AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Development: Development delineation: Rockaway Peninsula, NY, 2013–2014

Understanding how sea-level rise will affect coastal landforms and the species and habitats they support is critical for crafting approaches that balance the needs of humans and native species. Given this increasing need to forecast sea-level rise effects on barrier islands in the near and long terms, we are developing Bayesian networks to evaluate and to forecast the cascading effects of sea-level rise on shoreline change, barrier island state, and piping plover habitat availability. We use publicly available data products, such as lidar, orthophotography, and geomorphic feature sets derived from those, to extract metrics of barrier island characteristics at consistent sampling distances. The metrics are then incorporated into predictive models and the training data used to parameterize those models. This data release contains the extracted metrics of barrier island geomorphology and spatial data layers of habitat characteristics that are input to Bayesian networks for piping plover habitat availability and barrier island geomorphology. These datasets and models are being developed for sites along the northeastern coast of the United States. This work is one component of a larger research and management program that seeks to understand and sustain the ecological value, ecosystem services, and habitat suitability of beaches in the face of storm impacts, climate change, and sea-level rise.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, barrier-island, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, coastal-armoring, coastal-habitat, coastal-hazards, environment, gateway-national-recreation-area, geographic-information-systems, geospatial-datasets, gis, human-development, land-use-and-land-cover, long-island, new-york, north-america, ny, rockaway-peninsula, st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usa, usgs, usgs-5d0bc973e4b0941bde4fc664, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Single-Beam derived bathymetric contours of Florida Bay, Florida (1995-1999) in ESRI shapefile format

Land development and alterations of the ecosystem in South Florida have decreased freshwater and increased nutrient flows into Florida Bay. As a result, there has been a decrease in the water quality of the bay; the decline in water quality has prompted sea grass die-offs and has led to reduced fish populations. Restoration of water quality in Florida Bay will depend partly upon using numerical-circulation and sediment-transport models to establish water-quality targets and to assess progress toward reaching restoration targets. Application of these models is complicated, however, because of complex sea-floor topography (basin-mudbank morphology). The only complete topography data set of the Bay is 100 years old. Consequently, an accurate and modern sea-floor or bathymetry map of the Bay was critical for numerical modeling research. A modern bathymetry data set will also permit a comparison to historical data in order to help access sedimentation rates within the Bay.
The U.S. Geological Survey USGS conducted a mapping project from 1995 to 1999 in the Florida Bay to collect new bathymetric data for the entire bay. This study produced a detailed bathymetric data set of Florida Bay in order to help assess sedimentation rates and provide numerical modelers with an accurate bathymetry map.
This report serves as an archive of processed single-beam bathymetry data that were collected in Florida Bay, Florida over multiple cruises between 1995 and 1999. Geographic information system data products include a XYZ data, bathymetric contours, and USGS quadrangle maps. Additional files include formal Federal Geographic Data Committee metadata.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, bathymetry, blackwater-sound, buchanan-keys, calusa-keys, circulation-model, clive-key, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, echosounder, elevation, environment, erosion, everglades-national-park, fl, flamingo, florida, florida-bay, florida-keys, geoscientificinformation, grassy-key, gulf-of-mexico, hydrography, hydrology, imagerybasemapsearthcover, inlandwaters, joe-bay, lake-ingraham-east, long-key, lower-everglades, lower-matecumbe-key, madeira-key, mapping, oceans, orthometric, pelican-keys, plantation-key, rock-harbor, sands, sandy-key, schooner-key, sea-floor, sediment-dynamics, single-beam, soundings, spcmsc, st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, system-for-accurate-nearshore-depth-surveying, tavernier, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, upper-matecumbe-key, us, usgs, usgs-1b90e0e8-01b7-4280-90a2-dc247c37b0d0, water-depth, west-lake
Organization: Department of the Interior
Presence Absence Database of Fish in the Conterminous United States (ver. 2.0, December 2024)

This USGS data release documents presence and absences of 419 fish species in the conterminous United States for 35,918 stream reaches of the National Hydrography Dataset Plus Version 2.1 (NHDPlusV2.1). Sample dates for this dataset span 1990-2019. Fish samples were aligned to the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS), where each species record was assigned a Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN). The dataset is structured with records representing a stream reach (i.e. comid), sample description (i.e. source, date) and a series of 419 columns representing species where each species column is named as the TSN. Data can be visualized on the NHDPlusV2.1 after a tabular join using the field 'comid' or can be projected and visualized as point data using the latitude and longitude fields (using coordinate reference system NAD83) that represent the midpoint of the stream reach that they were associated with. Data are provided in comma separated value (CSV) format.

Tags: aquatic-biology, biogeography, biota, environment, fauna, fish, fisheries-resources, freshwater-fishes, inlandwaters, river-reaches, usgs-6086df60d34eadd49d31b04a
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data points, corresponding to the bathymetric survey of Caño Boquerón, Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, August 2015

This dataset consists of a shapefile of points corresponding to water depth collected for the bathymetric survey of Caño Boquerón, in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, conducted on August 21, 2015. The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Puerto Rico Environmental Quality Board, conducted a limnological study at Caño Boquerón, in Cabo Rojo to assess the principal mechanisms affecting the hydrology and water quality characteristics. The study characterized hydrologic and physical-chemical properties, sediment deposition rates, bathymetry, and biological conditions. The bathymetric survey system used for the study consisted of coupling a global positioning system (GPS) device with a water depth sounder. Established navigation lines were used to simultaneously collect the water depth and geographic location data using a bathymetric system. A bathymetric map was generated by transferring collected data into a geographic information system (GIS).

Tags: bathymetry, cabo-rojo, cano-boqueron, limnology, ocean-sciences, puerto-rico, storage-volume, usgs-5aeb3bb0e4b0860c0f7277d1
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital Orthorectified Aerial Image of Cottonwood Lake Study Area Wetland T7 from 1995

Orthorectified image from aerial photograph of wetland T7 in the Cottonwood Lake Study Area, Stutsman County, North Dakota. This image is part of a collection of photographs of the study area acquired during July and early August from 1975 to 2015.

Tags: aerial-photography, chase-lake-wetland-management-districtgtstutsman-county-waterfowl-production-areagteddy, chase-lake-wetland-management-districtgtstutsman-county-waterfowl-production-areagtshuler, cottonwood-lake-study-area, earth-sciencegtbiospheregtecosystemsgtaquatic-ecosystemsgtwetlands, earth-sciencegtbiospheregtecosystemsgtterrestrial-ecosystemsgtwetlands, environment, image-collections, imagerybasemapsearthcover, inlandwaters, north-dakota, northern-great-plains, platformgtaerial-photographs, prairie-pothole-region, stutsman-county, surface-water-non-marine, united-states-of-america, usgs-5880f400e4b0eeea75d27700, wetland-ecosystems
Organization: Department of the Interior
Estimated Public Supply Water Use of the Southwest Principal Aquifers (SWPA) study in 2005

This dataset is a 100-meter cell resolution raster of estimated use of public supply water for the 
southwestern United States. The dataset was generated from 1:100,000-scale county boundary 
data, 2005 LandScan population data, and USGS estimated use of water in the United States 
in 2000.

Tags: arizona, california, colorado, environment, inlandwaters, nevada, new-mexico, planningcadastre, public-supply, southwest-united-states, usgs-4cd4f9f9-397a-434d-887a-4db3ae93eecb, utah, utilitiescommunication, water-use
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2018 Site 1100 land-water classification data

Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring efforts to determine the efficacy of these efforts. The Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) was developed to assist in a multiple-reference approach that uses aspects of hydrogeomorphic functional assessments and probabilistic sampling for monitoring. The CRMS program includes a suite of approximately 398 sites that encompass the range of hydrological and ecological conditions for each stratum. As part of CRMS, land and water classifications are created from Digital Orthophoto Quarter Quadrangles (DOQQs) approximately every three years at all CRMS sites. A DOQQ is a raster image in which displacement in the image caused by sensor orientation and terrain relief has been removed and combines the image characteristics of a photo with geometric qualities of a map. The DOQQs generated for this project consist of 2018 Color Infrared (CIR) Digital Imagery. These images were classified into land and water categories using a threshold of the near infrared (NIR) band, followed by supervised and unsupervised classification.  Initial classification results are then reviewed by multiple image analysts to identify and manually recode errors. The final land-water classifications are intended to serve as both geographic and quantitative assessments of landscape composition on the date of acquisition. Four previous assessments have been conducted (2005, 2008, 2012, and 2015/2016). Once the program creates enough data points for statistical analyses, these data will be used for land area change rate calculation.

Tags: alteration-of-wetland-habitats, cartography, coastal, coastal-louisiana, crms, doqq, emergent-wetland, forested-wetland, geographic-information-system, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-water, louisiana, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, scrub-shrub-wetland, state-of-louisiana, usgs-611d2d35d34e40dd9c012ab4, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Seasonal vegetation characteristics in a Spartina foliosa- and Salicornia pacifica-dominated salt marsh at China Camp State Park

As part of the San Francisco Bay Marsh Sediment Experiments and hydrodynamic investigations in San Pablo Bay and China Camp Marsh, California, vegetation sampling measurements were taken over several periods at numerous locations. This portion of the data release presents physical characteristics and percent cover data from vegetation plots sampled in China Camp State Park salt marsh (northern San Francisco Bay) in 2015, 2016, and 2017. One-meter quadrats (1m x 1m) were analyzed for percent cover of each vegetation species present, average canopy height, and maximum canopy height. The percent cover was done by visual inspection. A quarter-meter quadrat (0.25m x 0.25m) was then used for stem count and stem diameter measurements. Stem counts were only done for S. foliosa. These quadrats ran along the instruments used to collect sediment and hydrodynamic data, which is described elsewhere in this data release. This survey was conducted on January 23, 2015 (winter conditions) and again on June 6, 2016 (summer conditions). A separate survey was conducted on September 29, 2016 and May 3, 2017, to measure the length, width, and spacing of S. foliosa leaves. Data collected are provided as a comma-delimited spreadsheet (.csv).

Tags: china-camp, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, emergent-tidal-marsh, environment, low-and-intermediate-salt-marsh, marin-county, marsh, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, san-francisco-bay, san-pablo-bay, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-59ee5016e4b0220bbd976242, vegetation, wetland-ecosystems
Organization: Department of the Interior
California Mule Deer Grizzly Flat Winter Range

The Grizzly Flat herd winters in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada near Grizzly Flats, California. The winter range includes conifer, vineyards, and oak woodland that is shared with a resident portion of the herd on a mix of private and public lands. In the spring, the Grizzly Flat herd migrates east to higher elevation terrain in the El Dorado National Forest, staying south of Interstate 50 and primarily north of U.S. Highway 88, to the crest of the Sierra Nevada. The summer range contains primarily mixed conifer opening up to high alpine granite near the crest of the Sierra Nevada. Although the population size of the Grizzly Flat herd is unknown due to limited surveys, it is considered stable to declining, affected primarily by dense overstory, environmental stressors, and habitat loss. This GPS collaring project was designed as part of a region-wide effort to obtain abundance estimates for deer using fecal DNA and home range analyses, with pinpointing migration routes and identifying winter ranges a secondary priority. Due to the small sample size of GPS-tagged mule deer, additional migration routes and winter ranges probably exist beyond the extent of our model output.
These mapping layers show the location of the winter ranges for mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) in the Grizzly Flat population in California. They were developed from 8 sequences collected from a sample size of 5 animals comprising GPS locations collected every 1-13 hours.

Tags: animal-behavior, biota, california, grizzly-flats, migration-organisms, migration-route, migratory-species, united-states, usgs-63650bc9d34ebe442507ce7d
Organization: Department of the Interior
Cave and Karst Biota Modeling in the Appalachian LCC - Predicted spiders in all 20km grid cells in karst

We developed spatial summary (GIS) layers for a study of factors influencing the distribution of cave and karst associated fauna within the Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative region, one of 22 public-private partnerships established by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to aid in developing landscape scale solutions to conservation problems (https://lccnetwork.org/lcc/appalachian).  We gathered occurrence data on cave-limited terrestrial and aquatic troglobiotic species from a variety of sources within the Appalachian LCC region covering portions of 15 states.  Occurrence records were developed from the scientific literature, existing biodiversity databases, personal records of the authors, museum accessions, state Natural Heritage programs, and The Nature Conservancy (for Tennessee).  Occurrence records were identified by location and translated into a GIS database.  Although the precise locations cannot be made public due the sensitivity of the information, data sharing agreements, and restrictions under the Federal Cave Resources Protection Act of 1988, we summarized the data spatially using a coarse 20x20km vector grid. We used these occurence records, summarized at the 20x20km grid resolution in statistical modeling to examine physical factors predictive of cave dwelling fauna. Spatial summaries were developed for all cave dwelling species in our database where we had location coordinates for nine faunal groups (five terrestrial and four aquatic) that are common components of terrestrial and aquatic cave communities: ground beetles (Carabidae), millipedes, pseudoscorpions, spiders, and springtails for terrestrial species groups, and amphipods (Crangonyctidae and Gammaridae), isopods (Asellidae), crayfishes (Cambaridae), and fishes (Amblyopsidae) for aquatic species groups.

Tags: biota, caves, karst, usgs-577597c8e4b07dd077c7700f
Organization: Department of the Interior
Decomposition of plant litter in Pacific coast tidal marshes, 2014-2015

Decomposition of plant matter is one of the key processes affecting carbon cycling and storage in tidal wetlands. In this study, we evaluated the effects of factors related to climate change (temperature, inundation) and vegetation composition on rates of litter decay in seven tidal marsh sites along the Pacific coast. In 2014 we conducted manipulative experiments to test inundation effects on litter decay at Siletz Bay, OR and Petaluma marsh, CA. In 2015 we studied decay of litter in high and low elevation marshes at seven Pacific coast sites. These data support the following publication: Janousek, C.N., Buffington, K.J., Guntenspergen, G.R. et al. Ecosystems (2017). doi:10.1007/s10021-017-0111-6. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10021-017-0111-6

Tags: carbon-cycling, climate-change, decomposition, deschampsia-cespitosa, distichlis-spicata, inundation, organic-matter, plant-composition, salicornia-pacifica, sea-level-change, tidal-marsh, usgs-586d8434e4b0f5ce109fc9ce
Organization: Department of the Interior
Calibrated basal heat flow grids for the 3D petroleum systems model of the Williston Basin, USA

Basal heat flow from the crystalline basement and lithospheric mantle into the sedimentary column is a required boundary condition in the petroleum systems model. The model uses two basal heat flow conditions that are described using two ASCII grids that show map variations in heat flow (mW/m2). The “BHF000_BasalHeatFlow_Calib.asc” grid describes the modern-day basal heat flow calibrated to, and derived from subsurface temperature data, including 24 high-resolution static temperature logs from the North Dakota Geological Survey and a large proprietary dataset (&gt;1,000) of drill stem test (DST) and bottom hole temperatures (BHT) from boreholes throughout Montana and North Dakota provided by IHS Markit ® (2022). This grid is applied in the model from time steps 542 Ma to 97 Ma and again from 43 Ma to 0 Ma. The “BHF050_BasalHeatFlow_Laramide.asc” grid is transformed from the “BHF000_BasalHeatFlow_Calib.asc” grid by -10 mW/m2. The “BHF050_BasalHeatFlow_Laramide.asc” grid is applied from time steps 90 Ma to 50 Ma. The model interpolates time steps between assigned basal flow conditions. This is a child item of a larger data release titled "Data release for the 3D petroleum systems model of the Williston Basin, USA".

Tags: bakken, basal-heat-flow, cedar-creek-anticline, geology, geoscientificinformation, montana, nesson-anticline, north-dakota, petroleum, province-31, source-rock, south-dakota, surface-temperature, tectonic-processes, thermal-maturation, usgs-6442e096d34ee8d4ade8eae6, williston-basin
Organization: Department of the Interior
Particle Image Velocimetry Results Images

This child item contains images associated with each field site showing example output of PIV results as processed using the "CreatePlots.m" script file found in the Ancillary Scripts child item of this data release. 
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Each Field Site is abbreviated in various files in this data release. File and folder names are used to quickly identify which site a particular file or dataset represents. The following abbreviations are used:
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;ACR: Androscoggin River, Auburn, Maine, USA&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;AFR: Agua Fria River, near Rock Springs, Arizona, USA&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;CCC: Coachella Canal above All-American Canal Diversion, California, USA&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;CMC: Cochiti East Side Main Channel, near Cochiti, New Mexico, USA&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;GLR: Gila River near Dome, Arizona, USA&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;RMC: Reservation Main Canal near Yuma, Arizona, USA&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;SMC: Sile Main Canal (at head) at Cochiti, New Mexico, USA&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;WMD: Wellton-Mohawk Main Outlet Drain near Yuma, Arizona, USA&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

Tags: acoustic-doppler-current-profiling, aerial-video, agua-fria-river-maricopa-county-arizona-usa, androscoggin-river-androscoggin-county-maine-usa, auburn-androscoggin-county-maine-usa, coachella-canal-imperial-county-california-usa, cochiti-lake-reservoir-sandoval-county-new-mexico-usa, cochiti-main-canal-cochiti-lake-sandoval-county-new-mexico-usa, drone, gila-river-yuma-county-arizona-usa, great-falls-androscoggin-county-maine-usa, hydrographic-datasets, imperial-valley-imperial-county-california-usa, inlandwaters, kinter-yuma-county-arizona-usa, remote-sensing, reservation-main-canal-imperial-county-california-usa, stream-discharge, stream-gage-measurement, streamflow, suas, unmanned-aircraft-system, unoccupied-aircraft-system, usgs-61eb31fbd34e8b818ada914d, usgs-science-data-catalog-sdc, videography, water-resources
Organization: Department of the Interior
Vesper sparrow distribution in the Wyoming Basins Ecoregional Assessment area

Map of Vesper sparrow distribution developed from an abundance map created using multi-scale vegetation, abiotic, and anthropogenic features.

Tags: biota, colorado, distribution, environment, environment-and-conservation, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, idaho, modeling, montana, scientific-interpretation, shrubland-ecosystems, united-states, usgs-6488cae6d34ef77fcafe3ffe, utah, vesper-sparrow, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Metabarcoding data from freshwater mussel eDNA collected in Clinch River, Virginia 2017

Data from metabarcoding assays to detect a suite of mussel species using mitochondrial DNA regions of the cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) and NADH dehydrogenase subunit (ND1) genes sequences.

Tags: biodiversity, bioinformatic-processing, biota, degenerate-primers, ecosystem-monitoring, environmental-dna, freshwater-mussels, high-through-put-sequencing, species-diversity, usgs-5fdb6e85d34e30b9123d2191
Organization: Department of the Interior
Modeled Stream Metabolism in Boulder Creek near Boulder, CO (2016 - 2018)

This data release is associated with a journal article titled, "Aquatic-Terrestrial Linkages Control Metabolism and Carbon Dynamics in a Mid-sized, Urban Stream Influenced by Snowmelt." The data were collected adjacent to USGS stream gage 06730200 and include observed and modeled values. Dissolved oxygen, dissolved carbon dioxide, stream depth, water temperature, and light intensity were collected via passive water quality sensors. Modeled values include gross primary production, ecosystem respiration, net ecosystem production, reaeration, and light (when observed values were unavailable). Modeled values were obtained through streamMetabolizer, a USGS-sponsored R-package for estimating rates of stream metabolism. Estimates for carbon dioxide flux utilized both modeled (i.e. reaeration) and observed (i.e. dissolved carbon dioxide) values. Discharge data used in this study are not published here, but are publicly available through the Nation Water Information System (https://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis).

Tags: bayesian-model, biogeochemical-cycling, boulder-county, boulder-creek, carbon-cycling, carbon-dioxide, carbon-dioxide-flux, colorado, dissolved-oxygen, ecosystem-respiration, freshwater-ecosystems, gross-primary-production, high-resolution, in-situ, mathematical-modeling, net-ecosystem-production, reaeration, seasonal-variation, snowmelt, stream-metabolism, streammetabolizer, urban-stream, usgs-60a2915bd34ea221ce4317d5
Organization: Department of the Interior