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This is a temporary community space for submitting metadata records not associated with a USGS Trusted Digital Repository to the USGS Science Data Catalog.
The USGS Integrated Water Availability Assessments (IWAAs) are designed to be a multi-extent, near real-time census and seasonal prediction of water availability for both human and ecological uses at regional and national extents. As part of the IWAAs program, the National Water Availability Assessment (National IWAAS) is intended to provide periodic interpretive assessments of past, current, and future water demands compared to available supplies of clean water. The assessment will consider many of the factors that can influence the availability of water suitable for human and ecosystem uses including climate variability and change, and socioeconomic drivers. The assessments will synthesize relevant model output...
The Gap Analysis Project (GAP) is an element of the U.S. Geological Survey. GAP helps to implement the Department of the Interior’s goals of inventory, monitoring, research, and information transfer. GAP has three primary goals: Identify conservation gaps that help keep common species common; Provide conservation information to the public so that informed resource management decisions can be made; and Facilitate the application of GAP data and analysis to specific resource management activities. To implement these goals, GAP carries out the following objectives: Map the land cover of the United States Map predicted distributions of vertebrate species for the U.S. Map the location, ownership and stewardship of...
This community catalog serves the USGS Pennsylvania Water Science Center. The Water Science Center's mission is to collect, analyze and disseminate the impartial hydrologic data and information needed to wisely manage water resources for the people of the United States and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In Pennsylvania, the USGS's water-resources roots date back to the late 1800's, with the initiation of streamflow gaging on the Delaware and Susquehanna Rivers and the evaluation of groundwater resources in various parts of the Commonwealth. Today, the Pennsylvania Water Science Center's cadre of nearly 80 scientists, technicians, and support staff in New Cumberland, Exton, Pittsburgh, and Williamsport work in...
The National Hydrologic Geospatial Fabric (NHGF or the fabric) is a Water Mission Area (WMA) project focused on developing a web-accessible, middle-tier data system that will provide users access to the best-available geospatial data for hydrologic simulation modeling.
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CarpDAT is intended to serve as a repository for sharing various forms of invasive carp data being collected by cooperating agencies of the Mississippi River Invasive Carp Sub-basin Partnerships that are implementing projects identified in annual monitoring and response plans. CarpDAT will bring together data to meet the needs of both research and management communities. This community will consolidate resources that can eventually be accessed through a CarpDAT web application.
The Ecological Flows (Ecoflows) Program within the Water Mission Area (WMA) provides the data and science needed to develop and quantify relations between water availability and biological responses through improving the WMA’s ability to predict key ecological outcomes of human activities on the landscape. Program sub-objectives include: developing a comprehensive understanding of the interactions among aquatic ecosystems, hydrology, and hydrochemistry, developing and applying models to predict potential effects of changes in population, land use, climate, and management practices upon future water availability, and predicting the availability of impaired water resources and the effects of using these water sources...
The USGS Western Ecological Research Center (WERC) comprises a dispersed science community collocated with DOI agencies, academic institutions, or proximal to critical ecosystems. WERC scientists conduct peer-reviewed research using innovative tools to provide natural resource managers with the knowledge to address challenges to ecosystem function and service in Pacific West landscapes. Four Scientific Themes define the research of WERC scientists: Species and Landscape Response to Human Activity Renewable energy development, urbanization, water abatement, prescribed fires, barriers to movement, and invasive species are among key factors that impact Pacific western US natural resources. To identify potential impacts...
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) manages the exploration and development of the nation's offshore resources. It seeks to appropriately balance economic development, energy independence, and environmental protection through oil and gas leases, renewable energy development and environmental reviews and studies. Key functions of BOEM include: The Office of Strategic Resources, which is responsible for the development of the Five Year Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Oil and Natural Gas Leasing Program, oversees assessments of the oil, gas and other mineral resource potential of the OCS, inventories oil and gas reserves and develops production projections, and conducts economic evaluations that ensure the...
The Hydrologic Remote Sensing Branch (HRSB) community is intended to host remote sensing technology datasets and information products to help WMA and Water Science Center (WSC) staff more safely and effectively gage streams, monitor water quality, and measure the hydrologic cycle.
The USGS and Virginia Tech are determining if and how the implementation of conservation practices, such as best management practices (BMPs), in watersheds have improved the health of Chesapeake nontidal streams. Our goal is to identify the effects of BMPs and land-use on stream ecosystems by linking upstream landscape change to stream physical habitat, water quality, flow and temperature, and macroinvertebrate and fish responses. We are also determining the specific sources of stress to streams and fish populations to help identify which management practices are most likely to improve stream health. Each year from 2021 to 2024 we studied a different Chesapeake landscape setting that is a focus area for stakeholders...
The Geology, Energy & Minerals Science Center (GEMSC) is a research center within the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) that conducts comprehensive, interdisciplinary research, assessments, and surveys of the origin, occurrence, distribution, quantity, composition, and environmental effects of geologic energy materials, minerals, associated deposits, and waste materials. Additionally, GEMSC scientists are working on a broad range of current and emerging geology, energy, and minerals issues including evaluating waters produced during oil and gas extraction; identifying wastes that can be recovered or repurposed and used in new processes; conducting studies and assessments of critical minerals and rare earth elements;...
This community is designed to link data acquired for alkalic igneous centers of the western United States in support of critical mineral resource investigations. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the Central Montana Alkalic Province, Northern Black Hills (South Dakota-Wyoming), Front Range of Colorado, and Great Plains margin in New Mexico and Texas. Datasets may include, but are not limited to, geochemical, geochronological, and isotopic data. Scientists interested in contributing to this community are asked to contact the manager(s).
The Hydro-Terrestrial Earth System Testbed (HyTEST) project will provide standards, protocols, and data content to deliver a community-based computational testbed that will improve our ability to rapidly research, develop, test, and apply models across a variety of scales. In addition, the project will develop a transparent and adaptive governance process. This governance process will define the basis for assessing the performance of modeling applications. The HyTEST computational testbed and its governance processes will help produce a unified enterprise capacity for hydrologic simulation and prediction capacity.
The Geoheritage Sites of the Nation project has been established with the ultimate goal of developing a nationwide geoheritage GIS layer to accompany the 2D and 3D layers of the USGI. Through identification of the societal and educational values of significant geologic features, the USGS can provide relevant, inclusive, and accessible data for formal and informal educational opportunities at all levels to the broader public. By developing standardized selection criteria of geoheritage entities and a beta attribute schema, the Geoheritage Sites of the Nation Project hopes to seed the routine use of a methodology for the inclusion of geoheritage information into the USGI structured in ways that make USGS geologic...
The U.S. Geological Survey Southwest Gravity Program aims to provide high-precision time-lapse gravity (repeat microgravity) data for hydrologic studies in the southwestern US. Recent projects include monitoring recharge underneath ephemeral-stream channels, monitoring aquifer-storage change in unconfined and compressible aquifers, measuring preferential storage change at an artificial-recharge facility, and estimating specific yield through the correlation of gravity and water-level change in wells. Projects range in scale from the site-specific (individual recharge basins) to alluvial basin (e.g., the Tucson and Avra Valley groundwater basins). Southwest Gravity Program Data Releases Fact sheet about hydrologic...
The North Carolina Geographic Data Community is a group of geographic practitioners in the state of North Carolina that create and provide to the public geographic data set related to North Carolina in the public domain.
To generate a down-scaled likelihood occurrence model for the SAV community to predict potential impacts of restoration activities aimed at addressing documented NRDA damage to SAV.
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