AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
OahuW_shorelines - Shorelines of the western coastal region of Oahu, Hawaii, from Yokohama to Tracks Beach, used in shoreline change analysis.

Sandy ocean beaches are a popular recreational destination, often surrounded by communities containing valuable real estate.  Development is on the rise despite the fact that coastal infrastructure is subjected to flooding and erosion.  As a result, there is an increased demand for accurate information regarding past and present shoreline changes.  To meet these national needs, the Coastal and Marine Geology Program of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is compiling existing reliable historical shoreline data along open-ocean sandy shores of the conterminous United States and parts of Alaska and Hawaii under the National Assessment of Shoreline Change project.  Shoreline vectors derived from historic and modern sources represent the low water mark (beach toe).
There is no widely accepted standard for analyzing shoreline change.  Existing shoreline data measurements and rate calculation methods vary from study to study and prevent combining results into state-wide or regional assessments.  The impetus behind the National Assessment project was to develop a standardized method of measuring changes in shoreline position that is consistent from coast to coast.  The goal was to facilitate the process of periodically and systematically updating the results in an internally consistent manner.

Tags: cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, coastal-processes, continental-island-shore-complex, digital-shoreline-analysis-system, dsas, effects-of-coastal-change, environment, erosion, geoscientificinformation, hawaii-coast, hawaii-ecoregion, linear-regression-rate, national-assessment-of-shoreline-change-project, national-oceanic-and-atmospheric-administration, noaa, oahu, oceans, shoreline-accretion, shoreline-change-rate, shoreline-erosion, tracks-beach-hawaii, u-s-army-corps-of-engineers, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, university-of-hawaii, usace, usgs, usgs-f3839dc4-5459-4b6e-a416-c0ec1af67bf6, west-oahu-coast, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center, yokohama-hawaii
Organization: Department of the Interior
Undersized Fire Mapping Program Thematic Burn Severity Mosaic for CONUS in 2003

This map layer is a thematic raster image of MTBS burn severity classes for all inventoried fires occurring in CONUS during calendar year 2003 that do not meet standard MTBS size criteria. These data are published to augment the data that are available from the MTBS program. This product was produced using the methods of the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity Program (MTBS), however these fires do not meet the size criteria for a standard MTBS assessment. The MTBS Program assesses the frequency, extent, and magnitude (size and severity) of all large wildland fires (wildfires and prescribed fires) in the conterminous United States (CONUS), Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico for the period 1984 and beyond. MTBS typically maps fires using an initial assessment (immediately after the fire) or an extended assessment (peak of green the season after the fire) for low-biomass and high-biomass fires respectively. Refer to MTBS.gov for more information on MTBS methods and criteria. Standard MTBS mappings must meet the size criteria of at least 500 acres for the eastern states and territories and 1,000 acres for the western states and territories to be eligible for mapping. Undersized MTBS fires are those fires that do not meet the standard MTBS size criteria but are otherwise mapped using standard MTBS methodologies.

Tags: ak, alaska, burn-severity, burned-area, continental-u-s, conus, differenced-normalized-burn-ratio, fire-location, fire-occurrence, hawaii, hi, imagerybasemapsearthcover, landsat, location, normalized-burn-ratio, pr, prescribed-fire, puerto-rico, sentinel, united-states, us, usgs-66c7232cd34e0338828b3f00, wildfire, wildland-fire
Organization: Department of the Interior
Reflectance data from figures in: Using X-ray spectrum of carbon in electron microprobe analysis to determine thermal maturity of organic matter in mudstones

Conventional methods of assessing organic matter (OM) thermal maturity have limitations and often fail to reflect the geochemical heterogeneity between individual organic phases in mudstone samples. Vitrinite and solid bitumen reflectance, for example, is often measured to estimate OM thermal maturity but is restricted to specific types of OM. Alternative methods deserve exploration. This dataset provides the optical reflectance values that support a study investigating the application of fine-scale geochemical techniques to estimate OM thermal maturity. The study proposes a new analytical procedure using field emission-electron probe micro-analyzer (FE-EPMA). This instrument analyzes both the major elemental composition of the individual OM grains and the carbon X-ray spectrum. Past works suggest that the carbon X-ray spectrum may be sensitive to thermal maturity or OM types. To test this method, we analyzed a suite of mudstone samples with independent measurements of thermal maturity (i.e., vitrinite and solid bitumen reflectance) and compared a number of different spectral features. This data release provides the known vitrinite and solid bitumen optical reflectance values used in the analysis. The first data table contains the mean and standard deviation of multiple measurements taken from various samples reported in prior works (Birdwell and Wilson 2019, French et al. 2020, Zhou et al. 2022). The second data table is a collection of individual reflectance values, the maceral group and OM type from targeted spots for sample: Calumet Collier 34-5 13574 (Hackley et al. 2024). For the full study, refer to the larger work, "Using X-ray spectrum of carbon in electron micro-probe analysis to determine thermal maturity of organic matter in mudstones".

