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USGS Data Sets

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Below are links to USGS data sets, with information on what you will find there. 

These are access directly into the data. If  you are looking for data tools or lessons using data, please follow one of the other tabs. 

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National Water Dashboard

What: Every USGS Stream gage with real time data.

You'll find: Stream flow, water lever, water levels. water quality, for surface water and ground water throughout the US and Territories.

Use For: Graphing water flow, monitoring floods, calculating flood risk, understanding stream behavior, connecting weather data to streamflow, mapping flood and drought conditions. 

Data Skills: graphing, calculations, evaluating trends, understanding hydrographs

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Water-quality and streamflow datasets used in the Weighted Regressions on Time, Discharge, and Season (WRTDS) models
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Water Quality Data

What: The chemical, physical, and biological properties of water from over 2000 sites aross the nation.

You'll Find: current data, historical data, and statistical data that can be graphed on site, or downloaded by location

Use For: Environmental science, chemistry, ecosystem health, municipal water supply, environmental justice, change over time

Data Skills: graphing, evaluating trends

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A queen bumblebee collects pollen from a thistle
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Predictions of Western bumble bee occurrence across time and space

What: These data represent occupancy estimates for western bumble bee across the western conterminous United States.

You'll Find: A map of historic, current and future distributions of bumble bees.

Next You Can: Students can view distributions of bumble bees on a map and learn GIS and other mapping concepts.

Use for: Ecosystems, future projection, wildlife biology

Data Skills: GIS, mapping concepts, spatial analysis

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Two National Park Service biologists wearing floatation vest fishing in boat for lake trout.
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CreelCat

What: A collection of creel and angler survey data from over 40 states as well as Washington DC and Puerto Rico.

You'll Find: A database and interactive tool for inland fisheries management and research

Next you can: Students can view and filter data sets, create charts, create maps, and summarize the data.

Use for: Environmental sciences, conservation and management research

Data Skills: Data visualization, data summarization, mapping, scatter plots, time series plots, bar charts, pie charts

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An underwater photograph shows a school of brightly colored fish swim over corals.
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Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS)

What: OBIS is a global open-access data and information clearing-house on marine biodiversity for science, conservation and sustainable development.

You'll Find: Datasets of biological occurrences in the ocean.

Next You Can: Students can view data sets of various occurrences of ocean biodiversity. 

Use for: Biodiversity, Data Standardization and Interoperability

Data Skills: Graphing, spatial and temporal analysis, mapping