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Supporting Datasets for Analyses of Sediment Transport and Channel Change in the Puyallup River Watershed (ver. 2.0, February 2026) Supporting Datasets for Analyses of Sediment Transport and Channel Change in the Puyallup River Watershed (ver. 2.0, February 2026)
The Puyallup River and it's major tributaries, including the Carbon and Mowich Rivers, are sediment-rich systems in western Washington State, USA, that flow from glaciated headwaters on Mount Rainier to Puget Sound over a short distance. In the populated Puget Lowlands, sediment deposition and associated loss of flood conveyance has been a chronic issue (Prych, 1988; Czuba and others...
Analysis of historic orthomosaic imagery collected through various agencies for mapping active channel and floodplain changes along a 22.5-km reach of the Green River at Gray Canyon near Green River, Utah from 1938-2021 Analysis of historic orthomosaic imagery collected through various agencies for mapping active channel and floodplain changes along a 22.5-km reach of the Green River at Gray Canyon near Green River, Utah from 1938-2021
The U.S. Geological Survey gathered historic aerial photography and remote sensing imagery from a variety of sources for mapping channel change along a 22.5-kilometer reach of the Green River at Gray Canyon near Green River, Utah. Imagery was downloaded in .TIF format and Structure-from-Motion (SfM) photogrammetry techniques were applied (Over et al. 2021) using Agisoft Metashape...
Tracking Data for Marbled Murrelets (Brachyramphus marmoratus) Tracking Data for Marbled Murrelets (Brachyramphus marmoratus)
This data release includes 2 child items with tracking data for Marbled murrelets tagged in Washington state and Alaska, 2008 and 2013. Child Item 1: "Argos Satellite Tracking Data for Marbled Murrelets (Brachyramphus marmoratus - Processed Data" -- Quality-controlled data collected from Argos satellite transmitters. Child Item 2: "Argos Satellite Tracking Data for Marbled Murrelets...
Chemical extraction data for oil and gas wastewater study samples from Blacktail Creek, North Dakota, and Wolf Creek, West Virginia Chemical extraction data for oil and gas wastewater study samples from Blacktail Creek, North Dakota, and Wolf Creek, West Virginia
Sediment samples from sites affected by environmental releases of wastewater from oil and gas production were examined to determine sorbed versus mineral structure associations of barium, radium, strontium, and other elements. Archive samples were used from work at Blacktail Creek, North Dakota and Wolf Creek, West Virginia. The Blacktail Creek samples are described in publications and...
Adaptive capacity of the Western ridged mussel (Gonidea angulata) in the western U.S. Adaptive capacity of the Western ridged mussel (Gonidea angulata) in the western U.S.
An assessment of the adaptive capacity of the Western ridged mussel (Gonidea angulata) that uses 37 factors, grouped by related characteristics: distribution, movement, evolutionary potential, ecological role, abiotic niche, life history, and demography. For each factor, species can be evaluated on a simple “low–moderate–high” scale, with criteria designed to accommodate either...
Model outputs of habitat suitability for three invasive tegu lizards across the contiguous United States under current and future climate scenarios Model outputs of habitat suitability for three invasive tegu lizards across the contiguous United States under current and future climate scenarios
This data release is comprised of two datasets; 1) a .tif file containing species distribution model (SDM) outputs for three invasive tegu species (Salvator merianae, S. rufescens, Tupinambis teguixin) across the contiguous United States (CONUS) for three climate scenarios (current, +2 degree C warming and +4 degree C warming). We are providing a stacked raster (9 layers total), with a...
Cosmogenic Al-26/Be-10 Isochron Burial Age Data for Pleistocene Alluvial Deposits in the Salida, Colorado Area Cosmogenic Al-26/Be-10 Isochron Burial Age Data for Pleistocene Alluvial Deposits in the Salida, Colorado Area
This data release contains three comma separated value (.csv) tables describing data from alluvial cobbles collected from a Pleistocene alluvial deposit on the noerth side of Poncha Pass, near Salida, Colorado. Tables "DryUnion_Burial_Isochron_Aluminum26_Cyr.csv" and "DryUnion_Burial_Isochron_Beryllium10_Cyr.csv" contain aluminum-26 and beryllium-10 data, respectively, for samples...
Structural measurements in the Grand Canyon region Structural measurements in the Grand Canyon region
This is a data release of a .csv file that provides measurements of structural features in the Grand Canyon region. These data document structural attitudes, used to describe the orientations of geologic features in three dimensions. Included fields describe the type of geologic feature mentioned, the azimuth and inclination of the measurement (for planar data these correspond to the...
GeoClaw model output for downstream flood hazards post-hypothetical asteroid impact in four locations derived from the 2025 Planetary Defense Conference NASA PAIR Risk Corridor GeoClaw model output for downstream flood hazards post-hypothetical asteroid impact in four locations derived from the 2025 Planetary Defense Conference NASA PAIR Risk Corridor
The flood model GeoClaw, a program that simulates shallow surface flows by solving the 2D depth-averaged shallow water equations for flow, was used to assess potential downstream flooding risk post-asteroid-impact. The examined hypothetical impact scenarios were derived from the NASA PAIR 2025 Planetary Defense Conference (PDC) risk corridor during Epoch 1: impact energy averages between...
Sagebrush Maps for the Northern Great Plains, 2023 Sagebrush Maps for the Northern Great Plains, 2023
USGS scientists acquired aerial imagery from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to map sagebrush at 25 sites in the Northern Great Plains during June 2023. Data include imagery with 1.5-centimeter (cm) resolution for each 300x300 meter (m) site and imagery at 0.75 cm for each of 10 to 12, 5x5 m plots within each site, and predicted areas of sagebrush for each site from models that classify...
American Pika Occurrences and Habitat Characteristics in the Northern Rocky Mountains and Cascade Mountains, 2015-2017 American Pika Occurrences and Habitat Characteristics in the Northern Rocky Mountains and Cascade Mountains, 2015-2017
USGS scientists surveyed for American pikas (Ochotona princeps) at sites of documented occurrence before 1980 to evaluate persistance throughout Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington, USA, 2015-2017. Scientists also surveyed for pikas and characterized talus structure and temperature to map talus and identify micro-refugia associated with temperature within a focal study in...
Data and analytical code to model the growth rate of brown treesnakes (Boiga irregularis), Guam 2004-2013 Data and analytical code to model the growth rate of brown treesnakes (Boiga irregularis), Guam 2004-2013
The data set consists of three files pertaining to invasive Brown Treesnakes (Boiga irregularis) and temporally-associated weather covariates on Guam: 1) snout-vent length (SVL) and sex of brown treesnakes (bts_growth.csv), 2) precipitation (bts_rain.csv), and 3) seasonality (bts_season.csv). Snout-vent lengths in millimeters (mm) and sex of 270 individually marked and recaptured brown...