Nonindigenous aquatic species and potential spread after Hurricane Maria

This map was created to help assess impacts on nonindigenous aquatic species distributions due to flooding associated with Hurricane Maria. Storm surge and flood events can assist expansion and distribution of nonindigenous aquatic species through the connection of adjacent watersheds, backflow of water upstream of impoundments, increased downstream flow, and creation of freshwater bridges along coastal regions. This map will help natural resource managers determine potential new locations for individual species, or to develop a watch list of potential new species within a watershed. These data include a subset of data from the Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database, that fall within the general area of the 2017...

Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: AIS, ANS, Aquatic Biology, GIS, Island, All tags... Puerto Rico, San Juan, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), amphibians, animals, biota, biota, crustaceans, environment, fish, flooding, frogs, hurricanes, hurricanes, inlandWaters, introduced species, invasives, invertebrates, mollusks, non-indigenous, non-native, nonindigenous, nonnative species, plants, reptiles, storm, turtles, vertebrates, Fewer tags

National Fish Habitat Partnership (NFHP) 2015 Cumulative Habitat Condition Indices with Limiting and Severe Disturbances for the Conterminous United States linked to NHDPlusV1 v2.0

This CSV file contains cumulative fish habitat condition index (HCI) scores generated for river reaches of the conterminous United States as well as indices generated specifically for four spatial units including local and network catchments and 90 m local and network buffers of river reaches. Note that the cumulative HCI score is determined from limiting index scores generated for the four spatial units listed above. Detailed methods for calculating cumulative fish habitat condition index scores as well as the indices for each spatial extent can be found on the following website: http://assessment.fishhabitat.org/: The variables used to create indices in catchments vs. buffers differ due to differences in resolution...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, Map Service; Tags: 2015 National Assessment, 2015 National Assessment, Alabama, Anthropogenic factors, Aquatic habitats, All tags... Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Direct habitat alteration, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Habitat Characterization, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Landscape, Landscape Ecology, Limiting factors, Lotic, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, NFHP Cooperator, NHDPlusV1, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Spatial Data, Tennessee, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Utah, Virginia, Visual, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, anthropogenic disturbance, biota, environmental assessment, habitat alteration, habitat condition, inlandWaters, Fewer tags

Nonindigenous aquatic species and potential spread after Hurricane Irma

This map was created to help assess impacts on nonindigenous aquatic species distributions due to flooding associated with Hurricane Irma. Storm surge and flood events can assist expansion and distribution of nonindigenous aquatic species through the connection of adjacent watersheds, backflow of water upstream of impoundments, increased downstream flow, and creation of freshwater bridges along coastal regions. This map will help natural resource managers determine potential new locations for individual species, or to develop a watch list of potential new species within a watershed. These data include a subset of data from the Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database, that fall within the general area of the 2017...

Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: AIS, ANS, Aquatic Biology, Florida, GIS, All tags... Georgia, South Carolina, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), amphibians, animals, biota, biota, crustaceans, environment, fish, flooding, frogs, hurricanes, hurricanes, inlandWaters, introduced species, invasives, invertebrates, mollusks, non-indigenous, non-native, nonindigenous, nonnative species, plants, reptiles, storm, turtles, vertebrates, Fewer tags

Fishtail huc12: Indices and supporting data characterizing the current (1961-2000) and future (2041-2080) risk to fish habitat degradation in the Northeast Climate Science Center region

This dataset represents results from this study attributed to the Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC) 12 watershed boundaries. Human impacts occurring throughout the Northeast and Midwest United States, including urbanization, agriculture, and dams, have multiple effects on the region’s streams which support economically valuable stream fishes. Changes in climate are expected to lead to additional impacts in stream habitats and fish assemblages in multiple ways, including changing stream water temperatures. To manage streams for current impacts and future changes, managers need region-wide information for decision-making and developing proactive management strategies. Our project met that need by integrating results...

Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Aquatic habitats, Connecticut, Data Visualization & Tools, Delaware, Fish, All tags... Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Northeast CASC, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Science Tools For Managers, Vermont, Virginia, Washington D.C., Water, Coasts and Ice, West Virginia, Wildlife and Plants, Wisconsin, climate change, drainage basins, habitat fragmentation, inlandWaters, land use and land cover, rivers, streams, water quality, Fewer tags

Data release: Flood and Storm Tracker (FaST) data

This product summarizes data used in the analysis portion of our Flood and Storm Tracker (FaST) manuscript (see larger work citation). The dataset titled HUCsppMatrices2012-2022.csv has each Hydraulic Unit Code (HUC) with an introduced taxon in each storm and the HUC it connected to by flood waters (lateral or longitudinal). The dataset titled ConnectionPoints_2012-2022.csv has each lateral (not longitudinal or downstream) connection point for each storm event. The dataset titled LongitudinalConnectionPoints_2012-2022.csv has each longitudinal or downstream connection point for each storm event.

Categories: Data; Tags: Geography, Hurricane, Hydrologic connections, Hydrology, Land Use Change, All tags... Non-native species, Puerto Rico, Remote Sensing, Risk assessment, Storm flooding, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, biota, Fewer tags

National Fish Habitat Partnership (NFHP) 2015 Human Disturbance Data for Alaska linked to HUC12 Watersheds

This CSV file contains landscape factors representing anthropogenic disturbances to stream habitats summarized within 6th level Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC12) watersheds of the Watershed Boundary Dataset. The source datasets compiled and attributed to spatial units were identified as being: (1) meaningful for assessing fluvial fish habitat; (2) consistent across the entire study area in the way that they were assembled; (3) broadly representative of conditions in the past 10 years, and (4) of sufficient spatial resolution that they could be used to make valid comparisons among local catchment units. Variables summarized at the HUC12 scale include measures of anthropogenic land uses, population density, roads, dams,...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: 2015 National Assessment, 2015 National Assessment, Alaska, Anthropogenic factors, DataProduct, All tags... Habitat Characterization, Lotic, NFHP, NFHP Cooperator, Spatial Data, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Visual, Watershed Boundary Dataset, drainage basins, environmental assessment, environmental condition, human impacts, inlandWaters, river basin, river reaches, streams, water quality, watershed, Fewer tags

DRAFT: National Fish Habitat Partnership (NFHP) 2015 Fish Habitat Condition Indices: Summarized to Ecological and Jurisdictional Spatial Units

Summaries of fish habitat condition for ecological and jurisdictional spatial units that are commonly used for management decisions. Data from the National Fish Habitat Partnership's (NFHP) 2015 National Assessment were summarized from National Hydrography Dataset PlusV1 (NHDPlusV1; 1:100,000 scale) stream reaches to larger ecological and jurisdicitonal spatial units. A length-weighted average approach was used to summarize information. Summarization processes are documented in this repository. Steps include 1) Import data from source into database 2) Summarize Data 3) Visualize Data. Additional information about NFHP's 2015 National Assessment can be found at http://assessment.fishhabitat.org.

Tags: analysis package, habitat condition, placeNameLookup

Native ranges of freshwater fishes of North America

Background: The Nonindigenous Aquatic Species (NAS) Database functions as a repository and clearinghouse for the occurrence of nonindigenous aquatic species information from across the United States. The Database contains locality information on more than 1,300 species introduced as early as 1800, including freshwater vertebrates and invertebrates, aquatic plants, and marine fishes. Taxa include both foreign species and North American native species that have been translocated outside of their natural range. Locality data are derived from many sources, including scientific literature; Federal, State, and local natural resource monitoring programs; museum collections; news agencies; and direct submission through...

Tags: Alaska, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, biogeography, drainage basins, All tags... native species, nonindigenous species, specimen collecting, Fewer tags

National Fish Habitat Partnership (NFHP) 2015 Anthropogenic Disturbance Data for the Conterminous United States linked to the NHDPLUSV1

This CSV file contains landscape factors representing anthropogenic disturbances to stream habitats summarized within local and network stream catchments as well as 90 m local and network buffer of stream reaches throughout the conterminous U.S. The source datasets compiled and attributed to spatial units were identified as being: (1) meaningful for assessing fluvial fish habitat; (2) consistent across the entire study area in the way that they were assembled; (3) broadly representative of conditions in the past 10 years, and (4) of sufficient spatial resolution that they could be used to make valid comparisons among local catchment units. Variables summarized at the catchment scale include measures of anthropogenic...

Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Alabama, Anthropogenic factors, Arizona, Arkansas, California, All tags... Colorado, Connecticut, DataProduct, Delaware, District of Columbia, Environmental condition, Florida, Georgia, Habitat Characterization, Habitat suitability, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Lotic, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, NFHP Cooperator, NHDPlusV1, National Assessment, National Assessment, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, NoVisual, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Spatial Data, Tennessee, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, drainage basins, environmental assessment, river basin, river reaches, streams, water quality, Fewer tags

National Fish Habitat Partnership (NFHP) 90 Meter Buffers of the NHDPlusV1 for the Conterminous United States

This geodatabase contains 90 meter buffers of streams within the National Hydrography Dataset Plus Version 1 (NHDPlusV1). These buffers were developed by converting NHDPlusV1 flowlines to a 30m grid, then running a euclidean allocation function in ArcPy to generate buffer zones. For flowlines representing artificial paths within NHD area river polygons, buffers extend from the outside edges ("banks") of the polygon outward. The source code for buffer development can be found at https://github.com/ArthurCooper/NFHP-Buffer-Code.

Types: Citation; Tags: 2015 National Assessment, 2015 National Assessment, Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, All tags... California, Colorado, Connecticut, DataProduct, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Habitat Characterization, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, NFHP Cooperator, NHDPlusV1, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, NoVisual, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Spatial Data, Stream buffers, Tennessee, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, drainage basins, river reaches, streams, Fewer tags

Boat ramp locations in the United States of America

The dataset provides point locations of many boat ramp locations in the United States accessible to the public.

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Geography, Hydrology, Information Sciences, Marina/Boat Ramp, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, United States of America, Alaska, Hawaii, Water Resources, biota, boat ramp, boat launch, hydrographic structures, recreation, Fewer tags

Fishtail catch: Indices and supporting data characterizing the current (1961-2000) and future (1961-2000) risk to fish habitat degradation in the Northeast Climate Science Center region

This dataset represents results from this study attributed to the NHDPlus catchments. Human impacts occurring throughout the Northeast and Midwest United States, including urbanization, agriculture, and dams, have multiple effects on the region’s streams which support economically valuable stream fishes. Changes in climate are expected to lead to additional impacts in stream habitats and fish assemblages in multiple ways, including changing stream water temperatures. To manage streams for current impacts and future changes, managers need region-wide information for decision-making and developing proactive management strategies. Our project met that need by integrating results of a current condition assessment...

Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Aquatic habitats, Connecticut, Data Visualization & Tools, Delaware, Fish, All tags... Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Northeast CASC, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Science Tools For Managers, Vermont, Virginia, Washington D.C., Water, Coasts and Ice, West Virginia, Wildlife and Plants, Wisconsin, climate change, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, drainage basins, habitat fragmentation, inlandWaters, land use and land cover, rivers, streams, water quality, Fewer tags

Fishtail reach: Indices and supporting data characterizing the current (1961-2000) and future (2041-2080) risk to fish habitat degradation in the Northeast Climate Science Center region

This dataset represents results from this study attributed to the NHDPlus stream reach segments. Human impacts occurring throughout the Northeast and Midwest United States, including urbanization, agriculture, and dams, have multiple effects on the region’s streams which support economically valuable stream fishes. Changes in climate are expected to lead to additional impacts in stream habitats and fish assemblages in multiple ways, including changing stream water temperatures. To manage streams for current impacts and future changes, managers need region-wide information for decision-making and developing proactive management strategies. Our project met that need by integrating results of a current condition...

Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Aquatic habitats, Connecticut, Data Visualization & Tools, Delaware, Fish, All tags... Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Northeast CASC, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Science Tools For Managers, Vermont, Virginia, Washington D.C., Water, Coasts and Ice, West Virginia, Wildlife and Plants, Wisconsin, climate change, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, drainage basins, habitat fragmentation, inlandWaters, land use and land cover, rivers, streams, water quality, Fewer tags

Assessing risk communication in the pet and aquarium trade

This product summarizes data for the web engine search analysis and the outreach materials analysis from our report entitled, Assessing Risk Communication in the Pet and Aquarium Trade: An Analysis of Outreach and Engagement Efforts. The web engine search data include internet search results from Google and Bing. Materials analysis data include a matrix of questions that were used to determine messaging elements.

Categories: Data; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Botany, Communication, Ecology, Language trends, All tags... Non-native pet, Outreach campaign, Pet release, Pet trade, Semi-structured interview, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Water Resources, biota, Fewer tags

National Fish Habitat Partnership (NFHP) 2015 Anthropogenic Disturbance Data for Southeast Alaska With Link to the Modified NHD with Catchments v1.1

This CSV file contains landscape factors representing anthropogenic disturbances to stream habitats summarized within local and network stream catchments of Southeast Alaska. The source datasets compiled and attributed to spatial units were identified as being: (1) meaningful for assessing fluvial fish habitat; (2) consistent across the entire study area in the way that they were assembled; (3) broadly representative of conditions in the past 10 years, and (4) of sufficient spatial resolution that they could be used to make valid comparisons among local catchment units. Variables summarized at the catchment scale include measures of anthropogenic land uses, population density, roads, dams, mines, culverts, 303d...

Categories: Data, Data Release - Revised; Tags: 2015 National Assessment, 2015 National Assessment, Alaska, Anthropogenic factors, DataProduct, All tags... Environmental condition, Habitat Characterization, Lotic, NFHP Cooperator, NHDHR, NoVisual, Regional Assessment, Spatial Data, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), drainage basins, environmental assessment, human impacts, inlandWaters, river reaches, streams, water quality, Fewer tags

Waterfalls and Rapids in the Conterminous United States Linked to the National Hydrography Datasets V2.0

This GeoJSON dataset contains information about 10780 waterfall and 1080 rapid locations (referred to as falls throughout the metadata) and characteristics (e.g. type and height) for the conterminous United States. This dataset centralizes known information about falls while providing basic quality control (i.e. resolving duplicate records and spatial accuracy checks) and linkages to stream networks intended to facilitate stream network analyses. Locations of falls were sourced from the World Waterfall Database (WWD, www.worldwaterfalldatabase.com), the US Forest Service Center for Aquatic Technology Transfer (acquired from Southeast Aquatic Barrier Inventory), and Geographic Names Information System (GNIS, https://geonames.usgs.gov)....

Tags: Aquatic Biology, CONUS, Connectivity, Conterminous United States, Contiguous United States, All tags... Geography, Habitat connectivity, Habitat fragmentation, HydroLinked data, Hydrography linked data, Linear referenced, Linear referencing, Lotic, Lower 48, NFHP Cooperator, NHDHR, NHDPlusV2, National Hydrography Dataset Plus, National Hydrography Datasets High Resolution, National hydrography datasets, NoVisual, Point event, Rapids, Rivers, Spatial Data, Spatial waterfall datasets, Streams, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Waterfalls, Fewer tags

Nonindigenous aquatic species and potential spread after Hurricane Harvey-revised map

This refined map was created to help assess possible spread of nonindigenous aquatic species distributions due to flooding associated with Hurricane Harvey. Storm surge and flood events can assist expansion and dissemination of nonindigenous aquatic species through the connection of adjacent watersheds, backflow of water upstream of impoundments, increased downstream flow, and creation of freshwater bridges along coastal regions. This map will help natural resource managers determine potential new locations for individual species, or to develop a watch list of possible new species within a watershed. These data include a subset of data from the Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database, that fall within the general...

Categories: Data; Tags: AIS, ANS, GIS, Houston, Louisiana, All tags... Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), amphibians, animals, biota, biota, crustaceans, environment, fish, flooding, frogs, hurricanes, hurricanes, inlandWaters, introduced species, invasives, invertebrates, mollusks, non-indigenous, non-native, nonindigenous, nonnative species, plants, reptiles, storm, turtles, vertebrates, Fewer tags

Nonindigenous aquatic species and potential spread after Hurricane Nate

This map was created to help assess impacts on nonindigenous aquatic species distributions due to flooding associated with Hurricane Nate. Storm surge and flood events can assist expansion and distribution of nonindigenous aquatic species through the connection of adjacent watersheds, backflow of water upstream of impoundments, increased downstream flow, and creation of freshwater bridges along coastal regions. This map will help natural resource managers determine potential new locations for individual species, or to develop a watch list of potential new species within a watershed. These data include a subset of data from the Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database, that fall within the general area of the 2017...

Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: AIS, ANS, Alabama, Aquatic Biology, Florida, All tags... GIS, Louisiana, Mississippi, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), amphibians, animals, biota, biota, crustaceans, environment, fish, flooding, frogs, hurricanes, hurricanes, inlandWaters, introduced species, invasives, invertebrates, mollusks, non-indigenous, non-native, nonindigenous, nonnative species, plants, reptiles, storm, turtles, vertebrates, Fewer tags