AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Bird presence data at Blackrock, Wyoming 2013-2015

These data provide information on the presence of birds at a subset of sites at Blackrock. These data are associated with the project detailed in the abstract below: Amphibian decline is a problem of global importance, with over 40% of species considered at risk. This phenomenon is not limited to the tropics or to other countries. Amphibian species in the U.S. are also declining, contributing to the larger, global phenomenon. For example, in the State of Wyoming, the Wyoming toad has been extirpated in the wild and the boreal toad is a species of special concern. Understanding biotic and abiotic factors that influence amphibian persistence is critical for amphibian conservation. This work in northern Wyoming has focused on demography, habitat alteration and creation, and disease in the context of multiple amphibian populations. One of the foci has been to identify the capacity for mitigation wetlands (those created to offset losses due to, for example, road construction) to serve as habitat for amphibians.  Four species of amphibians native to Wyoming, including the boreal toad, reside in this region. Our previous research indicates that the toad population at Blackrock is declining at 5-6% per year and that disease due to the amphibian chytrid fungus is contributing to this decline. Our demographic work at this site began in 2003, focusing solely on the boreal toad. Additional funding in 2012 allowed us to increase the scope of the project and assess chorus frog, salamander and Columbia spotted frog populations, invertebrate assemblages,  work to quantify the use of mitigation sites by amphibians, and to expand efforts to include sites on Togwotee Pass a short distance away from Blackrock. Because most previous studies of amphibian use of created wetlands have taken place in the eastern United States, this project, incorporating demographic and disease dynamics as well as community composition and mitigation effects of created wetlands, is unique and provides  a case study in the Intermountain West. By 2015, all four native amphibian species were observed at one of the created wetlands, and all of them, including the boreal toad, were breeding (evidenced by breeding behavior, eggs or tadpoles).

Tags: amphibians, biota, blackrock, togwotee, usgs-59f9f2b9e4b0531197aff077, wetland-ecosystems
Organization: Department of the Interior
Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) presence data at Blackrock, Wyoming 2012-2015

These data detail the presence of disease (Bd, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) at a set of sites that are associated with the project detailed in the abstract below: Amphibian decline is a problem of global importance, with over 40% of species considered at risk. This phenomenon is not limited to the tropics or to other countries. Amphibian species in the U.S. are also declining, contributing to the larger, global phenomenon. For example, in the State of Wyoming, the Wyoming toad has been extirpated in the wild and the boreal toad is a species of special concern. Understanding biotic and abiotic factors that influence amphibian persistence is critical for amphibian conservation. This work in northern Wyoming has focused on demography, habitat alteration and creation, and disease in the context of multiple amphibian populations. One of the foci has been to identify the capacity for mitigation wetlands (those created to offset losses due to, for example, road construction) to serve as habitat for amphibians.  Four species of amphibians native to Wyoming, including the boreal toad, reside in this region. Our previous research indicates that the toad population at Blackrock is declining at 5-6% per year and that disease due to the amphibian chytrid fungus is contributing to this decline. Our demographic work at this site began in 2003, focusing solely on the boreal toad. Additional funding in 2012 allowed us to increase the scope of the project and assess chorus frog, salamander and Columbia spotted frog populations, invertebrate assemblages,  work to quantify the use of mitigation sites by amphibians, and to expand efforts to include sites on Togwotee Pass a short distance away from Blackrock. Because most previous studies of amphibian use of created wetlands have taken place in the eastern United States, this project, incorporating demographic and disease dynamics as well as community composition and mitigation effects of created wetlands, is unique and provides  a case study in the Intermountain West. By 2015, all four native amphibian species were observed at one of the created wetlands, and all of them, including the boreal toad, were breeding (evidenced by breeding behavior, eggs or tadpoles).

Tags: amphibians, biota, blackrock, togwotee, usgs-59f9f2b9e4b0531197aff072, wetland-ecosystems
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) version 4.4 transects with short-term end-point rate-of-change calculations for the sheltered north coast of Alaska, from Icy Cape to Cape Prince of Wales

This dataset consists of short-term (less than 37 years) shoreline change rates for the sheltered north coast of Alaska from Icy Cape to Cape Prince of Wales. Rate calculations were computed within a GIS using the Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) version 4.4, an ArcGIS extension developed by the U.S. Geological Survey. Rates of shoreline change were calculated using an end point rate-of-change (epr) method based on available shoreline data between 1980 and 2016. A reference baseline was used as the originating point for the orthogonal transects cast by the DSAS software. The transects intersect each shoreline establishing measurement points, which are then used to calculate rates of change.

