AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
High-Water Mark Survey of July 10, 2018, Flood at I-10 Frontage Rd at Twin Peaks Rd, Marana, AZ

A train derailment occurred in Marana, Arizona, on July 10, 2018. Runoff from a severe thunderstorm was flowing over the tracks at the time and may have contributed to the derailment. At the request of the Pima County Regional Flood Control District, USGS collected high-water marks for the flood event upstream from the derailment area.

Tags: flood-stage, gps, high-water-marks, marana-arizona, pima-county, usgs-5b4cda2de4b06a6dd17b7c7c
Organization: Department of the Interior
Bathymetry of Williams Lake near Loretto, Kentucky, April 9–10, 2018

These data are bathymetry (lake bottom elevation) in XYZ format, generated from the April 9–10, 2018, survey of Bourbon Lake and Williams Lake near Loretto, Kentucky. Bathymetric and topographic data were collected using an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) and a real-time kinematic global positioning system (GPS). Data were collected as the AUV traversed the lake along planned survey lines, and these data were supplemented by manual GPS shots in a few areas the AUV could not reach. Data collection software integrated and stored the depth and position data from the AUV in real time. Data processing required computer software to extract bathymetry data from the raw data files and to summarize and map the information.

Tags: bathymetry, kentucky, lake, loretto, united-states-of-america, usgs-5b11ab7be4b092d9651bad8f, williams-lake, xyz
Organization: Department of the Interior
Electrical geophysical data collected in the shallow sediments of Snake Pond, Cape Cod, USA

Quantification of mobile/less-mobile porosity dynamics at the sediment/water interface is critical to predicting contaminant storage, release, and transformation processes. Zones in groundwater flow-through lakes where lake water recharges the aquifer can strongly control aquifer water quality. Less-mobile porosity has previously been characterized in aquifers using flow path scale (10's of m+) tracer injections 
which are analyzed using numerical models. Methodology was recently developed to couple geoelectric measurements (bulk electrical conductivity, EC), which are directly sensitive to less-mobile ionic tracer exchange processes, with pumped fluid EC tracer data over time. If the fluid EC concentration history is assumed
to reflect the more mobile porosity exchange processes, these paired fluid and bulk EC measurements can be used to quantify less-mobile porosity exchange in discrete cm-scale packets of sediment at the interface between surface and groundwater. For this study, tracer experiments were conducted in multiple rate-controlled
downward flow experiments over several days. Although the bed was composed predominantly of highly permeable sands and gravels, which is not an intuitive sediment texture for less-mobile porosity, embedded cobbles created areas of less-mobile flow zones proximal to large cobbles. 
These experimental findings are described in detail in the associated publication: Briggs, M.A., Day-Lewis, F.D., Dehkordy, F.M.P., Hampton, T., Zarnetske, J.P., Singha, K., Harvey, J.W. and Lane, J.W.(2018), Direct observations of hydrologic exchange occurring with less-mobile porosity and the development of anoxic microzones in sandy lakebed sediments, Water Resources Research, DOI:10.1029/2018WR022823.

Tags: environment, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, groundwater, hydrogeology, hydrology, inlandwaters, massachusetts, measurement, sandwich, seepage, snake-pond, surface-water, tracer, usgs-5b11a94ce4b092d9651bad75
Organization: Department of the Interior
Annual winter-spring nitrogen loads for the Susquehanna and Potomac Rivers, 1985 to 2018

Winter-spring nitrogen loads as measured at the Susquehanna River at Conowingo Maryland and Potomac River at Washington, D.C. have been determined to be an effective indicator of summer anoxic and hypoxic volume in Chesapeake Bay. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) provides an estimate of winter-spring nitrogen loadings to support an annual forecast of summer Chesapeake Bay conditions. The specific period of estimation includes the months of January through May. This forecast is coordinated through an established relationship with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), University of Maryland Center for Estuarine Science (UMCES) and Maryland's Department of Natural Resources. The results presented here are updated annually, and are revised as additional monitoring results are available. The results presented here cover the period 1985 through 2018.

