AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2021 Site 0644 land-water classification data

Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring efforts to determine the efficacy of these efforts. 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 398 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. A DOQQ is a raster image in which displacement in the image caused by sensor orientation and terrain relief has been removed and combines the image characteristics of a photo with geometric qualities of a map. The DOQQs generated for this project consist of 2021 Color Infrared (CIR) Digital Imagery. These images were classified into land and water categories using a threshold of the near infrared (NIR) band, followed by supervised and unsupervised classification.  Initial classification results are then reviewed by multiple image analysts to identify and manually recode errors. The final land-water classifications are intended to serve as both geographic and quantitative assessments of landscape composition on the date of acquisition. Five previous assessments have been conducted (2005, 2008, 2012, 2015/2016, and 2018). Once the program creates enough data points for statistical analyses, these data will be used for land area change rate calculation.

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-6569e5bdd34e6dde1a4ae14a, wetland, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mapping landscape connectivity for moose across the northeastern United States

Connectivity describes how well a landscape facilitates or impedes the movement of animals.  Maximizing connectivity is a common management goal, especially for large mammals like moose (Alces americanus americanus) that occupy large home ranges and have the capacity to move long distances.  Moose in the northeastern US (encompassing the states of Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, and Rhode Island) represent a management priority and are expected to decline due to the near-term impacts of climate change and landscape development that will alter the distribution of habitats across the region.  Large-scale maps of moose connectivity are unavailable but would provide an important resource for management planning to improve moose persistence in the landscape.  We used an omnidirectional circuit-theory approach to model and map moose connectivity across the six states in the northeastern US.  The approach involved integrating a distribution map developed from an occurrence model and a resistance map developed from expert opinion data, along with home range information and current landcover maps to depict expected movement flow.  The data release includes 1 CSV file that contains expert-elicited responses regarding moose occurrence and resistence to movement.  The release also includes 6 rasters (1 and 2) the Omniscape  inputs files named "source.tif" and "resistance.tif";  (3) the connectivity raster using a 0-threshold "source" input named "cumulative_current_map_raw0.tif";  (4) the Omniscape connectivity raster using a 0.2-threshold "source" input named "cumulative_current_map_raw02.tif";  (5) and (6) the respective normalized connectivity rasters, named "normalized_map_crop0.tif" and "normalized_map_crop02.tif".  The latter two rasters can be categorized into flow categories if desired: impeded (areas with less current than in a resistance-free landscape), diffuse (areas with as much current as a resistance-free landscape), intensified (areas with more current than a resistance-free landscape), and channelized (areas with much more current than a resistance-free landscape).

Tags: biota, circuitscape, connecticut, connectivity, maine, massachusetts, new-hampshire, omniscape, rhode-island, usgs-666893bdd34e9bcc607b7f39, vermont, vertebrates, wildlife, wildlife-biology
Organization: Department of the Interior
Above- and belowground biomass production, decomposition, and wetland elevation change in transitional coastal wetland communities exposed to elevated CO2 and sediment deposition: a mesocosm study from 2012 to 2014

This data release includes belowground primary productivity, decomposition, and surface elevation change data from a two-year mesocosm experiment from 2012 to 2014. We conducted experimental greenhouse manipulations of atmospheric CO2 (double ambient CO2) and sediment deposition to simulate a land-falling hurricane under future climate conditions. Experimental greenhouse conditions mimicked a land-falling hurricane under projected future climate conditions by comparing atmospheric to double ambient CO2 and sediment deposition in four communities along a coastal wetland landscape gradient in Louisiana, USA (tidal freshwater forested wetland, forest/marsh mix, marsh, and mudflat).

Tags: big-branch-marsh-national-wildlife-refuge, biota, climate-change, coastal-wetlands, effects-of-climate-change, elevated-co2, elevation-capital, hurricanes, louisiana, mesocosm-experiment, multiple-stressors, possible-climate-futures, sediment-deposition, united-states, usgs-61ddcb1ad34ed79294021a2c, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-elevation-change, wetland-functions
Organization: Department of the Interior
Airborne geophysical survey: Carrizo Plain-Great Valley, California

Aeromagnetic data were collected along flight lines by instruments in an
aircraft that recorded magnetic-field values and locations.  This dataset
presents latitude, longitude, altitude, and magnetic-field values.

