Data

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Water Quality Program, through the Prototyping Modeling and Assessment of Post-wildfire Water Availability project, aims to enhance the ability to assess and predict the impacts of wildfires on water supplies. Precipitation is a key driver of flooding, debris flows, and water quality responses following wildfire. The intensity, duration, and...

This data release consists of data and metadata for a forest restoration experiment investigating experimental outplanting diversity and density in previously grazed pastureland. Five replicate sites, consisting of 11 - 6x6m plots (10 experimental treatments + 1 control), were set up for this experiment. Treatments consisted of two planting densities (double and single) as well as...

Meteorological data were collected at Marconi and Head of the Meadow Beaches on Cape Cod National Seashore, MA as part of a multi-year monitoring study of nearshore sand transport and white shark behavior. The overarching goal of the study is to characterize beach and nearshore morphology, assess temporal variability, and measure wave runup to calibrate USGS total water level forecasts...

The Ordovician Icebox Formation of the Winnipeg Group has been interpreted as a petroleum source rock within the Williston Basin for over 50 years. Despite limited hydrocarbon production from Winnipeg Group reservoirs and being deeply buried (located below most of the current hydrocarbon producing reservoirs), the petroleum industry continues to periodically drill wells through the...

Conodonts were collected in the southern Lake Champlain valley to aid in identifying lithostratigraphic units, determining biostratigraphic zonations, and correlating to other regions. The conodonts were identified by experts in Cambrian and Ordovician micropaleontology. Microslides/thin sections were made of different lithostraphigraphic units of the southern Lake Champlain valley to...

In this study we are deploying several sensor arrays within a small stream channel, the Rio De Las Vacas, in the Jemez mountains of Northern New Mexico in coordination with a local partner, who are implementing several low-tech process based restorative practices including Beaver Dam Analogs (BDAs). This cooperation has allowed us to build a hydrological picture before and after the...

Fish are often used as bioindicators to test the state of their environment qualitatively or quantitatively. This data set contains details of lake sturgeon (captured in the Genesee and Oswegatchie Rivers for Bioindicator Project GL-00E00825-0, 2012-2013). This study focused on non-lethal comparison of chemicals in age matched release juvenile lake sturgeon in an Area of Concern...

Lake Erie historically supported a large population of Cisco (Coregonus artedi) which provided an important fisheries resource. The Cisco population declined precipitously in the 1920s and by the 1960s the species was considered extirpated from the lake. In May of 2025, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation experimentally released age-1 Cisco into Lake Erie to...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) has developed an integrated 1-meter topobathymetric digital elevation model (TBDEM) for the Potomac River extending from tidal Washington, D.C. to upstream of Hancock, Maryland. This is the third 3DEP pilot inland TBDEM, developed to produce a 3-dimensional surface elevation model that integrates topographic bare-earth...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the Nebraska Department of Transportation, initiated a flow-frequency study for the Elkhorn River basin in Nebraska for flow data for water years 1881-2022. Estimates of the magnitudes of peak flow were determined using the USGS PeakFQ flood-frequency program, version 7.5.1 at the 50, 20, 10, 4, 2, 1, 0.5, and 0.2 percent chance...

This dataset describes tissue samples derived from Phragmites leaves spanning a developmental gradient from the youngest fully-expanded leaves to senescing leaves, as well as freshly senesced and partially decomposed leaf litter. Sample information includes leaf category, broad and local scale environmental descriptors, the geographic name and location of collection sites, and National...

A bathymetric dataset was collected on September 7, 2022, of Lost Lake (reservoir) located in the Modoc National Forest, California. Both bathymetric and terrestrial lidar (light detection and ranging) data were collected via a boat-based multibeam echosounder and lidar scanner to compute a digital elevation map (DEM) of the lakebed and the near shore. The DEM was used to provide an...