AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
GPS Tracking Data for Caribou (Rangifer tarandus granti) from the Fortymile Herd, Alaska, 1998-1999

These data were part of a pilot tracking study of three adult female caribou from the Fortymile Herd in Alaska. The dataset is comprised of two comma separated values (.csv) files. Data includes: 1) processed (i.e., erroneous locations removed) GPS locations for caribou, received once per hour for 6 months (October 1998 to April 1999), and 2) spatial, temporal, and biological attributes of three female caribou tracked during the study.

Tags: alaska, alaska-range, animal-tracking, animals-vertebrates, biota, caribou, diurnal-movements, environment, even-toed-ungulates, mammals, migratory-species, rangifer-tarandus-granti, seasonal-distribution, seasonal-movement, terrestrial-ecosystems, tracking-equipment, usgs-asc598, wildlife
Organization: Department of the Interior
West Florida Shelf sonde (temperature, conductivity, salinity, pH) data collected from a continuous surface water flow-through system in August 2013

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) is studying the effects of climate change on ocean acidification within the Gulf of Mexico; dealing specifically with the effect of ocean acidification on marine organisms and habitats. To investigate this, the USGS participated in cruises on the West Florida Shelf and northern Gulf of Mexico regions aboard the research vessel (R/V) Weatherbird II or Bellows, ships of opportunity led by Dr. Kendra Daly, of the University of South Florida (USF) in July and August, 2013. Cruises left from and returned to Saint Petersburg, Florida, but followed different routes. The USGS collected geochemical data pertaining to pH, dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC), total carbon dioxide (TCO2), and total alkalinity (TA) in discrete samples at various depths from predetermined stations. Discrete surface samples were also taken, while in transit, during both cruises.

Tags: bathypelagic, carbon-flux, environment, epipelagic, florida, geochemistry, geoscientificinformation, marine-chemistry, marine-geology, mesopelagic, ocean-acidification, ocean-chemistry, ocean-surface, oceans, pco2, ph, salinity, temperature, total-carbon, united-states, usgs-6c942146-2ae7-41cf-9244-f6eac9817787, west-florida-shelf
Organization: Department of the Interior
Fort Polk Study Area

In 2015-2016, physicochemical properties and chemical characteristics of stream water, bed sediment, groundwater, and soil were determined in watersheds located outside of, but in proximity to, the Peason Ridge Training Area and Main Post at the Joint Readiness Training Center and Fort Polk boundaries to document background trace element concentrations. Water samples were analyzed for physicochemical properties, major inorganic ions, selected trace elements, and dissolved organic carbon. Selected trace elements included antimony, arsenic, cadmium, copper, iron, lead, manganese, mercury, and zinc. Stream bed-sediment and soil samples were analyzed for major inorganic ions, selected trace elements, and grain size distribution.
Surface-water samples were collected near the downstream transect of each stream reach. Monitoring wells were located adjacent to the stream reach and in close proximity to the surface-water sampling sites. Bulk bed-sediment samples were collected during normal low-flow conditions. Each sample consisted of a composite sample from five locations (right edge, left edge, and center of a middle transect, then upstream and downstream of the middle transect) within each stream reach. Three soil samples, one from hilltops, one from side slopes, and one from riparian zones, were collected from areas adjacent to each stream reach.  Each soil sample consisted of 5 to 10 grab samples collected by a 21-inch-long, 5/8-inch internal diameter stainless-steel hand auger and composited in Teflon lined pans. All samples were collected following USGS sampling protocols.
This data release provides database and mapping information for assessment of trace element concentrations in stream water, bed sediment, groundwater, and soil found in relatively pristine and undisturbed watersheds in proximity to watersheds used for military training.

Tags: groundwater-and-surface-water-interaction, sediment-analysis, surface-water-quality, usgs-5ab927ace4b081f61ab9c8b5
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data release for integrating remotely sensed surface water dynamics in hydrologic signature modeling

Variability in river discharge, particularly very high flow and low flow conditions, has far-reaching environmental and economic consequences. The retention of water in surface storage, concentrated in lakes, ponds, wetlands, floodplains, and temporary water in flood prone areas, can potentially contribute to flow generation and flood regulation. However, the impact of surface water storage on river discharge can be challenging to isolate and quantify. A suite of hydrologic signatures were generated for 72 gages across the conterminous United States. The hydrologic signatures were selected to characterize all flows as well as isolating high and low flows, and machine learning models were developed to explain watershed variability in signature values. Wetland related variables, including multi-sensor-based surface water extent and hydroperiod, were compared with other drivers, including climate, topography, and land cover. An improved understanding of how surface water dynamics influence river discharge can be used to improve the resilience of river systems to climate extremes.

Tags: arizona, arkansas, california, delaware, drought, floodplain, floods, geographically-isolated-wetlands, georgia, hydrologic-signatures, idaho, illinois, inundation, iowa, kansas, lakes, maryland, minnesota, mississippi, missouri, montana, nebraska, new-mexico, non-floodplain-wetlands, north-carolina, north-dakota, oregon, pennsylvania, south-carolina, south-dakota, stream-discharge-metrics, texas, united-states, usgs-652027f4d34e44db0e2e43b4, virginia, wetlands, wisconsin
Organization: Department of the Interior
Delaware Atlantic coast, 2020 – Orthomosaic Images

Low altitude (300 meters above ground level (AGL)) digital aerial imagery acquired with a piloted fixed-wing aircraft was processed using Structure-from-Motion (SfM) photogrammetry techniques to produce high-resolution three-dimensional (3D) point clouds and digital elevation models (DEMs) and orthomosaic images. This dataset consists of red-green-blue (RGB) orthomosaic images produced from imagery collected along the Delaware Atlantic coast on May 4 and 5, 2020, to monitor coastal change.
All horizontal data are provided in the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) projected coordinate system, Zone 18 North (18N), referenced to the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83(2011)).

Tags: aerial-photography, cape-henlopen, cape-henlopen-state-park, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, coastal-processes, delaware, delaware-seashore-state-park, digital-elevation-models, earth-sciences, geography, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, image-collections, imagerybasemapsearthcover, oceans, remote-sensing, structure-from-motion, topographic-maps, topography, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-647e2c51d34eac007b55e382
Organization: Department of the Interior
Airborne geophysical survey: San Francisco Peaks, Arizona Survey Part 1 of 3

Aeromagnetic data were collected along flight lines by instruments in an
aircraft that recorded magnetic-field values and locations.  This dataset
presents latitude, longitude, altitude, and magnetic-field values.

Tags: aeromagnetic-data, aeromagnetic-surveying, airborne-surveys, arizona, az, f04005-coconino, field-monitoring-stations, geophysical-surveys, geophysics, geospatial-datasets, magnetic, magnetic-field-earth, magnetic-surveys, residual-magnetic-field, san-francisco-peaks, total-field, united-states, usgs-ba5b648f-182a-4341-989c-bc4532f08b29
Organization: Department of the Interior
Laboratory analysis assessing immune response after flame retardant exposure in American kestrels, Falco sparverius, through 21 days post-hatch

Laboratory analysis of innate American kestrel, Falco sparverius, immune response after exposure to flame retardant, isopropylphenyl phosphate (ITP) through 21 days post hatch. Data consist of flow cytometry files that were generated in the analysis of white blood cells from kestrel blood. Thus, data are in standard format that allows files created by one type of acquisition hardware and software to be analyzed by any other type.

Tags: avian-influenza, contamination-and-pollution, flame-retardant, flow-cytometry, health, immunology, north-america, south-america, usgs-5ea9b48182cefae35a2054b0
Organization: Department of the Interior
Photographs and photomicrographs of selected pre-Middle Jurassic basement rocks beneath the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains in Florida

This data release contains photographs and photomicrographs from drill cores and cuttings of pre-Middle Jurassic basement rocks that are buried beneath Coastal Plain sedimentary deposits in Florida. These samples provide rare insights into deeply buried rocks that have no surface exposures and no known exposed correlates. These images were acquired to support the characterization, discrimination, and correlation of map units comprising Florida’s basement infrastructure (Deasy and others, 2024a). 
These are the original images. Annotated images with additional comments are available in the companion Data Report (Deasy and others, 2024b). Semi-quantitative mineral modes of many basement rocks are presented in a companion data release (Deasy and others, 2024c); geochemical analyses of many of the same samples are available in a third companion data release (Deasy and others, 2024d). Types of images included are hand sample photographs; optical photomicrographs in plane-, cross-polarized, and reflected light (PPL, XPL, and RL, respectively); and scanning electron microscope (SEM) images including back-scattered electron (BSE) images, cathodoluminescence (CL) images, and qualitative elemental abundance maps determined by energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS). All images are in tag image file (.tif) format. Contents of this release are: 1) a table of image information (image_table.csv), 2) a zipped folder containing two hundred twenty (220) .tif images (images.zip), 3) a data dictionary (.csv) defining attributes (column headings) in image_table.csv, 4) and metadata (.xml). Any use of trade, firm, or product names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.

Tags: biota, photograph, photomicrograph, usgs-66630f46d34e4d5e848413ac
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data from "Gravity surveys for estimating possible width of enhanced porosity zones across structures on the Coconino Plateau, Coconino County, North-Central Arizona"

This dataset includes gravity observations collected on the Coconino Plateau, Arizona, from 2015 to 2019 and reductions that were used to arrive at the gravity residual reported in the associated publication (Wildermuth, 2022). Relative-gravity surveys were carried out using a ZLS Burris relative-gravity meter. Absolute gravity values were taken from the closest NGS stations and relative-gravity differences were combined with nearby absolute gravity values using a least-squared network adjustment, as implemented in the software Gravnet (Hwang, C., Wang, C., Lee, L., 2002. Adjustment of relative gravity measurements using weighted and datum-free constraints. Comput. Geosci. 28, 1005–1015). Additional information about the network adjustment is provided in the Data Quality section of the metadata contained in the GC_gravity.xml file. Data pre- and post-processing were carried out using GSadjust (https://code.usgs.gov/sgp/gsadjust).

Tags: biota, coconino-plateau, gravimeter-measurement, gravity, southwest-gravity-program, usgs-6170879ad34ea36449a6cb5a
Organization: Department of the Interior
Wind rose plots for the volcano: 252090  Sulu Range

This zip folder contains ASCII text files of vectors at the specified volcano at 
12-hour intervals, 
from January 1, 1990 through December 28, 2009.  
The wind vectors are divided into five files, names by their elevation range above 
sea level in the atmosphere: 00-05km.txt; 05-11km.txt; 11-16km.txt; 16-24km.txt; 
and 24-30km.txt. 
The zip folder also contains a subfolder "figures", with Wind rose plots of wind 
direction and speed over 
this time period.  The plots are by season, and by elevation, given a total of 20 
plots (4 seasons, 5 
elevation ranges).  A summary plot is also included which gives the year-round 
wind pattern at the volcano, 
at 0-5 km elevation.  Plots are in both jpg and pdf format.

Tags: meteorology, usgs-58d0119fe4b0236b68f52a62, volcanic-ash, volcanic-eruption-forecasting, wind
Organization: Department of the Interior
Repeat Lidar and Orthoimagery of Headwater Streams in the Donner und Blitzen River Basin, Oregon: Lidar Intensity Rasters, June 2022

In June and September, 2022, NV5 Geospatial collected aerial imagery and near-infrared (NIR) light detecting and ranging (lidar) data from crewed aircraft over 62 square kilometers over  headwater streams in the Donner und Blitzen River Basin  in southeastern  Oregon. Repeat data were collected along Mud Creek and Bridge Creek on the western slope of Steens Mountain. This data release includes orthoimagery, and lidar data, including point clouds, bare-earth elevation rasters, and intensity rasters, from both June and September 2022, and a tiling index. This documentation describes the lidar intensity rasters from the June data collection and is adapted from information provided by NV5 Geospatial to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Tags: aerial-photography, bare-earth, big-bridge-creek, bridge-creek, dem, digital-elevation-model, elevation-data, geoscientificinformation, harney-county, hydrology, imagerybasemapsearthcover, inlandwaters, lambing-creek, lidar, lidar-intensity, lidar-point-cloud, little-bridge-creek, malheur-national-wildlife-refuge, mud-creek, oregon, orthoimagery, raster, remote-sensing, steens-mountain, surface-water-non-marine, usgs-65c1453cd34ef4b119ca664d
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2021 Site 3565 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 2021 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. Five previous assessments have been conducted (2005, 2008, 2012, 2015/2016, and 2018). 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-64dce29cd34e5f6cd552806a, wetland, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Projections of 5 coupled scenarios of land-use change and groundwater sustainability for California's Central Coast (2001-2061) - LUCAS-W model

LUCAS-W is a scenario-based simulation model of coupled land use change and associated water demand for California's Central Coast region from 2001-2061. The model is a verison of the LUCAS model, which uses the SyncroSim software framework (Software documentation available at http://doc.syncrosim.com/index.php?title=Reference_Guide), that contains a new coupling with statistical software R (https://www.r-project.org/) to enable dynamic feedbacks between land-use change, resulting water demand, and water availability. The model was parameterized with land-use change and water use empirically estimated from county-scale historic data, as well as results from dozens of local agencies’ groundwater modeling efforts. It was used to assess a set of five stakeholder-driven scenarios that explored alternative development pathways assuming the continuation of historic land use change rates but with different intensities of water supply and land-use management. Water management strategies were (1) water demand limits, and (2) water supply enhancement, while land use management strategies were (3) urban sprawl limits on recharge areas and prime farmland, and (4) preservation of priority habitat areas. By scaling up studies of local-scale diverse, heterogeneous aquifers and management approaches to a regional level, the model can enable a projection of spatial changes due to shifts in LULC and water management including leakage from land and water use regulated areas into unregulated areas, information that is key to future agency planning for sustainability. The resulting land-use projections provide a range of development projections under different sets of management assumptions: patterns of development that do not stabilize “business-as-usual” (WL), assume that water demand stabilizes at a range of possible sustainable water supply levels (MM, WH), and that assume a relatively unregulated (LL) or tightly compact (LH) pattern of future development. See Van Schmidt et al. (2022) Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2022.101056) for more details.

Tags: biota, california, california-central-coast, groundwater, land-cover, land-use, land-use-change, monterey-county, san-benito-county, san-luis-obispo-county, santa-barbara-county, santa-cruz-county, scenarios, usgs-60d3da40d34e12a1b00a697c, water-demand, water-supply, water-sustainability
Organization: Department of the Interior
Global Ecological Classification of Coastal Segment Units

A new data layer provides global coastal segments at 1 km or shorter resolution produced from a partitioning of a 30 m Landsat-derived shoreline vector that was segmented into 4 million 1 km or shorter segments. Each segment was attributed with values from 10 variables that represent the ecological settings in which the coastline occurs, including properties of the adjacent water, adjacent land, and coastline itself. The 4 million segments were classified into 81,000 coastal segment units (CSUs) as unique combinations of variable classes.

Tags: coastlines, usgs-63c74df2d34e06fef14ec038
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, and 2016 Site 4690 land-water matrix

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 390 sites that encompass the range of hydrological and ecological conditions for each stratum. As part of CRMS, land and water classifications are created from 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 390 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. This dataset consists of a matrix of four land-water products (2005, 2008, 2012, and 2016).  The resulting matrix has 16 possible classes defined by the combination of land and water categories on those four dates.

Tags: alteration-of-wetland-habitats, cartography, coastal, crms, doqq, emergent-wetland, forested-wetland, geographic-information-system, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-water, louisiana, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, scrub-shrub-wetland, state-of-louisiana, usgs-5b631b52e4b006a11f717898, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetlands
Organization: Department of the Interior
Potential Wetland Extent Along the Flatrock River Between USGS Gaging Stations 03363500 and 03363900

The Wetland Reserve Program (WRP) is a voluntary program administered by the NRCS. It provides technical and financial assistance to private landowners and Tribes to restore, protect, and enhance wetlands in exchange for retiring eligible land from agriculture. For a site to be a wetland eligible for restoration, it must be in a zone with sustained or frequent flooding for a period of 7 consecutive days on average at least once every 2 years (a value termed the 7MQ2). This study calculated the 7MQ2 flows for all the U.S. Geological Survey streamgages within the selected study reaches. These flows were related to the stage discharge tables for each streamgage and a corresponding elevation was determined. By use of the water-surface elevations (“inundation elevations”) along the rivers, an approximate extent of potential wetland for a restoration in agricultural land can be mapped. As part of the study, a set of maps representing the estimated potential wetland extents for each study reach was generated in a geographic information system (GIS) application by combining (1) a digital water-surface plane representing the surface of inundation elevation that sloped in the downstream direction of flow and (2) land-surface elevation data. The map products from this study will aid the NRCS and its partners with the onsite inundation-zone verification in agricultural land for a potential restoration.

Tags: 7mq2, bartholomew-county, columbus, environment, extent, flatrock-river, floods, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-analysis, geospatial-datasets, hydrology, inlandwaters, inundation, maps-and-atlases, shelby-county, st-paul, state-of-indiana, streamflow, surface-water-level, usgs-5bad26ede4b08583a5d112fc, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-functions, wetland-reserve-program
Organization: Department of the Interior