Data Releases

Biodiversity measures provide insight into ecological processes like productivity and ecosystem stability, and rare, vulnerable species are a major component of freshwater biodiversity. This data release provides the data used to address multiple ecological questions about fish and habitat conditions throughout a large section of the St. Lawrence River Valley. More than 140,000 fishes of...

This is the data archive for the publication Ungulate Migrations of the Western United States, Volume 5 and includes the collection of GIS map files that are mapped and described in the report. These map files are meant to provide a common spatial representation of the mapped migrations and seasonal ranges. This data release provides the means for ungulate migrations to be mapped and...

This data release contains hydrologic network information to support national modeling of water quality in streams and rivers, including distance matrices that represent the spatial relationships among modeled river reaches. These data can be used as inputs to data-driven models that leverage information about spatial proximity to make predictions of water quantity or quality. The...

Isotope data for vesicomyid clams collected in the Pacific Ocean off the Oregon coastline in 2019.

A permeable rock-fill causeway was constructed across Great Salt Lake between 1957–1959, dividing the lake into North and South Arms. Several open channels have been constructed to connect the two arms of the lake, with the most recent, informally named the New Breach, being completed in 2016. A berm across the New Breach restricts flow between the North and South Arms and was originally...

This data release summarizes 126 borehole geophysical logs collected in fractured rock aquifers within the state of West Virginia. Data includes site information for the wells logged, in addition to all fractures identified as part of processing of borehole logs collected for the study. A machine learning algorithm was used to identify values in logs characteristic of specific lithologic

Moderate-resolution (30 m) national map products have limited capacity to represent fine-scale, heterogeneous urban forms and processes, yet systematic improvements from incorporating higher resolution predictor data remain rare. In this study, we applied random forest models to high-resolution land cover data for 71 U.S. urban areas, moderate-resolution National Land Cover Database...

The Sulphur Bank Mercury Mine in Lake County, California, was the site of historical mercury mining from 1880s through 1973.Since 1990, the mine area has been a Superfund site managed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA). As part of a Remedial Investigation, the USEPA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) are collaborating on a groundwater investigation in a part of the...

Karst is a landscape where the hydrology of surface water systems is intricately connected to groundwater systems through the development of conduits and solutional opening in soluble bedrock, such as limestone, marble, or dolomite. This connectivity can present challenges to preserving water quality and quantity for karst aquifers, as activities that occur in karst areas can often have...

This data release contains the boundaries of assessment units and input data for the assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources in upper Paleozoic reservoirs of the Wind River, Big Horn, and Powder River Basin provinces, Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota, and Nebraska. The Assessment Unit is the fundamental unit used in the National Assessment Project for the assessment of...

This dataset consists of estimates of population trends for 236 species and species complexes of North American birds, and bird taxonomic, primary habitat biome, or conservation status group relative abundance trajectories. Both sets of estimates cover the period 1970 - 2022. Sources of data include the North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS), Christmas Bird Count (CBC), Waterfowl...

Landslides hazards pose a serious threat to people and infrastructure in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). To develop a comprehensive understanding of the landslides hazards in FSM, the USGS-USAID Landslide Disaster Assistance Team (LDAT) has put together landslide inventories for each state using satellite imagery. Mapping was done using RGB satellite imagery from Maxar, Planet...