AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Round goby eDNA  survey, evaluation, and  laboratory data in Lakes Michigan and Huron 2016-2017

Data included are from a series of field sample collections from Lakes Michigan and Huron, and laboratory mesocosms targeting the round goby fish (Neogobius melanostomus).  The round goby is a benthic fish that has heavily invaded four of the five Laurentian Great Lakes.  Because it inhabits a variety of substrates, including coastal breakwaters, traditional methods (e.g., trawling, trapping) are inadequate to quantify overall population size.  Environmental DNA (eDNA) may be a viable option for improving detection and quantification of the species.  Field data include number of round goby caught and associated ambient conditions of the aquatic matrix (temperature, pH, turbidity, conductivity, dissolved oxygen).  Mesocosm data include information about mesocosm test (DNA shedding, decay), information about the individual fish used (length, weight), ambient conditions of the aqueous matrix (pH, turbidity).  Data from laboratory testing of both field and mesocosm water include results from quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) method for detection of round goby-specific DNA (DNA quality, quantity).   Data are being used to correlate round goby individuals with eDNA present in the water and to calculate rates of DNA shedding by the round goby and rates of DNA decay.

Tags: biota, environment, environmental-dna, field-methods, freshwater-ecosystems, indiana-dunes-national-lakeshore, invasive-species, lake-huron, lake-michigan, usgs-5a14525de4b09fc93dcfd008
Organization: Department of the Interior
Riparian Final Vegclass. Olympic National Park NRCA Westside Rivers Riparian Vegetation Project (2016)

Beschta and Ripple (2012) assert that increased elk populations in the Olympic National Park due to extirpation of wolves in the 1920’s has led to a reduction in riparian vegetation. They hypothesize that a decrease in this vegetation has led to an increase in erosion and undercutting of large conifer trees along the river banks, causing woody debris in the river, which in turn impacts channel morphology. Using imagery dating from 1939 and a set of digitized channel margins for each year, we classified vegetation changes that have occurred along the Hoh, Queets, and Quinault Rivers. We focused on identifying large conifers near the river that could impact water flow and channel morphology if undercut and classified all other vegetation as "other". METHODS: Our classification of large conifer trees along the river margins was based on three rules: 1) Minimum Height: we selected only those trees whose height would indicate the tree was at least 50-cm in diameter at the time of the imagery (calculated from LIDAR). Maximum Crown-Width: we used an estimated maximum crown width of 26-m for conifers in the Olympic National Park (Van Pelt et al., 2006) as an indicator of potential root structure size that could be undermined. A 13-m radius buffer was applied to all tree locations that met our minimum height requirement. 2) Distance-to-River: in order to capture potential channel migration that could occur for a given year, we used a 20-m buffer from the channel margin based on Van Pelt's estimated range of 16-26-m per year. We created an ArcGIS ModelBuilder tool that identified the conifers that met our conditions and created polygon outputs that could be used to split the river margins into segments of "conifer" and "other". For those imagery years that occurred prior to the LIDAR dates, we performed a visual inspection of the results and manually classified any areas where large conifer had existed but were undercut by the river historically. For those imagery years that occurred after the LIDAR dates, we manually corrected any locations where large conifer have since been removed by river migration and were misidentified by the tool. 
REFERENCES: Beschta, R.L., and W.J. Ripple. 2012. The role of large predators in maintaining riparian plant communities and river morphology. Geomorphology 157-158:88-98.
Van Pelt, R., T. C. O’Keefe, J. J. Latterell, R. J. Naiman. 2006. Riparian Forest Stand Development along the Queets River in Olympic National Park, Washington. Ecological Monographs 76(2):277-298.