Tags: chesapeake-bay, nitrogen-load, potomac-river, susquehanna-river, usgs-5b118b5de4b092d9651bac44
Organization: Department of the Interior
Bathymetry of Bourbon Lake and Williams Lake near Loretto, Kentucky, April 9–10, 2018

These data are bathymetry (lake bottom elevation) in XYZ format, generated from the April 9–10, 2018, survey of Bourbon Lake and Williams Lake near Loretto, Kentucky. Bathymetric and topographic data were collected using an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) and a real-time kinematic global positioning system (GPS). Data were collected as the AUV traversed the lake along planned survey lines, and these data were supplemented by manual GPS shots in a few areas the AUV could not reach. Data collection software integrated and stored the depth and position data from the AUV in real time. Data processing required computer software to extract bathymetry data from the raw data files and to summarize and map the information.

Tags: bathymetry, bourbon-lake, kentucky, lake, loretto, united-states-of-america, usgs-5b1045c5e4b0c39c934b283a, williams-lake, xyz
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data for Frictional Properties and 3-D Stress Analysis of the Southern Alpine Fault, New Zealand (2013)

New Zealand’s Alpine Fault (AF) ruptures quasi-periodically in large-magnitude earthquakes. Paleoseismological evidence suggests that about half of all recognized AF earthquakes terminated at the boundary between the Central and South Westland sections of the fault. There, fault geometry and the polarity of uplift change. The South Westland AF exhibits oblique-normal fault motion on a structure oriented 055/82SE that, for at least 35 km along strike, contains saponite-rich principal slip zone gouges. New hydrothermal friction experiments reveal that the saponite fault gouge is frictionally weak, exhibiting friction coefficients between =0.12 and =0.16 for a range of temperatures (T=25–210 C) and effective normal stresses (n'=31.2–93.6 MPa). The saponite gouge is rate-strengthening in all velocity steps performed at velocities between 0.01 and 3.0 m/s, behavior conducive to aseismic creep. A three-dimensional stress analysis shows that the South Westland AF is favorably oriented with respect to the regional stress field for slip within the frictionally weak saponite fault gouge. Geometrically, the fault is severely misoriented for slip in any fault-forming materials with friction coefficients exceeding ~0.5. The combination of weak gouges prone to aseismic creep, strong asperities, and low resolved shear stress may impede earthquake rupture propagation along the South Westland Alpine Fault.

Tags: earthquake-hazard, frictional-strength, stress-state, usgs-5b1019f1e4b0c39c934b22fe
Organization: Department of the Interior
Declustered earthquake catalog without duplicates for the western U.S.

A methodology has been developed at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) for making earthquake catalogs for seismic hazard analysis.  A new catalog is assembled from several preexisting catalogs.  Uniform moment magnitudes and related parameters for estimating unbiased seismicity rates are calculated.  Duplicates, explosions, mining-related earthquakes, and induced earthquakes are flagged, and the catalog is declustered.  Distinct catalogs are made for the central and eastern U.S. and the western U.S.  This data set is the declustered catalog without duplicates for the western U.S.

Tags: arizona, california, colorado, earthquake, hazard, idaho, induced, montana, natural, nevada, new-mexico, oregon, seismic, texas, united-states, usa, usgs-5b18188be4b092d965219acf, utah, washington, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Annual survival, site fidelity, and longevity in the eastern population of the Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris)

Data comprise 6632 observations of individually banded Painted Buntings, captured and observed from 1999-2016 at 40 study locations on the southeastern Atlantic Coast (NC, SC, GA and FL, US).

Tags: painted-bunting, usgs-5b0ef3dbe4b0c39c934b197f
Organization: Department of the Interior
Survey of major and trace elements in stormwater runoff from across the United States, 2016 to 2017.

