AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Digitized Historical Borehole Geophysical Logs in and near the Mississippi Alluvial Plain Aquifer System

This data release consists of historical borehole geophysical data collected by various entities and digitized by the U.S. Geological Survey to characterize the physical properties of the subsurface in and near the Mississippi Alluvial Plain from Louisiana to Missouri. The geophysical log data were collected by different Federal, state, and local agencies throughout the area and were obtained from three sources: Hart and Clark (2008), the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) (Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality, 2019), and the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources (LADNR). The log data generally consisted of either scanned .jpg or .tif images of the original log.  The data were digitized using Neurolog v.2015.12 (NeuraLog, 2018). The digitization process involves tracing each log over a user-defined grid area; the traces can be exported in various formats such as .las (log ascii standard) file that can be read into other software packages.

Tags: arkansas, borehole-logging, digitization, electrical-resistivity-logging, geophysics, louisiana, lower-mississippi, mississippi, mississippi-river-delta, missouri, usgs-5bfd6397e4b0815414ca573e
Organization: Department of the Interior
Holocene fluvial and estuarine (Qfe) and nearshore marine (Qmn) sediment thickness offshore of western and southern Martha's Vineyard and north of Nantucket, Massachusetts

Geologic, sediment texture, and physiographic zone maps characterize the sea floor south and west of Martha's Vineyard and north of Nantucket, Massachusetts. These maps were derived from interpretations of seismic-reflection profiles, high-resolution bathymetry, acoustic-backscatter intensity, bottom photographs, and surficial sediment samples. The interpretation of the seismic stratigraphy and mapping of glacial and Holocene marine units provided a foundation on which the surficial maps were created. This mapping is a result of a collaborative effort between the U.S. Geological Survey and the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management to characterize the surface and subsurface geologic framework offshore of Massachusetts.

Tags: 32-bit-geotiff, 512i, aquinnah, atlantic-ocean, cape-cod, chappaquiddick-island, childrens-beach, chilmark, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, coatue, czm, dionis-beach, edgetech, eel-point, gay-head, geologic-contacts, geologic-framework, geologic-structure, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, great-point, holocene, imagerybasemapsearthcover, interpretation, katama-beach, long-point-wildlife-refuge, lucy-vincent-beach, marine-geology, marthas-vineyard, massachusetts, massachusetts-office-of-coastal-zone-management, muskeget-channel, muskeget-island, nantucket, nantucket-harbor, nantucket-sound, nomans-land, oceans, pleistocene, scientific-interpretation, sea-floor, sea-floor-characteristics, sediment-thickness, sedimentation, seismic-interpretation, seismic-reflection-profiles, shovelful-shoal, south-beach, squibnocket-beach, squibnocket-point, tisbury, tisbury-great-pond-beach, tuckernuck-bank, tuckernuck-island, tuckernuck-shoal, u-s-geological-survey, u-s-geological-survey-open-file-report-2008-1288, u-s-geological-survey-open-file-report-2012-1006, u-s-geological-survey-open-file-report-2016-1168, unconsolidated-deposits, usgs, usgs-5bfd605be4b0815414ca39dd, vineyard-sound, wasque-point, wasque-shoal, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Physiographic Zones of the Sea Floor offshore of western and southern Martha's Vineyard and north of Nantucket, Massachusetts

Geologic, sediment texture, and physiographic zone maps characterize the sea floor south and west of Martha's Vineyard and north of Nantucket, Massachusetts. These maps were derived from interpretations of seismic-reflection profiles, high-resolution bathymetry, acoustic-backscatter intensity, bottom photographs, and surficial sediment samples. The interpretation of the seismic stratigraphy and mapping of glacial and Holocene marine units provided a foundation on which the surficial maps were created. This mapping is a result of a collaborative effort between the U.S. Geological Survey and the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management to characterize the surface and subsurface geologic framework offshore of Massachusetts.

