AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Chloride concentrations from wells in the Genesee River Valley, Livingston County, New York

The Retsof salt mine in the Genesee River Valley, Livingston County, New York, flooded after mine-roof collapses in 1994 created two rubble chimneys in overlying bedrock that intersected a confined aquifer in the basal glacial-drift deposits and continued collapse to the land surface.  Groundwater in the lower confined aquifer flowed downward through the bedrock rubble chimneys causing widespread drawdown in the lower confined aquifer until the mine was completely flooded in 1996 (Yager and others, 2001).  By 2005, water levels in the lower confined aquifer had nearly recovered to pre-collapse conditions but the hydraulic connection through the rubble chimneys between the brine-filled mine cavity, saline-water bedrock fracture zones, and the lower confined aquifer remained. The mine contains billions of liters of saturated brine that is slowly being displaced upward as the weight of overlying bedrock and unconsolidated sediments causes the mine cavity to very slowly close (Yager and others, 2009). 
This data release provides chloride-concentration data from water samples collected from wells in the groundwater-quality well network established in the Genesee River Valley by consultants for the former salt mine.  The well network includes wells that were actively pumped and monitoring wells in and around the collapse area.  In the nine wells monitored for chloride concentration, some wells only monitored one zone, while others monitored up to eight zones.  The lower confined aquifer was monitored in six wells, while other wells monitored the underlying bedrock at various depths.  Chloride data in "GeneseeValley_ChlorideData_OtherMeasurements.csv" were from monitoring wells further from the collapse area or from domestic wells north of the collapse area near Fowlerville, New York.
References Cited:
Yager, R.M., Miller, T.S., and Kappel, W.M., 2001, Simulated effects of 1994 salt-mine collapse on groundwater flow and land subsidence in a glacial aquifer system, Livingston County, New York: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1611, 85 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/pp1611.
Yager, R.M., Misut, P.E., Langevin, C.D., and Parkhurst, D.L., 2009, Brine migration from a flooded salt mine in the Genesee Valley, Livingston County, New York—Geochemical modeling and simulation of variable-density flow: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1767, 59 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/pp1767.

Tags: genesee-river, genesee-river-valley, livingston-county, new-york, salinity, usgs-5e5535c1e4b0ff554f773d91, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Bacteriology of Unionid Mussels: Data

The diagnosis of bacterial disease in freshwater unionid mussels has been hindered by a lack of baseline information regarding the microbial communities associated with these animals. In this study, we cultured and identified bacteria from the hemolymph of stable mussel populations from the upper Mississippi River basin and compared results to mussel populations associated with a mortality event in the Clinch River, VA and TN. Several bacterial genera were consistently identified across mussel species and locations, appearing to be part of the natural bacterial flora. One noteworthy isolate was identified from the Clinch River. Yokenella regensbergei was found with relatively high prevalence during the mortality event but was absent from post-mortality samples. Its role, if any, in the mortality event is unknown and deserves further investigation. We suggest that future studies of freshwater mussel health utilize hemolymph samples due to its relative disconnect with the aquatic environment, role in the circulatory system and nonlethal nature of collection.

Tags: bacteria, biota, clinch-river-virginia-usa, clinch-rivertennessee-usa, disease, freshwater-mussel, hemolymph, unionid, upper-mississippi-river-wi-usa, usgs-5e5434bee4b0ff554f753197
Organization: Department of the Interior
Air-free pH and specific conductance measurements for effluent generated during phosphate removal column experiment

These data represent the air-free pH and specific conductance per pore volume of effluent generated by the phosphate removal column experiment. Solid samples used for the columns are of modern and legacy iron and steel slag from the Chicago-Gary area of Illinois and Indiana, USA.

Tags: chicago, cook-county, gary, geochemistry, illinois, indiana, indiana-harbor, lake-county, usgs-5e542fb9e4b0ff554f753182, water-ph, water-temperature
Organization: Department of the Interior
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (ver. 12.0, April 2025)

The Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) Program assesses the frequency, extent, and magnitude (size and severity) of all large wildland fires (including wildfires and prescribed fires) in the conterminous United States (CONUS), Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico for the period of 1984 and beyond. All fires reported as greater than 1,000 acres in the western U.S. and greater than 500 acres in the eastern U.S. are mapped across all ownerships. MTBS produces a series of geospatial and tabular data for analysis at a range of spatial, temporal, and thematic scales and are intended to meet a variety of information needs that require consistent data about fire effects through space and time. This map layer is a vector point shapefile of the location of all currently inventoried fires occurring between calendar year 1984 and 2024 for CONUS, Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. Fires omitted from this mapped inventory are those where suitable satellite imagery was not available, or fires were not discernable from available imagery. 