This study focuses on providing a broad-scale assessment of composition of water chemistry in urban stormwater runoff.  The stormwater runoff is a source of recharge to groundwater by Green Infrastructure (GI) practices or it may become a source of recharge to groundwater to reduce stormwater volumes to surface waters or augment groundwater supply. The chemical composition of the stormwater runoff is important to understanding the potential impacts of surface water recharge to groundwater. In this study, 21 field sites were sampled for stormwater runoff during 50 storm events from 7/28/2016 through 12/8/2017. Major elements were measured by inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectrometry and trace elements were measured by inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry. Each sample was analyzed in triplicate and the averages and standard deviations are reported. The results from analyses of associated quality assurance samples (field blanks, field duplicates, and average laboratory blanks) also are presented.

Tags: major-elements, rare-earth-elements, stormwater-runoff-chemistry, trace-elements, usgs-5b0ec150e4b0c39c934b13e0
Organization: Department of the Interior
Groundwater age-tracing data and models in a PFOA-contaminated bedrock aquifer, North Bennington, Vermont

We computed mean groundwater ages and age distributions at eight wells by calibrating lumped parameter models (LPMs) to concentrations of tracers (3H, CFCs, SF6) in samples using the computer program TracerLPM (Jurgens and others, 2012). We also measured 14C but all samples contained ancient carbonate from the limestone bedrock, and we were unable to resolve the atmospherically-derived 14C sufficiently to use it as a tracer. Tritium was below the detection level in two of the eight well-water samples, indicating the water was recharged prior to about 1950. Groundwater from the other six wells could be fitted to LPMs that were either piston flow models (PFM), exponential – piston flow models (EPM), or binary mixing combinations of PFM and EPM (see Jurgens and others (2012) for model descriptions). Tracer concentrations in samples from three wells were best described using simple models (one PFM and two EPMs), and had mean ages ranging from 22 to 28 years. Tracer concentrations in one well-water sample were fit using a binary EPM-PFM model, and had a mean age of 22 years; water older than 70 years contributed 11% of the water. Tracer concentrations in groundwater from the two remaining wells were fit using binary PFM-PFM models, each with a very young fraction (2.9 and 6.6 years) and a &gt;70 year fraction. In both cases the older component represented about 30% of the water. The modeled groundwater ages and transport mechanisms suggested by the models were consistent with our conceptual model of the hydrogeologic framework and helped to constrain the timescale of movement of PFOA contaminant within the aquifer.
Jurgens, B.C., Böhlke, J.K., and Eberts, S.M., 2012, TracerLPM (Version 1): An Excel® workbook for interpreting groundwater age distributions from environmental tracer data: U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods Report 4-F3, 60 p., https://pubs.usgs.gov/tm/4-f3/.

Tags: bennington, dissolved-gas, groundwater, groundwater-age, lumped-parameter-modeling, new-england, north-bennington, pfoa, recharge-temperature, usgs-5b0ebb45e4b0c39c934b13a8, vermont, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Microbiology of the Utica Shale

In order to determine the innate microbial community of shale gas reservoirs and how they are impacted by hydraulic fracturing, this study analyzed biomass collected from produced water and rock from hydraulically fractured wells in the Utica Shale. The samples include rock chips from a drill core from one Utica well, produced water from that same Utica well, and produced water from 12 different Utica wells that had been in production between 1-5 years, spanning the oil and gas windows of SE Ohio. 
The samples were filtered for biomass, extracted, amplified, and 16S rRNA gene sequencing was performed on the Illumina MiSeq platform.

Tags: 16s-rrna-gene-sequencing, field-sampling, hydraulic-fracturing, microbial-ecology, produced-water, shale, southeastern-ohio, time-series, usgs-5b0ea0fde4b0c39c934b132e, utica-shale
Organization: Department of the Interior
Ar isotope data for pre- and post-caldera rhyolites associated with the Mesa Falls Tuff, Yellowstone Plateau volcanic field

The data are the results of mass spectrometer experiments to measure 40Ar/39Ar ages of sanidine crystals hosted in Yellowstone rhyolites. The data were collected using a MAP216 noble gas mass spectrometer and a Nu Noblesse noble gas mass spectrometer at the USGS facility in Menlo Park, Calif.

