AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Pharmaceuticals and personal care products measured in passive samplers at seven coastal sites off West Maui during February and March 2017

Passive membrane samplers—semipermeable membrane devices and polar organic chemical integrative samplers—were deployed for 22 continuous days at 7 sites along the West Maui, Hawai'i, coastline in February and March 2017 to assess organic contaminants at shallow coral reef ecosystems from diverse upstream inputs.

Tags: biota, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, contamination-and-pollution, coral-reefs, environment, fragile-ecosystems, honokeana, honokowai-stream, honolua, kahana, kahekili-beach-park, maui, ocean, oceans, olawalu, organic-geochemistry, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, pharmaceutical-contamination, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-62c70bf9d34eeb1417bb116b, wahikuli, water-quality-parameters
Organization: Department of the Interior
Clear Lake Volcanic Field maar deposit grain size distributions, Inman grain size statistics, and radiocarbon ages

This dataset holds data associated with the stratigraphic descriptions and grain size analyses and the radiocarbon age dating for the journal article "Stratigraphy and eruption history of maars in the Clear Lake Volcanic Field, California"

Tags: california, carbon-14-analysis, lake, stratigraphy, usgs-62c7119cd34eeb1417bb119a, volcanology
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mapping karst groundwater flow paths and delineating recharge areas for Fern Cave, Alabama through the use of dye tracing

Fern Cave in Jackson County, Alabama is the longest and deepest cave in Alabama with over 15 miles of cave passages and 536 feet of depth. The cave is cooperatively managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Southeastern Cave Conservancy. At least three different streams flow through the cave including the Surprise, Lower North, and Bottom Cave streams. Two of these streams, Lower North and Bottom Cave, merge together in the lower portions of the cave system while the Surprise stream remains independent of the others. These streams then appear as resurgences at springs along the Paint Rock River near the base of Nat Mountain. Recent bio-inventories have shown the cave to be one of the most bio-diverse caves in the Southeastern United States with a total of 113 taxa documented including 25 cave obligates. The cave is also a habitat for several federally listed species such as the Gray Bat (Myotis grisescens) and the Alabama Cave Shrimp (Palaemonias alabamae). Because of the biological significance of the cave, an effort to delineate a recharge area for the cave began in 2019 when a partnership was formed between U.S. Geological Survey, Kentucky Geological Survey, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. A delineated recharge area would allow land managers to know what areas directly influence water quality and water quantity within the various streams in the Fern Cave System. From December 2019 through May 2021 a total of 14 dye injections were conducted which delineated a recharge area of 1.73 square miles, lying primarily along the western escarpment of Nat Mountain.

Tags: alabama, biota, caves, cumberland-plateau, dye-tracing, groundwater, groundwater-and-surface-water-interaction, groundwater-flow, groundwater-tracing, hydrogeology, jackson-county, karst, karst-hydrology, karst-topography, nat-mountain, paint-rock-river, usgs-62c73ea5d34eeb1417bb136e
Organization: Department of the Interior
Capture method, habitat, length, and diet items consumed by wild-caught black carp (Mylopharyngodon piceus) in the Mississippi River Basin, 2017-2019

An inventory (enumeration and taxonomic identification) of diet items consumed by wild-caught black carp, based on the examination of gut contents from fish that were collected in the lower Mississippi River drainage of the U.S.

Tags: aquatic-biology, biota, black-carp, ecosystem-monitoring, habitats, invasive-species, invertebrates, macroinvertebrates, mollusks, mussels, systematics-and-taxonomy, usgs-62d58cabd34e87fffb2dda8c
Organization: Department of the Interior
Summary of stakeholder-developed environmental flow recommendations for the Willamette Basin Sustainable Rivers Program and streamflows from corresponding USGS streamflow gaging stations 2008-2022

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and the Nature Conservancy developed the Sustainable Rivers Program (SRP) as a collaborative environmental flows program to identify, refine, and implement environmental strategies at select USACE dams. The SRP was introduced to the Willamette Basin, Oregon, in 2007 through a series of environmental flow workshops, which led to stakeholder generated environmental flow recommendations in the North Santiam, South Santiam, Santiam (Bach and others, 2013), McKenzie, South Fork McKenzie (Risley and others, 2010), and Middle Fork Willamette Rivers (Gregory and others, 2007, https://www.hec.usace.army.mil/sustainablerivers/). 
This data release is a compilation of the stakeholder-defined environmental flow recommendations paired with flow data at the corresponding U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) streamflow gaging stations for each water-year spanning 2008 through 2022.