Tags: alberta, colorado, florida, geoscientificinformation, inertinite, liptinite, mudstone, nebraska, new-york, ohio, oklahoma, optical-methods, organic-matter, pennsylvania, photoelectron-spectroscopy, reflectance, solid-bitumen, texas, thermal-maturation, usgs-667d73b6d34ef010cb6d2139, utah, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Maternal transfer of mercury to northern elephant seal pups

We used free-ranging northern elephant seals as a model species to investigate maternal transfer of mercury (Hg) to pups in relation to maternal traits, including maternal blood mercury concentrations, and to quantify the links between pup lanugo mercury concentrations and maternal mesopelagic foraging behavior during gestation. We satellite tracked known-age adult females at sea during their seven-month-long foraging trip to determine maternal foraging strategies (geographic locations and diving depths) and quantified mercury concentrations in maternal blood and their pups’ blood and lanugo (which is defined as pup hair grown in utero) early in lactation when seals were hauled out. We then tested how the maternal transfer of mercury to pups is influenced by additional maternal traits, such as maternal age, as well as for intra-year variability by including additional lanugo samples from more than 300 pups of known adult females that we did not handle or track at sea.

Tags: bioaccumulation, biota, contaminant-transport, ecology, ecotoxicology, marine-oceanic-mesopelagic-layer, mercury, mercury-contamination, seals-sea-lions-and-walruses, usgs-65bab96fd34e18c6baf2d801
Organization: Department of the Interior
Wind rose plots for the volcano: 329010  Uinkaret Field

This zip folder contains ASCII text files of vectors at the specified volcano at 
12-hour intervals, 
from January 1, 1990 through December 28, 2009.  
The wind vectors are divided into five files, names by their elevation range above 
sea level in the atmosphere: 00-05km.txt; 05-11km.txt; 11-16km.txt; 16-24km.txt; 
and 24-30km.txt. 
The zip folder also contains a subfolder "figures", with Wind rose plots of wind 
direction and speed over 
this time period.  The plots are by season, and by elevation, given a total of 20 
plots (4 seasons, 5 
elevation ranges).  A summary plot is also included which gives the year-round 
wind pattern at the volcano, 
at 0-5 km elevation.  Plots are in both jpg and pdf format.

Tags: meteorology, usgs-58d01619e4b0236b68f53059, volcanic-ash, volcanic-eruption-forecasting, wind
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data for Infectivity of Wild-Bird Origin Influenza A Viruses in Minnesota Wetlands Across Seasons

This data set represents an ecological and laboratory-based experiment to understand influenza virus viability in surface water. Data tables included in this release consist of 1) daily mean water temperature, 2) viability of viruses maintained in water, 3) influenza detection in duck samples, 4) viral titers of experimentally inoculated water samples, and 5) water chemistry.

Tags: agassiz-national-wildlife-refuge, animal-disease, animal-diseases-disorders-pests, animals-vertebrates, avian-influenza, biota, birds, disease-epidemic, disease-reservoirs, ducks-geese-swans, environment, freshwater-ecosystems, health, health-and-disease, influenza-a-virus, lakes-reservoirs, migratory-birds, minnesota, persistence, roseau-river-wildlife-management-area, usgs-662fc51ad34ea70bd5f2625d, virus-diseases, viruses, waterfowl, wildlife, wildlife-disease
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital map of water-level changes in the High Plains aquifer in parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming, predevelopment (about 1950) to 2011

The High Plains aquifer extends from south of 32 degrees to almost 44 degrees north latitude and from 96 degrees 
30 minutes to 104 degrees west longitude. The aquifer underlies about 175,000 square miles in parts of Colorado, 
Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming. This dataset consists of a raster 
of water-level changes for the High Plains aquifer, predevelopment (about 1950) to 2011. This digital dataset was 
created using water-level measurements from 3,322 wells measured in both the predevelopment period (about 1950) 
and in 2011 and using other published information on water-level change in areas with few water-level measurements. 
The map was reviewed for consistency with the relevant data at a scale of 1:1,000,000.

Tags: aquifers, colorado, geoscientificinformation, great-plains, ground-water, groundwater, high-plains, high-plains-aquifer, inlandwaters, kansas, nebraska, new-mexico, ogallala-aquifer, oklahoma, south-dakota, texas, usgs-a7c2ef80-a04b-401b-8161-318befe2db42, water-level-change, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Oregon Mule Deer Northside Migration Corridors

The winter ranges of the Northside mule deer herd can be broadly separated into northern and southern subgroups. The majority of the southern subgroup winters at low elevations near the John Day River in areas dominated by big sagebrush communities, Columbia Basin grasslands, and western juniper. The northern subgroup is more spatially dispersed, wintering by Cottonwood Creek, the North Fork John Day River, and the Middle Fork John Day River in ranges containing more conifer forest than those of the southern subgroup. Both subgroups summer in the same general area, migrating either northeast or southeast to reach ranges featuring mixed-conifer, Picea spp. (spruce), Ponderosa pine, and western juniper forests with scattered Columbia Basin grasslands on Deardorff Mountain, the Blue Mountains, and Elkhorn Ridge. Some mule deer west of the North Fork John Day River migrate north to reach summer ranges near Rock Creek. Interestingly, five mule deer migrated south, crossing the section of U.S. Route 26 that divides the Northside and Murderer’s Creek mule deer herds. Since U.S. Route 26 also separates resident mule deer from agricultural fields with reliable water sources, mule deer-vehicle collisions are common year-round, and this section experienced an annual average of 106 mule deer-vehicle collisions from 2016 to 2022. In 2010, the Heppner WMU, which is used for livestock grazing and contains multiple mule deer winter ranges, was included in the Oregon Mule Deer Initiative (ODFW, 2015, 2020). Since then, ODFW has removed 10,256.7 acres (4,150.7 ha) of invasive flora, reseeded 7,405.3 acres (2,996.8 ha) with native shrubs and grassland, and completed 48 water development projects.
These mapping layers show the location of the migration corridors for mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) in the Northside population in Oregon. They were developed from 360 migration sequences collected from a sample size of 144 animals comprising GPS locations collected every 5−13 hours.

Tags: animal-behavior, biota, john-day, migration-organisms, migratory-species, oregon, united-states, usgs-6584b585d34eff134d42da12
Organization: Department of the Interior
Initial input well data for logistic regression for a study of groundwater vulnerability to elevated nitrates in the Puget Sound Basin, Washington, 2000–19

This archive contains the well input data for the logistic regression model for the five-year categories 2000-2004, 2005-2009, 2010-2014, and 2015-2019. Data were collected either at the well location or computed within a buffer area of the well location, as specified in the parameter definition.

Tags: environment, groundwater-wells-drinking-water, health, usgs-62153dcfd34e4465d4090969
Organization: Department of the Interior
HW2_Q41.TIF - Hawaii II - Central Hawaii U.S. EEZ GLORIA sidescan-sonar data mosaic (12 of 24) (LCC, 50 m, WGS84)

In 1984, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Office of Marine Geology, launched a program using the Geological LOng-Range Inclined Asdic (GLORIA) sidescan-sonar system to study the entire U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). From 1988 through 1991, the USGS and IOS (Institute of Oceanographic Sciences, U.K.) scientists conducted several surveys within the U.S. EEZ off Hawaii. Nine surveys during that time period focused on the central Hawaii region. The results of these surveys were 24 digital mosaics of approximately a 2 degree by 2 degree area with a 50-meter pixel resolution.

Tags: acoustic-receivers, acoustic-reflectivity, backscatter, brooks-bank, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, distributions, east-pacific-rise, eez, exclusive-economic-zone, exclusive-economic-zone-eez, french-frigate-shoals, gardner-pinnacles, geological-long-range-inclined-asdic, geoscientificinformation, geotiff-image, gloria, gloria-gt-geological-long-range-inclined-asdic, grey-scale-image, hawaii, hawaii-ecoregion, hawaiian-arch, hawaiian-emperor-chain, hawaiian-islands, hawaiian-ridge, hawaiian-trough, horizon-guyot, image-mosaics, imagerybasemapsearthcover, infobank-identifier-f-1-90-hw, infobank-identifier-f-1-91-cp, infobank-identifier-f-10-88-hw, infobank-identifier-f-10-91-hw, infobank-identifier-f-12-89-hw, infobank-identifier-f-13-89-hw, infobank-identifier-f-2-90-hw, infobank-identifier-f-5-91-cp, infobank-identifier-f-6-91-cp, kauai-fracture-zone, kure-island, marine-basin-floor, marine-geology, marine-geophysics, marine-oceanic, midway-island, molokai-fracture-zone, murray-fracture-zone, necker-ridge, nihoa-ridge, oceans, oceans-gt-ocean-acoustics-gt-acoustic-reflectivity, oceans-gt-pacific-ocean-gt-central-pacific-ocean-gt-hawaiian-islands, physical-habitats-and-geomorphology, sea-floor-acoustic-reflectivity, sea-floor-characteristics, seabed, side-scan-sonar, sidescan-sonar, sidescan-sonar-mosaic, st-rogatien-bank, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-04a5cbd8-7908-4e72-b6fd-f562bd5d0db6, wcmg, western-coastal-and-marine-geology, western-pacific-ocean
Organization: Department of the Interior
Particle-size analysis results for a variety of natural and man-made materials used to assess the precision and accuracy of laboratory laser-diffraction particle-size analysis of fluvial sediment

The dataset documents results from testing of 1) vendor-supplied reference materials 2) NIST-traceable polysidperse glass bead reference materials 3) mixtures of commercially-available glass beads 4) mixtures of internal reference materials prepared from geologic material

Tags: laser-diffraction, method-performance, particle-size-analysis, sediment, usgs-5c76f335e4b0fe48cb4c8d34
Organization: Department of the Interior
Evapotranspiration unit raster delineated using Modified Soil-Adjusted Vegetation Index, in the lower Walker River basin, West-Central Nevada

This raster data set represents the evapotranspiration (ET) units delineated using Modified Soil-Adjusted Vegetation Index (MSAVI) in the lower Walker River basin.

Tags: et-unit, evaporation, evapotranspiration, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-analysis, geospatial-datasets, groundwater-discharge, inlandwaters, nevada, phreatophyte, remote-sensing, riparian, saltcedar, surface-water-discharge, transpiration, usgs-66b3e443d34eebcf8bb33de4, vegetation, vegetation-index, walker-lake, walker-river
Organization: Department of the Interior
Shapefiles and Historical Aerial Photographs, Little Missouri River, 1949

7 aerial photographs were taken along the Little Missouri River in 1949. All images were geo-referenced to the 1995 digital orthophoto quarter quadrangles as described by Miller and Friedman (2009). Both the flood plain and active channel of the river were delineated on the 1995 digital orthophoto quadrangles and overlaid on rectified photos. ArcGIS was used to draw the polygons that delineate the flood plain and active channel; the delineation was saved as a SHP file. The separate images (geoTIFFs) can be viewed as a composite along with that year's channel delineation (SHP file) using a geographic information system (GIS) application.
Reference: Miller, J.R., and J.M. Friedman. 2009. Influence of flow variability on flood-plain formation and destruction, Little Missouri River, North Dakota. Geological Society of America Bulletin 121:752-759.

Tags: aerial-photography, central-us, channel-adjustment, erosion, flood, flood-plain-formation, geoscientificinformation, little-missouri-river, mckenzie-county, nd, north-dakota, plains-cottonwood, theodore-roosevelt-national-park, united-states, usgs-5915e34ce4b044b359e32dcd
Organization: Department of the Interior
JPEG image of Seismic-Reflection Profiles Collected in the Pulley Ridge Study Area in 1996 and 2001

These seismic data were collected to infer the paleodepositional environment of Pulley Ridge through seismic facies analysis.  Without actual rock cores, remote sensing is the next best tool.  It was uncertain if Pulley Ridge represented a drowned reef or paleoshoreline.  Through seismic imaging, it was determined from the high-amplitude, level-bedded nature of material in the sub-surface that Pulley Ridge represents several stages of barrier-island development.

Tags: boomer, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, coral, coral-reef, florida, florida-shelf, geoscientificinformation, gulf-of-mexico, image-collections, images, jpeg, marine-geophysics, north-america, oceans, of-2005-1089, open-file-report, pulley-ridge, reef, seismic, seismic-reflection, sub-bottom-profiling, subbottom, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-1a1bd62e-43fe-4a74-9a4b-59d379853930, woods-hole-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Simulations of hypothetical CO2 leakage and hydrological plume management in an underground source of drinking water at a proposed CO2 storage facility, Kemper County, Mississippi, USA

This data release serves as a model archive associated with an upcoming journal article. It contains all the input and output files from, as well as explanatory information about, numerical simulations that were conducted as part of a study of a site in Kemper County, Mississippi where deep geologic injection of CO2 has been proposed. The simulations represent groundwater flow within a portion of the deepest potential underground source of drinking water (USDW) at the site; the Eutaw aquifer. Simulations tested various hypothetical leakage rates from one of the two proposed CO2 injection wells, and analyzed detection of the dissolved CO2 plume at the other wells at the site. Simulations also tested the effect of hydrological plume management by water extraction from one of the wells.

Tags: cambrian, cenozoic, co2-sequestration, devonian, environment, geoscientificinformation, groundwater, groundwater-model, holocene, inlandwaters, itough2, kemper-county, mississippi, ordovician, phanerozoic, quaternary, silurian, usgs-65f89ce6d34e1aa81b7ac850, usgsgroundwatermodel
Organization: Department of the Interior
Bluff Analysis for Potential Peregrine Falcon Nesting Locations within the National Petroleum Reserve – Alaska (NPR-A), 2002-2012

This data set refines potential peregrine falcon nest habitat within the National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska (NPR-A), aids in the interpretation of nest site selection and potential habitat based on the surface geology and geomorphology of the region, determines the key characteristics for the selection of nest sites in known nesting locations relatively to optimal sites in areas without known nesting occurrence, and helps in developing strategies for detecting potential shifts in the distribution of potential nesting habitat.  Components of the data development included conducting geospatial analysis using digital elevation models, high-resolution remotely sensed imagery, and geomorphology.  This GIS dataset consists of 16,141 bluff features (extracted from 5m resolution IfSAR data) and provides information on spatial geometry, relational distance information, surface geology, and other important conditions. 

Tags: alaska, biota, birds, breeding-sites, eagle-falcons-hawks-and-allies, environment, fluvial-landforms, geology, geomorphic-landforms-processes, geomorphology, hydrology, ikpikpuk-river, lakes, north-slope, rivers-streams, surface-water, terrestrial-ecosystems, terrestrial-hydrosphere, usgs-asc117, vegetation, vegetation-changes, vegetation-cover, wildlife
Organization: Department of the Interior
10-m resolution image of shaded relief multibeam bathymetry in Massachusetts Bay, pseudocolored by backscatter intensity (MB_BACKPC10M.TIF)

The U.S. Geological Survey has conducted geologic mapping to characterize the sea floor offshore of Massachusetts.  The mapping was carried out using a Simrad Subsea EM 1000 Multibeam Echo Sounder on the Frederick G. Creed on four cruises conducted between 1994 and 1998.  The mapping was conducted in cooperation with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and with support from the Canadian Hydrographic Service and the University of New Brunswick. 
The long-term goal of this mapping effort is to produce high-resolution geologic maps and a Geographic Information System (GIS) project that presents images and grids of bathymetry, shaded relief bathymetry, and backscatter intensity data from these surveys that will serve the needs of research, management and the public.

Tags: 10-m-resolution, backscatter-intensity, boston, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, computational-methods, elevation, em-1000, frederick-g-creed, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, geotiff, gloucester, gulf-of-maine, image, imagerybasemapsearthcover, jeffreys-ledge, marine-geophysics, massachusetts, massachusetts-bay, massachusetts-bay-disposal-site, mbds, multibeam, multibeam-sonar, mwra, mwra-ocean-outfall, north-atlantic-ocean, oceans, pseudo-colored, race-point-channel, sbnms, sea-floor, sea-floor-characteristics, sea-floor-mapping, simrad, stellwagen-bank, stellwagen-bank-national-marine-sanctuary, stellwagen-basin, tillies-bank, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-f95b6268-1b52-42a3-918b-f51efd384f54, usgs-map-i-2734, whsc, woods-hole-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior