AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Bathymetric and water quality data on the Sandusky River between Tiffin and Fremont, Ohio, November 4-7, 2019

On November 4-7, 2019, bathymetric data were collected on the Sandusky River between Tiffin and Fremont, Ohio. Wading measurements were made at cross-sections shallower than about 1 foot using a survey pole with a Trimble R10 Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver connected to the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) real-time virtual reference station (VRS) network. Cross-sections that were deeper than about 1 foot were measured with a CEE-ECHO single-beam echosounder mounted to a canoe. A Trimble R10 GNSS receiver connected to the ODOT real-time VRS network was mounted directly above the echosounder and integrated with the echosounder data collection unit to convert measured depths to bed elevations. The echosounder was also used to collect bathymetric data while moving between cross-sections, where depths allowed. During a limited part of the bathymetric survey (November 4-6, 2019), a YSI EXO2 Multiparameter Sonde was deployed from the canoe to measure water temperature, dissolved oxygen, specific conductance, pH, and turbidity. The EXO2 collected data where depth allowed at cross-sections and while moving between cross-sections.

Tags: bathymetry, lake-erie, ohio, sandusky, seneca, surface-water-non-marine, usgs-605b7b0dd34e189488343b10, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Ecological Potential Fractional Component Cover Based on Long-Term Satellite Observations Across the Western United States

Rangelands have immense inherent spatial and temporal variability, yet assessments of land condition and trends are often assessed relative to the condition of a limited number of representative points. Ecological Potential (EP) data are spatially comprehensive, quantitative, and needed as a baseline for comparison of current rangeland vegetation conditions, trends, and management targets. We define EP as the potential fractional cover of vegetation components bare ground, herbaceous, litter, shrub, and sagebrush represented in the least disturbed and most productive portion of the western U.S. This dataset enables: 1) setting realistic expectations for restoration and management targets at 30-meter resolution, 2) better understanding of the extent of vegetation departure from potential and 3) improved spatial understanding of vegetation composition and productivity variation. We produce EP maps across rangelands in the Western U.S. by training regression tree models in ecologically intact sites. The independent variables in these models include digital soils, topography data, six bimonthly composites of the 90th percentile of NDVI, and the associated spectral bands from the 1985-2018 Landsat archive. The study area encompasses all or part of 17 states and a vast range of biophysical conditions, vegetation conditions, and disturbance history. The region is 3,006,071 km2, of which 2,060,962 km2 was rangeland.

Tags: annual-herbaceous, arizona, bare-ground, biota, california, colorado, desert, ecological-competition, ecological-potential, ecological-processes, environment, fractional-cover, great-basin, herbaceous, idaho, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-cover, landsat, long-term-ecological-monitoring, montana, nevada, new-mexico, north-america, oregon, plateau, rangeland, rangelands-site-potential, remote-sensing, sagebrush, shrub, shrubland, sonoran, u-s, united-states, us, usgs-605b77d0d34e189488343acd, utah, washington, western-states, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Contour Dataset of the Potentiometric Surfaces of Shallow and Deep Groundwater-Level Altitudes in Harney Basin, Oregon, February–March 2018

This dataset contains manually developed 5-, 10-, and 500-ft contours for the Harney Basin, Oregon aquifer system shallow and deep potentiometric-surface maps. The potentiometric-surfaces show altitude at the water-table surface (shallow) and at which the water level would have risen in tightly-cased wells deeper than 100 ft (deep) and generally represents synoptic conditions during February–March of 2018. The water-table map was developed using groundwater-level measurements from shallow wells (generally less than 100 ft deep in the lowlands) and the altitudes of springs and gaining stream reaches and constrained by the altitude of the land surface. The deeper potentiometric-surface map was developed using measurements from wells generally more than 100 ft deep in the lowlands. The hydraulic-head distributions depicted are generalizations. The large study area, availability of water-level measurements, the distribution of wells across Harney Basin, and resource limitations precluded mapping all the complexities of the head distribution. Contours are most detailed and have 10-ft intervals (with the exception of the 4,095-ft contour) in the Harney Basin lowlands where data are more abundant, and the land surface is relatively flat. Groundwater heads of 4,200 ft or more were mapped using 500-ft contour intervals and generally coincide with upland areas where wells are sparse and groundwater head is strongly controlled by topography.