Tags: coburg, eugene-water-and-electric-board-canal, foster-reservoir, freshwater-ecosystems, greens-bridge, hydrology, inlandwaters, jasper, jefferson, leaburg, leaburg-canal, mckenzie-riverr, north-santiam-river, oregon, rainbow, river, santiam-river, south-santiam-river, streamflow, surface-water, usgs-62c74116d34eeb1417bb1391, vida, walterville, waterloo, watershed-management, willamette-river
Organization: Department of the Interior
Temperature and Relative Conductivity at Sampling Locations in the Dixie Valley, Churchill County, Nevada, 2019-2021

These data provide temperatures and relative conductivity to determine the presence or absence of water at specific locations in Dixie Meadows, Dixie Valley, Churchill County, Nevada, 2019-2021.

Tags: air-temperature, amphibians, biota, dixie-valley, field-methods, hot-spring, nevada, relative-conductivity, toad, usgs-62c76870d34eeb1417bb1531, water-temperature
Organization: Department of the Interior
2021 Gulf of Mexico Mangrove Freeze Damage Data

This data set contains measurements of black mangrove (Avicennia germinans) leaf damage following the February 2021 freeze event that affected mangroves in the northern Gulf of Mexico.

Tags: aquatic-vegetation, climate-change, coastal-ecosystems, environment, field-inventory-and-monitoring, florida, gulf-of-mexico, habitat-alteration-and-disturbance, louisiana, mexico, texas, united-states, usgs-62c84885d34eeb1417bb1889
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data on invasive corallimorphs Palmyra

Invasive marine species are well documented but options to manage them are limited. At Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge (Central North Pacific), native invasive corallimorpharians, Rhodactis howesii, have smothered live native corals since 2007.  Laboratory and field trials were conducted evaluating two control methods to remove R. howesii overgrowing the benthos at Palmyra Atoll (Palmyra): 1) toothpaste mixed with chlorine, citric acid, or sodium hydroxide (NaOH), and 2) hot water.  Paste mixed with NaOH had the most efficacious kill in mesocosm trials and resulted in &gt;90% kill over a 98 m2 area three days after treatment.  Hot water at 82C was most effective in mesocosms; in the field hot water was less effective than paste but still resulted in a kill of ca. 75% over 100 m2 three days after treatment.  Costs of paste and heat (excluding capital equipment and costs of regulatory approval should this method be deployed large scale) were $70/m2 and $59/m2 respectively.  Invasive R. howesii currently occupy ca 5,800,000 m2 of reef at Palmyra with ca. 276,000 m2 comprising heavily infested areas.  Several potential management strategies are discussed based on costs of treatment, area covered, and the biology of the invasion.  The methods described here expand the set of tools available to manage invasive species in complex marine habitats.

Tags: biota, cnidaria, control, coral-reefs, corallimorpharian, reef-ecosystems, usgs-62c85780d34eeb1417bb18bb
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data supporting a spatiotemporal trend analysis of specific conductivity, streamflow, and landscape attributes of selected sub-basins within the Delaware River watershed, 1980 to 2018

This data release makes available three data tables supporting a spatiotemporal analysis of riverine conductivity and streamflow trends within the Delaware River Basin.  The listed datasets include baseflow and total flow time series for selected gaged basins, watershed attributes, water quality information and trend analysis results.

Tags: baseflow, climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, deicing, delaware-river, delaware-river-basin, environment, groundwater, legacy, road-salt, specific-conductivity, stream-flow, transportation, usgs-62c8895ed34eeb1417bb19ea
Organization: Department of the Interior
MODFLOW-2000 model used to evaluate the effects of possible changes in water-supply withdrawals from, and effluent recharge to, the Kirkwood-Cohansey aquifer system, Winslow Township, Camden County, New Jersey

A previously developed groundwater-flow model of the Great Egg Harbor and Mullica River Basins, N.J. (https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20125187) by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) was used to analyze the effects on groundwater levels and stream base flow from possible changes in groundwater withdrawals and effluent infiltration in Winslow Township, Camden County, New Jersey. The Camden County Municipal Utilities Authority (CCMUA) infiltrated treated sewage effluent at their infiltration/percolation lagoons in Winslow Township, New Jersey, from 1985 to 2014. Increasing effluent volumes strained the capacity of the sewage-treatment plant and infiltration/percolation facility which closed in 2014. The treatment plant began pumping effluent from Winslow Township to the main CCMUA treatment facility which discharges treated effluent to the Delaware River. Eliminating infiltration of treated effluent in Winslow Township reduced groundwater recharge in the Great Egg Harbor River Basin and ultimately reducing groundwater discharge (base flow) to the Great Egg Harbor River. A study was conducted to determine the effects of eliminating the infiltration of treated effluent and reducing groundwater withdrawals from wells completed in the Kirkwood-Cohansey aquifer system on groundwater levels and base flow in the Great Egg Harbor River. The model simulates a baseline scenario with 2003-2007 withdrawals and five scenarios with different effluent infiltration conditions and 2008-2010 withdrawals using MODFLOW-2000 (version 1.18.01). This USGS data release contains all of the input and output files for the baseline scenario and five scenarios described in the associated report (https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20235002).

Tags: base-flow-depletion, camden-county, environment, geoscientificinformation, great-egg-harbor-river-basin, groundwater, groundwater-management, groundwater-model, inlandwaters, kirkwood-cohansey-aquifer-system, modflow-2000, new-jersey, rio-grande-water-bearing-zone, usgs-62c88d65d34eeb1417bb19fe, usgsgroundwatermodel, winslow-township
Organization: Department of the Interior
Projections of coastal flood depths for the U.S. Atlantic coast

Projected depths from compound coastal flood hazards for future sea-level rise (SLR) and storm scenarios are shown for the U.S. Atlantic coast for three states (Florida, Georgia, and Virginia). Projections were made using a system of numerical models driven by output from Global Climate Models (GCMs) from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) and a tropical cyclone database from U.S. Army Corp of Engineers. The resulting data are depths of projected flood hazards along the U.S. Atlantic coast due to sea-level rise and plausible future storm conditions that consider the changing climate, hurricanes, and natural variability. The resulting data products include flood depths that are consistent with coastal flood projections, also available in this dataset (Barnard, and others, 2023); see Nederhoff and others (2024) for a full explanation of data and methods. In addition to sea-level rise, flood simulations run by these numerical models included dynamic contributions from tide, storm surge, wind, waves, river discharge, precipitation, and seasonal sea-level fluctuations. Outputs include impacts from combinations of SLR scenarios (0, 0.25, 0.5, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, and 3.0 m), storm conditions including 1-year, 20-year, and 100-year return interval storms, and a background condition (no storm - astronomic tide and average atmospheric conditions). Similar projections for North Carolina and South Carolina are available from Barnard and others, 2023, at https://doi.org/10.5066/P9W91314

Tags: beaches, climate-change, climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, coastal-erosion, earth-sciences, effects-of-climate-change, erosion, extreme-weather, floods, hazards-planning, mathematical-modeling, ocean-waves, ocean-winds, oceans, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, physical-habitats-and-geomorphology, sea-level-change, sea-level-rise, state-of-florida, state-of-georgia, state-of-virginia, storm-surge, storms, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-62cc0bce-ead2-4e40-96ce-4d6e1caf99df, water-depth, waves, wind
Organization: Department of the Interior
2021 McKenzie River Topobathymetric Lidar Validation – USGS Field Survey Data

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists conducted field data collection efforts between July 19th and 31st, 2021 over a large stretch of the McKenzie River in Oregon using high accuracy surveying technologies.  The work was initiated as an effort to validate commercially acquired topobathymetric light detection and ranging (lidar) data that was collected coincidentally between July 26th and 30th, 2021 for the USGS 3D Elevation Program (3DEP).  The goal was to compare and validate the airborne lidar data to topographic, bathymetric, structural, and infrastructural data collected through more traditional means (e.g., Global Navigational Satellite System (GNSS) surveying).  Evaluating these data will provide valuable information on the performance of inland topobathymetric lidar mapping capabilities and their potential for use and inclusion in the USGS National Geospatial Program 3D Elevation Program.
The airborne topobathymetric lidar data will be used for developing reliable hydraulic models, which can be used to model potential flood inundation and analysis for other potential hazards such as landslides.  The bathymetric lidar data will also be used for characterization of endangered species aquatic habitat, including that of salmon and steelhead trout species.  Furthermore, a large portion of the McKenzie River corridor that was mapped by the airborne topobathymetric lidar was impacted by the Holiday Farm Fire that burned over 170,000 acres during September of 2020 and the airborne data will be used to support post-fire geomorphic change detection.

Tags: 3d-elevation-program, 3dep, airborne-lidar, airborne-topobathymetric-lidar, als, armitage-park, deerhorn-county-park, elevation, eugene, eweb-goodpasture-boat-landing, eweb-water-board-park, finn-rock-boat-landing, gbl, geoscientificinformation, global-navigation-satellite-system, gnss, ground-based-lidar, hayden-bridge-park, hendricks-bridge-park, inlandwaters, leaburg-dam, leaburg-hatchery, lidar, light-detection-and-ranging, lloyd-knox-park, location, mckenzie-high-school, mckenzie-river, national-geospatial-program, ngp-inland-bathymetry-research, old-mckenzie-fish-hatchery-county-park, springfield, state-of-oregon, terrestrial-laser-scanning, tls, topobathy, topobathymetric-lidar, topobathymetry, topographic, total-station, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-62cc41bcd34eeb1417bb24fb
Organization: Department of the Interior
Elevation Data from Fountain Creek between Colorado Springs and the Confluence of Fountain Creek at the Arkansas River, Colorado, 2022

The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with Colorado Springs Utilities, has been collecting topographic data annually since 2012 at 10 study areas along Fountain Creek, Colorado. The 10 study areas are located along Fountain Creek between Colorado Springs and the confluence of Fountain Creek and the Arkansas River in Pueblo. This data release presents topographic survey data, Light Detection and Ranging (lidar) survey data, elevation rasters, and elevation-change rasters collected or generated in 2022 as part of that monitoring effort. Topographic survey points were collected using real-time kinematic Global Navigation Satellite Systems (RTK-GNSS). These point data, along with lidar point clouds, were used to generate 2022 elevation rasters and 2015-22 elevation-change rasters. These survey data and maps provide an annual assessment of the geomorphic changes at each study area.

Tags: channel-change, colorado, colorado-springs, el-paso-county, flood, fountain, fountain-creek, geomorphology, inlandwaters, lidar, point-cloud, pueblo, pueblo-county, sediment-transport, topographic-survey, uas, usgs-62cc6516d34eeb1417bb2779
Organization: Department of the Interior
Seepage-run discharge measurements on the islands of O'ahu, Moloka'i, Maui, and Hawai'i, 2018 to 2022

This data release is part of a cooperative study to assess streamflow availability under low-flow conditions for streams on the islands of O'ahu, Moloka'i, Maui, and Hawai'i from 2018 to 2022. This data release contains 24 child items that consist of the following files: (1) a metadata xml file describing the data release files and data attributes, (2) an annotated NWIS-Mapper screen-captured image showing the seepage-run measurement sites, and (3) a comma-delimited ascii data file with the discrete discharge measurements. These discrete discharge measurements form what is commonly referred to as a “seepage run.” The intent of the seepage run is to quantify the spatial distribution of streamflow along the reach during fair-weather, low-flow conditions, generally characterized by negligible direct runoff within the reach. The measurements can be used to characterize the net seepage of water into (water gain) or out of (water loss) the stream channel between measurement sites provided that the measurements were made during stable, nonchanging flow conditions (or, in some cases, were made simultaneously during transient flow conditions) and external surface inflows (for example, a tributary) or outflows (for example, a diversion) of water to the reach are quantified and accounted for in the computation of net seepage.

Tags: alelele-stream, hawaii, hhlawe-gulch, honom-stream, honomuni-gulch, honoulimaloo-stream, hydrologic-datasets, hydrology, inlandwaters, kaiwilahilahi-stream, kamaee-stream, kaula-gulch, kaunakakai-gulch, kawainui-stream, keawewai-stream, kuhuaawi-gulch, kukuiula-gulch, lanikele-gulch, manowaiopae-stream, maui, molokai, north-fork-kaukonahua-stream, oahu, palauhulu-stream, papahawahawa-gulch, papio-gulch, piinaau-stream, river-reaches, state-of-hawaii, stream-gage-measurement, streamflow, surface-water-non-marine, usgs-62ccb6d2d34eeb1417bb28a5, waikama-gulch, waikapu-stream, wailua-gulch, waipahoehoe-stream, water-resources
Organization: Department of the Interior
Chemistry data for assessment of the containment pond at Pinyon Plain Mine, 2021

These data are comprised of measurements of elements (e.g., uranium, cobalt, nickel, copper, zinc, cadmium, lead, etc.), major anions (chloride, nitrite+nitrate as nitrogen, sulfate, etc.), organic carbon, and general water quality characteristics in Pinyon Plain Mine containment pond water, invertebrate, vegetation and sediment samples, collected in calendar year 2021.

Tags: arizona, coconino, dissolved-organic-carbon, environment, grand-canyon, metals, mine-sites, mining-and-mineral-extraction, mining-hazards, pinyon-plain-mine, sediment-analysis, u-s-geological-survey-columbia-environmental-research-center, usgs-62e1413dd34e10763b598fb3
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hawaiian Islands baseline climate projections for mean annual temperature and precipitation from 1983-2012

Global downscaled projections are now some of the most widely used climate datasets in the world, however, they are rarely examined for representativeness of local climate or the plausibility of their projected changes. Here we show steps to improve the utility of two such global datasets (CHELSA and WorldClim2) to provide credible climate scenarios for regional climate change impact studies. Our approach is based on three steps: 1) Using a standardized baseline period, comparing available global downscaled projections with regional observation-based datasets and regional downscaled datasets (if available); 2) bias correcting projections using observation-based data; and 3) creating ensembles to make use of the differential strengths of global downscaling datasets. We also explored the patterns and magnitude of change for these regional projected climate shifts to determine their plausibility as future climate scenarios using Hawaiʻi as an example region. While our ensemble projections were shown to largely reduce the deviations between model and observation-based current climate, we show projected climate shifts from these commonly used global datasets can fall well outside the range of future scenarios derived from fine-tuned regional downscaling efforts, and hence should be carefully evaluated. This data release includes a baseline (1983-2012) model as well future climate projections for mid- (2040-2059) and late-century (2060-2079) for three regionally-adapted global datasets (CHELSA, WorldClim2, and an ensemble). We considered mean annual temperature (MAT) and mean annual precipitation (MAP) as our primary variables for comparison since they are the most widely used and desired datasets for climate impact studies. These regionally-downscaled future climate projections are available for various individual Global Circulation Models (GCMs) under four representative concentration pathways (RCPs; 2.6, 4.5, 6.0, and 8.5) for each global dataset.

Tags: baseline-scenario, climate-shifts, global-circulation-models, hawaii, main-hawaiian-islands, regional-projections, usgs-62ce66d6d34e82ff904ac998
Organization: Department of the Interior