Tags: geochronology, usgs-5b0df6fce4b0c39c934b0f55
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data for the U.S. Geological Survey Precipitation Chemistry Quality Assurance Project for the National Atmospheric Deposition Program, 1978–2017

The USGS Precipitation Chemistry Quality Assurance Project (PCQA) operates QA programs to challenge and test the National Atmospheric Deposition Program (NADP) data-collection processes for both the National Trends Network (NTN) and Mercury Deposition Network (MDN).  PCQA data are available in separate tables for each quality-assurance program:  (1) Intersite comparison for field pH and specific conductance, (2) Blind Audit for NTN,  (3) Sample Handling Evaluation for NTN, (4) Interlaboratory-comparison for NTN, (5) Interlaboratory-comparison program for MDN, (6) Field-Audit program for NTN, (7) System-Blank program for MDN, (8) MDN Blind Audit program, and (9) Colocated Sampler program for NTN.  Measured parameters include precipitation depth, pH, specific conductance, and ion concentrations for calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium, ammoium, chloride, bromide, nitrate, sulfate, phosphate, and total mercury.

Tags: bandelier-national-monument, canyonlands-national-park-island-in-the-sky, grand-canyon-national-park, great-smoky-mountains-national-park, guadelupe-mountains-national-park, hubbard-brook, lake-scott-state-park, mount-rainier-national-park, national-atmospheric-deposition-program-quality-assurance-quality-control-branch-of-quality-sys, proctor-maple-research-center, rocky-mountain-national-park, salt-plains-national-wildlife-refuge, usgs-5b0dbb48e4b0c39c934b081c, wildcat-mountain-state-park, yosemite-national-park
Organization: Department of the Interior
Indian Wells Valley, California, sub-watersheds for the Basin Characterization Model

This data Set includes: 
1) A shapefile of the Indian Wells Valley sub watersheds containing 9 sub-watersheds,  
2) Geology shapefile of all the watersheds 
3) Vegetation shapefile of all the watersheds 
4) Basin Characterization Model (BCM) model output of recharge values for all the watersheds from 3 model runs (CanESM2, CCSM4, and HadGEM2-CC)

Tags: bcm-climate, california, climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, geoscientificinformation, hydrology, indian-wells-valley, inlandwaters, model, recharge, runoff, united-states, usgs-5b4cd6a4e4b06a6dd17b0bad
Organization: Department of the Interior
Depth to Mesozoic basement for the USGS National Crustal Model

We present a numeric grid containing estimates of the depth to the pre-Cenozoic basement for the western United States. Values for these grids were combined and integrated from previous studies or derived directly from gravity analyses. The grids are provided with 1-km grid-node spacing in WGS84 latitude-longitude coordinates. Detailed information regarding the derivation of these estimates is provided by Shah, A.K. and Boyd, O.S., 2018, Depth to basement and thickness of unconsolidated sediments for the western United States - Initial estimates for layers of the U.S. Geological Survey National Crustal Model: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2018-1115, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20181115.

Tags: arizona, basement, basins, california, cggsc, colorado, depth-to-basement, earthquake-response, earthquakes, geologic-hazards-science-center, geology-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center, geoscientificinformation, ghsc, gravity, hazards, idaho, montana, national-crustal-model, nevada, new-mexico, oregon, regional-study, three-dimensional-mapping, usgs-5b0d85eee4b0c39c934b0429, washington, western-united-states, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Thickness of unconsolidated sediments for the USGS National Crustal Model

We present a numeric grid containing estimates of the thickness of unconsolidated sediments for the western United States. Values for these grids were combined and integrated from previous studies or derived directly from gravity analyses. The grids are provided with 1-km grid-node spacing in WGS84 latitude-longitude coordinates. Detailed information regarding the derivation of these estimates is provided by Shah, A.K, and Boyd, O.S., 2018, Depth to basement and thickness of unconsolidated sediments for the western United States - Initial estimates for layers of the U.S. Geological Survey National Crustal Model: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2018-1115, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20181115.

Tags: arizona, basins, california, cggsc, colorado, earthquake-response, earthquakes, geologic-hazards-science-center, geology-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center, geoscientificinformation, ghsc, gravity, hazards, idaho, kansas, montana, national-crustal-model, nebraska-west, nevada, new-mexico, north-dakota-west, oklahoma-panhandle, oregon, regional-study, sediments, south-dakota-west, texas-west, three-dimensional-mapping, unconsolidated-sediments, usgs-5b0d85d4e4b0c39c934b0420, washington, western-united-states, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Projected inundation on Laysan Island, resulting from various scenarios of sea-level rise, groundwater rise and storm waves

This dataset (in ESRI file geodatabase format) contains inundation areas for various future scenarios of sea-level rise (SLR), groundwater rise, and storm waves at Laysan Island in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Five types of inundation scenarios are considered: 
(1) passive SLR,
(2) passive SLR including groundwater rise,
(3) wave-driven inundation during storm events,
(4) wave-driven inundation during storm events including groundwater rise, and
(5) wave-driven inundation during storm events, assuming unlimited seawater volumes and no infiltration (theoretical maximum).
For each of these five scenarios, five different levels of SLR are considered: 0.00 m, +0.50 m, +1.00 m, +1.50 m, and +2.00 m. We considered each scenario at mean high water in order to predict inundation during the more damaging part of the tidal range. Each of the above types of inundation have their own feature dataset within the geodatabase, named as follows:
(1) Passive,
(2) PassiveGW,
(3) WaveDriven,
(4) WaveDrivenGW, and
(5) WaveDriven_TheoreticalMax, 
Each of these feature datasets contain five feature classes labeled in a manner that indicates the SLR scenario under consideration. For instance, within the dataset "Passive", there are five feature classes: Passive_SLR_00cm, Passive_SLR_50cm, Passive_SLR_100cm, Passive_SLR_150cm, and Passive_SLR_200cm. Thus in total there are 25 feature classes (5 for each type of scenario considered).
More detailed descriptions of the inundation scenarios modeled here can be found in the associated larger work: Predicting sea-level rise vulnerability of terrestrial habitat and wildlife of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2012–1182. Chapter 2.

Tags: groundwater, inundation, laysan-island, northwestern-hawaiian-islands, sea-level-change, storm-events, usgs-5b088b8fe4b0ac450c9a6beb
Organization: Department of the Interior
Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Sea-level Rise Scenarios and Models 2010-2015

This data release consists of two ESRI geodatabases that store inundation areas for various future scenarios of sea-level rise (SLR), groundwater rise, and storm waves for Laysan Island and Midway Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Five types of inundation scenarios are considered: 
(1) passive SLR,
(2) passive SLR including groundwater rise,
(3) wave-driven inundation during storm events,
(4) wave-driven inundation during storm events including groundwater rise, and
(5) wave-driven inundation during storm events, assuming unlimited seawater volumes and no infiltration (i.e., theoretical maximum). This scenario applies only to Laysan Island which has topographic depressions that fill with water during flood events.
For each of these scenarios, five different levels of SLR are considered: 0.00 m, +0.50 m, +1.00 m, +1.50 m, and +2.00 m. We considered each scenario at mean high water in order to predict inundation during the more damaging part of the tidal range. Each of the above types of inundation have their own feature dataset within the geodatabase, named as follows:
(1) Passive,
(2) PassiveGW,
(3) WaveDriven,
(4) WaveDrivenGW, and
(5) WaveDriven_TheoreticalMax (applies to Laysan Island only).
Each of these feature datasets contains five feature classes labeled in a manner that indicates the SLR scenario under consideration. For instance, within the dataset "Passive", there are five feature classes: Passive_SLR_00cm, Passive_SLR_50cm, Passive_SLR_100cm, Passive_SLR_150cm, and Passive_SLR_200cm.

Tags: groundwater, inundation, laysan-island, midway-atoll, northwestern-hawaiian-islands, sea-level-change, storm-events, usgs-5b088659e4b0ac450c9a6be1
Organization: Department of the Interior