AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Amite and Comite Rivers Combined Flood Map Files

A slow-moving area of low pressure and a high amount of atmospheric moisture produced heavy rainfall across Louisiana and southwest Mississippi in August 2016. Over 31 inches of rain was reported in Watson, 30 miles northeast of Baton Rouge, over the duration of the event. The result was major flooding that occurred in the southern portions of Louisiana and included areas surrounding Baton Rouge and Lafayette along rivers such as the Amite, Comite, Tangipahoa, Tickfaw, Vermilion, and Mermentau. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center operates many continuous, streamflow-gaging stations in the impacted area.  Peak streamflows of record were measured at 10 locations, and seven other locations experienced peak streamflows ranking in the top 5 for the duration of the period of record. In August 2016, USGS personnel  made fifty streamflow measurements at 21 locations on streams in Louisiana. Many of those streamflow measurements were made for the purpose of verifying the accuracy of the stage-streamflow relation at the associated gaging station. USGS personnel also recovered and documented 590 high-water marks after the storm event by noting the location and height of the water above land surface. Many of these high water marks were used to create twelve flood-inundation maps for selected communities of Louisiana that experienced flooding in August 2016. This data release provides the actual flood-depth measurements made in selected river basins of Louisiana that were used to produce the flood-inundation maps published in the companion product (Watson and others, 2017). 
Reference
Watson, K.M., Storm, J.B., Breaker, B.K., and Rose, C.E., 2017, Characterization of peak streamflows and flood inundation of selected areas in Louisiana from the August 2016 flood: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2017–5005, 26 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20175005.

Tags: boundaries, boundary-extent-study-area-high-water-marks-flooded-area-flood-geospatial-analysis-river-stream, elevation, inlandwaters, usgs-586a92e5e4b0f5ce109fa6af
Organization: Department of the Interior
Attributes related to sediment supply, transport capacity, and bed material of 97 streams in the Midwestern US (2013)

Physical attributes of 97 streams in the Midwestern US characterizing sediment supply, sediment transport capacity, and stream bed material. Attributes include basin characteristics compiled with geographic information system and statistical summaries of field measurements of channel form, bed material, and suspended sediment. Data were used by Konrad and Gellis, 'Factors influencing fine sediment on stream bed in the Midwestern US' (manuscript in review) to develop regression models of fine sediment in Midwestern streams.

Tags: fine-sediment, fluvial-geomorphology, stream-quality, usgs-586be7b2e4b0f5ce109fa7ab
Organization: Department of the Interior
Catalog of relocated earthquake hypocenters and local velocity model for the 2016 Mw 5.8 Pawnee, Oklahoma, sequence

This dataset contains the supplemental information for the article "Oklahoma experiences largest earthquake during ongoing regional wastewater injection hazard mitigation efforts" published in Geophysical Research Letters. Included is a table of relocated earthquake hypocenters and the velocity model used in the event relocations. These locations form the basis of the analysis presented in the article.

Tags: earth-science, earthquake-hazard, earthquake-hazards-program, geologic-hazards-science-center, geophysics, hypocenter, pawnee-oklahoma, seismic-hazard, seismology, united-states, usgs, usgs-586c08c6e4b0f5ce109fa810
Organization: Department of the Interior
Kanakaleonui Bird Corridor Montane Plants 2016

The datasets used in the the research project entitled, "Facilitating Adaptation in Montane Plants to Changing Precipitation along an Elevation Gradient," are presented. One dataset includes survival of individual seedlings after 20 weeks, along with the seedling location and associated summarized temperature and soil moisture values. Another dataset includes growth over time of individual seedlings, along with the seedling location and associated summarized temperature and soil moisture values. All weather data (temperature, soil moisture, and relative humidity summary statistics) considered for the analyses are provided in another file. Seed collection data, including locations and dates of each plant species are also provided. More descriptive information can be found with individual file metadata.