Tags: environment, fresc, geoscientificinformation, inlandwaters, natural-resources-condition-assessment, olympic-national-park, riparian-vegetation, usgs, usgs-5a14b60fe4b09fc93dcfd810
Organization: Department of the Interior
Nonvolatile dissolved organic carbon and diesel range organics concentrations measured in 2016 at the USGS crude oil study site near Bemidji, Minnesota, USA

The Bemidji crude oil spill site is a long-term USGS study site to understand the fate of crude oil in the shallow subsurface. A description of the site can be found at https://mn.water.usgs.gov/projects/bemidji. In 2014 concentrations of non-volatile dissolved organic carbon (NVDOC) were three times higher than diesel range organics (DRO) in the contaminant plume*. This is important because most of the NVDOC in the plume is composed of partial transformation products of compounds from the crude oil that are not reflected in a DRO analysis. In 2016 we conducted a campaign to determine if DRO values continue to reflect only a fraction of the NVDOC.  These data are the results of that campaign.  A total of 25 wells were sampled for DRO and NVDOC in August, 2016. Three wells with long term records were included in the sampling: 530B, 515B, and 9316D. Wells sampled in 2016 but not in 2014 include two wells located 14 m from a down gradient lake (1217B and 1217C) and one well in the zone sprayed by oil (956). 
*Bekins, B. A., Cozzarelli, I. M., Erickson, M. L., Steenson, R. A., and Thorn, K. A., 2016, Crude Oil Metabolites in Groundwater at Two Spill Sites: Groundwater, v. 54, no. 5, p. 681-691.

Tags: beltrami-county, bemidji, dissolved-organic-compounds, groundwater-quality, oil-spills, petroleum, usgs-5a1860cbe4b09fc93dd44aa9
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data for Bathymetric Survey of Lake Calumet, Cook County, Illinois

The U.S. Geological Survey-Illinois Water Science Center collected bathymetric data in Lake Calumet and a portion of the Calumet River in the vicinity of Lake Calumet to produce a bathymetric map. The bathymetric survey was conducted over three days (July 26, September 11, and November 7, 2012). Lake Calumet has become a focus area for Asian carp rapid response efforts by state and federal agencies and very little bathymetric data existed prior to this survey. This bathymetric survey provides data for a variety of scientific and engineering studies of the area; for example, hydraulic modelling of water and sediment transport from Lake Calumet to the Calumet River.

Tags: bathymetry, calumet-river, cook-county, elevation, illinois, lake-calumet, lakebed, united-states, usgs-5a1c3eafe4b09fc93dd642d0
Organization: Department of the Interior
Zooplankton, phytoplankton, and water-quality data for Nolin Lake, Kentucky during a midwinter swarm by the exotic cladoceran Daphnia lumholtzi, 2016-17

This U.S. Geological Survey Data Release provides data collected from Nolin Lake Kentucky, during 2016 to 2017. Two types of data are reported: zooplankton and phytoplankton data are raw calculated values not rounded to USGS significant figures and continuous water-quality data collected with a multi-parameter sonde. The zooplankton, phytoplankton, and water-quality data describe a swarm of the invasive cladoceran Daphnia lumholtzi (D. lumholtzi) Sars, 1885 in a Kentucky USA reservoir during midwinter 2017.

Tags: daphnia-lumholtzi, division, ephippia, genus, invasive-species, kentucky, nolin-reservoir, phytoplankton, species, swarm-event, taxa, united-states, usgs-5a2ab498e4b03852bb00fce7, usgs-station-id-03310900, water-chemistry, zooplankton
Organization: Department of the Interior
Water Quality, Streamflow Gain Loss, Geologic, and Geospatial Data Used in the Pecos River Basin Salinity Assessment from Santa Rosa Lake, New Mexico to the Confluence of the Pecos River and the Rio Grande, 1900-2015

This Data Release contains various types of hydrologic and geologic data from the Pecos River Basin during 1900–2015, including water-quality data compiled and synthesized from various sources (including data from water-quality samples collected by the USGS in 2015 from 26 sites), streamflow gain-loss data collected by the USGS in 2015 and historical streamflow gain-loss data compiled from the literature, the horizontal extent of and depth to the base of the 16 geologic and hydrogeologic units that underlie the study area, and geospatial data collected by the USGS.  The data were used to complete a detailed salinity assessment of the Pecos River from Santa Rosa Lake, New Mexico to the Confluence of the Pecos River and the Rio Grande, Texas.

Tags: andrews-county, aquifer, aquifer-base, aquifer-depth, avalon-lake, black-river, blue-hole, brantley-lake, brewster-county, chaves-county, crane-county, crockett-county, culberson-county, curry-county, debaca-county, delaware-river, ector-county, eddy-county, el-rito-creek, environment, geochemistry, geology, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-analysis, geospatial-datasets, groundwater, groundwater-quality, guadalupe-county, hydrogeology, independence-creek, inlandwaters, jeff-davis-county, lake-amistad, lake-sumner, lea-county, lincoln-county, lithology, live-oak-creek, loving-county, mora-county, new-mexico, north-seven-rivers, otero-county, pecos-county, pecos-river, presidio-county, quay-county, reagan-county, red-bluff-reservoir, reeves-county, rio-felix, rio-grande, rio-hondo, rio-penasco, roosevelt-county, salinity, salt-creek-n-mex, salt-creek-tex, san-miguel-county, santa-fe-county, santa-rosa-lake, south-seven-rivers, surface-water, surface-water-quality, taiban-creek, tecolote-creek, terrell-county, texas, torrance-county, upton-county, usgs-5a1c42bbe4b09fc93dd642df, val-verde-county, ward-county, water-quality, water-resources, winkler-county
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data on Nitrogen Concentrations and Loads for the Connecticut River at Middle Haddam, Connecticut, Computed with the Use of Auto-Sampling and Continuous Measurements of Water Quality, 2008-2014

This U.S. Geological Survey data release presents tabular daily data on nitrate plus nitrite nitrogen and total nitrogen loads for the Connecticut River at Middle Haddam, Connecticut, from December 6, 2008, to September 30, 2014. The data release contains total nitrogen concentration estimates at 15-minute intervals from December 2011 to September 2014. The data release also includes tabular information on the total nitrogen loads from the Connecticut River at Thompsonville, Connecticut, from October 1, 2008, to September 30, 2014. Load data for each site and constituent include the daily loads and upper and lower 95-percent prediction intervals (where applicable); the method used in the load calculation for each site is also included in this data release.

Tags: middle-haddam-connecticut, nutrient-content-water, stream-discharge, surface-water-quality, thompsonville-connecticut, usgs-5a1c4512e4b09fc93dd642ed
Organization: Department of the Interior
Velocity mapping using moving boat acoustic Doppler current profiler on the Sacramento River near the western end of the Fremont Weir in February and March 2016, and May 2017

Geo-referenced two dimensional velocity profiles collected at discrete cross-sections over an approximately 2km stretch of the Sacramento River. These data were collected over a range of river conditions (stage and discharge) on eight separate dates in February and March of 2016 and May of 2017. Data are available as .csv files contained in the attached .zip file.

Tags: acoustic-doppler-current-profiler, adcp, fremont-weir, sacramento-river, secondary-circulation, usgs-5a1c550ae4b09fc93dd6434b, velocity-mapping
Organization: Department of the Interior
Database of significant deposits of gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc in Alaska

This data release provides descriptions and locations of 134 significant deposits in Alaska. Approximately 99 percent of past production and remaining identified resources of gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc in the United States are accounted for by deposits that originally contained at least 2 metric tons (t) of gold, 85 t silver, 50,000 t copper, 30,000 t lead, and 50,000 t zinc. Deposits of this size comprise a very small fraction of the total number of mines, prospects, and occurrences for these metals in the United States. They are called significant deposits because they are few in number yet collectively represent almost the totality of domestic production and resources of these metals.
The significant deposits database was first published by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) as part of the 1996 National Mineral Resource Assessment (NMRA), which was limited to these five metals. The database was intended to characterize known mineral resources for comparison with estimates of undiscovered resources provided by the NMRA. Data on location, deposit type, past production, and remaining reserves for 1,118 individual significant deposits comprised the original database. During the 20 years since the original database was published, there has been substantial new production and additions to resources at many of the deposits in the database and many new discoveries that meet the criteria for a significant deposit. New information on a few deposits has revealed that some of the deposits in the original database do not meet the criteria for significant deposits and these have been deleted. This data release is a revision of the Alaska portion of the original 1996 database, with updated production and resource data, improved locations, added data on land ownership, and addition of new discoveries.
The Excel table provides locations for and information on significant deposits in Alaska. The geodatabase contains a single point layer which represents the locations of these deposits. The attributes of the point layer contain the same information as the Excel database. A detailed description of the original database and its interpretation was published as Long, Keith R., DeYoung, John H., Jr., and Ludington, Steve, 2000, Significant deposits of gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc in the United States: Economic Geology, v. 95, p. 629-644 (more information available at https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/70022329).