Tags: arctic, bering-land-bridge-national-preserve, cape-espenberg, cape-krusenstern-national-monument, cape-lisburne, cape-prince-of-wales, cape-thompson, chukchi-sea, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, coastal-processes, deering, digital-shoreline-analysis-system, distributions, dsas, environment, geoscientificinformation, icy-cape, kivalina, kotzebue-sound, north-slope, oceans, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, physical-chemical-features, point-hope, point-lay, red-dog-dock, shishhmaref, shoreline, shoreline-accretion, shoreline-change, shoreline-erosion, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-5dfb2a04e4b0b5e61c05498f, wales
Organization: Department of the Interior
Shuttle Imaging Radar Survey Mission C

'Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C (SIR-C) was part of an imaging radar system that was flown on board two Space Shuttle flights (9 - 20 April, 1994 and 30 September - 11 October, 1994). The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center distributes the C-band (5.8 cm) and L-band (23.5 cm) Survey Data. 
A total of about 50 hours of data, corresponding to roughly 50 million square kilometers of ground coverage, were collected during each mission. The ground swath width varies from 15 to 90 kilometers depending on the imaging mode and incidence angles of the radar beams. 
All science data were processed into Survey products. The Survey product is intended as a \"quick look\" browsing tool for viewing the areas imaged by SIR-C. This product is not designed to be used for quantitative scientific analysis. Survey Data consists of a frame image of a data segment, which represents a subset of the data swath. Resolution is approximately 100 meters, processed to a 50-meter pixel spacing. Additional information on SIR-C is available at: http://southport.jpl.nasa.gov.'

Tags: c-band, imagery, imagerybasemapsearthcover, interferometry, l-band, multi-look, radar, single-look, sir-c, spaceborne, survey, usgs-eros5e83d679cda6907a
Organization: Department of the Interior
Wetland Storage Area in Maine Watersheds

Combined storage (palustrine, riverine, or lacustrine) data from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Wetlands Inventory (NWI) - https://www.fws.gov/wetlands/, Canadian National Hydrographic Network (NHN) - http://www.snb.ca/geonb1/e/dc/catalogue-E.asp, and North American Land Change Monitoring System Landcover - https://www.mrlc.gov/data. Grid values equal to 1 are storage areas and grid values equal to 0 are NoData areas.

Tags: geographic-information-systems, lacustrine, lake, palustrine, pond, river, riverine, storage, usgs-5fcea311d34e30b912397401, wetland
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital Orthorectified Aerial Image of Cottonwood Lake Study Area Wetland P8 from 09 July 1993

Orthorectified image from aerial photograph of wetland P8 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-587e8485e4b0a765aab5edfe, wetland-ecosystems
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mainstem Rivers of the Conterminous United States

"The data you have secured from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) database identified as Mainstem Rivers of the Conterminous United States have not received USGS approval and as such are provisional and subject to revision. The data are released on the condition that neither the USGS nor the U.S. Government shall be held liable for any damages resulting from its authorized or unauthorized use."
"Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the display or utility of the data for other purposes, nor on all computer systems, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. The USGS or the U.S. Government shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and/or contained herein."
Mainstem rivers are the backbone of a connected network of hydrologic units that cover the landscape. A mainstem connects a headwater source area to an outlet. This data release identifies the same mainstem paths in hydrographic datasets for the conterminous US.
The Mainstems dataset includes cross walks between mainstem identifiers and several hydrographic datasets. These cross walk tables do not include geometry. It also includes a summary of all mainstems with headwater and outlet identifiers from other datasets for those mainstems that could be matched. The summary table has highly simplified geometry and should be used for visualization purposes only. Any analysis should rely on source dataset geometry. As a convenience, a geodatabase of 12-digit hydrologic unit code watershed outlets is included as points with attributes that indicate the "event" linear reference along the NHDPlusV2 network as well as how the 12 digit hydrologic units nest within the 10, 8, 6, 4, and 2 digit hydrologic unit system. This file is based on the stable NHDPlusV2 snapshot of the Watershed Boundary Dataset.

Tags: inlandwaters, usgs-60cb5edfd34e86b938a373f4
Organization: Department of the Interior
van Genuchten parameters near Hess Creek in interior Alaska

This data release presents measurements and derived parameters for attributes of bulk density, loss on ignition, soil-water retention, and hydraulic conductivity for a site (Richardson) near Hess Creek in interior Alaska, USA. These measurements are useful for hydrologic modeling and predictions of water availability in this region.

Tags: alaska, dalton-highway, hess-creek, hydraulic-properties, interior-alaska, soil-properties, usgs-5cfedc7ae4b0156ea564511b, wildfire
Organization: Department of the Interior
U.S. Forest Service land in the Powder River Basin (prbfsg.shp)

This shapefile contains a representation forest service land
in the Powder River Basin.  This theme was  created
specifically for the National Coal Resources Assessment in
the Northern Rocky Mountains and Great Plains Region.

