AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
2021 ASIS Sediment Elevation Table Monitoring Data, exported from IMD SQL Server database

These files contain SET monitoring data collected at Assateague Island National Seashore

Tags: application-inventory-registry, asis, assateague-island-national-seashore, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-terrestrial-complex, ecological-framework-geology-and-soils-geomorphology-coastal-oceanographic-features-and-process, elevation, im, inventory-monitoring, ncbn, northeast-coastal-and-barrier-network, salt-marsh, sediment, vital-sign
Organization: Department of the Interior
Summer Cave Bat Monitoring at Cumberland Piedmont Network (CUPN): 2014-2018 — Raw Data (PUBLIC)

Four parks in the Cumberland Piedmont Network (CUPN) have selected cave-roosting bats as a high priority vital sign for long-term monitoring: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, Russell Cave National Monument, and Mammoth Cave National Park. Cave bats were selected for several reasons, including their important ecological role in supporting cave ecosystems, their crucial role in controlling certain nocturnal insect populations and reducing agricultural and forestry pests, and their status under the Endangered Species Act (several bat species are considered as “endangered”, “proposed endangered”, or a “species of concern”). All species of CUPN cave-dwelling bats are under threat from the novel fungal disease of bats called white-nose syndrome which has been confirmed in caves at these four network parks. Additional threats to the network's cave-roosting bats center around habitat loss or impact—which may be caused by human disturbance, in-cave modifications, land use changes above cave roosts, an increase in feral predators (e.g., cats), collisions with wind turbines, and food source impacts from acid deposition, heavy metals, or pesticides. Given the importance of bats to both surface and subsurface ecosystems, and because many bat species rely on cave habitat for their survival, monitoring of bats and their cave roosts is of great importance for managing and protecting bat populations and critical bat (cave) habitat. Monitoring information will increase confidence in manager's decisions and improve their ability to manage park resources and will allow managers to confront and mitigate threats to the park and operate more effectively in legal and political arenas.

This monitoring is focused on monitoring a subset of eight species of cave-dwelling bats that regularly inhabit selected caves within the four CUPN parks. The approach to determine abundance of summer cave-roosting bats centers around evening bat exit counts with multiple independent observer methods using night vision and thermal infrared equipment at cave entrances. Fourteen caves will be monitored at least twice every year, while another group (26 caves) will follow a four-year rotation where either six or seven caves are surveyed each year—each cave receiving at least two visits during the sampling year. Thus, 20 or 21 caves total will be monitored, at least twice each cave, every summer (between May 15 and July 31) at all four parks.

Tags: air-temperature, bats, cave, chch, colony, count, cuga, cupn, emergence, maca, monitoring, night-vision, relative-humidity, ruca, temperature, thermal-infrared, videography
Organization: Department of the Interior
Summer Cave Bat Monitoring at Cumberland Piedmont Network (CUPN): 2014-2018 — Data Package (PUBLIC)

Four parks in the Cumberland Piedmont Network (CUPN) have selected cave-roosting bats as a high priority vital sign for long-term monitoring: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, Russell Cave National Monument, and Mammoth Cave National Park. Cave bats were selected for several reasons, including their important ecological role in supporting cave ecosystems, their crucial role in controlling certain nocturnal insect populations and reducing agricultural and forestry pests, and their status under the Endangered Species Act (several bat species are considered as “endangered”, “proposed endangered”, or a “species of concern”). All species of CUPN cave-dwelling bats are under threat from the novel fungal disease of bats called white-nose syndrome which has been confirmed in caves at these four network parks. Additional threats to the network's cave-roosting bats center around habitat loss or impact—which may be caused by human disturbance, in-cave modifications, land use changes above cave roosts, an increase in feral predators (e.g., cats), collisions with wind turbines, and food source impacts from acid deposition, heavy metals, or pesticides. Given the importance of bats to both surface and subsurface ecosystems, and because many bat species rely on cave habitat for their survival, monitoring of bats and their cave roosts is of great importance for managing and protecting bat populations and critical bat (cave) habitat. Monitoring information will increase confidence in manager's decisions and improve their ability to manage park resources and will allow managers to confront and mitigate threats to the park and operate more effectively in legal and political arenas.

This monitoring is focused on monitoring a subset of eight species of cave-dwelling bats that regularly inhabit selected caves within the four CUPN parks. The approach to determine abundance of summer cave-roosting bats centers around evening bat exit counts with multiple independent observer methods using night vision and thermal infrared equipment at cave entrances. Fourteen caves will be monitored at least twice every year, while another group (26 caves) will follow a four-year rotation where either six or seven caves are surveyed each year—each cave receiving at least two visits during the sampling year. Thus, 20 or 21 caves total will be monitored, at least twice each cave, every summer (between May 15 and July 31) at all four parks.

Tags: air-temperature, bats, cave, chch, colony, count, cuga, cupn, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-at-risk-biota-te-species-and-communities, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-cave-communities, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-mammals, emergence, maca, monitoring, night-vision, relative-humidity, ruca, temperature, thermal-infrared, videography
Organization: Department of the Interior
Winter Cave Bat Census Data from Cumberland Piedmont Network (CUPN): 2014-2019 — Data Package (PUBLIC)

Four parks in the Cumberland Piedmont Network (CUPN) have selected cave-roosting bats as a high priority vital sign for long-term monitoring: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park (CHCH), Cumberland Gap National Historical Park (CUGA), Russell Cave National Monument (RUCA) and Mammoth Cave National Park (MACA). Cave bats were selected for several reasons, including their important ecological role in supporting cave ecosystems, their crucial role in controlling certain nocturnal insect populations and reducing agricultural and forestry pests, and their status under the Endangered Species Act (several bat species are considered “endangered”, “proposed endangered”, or a “species of concern”). All species of CUPN cave-dwelling bats are under threat from the novel fungal disease of bats called white-nose syndrome which has been confirmed in caves at these four network parks. Additional threats to the network’s cave-roosting bats center around habitat loss or impact—which may be caused by human disturbance, in-cave modifications, land use changes above cave roosts, an increase in feral predators (e.g., cats), collisions with wind turbines, and food source impacts from acid deposition, heavy metals, or pesticides. Given the importance of bats to both surface and subsurface ecosystems, and because many bat species rely on cave habitat for their survival, monitoring of bats and their cave roosts is of great importance for managing and protecting bat populations and critical bat (cave) habitat. Monitoring information will increase confidence in manager's decisions and improve their ability to manage park resources and will allow managers to confront and mitigate threats to the park and operate more effectively in legal and political arenas.

Winter in-cave counts primarily using direct visual or photographic techniques will be used to assess abundance each sampling year between 1 January and 28 February. Fifteen bat hibernacula will be censused in years ending with an odd number (e.g., 2017, 2019) at CUGA and MACA, and another 14 hibernacula will be monitored in years ending with an even number (e.g., 2016, 2018) at CHCH, MACA and RUCA.

Tags: air-temperature, bats, cave, census, chch, colony, count, cuga, cupn, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-at-risk-biota-te-species-and-communities, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-cave-communities, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-mammals, hibernaculum, maca, monitoring, relative-humidity, ruca, temperature
Organization: Department of the Interior
Winter Cave Bat Census Data from Cumberland Piedmont Network (CUPN): 2014-2019 — Raw Data (PUBLIC)

Four parks in the Cumberland Piedmont Network (CUPN) have selected cave-roosting bats as a high priority vital sign for long-term monitoring: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park (CHCH), Cumberland Gap National Historical Park (CUGA), Russell National Monument (RUCA) and Mammoth Cave National Park (MACA). Cave bats were selected for several reasons, including their important ecological role in supporting cave ecosystems, their crucial role in controlling certain nocturnal insect populations and reducing agricultural and forestry pests, and their status under the Endangered Species Act (several bat species are considered “endangered”, “proposed endangered”, or a “species of concern”). All species of CUPN cave-dwelling bats are under threat from the novel fungal disease of bats called white-nose syndrome which has been confirmed in caves at these four network parks. Additional threats to the network’s cave-roosting bats center around habitat loss or impact—which may be caused by human disturbance, in-cave modifications, land use changes above cave roosts, an increase in feral predators (e.g., cats), collisions with wind turbines, and food source impacts from acid deposition, heavy metals, or pesticides. Given the importance of bats to both surface and subsurface ecosystems, and because many bat species rely on cave habitat for their survival, monitoring of bats and their cave roosts is of great importance for managing and protecting bat populations and critical bat (cave) habitat. Monitoring information will increase confidence in manager's decisions and improve their ability to manage park resources and will allow managers to confront and mitigate threats to the park and operate more effectively in legal and political arenas.

Winter in-cave counts primarily using direct visual or photographic techniques will be used to assess abundance each sampling year between 1 January and 28 February. Fifteen bat hibernacula will be censused in years ending with an odd number (e.g., 2017, 2019) at CUGA and MACA, and another 14 hibernacula will be monitored in years ending with an even number (e.g., 2016, 2018) at CHCH, MACA and RUCA.

Tags: air-temperature, bats, cave, census, chch, colony, count, cuga, cupn, hibernaculum, maca, monitoring, relative-humidity, ruca, temperature
Organization: Department of the Interior
Heartland Network 2005-2025 Water Quality Data from the HTLN_WQ Project as of 2026-01-16

This data package was created 2026-01-16 10:55:31 by NPSTORET and includes selected project, location, and result data.

Data contained in the Heartland Network NPSTORET back-end file (HTLN_NPSTORETZIP_20260105_0823.ACCDB) were filtered to include:

Organization:
- HTLN: Heartland I&M Network and Prairie Cluster Prototype
Station:
- Include Trip QC And All Station Visit Results
Value Status:
- Accepted or Certified (exported as Final) or Final

The data package is organized into five data tables:
- Projects.csv - describes the purpose and background of the monitoring efforts
- Locations.csv - documents the attributes of the monitoring locations/stations
- Results.csv - contains the field measurements, observations, and/or lab analyses for each sample/event/data grouping
- HUC.csv - enumerates the domain of allowed values for 8-digit and 12-digit hydrologic unit codes utilized by the Locations data table
- Characteristics.csv - enumerates the domain of characteristics available in NPSTORET to identify what was sampled, measured or observed in Results

Period of record for filtered data is 2005-10-27 to 2025-12-01.  This data package is a snapshot in time of one National Park Service project. The most current data for this project, which may be more or less extensive than that in this data package, can be found on the Water Quality Portal at:

https://www.waterqualitydata.us/data/Result/search?project=HTLN_WQ&mimeType=csv&zip=yes&dataProfile=biological&providers=STORET

Tags: dissolved-oxygen, npstoret, ph, specific-conductivity, turbidity, water-quality, water-temperature
Organization: Department of the Interior
2023 E. coli results from surface water collections within horse concession zone of the Cades Cove Riding Stables, Abrams Creek, TN, Great Smoky Mountains National Park

These data represent five (5) weeks of monitoring E. coli levels in Abrams Creek upstream and downstream of the Cades Cove Riding Stables in Cades Cove, TN, GRSM. Water samples from Abrams Creek were later taken to Twin Creeks Science Center, Gatlinburg, TN, GRSM, where nutrient packs were added to the samples, which were then aliquoted into sealed trays and placed in an incubator for 24-hours. After the 24-hour incubation period, trays were removed and placed under a blacklight hood to determine the number of aliquoted wells that fluoresced from bacterial growth. From these observations, E.coli numbers were recorded and later quantified using the IDEXX Water MPN Generator V 1.4.4.

Tags: bacterial-monitoring, cades-cove-riding-stables, e-coli, horse-concessions, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Wetlands Ecological Integrity Woody Vegetation at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Great Sand Dunes National Park, and Rocky Mountain National Park 2007-2022.

Wetlands Ecological Integrity Woody Vegetation data from 2007-2022 at at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Great Sand Dunes National Park, and Rocky Mountain National Park.

Tags: ecological-integrity, romn-wei-data-package, vegetation-dataset, wetlands, woody-vegetation
Organization: Department of the Interior
Estuarine Nutrient Enrichment Water Quality Monitoring Data for Colonial National Historical Park (Certified)

As part of the Northeast Coastal and Barrier Network's Estuarine Nutrient Enrichment Monitoring program, Network staff continued to estuarine water quality at several park units. This file contains spatial (i.e., not continuous) water quality data collected through the most recent field season at Colonial National Historical Park.

Tags: colo, colonial-national-historical-park, ecological-framework-water-water-quality-nutrient-dynamics, ecological-framework-water-water-quality-water-chemistry, environment, estuary, inland-waters, monitoring, national-park-service, ncbn, new-york, northeast-coastal-and-barrier-network, northeast-region, nutrient-enrichment, resource-management, virginia, vital-signs, water, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Estuarine Nutrient Enrichment Water Quality Monitoring Data for Gateway National Recreation Area (Certified)

As part of the Northeast Coastal and Barrier Network's Estuarine Nutrient Enrichment Monitoring program, Network staff continued to estuarine water quality at several park units. This file contains spatial (i.e., not continuous) water quality data collected through the most recent field season at Gateway National Recreation Area.

Tags: ecological-framework-water-water-quality-nutrient-dynamics, ecological-framework-water-water-quality-water-chemistry, environment, estuary, gate, gateway-national-recreation-area, inland-waters, monitoring, national-park-service, ncbn, new-york, northeast-coastal-and-barrier-network, northeast-region, nutrient-enrichment, resource-management, virginia, vital-signs, water, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Estuarine Nutrient Enrichment Water Quality Monitoring Data for Assateague Island National Seashore (Certified)

As part of the Northeast Coastal and Barrier Network's Estuarine Nutrient Enrichment Monitoring program, Network staff continued to estuarine water quality at several park units. This file contains spatial (i.e., not continuous) water quality data collected through the most recent field season at Assateague Island National Seashore.

Tags: ecological-framework-water-water-quality-nutrient-dynamics, ecological-framework-water-water-quality-water-chemistry, environment, estuary, fiis, fire-island-national-seashore, inland-waters, monitoring, national-park-service, ncbn, new-york, northeast-coastal-and-barrier-network, northeast-region, nutrient-enrichment, resource-management, virginia, vital-signs, water, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
2021 Fisheries Index of Biotic Integrity (IBI) survey data from Great Smoky Mountains National Park

These data represent an assessment of Ichthyofaunal community structure in selected streams located in Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GRSM). Sites are sampled on a rotational basis occurring once every two years. Currently (2021), there are ten watersheds being sampled using IBI protocols. In 2021, five sites were surveyed: Cataloochee Creek, Middle Prong Little Pigeon River, Deep Creek (two sites), and Big Creek, all within GRSM. Fish community assemblage assessments are made after collecting specimens using backpack electrofishing and seining techniques. An IBI is used to determine how many species of fish are represented in a stream segment by surveying the various types of habitat: riffles, runs, pools, and shoreline. Techniques for IBI sampling also use seining in conjunction with electrofishing for fish capture. The point of IBI sampling isn’t to remove all the fish present, but rather to determine the community assemblage, i.e., species diversity within the stream segment. The GRSM Fishery Division works in conjunction with aquatics biologists at the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), who then provide “scores” regarding the species’ representation or robustness given the site criteria.  IBI scores and metrics are determined using the TVA IBI Stream Survey Recording System v2.02. Once data have been entered by GRSM staff in the TVA Stream Survey database, results are sent to TVA biologists, who then provide GRSM with the scores associated with the species observed. Scores for 2021 survey data were provided to GRSM by TVA in December, 2021.

Tags: electrofishing, fish-surveys, grsm-fisheries, ibi, index-of-biotic-integrity
Organization: Department of the Interior
Supplemental structure (SupplStruc) dataset containing vegetation vertical structure at Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

This dataset was originally developed as part of the HTLN breeding bird habitat monitoring program at Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, KS (TAPR). The methodology is described in HTLN Breeding Bird Protocol (see linked references). The data were further developed (here) to study the relationships between vegetation structure, fire and grazing at TAPR.

Tags: ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-grassland-herbaceous-com, fire, fire-ecology, htln, tallgrass-prairie, tallgrass-prairie-national-preserve, tapr, vegetation-structure, wildlife-habitat
Organization: Department of the Interior
2022 Fisheries Index of Biotic Integrity Survey Data in GRSM

These data represent an assessment of Ichthyofaunal community structure in selected streams located in Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GRSM). Sites are sampled on a rotational basis once every two years. Currently (2022), 11 watersheds are sampled using IBI protocols. In 2022, four sites were surveyed: Cataloochee Creek, East Prong Little River at Whiteoak Creek, West Prong Little Pigeon River, and Hazel Creek. Fish community assemblage assessments are made after collecting specimens using backpack electrofishing and seining techniques. An IBI is used to determine how many species of fish are represented in a stream segment by surveying various habitat types: riffles, runs, pools, and shoreline. Techniques for IBI sampling also use seining in conjunction with electrofishing for fish capture. The point of IBI sampling isn’t to remove all the fish present, but rather to determine the community assemblage, i.e., species diversity within the stream segment. The GRSM Fishery Division works in conjunction with aquatics biologists at the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), who then provide “scores” regarding the species’ representation or robustness given the site criteria.  IBI scores and metrics are determined using the TVA IBI Stream Survey Recording System v2.02. Once data have been entered by GRSM staff in the TVA Stream Survey database, results are sent to TVA biologists, who then provide GRSM with the scores associated with the species observed. Scores for 2022 survey data were provided to GRSM by TVA on November 22, 2022, four locations: West Prong Little Pigeon River, East Prong Little River at Whiteoak Creek, and Cataloochee Creek.

Tags: backpack-electrofishing, fish-ibi, fisheries, ibi, seining, surveys
Organization: Department of the Interior