Data Releases

This data release provides tidally corrected shoreline positions for five groin field sites of around the United States (Ventura, CA, Newport Beach, CA , Santa Monica, CA, Long Branch, NJ, Sandwich, MA). Both CSV files of tidally corrected shorelines and GeoJSON files of the region of interests (ROIs), transects, and reference shorelines are provided within respective zip files. Both...

The North American Bird Banding Program is administered by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Bird Banding Laboratory (BBL), Eastern Ecological Science Center at the Patuxent Research Refuge (EESC) and in Canada by the Bird Banding Office (BBO), Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC). This long-term dataset (1960-2025) consists of over 85 million bird banding, encounter and...

The data support a study that surveyed the spatial and seasonal variability of northern pike (Esox lucius) environmental DNA (eDNA) between river kilometer 1103 and 1158 in Lake Roosevelt, Washington, USA. The metadata represent qPCR quantification cycle (Cq) values for a northern pike assay performed on water samples collected at the same locations in June and September 2022, water...

Federally-threatened ago-0 spring Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) were acoustic tagged and released near Lookout Point Reservoir to estimate passage and survival during the second year of an experimental reservoir drawdown operation that was designed to facilitate downstream passage through two reservoirs and dams. The experimental operation consisted of lowering the water...

Data were collected as part of a long-term capture-recapture program to assess the population dynamics of two long-lived, federally endangered catostomids in Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon. Lost River suckers (LRS; Deltistes luxatus) and shortnose suckers (SNS; Chasmistes brevirostris) have been captured and tagged with passive integrated transponder (PIT) tags during their spawning...

Viral nervous necrosis is a neurologic disease that causes vacuolating lesions in the brain and retina of a broad range of marine fish species. The viral agent responsible is nervous necrosis virus (NNV), a Betanodavirus within the family Nodaviridae. Based on genetic characterization of the viral genome, at least four species of NNV are known to exist, though this diversity is likely...

Juvenile Chinook salmon (age 0 and age 1), steelhead, and sockeye salmon were tagged with acoustic transmitters and released at sites along the Yakima River in and below Yakima, WA from 2018 to 2024. Detection sites varied across years but included arrays placed at diversion dams, canals, hydropower facilities, and other locations throughout the Yakima and Columbia rivers. Study design...

Within New Jersey’s Raritan Basin Water Supply Complex, multiple lakes and reservoirs with persistent and recurrent cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (cyanoHABs) discharge water which ultimately travels downstream in surface water to drinking-water intakes. Cyanobacteria and other water-quality data were collected as part of a collaborative study among multiple agencies, including the...

The recently launched Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite provides observations of Earth’s rivers and lakes, which sets the stage for innovative application of such data for hydrologic analysis. Here, we apply the LakeFlow algorithm, which leverages mass conservation principles and Bayesian optimization, to estimate lake inflow and outflow discharge at 1,061 North...

To meet the goals of the project, the Pueblo de San Ildefonso’s Department of Environmental and Cultural Preservation (DECP) first undertook a literature review of existing data and information to identify relevant materials, reach out to partners at nearby public lands, and conduct a targeted literature search. The literature review incorporates 79 resources (i.e., media article...

Karst hydrologic systems are important resources in the state of Tennessee, both as drinking water resources and as centers for possible biological diversity. These systems are susceptible to contamination due to the inherent connectivity between surface water and groundwater systems in karst systems. A partnership between the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and Tennessee Department of...

This dataset presents modeled values of dilation tendency and slip tendency for faults within and surrounding the Wilbur Springs region of northern California, including the Bartlett Springs Fault, Cross Springs Fault, Little Indian Valley Fault Zone, and a network of secondary structures. The region is actively deforming, as evidenced by ongoing uplift and folding, suggesting it is...