Tags: ak, alaska, burn-severity, burned-area, continental-u-s, conus, differenced-normalized-burn-ratio, fire-location, fire-occurrence, hawaii, hi, imagerybasemapsearthcover, landsat, location, mtbs, normalized-burn-ratio, pr, prescribed-fire, puerto-rico, sentinel, united-states, us, usgs-5e541969e4b0ff554f753113, wildfire, wildland-fire
Organization: Department of the Interior
2019 Santa Ana Reach Location Information

This dataset includes the 2019 latitude and longitude information for habitat and fish reach locations on the Santa Ana River.

Tags: arroyo-chub-gila-orcutti, habitat-use, population-estimate, santa-ana-sucker-catostomus-santaanae, usgs-5e5416fce4b0ff554f7530f1
Organization: Department of the Interior
Ecosystem water balance and ecological drought patterns under historical and future climate conditions for the Four Forest Restoration Initiative (4FRI) Landscape

These data were compiled for research pertaining to the effects of stand density treatments on growth rates in semi-arid, ponderosa pine forests. Also, these data examined how the planned restoration treatments in the Four Forests Restoration Initiative (4FRI), the largest forest restoration project being implemented in the United States, would alter landscape-scale patterns of forest growth and drought vulnerability throughout the 21st century. Using drought-growth relationships developed within the landscape, we considered a suite of climate and thinning scenarios and estimated both average forest growth and the proportion of years with extremely low growth as a measure of vulnerability to long-term decline. The severity of drought and the magnitude of future growth declines experienced by these stands is influenced by the thinning treatments. These data consist of field measurements from Terrestrial Ecosystem Surveys of the Coconino and Kaibab National Forests and other sources including Downscaled CMIP3 and CMIP5 Climate and Hydrology Projections. SOILWAT2 was used to model treatment-specific interactions between forest BA, soil conditions, and climate, and to simulate soil moisture. The 4FRI landscape is located on the Coconino and Kaibab National Forests in Northern Arizona. The landscape is dominated by ponderosa pine forest types, and ranges from 1780 to 3850 m elevation with a mean of 2190 meters.

Tags: 21st-century, 4fri, air-temperature, arizona, atmospheric-and-climatic-processes, basal-area, basal-area-increment, basal-area-reduction, biomass, biomass-increment, climate, climate-change, climate-impacts, climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, coconino-national-forest, colorado-plateau, density-treatment, drought-growth-relationships, drought-severity, drought-vulnerability, droughts, ecological-distribution, ecological-drought, ecological-processes, ecological-restoration, ecosystem-restoration, environmental-driver, environmental-restoration, flagstaff, forest-density, forest-ecosystems, forest-growth, forest-stand, forest-treatment, four-forests-restoration-initiative, future-time-period-late, future-time-period-near, geography, geoscientificinformation, growth, growth-rate, growth-rates, growth-vulnerability, historical-time-period, kaibab-national-forest, landscape, landscape-scale-patterns, landscape-structure, northern-arizona, pine-forests, ponderosa-pine-forests, precipitation, precipitation-atmospheric, predicted-growth, rcp, relative-growth, representative-concentration-pathway, restoration-treatments, semi-arid-forests, shifting-climate, soil-moisture, stand-density-treatments, stand-driver, temperature, thinning, thinning-treatments, usgs-5e540802e4b0ff554f753094
Organization: Department of the Interior
USGS National and Global Oil and Gas Assessment Project - Michigan Basin Province, Collingwood Shale and Utica Shale Formations Assessment Unit Boundaries and Assessment Input Data Forms

This data release contains the boundaries of assessment units and input data for the assessment of continuous oil and gas resources in the Ordovician Collingwood Shale and Utica Shale formations in the Michigan Basin province. The Assessment Unit is the fundamental unit used in the National Assessment Project for the assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources.  The Assessment Unit is defined within the context of the higher-level Total Petroleum System.  The Assessment Unit is shown herein as a geographic boundary interpreted, defined, and mapped by the geologist responsible for the province and incorporates a set of known or postulated oil and (or) gas accumulations sharing similar geologic, geographic, and temporal properties within the Total Petroleum System, such as source rock, timing, migration pathways, trapping mechanism, and hydrocarbon type.  The Assessment Unit boundary is defined geologically as the limits of the geologic elements that define the Assessment Unit, such as limits of reservoir rock, geologic structures, source rock, and seal lithologies.  The only exceptions to this are Assessment Units that border the Federal-State water boundary.  In these cases, the Federal-State water boundary forms part of the Assessment Unit boundary.  Methodology of assessments are documented in USGS Data Series 547 for continuous assessments (https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/547) and USGS DDS69-D, Chapter 21 for conventional assessments (https://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-069/dds-069-d/REPORTS/69_D_CH_21.pdf).  See supplemental information for a detailed list of files included this data release.

Tags: assessment-unit, collingwood-utica-shale-gas, collingwood-utica-shale-oil, continuous-assessment-unit, energy-resources, geology, geoscientificinformation, national-assessment-of-oil-and-gas, natural-gas, natural-gas-resources, noga2000, oil, oil-resources, oilgas, petroleum, resource-assessment, state-of-michigan, unconventional-assessment-unit, united-states-of-america, usgs-5e50325ce4b0ff554f72dc69
Organization: Department of the Interior
2019 Santa Ana Reach Habitat Data

This dataset includes 2019 reach habitat data for the Santa Ana Sucker (Catostomus santaanae) and the Arroyo Chub (Gila orcutti) in the Santa Ana River.

Tags: arroyo-chub-gila-orcutti, california, habitat-use, population-estimate, santa-ana-river, santa-ana-sucker-catostomus-santaanae, usgs-5e546464e4b0ff554f753246
Organization: Department of the Interior
Vertical chemical profiles collected across haloclines in the water column of the Ox Bel Ha cave network within the coastal aquifer of the Yucatan Peninsula in January 2015 and January 2016

Natural cave passages penetrating a coastal aquifer in the Yucatan Peninsula (Mexico) were accessed to test the hypothesis that chemoclines associated with salinity gradients (haloclines) within the flooded cave networks of the karst subterranean estuary are sites of methane oxidation. Two field trips were carried out to the fully-submerged cave system located 6.6 km inland from the coastline in January 2015 and January 2016. Vertical chemical profiles across the water column haloclines were obtained using the OctoPiPi (OPP), a high-resolution water sampler built by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The sampling efforts resulted in cm-scale profiles of major ions (e.g., chloride and sulfate), as well as concentrations and stable carbon isotopic values of methane, dissolved organic carbon (DOC), and dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC). Field activities were carried out by the USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program in conjunction with Texas A&amp;M University at Galveston

Tags: anchialine-ecosystem, aquatic-ecosystem, biogeochemical-cycling, carbon-cycling, carbon-isotope-analysis, cave, cenote, cenote-bang, chemical-records, coastal-aquifer, coastal-ecosystems, ecosystem-function, environment, estuarine-ecosystems, estuarine-mixing, field-inventory-and-monitoring, freshwater-ecosystems, geochemical-data, geochemistry, groundwater, hydrogeology, hydrologic-records, hydrology, inland-waters, inlandwaters, karst, mexico, ox-bel-ha-cave-system, quintana-roo, salinity, subterranean-estuary, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-5e503065e4b0ff554f72d6be, yucatan-peninsula
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data associated with the evaluation of the PAT (Purge Analyzer Tool), Stringfellow Superfund site, Jurupa Valley, California, 2017

There are manual measurements of well construction, hydraulic, and  chemical data for several wells from the Stringfellow Superfund site, Jurupa Valley, California. The hydraulic data includes hydraulic head. Chemical data includes physiocochemical data. Physiocochemical profiles of the well water column were done under ambient and post pumped conditions. There are also continuous measurements of hydraulic head, and the monitoring of the presence of tracers (rhodamine, fluorescein, and brilliant blue dye).

Tags: groundwater-transport, in-well-flow, usgs-5e500e6be4b0ff554f717e8c
Organization: Department of the Interior
High-Resolution Aeromagnetic Survey of the Centralia Area, Southwest Washington

The data in this release originate from a low-altitude, aeromagnetic survey of the Centralia and Chehalis area of southwestern Washington. The survey was conducted between September 22 and October 22, 2015, by Eon Geosciences, Inc, working under contract to the U.S. Geological Survey.  The covered region extends from the Cascade Range in the east to Willapa Bay in the west, and includes the cities of Chehalis and Centralia, Washington, and a part of Interstate 5.  Total magnetic field values were acquired using a fixed-wing aircraft flown at a target elevation of 200 m above terrain.  Primary flight lines were oriented east-west and spaced 400 m apart; additional tie lines were oriented north-south and spaced 4000 m apart.  Flight lines and tie lines together represent 23,051 line-km of data.

Tags: aeromagnetic-surveying, centralia, crust-earth, earthquakes, geoscientificinformation, grays-harbor, magnetic-anomaly, magnetic-field-earth, magnetometer-measurement, neotectonic-processes, puget-sound, usgs-5e4ffe14e4b0ff554f70e347, willapa-bay
Organization: Department of the Interior
Laboratory generated leachates of modern and legacy iron and steel slag from the Chicago-Gary area of Illinois and Indiana, USA using USEPA method 1312 Synthetic Precipitation Leaching Procedure

These data represent the major, minor, and trace element compositions of laboratory generated leachates of modern and legacy iron and steel slag from the Chicago-Gary area of Illinois and Indiana, USA using USEPA method 1312 Synthetic Precipitation Leaching Procedure.

Tags: atomic-emission-spectroscopy, chemical-analysis, chicago, cook-county, gary, geochemistry, illinois, indiana, indiana-harbor, lake-county, mass-spectroscopy, usgs-5e4ffcd9e4b0ff554f70db0b
Organization: Department of the Interior
Acid neutralization potential and grain size analysis of modern and legacy iron and steel slag from the Chicago-Gary area of Illinois and Indiana, USA

These data represent the acid neutralization potential and grain size analysis of 13 samples, 2 duplicate samples, of modern and legacy iron and steel slag from the Chicago-Gary area of Illinois and Indiana, USA.

Tags: chicago, cook-county, gary, geochemistry, grain-size-analysis, illinois, indiana, indiana-harbor, lake-county, sieve-size-analysis, usgs-5e4ffc41e4b0ff554f70d7bd
Organization: Department of the Interior
Major, Minor, and Trace Element Compositions of modern and legacy iron and steel slag from the Chicago-Gary area of Illinois and Indiana, USA

These data represent the major, minor, and trace element compositions of modern and legacy iron and steel slag from the Chicago-Gary area of Illinois and Indiana, USA.

Tags: atomic-emission-spectroscopy, chicago, cook-county, gary, geochemistry, illinois, indiana, indiana-harbor, lake-county, mass-spectroscopy, usgs-5e4ff7d2e4b0ff554f70d5c2
Organization: Department of the Interior
Suspended particle size distribution data from three locations in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California, 2017 to 2018

These data present suspended particle size distributions collected by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center at three locations in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Data were collected in Lindsey Slough on April 4 and April 18, 2017, and near the mouth of the Mokelumne River and in Middle River on March 14, 2018 by deploying a Sequoia Scientific Laser In-situ Scattering and Transmissometry instrument (LISST 100x) from a small vessel during the deployment of the hydrographic time series data instruments. At each site, data were collected 1 to 2 times, generally near the water surface, at mid depth, and near the sediment bed. These data were collected as part of a study on the effects of invasive aquatic vegetation on sediment transport in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Users are advised to check metadata and instrument information carefully for applicable time periods of specific data.

Tags: aquatic-ecosystems, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, field-observation, geoscientificinformation, invasive-species, lindsey-slough, marine-water-quality, middle-river, mokelumne-river, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, physical-oceanography, sacramento-san-joaquin-delta, seabed, sediment-transport, shallow-water-habitat, state-of-california, suspended-material-water, suspended-sediment-concentration, tidal-shallows, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-5e4f488ee4b0ff554f70ccec, water-level-measurements, wave-observations
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data on cone production in pinyon pine in the Southwestern USA from 2003-2016

Data were collected on pinyon pine cone production using the cone scar method (Redmond et al 2016 Forest Ecology and Management) from 2003-2016 among sites in the Southwest USA.  Long-term weather data (Vapor Pressure Deficits and monsoonality) were associated with cone scar data to assess weather-correlates of cone production.