Tags: climate-change, montane-parkland, restoration, usgs-586c0906e4b0f5ce109fa812
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital Orthorectified Aerial Image of Cottonwood Lake Study Area Wetland T4 from 1978

Orthorectified image from aerial photograph of wetland T4 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-586c1d0fe4b0f5ce109fa84c, wetland-ecosystems
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital Orthorectified Aerial Image of Cottonwood Lake Study Area Wetland T6 from 1978

Orthorectified image from aerial photograph of wetland T6 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-586c235be4b0f5ce109fa855, wetland-ecosystems
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital Orthorectified Aerial Image of Cottonwood Lake Study Area Wetland T8 from 1978

Orthorectified image from aerial photograph of wetland T8 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-586d08a6e4b0f5ce109fa9b9, wetland-ecosystems
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mössbauer Spectral Data of Vermiculite Ore

Data are provide for four samples of unexpanded vermiculite ore from mines near Enoree, South Carolina; Libby, Montana; Louisa, Virginia; Palabora, and South Africa.  ASCII text files listings of Mossbauer data for each sample are provided in comma-separated by value (csv) files. These files have the file naming structure sampleid_mossbauer_spectra.csv, where sampleid is a unique alphanumeric code for each sample.  These samples were chosen as representative of the ores from their various mine sources, having documentation verifying that they were collected directly from their sources.

Tags: central-minerals-and-environmental-resources-science-center, cggsc, chemical-analysis, china, cmersc, crustal-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center, electron-probe-microanalysis, elongate-amphiboles, enoree, environment, expanded-vermiculite, geoscientificinformation, jiangsu, libby, louisa, mineral-deposits, mineral-resources-program, mineralogy, montana, mrp, palabora, provenance, reflectance-spectroscopy, scanning-electron-microscopy, south-africa, south-carolina, spectroscopy, usgs-586d310de4b0f5ce109faa4b, vermiculite-insulation, virginia, vspec-technique, x-ray-diffraction
Organization: Department of the Interior
Spectra of Expanded Vermiculite Samples

This dataset contains descriptions and analytical data (i.e., electron microprobe, X-ray diffraction, spectral reflectance, and scanning electron microprobe analyses) for expanded vermiculite samples. These data are provided for 52 samples of vermiculite attic insulation, horticultural products, aggregate, and packing materials derived from mines near Enoree, South Carolina; Libby, Montana; Louisa, Virginia; Palabora, South Africa; and Jiangsu, China collected from 2000 to 2016. Tables of electron microprobe and spectral absorption information are also included along with ascii listings of spectral reflectance for each sample. Some of these samples, particularly the ones from Libby, Montana contain bundles of elongate amphibole capable of causing asbestosis, lung cancer, and mesothelioma.

Tags: central-minerals-and-environmental-resources-science-center, cggsc, chemical-analysis, china, cmersc, crustal-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center, electron-probe-microanalysis, elongate-amphiboles, enoree, environment, expanded-vermiculite, geoscientificinformation, jiangsu, libby, louisa, mineral-deposits, mineral-resources-program, mineralogy, montana, mrp, palabora, provenance, reflectance-spectroscopy, scanning-electron-microscopy, south-africa, south-carolina, spectroscopy, usgs-586d312ee4b0f5ce109faa4d, vermiculite-insulation, virginia, vspec-technique, x-ray-diffraction
Organization: Department of the Interior
Expanded Vermiculite Sample Descriptions

This folder contains descriptions and analytical data (i.e., electron microprobe, X-ray diffraction, spectral reflectance, and scanning electron microprobe analyses) for unexpanded and expanded vermiculite samples. These data are provided for 52 samples of vermiculite attic insulation, horticultural products, aggregate, and packing materials derived from mines near Enoree, South Carolina; Libby, Montana; Louisa, Virginia; Palabora, South Africa; and Jiangsu, China collected from 2000 to 2016.  X-ray diffraction data for a limited set of the 52 expanded vermiculite samples are also given in figures included in the sample description pdf files. Quantitative XRD diffractograms are included for an ore sample from each of the four major historical vermiculite sources. Scanning Electron micrographs of the expanded vermiculite samples or their sink fractions are also presented in the sample description pdf files.  Provenance diagrams based on electron probe microanalysis and reflectance spectroscopy are provided for each of the 52 expanded vermiculite samples.  Some of these samples, particularly the ones from Libby, Montana contain bundles of elongate amphibole capable of causing asbestosis, lung cancer, and mesothelioma.

