AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Metal concentrations in streambed sediment in the lower Klamath River basin, 2018-2024 (ver. 2.0, April 2025)

The U.S. Geological Survey is monitoring metal concentrations in streambed sediment pre- and post-dam removal in the lower Klamath River basin. Concentrations of aluminum, arsenic, cadmium, cobalt, chromium, copper, iron, potassium, magnesium, manganese, nickel, lead, titanium, vanadium and zinc were sampled at 10 mainstem sites, four tributaries and two reservoirs. Mainstem and tributary collections occurred once annually in 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022 and 2024. Reservoir sediment samples (Copco and Iron Gate) were collected in 2020.

Tags: biota, cadmium, chemical-analysis, chromium, copco, copper, dam-removal, iron-gate-reservoir, lower-klamath, river-systems, unconsolidated-deposits, usgs-6585c75fd34eff134d4354d3
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hydrogeological and climatic data related to recent (1970-2022) development of the Troublesome Aquifer in the Greater Pole Creek Basin, Grand County, Colorado

The upper portion of the Troublesome Aquifer is the sole source of water for domestic use in the Greater Pole Creek Basin, situated in the western portion of the upper Fraser River Valley in Grand County, Colorado.  Data from drilling records for wells installed near and within recent home developments, municipal water-suppliers, water-quality records, and published reports are summarized as an initial synthesis of aquifer water quantity and quality.  In spite of persistent drought and increased domestic aquifer-water usage, aquifer water storage remains robust with water levels little changed during the past 25 years.  Water-quality data indicate substantial variability with depth beneath the top of the aquifer.  Data from wells completed in the overlying shallow alluvial aquifer are also presented for comparison.  This document constitutes a new baseline for assessment of current and future groundwater resources within this portion of the upper Fraser River valley.  Suggested future investigations include water-table monitoring and comprehensive water-quality surveys for water derived from wells completed in the Troublesome Aquifer.

Tags: groundwater-flow, permeability, usgs-6585c11fd34eff134d43546a
Organization: Department of the Interior
Microsatellite genotypes for flathead catfish used for analysis of genetic structuring in Pennsylvania rivers

This dataset provides the microsatellite genotypes for 466 flathead catfish collected in Pennslyvania rivers for an analysis of population genetic structuring of introduced popualtions. Also included is the spatial location of sample sites.

Tags: atlantic-sturgeon, biota, individual-based-assignment, microsatellites, usgs-6585b46cd34eff134d4352be
Organization: Department of the Interior
Yucaipa Integrated Hydrologic Model: simulating future climate scenarios in the Yucaipa Valley Watershed, San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, California

Managing water resources in semiarid watersheds is challenging because of limited water supply and uncertain impacts of future climate conditions on groundwater resources. This paper examines the impact of future climate changes on the urban Yucaipa Valley watershed in southern California using an integrated hydrological model referred to herein as the Yucaipa model. Coupled Groundwater and Surface-water FLOW (GSFLOW) modeling software was used to simulate the nonlinear relationships between climate trends and precipitation partitioning into evapotranspiration (ET), runoff, and subsurface storage. Four global climate models (also known as general circulation models or GCMs), each with two greenhouse-gas (GHG) scenarios: Representative Concentration Pathway 4.5 (RCP45) (low emissions) and RCP85 (high emissions) are used to project varying future climate conditions. GCMs include the Canadian Earth System Model (CanESM2), Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques Climate Model version 5 (CNRM-CM5), Hadley Centre Global Environment Model version 2 – Earth System (HadGEM2-ES), and Model for Interdisciplinary Research on Climate version 5 (MIROC5) models. RCP85 scenarios tend to be wetter and warmer than RCP45, and in some cases the increased precipitation offsets increased loss to ET. The Yucaipa model's simulated hydrological conditions using climate projections predict decreased groundwater in storage in most scenarios due to increased natural ET, vegetation consumptive use, and streamflow out of the watershed. Only scenarios with substantial increases in annual precipitation were able to maintain groundwater in storage approximately the same as at the end of the historical period. The study also highlights increased future aridity despite increased precipitation, and larger precipitation events, which increase the risk of urban floods and decrease stream leakage.

Tags: california, climate-change, groundwater, hydrogeology, mathematical-simulation, modeling, riverside-county, san-bernardino-county, san-bernardino-valley, usgs-6585a3add34eff134d435039, yucaipa-valley
Organization: Department of the Interior
Wyoming Wind River Reservation Elk Owl Creek Routes

The Owl Creek elk herd, with 7,500–8,500 wintering elk, inhabits the northwest corner of the Wind River Reservation, traversing habitats along the Absaroka Range and the Owl Creek Mountains (fig. 36). The herd contains resident and migratory elk; migrants travel an average 10.7 mi (17.2 km) one way. Elevations range from 6,000 ft (1,829 m) at Wind River near Crowheart to 12,200 ft (3,700 m) in the Absaroka Range, and summits in the Owl Creek Mountains reach 8,000–9,800 ft (2,438–2,987 m). Habitats range from sage and desert scrub in the lowlands surrounding the Wind River Range to upland meadows, aspen groves, Pinus contorta (lodgepole pine) forests, and alpine tundra. When on the Wind River Reservation, the elk are under the sovereignty of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe and Northern Arapaho Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming. During spring migration, some of the elk cross the East Fork Wind River to FS lands. Other migrations are entirely in the reservation, including the upper tributaries near Washakie Needles, or the Owl Creek Mountains. Residents in the herd also use the Owl Creek Mountains, particularly the portion east of Blondy Pass. Many areas contain significant evidence of past hunting and ceremonial activity, and according to Shoshone ethnography, elk were significant game acquisition in the prereservation era of the 1800s (Shimkin, 1947). This elk herd remains culturally and economically valuable to Tribal members who sustainably harvest elk under a game code established in 1984 (Nickerson, 2019; Public Law 86-634m 86th Congress, H.R. 4386). Habitats are virtually free of human disturbance and development aside from Tribal member livestock grazing and a few Tribal-owned and operated oilfields in the desert winter range. Threats to habitat include drought and climate change or biological invasions of nonnative cheat grass and feral horses contributing to poor range conditions. In 2022, Tribes started working in partnership with the Wind River Agency of Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Wyoming Game and Fish Department, Wyoming Legislature, Wyoming Livestock Board, and the Wild Sheep Foundation to reduce the feral horse population and design projects to restore habitats to greater productivity (Kikonow, 2023).
These mapping layers show the location of the Migration routes for Elk (Cervus canadensis) in the Owl Creek population in Wind River Reservation. They were developed from 77 migration sequences collected from a sample size of 16 animals comprising GPS locations collected every 1 hour.

Tags: animal-behavior, biota, crowheart, migration-organisms, migratory-species, united-states, usgs-6584b650d34eff134d42da47, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Wyoming Pronghorn Carter Mountain Routes

The Carter Mountain pronghorn herd contains approximately 7,000 animals—half which migrate 10–60 mi (16–97 km) west from common winter ranges in the Bighorn Basin to summer ranges near the Absaroka Range (fig. 29). During this migration, pronghorn must cross U.S. Highway 14 and Wyoming Highway 120. Most pronghorn summer in ranges west of Wyoming Highway 120 along the Greybull River, but some individuals summer in the South Fork Shoshone River drainage. A segment of the population gains nearly 6,000 ft (1,829 m) in elevation to summer on the high plateaus of the Absaroka Range and upper Greybull River and spend the summer months at 10,000–11,000 ft (3,048–3,353 m) above sea level in alpine meadows they share with Ursus arctos (grizzly bear) and Canis lupus (wolf) populations. Challenges to this herd’s migration include multiple highway and fence crossings. Habitat loss and fragmentation from residential development are also a concern.
These mapping layers show the location of the Migration routes for pronghorn (Antilocapra americana}) in the Carter Mountain population in Wyoming. They were developed from 180 migration sequences collected from a sample size of 58 animals comprising GPS locations collected every 2 hours.

Tags: animal-behavior, biota, cody, migration-organisms, migratory-species, united-states, usgs-6584b64bd34eff134d42da45, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Wyoming Moose Jackson Routes

The Jackson moose herd inhabits an area 2,023 mi2 (5,239 km2) north of Jackson, Wyoming. The Jackson moose herd was historically abundant with a peak of 3,000–5,000 animals in the early 1990s. However, the herd underwent a dramatic population crash following the large counts in the early 1990s and continues to decline with an average count of 280 animals between 2016–2020 (Wyoming Game and Fish Department, 2022). The migrations of the northern portion of the herd were published in Kauffman and others (2020a). The southern portion of the herd, presented here, resides near Wilson, Wyoming. The southern portion of the herd is partially migratory. Many of the migratory moose move from lower elevation winter ranges along the Snake River to high-elevation summer ranges in the surrounding national forests and Grand Teton National Park (fig. 38). Winter ranges are characterized by riparian, mountain shrub, and aspen communities, and summer ranges include montane meadows and forested habitats. The Snake River corridor serves as a movement pathway between the southern and northern areas and provides an important riparian food resource. Migration distances range from &lt;1 mi (&lt;1 km) up to roughly 13 mi (21 km). Despite hunting season closures and a reduction in licenses, this population has not responded to management changes and continues to be closely monitored by regional wildlife management agencies.
These mapping layers show the location of the Migration routes for Moose (Alces alces) in the Jackson population in Wyoming. They were developed from 43 migration sequences collected from a sample size of 14 animals comprising GPS locations collected approximately every 0.5 hour.

Tags: animal-behavior, biota, jackson, migration-organisms, migratory-species, united-states, usgs-6584b647d34eff134d42da43, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, 2015, 2018, and 2021 Site 0593 land-water matrix

Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring to determine the efficacy of these projects. The Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) was developed to assist in a multiple-reference approach that uses aspects of hydrogeomorphic functional assessments and probabilistic sampling for monitoring. The CRMS program includes a suite of approximately 390 sites that encompass the range of hydrological and ecological conditions for each stratum. As part of CRMS, land and water classifications are created from Digital Orthophoto Quarter Quadrangles (DOQQs) approximately every three years at all CRMS sites. This dataset consists of a matrix of six land-water products (2005, 2008, 2012, 2015, 2018, and 2021).  The resulting matrix has 64 possible classes defined by the combination of land and water categories on those six dates.

Tags: alteration-of-wetland-habitats, cartography, coastal, coastal-louisiana, crms, doqq, emergent-wetland, forested-wetland, geographic-information-system, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-water, louisiana, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, scrub-shrub-wetland, state-of-louisiana, usgs-6569ff5bd34e6dde1a4ae2c7, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Channel cross sections of Kalamazoo River Reference Reaches Between Trowbridge Dam and Allegan, Michigan, 2023

This dataset contains topographic cross sections spanning the river channel along an approximately 15 kilometer (km) reach of the Kalamazoo River between the Trowbridge Dam and  Allegan, Michigan (MI). The 147 cross sections are oriented perpendicular to the channel and spaced evenly every 100m along the reach to represent variability in channel geometry.  The cross section data were extracted from a digital elevation model (DEM) comprising topographic and bathymetric data for Area 5 of the Kalamazoo River (Quantum Spatial, 2017). The DEM was created from topobathymetric aerial lidar data collected in November, 2016, combined with multibeam bathymetric data collected in May, 2017 to fill gaps in the lidar. Bankfull hydraulic geometry attributes and complexity metrics were calculated for 105 cross sections upstream of the beginning of the impoundment caused by Allegan City dam. Historical cross section data from 2011 at one location in the study reach were compared to a DEM-derived cross section to evaluate channel stability at that location.
cross section data are provided in tabular and graphical form in Excel files (Reference Reach Spreadsheet; Mecklenburg, 2006). Data are split in three spreadsheet files by major river section boundaries defined by valley confinement (upper confined, unconfined, lower confined). The data are also provided as individual CSV files for each cross section (in a zipped archive), which contain X and Y coordinates in addition to elevations and cross sectional distance values. cross sections are named by their distance, in meters, downstream from the start of the reference reach. The spatial location of the cross sections is provided by an associated polyline shapefile included in this data release.

Tags: bathymetry, digital-elevation-models, elevation, geomorphology, geospatial-datasets, great-lakes, inlandwaters, kalamazoo-county-mi, kalamazoo-river-huc-04050003, lidar, sonar-methods, topography, usgs-65b6cffad34e36a39045b170
Organization: Department of the Interior
Washington Mule Deer Wenatchee Winter Range

The Wenatchee Mountains mule deer herd inhabits a matrix of private and public lands along the eastern slope of the Cascade Range in Chelan and Kittitas Counties in Washington (fig. 24). Historically, the Wenatchee Mountains mule deer herd was separated into two subherds, Chelan and Kittitas; however, recent GPS collar data indicated the mule deer south of U.S. Highway 2 and north of Interstate 90 represent one population. Their high-use winter range extends along the foothills west and south of Wenatchee, Washington and throughout the foothills of the Kittitas Valley near Ellensburg. Their low-use winter range occurs along the foothills west of the Columbia River north of Interstate 90. In the spring, migratory individuals travel west into the Wenatchee Mountains to their summer range, which includes regional wilderness areas.
Between 2020 and 2021, collaring efforts focused on the foothills near Wenatchee and in the surrounding foothills near Ellensburg. Collar data analysis indicated the Wenatchee Mountains mule deer population is partially migratory. A high proportion of migratory individuals inhabit the northern winter range of the Wenatchee Mountains, and resident individuals more commonly inhabit the foothills of the Kittitas Valley. In 2022, collaring efforts of mule deer (n=25) in the northern winter range foothills near Wenatchee targeted the higher proportion of the migratory population, to more clearly identify the movement corridors intersecting U.S. Highway 97 near Blewett Pass. The herd has several challenges, including the increasing frequency of large-scale wildfires and residential developments, which continue to degrade and reduce available winter habitat. Disturbance from human recreation on the winter range continues to be a concern. Additionally, U.S. Highway 97 and State Route 970 receive high volumes of traffic in the region and present semipermeable barriers to spring and fall migration.
These mapping layers show the location of the winter ranges for mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) in the Wenatchee population in Washington. They were developed from 151 migration sequences collected from a sample size of 97 animals comprising GPS locations collected every 4 hours.

Tags: animal-behavior, biota, migration-organisms, migratory-species, united-states, usgs-6584b643d34eff134d42da41, washington, wenatchee
Organization: Department of the Interior
Washington Mule Deer Wenatchee Stopovers

The Wenatchee Mountains mule deer herd inhabits a matrix of private and public lands along the eastern slope of the Cascade Range in Chelan and Kittitas Counties in Washington (fig. 24). Historically, the Wenatchee Mountains mule deer herd was separated into two subherds, Chelan and Kittitas; however, recent GPS collar data indicated the mule deer south of U.S. Highway 2 and north of Interstate 90 represent one population. Their high-use winter range extends along the foothills west and south of Wenatchee, Washington and throughout the foothills of the Kittitas Valley near Ellensburg. Their low-use winter range occurs along the foothills west of the Columbia River north of Interstate 90. In the spring, migratory individuals travel west into the Wenatchee Mountains to their summer range, which includes regional wilderness areas.
Between 2020 and 2021, collaring efforts focused on the foothills near Wenatchee and in the surrounding foothills near Ellensburg. Collar data analysis indicated the Wenatchee Mountains mule deer population is partially migratory. A high proportion of migratory individuals inhabit the northern winter range of the Wenatchee Mountains, and resident individuals more commonly inhabit the foothills of the Kittitas Valley. In 2022, collaring efforts of mule deer (n=25) in the northern winter range foothills near Wenatchee targeted the higher proportion of the migratory population, to more clearly identify the movement corridors intersecting U.S. Highway 97 near Blewett Pass. The herd has several challenges, including the increasing frequency of large-scale wildfires and residential developments, which continue to degrade and reduce available winter habitat. Disturbance from human recreation on the winter range continues to be a concern. Additionally, U.S. Highway 97 and State Route 970 receive high volumes of traffic in the region and present semipermeable barriers to spring and fall migration.
These mapping layers show the location of the stopovers for mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) in the Wenatchee population in Washington. They were developed from 184 migration sequences collected from a sample size of 59 animals comprising GPS locations collected every 4 hours.

Tags: animal-behavior, biota, migration-organisms, migratory-species, united-states, usgs-6584b639d34eff134d42da3f, washington, wenatchee
Organization: Department of the Interior
Washington Mule Deer Wenatchee Migration Routes

The Wenatchee Mountains mule deer herd inhabits a matrix of private and public lands along the eastern slope of the Cascade Range in Chelan and Kittitas Counties in Washington (fig. 24). Historically, the Wenatchee Mountains mule deer herd was separated into two subherds, Chelan and Kittitas; however, recent GPS collar data indicated the mule deer south of U.S. Highway 2 and north of Interstate 90 represent one population. Their high-use winter range extends along the foothills west and south of Wenatchee, Washington and throughout the foothills of the Kittitas Valley near Ellensburg. Their low-use winter range occurs along the foothills west of the Columbia River north of Interstate 90. In the spring, migratory individuals travel west into the Wenatchee Mountains to their summer range, which includes regional wilderness areas.
Between 2020 and 2021, collaring efforts focused on the foothills near Wenatchee and in the surrounding foothills near Ellensburg. Collar data analysis indicated the Wenatchee Mountains mule deer population is partially migratory. A high proportion of migratory individuals inhabit the northern winter range of the Wenatchee Mountains, and resident individuals more commonly inhabit the foothills of the Kittitas Valley. In 2022, collaring efforts of mule deer (n=25) in the northern winter range foothills near Wenatchee targeted the higher proportion of the migratory population, to more clearly identify the movement corridors intersecting U.S. Highway 97 near Blewett Pass. The herd has several challenges, including the increasing frequency of large-scale wildfires and residential developments, which continue to degrade and reduce available winter habitat. Disturbance from human recreation on the winter range continues to be a concern. Additionally, U.S. Highway 97 and State Route 970 receive high volumes of traffic in the region and present semipermeable barriers to spring and fall migration.
These mapping layers show the location of the migration routes for mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) in the Wenatchee population in Washington. They were developed from 184 migration sequences collected from a sample size of 59 animals comprising GPS locations collected every 4 hours.

Tags: animal-behavior, biota, migration-organisms, migratory-species, united-states, usgs-6584b62cd34eff134d42da3d, washington, wenatchee
Organization: Department of the Interior