AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Groundwater-level change contours for the Lahontan Valley shallow aquifer near Fallon, Nevada, 1992-2012

These contours represent water level change in the shallow aquifer in Lahontan Valley from 1992 - 2012 based on depth-to-groundwater measurements made in 73 wells in 1992 and 2012, with limited measurements made in 2013. Measurements collected in 2013 were used to develop the contours only in limited cases where the measurement well was being pumped or was inaccessible in 2012. Water-level change in the shallow aquifer was determined by differencing measurements made in 1992 with current measurements.  The difference values were used to interpolate a change surface and contours were developed from that surface.

Tags: churchill-county, fallon, geoscientificinformation, great-basin, groundwater, inlandwaters, lahontan-valley, nevada, usgs-57bb7d78e4b03fd6b7dd05fe, water-level-change
Organization: Department of the Interior
Groundwater-level contours for the Lahontan Valley shallow aquifer near Fallon, Nevada, 2012

These contours represent water levels based on depth-to-groundwater measurements made at 98 wells in July of 2012 in the Lahontan Valley near Fallon, NV. Water level measurements collected before or after July of 2012 were included only in cases where the well was being pumped or was inaccessible in July 2012. The contours were developed to compare with 1992 water level altitude contoured by Seiler and Allander (1993).
References cited:
Seiler, R.L., Allander, K.K., 1993, Water-Level Changes and Directions of Ground-Water Flow in the Shallow Aquifer, Fallon Area, Churchill County, Nevada: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 93-4118, 74 p.  http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/wri934118

Tags: churchill-county, fallon, geoscientificinformation, great-basin, groundwater, inlandwaters, lahontan-valley, nevada, usgs-57bb7a62e4b03fd6b7dd05d0, water-level-altitude
Organization: Department of the Interior
Concentrations of glyphosate and atrazine compounds in 100 Midwest United States streams in 2013

Temporal patterns in glyphosate and atrazine concentrations were measured weekly by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) during the 2013 growing season in 100 small streams in the Midwestern United States. Concentrations also were measured every 2 days at a subset of 8 of the sites, all located in Missouri. Glyphosate was detected more frequently in urban streams than in agricultural streams, and at concentrations similar to those in streams with high agricultural land use in the watershed.  In contrast, atrazine was detected more frequently and at higher concentrations in agricultural streams than in urban streams. This data release provides watershed characteristics and 2013 glyphosate and atrazine compound concentrations used in the analysis presented in the journal article “Similarities and differences in temporal fluctuations in glyphosate and atrazine in small Midwestern streams (USA) during the 2013 growing season,” by BJ Mahler, PC Van Metre, TE Burley, KA Loftin, MT Meyer, and LH Nowell, http://dx.doi.org/10.5066/F7SN073J.

Tags: 2013, atrazine, august, corn-belt, elisa, glyphosate, herbicide, illinois, indiana, iowa, july, june, kansas, kentucky, may, minnesota, missouri, nebraska, ohio, river, south-dakota, spring, spring-flush, stream, summer, united-states, usgs-57bb51ece4b03fd6b7dd04de, wisconsin
Organization: Department of the Interior
Boat-based water-surface cross sectional elevation surveys along the upper Willamette River, Oregon, in Spring, 2015

Water-surface elevation measurements were collected in Spring, 2015 along the upper Willamette River, Oregon, between Harrisburg and Corvallis. These surveys were collected over a small range of discharges, from 6,900 cubic feet per second to 8,300 cubic feet per second, using a real-time kinematic global positioning system (RTK-GPS) on a motorboat at various cross sections along the river. These datasets were collected for equipment calibration and validation for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission. This is one of multiple survey datasets that will be released for this effort.