Tags: central-minerals-and-environmental-resources-science-center, cggsc, chemical-analysis, china, cmersc, crustal-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center, electron-probe-microanalysis, elongate-amphiboles, enoree, environment, expanded-vermiculite, geoscientificinformation, jiangsu, libby, louisa, mineral-deposits, mineral-resources-program, mineralogy, montana, mrp, palabora, provenance, reflectance-spectroscopy, scanning-electron-microscopy, south-africa, south-carolina, spectroscopy, usgs-586d3147e4b0f5ce109faa4f, vermiculite-insulation, virginia, vspec-technique, x-ray-diffraction
Organization: Department of the Interior
Table of Electron Probe Microanalyses of Vermiculite Samples

This dataset contains results from electron microprobe analyses for expanded and unexpanded vermiculite samples. These data are provide for samples of vermiculite ore, expanded vermiculite insulation, horticultural products, aggregate, and packing materials derived from mines near Enoree, South Carolina; Libby, Montana; Louisa, Virginia; Palabora, South Africa; Jiangsu, China; and Llano, Texas. An ASCII text file of results is provided in comma-separated by value (csv) format. The file has the name “vermiculite_probe_microanalyses_data.csv”.

Tags: central-minerals-and-environmental-resources-science-center, cggsc, chemical-analysis, china, cmersc, crustal-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center, electron-probe-microanalysis, elongate-amphiboles, enoree, environment, expanded-vermiculite, geoscientificinformation, jiangsu, libby, louisa, mineral-deposits, mineral-resources-program, mineralogy, montana, mrp, palabora, provenance, reflectance-spectroscopy, scanning-electron-microscopy, south-africa, south-carolina, spectroscopy, usgs-586d4171e4b0f5ce109fc75c, vermiculite-insulation, virginia, vspec-technique, x-ray-diffraction
Organization: Department of the Interior
A refined electrofishing technique for collecting Silver Carp: Implications for management.  Supporting data

The table provides all fish collected using two different electrofishing methods at Illinois River sites in 2012 and 2013. Length and weights were taken on most species and gender was taken from Silver Carp. Fishes were categorized whether they were netters (caught by nets) or jumpers (jumped in the boat while sampling) and only netters were used in analyses. Large numbers of shad were collected in 2013 and an additional spreadsheet includes abundance data in an aggregated form for those sites. The data is not sensitive/classified and there are no legal restrictions on who may obtain or use the data.

Tags: acoustic-doppler-current-profiling, electrofishing, field-sampling, fish, fisheries, fishery-resources, fishes, fishing-with-benthic-mobile-gear, illinois, illinois-river, native-fish-community, upper-mississippi-river-system, usgs-586d50b2e4b0f5ce109fc7d3
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital Orthorectified Aerial Image of Cottonwood Lake Study Area Wetland P4 from 1979

Orthorectified image from aerial photograph of wetland P4 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-586d5dcde4b0f5ce109fc822, wetland-ecosystems
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital Orthorectified Aerial Image of Cottonwood Lake Study Area Wetland T3 from 1979

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-586d65ffe4b0f5ce109fc88b, wetland-ecosystems
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mass-wasting triggered by the 2010 Haiti earthquake

This inventory was originally created by Gorum and others (2013) describing the landslides triggered by the M 7.0 Haiti earthquake that occurred on 12 January 2010 at 21:53:10 UTC. Care should be taken when comparing with other inventories because different authors use different mapping techniques. This inventory also could be associated with other earthquakes such as aftershocks or triggered events. Please check the author methods summary and the original data source for more information on these details and to confirm the viability of this inventory for your specific use.   With the exception of the data from USGS sources, the inventory data and associated metadata were not acquired by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and thus have not been reviewed for accuracy and completeness by the USGS.  They are presented as part of this data series for convenience of the user only, as part of an effort to make published ground-failure inventories more accessible from a single aggregated site. No warranty, expressed or implied, is made regarding the display or utility of the data on any other system or for general or scientific purposes, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty.

Tags: caribbean, earthquake, earthquake-hazards-program, earthquakes, ehp, geographic-informtion-system, geologic-hazards-science-center, ghsc, gis, global, ground-failure, groundfailure, haiti, inventory, landslide, landslides, landslides-hazards-program, lhp, north-america, secondary, secondary-hazards, usgs, usgs-586d6ba6e4b0f5ce109fc8c1
Organization: Department of the Interior
Food-web dynamics and isotopic niches in deep-sea communities residing in a submarine canyon and on the adjacent open slopes

Examination of food webs and trophic niches provide insight into organisms’ functional ecology, yet few studies have examined the trophodynamics within submarine canyons, where the interaction of morphology and oceanography influences food deposition. Stable isotope analysis and Bayesian ellipses documented deep-sea food web structure and trophic niches in Baltimore Canyon and the adjacent open slopes in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic Region. Results revealed isotopically diverse feeding groups, comprising approximately 5 trophic levels. Regression analysis indicated that consumer isotope data are structured by site (canyon vs. slope), feeding group, and depth. Benthic feeders were enriched in 13C and 15N relative to suspension feeders, consistent with consuming older, more refractory organic matter. In contrast, canyon suspension feeders had the largest and more distinct isotopic niche, indicating they consume an isotopically discrete food source, possibly fresher organic material. The wider isotopic niche observed for canyon consumers indicated the presence of feeding specialists and generalists. High dispersion in δ13C values for canyon consumers suggested that the isotopic composition of particulate organic matter changes, which is linked to the depositional dynamics, resulting in discrete zones of organic matter accumulation or resuspension. This heterogeneity results in higher trophic diversity in canyons. Hence, given their abundance in the world’s oceans, submarine canyons represent important havens for trophic diversity.

Tags: baltimore-canyon, bayesian-ellipses, deep-sea, stable-isotopes, submarine-canyon, usgs-586e73f8e4b0f5ce109fcc11
Organization: Department of the Interior
Well characteristics, water quality and age-date tracer data for wells along two regional flow paths in the Memphis aquifer, southwest Tennessee

In 2013, water-quality and age-date tracer samples were collected at wells located along two flow paths in the Memphis aquifer, southwest Tennessee, as part of the National Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Project of the National Water-Quality Program to better understand the vulnerability of the aquifer to contamination..  Each flow path began in the aquifer outcrop area (shallow well depths) and ended at public supply wells (deep well depths) in Memphis, TN in the confined parts of the aquifer.  This data release includes results for samples collected as part of this study and information for additional wells that provided supplemental data near the end of each flow path to support the findings in "Fraction of young water as an indicator of aquifer vulnerability along two regional flow paths in the Mississippi Embayment Aquifer System" by J.A. Kingsbury, J.R.B. Barlow, B.C. Jurgens, P.B. McMahon, and J.K. Carmichael.

Tags: groundwater-age, groundwater-flow-path, usgs-586e76eee4b0f5ce109fcc21, vulnerability, water-supply
Organization: Department of the Interior
Cross-Section Geometry and Sediment-Size Distribution Data from Muddy Creek and North Fork Gunnison River below Paonia Reservoir, 2015

This data set contains cross-section geometry and sediment-size distribution data collected in the fall of 2015 from Muddy Creek and North Fork Gunnison River below Paonia Reservoir, Colorado.  Six cross-sections were surveyed using Real-Time Kinematic Global Navigation Satellite System (RTK-GNSS) methods to document channel geometry below the reservoir.  One cross-section was surveyed on Muddy Creek below Paonia Reservoir, and five cross-sections were surveyed from North Fork Gunnison River below Paonia Reservoir.  All six cross-sections are incorporated in this data release within one shapefile.   
Pebble-counts were performed at each of the six cross-sections to document sediment-size distributions downstream from the reservoir.  Four transects were located in the vicinity of each cross-section, where sediment size was measured and recorded.  Transect locations were based on bankfull channel width; with transect 1 located one bankfull channel width upstream from the surveyed cross-section, transect 2 at the surveyed cross-section, and transects 3 and 4 located one and two bankfull channel widths downstream from the surveyed cross-section, respectively.  All of the sediment-size distribution data are presented in .CSV files, with one file for each cross-section location incorporating all of the data for each of the four transects at that location.

Tags: geomorphology, sediment-transport, usgs-586e7717e4b0f5ce109fcc23
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital Orthorectified Aerial Image of Cottonwood Lake Study Area Wetland P7 from 1980

Orthorectified image from aerial photograph of wetland P7 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-586e7887e4b0f5ce109fcc2a, wetland-ecosystems
Organization: Department of the Interior