AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Dataset of trace dissolved hydrocarbons in surface water and groundwater in North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia between 2014 and 2017

This dataset contains measurements of dissolved hydrocarbons in from various water sources, as well as ancillary raw calibration data showing the stability of the gas chromatograph with an atomic emission detector and flame ionization detector (GC-AED-FID) analytical system over time. Across multiple studies, samples from tap water, groundwater, surface water, springs, mine outflows, and blank materials were analyzed using this system over a period from 2014 to 2017, comprising 172 samples analyzed. In addition to water samples, 183 calibrations conducted over the same period of time are included to document the stability of the GC-AED-FID system over time.
The target analytes in this study were: methane (CH4), ethane (C2H6), ethene (C2H4), ethyne (C2H2), propane (C3H8), propene (C3H6), i-butane (C4H10), n-butane (C4H10), 1-butene (C4H8), propyne (C3H4), i-pentane (C5H12), n-pentane (C5H12), 2-methyl-pentane (C6H14), 3-methyl-pentane (C6H14), hexane (C6H14), and benzene (C6H6).

Tags: aed, atomic-emission-detector, biota, dissolved-gases, fid, flame-ionization-detector, gas-chromatography, gc, groundwater, groundwater-geochemistry, groundwater-quality, hydrocarbons, natural-gas, natural-gas-resources, north-dakota, pennsylvania, reston, springs-hydrographic, surface-water-quality, usgs-5ae792b6e4b0e2c2dd33f637, virginia, west-virginia
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hydrologically Conditioned Digital Elevation Model of the Difficult Run watershed in Fairfax County, Virginia Derived from 2012 lidar LAS Points

Hydrologically conditioned digital elevation model (DEM) generated from lidar data clipped to the Difficult Run watershed with a 500-m buffer in ArcGIS 10.3.1 (ESRI, Redlands, CA). The DEM was hydrologically corrected by breaching through pits with no downslope neighboring cells to force surface flow to continuously move downslope using Whitebox Geospatial Analysis Tools (Lindsay and Dhun 2015, Lindsay 2016). Pits that were not properly breached were manually adjusted using elevation information from the DEM and aerial imagery to locate culverts under roadways.

Tags: difficult-run, elevation, fairfax, topography, usgs-5ae70de1e4b0e2c2dd33eda9, virginia
Organization: Department of the Interior
Composite sidescan-sonar mosaic collected by the U.S. Geological Survey in Woods Hole, MA surrounding Penikese Island of the western Elizabeth Islands, MA, 2010 (2010-003-FA_SSmosaic_Penikese.tif, UTM Zone 19N GeoTIFF)

These data were collected under a cooperative agreement between the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management (CZM) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center (WHCMSC). Initiated in 2003, the primary objective of this program is to develop regional geologic framework information for the management of coastal and marine resources. Accurate data and maps of seafloor geology are important first steps toward protecting fish habitat, delineating marine resources, and assessing environmental changes due to natural or human impacts. The project is focused on the inshore waters of coastal Massachusetts, primarily in water depths of 2-30 meters. Data collected for the mapping cooperative have been released in a series of USGS Open-File Reports (&lt;http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/project-pages/coastal_mass/&gt;). The data collected in this study area located around the western extent of the Elizabeth Islands includes high resolution bathymetry, acoustic-backscatter intensity, seismic-reflection, and navigation data. These data were collected during a nearshore cruise in September 2010 onboard the R/V Rafael using the following equipment: an SEA Ltd SwathPlus interferometric sonar (234 kHz), Klein 3000 dual frequency sidescan sonar, an Edgetech 424 chirp subbottom profiling system, and 4 GPS antennae. More information about the cruise conducted as part of the project: Geologic Mapping of the Seafloor Offshore of Massachusetts can be found on the Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center Field Activity webpage:
&lt;http://quashnet.er.usgs.gov/data/2010/10003/&gt;

Tags: atlantic-ocean, backscatter, buzzards-bay, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, composite-image, cuttyhunk-harbor, cuttyhunk-island, elizabeth-islands, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, geotiff-image, grey-scale, image-mosaics, imagerybasemapsearthcover, info-bank-id-r-3-10-bz, klein-3000, marine-geophysics, massachusetts, mosaic, nashawena-island, north-america, oceans, penikese-island, sea-floor-acoustic-reflectivity, side-scan-sonar, sidescan, sidescan-sonar, sow-and-pigs-reef, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-5ae51126-599c-4371-b808-21ba20e5c02a, whcmsc, whcmsc-field-activity-report-number-2010-003-fa, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geophysical data collected along the Quashnet River, Mashpee/Falmouth MA

Surface geophysical tools remotely sense hydrogeological properties that can control subsurface flow and water quality. There are numerous geophysical tools, for the Quashnet River work we have principally used ground penetrating radar (GPR) and electromagnetic imaging (EMI). The instruments are either hand carried or floated down the stream channel and other cross-sections of the river corridor. Data from various field deployments of GPR and EMI are described and presented here.

Tags: environment, falmouth-mashpee, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, groundwater, hydrogeology, hydrology, inlandwaters, massachusetts, measurement, quashnet-river, seepage, surface-water, temperature, thermal, usgs-5ae37301e4b0e2c2dd3207e8
Organization: Department of the Interior
Fiber-optic distributed temperature sensing data collected along the Quashnet River, Mashpee/Falmouth MA

Heat is used as a tracer for a variety of physical hydrogeological process. Several types of instruments are used to measure the temperature of surface water and saturated sediments. In the Quashnet River we have been using methods that include: infrared, individual logging thermistors, and fiber-optic distributed temperature sensing. The latter type of data (FO_DTS) are described and presented here.

Tags: environment, falmouth-mashpee, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, groundwater, hydrogeology, hydrology, inlandwaters, massachusetts, measurement, quashnet-river, seepage, surface-water, temperature, thermal, usgs-5ae37175e4b0e2c2dd3207e2
Organization: Department of the Interior
Temperature and geophysical data collected along the Quashnet River, Mashpee/Falmouth MA (ver. 2.0, March 2020)

The temperature and surface geophysical data contained in this release have primarily been collected to support groundwater/surface water methods development, and to characterize the hydrogeological controls on native brook trout habitat. All data have been collected since 2010 along the Quashnet River corridor located on Cape Cod, MA, USA. Cape Cod is a peninsula in southeastern coastal Massachusetts, USA, composed primarily of highly permeable unconsolidated glacial moraine and outwash deposits. The largest of the Cape Cod sole-source aquifers occupies a western (landward) section of the peninsula, and is incised by several linear valleys that drain groundwater south to the Atlantic Ocean via baseflow-dominated streams. Strong groundwater discharge to the Quashnet River supports a relatively stable flow regime, as monitored by USGS gage 011058837, located at the downstream end of typical field research focus areas. The lower Quashnet River emerges from a narrow sand and gravel valley to a broader area with well-defined lateral floodplains. Historical cranberry farming practices, abandoned in the 1950s, have modified the stream corridor as described by:
Barlow, P. M. and Hess, K. M.: Simulated Hydrologic Responses of the Quashnet River Stream-Auquifer System to Proposed Ground-Water Withdrawals, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, U.S. Geol. Surv. Rep. 93-4064, 51, 1993.
The Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife has been monitoring brook trout populations in the Quashnet River since 1988 and movement since 2007. Groundwater influence on stream temperature is pronounced, particularly over the 2-km reach above the USGS gage, below which stream stage is tidally affected.

Tags: environment, falmouth-mashpee, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, groundwater, hydrogeology, hydrology, inlandwaters, massachusetts, measurement, quashnet-river, seepage, surface-water, temperature, thermal, usgs-5ae35a5fe4b0e2c2dd32077c
Organization: Department of the Interior
Invasion frustration? Can biotic resistance explain the small geographic range of non-native croaking gourami Trichopsis vittata (Cuvier, 1831) in Florida, USA?

In this report, we evaluate this hypothesis for croaking gourami Trichopsis vittata, a non-native species that has established a reproducing population, but has not successfully spread beyond its very small (5 km2) range.  We suspected the inability of T. vittata to colonize new habitats may be due to biotic resistance by the native eastern mosquitofish Gambusia holbrooki.

Tags: nonindigenous-species, usgs-5ae22777e4b0e2c2dd302f59
Organization: Department of the Interior
A polygon shapefile of bottomland vegetation cover and geomorphic features of the Escalante River, Utah mapped from 1951/1960 aerial imagery

We used the 1951/1960 historical imagery of the Escalante River, Utah in ArcGIS to quantify channel area and average width and quantify woody riparian vegetation cover in two reaches of the river. Reach 1 was approximately 15 river kilometers (rkms) long and located between Sand and Boulder creeks within Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument. For Reach 1 we used the earliest available imagery which was from 1960.  Reach 2 was approximately 16 rkms in length, extending from the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area boundary to just upstream of Choprock Canyon. For Reach 2 the earliest imagery was from 1951. We delineated the extent of active channel. Active channel was defined as the portion of the channel free of vegetation. We also delineated fluvial geomorphic features such as point bars, mid-channel bars, lateral bars and floodplain. Finally, we delineated woody vegetation patches in the imagery. Woody vegetation patches were defined by the surfaces on which they occurred. Because there is wide variation in cover, we used cover classes to differentiate among unvegetated to dense cover as follows: 1) Unvegetated (0% cover); 2) Very Sparse (1-10% cover); 3) Sparse (11-40%); 4) Moderate (41-70%) and 5) Dense (71-100%).

Tags: biota, channel-narrowing, escalante-river-utah, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, non-native-plant-invasion, riparian-ecosystems, southwestern-u-s, usgs-5ae22276e4b0e2c2dd302f52
Organization: Department of the Interior
USGS Menlo Park vertebrate Cenozoic Paleontology Collection

Data is primarily type fossils from the USGS Menlo Park vertebrate Cenozoic Paleontology Collection created and maintained by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Data was collected by paleontologist Charles A. Repenning during his forty years of service within the USGS Paleontology And Stratigraphy Branch. His catalog was converted into digital form, Excel and Filemaker Pro database. The Catalog is 516 fossil localities. His supplementary data has been added whenever possible - sources field map locality points, E&amp;R files with enhanced faunal lists, as well as formal publications.
For the complete traditional dataset, please contact Kevin Mckinney (kcmckinney@usgs.gov).

Tags: alaska, arizona, biostratigraphy, biota, california, cenozoic, fossils, idaho, montana, nevada, oregon, usgs-5af08f3ee4b0da30c1af2af6, vertebrate-paleontology, washington
Organization: Department of the Interior
Annual numbers of Russian olive trees established along the Escalante River from field age data and corresponding annual streamflow and climate data

Russian olive stems were aged in the field along two reaches of the Escalante River and neighboring agricultural towns of Boulder and Escalante in 2015. This dataset represents those aged stems, distilled by year and corresponding annual streamflow data from the Escalante River gage near Escalante, Utah and precipitation and drought index data from national datasets.

Tags: biota, boulder-utah, climate, escalante-river-utah, escalante-utah, hydrology, non-native-plant-invasion, riparian-ecosystems, southwestern-u-s, streamflow, usgs-5ae221fde4b0e2c2dd302f4c
Organization: Department of the Interior
A polygon shapefile of bottomland vegetation cover and geomorphic features of the Escalante River, Utah mapped from 1981 aerial imagery

We used the 1981 historical imagery of the Escalante River, Utah in ArcGIS to quantify channel area and average width and quantify woody riparian vegetation cover in two reaches of the river. Reach 1 was approximately 15 river kilometers (rkms) long and located between Sand and Boulder creeks within Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument. Reach 2 was approximately 16 rkms in length, extending from the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area boundary to just upstream of Choprock Canyon. We delineated the extent of active channel. Active channel was defined as the portion of the channel free of vegetation. We also delineated fluvial geomorphic features such as point bars, mid-channel bars, lateral bars and floodplain. Finally, we delineated woody vegetation patches in the imagery. Woody vegetation patches were defined by the surfaces on which they occurred. Because there is wide variation in cover, we used cover classes to differentiate among unvegetated to dense cover as follows: 1) Unvegetated (0% cover); 2) Very Sparse (1-10% cover); 3) Sparse (11-40%); 4) Moderate (41-70%) and 5) Dense (71-100%).

Tags: biota, channel-narrowing, escalante-river-utah, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, non-native-plant-invasion, riparian-ecosystems, southwestern-u-s, usgs-5ae220fce4b0e2c2dd302f46
Organization: Department of the Interior
Point locations of field-aged Russian olive stems along the Escalante River, Utah 2014-2015

Point locations for Russian olive stems aged in the field in two reaches along the Escalante River in fall of 2014 and spring through fall of 2015. Dataset includes information for each stem on diameter at stump height (DSH), age when the tree was cut, year it was cut, estimated year of establishment, and ArcGIS-estimated distances to the mapped 1981 active stream channel of the Escalante River.

Tags: biota, boulder-utah, channel-narrowing, cottonwood, elaeagnus-angustifolia, environment, escalante-river, escalante-river-utah, escalante-utah, inlandwaters, non-native-plant-invasion, populus-fremontii, riparian-ecosystems, russian-olive, southwestern-u-s, usgs-5ae220f4e4b0e2c2dd302f40
Organization: Department of the Interior
A polygon shapefile of bottomland vegetation cover and geomorphic features of the Escalante River, Utah mapped from 2010 aerial imagery

We used the 2010 historical imagery of the Escalante River, Utah in ArcGIS to quantify channel area and average width and quantify woody riparian vegetation cover in two reaches of the river. Reach 1 was approximately 15 river kilometers (rkms) long and located between Sand and Boulder creeks within Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument. Reach 2 was approximately 16 rkms in length, extending from the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area boundary to just upstream of Choprock Canyon. We delineated the extent of active channel. Active channel was defined as the portion of the channel free of vegetation. We also delineated fluvial geomorphic features such as point bars, mid-channel bars, lateral bars and floodplain. Finally, we delineated woody vegetation patches in the imagery. Woody vegetation patches were defined by the surfaces on which they occurred. Because there is wide variation in cover, we used cover classes to differentiate among unvegetated to dense cover as follows: 1) Unvegetated (0% cover); 2) Very Sparse (1-10% cover); 3) Sparse (11-40%); 4) Moderate (41-70%) and 5) Dense (71-100%).

Tags: biota, channel-narrowing, escalante-river-utah, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, non-native-plant-invasion, riparian-ecosystems, southwestern-u-s, usgs-5ae220f1e4b0e2c2dd302f3d
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geomorphic, climate, streamflow and vegetation data sets to reconstruct channel and vegetation changes associated with the invasion of Russian olive along the Escalante River, Utah 1950-2015.

We analyzed historical aerial photography and used dendrochronology to quantify long-term spatial and temporal patterns of narrowing and vegetation expansion, including native cottonwood (Populus fremontii) and non-native Russian olive (Elaeagnus angustifolia), along the largely unregulated Escalante River in Utah, USA. Our general study area was between the town of Escalante and Choprock Canyon, and we focused on two detailed study reaches within this broader area. The study reaches were in long, entrenched meander sections of river: an upper reach, Reach 1, was approximately 15 river kilometers (rkms) long and located between Sand and Boulder creeks within Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument; and a lower reach, Reach 2, was ~16 rkms in length, extending from the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area boundary to just upstream of Choprock Canyon. Russian olive establishment was determined using dendrochronological analysis of cut-stumps in 2015 and analyzed with respect to hydrologic and climatic variables. Data associated with this work includes a total of four shapefiles and a csv file. One shapefile contains point data representing the spatial location and field-determined ages of 714 Russian olive stems. Three shapefiles contain polygons representing active channel, and bottomland geomorphic surfaces along with an estimate of the vegetation cover associated with that surface. These three shapefiles represent the same study locations in three different eras: 1951/1960, 1981, and 2010. The csv file contains climate and streamflow data that were used in evaluating the relationship between Russian olive establishment and hydroclimate variables. The data released here are associated with a publication that describes the project and results in more detail: Scott, M.L., Reynolds, L.V., Shafroth, P.B., and Spence, J.R. 2018. The role of a non-native tree in riparian vegetation expansion and channel narrowing along a dryland river. Ecohydrology.

Tags: biota, boulder-utah, channel-narrowing, climate, escalante-river-utah, escalante-utah, geomorphology, hydrology, non-native-plant-invasion, riparian-ecosystems, southwestern-u-s, streamflow, usgs-5ae1fb74e4b0e2c2dd302adc
Organization: Department of the Interior
GIS shapefile: DeSoto County, Florida irrigated agricultural land-use for the 2018 growing season

This data set consists of a detailed digital map of the areal extent of fields and a summary of the  irrigated acreage for the 2018 growing season developed for DeSoto County, Florida. Selected attribute data that include crop type, irrigation system, and primary water source were collected for each irrigated field.

Tags: boundaries, crop-type, environment, farming, florida-department-of-agriculture-and-consumer-service, groundwater, irrigation-type, landuse, landuse-classification-codes, orthoimagery, south-florida-water-management-district, southwest-florida-water-management-district, surface-water, usgs-5ae1ccb2e4b0e2c2dd30289f
Organization: Department of the Interior
Heuristically-determined geospatial boundary of streams and rivers draining to the Gulf of Mexico in the south-central and southeastern United States, July 2018

Human alteration of waterways has impacted the minimum and maximum streamflow in more than 86% of monitored streams nationally and may be the primary cause for ecological impairment in river and stream ecosystems. Restoration of freshwater inflows can positively affect shellfish, fisheries, habitat, and water quality in streams, rivers, and estuaries.  Increasingly, state and local decision makers and Federal agencies are turning their attention to the restoration of flows as part of a holistic approach to restoring water quality and habitat and protecting and replenishing living coastal and marine resources and the livelihoods that depend on them. 
In 2017, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center began developing datasets, methods, and tools to support a two-phase, seven-year study of freshwater delivery and magnitude in the five Gulf States (Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas). This study is in collaboration with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and funded through the Resouces and Ecosystems, Sustainability, Tourist, Opportunities, and Revived Economies of the Gulf Coast States Act (RESTORE Act).  The first phase of this study is focused on (1) quantification of hydrologic alteration, (2) evaluation of trends in the delivery and magnitude of freshwater to estuaries, and (3) analysis of the current streamgage network suitability for the five Gulf States.  The second phase focuses on a large watershed in Mississippi and will address (1) evaluation and identification of flow-ecology relationships and (2) development of a decision-support tool that integrates existing streamflow goals and constraints as well as determined flow-ecology relationships.  
This dataset represents a boundary delineating the spatial extent of the study. USGS streamgages located within the boundary either drain to the Gulf of Mexico or are adjacent to watersheds that flow to the Gulf of Mexico and are considered both physiographically similar and valuable for analysis. The boundary extent was delineated using geographic information system (GIS) tools to represent the geographic extent of the area important in analyzing streamflow alteration. The area within the boundary is 1,004,220 square kilometers and contains 9,966 12-digit hydrologic unit code (HUC) polygons and 294 8-digit HUC polygons.

Tags: alabama, environmental-flow, florida, gulf-coast, gulf-of-mexico, louisiana, mississippi, network-optimization, reference-hydrology, restore, southeastern-united-states, streamflow-alteration, texas, trend-analysis, usgs-5b5b30fde4b006a11f63f3b1
Organization: Department of the Interior
Physical and Hydraulic Properties at Recently Burned and Long-Unburned Boreal Forest Areas in Interior Alaska, USA

This dataset includes physical and hydraulic properties at selected sites in interior Alaska.  These properties include soil-water retention data, and parameters used in a common soil-water retention model (van Genuchten model).

Tags: alaska, dalton-highway, hydraulic-properties, interior-alaska, permafrost, soil-properties, steese-highway, usgs-5b3fd182e4b060350a10bfa4
Organization: Department of the Interior
Suwannee River Gulf sturgeon acoustic telemetry data (2014) used in state-space model

Detection data for Gulf sturgeon in the Suwannee River using a series of passive acoustic receivers.  Data set includes receiver locations (river kilometer), detections, time periods, and individual transmitter ID.

Tags: inlandwaters, space-use, sturgeon, usgs-5b3fc3c9e4b060350a10bf6b
Organization: Department of the Interior
Upper Klamath Lake (Oregon) Water Column Analyses, 2015 and 2016

This data set presents chemical data for water column samples from USGS and Klamath Tribe sites in Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon. Surface water, bottom water and integrated water samples were analyzed for major cations including metals and anions including chloride, sulfate, alkalinity, phosphate silicate and nitrate. Values for pH ranging from 7.3 to 10.0 are also reported.

Tags: surface-water-quality, usgs-5b3f9da7e4b060350a10bc3d, water-chemistry
Organization: Department of the Interior