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The California State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) initiated the Oil and Gas Regional Monitoring Program (RMP) to assess effects of oil and gas development on groundwater designated for any beneficial use. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is the technical lead in conducting the RMP through the California Oil, Gas, and Groundwater (COGG) Program, working in...

We developed and report a microsatellite data set composed of 52 microsatellite loci for 2305 individuals from 20 bison conservation herds (17 US federal, 1 tribal, 2 Canadian) and a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data set composed of 5013 biallic loci for 376 individuals from 16 bison conservation herds that were used as part of a broader study. We also developed an algorithm to...

This data release contains shapefiles and a raster delineating boundaries and features associated with an investigation of the hydrogeology of unconsolidated and bedrock aquifers along the Salmon River corridor near Malone, New York (Fisher and others, 2025). Included shapefiles depict the approximate potentiometric surface of the Potsdam Sandstone, aquifer types, bedrock exposures...

This dataset represents field data from a multi-year experiment testing the cut-to-drown management strategy in patches of Phragmites australis at two sites in the Great Lakes coastal zone. We established research plots where Phragmites was cut under the water to test that treatment's effectiveness as a control strategy. The experiment took place in 2022 and 2023. Over the multi-year...

This data release provides a vector geospatial shapefile of river and creek segments within Dolly Varden (Salvelinus malma) habitat in the Noatak River drainage (DeCicco 1985) classified for metal impairment between 1986 and 2024. The impairment classifications were based on visual inspection of Landsat and Sentinel satellite imagery. Also provided are the satellite images (as raster...

Observations of irrigated agricultural land within the Gila Bend Groundwater Basin in Arizona. Crops were verified in situ twice in 2024, first on May 8th and again on Aug 27th; based on digitized field boundaries. Field boundaries were digitized from U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agriculture Imagery Program County Mosaic 2023 imagery for Arizona and supplemented with the...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the Town of Falmouth, used an existing groundwater flow model to simulate responses of the freshwater hydrologic system in Falmouth, Massachusetts to proposed wastewater-return-flow scenarios. The existing model is a steady-state, three-dimensional MODFLOW-2005 model of the Sagamore flow lens of the Cape Cod aquifer documented by...

Remote sensing-based evapotranspiration (ET) can be derived using various methods, from soil moisture accounting to vegetation-index based approaches to simple and complex surface energy balance techniques. Due to the complexity of fully representing and parameterizing ET sub-processes, different models tend to diverge in their estimations. However, most models appear to provide...

Geologic map geodatabase depicting the surficial geology of the central Brooks Range, Alaska. Including the 250k quadrangles of Ambler River, Bettles, Chandalar, Chandler Lake, Hughes, Howard Pass, Killik River, Phillip Smith Mountains, Survey Pass, and Wiseman. Database tables include geologic linework and geologic units.

These data consist of gridded projected pinyon-juniper community-level suitability values across western North America. The objectives of our study were to estimate community-level suitability for pinyon-juniper woodlands under current and future climate conditions and compare geographic patterns in suitability against additional management considerations, such as burn probability and...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the Montana Department of Transportation (MDT), collected water-surface profile data at selected highway bridges in Montana. The water-surface profile data characterizes the water-surface elevation and slope upstream and downstream of a bridge. Water-surface profile data were typically obtained for one side of the stream by surveying...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the Montana Department of Transportation (MDT), collected various data at selected bridges in Montana. The data collected in the field included streambed cross-section data, longitudinal streambed profile data, and water-surface profile data. Efforts included overlaying pier structure geometry on the plots to demonstrate the position...