Tags: ashland-coalfield, big-horn-county, coal, economy, environment, forest-service, geoscientificinformation, knobloch-coal-zone, montana, nca2000, northern-rocky-mountains-and-great-plains-fort-union-coal-resources-assessment, nrockiescoal, powder-river-basin, powder-river-county, powderbasincoal, surface-management, surface-ownership, usgs-60ad1053d34e4043c850e019
Organization: Department of the Interior
Controlled source audio-frequency magnetotellurics (CSAMT) data from the Big Chino Wash and Paulden areas, Yavapai County, Arizona

Controlled source audio-frequency magnetotellurics (CSAMT) data were collected in the Big Chino Valley and Paulden areas, Yavapai County, Arizona, to better understand the hydrogeology of the area. CSAMT data provide vertical cross-section (profile) data about the resistivity of the subsurface, which may be related to lithologic boundaries and (or) grain-size distribution in the subsurface. CSAMT involves transmitting a current at various frequencies in one location, and measuring resistivity differences between electrodes spaced along a receiver line several kilometers from the transmitter. Data were collected using a GGT-30 transmitter and GDP32-II receiver (Zonge international. Inc.). Data processing and inversions were carried out using Zonge International, Inc. software. 
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Big_Chino_Valley_CSAMT_StationData.zip: Text files with the receiver locations for each line. data were collected using a handheld GPS. The zip file contains one text file per line.

Tags: arizona, arizona-water-science-center, big-chino-williamson-valley, electromagnetic-surveying, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, hydrogeology, paulden, upper-verde, usgs-5bbc0d6ae4b0fc368ead0abe, yavapai
Organization: Department of the Interior
Kootenai River Habitat Restoration Project Bathymetric Surveys near Bonners Ferry, ID (ver 4.0, January 2023)

In 2009, the Kootenai Tribe of Idaho released and implemented the Kootenai River Habitat Restoration Master Plan. This plan aimed to restore, enhance, and maintain the Kootenai River habitat and landscape to support and sustain habitat conditions for aquatic species and animal populations. In support of these restoration efforts, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Kootenai Tribe of Idaho, conducted high-resolution multibeam echosounder bathymetric surveys as a baseline bathymetric monitoring survey on the Kootenai River near Bonners Ferry, Idaho. Three channel patterns or reaches exist in the study area: braided, meander, and a transitional zone connecting the braided and meander reaches. Bathymetric data were collected to: (1) survey unmapped portions of the Kootenai River; (2) re-survey portions of the Kootenai River to quantify changes in the channel; and (3) monitor aggradation and degradation of the channel bed at specific cross-sections within the braided reach and transitional zone. The bathymetric data will be used to update and verify flow models, calibrate and verify sediment transport modeling efforts, and aid in the biological assessment in support of the Kootenai River Habitat Restoration Master Plan. The data for each study reach were produced in LAZ format supported by most geospatial software. 
First release: December 2019 
Revised: January 2023 (ver. 4.0)

Tags: bathymetry, bathymetry-measurement, bonners-ferry, boundary, british-columbia, canada, contouring, creston, digital-elevation-models, elevation, erosion, geospatial-analysis, geospatial-datasets, gps-measurement, hypack, hysweep, id, idaho, inlandwaters, kootenai, kootenai-pend-oreille-spokane, kootenai-river, kootenay-river, land-surveying, lidar, location, montana, mt, multibeam-sonar, pacific-northwest, sedimentation, spatial-analysis, topographic-maps, topography, troy, united-states, usa, usgs-5cab91d2e4b0c3b00650cdc5
Organization: Department of the Interior
The Vigil Network: Goose Creek, Mississippi

Long-term monitoring data of geomorphic, hydrological, and biological characteristics of landscapes. This information provides an effective means of relating observed change to possible causes of the change. Identification of changes in basin characteristics, especially in arid areas where the response to altered climate or land use is generally rapid and readily apparent, might provide the initial direct indications that factors such as global warming and cultural impacts have affected the environment. The Vigil Network provides an opportunity for earth and life scientists to participate in a systematic monitoring effort to detect landscape changes over time, and to relate such changes to possible causes. This data release includes 70 sites and basins used to monitor landscape features. This data release includes information for Vigil Network sites monitored in the United States. The data and information in this data release are historical and were obtained from original documents.

