AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Topographic channel survey data for selected new culvert installation sites in the East Gulf Coastal Plain of Alabama

As part of a cooperative study by the Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) and the U.S. Geological Survey, topographic surveys of stream channel cross-sections, upstream and downstream of selected new culvert installations in the East Gulf Coastal Plain of Alabama, were conducted both before and after culvert construction. This dataset contains raw topographic data used to determine channel measurements for statistical analysis in the associated Scientific Investigations Report, Effects of culvert construction on streams in the East Gulf Coastal Plain of Alabama, 2010-19 (Pugh and Gill, 2021).
To measure the effects that culvert construction may have on stream channel beds, banks, and slopes, topographic surveys of 22 stream channel cross-sections, 11 upstream and 11 downstream, of the proposed culvert, were conducted at each study site before culvert construction. The cross-sections were evenly distributed along a stream reach length of approximately 20 times the channel width. These same cross-sections were resurveyed approximately 2 years after culvert construction was completed. Pre- and post-construction channel geometry data are presented in separate Comma-Separated Values (CSV) files. In addition, a plan view of before and after construction data points is included in a Portable Document Format (PDF) file.

Tags: alabama, east-gulf-coastal-plain, topographic, usgs-5ea85c1a82cefae35a1fae32
Organization: Department of the Interior
Calculated carbon concentrations, loads, and export in Big Cypress National Preserve, South Florida, 2015-2017

This data release provides data for quantifying the aquatic export of total carbon in a cypress swamp within the Big Cypress National Preserve, and is part of a larger carbon budget study.  The U.S. Geological Survey operated two continuous streamflow and water-quality monitoring stations within the Big Cypress National Preserve in southern Florida from September 2015 to October 2017.  Site-specific regression models were developed using continuously measured specific conductance and concomitant discretely collected total carbon (dissolved organic carbon, dissolved inorganic carbon, and particulate carbon) samples to calculate continuous concentrations of total carbon. Total carbon loads were calculated by multiplying concentrations and streamflow, and the difference between the load calculations was used to determine the aquatic carbon export of the study area.

Tags: big-cypress-national-preserve, carbon-export, cypress-swamp, specific-conductance, sweetwater-strand, usgs-5ea81ee082cefae35a1fad85, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Seasonal and inter-annual distribution and abundance of floating kelp canopies surrounding San Nicolas Island, Calif. 1981-1992

Map provides spatial data on the location and extent of floating canopies of the giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera, in the area surrounding San Nicolas Island, Calif.

Tags: aerial-photography, aquatic-vegetation, biota, climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, coastal-ecosystems, geographic-information-systems-gis, habitats, imagerybasemapsearthcover, san-nicolas-island, southern-california-coastal, usgs-5ea730d282cefae35a1d9104
Organization: Department of the Interior
San Nicolas Island California black abalone feeding observations, 1982-2019

These data provide observations of food items observed held by anterior foot of black abalone (presumably for feeding) at 9 different sites in the rocky intertidal zone around San Nicolas Island, California. Observations were made at low tide while censusing the population on permanently marked transects over a 26 year time period. Also included are some associated abalone size data.

Tags: algae, biota, california, diet, food-web, gastropod, kelp, marine-ecosystem, san-nicolas-island, usgs-5ea72e8d82cefae35a1d90f2, ventura-county
Organization: Department of the Interior
Terrestrial Light Detection and Ranging Topographic Data at a Recreation Site Upstream from Nimrod Lake, Arkansas, March 2020

Topographic data were collected at a recreation site on the Fourche La Fave River, about 5 miles upstream from Nimrod, Arkansas, on March 4, 2020, using terrestrial light detection and ranging (T-lidar), Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), and conventional surveying techniques (Rydlund and Densmore, 2012).
These data are high-resolution topography in laser scan format, collected using a tripod mounted T-lidar at multiple scan setups.  Data collection software integrated and stored the range and angular measurements from the T-lidar equipment.  Computer software was used to process the raw data, align the various scans in reference to one another, classify the data, and extract the topography data in a useable format.  The data were saved with RGB color and classification in LAS format (14.2 million points).

Tags: arkansas, ascii, elevation, geology, inland-waters, inlandwaters, location, nimrod-lake, state-plane, terrestrial-lidar, u-s-army-corps-of-engineers, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-5ea70e1382cefae35a1d9065
Organization: Department of the Interior
Eelgrass distributions derived from a towed underwater video survey of the Nisqually River delta, 2014

This portion of the USGS data release presents eelgrass distributions derived from towed underwater video surveys of the Nisqually River delta, Washington in 2014 (USGS Field Activity Number D-01-14-PS). Eelgrass data were collected from the R/V George Davidson equipped with a towed underwater video system and global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receiver. The underwater video system consisted of a Splashcam standard definition video camera connected to a Sony GV-D1000 video monitor and tape recorder. Positioning of the survey vessel was determined at 0.5 Hz intervals using a Garmin 76c GNSS receiver. The positioning data from the GNSS were encoded onto the audio track of the digital video recording using Red Hen Systems (RHS) VMS200 hardware. Underwater video data were recorded as the vessel navigated along a series of shore-perpendicular transects at speeds between 1 and 2 knots. The underwater video recording was later reviewed and the presence or absence of eelgrass was determined for each 2-s segment of video tape. These data were used to evaluate the classification of single-beam sonar data acquired during the same time period.

Tags: aquatic-vegetation, billy-frank-jr-nisqually-national-wildlife-refuge, biota, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, flora, gps-measurement, nisqually-river, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, pierce-county, puget-sound, salish-sea, sea-floor-characteristics, thurston-county, u-s-geological-survey, underwater-photography, usgs, usgs-5ea70c9382cefae35a1d9060, usgs-coastal-habitats-in-puget-sound-project-chips, video-observation
Organization: Department of the Interior
Sediment Mercury Profile, Laguna de Pozuelos, Argentine Northwest

The data represent a shallow mercury chronology using sediment core from a playa lake system situated in a high-altitude setting in northwest Argentina.  Archive samples were used from sediment core (LP07-1A) that was collected from a location (lat -22.362100°, lon -66.003600°) in the center of the playa-lake Laguna de Pozuelos in the dry season of 2007, when the water level was 2 to 3 cm.  The samples were taken over 1 to 2 cm intervals and had been dried and homogenized.  Sediment total mercury analyses were conducted by digesting sediment (0.30 g) in boiling concentrated nitric/sulfuric acid (ratio 3:1), followed by 12 hour oxidation with bromine monochloride, tin chloride reduction, gold amalgamation, and detection by CVAFS.

Tags: argentina, atmospheric-deposition-chemical-amp-particulate, laguna-de-pozuelos, mercury-contamination, usgs-5ea37d5d82cefae35a1b51bb
Organization: Department of the Interior
High Resolution Gravity and Ground Magnetic Surveys of Southern Gabbs Valley, NV

This data release provides access to gravity and ground-based magnetic surveys, as well as rock property (density and susceptibility) data collected in and around southern Gabbs Valley, NV. These data were acquired between November 9, 2017 and February 8, 2018, by the U.S. Geological Survey.

Tags: biota, geothermal-resources, gravitational-field-earth, magnetic-susceptibility, magnetometer-measurement, paleomagnetic-analysis, potential-field-geophysics, rock-property-density-and-susceptibility, usgs-5ea365e682cefae35a1b5163
Organization: Department of the Interior
Chemical and Stable Isotope Data for Discrete Water Samples Collected in the Northern Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, 2011-2012

This data set consists of chemical and stable isotope data obtained through the analysis of discrete water samples collected from 14 fixed sampling locations in the northern Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta at roughly monthly intervals between April 2011 and November 2012.

Tags: biogeochemical-cycling, cache-slough, datasets, light-stable-isotope-analysis, lindsey-slough, miner-slough, nutrient-content-water, prospect-slough, sacramento-river, sacramento-san-joaquin-delta, steamboat-slough, toe-drain, usgs-5ea351c982cefae35a1b5100, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Thermal infrared and photogrammetric data collected by drone for hydrogeologic characterization around two US Geological Survey Next Generation Water Observing Systems stream gage locations near Claryville, NY, USA

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) collected low-altitude (typically 200-350 ft above land surface) airborne thermal infrared, and visual imagery data via a multirotor, small unoccupied aircraft system (UAS or ‘drone’) deployed along the river corridor encompassing two U.S. Geological Survey Next Generation Water Observing Systems (NGWOS) stream gage locations near Claryville, NY, USA. One site is the West Branch Neversink River at Claryville, NY (USGS station number 01434498) and the Neversink River at Claryville, NY (USGS station number 01435000). Beginning in summer 2019 these stations serve as groundwater/surface water instrumentation ‘test beds’ for the NGWOS program. 
Data collected at the sites include water electrical conductivity, level, and temperature in mapped groundwater discharge zones adjacent to the gage houses, soil moisture on the streambank, and a suite of supporting atmospheric data. Unmanned aviation system-based visible-light imagery data were collected from October 8-10, 2019 in .jpg format, and the images were compiled automatically into a larger stitched image (orthomosaic) using Agisoft Metashape (Agisoft LLC, St. Petersburg, Russia)      software as described in the ‘processed_data’ subfolders of this data release. Structure from Motion techniques were also applied to the visual imagery to derive time-specific, 
digital surface models (DSM). In addition to the visible-light data, thermal infrared still images were collected in radiometric .tif format. Thermal data were compiled into orthomosaics and DSMs in a similar manner to visible light imagery.

Tags: aerial-photography, drone, environment, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, groundwater, groundwater-and-surface-water-interaction, hydrogeology, hydrology, image-collections, inlandwaters, neversink-river, new-york, remote-sensing, seepage, sullivan-county, surface-water, surface-water-non-marine, thermal-imaging, uas, unmanned-aircraft-system, unoccupied-aircraft-system, usgs-5ea324ea82cefae35a1a063f, water-temperature
Organization: Department of the Interior
Location data for whooping cranes of the Aransas-Wood Buffalo Population, 2009-2018

Location and associated data came from whooping cranes from the Aransas-Wood Buffalo Population, 2009–2018. We marked a sample of 68 whooping cranes with leg-mounted transmitters that acquired locations via the global positioning system (GPS) network and transmitted those data through the Argos satellite system. Cranes were captured either at their natal areas in and adjacent to Wood Buffalo National Park in Canada or at their winter terminus along the Texas Gulf Coast. Transmitters provided different quantities of data because of the variable transmitter functionality and survival of marked birds. Multiple partners administered this research project and collected these data, including the Canadian Wildlife Service, Crane Trust, Platte River Recovery Implementation Program, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and U.S. Geological Survey.

Tags: alberta, animal-tracking, biota, birds, british-columbia, environment, iowa, kansas, manitoba, migratory-birds, minnesota, missouri, montana, nebraska, north-dakota, northwest-territories, nunavut, oklahoma, saskatchewan, south-dakota, texas, usgs-5ea3071582cefae35a19349a
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data release for structure-from-motion DEMs derived from historical aerial photographs and their use in geomorphological mapping

This data release publishes datasets within and surrounding the Piney Branch watershed located in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan suburb of Vienna, Virginia. This dataset was utilized in studies that investigated the accuracy and application of geospatial modeling techniques, structure-from-motion (SfM) photogrammetric methods, and digital elevation model (DEM) differencing to assess and quantify geomorphic and anthropogenic landform change. The United States Geological Survey’s (USGS) three-dimensional digital elevation program (3DEP) light detection and ranging (LiDAR) digital terrain models (DTMs) were used together with and as a means for comparison to DTMs created from historical aerial imagery. The creation and usage of both historical and current elevation datasets allows for the mapping of landscape change over time. Such mapping and assessment of geomorphic and anthropogenic change provides critical information for land management, hazard identification, and the management of challenges related to urbanization

Tags: aerial-photography, biota, digital-elevation-models, image-collections, remote-sensing, usgs-5ea3029282cefae35a1932a2
Organization: Department of the Interior
USGS National and Global Oil and Gas Assessment Project-Eastern Great Basin Province, Delle Phosphatic Member Shale 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 Delle Phosphatic Member of the Mississippian Woodman Formation, western Utah, eastern Nevada and southeastern Idaho. 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, continuous-assessment-unit, delle-phosphatic-member-shale-gas, delle-phosphatic-member-shale-oil, 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-idaho, state-of-nevada, state-of-utah, unconventional-assessment-unit, united-states-of-america, usgs-5ea2ecb182cefae35a191dba
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hourly wind speed in miles per hour and associated three-digit data-source flag, January 1, 1948 - September 30, 2019

The text file "Wind speed.txt" contains hourly wind speed data in miles per hour and associated data source flags from January 1, 1948, to September 30, 2019. The primary data for water year 2018 (a water year is the 12-month period, October 1 through September 30, designated by the calendar year in which it ends) were downloaded from the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) (Argonne National Laboratory, 2019) and processed following the guidelines documented in Over and others (2010). The processed data were appended to ARGN18.WDM (Bera, 2019) and renamed as ARGN19.WDM. Missing and apparently erroneous data values were replaced with adjusted values from nearby weather stations used as “backup”. The hourly wind speed data from the Illinois Climate Network (Water and Atmospheric Resources Monitoring Program, 2019) station at St. Charles, Illinois, and the National Weather Service station at O'Hare International Airport were used as "backup". Midwestern Regional Climate Center (Midwestern Regional Climate Center, 2019) provided the data collected by National Weather Service from the station at O'Hare International Airport. Each data source flag is of the form "xyz", which allows the user to determine its source and the methods used to process the data (Over and others, 2010).
References Cited:
Argonne National Laboratory, 2019, Meteorological data, accessed on November 6, 2019, at http://gonzalo.er.anl.gov/ANLMET/.
Bera, M., 2019, Meteorological Database, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, January 1, 1948 - September 30, 2018: U.S. Geological Survey data release, ​https://doi.org/10.5066/P9H8P0F7.
Midwestern Regional Climate Center, 2019, Meteorological data, accessed on November 6, 2019, at https://mrcc.illinois.edu/CLIMATE/.
Over, T.M., Price, T.H., and Ishii, A.L., 2010, Development and analysis of a meteorological database, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010-1220, 67 p., http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2010/1220/.
Water and Atmospheric Resources Monitoring Program. Illinois Climate Network, 2019. Illinois State Water Survey, 2204 Griffith Drive, Champaign, IL 61820-7495. Data accessed on November 6, 2019, at http://dx.doi.org/10.13012/J8MW2F2Q.

Tags: argonne-national-laboratory-illinois, data-source-flag, dekalb-illinois, dupage-county-illinois, flood-forecasting, hydrology, ohare-international-airport-illinois, runoff, st-charles-illinois, usgs-5ea1f4f882cefae35a191925, wind-speed
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hourly solar radiation in Langleys and associated three-digit data-source flag, January 1, 1948 - September 30, 2019

The text file "Solar radiation.txt" contains hourly solar radiation data in Langleys and associated data-source flags from January 1, 1948, to September 30, 2019. The primary data for water year 2019 (a water year is the 12-month period, October 1 through September 30, designated by the calendar year in which it ends) were downloaded from the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) (Argonne National Laboratory, 2019) and processed following the guidelines documented in Over and others (2010). The processed data were appended to ARGN18.WDM (Bera and Over, 2019) and renamed as ARGN19.WDM. Missing and apparently erroneous data values were replaced with adjusted values from nearby weather stations used as “backup”. Temporal variations in the statistical properties of the data resulting from changes in measurement and data storage methodologies were adjusted to match the statistical properties resulting from the data collection procedures that have been in place since January 1, 1989 (Over and others, 2010). The adjustments were computed based on the regressions between the primary data series from ANL and the backup series using data obtained during common periods. The statistical properties of the regressions were used to assign estimated standard errors to values that were adjusted or filled from other series. The Illinois Climate Network (Water and Atmospheric Resources Monitoring Program, 2019) stations at St. Charles and DeKalb, Illinois, were used as "backup". Each data source flag is of the form "xyz", which allows the user to determine its source and the methods used to process the data (Over and others, 2010).
References Cited:
Argonne National Laboratory, 2019, Meteorological data, accessed on November 6, 2019, at http://www.atmos.anl.gov/ANLMET/.
Bera, M., 2019, Meteorological Database, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, January 1, 1948 - September 30, 2018: U.S. Geological Survey data release, ​https://doi.org/10.5066/P9H8P0F7.
Over, T.M., Price, T.H., and Ishii, A.L., 2010, Development and analysis of a meteorological database, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010-1220, 67 p., http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2010/1220/.
Water and Atmospheric Resources Monitoring Program, 2019, Illinois Climate Network: Champaign, Ill., Illinois State Water Survey, accessed on November 6, 2019, at http://dx.doi.org/10.13012/J8MW2F2Q.

Tags: argonne-national-laboratory-illinois, data-source-flag, dekalb-illinois, dupage-county-illinois, flood-forecasting, hydrology, ohare-international-airport-illinois, runoff, solar-radiation, st-charles-illinois, usgs-5ea1f4de82cefae35a19191f
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hourly dewpoint temperature in degrees Fahrenheit and associated three-digit data-source flag, January 1, 1948 - September 30, 2019

The text file "Dewpoint temperature.txt" contains hourly dewpoint temperature data in degrees Fahrenheit and associated data-source flags from January 1, 1948, to September 30, 2019. The primary data for water year 2019 (a water year is the 12-month period, October 1 through September 30, designated by the calendar year in which it ends) were downloaded from the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) (Argonne National Laboratory, 2019) and they were processed following the guidelines documented in Over and others (2010). The processed data were appended to ARGN18.WDM (Bera, 2019) and renamed as ARGN19.WDM. Missing and apparently erroneous data values were replaced with adjusted values from nearby weather stations used as “backup”. The Midwestern Regional Climate Center (Midwestern Regional Climate Center, 2019) provided the hourly dewpoint temperature data collected by the National Weather Service at the station at O'Hare International Airport and was used as "backup". Each data source flag is of the form "xyz", which allows the user to determine its source and the methods used to process the data (Over and others, 2010). 
References Cited:
Argonne National Laboratory, 2019, Meteorological data, accessed on November 6, 2019, at http://gonzalo.er.anl.gov/ANLMET/.
Bera, M., 2019, Meteorological Database, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, January 1, 1948 - September 30, 2018: U.S. Geological Survey data release, ​https://doi.org/10.5066/P9H8P0F7.
Midwestern Regional Climate Center, 2019, Meteorological data, accessed on November 6, 2019, at https://mrcc.illinois.edu/CLIMATE/.
Over, T.M., Price, T.H., and Ishii, A.L., 2010, Development and analysis of a meteorological database, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010-1220, 67 p., http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2010/1220/.

Tags: argonne-national-laboratory-illinois, data-source-flag, dekalb-illinois, dewpoint-temperature, dupage-county-illinois, flood-forecasting, hydrology, ohare-international-airport-illinois, runoff, st-charles-illinois, usgs-5ea1f4c082cefae35a19191a
Organization: Department of the Interior