AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Bacteria, nutrients, and contaminants of emerging concern in shallow groundwater of nearshore environments, Suffolk County, New York, 2013

Onsite wastewater disposal systems (OWDS) in coastal regions of Long Island, New York, contribute bacteria, nutrients, and organic wastewater-associated compounds (including pharmaceuticals, personal care and domestic use products referred to here as contaminants of emerging concern (CECs)) to downgradient shallow groundwater in nearshore settings. Many of the densely populated areas along the East Coast (i.e. Long Island, New York) are served by OWDS. Approximately 75 percent of Suffolk County, New York, residents rely on simple OWDS such as a series of cesspools (ground pits lined with cement blocks or rings without a sealed bottom) and septic systems. Cesspools provide minimal wastewater treatment, typically relying on bacteria to breakdown the solid waste while untreated water percolates into the sandy surficial aquifer. The high hydraulic conductivity of the sandy surficial aquifer of the New York coastal region makes these areas particularly vulnerable to organic wastewater contamination. Groundwater samples were collected from the shallow groundwater flow system along the shoreline of (1) a barrier island summer community and (2) the mainland of Long Island. Both locations are distinctive coastal communities in Suffolk County, NY, and typically rely on a simple OWDS system. The coastal communities selected are in areas inundated by the storm tide brought on by Hurricane Sandy and are considered vulnerable to extreme storms (i.e. hurricanes and nor’easters), flooding events, and sea-level rise; all of which can damage wastewater infrastructure and lead to biogeochemical changes that disrupt the level of onsite treatment and result in increased discharge of contaminants to estuaries through groundwater seepage. Specific locations were selected in areas along the shore that are within 180 m downgradient from OWDS and just above the reaches of the spring high-tide mark along the shoreline. For our study, beach areas without bulkheads (a retaining wall built for shoreline protection) were targeted due to the need to access areas downgradient of OWDS. 
Twenty-nine of the 103 pharmaceuticals measured were detected at least once at the NY sample locations. Other detected CECs include PCDUs (caffeine, nicotine, and metabolites), methyl-1&lt;i&gt;H&lt;/i&gt;-benzotrizole (a corrosion inhibitor), and piperonyl butoxide (a pesticide synergist). Lidocaine, an over-the-counter topical anesthetic, was the most commonly detected pharmaceutical (35% of samples). Other commonly detected pharmaceuticals included fexofenadine (an over-the-counter antihistamine detected in 30% of samples), and carbamazepine (an anticonvulsant), desvenlafaxine (antidepressant), meprobamate (an anxiolytic), metformin (an antidiabetic), and tramadol (an opioid) each detected in 25% of the samples.

Tags: emerging-contaminants, environmental-health, groundwater-quality, long-island, new-york, united-states, usgs-5ad90b83e4b0e2c2dd27a898, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Field portable X-ray fluorescence and associated quality-control data for paint chips sampled from selected sites in Lakeport, Lake County, California

This data -release component documents field portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) measurements of lead and associated quality-control data for 19 samples of paint chips collected from structures suspected to have legacy coatings of lead-based paint in Lakeport (Lake County, California) during July 11-12, 2022. Environmental samples were collected at selected sites to assess the effects of lead-based paint on soil chemistry. This sampling was made as part of a broader study to attribute sources of lead in soils in cooperation with the California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) for their Lead-Acid Battery Recycling Facility Investigation and Cleanup (LABRIC) program. Lead concentrations for paint chips measured by pXRF were used as a semi-quantitative screening tool to aid in selection of sites for soil and paint-chip sampling in addition to the age of structure and condition of exterior paint layers. A total of 34 measurements of lead concentration using pXRF for 19 samples of paint chips are included in this child item. Measurements were made on layered paint chips contained within low-density, polyethylene sample bags using a Thermo Niton XL5 pXRF instrument. Layered paint chip samples were scanned through both their inner and outer facing sides to assess relative lead contents of newer and older paint layers. Measurements on multiple paint chips from the same sample bag are presented for two samples. 
Field and laboratory measurements of standard reference materials with lead concentrations within the range of values measured for paint-chip samples had percent recoveries for lead concentration within 20 percent of the certified value. The same standard reference materials were measured in the laboratory inside 2 millimeter-thickness, low-density polyethylene sample bags and had percent recoveries for lead concentration within 20 percent of the certified value. Lead concentrations for paint chips analyzed by pXRF presented in this data release are reported in parts per million and rounded to one to two significant figures to provide conservative, order-of-magnitude estimates of apparent paint-chip lead concentrations.  Apparent lead concentrations for layered paint chips are not representative of the concentration of paint in an individual paint layer, as the density and thickness of different paint layers with different elemental compositions can influence pXRF results (McKnight and others, 1989). This data release contains two tab-delimited text files. The "Lakeport_paint.txt" file contains field pXRF measurements of lead for paint-chip samples. The "Lakeport_pXRF_QC.txt" file contains quality control data for pXRF measurements of lead for four National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)-certified standard reference materials.

Tags: california, environment, geoscientificinformation, health, lake-county, lakeport, lead, paint, soil-chemistry, usgs-649075c5d34ef77fcb002fe5, x-ray-fluorescence
Organization: Department of the Interior
Adult California sheephead (Semicossyphus pulcher) counts at long-term subtidal sites at San Nicolas Island, California (1981-2018)

The data represent total counts of adult California sheephead from six long-term sites at San Nicolas Island, CA between fall 1981 and spring 2018.  At each site counts were made by divers swimming five 50-m by 5-m mid-water transects and five 50-m by 2-m benthic transects. The data presented here are the sum of the adult sheephead counted on all transects at a site for each sampling period. The data are from samples made in fall and spring from 1981-2018.

Tags: biota, california, kelp-forest, marine-fishery-resources, san-nicolas-island, southern-california-coastal, usgs-61c25b8ed34e2ca389d9e85d
Organization: Department of the Interior
Suspended sediment and bedload data, simple linear regression models, loads, elevation data, and FaSTMECH models for Rice Creek, Minnesota, 2010-2019

A series of simple linear regression models were developed for the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) streamgage at Rice Creek below Highway 8 in Mounds View, Minnesota (USGS station number 05288580). The simple linear regression models were calibrated using streamflow data to estimate suspended-sediment (total, fines, and sands) and bedload. Data were collected during water years 2010, 2011, 2014, 2018, and 2019. The estimates from the simple linear regressions were used to calculate loads for water years 2010 through 2019. The calibrated simple linear regression models were used to improve understanding of sediment transport processes and increase accuracy of estimating sediment and loads for Rice Creek. Two multidimensional flow and models were developed with the International River Interface Cooperative (iRIC) software and Flow and Sediment Transport with Morphological Evolution of Channels (FaSTMECH) solver. These models were developed with elevation data from terrestrial laser scanning, airborne light detection and ranging, acoustic Doppler current profiler, total station, and real-time kinematic global navigation satellite system. The models were calibrated, validated, and run for multiple streamflow scenarios to compare an original section to a restored section of Rice Creek. All contents of this data release are part of the associated report, U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2022–5004 (https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20225004).

Tags: bedload, geomorphology, lidar, minnesota, rice-creek, sediment-transport, suspended-material-water, usgs-5f46690782ce4c3d12254f6c
Organization: Department of the Interior
Magnetotelluric data from Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Illinois, and Kentucky, 2016-2019, station rfr301

This dataset consists of 127 wideband and 21 long-period magnetotelluric (MT) stations collected from 2016-2019 across parts of Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Illinois, and Kentucky. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) acquired these data as part of regional investigations into the geologic and tectonic framework of the area and to support mineral resource and geologic hazard investigations. These data have been used to generate a 3D regional conductivity model of the area. Files included in this publication include measured electric- and magnetic-field time series as well as estimated impedance and vertical-magnetic field transfer functions. The data included here are for MT station rfr301 in the Reelfoot Rift survey region. A shapefile with station information for all stations in this dataset is available at https://doi.org/10.5066/P9F7HFH7.

Tags: apparent-resistivity, arkansas, conductivity, electromagnetic-surveying, exploration, geologic-structure, geology-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, gggsc, illinois, impedance, kentucky, magnetic-field-earth, magnetotelluric-surveying, magnetotellurics, mineral-resources, mineral-resources-program, mississippi-embayment, missouri, mrp, mt, ozark-plateau, phanerozoic, phase, precambrian, quaternary, reelfoot-rift, saint-francois-mountains, tectonics, tennessee, time-series, tipper, usgs-5f8b47d282ce324187905e1a
Organization: Department of the Interior
Flood Inundation Depth for a Flow of 2,578 cfs (stage 15) at Gage 14211500, Johnson Creek near Sycamore, Oregon (sycor_15.tif)

The basis for these features is U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigation Report 2017-5024 Flood Inundation Mapping Data for Johnson Creek near Sycamore, Oregon. The domain of the HEC-RAS hydraulic model is a 12.9 mile reach of Johnson Creek from just upstream of SE 174th Avenue in Portland, Oregon to its confluence with the Willamette River. Some of the hydraulics used in the model were taken from Federal Emergency Management Agency, 2010, Flood Insurance Study, City of Portland, Oregon, Multnomah, Clackamas and Washington Counties, Volume 1 of 3, November 26, 2010. The Digital Elevation Model (DEM) utilized for the project was developed from LiDAR data flown in 2015 and provided by the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries. Bridge decks are generally removed from DEMs as standard practice. Therefore, these features may be shown as inundated when they are not. Judgement should be used when estimating the usefulness of a bridge during flood flow. Comparing the bridge to the surrounding ground can be more informative in this respect than simply looking at the bridge itself. Two model plans were used in the creation of the flood layers. The first is a stable model plan using unsteady flow in which the maximum streamflow is held in place for a long period of time (a number of days) in order to replicate a steady model using an unsteady plan. The stable model plan produced the areas of uncertainty contained in the sycor_breach.shp shapefile. The second is an unstable model plan that uses unsteady flow in which the full hydrograph (rising and falling limb) is represented based on the hydrograph shape of the December 2015 peak annual flood.  The unstable model plan produced the flood extent polygons contained in the sycor.shp shapefile and the depth rasters and represents the best estimate of flood inundation for the given streamflow at U.S. Geological Survey streamgage 14211500.

Tags: digital-elevation-models, floods, hydrology, inlandwaters, johnson-creek, portland-oregon, stream-discharge, streamflow, usgs-58f78aa8e4b0b7ea5451f0e2, willamette-valley
Organization: Department of the Interior
Eskerform features within the Fairport-Lyons Channel System and Adjacent Areas in Wayne, Ontario, and Seneca Counties, New York

This dataset contains the eskerform features within the study area.  The delineations indicate the axis of the eskerform feature, which indicates a stagnant glacial ice environment.  This digital dataset is the result of a study to investigate the hydrogeology of the Fairport-Lyons channel and inter-drumlin aquifer system and to map the extent of the glacial aquifers in southern Wayne County, New York; it supports USGS SIR 2021-5086, "Hydrogeology of aquifers within the Fairport-Lyons channel system and adjacent areas in Wayne, Ontario, and Seneca Counties, New York."

Tags: fairport, hydrogeology, lyons, new-york, ontario-county, seneca-county, united-states, usgs-5e4ef750e4b0ff554f70cc43, wayne-county
Organization: Department of the Interior
Catalogue of the literature assessing climate effects on ungulates in North America (1947-2020)

This dataset contains information from 674 publications (academic and grey literature) that assessed the effects of climate variability and climate change on the 15 ungulate species that are native to the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Greenland. The publication contains literature published between 1947 and September 2020. Information documented includes study location, climate variables assessed, and ungulate outcomes measured (e.g., life history characteristics, population demographics, migratory behavior).

Tags: biota, canada, climate-change, effects-of-climate-change, greenland, mexico, north-america, united-states, usgs-65df914bd34eb64889e1a94f
Organization: Department of the Interior
ASCII formatted file of the 4-m bathymetry from the southern half of USGS Survey 98015 of the Sea Floor off Eastern Cape Cod (CAPESOUTH_GEO4M_XYZ.TXT, Geographic, NAD83)

This data set includes bathymetry of the sea floor offshore of eastern Cape Cod, Massachusetts.  The data were collected with a multibeam sea floor mapping system during USGS survey 98015, conducted November 9 - 25, 1998.  The surveys were conducted using a Simrad EM 1000 multibeam echosounder mounted aboard the Canadian Coast Guard vessel Frederick G. Creed.  This multibeam system utilizes 60 electronically aimed receive beams spaced at intervals of 2.5 degrees that insonify a strip of sea floor up to 7.5 times the water depth (swath width of 100 to 200 m within the survey area).  The horizontal resolution of the beam on the sea floor is approximately 10% of the water depth.  Vertical resolution is approximately 1 percent of the water depth.

Tags: ascii-formatted-file, atlantic-ocean, bathymetry, cape-cod, cape-cod-national-seashore-park, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, elevation, field-activity-number-98015, geospatial-datasets, marine-geophysics, massachusetts, multibeam-bathymetry, multibeam-sonar, north-america, oceans, sea-floor-characteristics, seafloor-elevation, simrad-em1000, u-s-east-coast, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-aec72e56-3ef9-4312-aa94-eabb4dfaabac, whsc, woods-hole-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Neversink River freshwater mussel surveys:  2006-2009

Data are included for two types of field surveys conducted for freshwater mussels within the Neversink River in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.  Timed search (qualitative) surveys were conducted in consecutive ~200 meter sections of river in 2006 and 2007; a subset of these sections were re-surveyed qualitatively in 2009. The number of mussels of each species and associated search time were recorded for each survey section to determine a catch per unit effort (CPUE; number of individuals found per person hour). Within the 2009 qualitatively surveyed areas, ten ~200 meter sections of stream were selected in which to conduct quantitative surveys to estimate mussel abundance.  Quantitative survey methods follow those explained in Galbraith et al. 2016.  Briefly, an imaginary grid was superimposed over each section of river, consisting of a varying number of columns and rows (depending on river width and section length).  The intersection of each column a row defined a cell within the survey area.  Within each cell, 4 individual random starts (quadrats) were surveyed.

Tags: animal-and-plant-census, mollusks, orange-county, sullivan-county, ulster-county, usgs-5ef38da082ced62aaae3ef07
Organization: Department of the Interior
Survey lines along which seismic reflection data were collected in 2016 by the U.S. Geological Survey off Town Neck Beach in Sandwich, Massachusetts, during field activity 2016-017-FA (polyline shapefile)

Geophysical and geological survey data were collected off Town Neck Beach in Sandwich, Massachusetts, in May and July 2016. Approximately 130 linear kilometers of subbottom (seismic-reflection) and 234-kilohertz interferometric sonar (bathymetric and backscatter) data were collected along with sediment samples, sea floor photographs, and (or) video at 26 sites within the geophysical survey area. Sediment grab samples were collected at 19 of the 26 sampling sites and video and (or) photographic imagery of the sea floor were taken at all 26 sites. These survey data are used to characterize the sea floor by identifying sediment-texture, seabed morphology, and underlying geologic structure and stratigraphy.  Data collected during these 2016 surveys are included in this data release: https://doi.org/10.5066/P9HZHXXV.
      More information can be found on the websites for the Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center field activities at https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2016-017-FA and https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2016-037-FA.
    

Tags: atlantic-ocean, cape-cod, cape-cod-bay, chirp, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, field-activity-2016-017-fa, geoscientificinformation, gulf-of-maine, knudsen-3202, location, marine-geology, marine-geophysics, massachusetts, navigation-shotpoint, navigational-data, north-america, oceans, r-v-rafael, sandwich, sea-floor, seafloor, seismic-methods, seismic-navigation, seismic-reflection, seismic-reflection-methods, sub-bottom-profiling, subbottom, subsurface, surface, town-neck-beach, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-5c926dbfe4b0938824573d55, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
US Fish and Wildlife Service Fire Atlas- Burn Severity Mosaic for CONUS in 1993

The U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) requests burn severity assessments through an agreement with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to be completed by analysts with the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) Program. These data products are burned area boundary shapefiles derived from post-fire sensor data (including Landsat TM, Landsat ETM+, Landsat OLI). The pre-fire and post-fire subsets included were used to create Normalized Burn Ratio (NBR) and then a differenced Normalized Burn Ratio (dNBR) image. The objective of this assessment was to generate burned area boundaries for each fire. Data bundles also include post-fire subset, pre-fire subset, NBR, and dNBR images. This map layer is a thematic raster image of burn severity classes for all inventoried fires occurring in CONUS during calendar year 1993. Fires omitted from this mapped inventory are those where suitable satellite imagery was not available, or fires which were not discernable from available imagery.

Tags: burn-severity, burned-area, continental-u-s, conus, differenced-normalized-burn-ratio, fire-location, fire-occurrence, fws, imagerybasemapsearthcover, landsat, location, normalized-burn-ratio, prescribed-fire, sentinel, united-states, us, usgs-65b178c8d34e36a39044c452, wildfire, wildland-fire
Organization: Department of the Interior
Circa 1995 Land Area in Coastal Louisiana - Spatial Data - Landsat TM

The dataset presented here represents a circa 1995 land/water delineation of coastal Louisiana used in part of a larger study to quantify landscape changes from 1932 to 2016.  The dataset contains two categories, land and water.  For the purposes of this effort, land includes  areas characterized by emergent vegetation, upland, wetland forest, or scrub-shrub were classified as land, while open water, aquatic beds, and mudflats were classified as water.  For additional information regarding this dataset, refer to USGS SIM 3381.

Tags: central-louisiana-coastal, east-central-louisiana-coastal, eastern-louisiana-coastal, louisiana, louisiana-coastal, usgs-5be0a00ae4b0b3fc5cf33e87, west-central-louisiana-coastal, wetland-change, wetland-gain, wetland-loss, wetlands
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geophysical Characteristics of the Conterminous United States: Lithology - Nutrient Source Data

This workbook summarizes nutrient geochemical data for each lithology contained within the USGS Preliminary Integrated Geologic Map Databases for the United States (Open File Reports 2004-1355, 2005-1305, 2005-1323, 2005-1324, 2005-1325, 2005-1351, and 2006-1272). The geochemical attributes in the “Lith Summary” spreadsheet (tab) are measures of central tendency for all whole rock analyses publically available at the time of creation for 284 lithologies, reported as percent sulfur and nitrogen. Further details on how data were summarized and sources for geochemical data are contained in the “ReadMe” spreadsheet (tab).

Tags: bedrock, geochemical, geology, usgs-56e47c89e4b0f59b85d4a69a
Organization: Department of the Interior
Metal Concentrations of Sediment from 1993-2017 in San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary (San Pablo Bay and Suisun Bay), CA

Surface sediment samples from the North San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary were collected monthly at five stations located west of Rio Vista and east of Point Pinole. Sediment was collected near Montezuma Slough, Chips Island, the Concord Naval Weapons Station, Carquinez Strait near Martinez, and San Pablo Bay at water depths ranging from 6.5 to 14.3 meters. Samples were collected coincident with water-quality measurements (Cloern and Schraga, 2016) and metal concentrations in filter-feeding bivalves (Brown and Luoma, 1995; Stewart et al., 2013). Depending on the station, the period of record ranges from 13 to 24 years, from December 1993 to September 2017. Samples were sieved to &lt;64 µm to eliminate grain-size bias and digested in hot, concentrated nitric acid for a near-total digest (Luoma and Bryan, 1981). Grain-size was also determined and is both seasonally and spatially variable. Sediments were analyzed for Aluminum, Arsenic, Chromium, Copper, Iron, Lead, Manganese, Nickel, Vanadium, and Zinc on an Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometer (ICP-OES). Metal recoveries for this project were evaluated yearly using the standard reference material NIST 2709a-San Joaquin soils. This spatial and temporal documentation of metal concentrations in North San Francisco Bay sediments, and ancillary data, such as grain size, provides important baseline data that can be used to monitor future changes of metal contamination to San Francisco Bay.

Tags: carquinez-strait, metals, san-pablo-bay, sediment-pollution, sediments, suisun-bay, usgs-5c50f295e4b0708288f9539b
Organization: Department of the Interior