AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Multi-sensor core logger (MSCL) data of sediment cores from the Currituck Landslide Complex and upper slope adjacent to Baltimore Canyon collected on USGS Field Activity 2012-007-FA

Twenty-four piston cores (and associated trigger cores) were collected from the source zone of the Currituck Landslide Complex and upper slope adjacent to Baltimore Canyon by the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Rhode Island Department of Ocean Engineering during an eight-day cruise aboard the R/V Hugh R. Sharp in September/October of 2012. These cores were analyzed for evidence of seafloor mass transport processes, with an emphasis on constraining the age and shallow stratigraphy of the landslide complex. Sedimentological and geotechnical characterization of the cores was carried out through whole core imaging and description, followed by analysis of discrete samples at the USGS Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center's Sediment Analysis Laboratory and other facilities, including grain-size, CaCO3 content, mineral composition, and bulk index properties (e.g., undrained shear strength and water content), micropaleontologic separations, and geochronology. This data release contains the results of these core descriptions and results of the laboratory analyses.

Tags: atlantic, baltimore-canyon, clay-deposits, core-analysis, cores, cruise-id-hrs1209, currituck-landslide, earth-material-properties, gamma-density, geology, geoscientificinformation, holocene, hugh-r-sharp, maryland, multi-sensor-core-logger, north-carolina, oceans, p-wave-amplitude, p-wave-velocity, piston-cores, piston-coring, sand-deposits, sediment-samples, sedimentology, trigger-cores, u-s-continental-shelf, u-s-geological-survey, unconsolidated-deposits, usgs, usgs-6436e5d8d34ee8d4addcb357, virginia, whcmsc, whcmsc-field-activity-2012-007-fa, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Locations of sediment cores from the Currituck Landslide Complex and upper slope adjacent to Baltimore Canyon collected on USGS Field Activity 2012-007-FA

Twenty-four piston cores (and associated trigger cores) were collected from the source zone of the Currituck Landslide Complex and upper slope adjacent to Baltimore Canyon by the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Rhode Island Department of Ocean Engineering during an eight-day cruise aboard the R/V Hugh R. Sharp in September/October of 2012. These cores were analyzed for evidence of seafloor mass transport processes, with an emphasis on constraining the age and shallow stratigraphy of the landslide complex. Sedimentological and geotechnical characterization of the cores was carried out through whole core imaging and description, followed by analysis of discrete samples at the USGS Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center's Sediment Analysis Laboratory and other facilities, including grain-size, CaCO3 content, mineral composition, and bulk index properties (e.g., undrained shear strength and water content), micropaleontologic separations, and geochronology. This data release contains the results of these core descriptions and results of the laboratory analyses.

Tags: atlantic, baltimore-canyon, clay-deposits, cores, coring-locations, cruise-id-hrs1209, currituck-landslide, drilling-and-coring, geolocation-measurement, geoscientificinformation, gps-measurement, holocene, hugh-r-sharp, latitude, longitude, maryland, north-carolina, oceans, piston-cores, piston-coring, sediment-samples, sedimentology, trigger-cores, u-s-continental-shelf, u-s-geological-survey, unconsolidated-deposits, usgs, usgs-6436e5a5d34ee8d4addcb351, virginia, water-depth, whcmsc, whcmsc-field-activity-2012-007-fa, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Bulk organic matter and carbonate content of sediment cores from the Currituck Landslide Complex and upper slope adjacent to Baltimore Canyon collected on USGS Field Activity 2012-007-FA

Twenty-four piston cores (and associated trigger cores) were collected from the source zone of the Currituck Landslide Complex and upper slope adjacent to Baltimore Canyon by the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Rhode Island Department of Ocean Engineering during an eight-day cruise aboard the R/V Hugh R. Sharp in September/October of 2012. These cores were analyzed for evidence of seafloor mass transport processes, with an emphasis on constraining the age and shallow stratigraphy of the landslide complex. Sedimentological and geotechnical characterization of the cores was carried out through whole core imaging and description, followed by analysis of discrete samples at the USGS Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center's Sediment Analysis Laboratory and other facilities, including grain-size, CaCO3 content, mineral composition, and bulk index properties (e.g., undrained shear strength and water content), micropaleontologic separations, and geochronology. This data release contains the results of these core descriptions and results of the laboratory analyses.

Tags: atlantic, baltimore-canyon, calcium-carbonate, carbon, cc-loi, clay-deposits, core-analysis, cores, cruise-id-hrs1209, currituck-landslide, geology, geoscientificinformation, holocene, hugh-r-sharp, loss-on-ignition, maryland, north-carolina, oceans, organic-carbon, piston-cores, piston-coring, sand-deposits, sediment-samples, sedimentology, trigger-cores, u-s-continental-shelf, u-s-geological-survey, unconsolidated-deposits, usgs, usgs-6436e578d34ee8d4addcb34d, virginia, whcmsc, whcmsc-field-activity-2012-007-fa, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Molecular, morphological, and distributional data supporting the recognition of an undescribed freshwater mussel endemic to the Edwards Plateau in the Colorado River basin

The widespread distribution of Strophitus undulatus, as well as high intraspecific morphological variation, has led previous authors to doubt the taxon is representative of a single species. Here we provide detailed information for all the freshwater mussels and associated DNA sequence data utilized to test species boundaries in S. undulatus. These molecular data, in combination with morphological data and results from species distribution models, support the recognition of an undescribed freshwater mussel species endemic to streams along the Edwards Plateau in the Colorado River basin in Texas, USA.

Tags: biota, conservation-genetics, cryptic-species, dna-sequencing, endangered-species, freshwater-mussels, integrative-taxonomy, phylogenetic-systematics, species-delimitation, species-diversity, systematics-and-taxonomy, usgs-6436a3bcd34ee8d4addca2cb
Organization: Department of the Interior
Moloka'i, Hawai'i rapid assessment of hydrology, soils, and vegetation in coastal wetlands 2022

In this project, we assessed the potential for twelve coastal wetland sites on the island of Molokaʻi, Hawaiʻi, to provide socio-cultural resources and habitat for flora and fauna following restoration. In April 2022, a rapid field assessment of hydrology, soils, and vegetation was carried out at each of the wetland sites. The data provided here were collected in order to inform a prioritization protocol for ranking wetlands on Molokaʻi for restoration.
Soil samples were collected at each of the sites at three different depth ranges (0-2, 24-26, and 48-50 cm). Samples from 0-2 cm and 24-26 cm were analyzed for % organic carbon and soil texture. These two measures provide a basic understanding of the status of coastal wetland soils on the island.
Two different hydrologic parameters were measured in each of the two soil pits dug at each site. First the distance from the soil surface to the water table was measured. Second, the salinity of the groundwater was measured. These two measurements provide a snapshot of the wetland condition of each site. 
The vegetation data include plot data, a species list, and percent cover of vegetation in order to provide a snapshot of the current plant community structure of each site.

Tags: biota, groundwater, hydrology, natural-resource-management, soil-chemistry, usgs-64360069d34ee8d4addb950c, vegetation, wetlands
Organization: Department of the Interior
Brook trout abundance in streams across southern Appalachia from 1958-2021

This Data Release compiles records of brook trout abundance from 745 unique sites across the southern Appalachian mountains from 1958-2021. Records were compiled from 10 institutions, primarily state natural resource agencies. Data were collected from wadeable stream environments with standard backpack electrofishing methods, and observed abundances of adult and juvenile brook trout are reported for each electrofishing pass within sample sites.

Tags: biota, fish, inlandwaters, usgs-6439af5dd34ee8d4ade231f8
Organization: Department of the Interior
Topographic point clouds from UAS surveys of the beaches at Fort Stevens State Park, OR, and Cape Disappointment State Park, WA, August 2017

This portion of the data release presents topographic point clouds of the ocean beach at Fort Stevens State Park, OR, and Benson Beach at Cape Disappointment State Park, WA. The point clouds were derived from structure-from-motion (SfM) processing of aerial imagery collected with unoccupied aerial systems (UAS) on during low tide surveys on 7 and 8 August 2017. The point clouds from each survey are tiled into 1000 by 1000 meter tiles to reduce individual file sizes. The Fort Stevens point clouds have a total of 271,915,544 points, with an average point density of 407 points per-square meter and an average point spacing of 5 centimeters. The Benson Beach point clouds have a total of 301,569,130 points, with an average point density of 558 points per-square meter and an average point spacing of 4 centimeters. The point clouds have not undergone any point classification (all points are classified as 0), but contain explicit horizontal and vertical coordinates, and color. Noise resulting from water and waves in the surf zone, and other areas of poor terrain reconstruction have not been removed from the point clouds. The raw imagery used to create the point clouds was acquired with a UAS fitted with a Ricoh GR II digital camera featuring a global shutter. The UAS was flown on pre-programmed autonomous flight lines spaced to provide at least 66 percent overlap between images from adjacent lines. The UAS was flown at an approximate altitude of 120 meters or less above ground level (AGL). The raw imagery was geotagged using positions from the UAS onboard single-frequency autonomous GPS. Survey control was established using temporary ground control points (GCPs) consisting of a combination of small square tarps with black-and-white cross patterns and temporary chalk marks placed on the ground. The GCP positions were measured using dual-frequency post-processed kinematic (PPK) GPS with corrections referenced to a static base station operating nearby. The images and GCP positions were used for structure-from-motion (SfM) processing to create topographic point clouds, high-resolution orthomosaic images, and DSMs. The point clouds are formatted in LAZ format (LAS 1.2 specification).

Tags: aerial-and-satellite-photography, aerial-photography, altimetry, bathymetry-and-elevation, benson-beach, cape-disappointment, chmrp, clatsop-county, clatsop-spit, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, columbia-river, elevation, fort-stevens, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, image-mosaics, north-head, orthophotography, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pacific-county, pacific-ocean, pcmsc, photography, remote-sensing, state-of-oregon, state-of-washington, structure-from-motion, topographic-maps, topography, u-s-geological-survey, uas, unmanned-aerial-system, usgs, usgs-6435dfaad34ee8d4addb2eab
Organization: Department of the Interior
USGS State of the Data Project: Rubric and Assessment Data

The FAIR Principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) provide a concise and measurable strategy for optimizing the reuse of scientific data (Wilkinson et al., 2016). 
In 2020, the U.S. Geological Survey initiated a research study, titled "State of the Data", to evaluate and report on the current FAIRness of USGS data. Project outputs include the USGS FAIR Rubric, which can be used to evaluate a dataset against the FAIR principles, and the results of 392 USGS dataset assessments completed using this rubric. These results will provide a baseline for measuring future improvement in FAIRness of USGS public data.
This data release contains the FAIR rubric in .xlsx format, the assessment dataset in .csv format, and the Python code used to create the assessment dataset.
Wilkinson, M., Dumontier, M., Aalbersberg, I. et al., 2016, The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship: Scientific Data, v. 3, no.1, [article 160018], 9p, https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.18.

Tags: data-communication, data-integration, datasets, fair-data, fair-principles, geoscientificinformation, metadata-development, metadata-management, usgs-6435c14bd34ee8d4addafb07
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hydrodynamic and Water-Temperature Model of a 21-Mile Reach of the Upper Illinois River, Illinois, 2020–2022 (ver. 1.1, October 2024)

A CE-QUAL-W2 river hydrodynamics and water temperature model was developed for a 21-mile reach of the Illinois River including a 3-mile reach of the Fox River near the confluence with the Illinois River. Model outputs consist of streamflow, water velocity, water-surface elevation, and water temperature time series that can be used to simulate summer periods in years with and without extensive development of harmful algal blooms (HABs).  These analyses may provide a better understanding of some complex factors that contribute to the development of HABs along the Illinois River.  Such an understanding can ultimately provide the capability of more accurately predicting the timing and location of HABs along with determining potential mitigating activities to prevent or limit the size and duration of the algal blooms. Model scenarios documented in this data release include model calibration and validation, two water temperature scenarios with varying output intervals, and eight sensitivity analysis scenario runs.

Tags: ce-qual-w2-model, environment, illinois, illinois-river, inlandwaters, lasalle-county, marseilles-lock-and-dam, ottawa-illinois, seneca-illinois, starved-rock-lock-and-dam, surface-water-quality, usgs-6435bbd3d34ee8d4addaf81d, water-temperature
Organization: Department of the Interior
CoSMoS 3.2 Northern California sub-regional tier 2 FLOW-WAVE model input files

This data set consists of physics-based Delft3D-FLOW and WAVE hydrodynamic model input files used for Coastal Storm Modeling System (CoSMoS) sub-regional tier 2 simulations. Sub-regional tier 2 simulations cover portions of the Northern California open-coast region, from Point Arena to the California/Oregon state border, and they provide boundary conditions to higher-resolution simulations. Simulations are run for several storm events (covering a range of no storm, 1-year, 20-year, and 100-year coastal storm conditions) and sea-level rise (SLR) scenarios.

Tags: beaches, climate-change, climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, del-norte-county, earth-sciences, effects-of-climate-change, erosion, extreme-weather, floods, hazards-planning, humboldt-county, mathematical-modeling, mendocino-county, northern-california, northern-california-coast, ocean-currents, ocean-waves, ocean-winds, oceans, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, predictions, state-of-california, storm-surge, storms, tides, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-64347417d34ee8d4add91266, water-depth, waves, wind
Organization: Department of the Interior
Concentrations of microbial source tracking markers in cattle fecal samples, western Colorado, 2023

The U.S. Geological Survey is investigating sources of fecal bacteria in streams in the Grand Valley of western Colorado by using quantitative polymerase chain reaction microbial source tracking (MST) markers. The CowM2 MST marker was not detected in water-quality samples collected in 2022, which raised questions about the use of the marker for investigations in western Colorado. The presence or absence of bacteria associated with MST markers can be affected by geographic location, animal health, and diet. Known-source cattle fecal samples were collected in the Grand Valley to determine the presence or absence of the CowM2 marker in the feces of local cattle. A total of five samples were collected, representing herds grazing on public lands and local farms.

Tags: microbiology, usgs-64347036d34ee8d4add9125b, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
USGS National and Global Oil and Gas Assessment Project—Raton Basin-Sierra Grande Uplift Province: Assessment Unit Boundaries, Assessment Input Data, and Fact Sheet Data Tables

This data release contains the boundaries of assessment units and input data for the assessment of coalbed gas resources in the Raton Basin-Sierra Grande Uplift Province, Colorado and New Mexico. The Assessment Unit is the fundamental unit used in the National Assessment Project for the assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources.  The Assessment Unit is defined within the context of the higher-level Total Petroleum System.  The Assessment Unit is shown herein as a geographic boundary interpreted, defined, and mapped by the geologist responsible for the province and incorporates a set of known or postulated oil and (or) gas accumulations sharing similar geologic, geographic, and temporal properties within the Total Petroleum System, such as source rock, timing, migration pathways, trapping mechanism, and hydrocarbon type.  The Assessment Unit boundary is defined geologically as the limits of the geologic elements that define the Assessment Unit, such as limits of reservoir rock, geologic structures, source rock, and seal lithologies.  The only exceptions to this are Assessment Units that border the Federal-State water boundary.  In these cases, the Federal-State water boundary forms part of the Assessment Unit boundary.  In addition to the shapefile, for U.S. assessments, allocation tables are provided that enumerate percentages assigned to various land categories. Machine-readable tables are also provided that contain the input and results for each assessment unit summarized in the USGS Fact Sheet. Methodology of assessments are documented in USGS Data Series 547 for continuous assessments (https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/547) and USGS DDS69-D, Chapter 21 for conventional assessments (https://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-069/dds-069-d/REPORTS/69_D_CH_21.pdf).  See supplemental information for a detailed list of files included this data release.

Tags: assessment-unit, continuous-assessment-unit, energy-resources, geology, geoscientificinformation, national-assessment-of-oil-and-gas, natural-gas, natural-gas-resources, noga2000, oil, oil-gas, oil-resources, petroleum, raton-formation-fairway-coalbed-gas, raton-formation-outerlying-coalbed-gas, resource-assessment, state-of-colorado, state-of-new-mexico, unconventional-assessment-unit, united-states-of-america, usgs-64342c04d34ee8d4add90fe5, vermejo-formation-fairway-coalbed-gas, vermejo-formation-outerlying-coalbed-gas
Organization: Department of the Interior
Potential Sea Turtle Nesting Areas for Cat and Ship Island, Mississippi for various years from 1998 to 2020 (ver. 4.0, November 2025)

The Mississippi Coastal Improvement Program (MsCIP) Monitoring and Adaptive Management Program (MAMP) notes that five sea turtle species are found in the northern Gulf of America (Gulf of Mexico), including loggerhead, green, Kemp’s ridley, leatherback, and hawksbill. Green, loggerhead, and Kemp’s ridley sea turtles are regularly documented in the waters surrounding the barrier islands of Gulf Islands National Seashore. Of these, only loggerhead sea turtles have been confirmed as nesting on the islands in the Mississippi Sound and they are the only species with designated critical habitat within the island chain (Horn and Petit Bois Islands). Green sea turtle nests have been found on the Mississippi islands; however, these nests are likely uncommon. Though never documented, Kemp’s ridley sea turtles could nest on the islands. Leatherback and hawksbill sea turtles may be seen in the barrier island waters, but there are no confirmed nest records within the barrier island project area.
A subtask of the MsCIP MAMP is to identify potential sea turtle nesting habitat on Cat and Ship Islands. This objective was achieved using digital elevation models (DEMs) developed using light detection and ranging (lidar) data and dune toes from lidar-derived beach morphology (Doran and others, 2020). Island tips will be added to the nesting area by using a combination of photointerpretation and habitat data to determine the mean high water line based on water regime.
References:
Doran, K.S., Long, J.W., Birchler, J.J., Brenner, O.T., Hardy, M.W., Morgan, K.L.M, Stockdon, H.F., and Torres, M.L., 2017, Lidar-derived beach morphology (dune crest, dune toe, and shoreline) for U.S. sandy coastlines (ver. 4.0, October 2020): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7GF0S0Z.

Tags: biota, green-sea-turtle, hawksbill-sea-turtle, horn-island, kemps-ridley-sea-turtle, leatherback-sea-turtle, loggerhead-sea-turtle, mississippi, petit-bois-island, sea-turtle, usgs-64341486d34ee8d4add90fba
Organization: Department of the Interior
Whole rock geochemistry and uranium-lead isotopic data from Mesoproterozoic rocks in the Eagle Lake quadrangle, Essex County, New York

This data release includes whole rock (WR) geochemical data, and uranium-lead isotopic data collected using a sensitive high resolution ion microprobe-reverse geometry (SHRIMP-RG) instrument; the SHRIMP-RG is a type of secondary ion mass spectrometer (SIMS).  Whole rock geochemistry data were analyzed at Bureau Veritas Commodities Canada Ltd. Laboratories in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.  SHRIMP-RG data were collected at the USGS-Stanford University SHRIMP-RG in Palo Alto, California, USA.  Rock samples for all methods were collected by Phillip Geer, Sean Regan, and Greg Walsh. SHRIMP-RG sample preparation and analyses were conducted by Ryan McAleer. The whole rock geochemistry and uranium-lead (U-Pb) isotopic data constrain the age of a mapped meta-plutonic unit in the eastern Adirondack Mountains of New York.  The data release contains six files, including one metadata file and 5 comma-delimited (CSV) files.  The CSV files include the following: EagleLake_SHRIMP_data.csv, EagleLake_SHRIMP_data_dictionary.csv,  EagleLake_SHRIMP_summary.csv,  EagleLake_WR_data.csv, and  EagleLake_WR_data_dictionary.csv.

Tags: adirondack-mountains, biota, crown-point, eagle-lake, essex-county, fbgc, florence-bascom-geoscience-center, geochemistry, geochronology, hammondville, national-cooperative-geologic-mapping-program, new-york, ngcmp, shrimp-rg, ticonderoga, u-pb, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-64340e40d34ee8d4add90fb3
Organization: Department of the Interior