Tags: airswot, corvallis, discharge, harrisburg, inland-waters, oregon, river, rtk, surface-water, usgs-57b9fb4ae4b03fd6b7dbf5a7, water-surface-elevation, willamette-river
Organization: Department of the Interior
Groundwater-level and groundwater-level change contours for the Lahontan Valley shallow aquifer near Fallon, Nevada, 2012

This USGS data release consists of two geospatial datasets. One dataset contains contours representing water levels based on depth-to-groundwater measurements made at 98 wells in July of 2012 in the Lahontan Valley near Fallon, NV.  The second dataset contains contours representing water level change in the shallow aquifer in Lahontan Valley from 1992 - 2012 based on depth-to-groundwater measurements made in 73 wells in 1992 and 2012, with limited measurements made in 2013. These data support USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2016-5045 - Groundwater-Level Change and Evaluation of Simulated Water Levels for Irrigated Areas in Lahontan Valley, Churchill County, West-Central Nevada, 1992‒2012

Tags: churchill-county, fallon, geoscientificinformation, great-basin, groundwater, inlandwaters, lahontan-valley, nevada, usgs-57b9d98ee4b03fd6b7dbf564, water-level-altitude, water-level-change
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital map of the elevation of base of the upper layer of the phase-three Elkhorn-Loup Model, north-central Nebraska

In 2006, a cooperative study was established to compile reliable data describing groundwater 
and surface-water interactions in the Elkhorn and Loup River Basins. The purpose of the study 
was to address state legislation that requires a sustainable balance between long term water 
supplies and uses of surface water and groundwater. A groundwater-flow model [hereinafter 
referred to as the Elkhorn-Loup Model (ELM)] was constructed as part of the first two phases 
of that study as a tool for understanding the effect of groundwater pumpage on stream base 
flow and the effects of management strategies on hydrologically connected groundwater and 
surface-water supplies. The third phase of the study was implemented to gain additional geologic 
knowledge and update the ELM with enhanced water-budget information and refined discretization 
of the model grid and stress periods. As part of that effort, the ELM is being reconstructed to 
include two vertical model layers, whereas phase-one and phase-two simulations (Peterson and 
others, 2008; Stanton and others, 2010) represented the aquifer system using one vertical model 
layer. The goal for defining the base of the upper model layer was to divide the model vertically so 
that the upper layer had different water transmitting and storage characteristics than the lower layer. 
Texture descriptions were used in most cases to identify the depth in a test-hole, water well, or 
surface-geophysical log at which dividing the aquifer produced contrasting texture characteristics 
for the upper and lower model layers. The study area covers approximately 30,000 square miles, 
and extends from the Niobrara River in the north to the Platte River in the south. The western 
boundary roughly coincides with the western boundary of the Upper Loup NRD, and the eastern 
boundary roughly coincides with the approximate location of the westernmost extent of glacial till 
in eastern Nebraska (University of Nebraska, 2005). This data release consists of a line shapefile 
of contours attributed with values representing the elevation of the base of the upper layer of the 
two-layer phase-three ELM above the vertical datum (National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929).

Tags: aquifer-base, aquifer-characteristics, elevation, elkhorn-loup-model-area, geohydrologic-units, geoscientificinformation, high-plains-aquifer, inlandwaters, ogallala-aquifer, usgs, usgs-57b942b1-ea27-4e29-b2c3-027016a173ab
Organization: Department of the Interior
High-resolution digital elevation dataset for Glacier Peak and vicinity, Washington, based on lidar surveys of August-November, 2014 and June, 2015

Glacier Peak is a 3,214 m (10,544 ft.) stratovolcano composed mainly of dacite. The volcano is located in the Glacier Peak Wilderness Area, in the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, about 100 km (65 mi) northeast of Seattle and 110 km (70 mi) south of the International Boundary with Canada. Since the continental ice sheets receded from the region approximately 15,000 years ago, Glacier Peak has erupted repeatedly during at least six episodes. Two of these eruptions were among the largest in the Cascades during this time period. This DEM (digital elevation model) of Glacier Peak is the product of high-precision airborne lidar (Light Detection and Ranging) surveys performed during August-November, 2014 and June, 2015 by Quantum Spatial under contract with the USGS. This digital map, totaling approximately 475 square miles, represents the ground surface beneath forest cover and contributes to natural hazard monitoring efforts, the study of regional geology, volcanic landforms, and landscape modification during and after future volcanic eruptions, both at Glacier Peak or elsewhere globally. This release is comprised of a DEM dataset accompanied by a hillshade raster, each divided into 18 tiles. Each tile’s bounding rectangle is identical to the extent of the USGS 7.5 minute topographic quadrangles covering the same area. The names of the DEM tiles are eleven characters long (e.g., dem_xxxxxx). The prefix, "dem", indicates the file is a DEM and the last seven characters correspond to the map reference code of the quadrangle defining the tile's spatial extent. Hillshade tile names are denoted by the prefix "hs", but are otherwise identical to the DEM they are derived from.