Tags: aquinnah, atlantic-ocean, backscatter, bathymetry, cape-cod, chappaquiddick-island, childrens-beach, chilmark, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, coastal-embayment, coatue, czm, dionis-beach, ebb-tidal-delta, eel-point, esri-shapefile, gay-head, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, great-point, hard-bottom-plain, interpretation, katama-beach, long-point-wildlife-refuge, lucy-vincent-beach, marine-geology, marthas-vineyard, massachusetts, massachusetts-office-of-coastal-zone-management, muskeget-channel, muskeget-island, nantucket, nantucket-harbor, nantucket-sound, nearshore-basin, nearshore-ramp, nomans-land, oceans, outer-basin, physiographic-zones, rocky-zone, scientific-interpretation, sea-floor, sea-floor-characteristics, sedimentology, shell-zone, shoalsand-wave, shovelful-shoal, sieve-size-analysis, slope, south-beach, squibnocket-beach, squibnocket-point, tisbury, tisbury-great-pond-beach, topography, tuckernuck-bank, tuckernuck-island, tuckernuck-shoal, u-s-geological-survey, u-s-geological-survey-open-file-report-2008-1288, u-s-geological-survey-open-file-report-2012-1006, u-s-geological-survey-open-file-report-2016-1168, unconsolidated-deposits, usgs, usgs-5bfd6055e4b0815414ca39d9, vineyard-sound, wasque-point, wasque-shoal, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Elevation of the late Wisconsinan to early Holocene regressive unconformity (Ur) offshore of western and southern Martha's Vineyard and north of Nantucket, Massachusetts

Geologic, sediment texture, and physiographic zone maps characterize the sea floor south and west of Martha's Vineyard and north of Nantucket, Massachusetts. These maps were derived from interpretations of seismic-reflection profiles, high-resolution bathymetry, acoustic-backscatter intensity, bottom photographs, and surficial sediment samples. The interpretation of the seismic stratigraphy and mapping of glacial and Holocene marine units provided a foundation on which the surficial maps were created. This mapping is a result of a collaborative effort between the U.S. Geological Survey and the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management to characterize the surface and subsurface geologic framework offshore of Massachusetts.

Tags: 32-bit-geotiff, 512i, aquinnah, atlantic-ocean, cape-cod, chappaquiddick-island, childrens-beach, chilmark, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, coatue, czm, depth-to-glacial-deposits, dionis-beach, edgetech, eel-point, gay-head, geologic-contacts, geologic-framework, geologic-structure, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, great-point, holocene, imagerybasemapsearthcover, interpretation, katama-beach, long-point-wildlife-refuge, lucy-vincent-beach, marine-geology, marthas-vineyard, massachusetts, massachusetts-office-of-coastal-zone-management, muskeget-channel, muskeget-island, nantucket, nantucket-harbor, nantucket-sound, nomans-land, oceans, pleistocene, regressive-unconformity, scientific-interpretation, sea-floor, sea-floor-characteristics, sedimentation, seismic-interpretation, seismic-reflection-profiles, shovelful-shoal, south-beach, squibnocket-beach, squibnocket-point, tisbury, tisbury-great-pond-beach, tuckernuck-bank, tuckernuck-island, tuckernuck-shoal, u-s-geological-survey, u-s-geological-survey-open-file-report-2008-1288, u-s-geological-survey-open-file-report-2012-1006, u-s-geological-survey-open-file-report-2016-1168, unconsolidated-deposits, usgs, usgs-5bfd604de4b0815414ca39d5, vineyard-sound, wasque-point, wasque-shoal, whcmsc, wisconsinan, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Upper Mississippi River water and bigheaded carp otolith chemistry data

Data set includes water Sr:Ca, Ba:Ca, and δ18O for the Upper Mississippi River and tributaries and otolith Sr:Ca, Ba:Ca, and δ18O data from bigheaded carp collected in pools 19-21 of the Upper Mississippi River.  Abstract from manuscript:
Knowledge of environments used during early life history and movement patterns of Bighead Carp (Hypophthalmichthys nobilis) and Silver Carp (H. molitrix), collectively termed bigheaded carps, in the Upper Mississippi River (UMR) would be valuable for informing control measures to limit further population expansion and impacts of these species.  Lock and Dam 19 (LD19) is a high-head dam on the UMR that delineates downriver areas where bigheaded carps are well-established from upriver pools where these species are less abundant and evidence of reproduction and recruitment are limited.  Principal natal environments supporting recruitment of emerging bigheaded carp populations in the UMR are unknown.  The objectives of this study were to (1) infer environments occupied during early life stages by bigheaded carps collected in UMR Pools 19-21 using otolith microchemistry and stable isotope analyses, and (2) use early life environment assignments and capture location to identify individuals that passed through LD19.  Differences in multivariate water chemistry signatures (Sr:Ca, Ba:Ca and δ18O) among the UMR, its tributaries, and the Missouri and Middle Mississippi rivers enabled development of a classification model for inferring early life environment of bigheaded carps.  Multiple sources of recruits, including from tributaries, have contributed to upriver expansion of bigheaded carps in the UMR.  Sustainable control of bigheaded carps upstream of LD19 will likely require efforts to control local recruitment and immigration from downriver.  The frequency of bigheaded carps collected in Pool 19 that were downstream of LD19 during early life suggests that bigheaded carps upstream of LD19 were still dominated by immigrants from downriver at the time these fish were spawned.  Otolith chemistry provides an approach for assessing the extent to which changes in abundance of bigheaded carps upstream of LD19 are associated with local recruitment or immigration from downriver.

Tags: asian-carp, biota, hypophthalmichthys, microchemistry, otoliths, stable-isotopes, usgs-5bfd314ee4b0815414ca394e
Organization: Department of the Interior
Assessment of bird exposure to lead at Tyndall and Beale Air Force Bases

Soil contamination by lead (Pb) from past small munitions training on Beale Air Force Base, California and Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida may result in adverse effects for passerine birds that utilize the locations.  A study was conducted during 2016–17 at both Air Force Bases (AFB) to assess the risk of bird exposure to Pb.  Two different methods were used to estimate exposure.  The first was by analysis of blood and feather samples collected from birds captured on both AFBs, while the second was by food chain modeling using data on Pb concentrations in dietary items (invertebrates and seeds) collected from both AFB.  Lead concentrations in blood and feathers for birds captured at Beale AFB indicate low exposure and risk, while potential toxicity is possible based on blood and feather data for birds from Tyndall AFB.  Food chain modeling utilizing dietary contamination indicates a risk likelihood of up to 35 percent at Beale AFB and up to 34 percent at Tyndall AFB.  Lead exposure from incidental soil ingestion increased risk likelihood at both AFB and is a significant uncertainty in this risk assessment.

Tags: aminolevulinic-acid-dehydratase, beale-air-force-base, birds, blood, feathers, invertebrates, lead, seeds, st-joe-bay-buffer-preserve, tyndall-air-force-base, usgs-5bfd2739e4b0815414ca3947
Organization: Department of the Interior
Water temperature and riparian vegetation survey data for the lower Quinault River, WA for select periods in 2018 and 2019

This data release includes hourly water temperature data at 12 locations in the main stem of the Quinault River and its major tributaries, and data from a riparian vegetation survey conducted in the lower Quinault River, Washington. Water temperature data was collected during the summer of 2018 and 2019 at most locations. Variable collection periods by site are described within the dataset. Riparian vegetation surveys were conducted during the summer of 2018.

Tags: biota, riparian-vegetation, usgs-5bfc866be4b0815414ca338d, water-temperature
Organization: Department of the Interior
Circa 1956 Land Area in Coastal Louisiana - Original Data Source - National Wetlands Inventory - Revisions to Georectification

The dataset presented here represents a circa 1956 land/water delineation of coastal Louisiana used in part of a larger study to quantify landscape changes from 1932 to 2016.  The original dataset was created by  the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Office of Biological Services. 
The USGS Wetland and Aquatic Research Center altered the original data by improving the geo-rectification in specific areas known to contain geo-rectification error, most notably in coastal wetland areas in the vicinity of Four League Bay in western Terrebonne Basin.  The dataset contains two categories, land and water.  For the purposes of this effort, land includes areas characterized by emergent vegetation, upland, wetland forest, or scrub-shrub were classified as land, while open water, aquatic beds, and mudflats were classified as water.  For additional information regarding this dataset (other than geo-rectification revisions), please contact the dataset originator, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS).

Tags: central-louisiana-coastal, east-central-louisiana-coastal, eastern-louisiana-coastal, louisiana, louisiana-coastal, usgs-5bfc4210e4b045bfcae30369, west-central-louisiana-coastal, wetland-change, wetland-gain, wetland-loss, wetlands
Organization: Department of the Interior
Catalog of U.S. Federal Early Detection/Rapid Response Invasive Species Databases and Tools: Version 2.0

The dataset catalogs and describes existing online, federally supported databases and tools dealing with various aspects of a potential national Early Detection and Rapid Response (EDRR) invasive species framework.
This dataset is supplementary material 2 and 3 to the manuscript, "Envisioning a national invasive species information framework" (Reaser et al., 2020) published as part of a special open source issue dealing with invasive species early detection and rapid response by the journal Biological Invasions, Volume 22, Issue 1, January 2020 (https://link.springer.com/journal/10530/22/1).
A user-friendly version of this dataset is also available online as a USGS Library Guide, here: https://libraryguides.usgs.gov/edrrinvasive

Tags: biomonitoring, databases, environmental-monitoring, introduced-species, invasive-species, management-tools, risk-assessment-tools, surveillance-monitoring, usgs-5bf87027e4b045bfcae2ece6, warning-services, warning-systems
Organization: Department of the Interior
Seedling count data in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park in site with rats removed and control site, October 2016 to August 2017

This study aims to evaluate the effect of rat population control on the ability of Hibiscadelphus giffardianus to successfully establish seedlings. We compared H. giffardianus fruiting and recruitment in a stand treated for rats and a neighboring control stand. The study was conducted in two neighboring kīpuka, Kīpuka Puaulu and Kīpuka Kī, which are patches of well-developed forest surrounded by more recent lava flows. These kīpuka lie 2.5 km northwest of Kīlauea Caldera in Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park on the island of Hawai`i. The 700 × 700 m rat-removal treatment area falls within Kīpuka Kī, and Kīpuka Puaulu served as a control. We monitored 181 mature, fruit-bearing individuals of this species, of which there exist 223 total. Each month from October 2016 through August 2017, the number of seedlings within 3m of each individual H. giffardianus was recorded. All newly established seedlings were located and recorded early in their growth (height &lt; 3 cm). Because of high mortality rates, after February, we placed protective exclosures (1 cm mesh size, designed to exclude non-native Kalij pheasant (Lophura leucomelanos) around remaining and new seedlings.

Tags: biota, endangered-plants, plant-reproduction, seed-predation, seedling-predation, usgs-5bf85e4ae4b045bfcae2ec7a
Organization: Department of the Interior
Plot locations for "rat mark-recapture in rodenticide treatment and non-treatment plots, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, fall 2016 and spring 2017"

This is a selected data set that outlines the plot areas used to assess the impacts of rodenticide treatment on black rat (Rattus rattus) abundance within Hawaii Volcanoes National Park (HAVO).  These data provide the spatial reference for a larger work describing the response of native species to rat control. Included are the corner boundaries for the 700x700 m (49 ha) study plots and each grid point/station within the centralized 300x300 m (9 ha) sub-plot at both the treatment and non-treatment site. Traps were placed 50 m apart, one at each station in the trapping grid, for a total of 49 traps in each of the sub-plots. The rodenticide treatment and native species monitoring were conducted using the entire 49 ha plot area at each site.

Tags: biota, hawaii, hawaii-county-2, hawaii-volcanoes-national-park, invasive-species, natural-resource-management, population-and-community-ecology, population-dynamics, rodent-control, rodenticide, usgs-5bf85cd5e4b045bfcae2ec68
Organization: Department of the Interior
Rat mark-recapture in rodenticide treatment and non-treatment plots, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, fall 2016 and spring 2017

This is a selected data set used to assess the impacts of rodenticide treatment on black rat (Rattus rattus) abundance within Hawaii Volcanoes National Park (HAVO). The key objective was to identify rat density in native habitat in the Mauna Loa Strip section of HAVO before and after rodenticide treatment, using a paired non-treatment and treatment plot for comparison in a before-after, control-impact (BACI) study design. These data are part of larger work describing the response of native species to rat control. This data set includes the results of the mark recapture study that took place during two different  trapping periods (before and after treatment) within a centralized 300x300 m (9 ha) portion of each 700x700 m (49 ha) study plot (treatment and non-treatment). Traps were placed 50 m apart in a grid fashion, with a total of 49 traps per plot. Rodenticide application commenced in the treatment plot in January 2017, in between the fall 2016 and spring 2017 trapping periods. The treatment covered the entire 49 ha plot at Kipuka Ki, using bait stations containing 0.45 kg 0.005% diphacinone spaced 50 m apart (225 stations). Rats were reduced to low numbers throughout the treatment period, which continued from January through August 2017.

Tags: biota, hawaii, hawaii-county-2, hawaii-volcanoes-national-park, invasive-species, natural-resource-management, population-and-community-ecology, population-dynamics, rodent-control, rodenticide, usgs-5bf85b3ee4b045bfcae2ec50
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data on the number of open fruit on individual Hibiscidelphus giffardianus plants in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park in a site with rats removed and control site, October 2016 to August 2017

This study aims to evaluate the effect of rat population control on the ability of Hibiscadelphus giffardianus to successfully establish seedlings. We compared H. giffardianus fruiting and recruitment in a stand treated for rats and a neighboring control stand. The study was conducted in two neighboring kīpuka, Kīpuka Puaulu and Kīpuka Kī, which are patches of well-developed forest surrounded by more recent lava flows. These kīpuka lie 2.5 km northwest of Kīlauea Caldera in Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park on the island of Hawai`i. The 700 × 700 m rat-removal treatment area falls within Kīpuka Kī, and Kīpuka Puaulu served as a control. We monitored 181 mature, fruit-bearing individuals of this species, of which there exist 223 total. Each month from October 2016 through August 2017, the number of seedlings within 3m of each individual H. giffardianus was recorded. All newly established seedlings were located and recorded early in their growth (height &lt; 3 cm). Because of high mortality rates, after February, we placed protective exclosures (1 cm mesh size, designed to exclude non-native Kalij pheasant (Lophura leucomelanos) around remaining and new seedlings.

Tags: endangered-plants, plant-reproduction, seed-predation, seedling-predation, usgs-5bf859a3e4b045bfcae2ec3b
Organization: Department of the Interior
5-m backscatter mosaic from south and west of Martha's Vineyard and north of Nantucket produced from sidescan-sonar and interferometric backscatter datasets

Geologic, sediment texture, and physiographic zone maps characterize the sea floor south and west of Martha's Vineyard and north of Nantucket, Massachusetts. These maps were derived from interpretations of seismic-reflection profiles, high-resolution bathymetry, acoustic-backscatter intensity, bottom photographs, and surficial sediment samples. The interpretation of the seismic stratigraphy and mapping of glacial and Holocene marine units provided a foundation on which the surficial maps were created. This mapping is a result of a collaborative effort between the U.S. Geological Survey and the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management to characterize the surface and subsurface geologic framework offshore of Massachusetts.

Tags: aquinnah, atlantic-ocean, backscatter, cape-cod, chappaquiddick-island, childrens-beach, chilmark, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, coatue, composite-image, czm, dionis-beach, eel-point, gay-head, geoscientificinformation, geotiff, great-point, grey-scale, image-collections, imagerybasemapsearthcover, interferometric-backscatter, interferometric-sonar, katama-beach, klein-3000, long-point-wildlife-refuge, lucy-vincent-beach, marine-geophysics, marthas-vineyard, massachusetts, massachusetts-office-of-coastal-zone-management, mosaic, muskeget-channel, muskeget-island, nantucket, nantucket-harbor, nantucket-sound, nomans-land, oceans, remote-sensing, sea-floor-acoustic-reflectivity, sea-floor-characteristics, shovelful-shoal, sidescan, sidescan-sonar, south-beach, squibnocket-beach, squibnocket-point, swathplus-m, tisbury, tisbury-great-pond-beach, tuckernuck-bank, tuckernuck-island, tuckernuck-shoal, u-s-geological-survey, u-s-geological-survey-open-file-report-2008-1288, u-s-geological-survey-open-file-report-2012-1006, u-s-geological-survey-open-file-report-2016-1168, usgs, usgs-5bfd6022e4b0815414ca39cf, vineyard-sound, wasque-point, wasque-shoal, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior