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ISO 19115 Topic Category

health, environment, biota

Other Subject Keywords

mineralogy, natural background bacteria, biothreat organisms, pathogen, atmospheric and climatic processes, climate, soil moisture, land use, Bacillus anthracis, microbes, soil, geochemistry

Place Keywords

Conterminous United States

Presence of Microbes and the Distribution of Climatic, Environmental, and Geochemical Variables Web Mapping Application

This web application dataset includes data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) as well as environmental climatic, geochemical, and mineralogical variables from various sources. NOTE: This web application is no longer being supported, and has been removed from ArcGIS Online as of September 30, 2023. Please see the Process Steps of this metadata record for more information. Layers include: U.S. Boundary Layers (States, Counties, Watersheds, and EPA Regions), Bacillus anthracis PCR results (rpoB, pXO1, pXO2 genetic markers), Outbreak Counties, NOAA U.S. Climate Normals for Precipitation 1981-2010 (inches per year), USDA Census Data and Non-Agricultural Bison Herd Population Data, Soil pH (SSURGO), Soil pH (STATSGO), Slope (SSURGO), Slope (STATSGO), Flood Frequency (SSURGO), Flood Frequency (STATSGO), Drainage Class (SSURGO), Drainage Class (STATSGO), USGS Soil Geochemistry (0-5 cm depth), USGS Soil Geochemistry (A-horizon), USGS Soil Geochemistry (C-horizon), NOAA NCDC - Average Precipitation, NOAA NCDC - Average Temperature, USGS 2012 100m National Elevation Dataset (NED), and the NDFD Real-Time 72 Hour Precipitation Forecast.

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Author(s) Steven Douglas orcid
Publication Date 2016
Beginning Date of Data 2016
Ending Date of Data 2023-09-30
Data Contact
USGS SPCMSC Data Management Group
DOI https://doi.org/10.5066/P93LNS4C
Citation Douglas, S., 2016, Presence of Microbes and the Distribution of Climatic, Environmental, and Geochemical Variables Web Mapping Application: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P93LNS4C.
Metadata Contact
USGS SPCMSC Data Management Group
Metadata Date 2023-09-30
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Harvest Date: 2025-01-06T09:34:50.952Z