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This data release package contains water-use estimates from 1985 to 2015 aggregated to 8-digit Hydrologic Unit (HUC8), county, and aquifer level for the United States. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is responsible for estimating water-use in the United States. In cooperation with local, State, and Federal agencies, the USGS has published estimates of water use in the United States...

Between May 2022 and April 2023, 57 passive seismic measurements were collected in select subwatersheds and arroyos near Los Planes, Mexico. The horizontal‑to‑vertical spectral ratio (HVSR) method is a passive seismic technique that uses a three‑component seismometer to measure the vertical and horizontal components of seismic noise in the range of ~0.3 to 40 Hertz (Hz). Common sources...

News articles which described issues of water availability in the Upper Colorado River Basin were retrieved from the Lexis Nexis database. Articles covered the period January 1, 2000 to March 2, 2024. Thematic coding was used to assess how media described risks associated with water availability, the consequences of and responses to those risks. These data support a multidisciplinary...

Expanded excavations at White Sands National Park have unearthed 20 stratigraphic horizons containing in situ human footprints, megafaunal trackways, and linear features created by travois. Novel radiocarbon dating of conifer pollen, combined with ages of aquatic seeds, refines the chronology of the footprint-bearing sequence to between 23.5 and 21.7 ka. Biomarker, pollen, and...

40Ar/39Ar geochronologic data presented in this data release are from the Yellowstone Plateau volcanic field, which spans an area that covers parts of Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana. These data were collected to determine the age and distribution of caldera-forming ignimbrite deposits associated with the Yellowstone Plateau volcanic field. These data also include the eruptions ages of lava...

The introduction of clade 2.3.4.4b highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 into North America in 2021 marked a significant shift in disease dynamics for wild waterfowl populations. To assess infection and seroprevalence trends following this incursion, we leveraged ongoing capture efforts at the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge Complex between October 2022 and July 2025 to...

A collection of time-series oceanographic data was obtained from locations on Georges Bank and adjacent continental shelf between 1975 and 1984. Measurements available include current, temperature, pressure, light transmission (beam attenuation). The time series is not continuous at any specific location. The originally processed, authoritative netCDF data files are provided in...

The Mineral Hill alkaline complex (MHAC), located on the northwest side of the Black Hills uplift near the Wyoming–South Dakota border, is composed of several alkaline igneous units emplaced into Precambrian metasedimentary rocks and Paleozoic strata. The purpose of this study was to determine whether MHAC garnets are a major host of rare earth elements (REEs) and whether REE patterns...

These data represent 30 years of observation data following stream survey protocols for stream and pond associated reptiles and amphibians. Species observations were made following methods for visual encounter and trapping surveys using both passive and baited turtle and minnow traps.

Knowledge of species traits is critical for conservation. Many large databases of species traits are available, but their use is often limited by data completeness, taxonomic coverage, and/or specificity of traits being assessed. We produced a database of traits for amphibian species native to the continental USA, reducing the total number of traits presented by other databases while...

Hydrophones have been proposed as a potential surrogate for bedload transport, operating on the principle that particle collisions generate sound that scales in intensity with transport rate (for example, Geay and others, 2017). To assess that potential, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) partnered with the Washington Department of Transportation (WSDOT) in 2019 to install hydrophones on...

Glacier Creek drains a 82 square kilometer watershed that includes multiple glaciers on the north flank of Mount Baker in Whatcom County, Washington. The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) maintains a bridge along Highway 542 over Glacier Creek near its confluence with the North Fork Nooksack River, where Glacier Creek has formed an alluvial fan. To assist in WSDOT...