Tags: boundaries, groundwater, groundwater-level, harney-basin, harney-county, hydrology, oregon, usgs-605b6f55d34e189488343a0b, water-resources
Organization: Department of the Interior
Stillwater Complex, Montana: Logs of core drilled by Cyprus in the Chrome Lake area, 1971 to 1980

This dataset includes TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) images of graphic drill core logs showing associated drill core information, a TIFF image of the explanation for the lithology and structure sections of the logs, an Esri shapefile of the locations of the drill holes, and fourteen individual .csv files of tabular data that were compiled from handwritten drill core logs. The drill core is from the Stillwater Complex, Montana and was drilled from 1971 to 1980 by the Cyprus Mines Corporation. The core was logged in 1986. The data shown in the graphic drill logs and contained within the .csv files includes lithologic, structure, core recovery, grain size, chromite, sulfide, copper, and nickel mineralization information. The graphic drill logs were created using Golden software's Strater 5 drill core visualization software and are provided with both logarithmic and linear scales. See USGS SIR 2014-5183 (https://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2014/5183/) for report and spatial data relating to the Stillwater Complex.

Tags: core-analysis, geochemistry, geoscientificinformation, montana, stillwater, sweet-grass, usgs-605b6724d34e189488343938
Organization: Department of the Interior
Survey area of beach topography and near-shore bathymetry of Lake Superior at the Duluth Entry, Duluth, MN, July 2020

This dataset represents the survey footprint  of the beach topography and near-shore bathymetry of Lake Superior at the Duluth Entry, Duluth, Minnesota. The survey area extends approximately 0.85 kilometers (0.5 miles) offshore, for an approximately 1.87 square kilometer surveyed area.  Lidar and multibeam data were collected July 28-29, 2020.

Tags: bathymetry, bathymetry-and-elevation, digital-elevation-models, duluth, elevation, great-lakes, inlandwaters, lake-superior, lidar, limnology, southwestern-lake-superior, usgs-60676f3cd34edc0435c09d39
Organization: Department of the Interior
Comparing various survey methods for estimating the number of colonial nesting white egret pairs

While small unmanned aerial systems (UAS) present a unique opportunity to survey avian populations while limiting disturbance, relatively little is known about how this method compares with more traditional approaches. In this study we compared population estimates of a mixed-species egret colony in the Chesapeake Bay (Maryland, USA) derived from UAS photo counts, flush counts, flight-line surveys, and in-colony nest counts along with the time required to derive an estimate via each approach. These data support a larger USGS manuscript.

Tags: biota, cattle-egret, drone, flight-line-survey, flush-count, nest-count, survey-methods, uas, usgs-605b4c5ed34e18948834369d
Organization: Department of the Interior
Provisional peak-streamflow information during March 8-17 at selected USGS gaging stations on the islands of Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, and Maui in the State of Hawaii

Intense rainfall during the 10-day period of March 8-17, 2021 resulted in flooding, landslides, property damage, and road closures across the State of Hawaii. The islands of Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, and Maui are known to have been affected. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) operates 71 real-time stream-gaging stations and 49 peak-streamflow gaging stations on these islands. This data release contains a summary of provisional peak-streamflow information from selected gaging stations during March 8-17, 2021, in relation to the historic record. This data release may be revised and updated as additional data are collected and analyzed.

Tags: floods, streamflow, usgs-605a82ced34e18948831eb21
Organization: Department of the Interior
Bighead and silver carp individual fish data from the Mississippi, Ohio, and Illinois rivers from 1997 to 2018

This is collection of multiple datasets for bighead and silver carp from the the Illinois, Ohio, and MIssissippi rivers. This data was collected by researchers, monitors, and managers between 1997 and 2018. Jahn Kallis created this dataset by combining these individual datasets.

