AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Water-Level Measurement Data, Water-Level Altitude and Long-term Water-Level Altitude Change Contours (2017) in the Chicot, Evangeline, and Jasper Aquifers, Houston-Galveston Region, Texas

The U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the Harris-Galveston Subsidence District, City of Houston, Fort Bend Subsidence District, and Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District created this dataset that provides water‐level measurements, altitudes, and changes in water-level altitudes in the Chicot, Evangeline, and Jasper aquifers in the Houston‐Galveston region, Texas. The dataset shows current-year (2016-17) water-level altitudes, depth to water, and 1-year (2016-17) water-level changes of select wells screened in the Chicot, Jasper, or Evangeline aquifers. The water‐level measurements in the dataset are built upon and stored in the National Water Information System: Web Interface, groundwater information, field measurements site located here: http://dx.doi.org/10.5066/F7P55KJN. This site is a publicly available, searchable, online database of water information.

Tags: aquifer, brazoria-county, chambers-county, chicot-aquifer, elevation, evangeline-aquifer, fort-bend-county, galveston-county, grimes-county, groundwater, harris-county, hydrology, hypsometry, jasper-aquifer, liberty-county, montgomery-county, san-jacinto-county, subsidence, texas, usgs-5970c6dce4b0d1f9f065c321, walker-county, waller-county, water-level-altitude
Organization: Department of the Interior
Sedimentary geochemistry of a deepwater slope environment of southern Lake Tanganyika

This dataset contains geochemical data (Total Inorganic Carbon, Total Organic Carbon, Total Nitrogen, δ13C of Organic Carbon, Hydrogen Index, Oxygen Index, Zirconium/Aluminum, and Magnetic Susceptibility) for sediments from one short (~1 m) core collected in 420 m of water in southern Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania.

Tags: africa, carbonaceous, east-african-rift, energy-resources, geochemistry, geoscientificinformation, laboratory-methods, lake-tanganyika, oil-shale, petroleum-geochemistry-research-laboratory, sedimentation, tanzania, usgs, usgs-62d03c65d34e82ff904ad1e8
Organization: Department of the Interior
Aerial photo mosaic of the Nehalem River, Oregon in 1967

The Tillamook Bay subbasins and Nehalem River basins encompass 1,369 and 2,207 respective square 
kilometers of northwestern Oregon and drain to the Pacific Ocean. The Tillamook, Trask, Wilson, Kilchis, 
and Miami Rivers flow into Tillamook Bay near the towns of Tillamook and Garibaldi. The Wilson and Trask 
River basins cover the largest areas (500 and 451 square kilometers, respectively) whereas the Tillamook 
and Kilchis Rivers encompass similar sized areas (156 and 169 square kilometers, respectively) and the 
Miami River the smallest area (94 square kilometers). In cooperation with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 
the U.S. Geological Survey completed a reconnaissance-level assessment of channel condition and 
bed-material transport relevant to the permitting of in-stream gravel extraction along the the major alluvial 
portions of six river systems, including the lowermost 14.1 km of the Tillamook River, 16.3 km of the Trask 
River, 15.2 km of the Wilson River, 7.8 km of the Kilchis River, 11.6 km of the Miami River, and 31.4 km 
of the Nehalem River. To support these analyses, digital channel maps were produced to depict channel 
and floodplain conditions in the Tillamook Bay sub-basins and Nehalem River basin from different time 
periods. GIS layers defining the wetted channel and bar features and channel centerline in the study area 
were developed for four time periods: 1939, 1967, 2005, and 2009. For this project, the active channel was 
defined as area typically inundated during annual high flows, and includes the low-flow channel as well as 
side channels, islands, and channel-flanking gravel bars. The wetted channel and bar feature datasets were 
developed by digitizing from aerial photographs. Aerial photographs from 1939 and 1967 were scanned, 
rectified, and mosaicked for this project (See metadata for each photograph set for more information on 
the rectification process and resolution of each dataset). Digital orthophotographs from 2005 and 2009 
are publicly available.

Tags: aerial-photograph, channel-stability, environment, fluvial-geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, historical-channel-change, inlandwaters, kilchis-river, miami-river, nehalem-bay, nehalem-river, oregon-coast-range, sediment-transport, tillamook-bay, tillamook-county, tillamook-river, trask-river, usgs-0d5eb4a7-2807-4a5d-b15e-dd1103dee902, wilson-river
Organization: Department of the Interior
Seepage-run discharge measurements, May 23, 2024, Waikoloa Stream, Hawai'i

This data release contains a comma-delimited ascii file of seven same-day, discrete discharge measurements made at sites along selected reaches of Waikoloa Stream, Hawai'i on May 23, 2024. These discrete discharge measurements form what is commonly referred to as a “seepage run.” The intent of the seepage run is to quantify the spatial distribution of streamflow along the reach during fair-weather, low-flow conditions, generally characterized by negligible direct runoff within the reach. The measurements can be used to characterize the net seepage of water into (water gain) or out of (water loss) the stream channel between measurement sites provided that the measurements were made during stable, nonchanging flow conditions (or, in some cases, were made simultaneously during transient flow conditions) and external surface inflows (for example, a tributary) or outflows (for example, a diversion) of water to the reach are quantified and accounted for in the computation of net seepage.

Tags: hawaii, hydrologic-datasets, hydrology, inlandwaters, kamuela, river-reaches, state-of-hawaii, stream-gage-measurement, streamflow, surface-water-non-marine, usgs-66465a6cd34e1955f5a435d1, waikoloa-stream, waimea, water-resources
Organization: Department of the Interior
Physiographic Zones of the Sea Floor from Nahant to Northern Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts (NAH_CCB_Pzones polygon shapefile, Geographic WGS 84)

These data are qualitatively derived interpretive polygon shapefiles and selected source raster data defining surficial geology, sediment type and distribution, and physiographic zones of the sea floor from Nahant to Northern Cape Cod Bay. Much of the geophysical data used to create the interpretive layers were collected under a cooperative agreement among the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management (CZM), the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Coastal and Marine Geology Program, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). 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 because of natural or human effects. The project is focused on the inshore waters of coastal Massachusetts. Data collected during the mapping cooperative involving the USGS have been released in a series of USGS Open-File Reports (http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/project-pages/coastal_mass/). The interpretations released in this study are for an area extending from the southern tip of Nahant to Northern Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts. A combination of geophysical and sample data including high resolution bathymetry and lidar, acoustic-backscatter intensity, seismic-reflection profiles, bottom photographs, and sediment samples are used to create the data interpretations. Most of the nearshore geophysical and sample data (including the bottom photographs) were collected during several cruises between 2000 and 2008. More information about the cruises and the data collected can be found at the Geologic Mapping of the Seafloor Offshore of Massachusetts Web page: http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/project-pages/coastal_mass/.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, backscatter, bathymetry, boston, boston-harbor, boston-harbor-islands, brant-rock, cape-cod-bay, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, cohasset, czm, dredged-channel, duxbury, ebb-tidal-delta, esri-shapefile, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, hard-bottom-plain, hull, humarock, interpretation, kingston, manomet, marine-geology, marshfield, massachusetts-bay, massachusetts-office-of-coastal-zone-management, nahant, nearshore-basin, nearshore-ramp, north-river, oceans, outer-basin, physiographic-zones, plymouth, provincetown, quincy, revere-beach, rocky-zone, sand-waves, scientific-interpretation, scituate, sea-floor, sea-floor-characteristics, seafloor, sediment-samples, seismic-reflection-profiles, shelf-valleys, slope, topography, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-73c9ab91-bd02-4430-8c4b-94d27c5e1e41, weymouth, whcmsc, winthrop, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Processing unit used in developing the raster layers for the Hydrologic Derivatives for Modeling and Analysis (HDMA) database -- Australasia

This dataset contains the processing units for Australasia from the Hydrological Derivatives for Modeling and Analysis (HDMA) database. The HDMA database provides comprehensive and consistent global coverage of raster and vector topographically derived layers, including raster layers of digital elevation model (DEM) data, flow direction, flow accumulation, slope, and compound topographic index (CTI); and vector layers of streams and catchment boundaries. The coverage of the data is global (-180º, 180º, -90º, 90º) with the underlying DEM being a hybrid of three datasets: HydroSHEDS (Hydrological data and maps based on SHuttle Elevation Derivatives at multiple Scales), Global Multi-resolution Terrain Elevation Data 2010 (GMTED2010) and the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). For most of the globe south of 60º North, the raster resolution of the data is 3-arc-seconds, corresponding to the resolution of the SRTM. For the areas North of 60º, the resolution is 7.5-arc-seconds (the smallest resolution of the GMTED2010 dataset) except for Greenland, where the resolution is 30-arc-seconds. The streams and catchments are attributed with Pfafstetter codes, based on a hierarchical numbering system, that carry important topological information.

Tags: australia-and-new-zealand, dem-stream-hydrologic-derivatives-pfafstetter, digital-elevation-models, elevation, hawaii, inlandwaters, pfafstetter, streams, usgs-591f1ea9e4b0ac16dbdde057
Organization: Department of the Interior
Estimated crop irrigation water use withdrawals in Hualapai Valley Irrigation Non-Expansion Area Groundwater Basin, Arizona for 2023

Observations of irrigated agricultural land within the Hualapai Valley Irrigation Non-Expansion Area Groundwater Basin in Arizona. Crops were verified in situ twice in 2023, first on May 10th and again on Sep 14th; based on digitized field boundaries. Field boundaries were digitized from U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Imagery Program County Mosaic 2023 imagery for Arizona and supplemented with the Sentinel2 imagery collection accessed via the European Space Agency, Copernicus Browser (https://browser.dataspace.copernicus.eu/). Satellite images were also used to identify the length of the growing season and crop condition. Water withdrawals were calculated using the modified Blaney-Criddle model of calculating consumptive use (U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1992 appendix A) using crop coefficients from Doorenbos and Pruitt (1975), the number of acres with active crops, crop condition, and irrigation system efficiency. The withdrawal equation was modified from "Water withdrawals for irrigation, municipal, mining, thermoelectric-power, and drainage uses in Arizona outside of active management areas, 1991-2000" (Tadayon, 2005) to account for variations in water application.

Tags: agricultural-sites, arizona, groundwater, hualapai-valley-irrigation-non-expansion-area-groundwater-basin, irrigation, mohave, usgs-6674c309d34e3a6e5be0dfc1, water-use
Organization: Department of the Interior
Midway Confining Unit: Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, Mississippi  2006-2008

Digital hydrogeologic surface of the Midway Confining Unit in Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, 
Kentucky, Missouri, Mississippi. The hydrogeologic unit dataset contains 414 rows and 
394 columns representing 1-mile grid spacing. In general, limitations of data interpolation 
included areas of sparse geophysical log control points, log datums not clearly defined 
for some logs, unknown exact extent of each hydrogeologic unit in subcrop, interpolation 
limitations, and values averaged over 1-mile grid spacing.

Tags: east-gulf-coastal-plain, gis, groundwater, inlandwaters, meras, mississippi-alluvial-plain, mississippi-embayment, mississippi-embayment-regional-aquifer-study, usgs-0a229b94-6d51-4c3d-9eeb-67e8fa183b80, water-availability, water-use, west-gulf-coastal-plain
Organization: Department of the Interior
Crater geometry data for Pu`u`o`o, on Kilauea Volcano's East Rift Zone, in May 2018

The 2018 lower East Rift Zone eruption and accompanying summit collapse of Kilauea Volcano, Hawai`i, comprised one of the most impactful events on the volcano in the past 200 years, with hundreds of homes destroyed and major changes in the topography of the summit caldera.  The opening stages of this eruptive sequence started on 30 April, when a magmatic dike began moving east from Pu`u`o`o, a cone with a central crater that was the vent region for Kilauea’s 35-year middle East Rift Zone eruption starting in 1983.  The rapid migration of magma from beneath Pu`u`o`o caused its crater floor to drop over 300 m.  This data release includes a three-dimensional model of Pu`u`o`o and the collapse crater, constructed from aerial thermal images collected on 11 May 2018.  Structure-from-motion processing was used to create the model from the sequence of oblique images, and ground control using kinematic GPS was used to georegister the model.   These data provide a detailed record of the surface changes associated with the rapid magma migration that occurred on 30 April 2018.  These data were used in the gravity study by Poland and others (2020, 2021).

Tags: east-rift-zone, klauea, puu, usgs-5f7d124b82ce1d74e7dbe4ad, volcano-monitoring
Organization: Department of the Interior
High Resolution Canopy Structure and Density Metrics for Southwest Colorado Derived from 2019 Aerial Lidar (1-Meter Resolution Data)

Canopy Density and Canopy Structure Metrics were derived for the San Juan Mountains of Southwest Colorado from Aerial point cloud data at a 1-meter resolution. The aerial Lidar data originated from the ‘CO_Southwest_NRCS_2018’ project prepared by Quantum Spatial for the USGS from a series of flyovers between 2018 and 2019 and were made available in 2021. Canopy Density metrics include Canopy Closure (CC) and Leaf Area Index (LAI).  Canopy Structure metrics include total gap area, mean distance to canopy, canopy edginess to the south and canopy edginess to the north.

Tags: canopy-density, canopy-structure, forest, high-resolution, imagerybasemapsearthcover, usgs-645a6b17d34ec179a8375a5e
Organization: Department of the Interior
Umpqua River Oregon Tidal PhotoMosaic 1967

The Umpqua River drains 12,103 square kilometers (4,673 square miles) in southwest Oregon before flowing into 
the Pacific Ocean at Winchester Bay near the city of Reedsport. In cooperation with the Portland District of the 
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), the USGS evaluated sediment transport and gravel storage along the 
downstream alluvial reaches of the North and South Umpqua Rivers and the entire mainstem Umpqua River. 
This includes the lower 46.8 kilometers (29.1 miles) of the North Umpqua River and the lower 122.6 kilometers 
(76.2 miles) of the South Umpqua River. 
		 
The Umpqua River gravel transport study involved multiple analyses, including tracking patterns of historical 
channel change and estimation of a sediment budget. To support these analyses, digital channel maps were 
produced to depict channel and floodplain conditions along the Umpqua River system from different time periods.
		
GIS layers defining the active channel of the Umpqua River system were developed for three time periods: 1939, 
1967, and 2005. For the South Umpqua River and the 19 kilometers (12 miles) of the mainstem Umpqua River 
downstream from the confluence of the North and South Umpqua Rivers, GIS layers were also developed for the 
time periods 1994, 2000, and 2009.
		
For this project, the active channel was defined as area typically inundated during annual high flows, and includes 
the low-flow channel as well as side channels, islands, and channel-flanking gravel bars. The active channel datasets 
were developed by digitizing from aerial photographs. Aerial photographs from 1939 and 1967 were scanned, rectified, 
and mosaiced for this project. Digital orthophotographs from 1994, 2000, 2005, and 2009 are publicly available 
(See metadata for each photograph set for more information on the rectification process and resolution of each dataset). 
Although our study area encompasses the Umpqua River and lower reaches of the North and South Umpqua Rivers, 
the extent of each dataset depended upon the underlying aerial photographs; for example, the 1967 photographs 
extend only as far downstream as floodplain kilometer 7, whereas the 1939 and 2005 datasets extend to the mouth 
of the Umpqua River at the Pacific Ocean.

Tags: active-channel, douglas-county, environment, fluvial-geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, inlandwaters, oregon, sediment-transport, umpqua-river, usgs-28bedc08-d21c-45a3-aaf9-48d0a66e1099
Organization: Department of the Interior
Archive of Digital Boomer Seismic Reflection Data Collected During USGS Field Activity 96LCA04 in Lakes Mabel and Starr, Central Florida, August 1996

In August of 1996, the U.S. Geological Survey conducted geophysical surveys in Lakes Mabel and Starr, Florida. This report serves as an archive of unprocessed digital boomer seismic reflection data, trackline maps, navigation files, GIS information, cruise log, and formal FGDC metadata. For detailed information about the hydrologic setting of Lake Starr and the interpretation of some of these seismic reflection data, see Swancar and others (2000) at http://fl.water.usgs.gov/publications/Abstracts/wri00_4030_swancar.html. Filtered and gained digital images of the seismic profiles are also provided. The archived trace data are in standard Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) SEG-Y format (Barry and others, 1975) and may be downloaded and processed with commercial or public domain software such as Seismic Unix (SU). Example SU processing scripts and USGS software for viewing the SEG-Y files (Zihlman, 1992) are also provided.
For more information on the seismic surveys see http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/b/b496fl/html/b-4-96-fl.meta.html
These data are also available via GeoMapApp (http://www.geomapapp.org/) and Virtual Ocean ( http://www.virtualocean.org/) earth science exploration and visualization applications.

Tags: 96lca04, boomer, central-highlands-lakes, distributions, florida, geoscientificinformation, lake-mabel, lake-starr, lakes-and-coastal-aquifers, marine-geophysics, marine-seismic-reflection, oceans, seg-y, seismic-reflection, seismic-reflection-methods, sub-bottom-profiling, substrate, usgs-0c0d6f63-1718-46e0-9e74-fa78321c58d2
Organization: Department of the Interior
Gunnison sage-grouse habitat suitability surface for Dove Creek satellite population (breeding, landscape): Colorado Parks and Wildlife critical habitat extent (southwestern Colorado)

The Gunnison sage-grouse (Centrocercus minimus) habitat suitability surface for Dove Creek satellite population represented here reflects breeding season at a landscape scale context (window extents [radius] of 1 km, 3 km, and 6.4 km). Habitat suitability estimated for Colorado Parks and Wildlife critical habitat extent (southwestern Colorado).
We developed habitat selection models for Gunnison sage-grouse (Centrocercus minimus), a threatened species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. We followed a management-centric modeling approach that sought to balance the need to evaluate the consistency of key habitat conditions and improvement actions across multiple, distinct populations, while allowing context-specific environmental variables and spatial scales to nuance selection responses. Models were developed for six isolated satellite populations (San Miguel, Crawford, Piñon Mesa, Dove Creek, Cerro Summit-Cimarron-Sims, and Poncha Pass) from use locations collected between 1991 and 2016 (see larger citation for map of population boundaries). For each population, models were developed at two life stages (breeding and summer) and at two hierarchical scales (landscape and patch). We used multi-scale and seasonal resource selection analyses to quantify relationships between environmental conditions and sites used by animals. These resource selection function models relied on spatial data describing habitat conditions at different spatial scales, where environmental conditions differ, and habitat selection occur at different spatial scales for different available resources.

Tags: biota, breeding-season, co, colorado, conservation, dove-creek-satellite-population, environment, gunnison-sage-grouse, habitat-selection, landscape-scale, logistic-regression, resource-selection-function, southwestern-colorado, united-states, usgs-61ae3c68d34eb622f69a7108
Organization: Department of the Interior
HEC-HMS and HEC-RAS models used to analyze dam failure for the Lago El Guineo Dam, Orocovis, Puerto Rico

The Hydrologic Engineering Center’s Hydrologic Modeling System (HEC-HMS) and Hydrologic Engineering 
Center’s River Analysis System (HEC-RAS) computer programs, developed by the U.S. Army Corps of 
Engineers, were used for the hydrologic and hydraulic modeling, respectively, to analyze the potential for 
dam failure under different hydrologic conditions. The hydrologic assessment was designed to determine 
the outflow hydrographs and peak discharges for Lago El Guineo and other subbasins in the Río Grande 
de Manatí hydrographic basin for three extreme rainfall events: (1) a 6-hour probable maximum precipitation 
event, (2) a 24-hour probable maximum precipitation event, and (3) a 24-hour, 100-year recurrence rainfall 
event. The hydraulic study simulated a dam failure of Lago El Guineo Dam using flood hydrographs generated 
from the hydrologic study. The simulated dam failure generated a hydrograph that was routed downstream 
from Lago El Guineo Dam through the lower reaches of the Río Toro Negro and the Río Grande de Manatí to 
determine water-surface profiles developed from the event-based hydrologic scenarios and “sunny day” 
conditions. This USGS data release contains all of the input and output files for the simulations described 
in the associated model documentation report (http://doi.org/10.3133/sir20165070). This data release 
also includes (1) geospatial data of the watersheds (2) precipitation depths for use in the model, and 
(3) HEC-HMS and HEC-RAS source codes.

Tags: barceloneta, ciales, dam-failure, environment, geoscientificinformation, hec-hms, hec-ras, inlandwaters, lago-el-guineo-dam, lago-el-marullas-dam, manati, orocovis, puerto-rico, rio-grande-de-manati, rio-toro-negro, surface-water-model, surfacewater, usgs-ca945aa8-8210-4f75-b138-7be7b4c297ef, usgssurfacewatermodel
Organization: Department of the Interior