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Wildfires pose a major threat to human life and property, but there is limited information for assessing numbers or precise locations of building losses at a national scale. This geospatial dataset was developed to identify point locations of all buildings destroyed by or exposed to major wildfire disasters from 2002-2022. The data include all wildfire events in the conterminous United...

USGS researchers surveyed talus patches across the western USA, in conjunction with numerous partners during 2014-2023, inclusive. Data are locations at which wildlife species of statutory interest to state and federal partners were detected, as well as covariate data associated with each location.

This data release contains in situ winter cover crop biomass sampling data collected from fields located on the Delmarva Peninsula (Talbot, Queen Anne’s and Caroline County, Maryland, USA) and at the USDA-ARS Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (BARC), Beltsville, Maryland, USA. Samples were collected during the winter cover crop growing season, between November and April, from 2019...

Many ecological processes affect availability of winter dissolved oxygen (DO) concentrations in rivers, a key feature of overwintering fish habitat. Sediment oxygen demand (SOD) contributes to DO depletion, particularly during ice-covered periods, and may cause hypoxic conditions in backwater lakes, affecting availability of suitable overwintering habitat. Understanding drivers of SOD on...

This data release contains 5 Log ASCII Standard (LAS) files related to wireline geophysical logging of the USGS Cow Creek 1-21 well. The well was drilled and cored in 2022 and targeted the Lewis Shale on the eastern edge of the Washakie Basin in Carbon County, Wyoming. A comprehensive wireline geophysical logging suite and continuous core were obtained from the ground surface to...

Geochemical and mineralogical data were collected for samples of the Devonian Marcellus Shale, as well as overlying and underlying units in the Enerplus Snow Shoe 4-8HG core. The data was integrated with well logs in a manuscript that focuses on the estimation of original organic richness (total organic carbon content) in thermally mature petroleum source rocks. This data release...

This data release includes minidisk infiltration data as well as geographic data showing the location of each measurement from the Woolsey Fire, Los Angeles County, CA, USA. The Woolsey Fire burned between November 8-21, 2018. Minidisk infiltration data were obtained on November 19-21, 2018, while portions of the fire were uncontained, and prior to any rainfall. The infiltration data are...

History matching of large hydrologic models is challenging due to data sparsity and non-unique process combinations (and associated parameters) that can produce similar model predictions. We developed an ensemble-based history matching and uncertainty quantification approach using an iterative ensemble smoother (iES) method for three cutouts of the National Hydrologic Model (NHM) and...

Given the rapid expansion in the demand for mineral commodities that underpin worldwide economic growth and technological advancement, information regarding expected country-level mine production and production capacity is becoming increasingly important. In particular, production capacity can limit future supply, depending on how rapidly that capacity is able to expand. This World...

These are the scanned digital images of microfilm copies of paper seismic records from the World-Wide Standardized Seismographic Network (WWSSN). This data set spans from 1962 to 1978 and contains about 3.7 million single-day records, which is about 5% of the entire archive. Overall the data set contains 153 magnitude 6+ earthquakes and 156 nuclear explosions. All scans were done using...

The goal of the study associated with this dataset was to characterize flow-ecology relationships for Mottled Sculpin (Cottus bairdii) and Mountain Sucker (Catostomus platyrhynchus) in snowpack driven headwater streams of the Upper Green River Basin in Wyoming, U.S.A. Our objectives were to: 1) evaluate whether variation in Mottled Sculpin and Mountain Sucker abundance is driven by...

Marine sediment push cores and one mineral concretion were collected near waste barrels in the San Pedro Basin of the Southern California Borderland in the Pacific Ocean using a remotely operated vehicle during the Schmidt Ocean Institute research cruise FK210726 onboard the R/V Falkor in 2021. Dried sediment samples of the 0-2 centimeter horizon of the cores and the mineral concretion...