Tags: aeromagnetic-data, aeromagnetic-surveying, airborne-surveys, ca, california, carrizo-plain, f06029-kern, f06079-san-luis-obispo, f06083-santa-barbara, field-monitoring-stations, geophysical-surveys, geophysics, geospatial-datasets, great-valley, magnetic, magnetic-field-earth, magnetic-surveys, residual-magnetic-field, total-field, united-states, usgs-3eb84f85-2463-46c6-a16d-3e08c481645f
Organization: Department of the Interior
Specific conductance of flatwood salamander breeding ponds: pre- and post-Hurricane Michael, 2013-2018

Hurricane Michael impacted the gulf coast of the southeastern USA in October 2018. During this storm, St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge, located along the northern Gulf of Mexico’s coast in the panhandle region of Florida, experienced storm surge that was 2.3 to 3.3 m above sea level.  Storm surge pushed sea water into some ephemeral freshwater ponds used for breeding by the federally-threatened Frosted Flatwoods Salamander (Ambystoma cingulatum). Not all breeding wetlands were inundated by storm surge but, of those that were, conductivity was 11.2 to 216.7 times greater than in spring 2018. After the storm, specific conductance varied from 80 to 23,100 µS/cm (compared to 75 to 445 µS/cm in Spring 2018), setting the stage for varying population responses across this coastal landscape. Importantly, we found live individual flatwoods salamanders at both overwashed and non-overwashed sites, although we cannot yet assess the demographic consequences of this storm.

Tags: ambystoma-cingulatum, hurricane-michael, specific-conductance, storm-surge, usgs-5cae3e73e4b0c3b00654cf97, usgs-amphibian-research-monitoring-initiative
Organization: Department of the Interior
Exit and Paradise Creek Drainage Area Boundaries, Alaska, 2012

This dataset contains drainage area boundaries for Exit Creek and Paradise Creek in Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska. A drainage area boundary identifies the land area generating surface water that flows to the network of streams above a particular point. In addition to defining the drainage divide, the drainage area boundary provides a bounding area for determining physical and climatic basin characteristics relevant to hydrology. The drainage area boundaries for Exit and Paradise Creeks were developed to compute stream drainage area, percent cover of glaciers or other land cover types, mean basin precipitation and temperature, and other basin characteristics. The drainage area boundaries for Exit and Paradise Creeks include refined glacier divides that may be used to generate glacier boundaries.

Tags: alaska, alluvial-fans, basin-characteristics, deglaciation, environment, exit-creek, exit-glacier, flood-plains, flooding, glaciers, harding-icefield, ice-ages, inlandwaters, kenai-fjords-national-park, kenai-peninsula, little-ice-age, paradise-creek, paradise-glacier, resurrection-river, river-basins, rivers, seward, usgs-asc129
Organization: Department of the Interior
Reach-scale estimates of nutrient, water use, dissolved oxygen, and pH conditions in the Pacific drainages of the United States

This data release contains data sets that describe reach-scale water-quality conditions for the Pacific drainages of the United States. The nutrient and water use conditions represent the predictions from recent USGS SPARROW (Spatially Related Regression on Watershed Attributes) modeling as well as other watershed attributes. The SPARROW predictions and other watershed attributes were also used as predictors of dissolved oxygen and pH conditions in multiple linear regression models.

Tags: california, idaho, montana, nutrient-content-water, oregon, oxygen-content-water, usgs-5e860779e4b01d50927f9a65, washington, water-ph, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
2013 Potentiometric-surface contours of the Upper Potomac-Raritan-Magothy Aquifer, New Jersey

This dataset contains 10-foot contours of the 2013 Upper Potomac-Raritan-Magothy aquifer potentiometric surface in the Coastal Plain of New Jersey. The potentiometric-surface contours show altitudes at which water levels would have risen in tightly-cased wells and represent conditions in October 2013 through January 2014. Groundwater-level data from 230 wells cased in, and with the screened interval open to the Upper Potomac-Raritan-Magothy aquifer, were used to construct the potentiometric surface and are publicly available from the U.S. Geological Survey's National Water Information System.

Tags: aquifer, effects-of-groundwater-extraction, groundwater, groundwater-level, hydrogeology, usgs-5efbb00482ced62aaaf05de6, water-resources, water-use, water-well
Organization: Department of the Interior
365149109492300 - Laguna Creek below Dennehotso near Kayenta, AZ - 2020/06/02 Terrestrial Lidar Data

This is a terrestrial LiDAR laser scanner dataset of an intermittent waterway named Laguna Creek near the community of Dennehotso, AZ collected on June 2, 2020. The reach scanned for this study is located at the bridge where State Route 160 crosses the waterway.  The river channel on the upstream side of the bridge has experienced bank erosion over recent years.  A bank stabilization project was implemented by the Arizona Department of Transportation in 2018.  This scan is intended to capture the condition of the bank in 2020 and be used to measure any changes to the bank protection that has occurred since the installation.. A Leica MS-60 Multistation was used for the laser scanner data collection. Multiple scans were combined by setting up the scanner using resection techniques coupled with Leica RTK - GPS equipment. All scan data are corrected using measurements of a reference mark with a known location that has been used for prior surveying projects.

Tags: 3-dimensional-data, autonomous-terrestrial-laser-scanner, bank-erosion, bridge-scour, elevation, erosion, flash-flood, global-positioning-system, global-positioning-system-location, gps, gps-location, point-density, real-time-kinematic, rtk, sedimentation, terrestrial-laser-scanner-data, usgs-5fca817fd34e30b912389361
Organization: Department of the Interior
Water-quality and streamflow datasets used in the Weighted Regressions on Time, Discharge, and Season (WRTDS) models to determine trends in the Nation’s rivers and streams, 1972-2012 (input)

In 1991, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) began a study of more than 50 major river basins across the Nation as part of the National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) project of the National Water-Quality Program. One of the major goals of the NAWQA project is to determine how water-quality conditions change over time.  To support that goal, long-term consistent and comparable monitoring has been conducted on streams and rivers throughout the Nation.  Outside of the NAWQA project, the USGS and other Federal, State, and local agencies also have collected long-term water-quality data to support their own assessments of changing water-quality conditions.  Data from these multiple sources have been combined to support one of the most comprehensive assessment conducted to date of water-quality trends in the United States. Ultimately, these data will provide insight into how natural features and human activities have contributed to water-quality changes over time in Nation’s streams and rivers.  This USGS data release contains all of the input and output files necessary to reproduce the results from the Weighted Regressions on Time, Discharge, and Season (WRTDS) models described in the associated U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report. Data preparation for input to the models is also fully described in the above-mentioned report.

Tags: carbon, discharge, nutrients, puerto-rico, rivers, salinity, sediment, trends, united-states, usgs-582c7406e4b04d580bd377e2, usgsnawqaswtrends, weighted-regression, wrtds
Organization: Department of the Interior
Milford Lake, Kansas spatial water-quality data, May 26, June 9, July 14, July 21, and September 15, 2016

This U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Data Release provides spatial water-quality data collected from Milford Lake, Kansas, on May 26, June 9, July 14, July 21, and September 15, 2016. All data are reported as raw measured values and are not rounded to USGS significant figures. Continuous water-quality monitors were used to measure water temperature, specific conductance, turbidity, pH, chlorophyll, phycocyanin, dissolved oxygen, and fluorescent dissolved organic matter (fDOM) at thirty-second intervals at depths of 0.5- and 1.5-meters throughout the lake.

Tags: chlorophyll, continuously-measured, dissolved-oxygen, field-deployment, fluorescent-dissolved-organic-matter-fdom, harmful-algal-bloom, kansas, milford-lake, monitor, ph, phycocyanin, spatial, specific-conductance, turbidity, united-states, usgs-58cbcbb4e4b0849ce97dccae, water-temperature
Organization: Department of the Interior
Training and validation data from the AI for Critical Mineral Assessment Competition (ver. 2.0, July 2025)

Extracting useful and accurate information from scanned geologic and other earth science maps is a time-consuming and laborious process involving manual human effort. To address this limitation, the USGS partnered with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to run the AI for Critical Mineral Assessment Competition, soliciting innovative solutions for automatically georeferencing and extracting features from maps. The competition opened for registration in August 2022 and concluded in December 2022. Training, validation, and evaluation data from the competition are provided here, as well as competition details and baseline solutions. The data are derived from published sources and are provided to the public to support continued development of automated georeferencing and feature extraction tools.  References for all maps are included with the data.
First Posted - December 27, 2023
Revised - July 21, 2025

Tags: ai, artificial-intelligence, competition, critical-mineral-resources, digitization, economy, geological-maps, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, gis, machine-learning, ml, modeling, resource-assessment, tool-development, topographic-maps, training-data, usgs-63a100d6d34e0de3a1f2794f
Organization: Department of the Interior
Satellite Data, Golden Eagles (Aquila chrysaetos), Western North America, 1993-1997

The satellite data consist of 9,253 estimated locations of 21 golden eagles that were satellite-tagged in either east-central Idaho (Salmon, Idaho) or southwestern Idaho (Snake River National Conservation Area) and tracked between 1993 and 1997 via the Argos satellite system. The raw eagle tracking data provided by Argos were filtered one time using a version of the Douglas Argos-Filter Algorithm and converted into XLS spreadsheet form. This preservation project preserved the geospatial and satellite information from the XLS spreadsheet and released it in shapefile format (Satellite_Data.shp) and CSV format (Satellite_Data.csv). Each tagged bird in this dataset has a unique PTT number that is consistent across the three datasets in this release. Each of the 21 golden eagles (with 23 total PTT IDs, due to recaptures) have satellite location information (provided in the Satellite_Data shapefile and CSV) and 11 of these birds have behavioral observations taken from the ground (see CSV on Observational Data landing page located here: https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/5ae8c2c0e4b06d9233b8a874). The banding data spreadsheet (see Banding Data landing page located here: https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/5c48bd17e4b0708288f25795) indicates which of the 21 satellite-tagged birds have associated observation data.

Tags: aquila-chrysaetos, argos-system, biota, birds, birds-of-prey, breeding, canada, eagles, habitat-connectivity, idaho, migration-organisms, north-america, plant-and-animal-tagging, radio-telemetry, satellite-telemetry, snake-river-bird-of-prey-natural-area, telemetry, united-states-of-america, usgs-5aaa9566e4b09e9cadb733e8, vhf-radio-tags
Organization: Department of the Interior
Conterminous U.S. Air Stagnation Index, Number of Days, 2007–2016

Using the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Air Stagnation Index (ASI), the total number of days during 2007–2016 with atmospheric conditions conducive for stagnant air conditions in the conterminous U.S. are documented in raster format geospatial data. These data provide the number of days that would allow the temporal buildup of atmospheric pollution (NOAA, 2017). NOAA provides ASI data on a monthly basis based on a modified version of Wang and Angell’s (1999) algorithm. The air stagnation index criteria are defined as sea level geostrophic wind less than 8m/sec (meters per second) (if there is a temperature inversion below 850mb (millibars), then less than 10 m/sec), 500 mb wind less than 13m/sec, and no precipitation. These criteria are evaluated at a spatial resolution of 0.25 x 0.25 degrees. The original NOAA ASI can be downloaded from the NOAA (https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/societal-impacts/air-stagnation/).

Tags: air-stagnation, atmosphere, climatology, conterminous-u-s, geospatial-datasets, meteorology, usgs-5cc0fc50e4b09b8c0b729919
Organization: Department of the Interior
2019 Hydrologic Data Summary for the Central Pine Barrens Region, Suffolk County, New York

This U.S. Geological Survey data release provides surface-water quality, streamflow, and groundwater-elevation data collected within the Central Pine Barrens (CPB) Region of Suffolk County, New York. The data were collected in cooperation with the Central Pine Barrens Commission and the Town of Brookhaven as part of a five-year comprehensive water-resources monitoring program.  Water quality and quality-assurance data from seven sites on two rivers (Carmans River- 5 sites and Peconic River - 2 sites) in the CPB are included. Carmans River sites were sampled four times throughout the year (fall, winter, spring, and summer) and Peconic River sites were sampled twice throughout the year (fall and spring). Water-quality field parameters measured during each site visit are included. All samples were analyzed for nutrients, major inorganics, and alkalinity. An annual set of organic samples for pesticide and pharmaceutical analysis were collected at one Carmans River site and two Peconic River sites. Periodic groundwater-elevation data collected from six CPB wells are included. Continuous (15-mimute interval)  groundwater-elevation data is included for one of the six wells.

Tags: carmans-river, central-pine-barrens, environmental-health, long-island, new-york, peconic-river, pine-barrens, river, stream, suffolk-county, surface-water, surface-water-quality, united-states, usgs-5e78d8bbe4b01d509270e488, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Faults--Offshore of Scott Creek map area, California

This part of DS 781 presents data for the faults for the geologic and geomorphic map of the Offshore of Scott Creek map area, California. The vector data file is included in "Faults_OffshoreScottCreek.zip," which is accessible from https://doi.org/10.5066/F7CJ8BJW. These data accompany the pamphlet and map sheets of Cochrane, G.R., Dartnell, P., Johnson, S.Y., Greene, H.G., Erdey, M.D., Dieter, B.E., Golden, N.E., Endris, C.A., Hartwell, S.R., Kvitek, R.G., Davenport, C.W., Watt, J.T., Krigsman, L.M., Ritchie, A.C., Sliter, R.W., Finlayson, D.P., and Maier, K.L. (G.R. Cochrane and S.A. Cochran, eds.), 2015, California State Waters Map Series--Offshore of Scott Creek, California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2015-1191, pamphlet 40 p., 10 sheets, scale 1:24,000, http://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20151191.

Tags: bathymetry, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, continental-island-shelf, environment, fault, faulting-geologic, geologic-structure, geoscientificinformation, imagerybasemapsearthcover, marine-geology, marine-nearshore-subtidal, marine-offshore-subtidal, northern-california-ecoregion, oceans, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pacific-ocean, pcmsc, rock-substrate, santa-cruz-county, scott-creek, sea-floor-characteristics, seabed, seafloor-topography, state-of-california, structural-geology, transform-continental-margin, u-s-geological-survey, unconsolidated-mineral-substrate, usgs, usgs-55661f28e4b0d9246a9ec155
Organization: Department of the Interior
Longitudinal profiles of surface water chemistry in the Sacramento River Deep Water Ship Channel

Longitudinal profiles of surface water chemistry were made using a Sea-Bird SUNA optical nitrate sensor and a YSI EXO2 water quality sonde. Water from 0.1 m depth was pumped to sensors configured with flow cells from a moving boat, and data were georeferenced with a Garmin GPS and compiled on a Campbell Sci datalogger. Details on the method can be found in Crawford et al. 2015 and Downing et al. 2016. Data were collected between July 10 and Aug 26, 2019 as part of an ecosystem experiment. Two longitudinal transects were made each day. In the morning, the boat traveled southward from the Sacramento Locks to Navigation Light 70. The afternoon transects proceeded while traveling northward. Each point has also been linearly referenced as distance to the northern terminus of the channel. Linear referencing was done in the R programming language after snapping points to a line running through the channel center.

Tags: carbon, conductivity, environment, estuary, nitrate, nitrogen, oxygen-content-water, sacramento-river, sacramento-river-deep-water-ship-channel, sacramentosan-joaquin-delta, temperature, turbidity, usgs-6011fd43d34e162231fed5fc, water-chemistry, water-ph, water-quality, water-temperature, west-sacramento
Organization: Department of the Interior