Tags: alaska, copper, gold, lead, mineral-deposits, mineral-resources, significant-mineral-deposits, silver, united-states, usgs-5a1c88b7e4b09fc93dd64f1b, zinc
Organization: Department of the Interior
Fiber-optic distributed temperature data collected along the streambed of the East River, Crested Butte, CO, USA

The data set includes temperature data from the base of the water column along the sediment interface of the East River near Crested Butte Colorado, USA, in support of ongoing study regarding groundwater/surface water exchange. The data were collected from 08/09/2016 to 08/31/2016 using a fiber-optic distributed temperature sensing system that has 1.01 m spatial resolution along the linear fiber-optic cable. During data analysis, the original 10 min measurments were averaged (arithmetic mean) for the entire period to potentially indicate colder groundwater inflows. Additionally, the standard devation for the entire measurement period for each distance along the cable was calculated to indicate buffered zones (reduced temperature standard deviation) that might result from upward water flow through the streambed.

Tags: colorado, crested-butte, east-river, environment, flow, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, groundwater, hydrogeology, hydrology, inlandwaters, measurement, seepage, surface-water, temperature, thermal, usgs-5a1dab7ae4b09fc93dd7bfaa
Organization: Department of the Interior
Magnetotelluric sounding data, station 9, East-Central Tooele County, Utah, 2003

This dataset includes the magnetotelluric (MT) sounding data collected in 2003 along a north-south profile west of Tooele, Utah. It is important to know whether major mining districts in the Northern Nevada Gold Province are underlain by rocks of the Archean Wyoming craton, which are known to contain orogenic gold deposits, or by accreted rocks of the Paleoproterozoic Mojave province. It is also important to know the location and orientation of the Archean/Proterozoic suture zone between these provinces as well as major basement structures within these terranes because they may influence subsequent patterns of sedimentation, deformation, magmatism, and hydrothermal activity. This study was funded by the U.S. Geological Survey's Mineral Resources Program in cooperation with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.

Tags: apparent-resistivity, aquifer, archean, archean-wyoming-craton, cedar-mountains, cggsc, crustal-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center, deformation, dugway-proving-grounds, electromagnetic-surveying, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, gold-deposits, gold-mining, gps-measurement, great-basin, great-salt-lake, great-salt-lake-desert, hydrothermal-activity, impedance, impedance-phase, impedance-strike, lakeside-mountains, lakeside-valley, localized-mineralization, magmatism, magnetic-field-earth, magnetic-surveying, magnetotelluric, mineral-resources-program, mojave-province, mrp, mt, neoproterozoic, northern-nevada-gold-province, onaqui-mountains, paleoproterozoic, paleozoic, proterozoic, regional-fluid-flow, sedimentation, sheeprock-mountains, simpson-mountains, skull-valley, skull-valley-reservation, sounding, stansbury-mountains, suture-zone, tipper, tooele, tooele-army-depot, tooele-county, uinta-national-forest, usgs-5a1dfaf0e4b09fc93dd7c655, utah, utah-test-and-training-range, vernon, wasatch-national-forest
Organization: Department of the Interior
Turbidity, Discharge, Suspended Sediment Concentration, Suspended Sediment Load in Duwamish River, Tukwila, Washington

The Green/Duwamish River transports watershed-derived sediment to the Lower Duwamish Waterway Superfund site near Seattle, Washington. Understanding the amount of sediment transported by the river is essential information to the bed sediment cleanup process. Turbidity, discharge, suspended-sediment concentration (SSC) and particle-size data were collected by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) between February 2013 and January 2017 at the Duwamish River, Washington, within the tidal influence at river kilometer 16.7 (USGS site 12113390; Duwamish River at Golf Course at Tukwila, WA). This report quantifies the timing and magnitude of suspended-sediment transported in the Duwamish River. Regression models were developed between SSC and turbidity as well as SSC and discharge to estimate 15-minute SSC. Suspended-sediment loads were calculated from the computed SSC and time-series discharge data for every 15-minute interval during the study period. This dataset is the primary appendix to Open-File Report, Suspended Sediment Transport by the Green-Duwamish River to the Lower Duwamish Waterway, Seattle, Washington, 2013-2017 (include link).

Tags: biota, duwamish-river, suspended-sediment, tukwila-wa, turbidity, usgs-5a1dba7de4b09fc93dd7c022
Organization: Department of the Interior
Magnetotelluric sounding data, station 2, East-Central Tooele County, Utah, 2003

This dataset includes the magnetotelluric (MT) sounding data collected in 2003 along a north-south profile west of Tooele, Utah. It is important to know whether major mining districts in the Northern Nevada Gold Province are underlain by rocks of the Archean Wyoming craton, which are known to contain orogenic gold deposits, or by accreted rocks of the Paleoproterozoic Mojave province. It is also important to know the location and orientation of the Archean/Proterozoic suture zone between these provinces as well as major basement structures within these terranes because they may influence subsequent patterns of sedimentation, deformation, magmatism, and hydrothermal activity. This study was funded by the U.S. Geological Survey's Mineral Resources Program in cooperation with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.

Tags: apparent-resistivity, aquifer, archean, archean-wyoming-craton, cedar-mountains, cggsc, crustal-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center, deformation, dugway-proving-grounds, electromagnetic-surveying, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, gold-deposits, gold-mining, gps-measurement, great-basin, great-salt-lake, great-salt-lake-desert, hydrothermal-activity, impedance, impedance-phase, impedance-strike, lakeside-mountains, lakeside-valley, localized-mineralization, magmatism, magnetic-field-earth, magnetic-surveying, magnetotelluric, mineral-resources-program, mojave-province, mrp, mt, neoproterozoic, northern-nevada-gold-province, onaqui-mountains, paleoproterozoic, paleozoic, proterozoic, regional-fluid-flow, sedimentation, sheeprock-mountains, simpson-mountains, skull-valley, skull-valley-reservation, sounding, stansbury-mountains, suture-zone, tipper, tooele, tooele-army-depot, tooele-county, uinta-national-forest, usgs-5a1df160e4b09fc93dd7c56d, utah, utah-test-and-training-range, vernon, wasatch-national-forest
Organization: Department of the Interior
Magnetotelluric sounding data, station 3, East-Central Tooele County, Utah, 2003

This dataset includes the magnetotelluric (MT) sounding data collected in 2003 along a north-south profile west of Tooele, Utah. It is important to know whether major mining districts in the Northern Nevada Gold Province are underlain by rocks of the Archean Wyoming craton, which are known to contain orogenic gold deposits, or by accreted rocks of the Paleoproterozoic Mojave province. It is also important to know the location and orientation of the Archean/Proterozoic suture zone between these provinces as well as major basement structures within these terranes because they may influence subsequent patterns of sedimentation, deformation, magmatism, and hydrothermal activity. This study was funded by the U.S. Geological Survey's Mineral Resources Program in cooperation with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.

Tags: apparent-resistivity, aquifer, archean, archean-wyoming-craton, cedar-mountains, cggsc, crustal-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center, deformation, dugway-proving-grounds, electromagnetic-surveying, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, gold-deposits, gold-mining, gps-measurement, great-basin, great-salt-lake, great-salt-lake-desert, hydrothermal-activity, impedance, impedance-phase, impedance-strike, lakeside-mountains, lakeside-valley, localized-mineralization, magmatism, magnetic-field-earth, magnetic-surveying, magnetotelluric, mineral-resources-program, mojave-province, mrp, mt, neoproterozoic, northern-nevada-gold-province, onaqui-mountains, paleoproterozoic, paleozoic, proterozoic, regional-fluid-flow, sedimentation, sheeprock-mountains, simpson-mountains, skull-valley, skull-valley-reservation, sounding, stansbury-mountains, suture-zone, tipper, tooele, tooele-army-depot, tooele-county, uinta-national-forest, usgs-5a1df536e4b09fc93dd7c5f5, utah, utah-test-and-training-range, vernon, wasatch-national-forest
Organization: Department of the Interior