed elevation point data (xyz) and an interpolated digital elevation model (DEM). For further information regarding data collection and/or processing methods, refer to previously published USGS Data Series 847 and 848 (https://doi.org/10.3133/ds8487 and https://doi.org10.3133/ds848)
      

Tags: 2015-331-fa, barrier-island-evolution-research-project, barrier-island-mapping, bathymetry, chandeleur-islands, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, datum, elevation, epipelagic, geophysical, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, gulf-of-mexico, hydrography, ifb, imagerybasemapsearthcover, interferometric-bathymetry, interferometry, location, louisiana, marine-geology, oceans, sea, sea-surface, shoreline, spcmsc, st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, swath, swathplus-h, systems-engineering-and-assessment, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-d2f5f361-d1a4-4445-b45b-d04e3d372e9e
Organization: Department of the Interior
Estimated crop irrigation water use withdrawals in Butler Valley Groundwater Basin, Arizona for 2023

Observations of irrigated agricultural land within the Butler Valley Groundwater Basin in Arizona. Digitized field boundaries were used to locate crops for in situ verification twice in 2023; crop verification occurred first on May 10th and again on Sept 28th. Field boundaries were digitized from U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Imagery Program County Mosaic 2023 imagery for Arizona and supplemented with Sentinel2 imagery collection accessed via the European Space Agency Copernicus Browser (https://browser.dataspace.copernicus.eu/). Satellite images were also used to identify the length of the growing season and crop condition. Water withdrawals were calculated using the modified Blaney-Criddle model of calculating consumptive use (U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1992 appendix A) using crop coefficients from Doorenbos and Pruitt (1975), the number of acres with active crops, crop condition, and irrigation system efficiency. The withdrawal equation was modified from "Water withdrawals for irrigation, municipal, mining, thermoelectric-power, and drainage uses in Arizona outside of active management areas, 1991-2000" (Tadayon, 2005) to account for variations in water application.

Tags: agricultural-sites, arizona, butler-valley-groundwater-basin, groundwater, irrigation, la-paz, usgs-66677605d34e9bcc607b23a8, water-use
Organization: Department of the Interior