Tags: biota, oceans, usgs-605a3d35d34e18948831d8d0
Organization: Department of the Interior
Location Information, Discharge, and Water-Quality Data for Selected Wells, Springs, and Streams in the Harney Basin, Oregon

This data release contains five comma separated value (csv) files that describe the location and water-quality data for wells, springs, and streams compiled for the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and Oregon Water Resources Department (OWRD) investigation of the groundwater resources of the Harney Basin, Oregon. The data included are site IDs, various site location information, well-construction details and hydrostratigraphy, monitoring status, spring elevation, summarized historic spring discharge, date of each spring discharge measurement, source of the discharge measurement, and results of geochemical analyses for sites sampled as part of the associated USGS Scientific Investigations Report. Some of the data presented here references sections of the the larger work which can be found here:
Gingerich, S.B., Johnson, H.M., Boschmann, D.E., Grondin, G.H., and Garcia, C.A., 2022, Groundwater resources of the Harney Basin, southeastern Oregon: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2021–5103, 118 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20215103.

Tags: blue-mountains, carbon-14-analysis, carbon-isotope-analysis, crane, deuterium, dog-mountain, donner-und-blitzen-river, geochemistry, groundwater, groundwater-level, harney-basin, harney-county, hydrogeology, oregon, oxygen-isotope-analysis, silvies-river, steens-mountain, stinkingwater-mountains, tritium-analysis, usgs-605a11add34e18948831d655, virginia-valley, water-resources, water-table, weaver-spring
Organization: Department of the Interior
Bayou Dupont Marsh and Ridge Creation (BA-0048): 2016 habitat classification

The Louisiana State Legislature created the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in order to conserve, restore, create and enhance Louisiana's coastal wetlands. The wetland restoration plans developed pursuant to these acts specifically require an evaluation of the effectiveness of each coastal wetlands restoration project in achieving long-term solutions to arresting coastal wetlands loss. This data set includes aerial imagery for the Bayou Dupont Marsh and Ridge Creation (BA-0048) project for 2016. This data set is used as a basemap for habitat classification. It also serves as a visual tool for project managers to help them identify any obvious problems or land loss within their project boundary. To better evaluate the effectiveness of restoration efforts, a habitat classification is performed on specific CWPPRA sites to help assess landscape changes.

Tags: aerial-and-satellite-photography, conservation, eastern-louisiana-coastal, ecosystem-monitoring, geographic-information-systems, gulf-of-mexico, habitats, image-mosaics, usgs-6058c347d34e1894882f7225, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Barrier island vegetation and elevation survey, Dauphin Island, AL, 2018–19

Vegetation and elevation survey data were collected  in 4-square-meter quadrats via Real-Time Kinematic GPS from September 9, 2018 to April 17, 2019 on Dauphin Island, AL. Vegetation data included total percent herbaceous cover, percent cover by plant species, and mean height of vegetation within the quadrat. The percent cover by species was used to determine the dominant species for the plot.

Tags: barrier-flat, barrier-islands, beach, biota, coastal-wetlands, dauphin-island, dune, elevation, environment, geoscientificinformation, marsh, meadow, mobile, topography, usgs-6058bfd7d34e1894882f71b1, vegetation, woody-vegetation
Organization: Department of the Interior
Synthesis of Gulf Coast Management Plans and Restoration Project Values, Stressors, and Strategies (2020-2021)

Dataset of segments (e.g. phrases, sentences, paragraphs) associated with ecological values, human community values, stressors, or restoration strategies found within Gulf Coast state management plans and restoration project descriptions, collected 2019-2020.