Tags: geomorphology, land-surveying, sedimentation, sedimentology, streamflow, usgs-5fe9f2fbd34ea5387ded6a1c, vegetation
Organization: Department of the Interior
points, transects, beach width: Barrier island geomorphology and shorebird habitat metrics at 50-m alongshore transects and 5-m cross-shore points: Cape Hatteras, NC, 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, bayesian-network, cape-hatteras, cape-hatteras-national-seashore, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, coastal-erosion, coastal-habitat, coastal-hazards, coastal-processes, environment, erosion, geographic-information-systems, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-analysis, geospatial-datasets, gis, hazards, land-use-and-land-cover, mean-high-water, mhw, nc, north-america, north-carolina, ocracoke-island, probability, sea-level-change, sea-level-rise, shoreline-change, st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, transect-sampling, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usa, usgs, usgs-5daa3765e4b09fd3b0c9ce69, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
LANDFIRE 2023 Existing Vegetation Height (EVH) Puerto Rico US Virgin Islands

LANDFIRE's (LF) 2023 update (LF 2023) Existing Vegetation Height (EVH) represents the average height of the dominant vegetation for a 30-m cell. EVH is produced separately for tree, shrub, and herbaceous lifeforms using training data depicting the weighted average height by species cover and Existing Vegetation Type (EVT) lifeform. Decision tree models using field reference data, lidar, and Landsat are developed separately for each lifeform, then lifeform specific height class layers are merged along with land cover into a single EVH product based on the dominant lifeform of each pixel. EVH ranges are continuous for the herbaceous lifeform category ranging from 0.1 to 1 meter with decimeter increments, 0.1 to 3 meters for shrub lifeform, and 1 to 99 meters for tree lifeform. If the height values of each lifeform exceed the continuous value range, they are binned into the appropriate maximum height class. EVH is then reconciled through QA/QC measures to ensure lifeform is synchronized with Existing Vegetation Cover (EVC). 
In LF 2023 Conterminous United States (CONUS) extent, LF will map the lifeform, cover, and height of existing vegetation in areas that were mapped as disturbed over the last twenty years (see LF Annual Disturbance products) using machine learning methods. These disturbed areas were the focus because they are the areas that have changed the most since LF 2016 Remap. To learn more about this new methodology for LF EVC, EVH, and Existing Vegetation Type (EVT) go to https://landfire.gov/data/lf2023.

Tags: biota, evh, existing-vegetation-height, fires, geographic-information-systems, geospatial-datasets, hazard-preparedness, ia, image-collections, imagerybasemapsearthcover, insular-areas, landfire-2023, lf-2023, oconus, puerto-rico, raster-digital-data, remote-sensing, u-s-forest-service-usfs, u-s-geological-survey-usgs, united-states, us, us-virgin-islands, usgs-673f65ebd34e565ca5dd0a56
Organization: Department of the Interior
Magnetotelluric data from Mountain Pass, CA, 2015, station mp103

This dataset consists of 65 magnetotelluric (MT) stations collected in 2015 near Mountain Pass, California. The U.S. Geological Survey acquired these data to create a regional conductivity model near the Mountain Pass mine. This work is in support of characterizing mineral deposits.

Tags: apparent-resistivity, california, cenozoic, clark-mountain, earth-magnetic-field, electromagnetic-surveying, geology-minerals-energy-and-geophysics-science-center, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, gmegsc, impedance, ivanpah, magnetotelluric-surveying, magnetotellurics, mescal-ranges, mesozoic, mineral-resources-program, mojave, mountain-pass, mrp, mt, paleozoic, phase, proterozoic, san-bernardino-county, time-series, tipper, usgs-5c8186dde4b0938824476558
Organization: Department of the Interior
Snow Depth and Snow Water Equivalents at Sleepers River Research Watershed, Danville, Vermont

Snow depth and snow water equivalent (SWE) measurements have been made at Sleepers River Research Watershed starting in 1960. Initial snowpack measurements were made by the Agricultural Research Service joined by the National Weather Service in 1966. Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory started measuring the snowpack in 1979, followed by the U.S. Geological Survey from 1993 to the present. Measurements started at 2 sites, increased to 13 sites in the 1980s and currently includes 9 sites. Sites range in elevation from 200 to 670 meters and are in a mix of fields and small openings in forests. Snow measurements are made with a fiberglass Adirondack snow tube with aluminum teeth at the tip, tapered slightly inward to retain the core. Five measurements of snow depth and SWE are taken at each site each week and averaged to derive the weekly value we report. This data release includes two tables: Snow course description lists elevation, latitude, longitude, aspect, vegetation, and years of data collection for each site. Sleepers snow 1960–2019 datarelease includes all the average snow depth and SWE values.

Tags: danville, snow-depth, snow-water-equivalent, snowpack, usgs-5bfc83a1e4b0815414ca3383, vermont
Organization: Department of the Interior