Tags: bare-earth, bare-earth-hydroflattened, breaklines, dem, digital-elevation-model, elevation-data, glacier-peak, hillshade, hydrology, lidar, light-detection-and-ranging, mount-baker-national-forest, topography, united-states, usgs-57bf299ee4b0f2f0ceb7534e, volcano, washington
Organization: Department of the Interior
Efficacy of Pseudomonas fluorescens, strain CL145A, SDP (Zequanox®) for controlling Zebra mussels within Lake Minnetonka, MN enclosures

The efficacy and subsurface application of Zequanox®, a commercially prepared spray-dried powder formulation of Pseudomonas fluorescens (strain CL145A), were evaluated for controlling zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) within 27-m2 enclosures in Lake Minnetonka (Deephaven, Minnesota). Five treatments consisting of (1) two whole water column Zequanox applications, (2) two subsurface Zequanox applications, and (3) an untreated control were completed on each of three independent treatment days during September 2014. The two types of samplers used in the study were (1) custom built multi-plate samplers (type 1 samplers), with wood, perforated aluminum, and tile substrates that were placed into Robinson’s Bay in June of 2013 to allow for natural colonization by zebra mussels, and (2) samplers that were designed to contain zebra mussels (type 2 samplers) which consisted of zebra mussels adhering to perforated aluminum trays that were placed into mesh containment bags. One day prior to treatment, three individual samplers of each type were distributed to test enclosures and exposed to a randomly assigned treatment. Sampling to determine the living zebra mussel biomass adhering to type 1 samplers and the survival assessments for zebra mussels contained in type 2 samplers were completed ~40 days after exposure.
The living zebra mussel biomass adhering to type 1 samplers and the survival of zebra mussels contained in type 2 samplers were significantly less in groups treated with the highest Zequanox concentrations and in groups that received whole water column applications compared to groups treated with lower Zequanox concentrations and subsurface applications. However, standardization biomass and survival results to the amount of Zequanox applied showed that the lower Zequanox concentrations and subsurface applications were more efficient at reducing zebra mussel biomass and inducing zebra mussel mortality. Although more efficient, biological significance and management goals should be evaluated prior to selecting subsurface application methods and lower treatment concentrations for Zequanox applications. Development and refinement of additional application techniques may improve the utility of the subsurface Zequanox applications.

Tags: biomass, dreissenid-mussel-control, lake-minnetonka, minnesota, pseudomonas-fluorescens-strain-cl145a, usgs-57b7157ae4b03fd6b7d94d1c, zequanox
Organization: Department of the Interior
WLCI - Important Agricultural Lands Assessment (Input Raster: Irrigated Lands - Wet Years)

This dataset is a binary input representing irrigated areas (during 'wet' years) as a raster dataset. Parcels identified as being irrigated are assigned a value of 1 while non-irrigated areas are assigned a value of 0.
This raster is one of 9 inputs used to calculate the "Normalized Importance Index."

Tags: aquatic-habitat, energy-development, environment, geoscientificinformation, ia, landscape-scale-conservation, southwest-wyoming, sw-wyoming, terrestrial-habitat, united-states, usa, usgs-57b5de1de4b03bcb0105ca11, wlci, wlci-integrated-assessment, wyoming, wyoming-landscape-conservation-initiative
Organization: Department of the Interior
WLCI - Important Agricultural Lands Assessment (Input Raster: Irrigated Lands - Dry Years)

This dataset is a binary input representing irrigated areas (during 'dry' years) as a raster dataset. Parcels identified as being irrigated are assigned a value of 1 while non-irrigated areas are assigned a value of 0.
This raster is one of 9 inputs used to calculate the "Normalized Importance Index."

