AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Depths to top of perforation and base of freshwater for oil and gas production wells in California

There are 487 onshore oil and gas fields in California encompassing 3,392 square miles of aggregated area. The California State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) initiated a Regional Monitoring Program (RMP) in July 2015, intended to determine where and to what degree groundwater quality may be at potential risk to contamination related to oil and gas development activities including well stimulation, well integrity issues, produced water ponds, and underground injection. The first step in monitoring groundwater in and near oil and gas fields is to prioritize the 487 fields using consistent statewide analysis of available data that indicate potential risk of groundwater to oil and gas development. There were limited existing data on potential groundwater risk factors available for oil and gas fields across the state. During 2014-2016, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) extracted and compiled data from various sources, including the California Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR) and the California Department of Water Resources (DWR). 
During 2014-2016, the depth to top of perforated intervals and depth to base of freshwater for oil and gas production wells in California were extracted from well records maintained by the DOGGR. Well records including geophysical logs, well history, well completion reports, and correspondences were viewed on DOGGR's Well Finder website at https://maps.conservation.ca.gov/doggr/wellfinder/. This digital dataset contains 3,505 records for production wells, of which 2,964 wells have a recorded depth to top of perforated intervals and 1,494 wells have a recorded depth to base of freshwater. Wells were attributed with American Petroleum Institute (API) numbers, oil and gas field, and well location, well status and type, and nearest oil and gas field for wells that plotted outside field boundaries using the DOGGR All Wells geospatial data included in this data release. Wells were attributed with land surface elevations using the California National Elevation Dataset. Due to limited time and resources to analyze well records for the most recent well configuration, wells spatially distributed throughout the state and accounting for about 2 percent of the more than 185,000 production wells (new, active, idle, or plugged well status) were attributed with depth data.

Tags: california, environmental-resources, freshwater, groundwater, oil-and-gas-fields, petroleum, prioritization, usgs-58c1b95de4b014cc3a3d3a12, well-perforations, western-united-states
Organization: Department of the Interior
Fish and Benthic Macroinvertebrate Flow-Ecology Regression Summary Statistics for Virginia

Data provided from the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) including simulated values of 72 hydrologic metrics, or indicators of hydrologic alteration (IHA), 37 fish metrics, and 64 benthic invertebrate metrics were reviewed to assess significant flow-ecology relations that may be developed. Hydrologic alteration was represented by simulation of streamflow record for a pre-water-withdrawal condition (baseline) without dams or developed land, compared to the simulated recent-flow condition (2008) including withdrawals, dams and altered landscape to calculate a percent-alteration of flow.  Biological samples used represent a median condition of the biological community from 1972 to 2010.  
This study reviewed more than 7,272 linear regression models that relate altered flow conditions to biological sample metrics in Virginia.  Decreasing flow conditions were the focus of this evaluation because of their relevance to the water-supply permitting process. The data tables highlight relations which may be significant and useful in future study and were further explored in the companion report; and relations that do not meet basic assumptions for valid linear regressions which were noted and omitted from the companion report. The three regions in Virginia defined by major drainage and physiographic boundaries as the Ohio River Drainages, Atlantic non-Coastal Plain, and Atlantic Coastal Plain were evaluated as well as a statewide grouping for fish and benthic data.   
This extensive dataset provided the opportunity for hypothesis testing and prioritization of flow-ecology relations that have the potential to explain the effect(s) hydrologic alteration has on biological metrics in Virginia.

Tags: benthic-ecosystems, biota, ecohydrology, environment, fishery-management, hydrologic-alteration, inlandwaters, usgs-58c1b358e4b014cc3a3d399e
Organization: Department of the Interior
Methane and benzene in drinking-water wells overlying the Eagle Ford, Fayetteville, and Haynesville Shale hydrocarbon production areas

Groundwater samples were collected from domestic and public-supply wells in the Eagle Ford study area in 2015–16, in the Fayetteville study area in 2015, and in the Haynesville study area in 2014–15. One sample of produced water was collected from a gas well in the Haynesville Shale in Rusk County, Texas in 2010, and 5 samples of produced water were collected from oil and condensate wells in the Eagle Ford Shale in Gonzales and Lavaca Counties, Texas in 2015. Groundwater samples were analyzed for major ions, nutrients, and trace elements; methane, methane H and C isotopic compositions, and C1-C5 gas composition; H and O isotopic composition of water; noble gas concentrations and isotopic compositions; tritium, sulfur hexafluoride (SF6), and carbon-14 in dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC), and δ13C-DIC; and volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Water from hydrocarbon wells was analyzed for a subset of these constituents.

Tags: angelina-county-texas, atascosa-county-texas, benzene, bienville-county-louisiana, bossier-county-louisiana, burleson-county-texas, caddo-county-louisiana, cleburne-county-arkansas, conway-county-arkansas, de-soto-county-louisiana, dimmit-county-texas, faulkner-county-arkansas, fayette-county-texas, frio-county-texas, geochemistry, goliad-county-texas, gonzales-county-texas, gregg-county-texas, groundwater, harrison-county-texas, independence-county-arkansas, jackson-county-arkansas, karnes-county-texas, la-salle-county-texas, lavaca-county-texas, mcmullen-county-texas, methane, nacogdoches-county-texas, natchitoches-county-louisiana, panola-county-texas, red-river-county-louisiana, rusk-county-texas, sabine-county-louisiana, shelby-county-texas, unconventional-oil-and-gas, upshur-county-texas, usgs-58c187dae4b014cc3a3d36bd, van-buren-county-arkansas, white-county-arkansas, wilson-county-texas, zavala-county-texas
Organization: Department of the Interior
Water temperature and depth data for the lower Quinault River during summer baseflow, Washington, August 2016 and 2017

Water temperature and the availability of cold-water refugia are important parameters during summer baseflows when stream water temperatures are at their maximum. The U.S. Geological Survey measured near-streambed and surface water temperatures along the lower Quinault River, on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington between August 9-12, 2016, during summer baseflow conditions. The survey occurred downstream from Lake Quinault from approximately River Kilometer (RK) 4 to approximately RK 49 (45 kilometers total). Near-streambed temperatures and water depths were measured at 1-second intervals, which occur on average at an approximately 1-meter water surface distance interval. Near-streambed temperature and depth were measured using an internally-logging sensor towed behind a raft traveling at ambient river velocity. Water surface temperatures measured by a second sensor towed behind the same watercraft and logging at 10-second intervals, were linearly interpolated to correspond to the 1-second interval. Data collected from August 9 through August 11 between RK 13 and RK 49 are referenced to a location that was concurrently measured with a Global Positioning System; data collected on August 12 from RK 4 to RK 13 do not include a reference location. Data are reported in a csv file consisting of date and time, depth, near-streambed temperature, water surface temperature, and spatial coordinates of latitude and longitude in North American Datum of 1983.In addition, ten cooler water features, in which water temperatures were 0.1 degree Celsius cooler than upstream or downstream locations, were identified from the longitudinal survey and field surveyed in August 2017. A temperature cross section was measured both upstream and downstream of the identified cooler water feature and one to five cross sections were measured along the length of each of the features. Cross sections included a depth to the riverbed and near-streambed temperature measurement at five, evenly spaced locations across the wetted width using an instant-read NIST-certified temperature sensor. All measurements at cross sections were point measurements taken during stable flow conditions between the approximate hours of 10:00 and 16:00 during the warming period of the diurnal cycle.

Tags: cold-water-refugia, olympic-peninsula, quinault-river, usgs-58c184f0e4b014cc3a3d367f, water-quality, water-temperature
Organization: Department of the Interior
Miami Reach of Lower Missouri River Hydrodynamic Model Outputs

Data set contains depth and velocity grids centerpoints generated from hydrodynamic model (SRH-2D) simulations run for a range of discharges. Date range corresponds to month(s) that bathymetric survey was performed. Three study reaches were considered in this analysis: the Fairview reach of the Yellowstone River, MT, the Miami and Lisbon-Jameson reaches of the Lower Missouir River. Data and application are described in detail in accompanying journal article (Erwin et al., 2017).

Tags: biota, hydrology, inlandwaters, usgs-58c174f7e4b014cc3a3d3563
Organization: Department of the Interior
Fairview Reach of Yellowstone River Hydrodynamic Model Outputs

Data set contains depth and velocity grids centerpoints generated from hydrodynamic model (SRH-2D) simulations run for a range of discharges. Date range corresponds to month(s) that bathymetric survey was performed. Three study reaches were considered in this analysis: the Fairview reach of the Yellowstone River, MT, the Miami and Lisbon-Jameson reaches of the Lower Missouir River. Data and application are described in detail in accompanying journal article (Erwin et al., 2017).

Tags: biota, hydrology, inlandwaters, usgs-58c174c3e4b014cc3a3d3560
Organization: Department of the Interior
Lisbon-Jameson Reach of Lower Missouri River Hydrodynamic Model Outputs

Data set contains depth and velocity grids centerpoints generated from hydrodynamic model (SRH-2D) simulations run for a range of discharges. Date range corresponds to month(s) that bathymetric survey was performed. Three study reaches were considered in this analysis: the Fairview reach of the Yellowstone River, MT, the Miami and Lisbon-Jameson reaches of the Lower Missouir River. Data and application are described in detail in accompanying journal article (Erwin et al., 2017).

Tags: biota, hydrology, inlandwaters, usgs-58c17451e4b014cc3a3d355c
Organization: Department of the Interior
Study Boundary and Grid Cells for the Yuba and Bear Watersheds Shallow Aquifer Study Unit

The U.S. Geological Survey collected groundwater samples from 71 domestic wells and 4 springs in Nevada, Yuba, Sierra, and Placer Counties, California in 2015-2016. The wells and springs were sampled for the Yuba and Bear Watersheds Shallow Aquifer Study Unit of the California State Water Resources Control Board Groundwater Ambient Monitoring and Assessment (GAMA) Program Priority Basin Project’s assessment of the quality of groundwater resources used for domestic drinking water supply. The Yuba and Bear Shallow Aquifer Study Unit includes portions of the watersheds of the Upper Yuba (hydrologic unit code 18020125) and Upper Bear (hydrologic unit code 18020126) that are within the Sierra Nevada Province. The two study areas were divided into equal area grid cells of approximately 30 square kilometers each; one domestic well or spring was sampled per cell. The number of cells was determined by the total size of the study area, so that each study area has equally sized grid cells. The Yuba study area was divided into 47 cells and the Bear study area into 28 cells. The orientation of the cells for the Yuba study area was rotated 60 degrees from North to be approximately perpendicular with the contact between the Central Valley and Sierra Nevada provinces. Groundwater samples were analyzed for field water-quality parameters, volatile organic compounds, pesticides and pesticide degradates, nutrients, major ions and trace elements, hexavalent chromium, perchlorate, gross alpha and gross beta particle activities, noble gases, tritium, carbon-14 in dissolved inorganic carbon, stable isotopic ratios of water and dissolved nitrate, and microbial indicators. This dataset identifies the grid cells for the two targeted study areas of the Yuba and Bear Shallow Aquifer Study Unit.

Tags: california, domestic-wells, gama, groundwater, nevada-county, placer-county, priority-basin-project, shallow-aquifer, sierra-county, united-states, usgs-58c074d9e4b014cc3a3bf669, water-quality, western-united-states, yuba-county
Organization: Department of the Interior
Groundwater-Quality Data in the Yuba and Bear Watersheds Shallow Aquifer Study Unit, 2015-2016: Tables

The U.S. Geological Survey collected groundwater samples from 71 domestic wells and 4 springs in Nevada, Yuba, Sierra, and Placer Counties, California in 2015-2016. The sites were sampled for the Yuba and Bear Watersheds Shallow Aquifer Study Unit of the California State Water Resources Control Board Groundwater Ambient Monitoring and Assessment (GAMA) Program Priority Basin Project’s assessment of the quality of groundwater resources used for domestic drinking water supply. Domestic wells commonly are screened at shallower depths than are public-supply wells. The Yuba and Bear Watersheds Shallow Aquifer Study Unit includes the hard rock aquifer systems of the eastern Sierra Nevada in the Upper Yuba and Upper Bear watersheds (HUC8 18020125 and 18020126). The study unit was divided into equal area grid cells and one domestic well was sampled in each cell. Groundwater samples were analyzed for field water-quality parameters, volatile organic compounds, pesticides and pesticide degradates, nutrients, major ions and trace elements, hexavalent chromium, perchlorate, gross alpha and gross beta particle activities, noble gases, tritium, carbon-14 in dissolved inorganic carbon, stable isotopic ratios of water and dissolved nitrate, and microbial indicators.

Tags: california, environment, gama, groundwater, groundwater-ambient-monitoring-and-assessment-program, nevada-county, placer-county, sierra-county, united-states, usgs-58c074cbe4b014cc3a3bf661, water-quality, western-united-states, yuba-county
Organization: Department of the Interior
Snake fungal disease: an emerging threat to wild snakes

Snake fungal disease (SFD) is an emerging disease of wild snakes in eastern North America caused by the fungus Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola. The data presented here describe: 1) the types of fungi recovered in culture from the skin of snakes with and without fungal skin infections, 2) the presence or absence of skin lesions in populations of snakes surveyed at several sites in Wisconsin and Minnesota, and 3) the various species of snakes that have been found to harbor O. ophiodiicola.

Tags: disease, fungal-disease, snake, usgs-58c04bc9e4b014cc3a3bf3b3
Organization: Department of the Interior
Topographic survey of the Nooksack River using structure from motion photogrammetry, September 2015

Structure from motion photogrammetry was used to contruct a digital elevation model of the Nooksack River based on images acquired on September 15, 2015. Images were acquired using a Ricoh GR II camera mounted in a near-nadir orientation in the wing of a fixed-wing aircraft, flying approximately 1,500' above ground level. Ground control consisted of 53 chalked X's on gravel surfaces, with centriod positions measured using RTK-GNSS. All photo and ground control processing was performed in Agisoft Photoscan

Tags: elevation, elevation-data, geoscientificinformation, nooksack-river, photogrammetry, structure-from-motion, topography, usgs-58c03db9e4b014cc3a3bb928
Organization: Department of the Interior
Bathymetric DEM of the lower Nooksack River, August 2015

Bathymetric data for the mainstem of the Nooksack River during low flow conditions from 24 to 27 August 2015. Depth data were collected with boat-mounted single-beam echo sounder downstream of Ferndale, Washington and a boat-mounted acoustic doppler current profiler (ADCP) upstream of Ferndale. Elevation of the instruments were determined with real-time kinetic global positioning system (RTK GPS). Irregular XYZ points were interpolated to a continuous grid using kriding methods in stream-wise coordinates and extended to the edge of water through the inclusion of points representing zero-depth locations in the kriging process.

Tags: bathymetry, elevation, elevation-data, geoscientificinformation, nooksack-river, usgs-58c03c2de4b014cc3a3bb802
Organization: Department of the Interior
Cottonwood Lake Study Area-Wetland Vegetation Zones-1975

Spatial polygons of vegetation zones in 1975 for wetlands; P1, P2, and P4 within the Cottonwood Lake Study Area, Stutsman County, North Dakota. Created from a collection of digital orthorectified images from aerial photographs of the study area acquired during 1975 using Stewart and Kantrud classification system.

Tags: aquatic-vegetation, biota, chase-lake-wetland-management-districtgtstutsman-county-waterfowl-production-areagteddy, chase-lake-wetland-management-districtgtstutsman-county-waterfowl-production-areagtshuler, cottonwood-lake-study-area, earth-sciencegtbiospheregtaquatic-ecosystemsgtwetlandsgtlacustrine-wetlands, earth-sciencegtbiospheregtaquatic-ecosystemsgtwetlandsgtpalustrine-wetlands, earth-sciencegtbiospheregtterrestrial-ecosystemsgtwetlandsgtlacustrine-wetlands, earth-sciencegtbiospheregtterrestrial-ecosystemsgtwetlandsgtpalustrine-wetlands, earth-sciencegtbiospheregtvegetationgtvegetation-cover, environment, inlandwaters, north-dakota, northern-great-plains, prairie-pothole-region, stutsman-county, surface-water-non-marine, united-states-of-america, usgs-58c01cdae4b014cc3a3bb6aa, vegetation-changes, wetland-ecosystems, wetlands
Organization: Department of the Interior
Database of earthquake ground motions from 3-D simulations on the Salt Lake City of the Wasatch fault zone, Utah

This dataset consists of the processed ground motions from 96 earthquake rupture scenarios for M7 earthquakes on the Salt Lake City segment of the Wasatch fault. Details about the simulation method, ground motion variability and sensitivity of the ground motions to the kinematic rupture parameters are described in the accompanying manuscript. Simulated data is distributed as 5-percent damped response spectral accelerations that support the conclusions of the accompanying manuscript.

Tags: 3-d-simulations, earthquake-ground-motions, earthquake-hazard, earthquake-hazards-program, earthquake-rupture-scenarios, geologic-hazards-science-center, ghsc, kinematic-rupture-parameters, seismic-hazard, spectral-acceleration, usgs, usgs-58beff98e4b014cc3a3a9b84, wasatch-fault-zone
Organization: Department of the Interior
Carrying capacity in a heterogeneous environment with habitat connectivity

The data are population sizes of yeast Saccharaomyces cerevisiae growth in laboratory cultures over a period of several days with different levels of growth inhibitor cycloheximide. Our results provide rigorous experimental tests of new and old theory, demonstrating how the traditional notion of carrying capacity is ambiguous for populations diffusing in spatially heterogeneous environments.

Tags: carrying-capacity, growth-rate, heterogeneous-resource-distribution, stressor, usgs-58bede53e4b014cc3a3a9ae3
Organization: Department of the Interior
Midway Confining Unit: Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, Mississippi 2006-2008

Outcrop and subcrop extent of the Midway Confining Unit in Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, 
Kentucky, Missouri, Mississippi.

Tags: east-gulf-coastal-plain, gis, groundwater, inlandwaters, meras, mississippi-alluvial-plain, mississippi-embayment, mississippi-embayment-regional-aquifer-study, usgs-58be30ba-a933-48e5-b781-d74bfa0d5e60, water-availability, water-use, west-gulf-coastal-plain
Organization: Department of the Interior
Forest management and cervid herbivory data from Western Oregon, USA, 2012

Land management practices often directly alter vegetation structure and composition, but the degree to which ecological processes such as herbivory interact with management to influence biodiversity is less well understood. We hypothesized that intensive forest management and large herbivores have compounding effects on early-seral plant communities and plantation establishment (i.e., tree survival and growth), and the degree of such effects is dependent on the intensity of management practices. We established 225 m2 wild ungulate (deer and elk) exclosures nested within a manipulated gradient of management intensity (no-spray Control, Light herbicide, Moderate herbicide and Intensive herbicide treatments), replicated at the scale of whole harvest units (10-19 ha). Herbivory and herbicide applications interacted to drive vegetation structure, composition and crop-tree establishment, with herbivory effects most evident at intermediate herbicide treatments. Control stands were too forage-rich and Intensive stands too forage-poor to be substantially affected by herbivory. However, with Moderate herbicide treatment – which approximates treatments applied to &gt; 2.5 million hectares in Pacific Northwest U.S.A. – foraging by deer and elk exacerbated the effect of the herbicides, resulting in simplified, low-cover plant communities resembling the Intensive herbicide treatment. In the Light herbicide treatment, herbivory suppressed shrub growth following herbicide treatment, improving planted conifer seedling survival, likely via competitive release from shrubs. Minor reductions in management intensity from the Moderate to Light herbicide treatments therefore facilitated the capacity of wild ungulates to benefit seedling survival – which constitutes early evidence of an ecosystem service. However, this ‘service’ may be to the detriment of native early-seral plant communities. These results demonstrate that by changing community composition and vegetation structure, intensive forest management alters foraging selectivity and subsequent plant-herbivore interactions; such shifts in early-seral communities are likely to influence understory plant communities and tree growth in later stages of forest development.

Tags: biodiversity, community, deer, early-seral, elk, forage, forestry, herbicides, herbivory, lincoln-county-oregon, management, oregon, oregon-coast-range, pacific-northwest, plantation, polk-county-oregon, silviculture, tillamook-county-oregon, trophic, usgs-58bde555e4b01a6517dc0f94, yamhill-county-oregon
Organization: Department of the Interior