Tags: biota, cone-production, conifer, masting, pinyon, spatial-synchrony, usgs-5e4f0708e4b0ff554f70cc97
Organization: Department of the Interior
Fluid levels in the Oxnard Oil Field, Ventura County, California

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the California State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB), compiled Fall 2017 fluid level elevation data from idle oil and gas wells in the Oxnard Oil Field to estimate vertical hydraulic head difference between oil production and overlying groundwater aquifer zones. Fluid elevations came from two sources, measurements in idle oil and gas wells and groundwater elevations in water wells in the overlying aquifer estimated at the points of idle well measurements using geographic information system (GIS) procedures. The fluid elevations from idle oil and gas wells were compiled by the California Geologic Energy Management Division (CalGEM) as part of their Idle Well Program; oil producers take the measurements and submit the data to CalGEM. These oil wells are perforated in the oil producing zones which includes the Vaca Tar Sands. Fluid elevations from the shallower groundwater system were extracted using GIS procedures at the locations of these idle oil and gas wells from a groundwater elevation contour map for Fall 2017 provided by the United Water Conservation District (UWCD). Groundwater elevation contours were calculated by UWCD from water-level measurements in groundwater wells monitored seasonally in the Oxnard Plain groundwater sub-basin and adjacent sub-basins. The groundwater elevation contours represent the lower aquifer system in the Oxnard Plain groundwater sub-basin and overlie the oil zone including Vaca Tar Sands. The fluid elevations in idle oil wells and calculated groundwater level elevations at the same location were compared to estimate vertical differences in groundwater head to assess potential fluid flow direction. Of the 65 idle well locations where vertical head differences were calculated, 43 had head differences indicating upward fluid gradients (head higher in oil wells than groundwater), 21 had head differences indicating downward fluid gradients (head lower in oil wells than groundwater), and 1 had head differences too small to discern vertical differences (within +/- 2 m). These data were analyzed in an accompanying manuscript as part of the SWRCB oil and gas Regional Monitoring Program and the USGS California Oil, Gas, and Groundwater (COGG) Program to assess regional groundwater quality overlying and adjacent to the Oxnard Oil Field.

Tags: california, groundwater-level, oil-and-gas, oxnard, usgs-5e4f06dfe4b0ff554f70cc91
Organization: Department of the Interior
Tracking Data for Red-throated Loons (Gavia stellata)

This data release includes 2 child items with tracking data for Red-throated Loons, a species that breeds in coastal areas throughout Alaska and winters along the Pacific coasts of North America and Eurasia.
      Child Item 1: "Argos Satellite Tracking Data for Red-throated Loons (Gavia stellata) - Processed Data" -- Quality-controlled data collected from Argos satellite transmitters.
      Child Item 2: "Argos Satellite Tracking Data for Red-throated Loons (Gavia stellata) - Raw Data" -- All raw data collected from Argos satellite transmitters, provided for completeness of the archive. The quality-controlled, "Argos Processed Data" (Child Item 1) are better suited for most analytical purposes.

Tags: alaska, animal-tracking, animals-vertebrates, argos, biota, birds, breeding-area, breeding-sites, copper-river-delta, distribution, east-asia-flyway, ecological-dynamics, environment, gavia-stellata, loons, migration, migration-organisms, migration-pathway, migratory-birds, migratory-strategies, national-petroleum-reserve-alaska, north-slope, npr-a, ornithology, overwintering, pacific-americas-flyway, platform-transmitter-terminal, point-lay, ptt, red-throated-loon, satellite-transmitter, seasonal-distribution, seasonal-movement, seward-peninsula, species-life-history, species-migration, telemetry, tracking-equipment, usgs-5e4f05b9e4b0ff554f70cc88, wildlife, wintering-area, yukon-delta, yukon-delta-national-wildlife-refuge, yukon-kuskokwim-river-delta
Organization: Department of the Interior