Tags: aquatic-habitat, energy-development, environment, geoscientificinformation, ia, landscape-scale-conservation, southwest-wyoming, sw-wyoming, terrestrial-habitat, united-states, usa, usgs-57b5ddfde4b03bcb0105ca0f, wlci, wlci-integrated-assessment, wyoming, wyoming-landscape-conservation-initiative
Organization: Department of the Interior
Chemicals of emerging and legacy concern in tissues of white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) in the Columbia River near Hanford, WA (2009)

This dataset contains concentrations of 25 organochlorine pesticides, 6 industrial or personal care products, 6 polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardant congeners, and 15 polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) congeners in brain, muscle, gonad, and liver tissues of white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus). All concentrations are reported on a wet-weight basis. Fish samples were collected from the Columbia River directly adjacent to and immediately downstream from the Hanford Site in Washington State. The site was used as a weapons-grade plutonium plant from 1944 to 1987, at which time liquid effluents were discharged directly into the Columbia River. Contaminants from past and present waste leaks from the Hanford Site can accumulate in fish residing in the Columbia River. However, contaminants from additional sources (mining, smelting, pulp and paper production, agricultural runoff, atmospheric deposition, and permitted municipal and urban discharges) can also accumulate in fish residing in the river. The sturgeon individuals sampled for this dataset were used to assess the nature and extent of non-radionuclide chemical contamination in fish in the Columbia River at the Hanford Site. Tissues from 16 individual fish were composited into 5 samples to meet the mass requirements for the chemical analyses.

Tags: benton-county-washington, bioaccumulation, columbia-river, fish, franklin-county-washington, grant-county-washington, hanford-site, industrial-pollution, pesticide-and-herbicide-contamination, usgs-57b5dcb5e4b03bcb0105ca02, water-pollution
Organization: Department of the Interior
U.S. Gulf of Mexico coast (TX, MS, AL, and FL) Macroclimate Soil Data (2013-2014)

The northern Gulf of Mexico coast spans two major climate gradients and represents an excellent natural laboratory for developing climate-influenced ecological models. In this project, we used these zones of remarkable transition to develop macroclimate-based models for quantifying the regional responses of coastal wetland ecosystems to climate variation. In addition to providing important fish and wildlife habitat and supporting coastal food webs, these coastal wetlands provide many ecosystem goods and services including clean water, stable coastlines, food, recreational opportunities, and stored carbon. Our objective was to examine and forecast the effects of macroclimatic drivers on wetland ecosystem structure and function in the northern Gulf of Mexico.

Tags: bulk-density, corpus-christi, environment, galveston, grand-bay, gulf-of-mexico, laguna-madre, moisture, port-aransas, san-antonio, slidell, soil, soil-organic-matter, state-of-alabama, state-of-florida, state-of-louisiana, state-of-mississippi, state-of-texas, tampa-bay, ten-thousand-islands, usgs-57b240fce4b00148d3982cd0, weeks-bay
Organization: Department of the Interior
U.S. Gulf of Mexico coast (TX, MS, AL, and FL) Macroclimate Landscape and Climate Data (2013-2014)

The northern Gulf of Mexico coast spans two major climate gradients and represents an excellent natural laboratory for developing climate-influenced ecological models. In this project, we used these zones of remarkable transition to develop macroclimate-based models for quantifying the regional responses of coastal wetland ecosystems to climate variation. In addition to providing important fish and wildlife habitat and supporting coastal food webs, these coastal wetlands provide many ecosystem goods and services including clean water, stable coastlines, food, recreational opportunities, and stored carbon. Our objective was to examine and forecast the effects of macroclimatic drivers on wetland ecosystem structure and function in the northern Gulf of Mexico.

Tags: climate, corpus-christi, elevation, galveston, grand-bay, gulf-of-mexico, laguna-madre, landscape, latitude, longitude, port-aransas, san-antonio, slidell, state-of-alabama, state-of-florida, state-of-louisiana, state-of-mississippi, state-of-texas, tampa-bay, ten-thousand-islands, usgs-57b24094e4b00148d3982cce, weeks-bay
Organization: Department of the Interior
Location data for RAD and SNP

Location information regarding samples taken for each individual.

Tags: admixture, california, carrizo-plain, cuyama-river-watershed, endangered-species, gambelia-sila, panoche-plateau, panoche-valley, radseq, san-joaquin-desert, san-joaquin-valley, usgs-5836049de4b0d9329c801c15
Organization: Department of the Interior
Microsatellite CONVERT Input File

Microsatellite data formatted for the software CONVERT, which includes dataset numerical IDs, sampling site names, and locus identifiers. Rows 291-294 provides information about the allele size ranges and repeat motif for each locus. Missing data are coded as ?.

Tags: admixture, california, carrizo-plain, cuyama-river-watershed, endangered-species, gambelia-sila, panoche-plateau, panoche-valley, radseq, san-joaquin-desert, san-joaquin-valley, usgs-583601f7e4b0d9329c801c03
Organization: Department of the Interior
Biophyiscal settings and wildfire frequencies in the Mono ecological section of California, 1984 to 2013

This raster dataset contains biophysical settings (band 1) and wildfire frequencies (band 2) within the Mono ecological section of California. Biophysical settings were developed by the LANDFIRE program and fires occurences were mapped by the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) program.

Tags: biophysical-settings, california, deserts, mono, usgs-5835f5fae4b0d9329c801bc1, wildfire-frequency
Organization: Department of the Interior
Biophyiscal settings and wildfire frequencies in the Mojave Desert ecological section of California, 1984 to 2013

This raster dataset contains biophysical settings (band 1) and wildfire frequencies (band 2) within the Mojave Desert ecological section of California. Biophysical settings were developed by the LANDFIRE program and fires occurences were mapped by the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) program.

Tags: biophysical-settings, california, deserts, mojave-desert, usgs-5835f54fe4b0d9329c801bbd, wildfire-frequency
Organization: Department of the Interior
Amite River Flood Map Files

Heavy rainfall occurred across Louisiana during March 8-19, 2016, as a result of a massive, slow-moving southward dip in the jet stream, which moved eastward across Mexico, then neared the Gulf Coast, funneling deep tropical moisture into parts of the Gulf States and the Mississippi River Valley. The storm caused major flooding in north-central and southeastern Louisiana. Digital flood-inundation maps for a 28-mile reach within the communities of Port Vincent, French Settlement, and Maurepas near the Amite River in Livingston and Ascension Parishes, LA was created by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to support response and recovery operations following a March 8-19, 2016 flood event. The inundation maps depict estimates of the areal extent and depth of flooding corresponding to 7 high-water marks (HWM) identified and surveyed by the USGS following the flood event.

Tags: boundaries, boundary-extent-study-area-high-water-marks-flooded-area-flood-geospatial-analysis-river-stream, elevation, inlandwaters, usgs-5835ef59e4b0d9329c801bab
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data release for persistence of historical population structure in an endangered species despite near-complete biome conversion in California’s San Joaquin Desert

The recency of large-scale land conversion in California’s San Joaquin Desert raises the probability that the region’s numerous endemic species still retain genetic signatures of historical population connectivity. If so, genomic data can serve as a guidance tool for conserving lands that once supported habitat for gene movement. We studied the genetic structuring of the endangered blunt-nosed leopard lizard Gambelia sila, a San Joaquin Desert endemic, to (1) test whether patterns of population admixture could be used to delimit former habitat corridors in the pre-converted landscape, (2) evaluate whether restriction site associated DNA sequencing (RADseq) from a subset of samples can resolve structure at the same spatial scale as mtDNA and microsatellite data collected on the full sample, and (3) inform recovery efforts lacking direction from genetics. Cluster and tree-based analyses reveal a recent shared history between many populations that are now isolated, and that contemporary structure is linked to geophysical features that influence precipitation patterns and locations of former suitable habitat. Past hybridization with the sister species Gambelia wislizenii in southern San Joaquin Desert has generated a stable, but now-isolated population with different species identities for the mtDNA and nuclear genomes. The three marker types converged on similar themes, despite substantially fewer samples in the RADseq datasets; however, RADseq inferences were sensitive to dataset assembly filters that account for sequencing error, particularly cluster assignments. We suggest ways in which these data can be used to improve recovery efforts for G. sila and offer guidelines for RADseq dataset assembly in studies of intraspecific population structure.

Tags: admixture, california, carrizo-plain, cuyama-river-watershed, endangered-species, gambelia-sila, panoche-plateau, panoche-valley, radseq, san-joaquin-desert, san-joaquin-valley, usgs-5835ed59e4b0d9329c801ba1
Organization: Department of the Interior