Tags: adaptive-management, alabama, biota, florida, gulf-of-mexico, louisiana, mississippi, texas, usgs-6058b4a8d34e1894882f6ffb
Organization: Department of the Interior
LANDFIRE 2016 Remap Existing Vegetation Type (EVT) Palau

LANDFIRE's (LF) 2016 Remap (Remap) Existing Vegetation Type (EVT) represents the current distribution of the terrestrial ecological systems classification developed by NatureServe for the western hemisphere. In the context, a terrestrial ecological system is defined as a group of plant community types that tend to co-occur within landscapes with similar ecological processes, substrates, and/or environmental gradients. EVT also includes ruderal or semi-natural vegetation types within the U.S. National Vegetation Classification [(NVC) http://usnvc.org/]. See the EVT product page (https://www.landfire.gov/evt.php) for more information about ecological systems and NVC. EVT is mapped using decision tree models, field data, Landsat imagery, elevation, and biophysical gradient data. Decision tree models are developed separately for tree, shrub, and herbaceous lifeforms which are then used to produce a lifeform specific EVT product. These models are generated for each Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Level III Ecoregion (https://www.epa.gov/eco-research/ecoregions). Riparian, alpine, sparse and other site-specific EVTs are constrained by predetermined masks. Urban and developed areas are derived from the National Land Cover Database (NLCD), whereas agricultural lands originate from the Cropland Data Layer (CDL) and Common Land Unit (CLU) database. Developed ruderal classes are identified by combining wildland-urban-interface (WUI) data with population density information from the US Census Bureau. Annual Disturbance products are included to describe areas that have experienced landscape change within the previous 10-year period. EVT is then reconciled through QA/QC measures to ensure lifeform is synchronized with both Existing Vegetation Cover (EVC) and Height (EVH) products.

Tags: biota, evt, existing-vegetation-type, fires, geographic-information-systems, geospatial-datasets, hazard-preparedness, ia, image-collections, imagerybasemapsearthcover, insular-areas, landfire-2016-remap, lf-2016-remap, oconus, palau, raster-digital-data, remote-sensing, u-s-forest-service-usfs, u-s-geological-survey-usgs, united-states, us, usgs-60576bea-d6c0-4b02-bff8-86c9b97fcc10
Organization: Department of the Interior
Estimated equivalent population using public supply water in the conterminous United States, ULUEM

The population using public supply drinking water was mapped in two ways: the census enhanced method (CEM) evenly distributes the population across the census block-group, and  the urban land-use enhanced method (ULUEM) distributes the population only to certain urban land use designations in order to more precisely locate public supply users. This dataset consists of the total estimated population using public supply surface water and groundwater combined, distributed using the urban land-use enhanced method.

Tags: drinking-water, geoscientificinformation, public-supply, surface-water, usgs-60552939d34e1894882d0aa9
Organization: Department of the Interior
Estimated equivalent population using public supply water in the conterminous United States, CEM

The population using public supply drinking water was mapped in two ways: the census enhanced method (CEM) evenly distributes the population across the census block-group, and  the urban land-use enhanced method (ULUEM) distributes the population only to certain urban land use designations in order to more precisely locate public supply users. This dataset consists of the total estimated population using public supply surface water and groundwater combined, distributed across block-groups.

Tags: drinking-water, geoscientificinformation, public-supply, surface-water, usgs-6055289cd34e1894882d0aa7
Organization: Department of the Interior
Estimated equivalent population using public supply surface water in the conterminous United States, ULUEM

The population using public supply drinking water was mapped in two ways: the census enhanced method (CEM) evenly distributes the population across the census block-group, and  the urban land-use enhanced method (ULUEM) distributes the population only to certain urban land use designations in order to more precisely locate public supply users. This dataset consists of the estimated population using public supply surface water distributed using the urban land-use enhanced method.

Tags: drinking-water, geoscientificinformation, public-supply, surface-water, usgs-60552808d34e1894882d0aa5
Organization: Department of the Interior
Estimated equivalent population using public supply surface water in the conterminous United States, CEM

The population using public supply drinking water was mapped in two ways: the census enhanced method (CEM) evenly distributes the population across the census block-group, and  the urban land-use enhanced method (ULUEM) distributes the population only to certain urban land use designations in order to more precisely locate public supply users. This dataset consists of the estimated population using public supply surface water distributed across block-groups.

Tags: drinking-water, geoscientificinformation, public-supply, surface-water, usgs-6055267dd34e1894882d0aa2
Organization: Department of the Interior
High-resolution magnetic susceptibility of sediment cores from the New England collected on USGS Field Activity 2016-001-FA

Variability in sediment properties with depth and the thickness of individual sedimentary layers are critical determinants of seabed acoustic response. The New England Mud Patch (NEMP), located south of Cape Cod, is an unusual feature on the U.S. Continental Shelf in that it is composed of fine-grained sediment layers containing a relatively-homogeneous mix of sand, silt, and clay-sized particles bounded by more typical sandy shelf sediments.  The unique characteristics and nature of this deposit is due to a derivation of sediments that have been transported to, and deposited in, a basal bowl-shaped depression since the last glacial maximum. Ninety-two piston, vibra-, and gravity cores with a maximum length of 8.2 meters were collected from across the New England Mud Patch during a 2-leg, 10-day cruise aboard the R/V Endeavor in the spring of 2016. Geologic characterization and analysis of a subset of the cores including grain size, CaCO3, mineral composition, and bulk index properties (undrained shear strength, water content, density, and porosity) of discrete samples was carried out at the USGS Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center's (WHCMSC) Sediment Analysis Laboratory. This data release contains the results of these analyses, along with visual core descriptions and summary sheets for each core analyzed for this study.

Tags: acoustic-cores, atlantic, bartington-ms2e, bartington-ms3, clay-deposits, core-analysis, cores, cruise-id-en577, earth-material-properties, geology, gravity-coring, holocene, magnetic-susceptibility, magnetism, marthas-vineyard, massachusetts, nemp, new-england-mud-patch, oceans, piston-cores, piston-coring, r-v-endeavor, sand-deposits, seabed-experiment-area, sediment-samples, sedimentology, trigger-cores, u-s-continental-shelf, u-s-geological-survey, unconsolidated-deposits, usgs, usgs-60551febd34e1894882d0a86, vibracores, whcmsc, whcmsc-field-activity-2016-001-fa, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Collection locations of sediment cores from the New England Mud Patch collected on USGS Field Activity 2016-001-FA

Variability in sediment properties with depth and the thickness of individual sedimentary layers are critical determinants of seabed acoustic response. The New England Mud Patch (NEMP), located south of Cape Cod, is an unusual feature on the U.S. Continental Shelf in that it is composed of fine-grained sediment layers containing a relatively-homogeneous mix of sand, silt, and clay-sized particles bounded by more typical sandy shelf sediments.  The unique characteristics and nature of this deposit is due to a derivation of sediments that have been transported to, and deposited in, a basal bowl-shaped depression since the last glacial maximum. Ninety-two piston, vibra-, and gravity cores with a maximum length of 8.2 meters were collected from across the New England Mud Patch during a 2-leg, 10-day cruise aboard the R/V Endeavor in the spring of 2016. Geologic characterization and analysis of a subset of the cores including grain size, CaCO3, mineral composition, and bulk index properties (undrained shear strength, water content, density, and porosity) of discrete samples was carried out at the USGS Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center's (WHCMSC) Sediment Analysis Laboratory. This data release contains the results of these analyses, along with visual core descriptions and summary sheets for each core analyzed for this study.

Tags: acoustic-cores, atlantic, biota, clay-deposits, cores, coring-locations, cruise-id-en577, drilling-and-coring, geolocation-measurement, gps-measurement, gravity-coring, holocene, latitude, location, longitude, marthas-vineyard, massachusetts, nemp, new-england-mud-patch, oceans, piston-cores, piston-coring, r-v-endeavor, seabed-experiment-area, sediment-samples, sedimentology, trigger-cores, u-s-continental-shelf, u-s-geological-survey, unconsolidated-deposits, usgs, usgs-60551e44d34e1894882d0a76, vibracores, vibracoring, water-depth, whcmsc, whcmsc-field-activity-2016-001-fa, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior