AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Chesapeake Bay River Input Monitoring Network 1985-2022: Annual loads

Nitrogen, phosphorus, and suspended-sediment loads, and changes in loads, in major rivers across the Chesapeake Bay watershed have been calculated using monitoring data from the Chesapeake Bay River Input Monitoring (RIM) Network stations for the period 1985 through 2022. Nutrient and suspended-sediment loads and changes in loads were determined by applying a weighted regression approach called WRTDS (Weighted Regression on Time, Discharge, and Season). The load results represent the total mass of nitrogen, phosphorus, and suspended sediment that was exported from each of the RIM watersheds.

Tags: chesapeake-bay-watershed, delaware, kalman-filtering, load-analysis, maryland, new-york, nitrogen, nutrients, pennsylvania, phosphorus, rivers, suspended-sediment, trends, united-states, usgs-6470a130d34e4e58932d1d8a, virginia, washington-dc, water-quality, weighted-regression, west-virginia, wrtds, wrtds-kalman
Organization: Department of the Interior
Database of Riparian Floodplain Boundaries for the San Carlos and Gila Rivers on the San Carlos Apache Reservation and Upper Gila River Watershed (1935 - 2021)

We developed this spatial database of historic and current floodplains to analyze trends in vegetation conditions, identify areas more at risk of degradation, and assess the relationship between riparian vegetation dynamics and climate conditions.Our study area is the riparian areas along the San Carlos River and Gila River within the San Carlos Apache Reservation and the Upper Gila River Level-4 Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC) watershed. The product was developed by digitizing the active channel and primary riparian floodplain using historic 1935 aerial imagery (Arizona State University GeoData, 2021) and National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) aerial imagery from 2019 (U.S. Department of Agriculture, 2021).
This data was used in the development of the following data release: Petrakis, R.E., Norman, L.M., Middleton, B.R., 2023, Mapping Riparian Vegetation Response to Climate Change on the San Carlos Apache Reservation and Upper Gila River Watershed to Inform Restoration Priorities: 1935 to Present - Database of Trends in Vegetation Properties and Climate Adaptation Variables: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9HL0N5T.
And in support of the following publication: Petrakis, R.E., Norman, L.M., Middleton, B.R., 2023. Riparian Vegetation Response amid Variable Climate Conditions across the Upper Gila River Watershed: Informing Tribal Restoration Priorities. Frontiers in Environmental Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2023.1179328.
This Parent data release consists of three shapefiles, or Child Items. The first two shapefiles show the extent of the historic (i.e., 1935) and current (i.e., 2019) riparian floodplain, including the active channel and primary riparian floodplain portions, along the San Carlos River and Gila River within the San Carlos Apache Reservation. The first shapefile - 1935 Riparian Floodplain and Active Channel Boundaries for the San Carlos River and Gila River - was produced for 1935, representing historic conditions, by digitizing the active channel and primary riparian floodplain using 1935 aerial imagery. The second shapefile - 2019 Riparian Floodplain and Active Channel Boundaries for the San Carlos River and Gila River - was produced for 2019, representing current conditions, by digitizing the active channel and primary riparian floodplain using National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) aerial imagery from 2019. The final shapefile - 2019 Riparian Floodplain for the San Carlos River and Gila River within the Upper Gila River Level-4 Hydrologic Unit Code Watershed -  shows the boundary of the riparian floodplain for the Gila River and San Carlos River across the entire Upper Gila River Level-4 HUC.

Tags: boundaries, climate-change, drought, floodplain, gila-river, historic-analysis, riparian-vegetation, southwest, united-states, usgs-6463b9f7d34ec179a83d2af4, vegetation, wetland-ecosystem
Organization: Department of the Interior
LANDFIRE 2016 Remap Existing Vegetation Type (EVT) Puerto Rico US Virgin Islands

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, puerto-rico, raster-digital-data, remote-sensing, u-s-forest-service-usfs, u-s-geological-survey-usgs, united-states, us, us-virgin-islands, usgs-6463713a-6a7c-4626-9671-577e71db32df
Organization: Department of the Interior
Fish communities in Delmarva streams, 2022

From 31 May to 29 June, 2022, a Virginia Tech team of 4-5 sampled the fish community in 30 Delmarva streams (Maryland and Delaware, USA) as part of a larger stream-health study including other teams who surveyed geomorphology, water quality, flow, temperature, macroinvertebrates, and fish health at the same 30 streams. These 30 Chesapeake Bay Watershed tributaries had upstream drainage areas of 9 to 54 sq. km. At each stream, we sampled fish from two reaches using two-pass backpack electrofishing and seining. Reach A was the main reach surveyed by all the interdisciplinary teams; Reach B was surveyed for fish communities only. Reach length was 20 wetted channel widths, capped at 150 meters. Fish were identified to species, assigned to a length class, inspected for anomalies, and released. Other measurements included water temperature, electrical conductivity, and clarity, and streambed area comprising pool, riffle, and run habitats.

Tags: biota, caroline-county, chester-river, choptank-river, community-ecology, delaware, delmarva, dorchester-county, farming, field-sampling, fish, freshwater-ecosystems, kent-county, maryland, nanticoke-river, new-castle-county, pocomoke-river, queen-annes-county, river-systems, somerset-county, sussex-county, talbot-county, united-states, usgs-6462643ed34ec179a83b5069, wicomico-county, wicomico-river
Organization: Department of the Interior
Floating Transient Electromagnetic Survey Data from the Columbia River near Hanford, WA

This data release contains   motorboat-towed floating transient electromagnetic data collected from the Columbia River near Hanford WA.  Data were collected using a ~16 foot (4.9 meters) outboard motorboat during two field campaigns: July 2021 and April 2022. In total, several hundred linear kilometers of data were collected from a reach of the Columbia that extends from approximately Vernita Bridge to Richland, WA with some additional data collected in the Horn area north of White Bluffs in April 2022.
An Aarhus Geoinstruments FloaTEM system was used to collect these data. The depth of investigation of the FloaTEM system is variable but ranged from approximately 50 to 100 meters. Previously collected high-resolution bathymetric data and observed specific conductance of the water column were used to constrain water depth and resistivity in the processing and interpretation of results.

Tags: columbia-river, electromagnetic-surveying, geophysics, hanford-reach, hydrology, state-of-washington, surface-water-non-marine, usgs-646258e3d34ec179a83b5014
Organization: Department of the Interior
Python code used to determine average yearly and monthly tourism per 1000 residents for public-supply water service areas

This child item describes Python code used to estimate average yearly and monthly tourism per 1000 residents within public-supply water service areas. Increases in population due to tourism may impact amounts of water used by public-supply water systems. This data release contains model input datasets, Python code used to develop the tourism information, and output estimates of tourism. This dataset is part of a larger data release using machine learning to predict public supply water use for 12-digit hydrologic units from 2000-2020. Output from this code was used as an input feature in the public supply delivery and water use machine learning models.
This page includes the following files:
tourism_input_data.zip - a zip file containing input data sets used by the tourism Python code
tourism_output.zip - a zip file with output produced by the tourism Python code
README.txt - a README file describing the data files and code requirements
tourism_study_code.zip - a zip file containing the Python code used to create the tourism feature variable

Tags: alabama, arizona, arkansas, california, colorado, connecticut, conterminous-united-states, delaware, district-of-columbia, florida, georgia, idaho, illinois, indiana, iowa, kansas, kentucky, louisiana, maine, maryland, massachusetts, michigan, minnesota, mississippi, missouri, modeling, montana, nebraska, nevada, new-hampshire, new-jersey, new-mexico, new-york, north-carolina, north-dakota, ohio, oklahoma, oregon, pennsylvania, public-supply, rhode-island, south-carolina, south-dakota, tennessee, texas, usgs-6462530ad34ec179a83b5007, utah, vermont, virginia, washington, water-use, west-virginia, wisconsin, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
X-ray diffraction data (XRD) for sediment subsamples from push cores from Loki's Castle and Favne vent fields, Mohns Ridge

This portion of the data release presents X-ray diffractograms of sediment subsamples from push cores collected from Loki's Castle and Favne vent fields, on the Mohns Ridge, in the Norwegian Sea. These data were collected in 2018 and 2019 (USGS Field Activity 2018-691-DD and 2019-624-FA). Location information for the sample is included in each Attribute Definition of this metadata file, as well as in the geochemical data table (LokisMohns_marine_mineral_geochemistry.csv) of this multi-table data release.

Tags: cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, core-analysis, favne-vent-field, geoscientificinformation, global-ocean-mineral-resources, lokis-castle-vent-field, marine-geology, material-resources, metallic-mineral-resources, mineral-resources, mineralogical-analysis, mohns-ridge, nonliving-resources, norwegian-sea, oceans, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, physical-chemical-features, sediment-geochemistry, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-645fc3b0d34ec179a83a6af9, x-ray-diffraction
Organization: Department of the Interior
Soil-Water-Balance MODEL OUTPUT for simulations of net infiltration and runoff in the Beaver Creek, Alaska basin, 1944 to 2050

This item provides the output files from water budget simulations for the Beaver Creek Basin and surrounding areas during the historical period 1944 to 2023 and a future conditions period that starts in 2014 and goes to 2050 and uses climate projection data. The simulations produce gridded daily data estimates of net infiltration (water that might become groundwater recharge), rejected net infiltration, runoff, actual evapotranspiration and gross precipitation. The model output files are in netcdf4 format and all water budget components are in inches. The outputs used in the Beaver Creek groundwater and stream temperature model (net infiltration, rejected net infiltration, and runoff) and included in this child item. The model input files used to generate these outputs are archived in the associated soil was balance model inputs child item in the parent data release that this directory is contained in. These simulations were done with the USGS SWB model (version 2; Westenbroek and others, 2018).   
Further details about this application of the SWB model can be found in the related primary publication.

Tags: alaska, elevation, geoscientificinformation, groundwater, groundwater-recharge, groundwater-recharge-model, hydrology, inlandwaters, kenai-peninsula, net-infiltration, soil-water-balance-model, swb, usgs-645e5b3fd34ec179a838e6bc, usgssoilwaterbalancemodel, water-availability, water-budget
Organization: Department of the Interior
Photographs of push cores from Loki's Castle and Favne vent fields, Mohns Ridge

This portion of the data release presents linescan images (photographs) from push cores collected from Loki's Castle and Favne vent fields, on the Mohns Ridge, in the Norwegian Sea. These data were Rcollected in 2018 and 2019 (USGS Field Activity 2018-691-DD and 2019-624-FA). Images were obtained from seventeen push cores at 50-micron (200 pixel per cm) resolution. Color images in 16-bit TIFF format are provided for each core segment, along with proprietary metadata files containing image scaling information.

Tags: cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, core-analysis, favne-vent-field, greenland-sea, lokis-castle-vent-field, marine-geology, mineral-resources, nonliving-resources, norwegian-sea, oceans, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, push-coring, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-645d71ccd34ec179a838b3f8
Organization: Department of the Interior
MODFLOW-NWT model to simulate the groundwater flow system at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Naval Base Kitsap, Bremerton, Washington

A three-dimensional groundwater flow model was developed in 1997 to evaluate the groundwater flow system at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Naval Base Kitsap, Bremerton, Washington (https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/wri964147). In 2016, a regional groundwater flow model for the greater Kitsap Peninsula was developed (https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/sir20165052). Using information from the 2016 regional model, the 1997 groundwater flow model for the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard was updated with a new interpretation of the underlying hydrogeologic units, a refined model grid, and improved recharge estimates. A steady-state model version was constructed in MODFLOW-NWT to simulate equilibrium conditions. MODPATH forward and backward particle tracking simulations were then run using output from the steady-state MODFLOW-NWT model. This data release contains the input and output files for the simulations described in the associated model documentation report (https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20161135).

Tags: bremerton, environment, groundwater, groundwater-model, inlandwaters, kitsap-peninsula, modflow-nwt, puget-sound, sinclair-inlet, usgs-645d657fd34ec179a838aa93, usgsgroundwatermodel, washington
Organization: Department of the Interior
Feral burro detections from aerial infrared surveys collected in Sinbad Herd Management Area, Utah, USA, from 2015-2016

These data are detections of burros in the Sinbad Herd Management Area in central Utah made during aerial thermal infrared-based distance sampling surveys in December 2015 and May 2016. Burros were detected from a fixed wing aircraft using an infrared camera mounted on the underside of the aircraft. A monitor screen was inside the aircraft, connected to the camera so the observer could look for burros in the monitor.  Aircraft flew at 2,000 feet above ground level. These data were collected to estimate the population size of burros in the Sinbad Herd Management Area and to examine effectiveness between helicopter and aerial thermal infrared survey types. To assess performance of the different survey types, data analyses were conducted on both survey types and results were compared to known population size.

Tags: abundance-estimation, aerial-survey, biota, burro, distance-sampling, sinbad-herd-management-area, thermal-infrared, usgs-645d4f53d34ec179a83891db, utah
Organization: Department of the Interior
MODFLOW-2000 and Management-Optimization Models Used to Evaluate Alternative Groundwater-Withdrawal Scenarios on Water Levels in Kingsbury Pond, Upper Charles River Basin, Eastern Massachusetts

An existing, three-dimensional, transient groundwater-flow model of the Upper Charles River Basin, eastern Massachusetts, was modified to evaluate alternative groundwater-withdrawal scenarios on water levels in Kingsbury Pond. The pond is hydraulically connected to the groundwater-flow system, and water levels in the pond fluctuate in response to recharge to the aquifer from precipitation and wastewater return flows through septic systems, to withdrawals from the aquifer at nearby wells, and to precipitation directly on the pond surface. Concerns about the effects of groundwater withdrawals on water levels in the pond prompted an investigation by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection to better understand the hydrology of Kingsbury Pond and its response to withdrawals. The goal of the study was to determine if withdrawals from wells in Franklin, Massachusetts, can be modified to simultaneously reduce the effect on water levels in the pond and yet meet the water-supply demands of the Town of Franklin. The model, which uses MODFLOW-2000, simulates flow within the surficial deposits and groundwater interactions with surface water in the basin. The model was modified for the study near Kingsbury Pond to improve representation of the hydrologic system near the pond. A groundwater-management model that links the groundwater-flow model with a mathematical-optimization method (referred to as the response-matrix method) was developed to evaluate the effects of three alternative groundwater-withdrawal scenarios for the Franklin public-water system on water levels in Kingsbury Pond. This USGS data release contains all of the input and output files for the simulations described in the associated model documentation report (https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20235083).

Tags: eastern-massachusetts, environment, franklin-massachusetts, geoscientificinformation, groundwater, groundwater-model, hydrology, inlandwaters, kingsbury-pond, management-optimization-model, mill-river-basin, mine-brook-basin, modflow-2000, norfolk-county, norfolk-massachusetts, upper-charles-river-basin, usgs-645d3077d34ec179a8388d40, usgsgroundwatermodel, water-resources, wrentham-massachusetts
Organization: Department of the Interior
Puuhonua o Honaunau and Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Parks, carbon dioxide as a tool to manage invasive fish in anchialine pools, fish body length measurements, 2021-2022

This data release includes metadata and tabular data that documents the total body length of Mozambique tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus) removed from anchialine pools during field trials testing the efficacy of carbon dioxide (CO2) gas as tool for eradicating invasive fish. Tilapia were removed from a pool at Puuhonua o Honaunau National Historical Park, Hawaii during 2021-2022.

Tags: anchialine-pool, biota, carbon-dioxide, hawaii, hawaii-island, invasive-fish, invasive-species-management, koloko-honokohau-national-historical-park, puuhonua-o-honaunau-national-historical-park, usgs-647eafbfd34eac007b55ee2a
Organization: Department of the Interior
Measurements of wet and dry stream reach lengths collected in 2021 at Las Cienegas National Conservation Area

This dataset contains the lengths of wet and dry stream reaches measured during base flow conditions for Mattie Canyon, Cienega Creek, and Empire Gulch, recorded in 2021, within the Las Cienegas National Conservation Area.

Tags: cienega-creek, empire-gulch, environment, las-cienegas-national-conservation-area, mattie-canyon, surface-water-non-marine, usgs-645d2733d34ec179a8388d1b
Organization: Department of the Interior
Fluorescence sensor measurements in sediment suspensions to evaluate turbidity corrections

The use of field-deployable fluorescence sensors to better understand dissolved organic matter concentrations and composition has grown immensely in recent years. Applications of these sensors to critical monitoring efforts have also grown to encompass post-fire monitoring, wastewater tracking, and use as a proxy for various contaminants. Despite the growth, it is well known that these sensors are subject to various interferences and require corrections for temperature, turbidity, and concentration effects. Although temperature corrections are widely applicable across sensors, the turbidity and concentration corrections can be site-specific and/or sensor-specific. The corrections can even be subject to changes in manufacturing within a sensor type, as has been raised as a concern for the USGS’s most widely used fDOM (fluorescence of dissolved organic matter) sensor manufactured by Xylem/YSI. Currently there is limited guidance on the proper corrections for sensors used within the USGS. As the use of these sensors continues to grow, the need for greater standardization of the measurements among sites and through time will also grow. This data release compiles the measurements collected from multiple lab experiments using Elliot Silt Loam. The data contained herein will be used to assess the variability of fDOM corrections for turbidity.

Tags: biota, continuous-monitoring, dissolved-organic-carbon, doc, fdom, fluorescence, high-frequency, in-situ, optical-sensor, organic-matter, standard-solution, turbidity, usgs-645d22e7d34ec179a8388d08, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
A Harmonized Discharge Record for Select Tributaries to the Lower Boise River, Southwestern Idaho, 1986-2022

To provide a consistent, long-term estimate of discharge from select tributaries to the lower Boise River, two datasets of daily discharge records were harmonized. Differences between a discharge record compiled by the Idaho Department of Water Resources (IDWR) and one compiled by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) were computed, and the IDWR record was adjusted so that median discharge values equaled those of the USGS record. The 10th and 90th percentiles of the percent difference between discharge records were applied to the IDWR dataset to create lower and upper bounds on daily discharge estimates and to show the uncertainty around the median adjusted IDWR discharge values. The result is a harmonized discharge record for 14 lower Boise River tributaries.

Tags: irrigation, statistical-analysis, stream-discharge, usgs-645c1d56d34ec179a8387022
Organization: Department of the Interior