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Data describing the use of retention ponds on commercial poultry facilities on Delmarva by wild waterfowl These data support a paired USGS publication and document the use of retention ponds on commercial poultry farms by wild waterfowl. Categories: Data; Tags: Chesapeake Bay, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Disease, avian influenza, biota, All tags... domestic poultry, wild waterfowl, Fewer tags Nitrogen Loads, Yields, and Associated Field Data Collected During Baseflow Conditions and Site Attributes for Small Basins Draining to Long Island Sound During the spring and summer of 2022, the U.S. Geological Survey collected water-quality samples for nutrient analysis at 45 stations across the state of Connecticut and adjacent areas of New York and Rhode Island to better understand the groundwater discharge component of nitrogen loading to the Long Island Sound. The targeted stations were located in small drainage basins (less than 50 square kilometers) in the southern portion of the Long Island Sound watershed. Sites were selected randomly from groups based on expected drivers or controls on baseflow nitrogen loads. Factors used in the grouping included four metrics calculated for the upstream watershed: percent impervious cover, septic system density, percent... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Connecticut, Connecticut Coastal, Hydrology, Long Island Sound, New York, All tags... Rhode Island, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, Water Resources, groundwater and surface-water interaction, inlandWaters, nitrogen, nutrient content (water), stream discharge, Fewer tags Long-term monotonic trends in annual and monthly streamflow metrics at streamgages in the United States The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Water Resources Mission Area (WMA) is working to address a need to understand where the Nation is experiencing water shortages or surpluses relative to the demand for water need by delivering routine assessments of water supply and demand and an understanding of the natural and human factors affecting the balance between supply and demand. A key part of these national assessments is identifying long-term trends in water availability, including groundwater and surface water quantity, quality, and use. This data release contains Mann-Kendall monotonic trend analyses for 18 observed annual and monthly streamflow metrics at 6,347 U.S. Geological Survey streamgages located in the conterminous... Categories: Data; Tags: Hydrology, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Water Resources, droughts, All tags... floods, hydrology, inlandWaters, streamflow, trends, Fewer tags Imagery training dataset for the River Imagery Sensing (RISE) application This data release contains time-lapse imagery taken at U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) stream gaging stations with associated hydrologic and meteorological data related to each image. These data are to help improve the development of models in detecting water elevation at a given stream gaging station. Images of the water surface and surroundings at USGS stream gaging stations were taken at varying time intervals ranging between every five minutes to an hour. Cameras used include trail cameras, web cameras, and the custom river imagery sensing (RISE) camera. Time-lapse images for each USGS stream gaging station are provided in compressed files (file extension .7z). These files are named in a format to identify the... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Remote Sensing, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Resources, camera, image, All tags... time-lapse, Fewer tags Identifying post-reservoir construction periods for monotonic trend analysis at streamgages in the United States The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Water Resources Mission Area (WMA) is working to address a need to understand where the Nation is experiencing water shortages or surpluses relative to the demand for water need by delivering routine assessments of water supply and demand and an understanding of the natural and human factors affecting the balance between supply and demand. A key part of these national assessments is identifying long-term trends in water availability, including groundwater and surface water quantity, quality, and use. An understanding of the impacts of reservoirs on water availability is essential for this assessment. This data release contains decadal time series of cumulative reservoir storage... Categories: Data; Tags: CONUS, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Water Resources, inlandWaters Temperature data collected from the Lower Yakima River from October 2018 to October 2020 A total of 27 temperature sensors were deployed along the lower 90 miles of the Yakima River at 7 locations where cold water had been previously observed. These 7 cold-water areas had 3 to 6 temperature sensors installed to document the extent and duration of these cold-water areas and their impacts on mainstem temperatures of the Lower Yakima River. Cold-water areas included the mouths of tributaries, alongside channels, and within alcoves. Sensor deployments ranged from 1 to 2 years beginning in October 2018. All temperature data are included in the Yakima.temperatures.zip folder. Details of each monitoring location are provided in the site.locs.csv file. In addition to the raw data and site location information,... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Benton County, Ecology, Hydrology, Richland, WA, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Washington State, Water Quality, Water Resources, Wildlife Biology, Yakima River, cold-water areas, inlandWaters, water temperature, Fewer tags Attribution of benthic macroinvertebrate sampling data to NHDPlus V2 and NHDPlus HR catchments within the Chesapeake Bay Watershed This data release links benthic macroinvertebrate sites to both the NHDPlus Version 2 and NHDPlus High Resolution Region 02 networks, hereafter referred to as V2 and HR, using the hydrolink methodology. Linked benthic macroinvertebrate sites are those included in the Chesapeake Bay Basin-wide Index of Biotic Integrity (Chessie BIBI) developed by the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin (ICPRB) and available from the Chesapeake Bay Program (https://datahub.chesapeakebay.net/LivingResources). The data set contains a unique sample identifier created by ICPRB, survey program, coordinates of sample, linked V2 COMID and HR Permanent Identifier, and information regarding uncertainty in the attribution. We strongly... Categories: Data; Tags: Aquatic Biology, District of Columbia (national district), Ecology, Hydrology, Maryland (state), All tags... New York (state), Pennsylvania (state), USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Virginia (state), West Virginia (state), aquatic biology, aquatic ecosystems, ecology, freshwater ecosystems, hydrology, macroinvertebrates, Fewer tags Various Lake Powell data used for predicting smallmouth bass entrainment rates and population growth based on thermal suitability below and downstream of Glen Canyon Dam These data were compiled to create models that estimate entrainment rates and population growth rates of smallmouth bass below Glen Canyon Dam. Objective(s) of our study were to predict smallmouth bass entrainment rates and population growth under different future scenarios of Lake Powell elevations and management. These data represent parameters needed for associated models and data needed to produce figures. These data were collected from publicly available online sources including published papers and federal government datasets. These data were assembled by researchers from U.S. Geological Survey, Utah State University, Colorado State University, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. These data can be used to run... Categories: Data; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Arizona, Climatology, Colorado River, Diamond Creek, All tags... Ecology, Geography, Glen Canyon, Glen Canyon Dam, Global Horizon Irradiance, Grand Canyon, Hydrology, Information Sciences, Lake Powell, Lees Ferry, Little Colorado River, Page, Page Airport, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Utah, Williams, adaptive management, age class, air temperature, area, bathymetry, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, data release, depth suitability, ecological processes, elevation, entrainment rates, environment, evaporation, field inventory and monitoring, inflow projections, inlandWaters, mean observed lengths, modeling, observed daily depths, outflow projections, population growth, precipitation (atmospheric), reproduction, reservoir water quality model CEQUAL-W2, smallmouth bass, solar, study areas, surface water (non-marine), surface water quality, temperature profiles, thermal suitability, water depths, water temperature, Fewer tags Specific conductance data collected during slug additions Slug additions are often the most accurate method for determining discharge when traditional current meter or acoustic measurements are unreliable because of high turbulence, rocky streambed, shallow or sheet flow, or the stream is physically inaccessible (e.g., under ice or canyon walls) or unsafe to wade (Zellweger et al., 1989, Kilpatrick and Cobb 1984, Ferranti 2015). The slug addition method for determining discharge requires an injection of a known amount of a single salt and high-frequency downstream measurement of solute concentration to capture the response curve (Kilpatrick and Cobb 1984). A new slug method was developed to determine stream discharge utilizing specific conductance and ionic molal conductivities... Categories: Data; Tags: Geochemistry, Hydrology, NA, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, All tags... conductivity, discharge, slug, specific conductance, Fewer tags Impact of suspended sediments/soils to juvenile mussels This data release includes physical and chemical characteristics of field collected sediment and soil samples in Missouri representing potential sediment/soil that may enter the water column during construction related activities. Three samples were collected, including Spring River sediment, Osage River bank soil and Columbia crushed limestone. The impacts of increased suspended solid level due to the three samples on early-stage freshwater mussels were examined using three freshwater mussel species, including Fatmucket (Lampsilis siliquoidea), Arkansas Brokenray (Lampsilis reeveiana), and Washboard (Megalonaias nervosa). Specifically, toxicity endpoints including survival, biomass, and growth of juveniles were... Categories: Data; Tags: Acute toxicity, Aquatic Biology, Boone County, Chronic toxicity, Osage River, All tags... Sediment pollution, Spring River, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water pollution, biota, sediment transport, Fewer tags Modelled Lake Powell releases and reservoir elevations under different alternative management scenarios These data were compiled for/to modeling efforts for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) analyses for the Colorado River in Grand Canyon, Arizona. Objective(s) of our study were to create revised monthly Lake Powell elevations and outflows from Bureau of Reclamation Colorado River Mid-term Modeling System (CRMMS) traces that incorporate the alternatives in the sEIS documents and indicate when potential actions may occur and how that changes water movement and storage. These data represent monthly hydrologies for Lake Powell: inflow, outflow, and elevation forecasts for 2024-2027, as well as volumes of water in outflows for different water mangement strategies in NEPA supplemental... Categories: Data; Tags: Arizona, Biota, Colorado River, Geography, Glen Canyon, All tags... Grand Canyon, Hydrology, Information Sciences, InlandWaters, Lake Powell, Lees Ferry, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Resources, aquatic biology, data release, freshwater ecosystems, hydrographic datasets, invasive species, limnology, water budget, water quality, water temperature, Fewer tags Strontium isotope, amino acid, and fossil taxonomy data to aid in identifying instances of marine terrace reoccupation on Anacapa and San Miguel Islands, California, USA In areas of low uplift rate on the Pacific Coast of North America, reoccupation of emergent marine terraces by later high-sea stands has been hypothesized to explain the existence of thermally anomalous faunas (mixtures of warm and cool species) of last interglacial age. If uplift rates have been low for much of the Quaternary, it follows that higher (older) terraces should also show evidence of reoccupation. Strontium isotope analyses of fossils from a high-elevation marine terrace on Anacapa Island, California yield a suite of ages ranging from ~2.4-2.3 Ma to ~1.4-1.5 Ma. These results indicate that terrace reoccupation and fossil mixing on Anacapa Island could have taken place over several interglacial periods... Categories: Data; Tags: Anacapa Island, California, Channel Islands National Park, Climatology, Geochemistry, All tags... Geomorphology, Marine Geology, San Miguel Island, Strontuim isotope geochronology, U-series dating, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), amino acid geochronology, last interglacial, marine terrace, paleontology, paleozoogeography, sea level, Fewer tags Stochastic lava flow forecasting code used during the 2014-2015 Pāhoa lava flow crisis, Kīlauea Volcano, Island of Hawai‘i The 1983-2018 Puʻuʻōʻō eruption, on the East Rift Zone of Kīlauea volcano, consisted of many different episodes and several phases of lava flows threatening residential areas (Heliker and Mattox 2003; Orr and others 2015). One of these crises occurred in 2014-2015, when lava erupting from Puʻuʻōʻō advanced north of the rift zone, towards the town of Pāhoa (Poland and others 2016; Brantley and others 2019). This slow-moving crisis unfolded over approximately four months, as pāhoehoe lava gradually flowed towards the town. In the end, the lava flow fortunately stalled at the edge of the residential area, destroying only one home. During the crisis, geologists at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Hawaiian Volcano... Categories: Data; Tags: East Rift Zone, Hazard forecasting, Island of Hawai`i, Kilauea, Lava flow, All tags... Pahoa, Stochastic modeling, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Volcanology, biota, Fewer tags NGWOS Ground Based Discrete Snowpack Measurements Ground-based discrete snowpack measurements were collected during winter field campaigns starting in 2020. These data were collected as part of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Next Generation Water Observing System (NGWOS) Upper Colorado River Basin project focusing on the relation between snow dynamics and water resources. This data release consists of three child items. Each child item contains snow depth, snow density, snow temperature, or snow water equivalent values measured discretely in the field. The data are provided in comma separated value (CSV) files. Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Colorado, Colorado River, Hydrology, Integrated Water Science, Rocky Mountains, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Resources, snow, snow density, snow depth, snow pit, snow temperature, snow water equivalent, snowpack, Fewer tags Pilot Study of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Infiltration to Shallow Groundwater Through Selected Soils in New Hampshire, 2023 In a study conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services, detectable concentrations of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) were found in the soil at every site despite targeting locations with no known PFAS sources (Santangelo and others, 2022). The widespread distribution of PFAS concentrations in New Hampshire has since sparked critical interest into understanding whether recharge to groundwater contains significant concentrations of PFAS after infiltration through soils. To address this concern, the USGS implemented a pilot study designed to evaluate whether PFAS infiltrate through shallow soil into shallow groundwater. Five sites were selected... Categories: Data; Tags: Eastern United States, Environmental Health, Hydrology, New Hampshire, Northeast, All tags... PFAS, Soil Sciences, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, Water Resources, biota, chemical analysis, groundwater, hydrology, lysimeters, soil, Fewer tags Plant composition, shrub biomass, and soil biogeochemistry from an experimental drought treatment on the Colorado Plateau These data were compiled for a study that investigated the effects of drought seasonality and plant community composition in a dryland ecosystem. In 2015 U.S. Geological Survey ecologists recorded vegetation and soil moisture data in 36 experimental plots which manipulated precipitation in two plant community types. The experiment consisted of three precipitation treatments: control (ambient precipitation), cool-season drought (-66% ambient precipitation November-April), and warm-season drought (-66% ambient precipitation May-October), applied in two plant communities (perennial grasses with or without a large shrub, Ephedra viridis) over a three-year period. These data were collected from 2015 to 2022 near Canyonlands... Categories: Data; Tags: Achnatherum hymenoides, Botany, C3 photosynthesis, C4 photosynthesis, Canyonlands National Park, All tags... Climatology, Colorado Plateau, Ecology, Ephedra viridis, Geography, Indian ricegrass, Information Sciences, Islands of Fertility, James' galleta, Needles District, Pleuraphis jamesii, Soil Sciences, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), USGS:6553a618d34ee4b6e05c3e2b, Utah, ambient precipitation, biogeochemical cycling, biogeochemical data, biogeochemistry, biomass, biota, carbon, carbon concentrations, control treatments, cool-season drought treatments, data release, drought seasonality, droughts, dryland ecosystems, ecosystems, experimental plots, experimental seasonal drought, field inventory and monitoring, field measurements, field sampling, geoscientificInformation, interspace cover estimates, mormon tea, nitrogen, nitrogen concentrations, percent cover estimates, perennial grasses, phosphorus, phosphorus concentrations, photosynthesis, plant community composition, plants (organisms), precipitation (atmospheric), precipitation treatments, shrubland ecosystems, soil cores, soil moisture, soil sciences, soil volumetric water content, southeastern Utah, vegetation, warm-season drought treatments, Fewer tags Geochemical, grain size, lithological, bathymetric, reconstructed integrated vapor transport, and age model data for Leonard Lake, Mendocino County The data herein are geochemical (from X-Ray fluorescence spectrometry), grain size (percent clay, silt, sand), lithological (loss on ignition data), bathymetric, reconstructed IVT, and radioactive isotopes (14-C, 210-Pb, 226-Ra, and 137-Cs). These data were collected from sediments from Leonard Lake, Mendocino County, California, USA starting in 2014. Together, these data provide evidence for a record of extreme precipitation going back three millennia, showing regional pluvial and drought cycles. Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: California, Climatology, Geography, Hydrology, Limnology, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, ecology, flooding, Fewer tags Rate of shoreline change statistics for New York State coastal wetlands This data set contains shoreline rate of change statistics for New York State coastal wetlands. Analysis was performed using the Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS), created by U.S. Geological Survey, version 5.0, an extension for ArcMap. A reference baseline was used as the originating point for orthogonal transects cast by the DSAS software. The transects intersect each polyline vector shoreline establishing intersection measurement points, which were then used to calculate the rates of change. End-point rates, calculated by dividing the distance of shoreline movement by the time elapsed between the oldest and the most recent shoreline, were generated for wetlands where fewer than three historic shorelines... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Digital Shoreline Analysis System, End-Point Rate, Geography, Geomorphology, Great South Bay, All tags... Hudson River, Jamaica Bay, Linear Regression Rate, New York, New York Bay, New York State, Peconic Bay, Shoreline Change Rate, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Water Resources, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, coastal processes, erosion, estuary, shoreline accretion, wetland, wetland ecosystems, Fewer tags Seamless Integrated Geologic Map Database of the Intermountain West: Contributions to The National Geologic Map This dataset is intended to provide seamless, integrated geologic mapping of the U.S. Intermountain West region as a contribution to The National Geologic Map supported by the National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program of the U.S. Geological Survey. Surficial and bedrock geology are included in this data release as independent datasets at a variable resolution from 1:50,000 to 1:250,000 scale. No original interpretations are presented in this dataset; rather, all interpretive data are assimilated from referenceable publications. Derivative polygon features created for this dataset demonstrate the distribution of SIGMa-GeMS Geologic Provinces derived from the distribution of map units. Initial contributions to... Categories: Data; Tags: Colorado, Espanola Basin, Geomorphology, Laramide orgeny, Mazatzal terrane, All tags... National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program, New Mexico, Rio Grande Rift, San Juan Basin, San Juan Mountains, San Luis Valley, Southern Rocky Mountains volcanic field, Stratigraphy, Structural Geology, Taos Pleateau volcanic field, The National Geologic Map, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Volcanology, Western Interior Basin, Yavapai terrane, bedrock geologic units, faulting, geologic maps, gravel deposits, igneous rocks, metamorphic rocks, plutonic rocks, sand deposits, sedimentary rocks, unconsolidated deposits, volcanic rocks, Fewer tags Vascular plant data collected at the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park, ND, USA in 1996 This data release contains three data sets. The data were collected in 1996 at the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park, ND, USA. The main data set comprises the list of plant species observed and includes the transect, plot number, plot size, and vegetation type where each species was found. A second data set has the locations of the transects, along with their IDs which can be linked to the species list. The final data set is a list of nomenclature updates and species that had duplicates in ITIS, along with the currently accepted scientific names of these species. Categories: Data; Tags: Botany, Ecology, Land Use Change, North Dakota, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, community ecology, flowering plants, grassland ecosystems, vascular plants, Fewer tags 1 2 3 4 5 ... 10 »