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We monitored breeding birds at Whiskey Island, Louisiana between March through July from 2015 to 2020. We surveyed all available habitat by foot, using high-powered spotting scopes and binoculars to search for and identify nesting birds. We documented species, abundance, habitat, location, and breeding behavior for each bird that we observed to be breeding. We modeled the counts of...

This data release contains the boundaries of assessment units and input data for the assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources in the Santa Maria Basin Province, California. The assessment unit is the fundamental unit used in the National Assessment Project for the assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources. The assessment unit is defined within the context of the higher...

This data release includes time-series data from 18 monitoring stations installed in Puerto Rico following Hurricane María in 2017, which led to over 70,000 landslides across the island (Hughes and others, 2017). The first two stations were installed in July of 2018 (Smith and others, 2020) to investigate subsurface hydrologic response to rainfall and develop a quantitative link between...

We present new electron microprobe analyses of olivine and oxide grains hosted in three young basaltic lava flows located in northern Harrat Rahat, a distributed volcanic field in central-western Saudi Arabia.These lavas, collectively referred to as the Five Fingers, erupted at ca. 24 ka from three elongate vent complexes that fall along a common lineament. Integrated with existing...

The Alaska Volcano Observatory conducted overflights of the active north crater of Mount Young on Semisopochonoi Island, Alaska, during its eruption in 2021 to capture the volcanic and hydrothermal activity within the vent during (May 30) and between (June 8) ash emissions. Thermal videos were acquired to see through the ash and steam and observe the features within the active crater...

Wildfire can substantially alter the hydrologic response of watersheds to rainfall, and debris-flow activity is among the most destructive consequences of these events. To assist federal, state, and local agencies in planning for postfire hazards, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) conducts debris-flow hazard assessments for recent wildfires. This collection holds all postfire debris-flow...

This data release contains (1) principal facts of gravity measurements collected by the U.S. Geological Survey in 2000-2004 (usgs_iso.csv) and (2) inputs to a gravity inversion of Cenozoic basin thickness based on those gravity and previous measurements. Gridded data (geotiffs.zip) consist of the input isostatic gravity grid as well as grids of Cenozoic basin thickness and basement...

This data release contains postprocessed model output from a set of numerical simulations of hypothetical outburst floods of Spirit Lake, downstream sediment entrainment, and emergent debris flows, in the Toutle and Cowlitz River valleys in Washington State. The data release provides debris-flow inundation extent, travel times, maximum depths, and model input data (including hypothetical...

Clade 2.3.4.4b Eurasian-origin H5N1 entered North America in late 2021 and spread across the continent. While studies have characterized the antibody response mounted by dabbling ducks following exposure, little data is available for diving ducks. This study sought to identify influenza A virus (IAV) infection and antibodies in Lesser and Greater Scaup captured in Maryland, Illinois, and...

It is common practice for waste byproducts generated from the treatment of municipal waste (biosolids), livestock production (manure), and oil and gas drilling operations (spent drill fluids and cuttings) to be applied to farmland as a cost-effective means of disposal. From June 2021 to January 2022, 34 samples of land-applied waste materials were collected in 14 U.S. states. Samples...

The U.S. Geological Survey completed a study of selected continuous and partial-record streams in New Jersey for a historical period (1950-79) and a current period (1990-2019) in order to better understand potential streamflow trends over time. The outcomes of this project will support New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and other agencies in water-supply planning, waste...

This data release contains a registry and comparison of the representation of twelve-digit hydrologic unit code (HUC) hydrologic unit polygons from four snapshot versions of the Watershed Boundary Dataset (WBD). The four versions were chosen due to their pressence in broadly: National Hydrologic Dataset Plus V2.1 (nhdpv2) and National Hydrologic Dataset Plus High Resolution (nhdphr)...