AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Tabular Input/Output Data and Model Files for 19 Two-Dimensional Hydraulic Models for Streambed Scour Evaluations at Selected Bridge Sites in Alaska, 2016-2017

This data release includes tabular surveyed and interpolated elevation data, the processed computational mesh, and model output data used in streambed scour evaluations at selected bridge sites in Alaska, 2016-2017. This is a cooperative project with Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities. The methods of deriving these datasets and using them to calculate scour are described in the associated U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20195110.

Tags: alaska, bridges, cottonwood-creek, elevation, erosion-sedimentation, floods, geomorphology, hydraulic-engineering, hydrology, inlandwaters, little-susitna-river, livengood-creek, moose-creek, north-fork-anchor-river, peters-creek, rivers-streams, sawyer-creek, scour, ship-creek, south-fork-anchor-river, streambed, surface-water, terrestrial-hydrosphere, twin-creek, usgs-asc242, ward-creek, wasilla-creek, water-depth, willow-creek
Organization: Department of the Interior
DNA Microsatellite Markers for Northern Fulmar (Fulmaris glacialis) and Cross-species Amplification in Select Seabird Species

This data set is comprised of one table with sampling information and allele sizes for 69 individual Northern Fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis) from Chagulak Island, Alaska and Hafnarey Island, Iceland. Fulmar allele sizes are provided for 10 previously published and 26 novel microsatellite loci. Additionally, allele sizes for the 26 microsatellite loci developed in this study are included for Arctic Terns (Sterna paradisaea, n=4), Common Murres (Uria aalge, n=6), Crested Auklets (Aethia cristatella, n=6), Fork-tailed Storm Petrels (Oceanodroma furcata, n=5), Marbled Murrelets (Brachyramphus marmoratus, n=5), Common Gulls (Larus canus, n=5), Pelagic cormorants (Phalacrocorax pelagicus, n=5), and Thick-billed Murres (Uria lomvia, n=5) from various locations throughout Alaska.

Tags: alaska, albatrosses-petrels-and-allies, alleles, animals, animals-vertebrates, arctic-regions, biota, birds, charadriiformes, dna-sequencing, environment, fulmarus-glacialis, genetic-diversity, genetic-variance, genetics, genetics-population, iceland, life-sciences, microsatellite-repeats, northern-fulmar, polymerase-chain-reaction, population-genetics, systematics-and-taxonomy, usgs-asc243, waders-gulls-auks-and-allies
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data from Common Murre Die-off Surveys and Necropsies Following the North Pacific Marine Heatwave, 2015-2016

These data are in two tables relating to a die-off of Common Murres (Uria aalge) in the north Pacific, 2015-2016. The tables provide: 1) beach survey locations, date, time, distance surveyed (kilometers), and number of Common Murre carcasses observed during surveys conducted along the coastline of Alaska to document the 2015-2016 die-off of Common Murres coincident with the North Pacific marine heatwave, and 2) Common Murre necropsy results from carcasses collected during the die-off, including: bird identification number, collection date, collection location, and body and tissues measurements.

Tags: alaska, alaska-peninsula, aquatic-ecosystems, biota, coastal-ecosystems, coastal-habitat, common-murre, die-off, environment, field-inventory-and-monitoring, gulf-of-alaska, kenai-fjords, kenai-peninsula, marine-ecosystems, marine-habitat, mortality, mortality-event, necropsy, prince-william-sound, specimen-collecting, uria-aalge, usgs-asc244, wildlife-biology
Organization: Department of the Interior
Surface-Water-Quality Data and Time-Series Plots to Support Implementation of Site-Dependent Aluminum Criteria in Massachusetts, 2018–19 (ver. 1.1, Februrary 2023)

This data release includes water-quality data collected at 38 sites in central and eastern Massachusetts from April 2018 through May 2019 by the U.S. Geological Survey to support the implementation of site-dependent aluminum criteria for Massachusetts waters. Samples of effluent and receiving surface waters were collected monthly at four wastewater-treatment facilities (WWTFs) and seven water-treatment facilities (WTFs) (see SWQ_data_and_instantaneous_CMC_CCC_values.txt). The measured properties and constituents include pH, hardness, and filtered (dissolved) organic carbon, which are required inputs to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Aluminum Criteria Calculator version 2.0. Outputs from the Aluminum Criteria Calculator are also provided in that file; these outputs consist of acute (Criterion Maximum Concentration, CMC) and chronic (Criterion Continuous Concentration, CCC) instantaneous water-quality values for total recoverable aluminum, calculated for monthly samples at selected ambient sites near each of the 11 facilities. Quality-control data from blank, replicate, and spike samples are provided (see SWQ_QC_data.txt). In addition to data tables, the data release includes time-series graphs of the discrete water-quality data (see SWQ_plot_discrete_all.zip). For pH, time-series graphs also are provided showing pH from the discrete monthly water-quality samples as well as near-continuous pH measured at one surface-water site at each facility (see SWQ_plot_contin_discrete_pH.zip). The near-continuous pH data, along with all of the discrete water-quality data except the quality-control data, are also available online from the U.S. Geological Survey's National Water Information System (NWIS) database (https://nwis.waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis).

Tags: aluminum-criteria-calculator, aquatic-life-criteria, surface-water-quality, usgs-5f5fbd9d82ce3550e3bff3ad, wastewater-discharge, water-hardness, water-ph, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Influenza A Virus Persistence Data from an Urban Wetland in Anchorage, Alaska, 2018-2019

This dataset is three tables with details of samples and aliquots of waterfowl feces deposited in filtered surface water collected from an urban waterbody in Anchorage, Alaska in 2018-2019. Sample vials were submerged underwater in the same waterbody from which the samples were collected and the samples were tested for the presence and viability of influenza A virus. Temperature data and water chemistry measurements were also collected over time.

Tags: alaska, anchorage, animals-vertebrates, aquatic-animals, avian-influenza, biota, birds, cuddy-family-midtown-park, environment, health-and-disease, influenza, influenza-a-virus, usgs-asc246, viral-diseases, virus-diseases, viruses, waterfowl, wildlife-disease
Organization: Department of the Interior
Argos Satellite Tracking Data for Tundra Swans (Cygnus columbianus) - Raw Data

This metadata document describes the data contained in the "Argos Raw Data" (Child Item 2) of this data release. This data release contains all data collected by the Argos System from 50 satellite transmitters attached to Tundra Swans on their breeding range in arctic and western Alaska, 2008. Five data files are included in the "Argos Raw Data" (Child Item 2) of this data release. Two data files (with identical content) contain the raw Argos DIAG (Diagnostic) data, one in the legacy verbose ASCII format and one in a tabular Comma Separate Value (CSV) format. Two other data files (with identical content) contain the raw Argos DS (Dispose) data, one in the legacy verbose ASCII format and one in a tabular CSV format. The fifth file, "deploymentAttributes", contains one record for each transmitter deployment in a CSV formatted table. The deployment attributes file contains information such as when the transmitter was attached to the animal, when tracking of a live animal ended, and a variety of variables describing the animal and transmitter. This table is identical to the "deploymentAttributes" table in the "Argos Processed Data" (Child Item 1) of this data release.

Tags: alaska, animal-tracking, animals-vertebrates, argos, atlantic-flyway, biota, birds, breeding-area, breeding-sites, cold-bay, colville-river-delta, cygnus-columbianus, distribution, ducks-geese-swans, ecological-dynamics, environment, field-methods, field-sampling, king-salmon, kotzebue-sound, migration, migration-organisms, migration-pathway, migratory-birds, migratory-strategies, national-petroleum-reserve-alaska, npr-a, ornithology, overwintering, pacific-americas-flyway, platform-transmitter-terminal, ptt, satellite-transmitter, seasonal-distribution, seasonal-movement, species-life-history, species-migration, telemetry, tracking-equipment, tundra-swan, usgs-asc247, wildlife, wintering-area, yukon-delta, yukon-delta-national-wildlife-refuge, yukon-kuskokwim-river-delta
Organization: Department of the Interior
Argos Satellite Tracking Data for Tundra Swans (Cygnus columbianus) - Processed Data

This metadata document describes the data contained in the "Argos Processed Data" (Child Item 1) of this data release. This data release contains all data collected by the Argos System from 50 satellite transmitters attached to Tundra Swans on their breeding range in arctic and western Alaska, 2008. The raw data were processed to accomplish two goals: flag implausible location estimates and decode raw sensor data. Three Comma Separate Value (CSV) tables are included in the "Argos Processed Data" (Child Item 1) of this data release: 1) the "diag_filteredLocations" table contains one record for every location estimate collected, accompanied by a binary flag that denotes an algorithm's plausibility check. Each record also includes a 'Tracking_Status' variable that denotes whether the location was collected from a live animal, a dead animal, or shed transmitter, 2) the "decodedSensor" table contains decoded sensor data such as a transmitter's temperature, battery voltage, and motion (activity), and 3) the "deploymentAttributes" table contains one record for each transmitter deployment in a CSV formatted table. The deployment attributes file contains information such as when the transmitter was attached to the animal, when tracking of a live animal ended, and a variety of variables describing the animal and transmitter. This table is identical to the "deploymentAttributes" table in the "Argos Raw Data" (Child Item 2) of this data release.

Tags: alaska, animal-tracking, animals-vertebrates, argos, atlantic-flyway, biota, birds, breeding-area, breeding-sites, cold-bay, colville-river-delta, cygnus-columbianus, distribution, ducks-geese-swans, ecological-dynamics, environment, field-methods, field-sampling, king-salmon, kotzebue-sound, migration, migration-organisms, migration-pathway, migratory-birds, migratory-strategies, national-petroleum-reserve-alaska, npr-a, ornithology, overwintering, pacific-americas-flyway, platform-transmitter-terminal, ptt, satellite-transmitter, seasonal-distribution, seasonal-movement, species-life-history, species-migration, telemetry, tracking-equipment, tundra-swan, usgs-asc248, wildlife, wintering-area, yukon-delta, yukon-delta-national-wildlife-refuge, yukon-kuskokwim-river-delta
Organization: Department of the Interior
Marine Corps Base Hawaii Oahu Hawaiian Hoary Bat Acoustic Data 2019-2021

Acoustic sampling for presence of the endangered Hawaiian hoary bat (Lasiurus semotus, also known as Aeorestes semotus) was conducted at 17 stations across four Marine Corps Base Hawaii (MCBH) properties on O‘ahu Island, Hawai‘i. Bats were confirmed as present at all properties; MCBH Kāneʻohe Bay on Mōkapu Peninsula, Marine Corps Training Area Bellows (MCTAB) in Waimanalo, Camp H.M. Smith in Halawa Heights, and Pu'uloa Range Training Facility (RTF) on the 'Ewa coastal plain. Hawaiian hoary bats were recorded in airspace at all four properties during important periods of Hawaiian hoary bat life history, including periods of pregnancy, lactation, and pup fledging; however, overall presence was low. Foraging activity as identified from characteristic feeding buzzes was very rare and was recorded on only three nights over the entire study. Within-night bat detection pooled for all nights and stations at each property showed bat activity was mostly confined to the first several hours of the night at MCBH Kaneohe Bay and Pu'uloa RTF, whereas bat activity was spread throughout the night at Camp H.M. Smith and MCTAB. Recordings were analyzed with Kaleidoscope version 5.1.9h (Wildlife Acoustics Inc, Concord, Massachusetts). This data release consists of one tabular dataset including bat acoustic activity at all stations from February 2019 to March 2021.

Tags: acoustic-monitoring, biota, echolocation, hawaiian-hoary-bat, usgs-612855edd34e40dd9c054bd1
Organization: Department of the Interior
Compilation of offset measurements and fault data for global strike-slip faults with multiple earthquakes

This Data Release provides the compilation of offset measurement datasets and associated fault data to accompany the manuscript “Climatic influence on the expression of strike-slip faulting” by Reitman et al. In addition to a ReadMe file, it includes two tabular datasets, one code, and one text file. The datasets are a compilation of offset measurement data (“data_multiple_eq_offsets.xlsx”) from 31 studies of strike-slip faults with multiple earthquakes, and the associated fault data (“fault_data" provided in csv and xlsx formats) with inputs necessary to do the analysis described in the accompanying manuscript. The code (“code_multiple_eq_offsets.ipynb”) reads the offset measurement data from each sheet of “data_multiple_eq_offsets.xlsx” and fault data from “fault_data.xlsx”, performs analysis of the offset measurements data as described in the manuscript to calculate the exponential decay rate in the occurrence of large cumulative offsets (b values), and plots each offset measurement dataset and graphs included in the manuscript and supplementary information. The “references.txt” file provides the full reference for each study included in the compilation of offset measurements and used to compile information in “fault_data”.

Tags: earthquake-occurrences, earthquakes, fault-zones, faults, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, hazards, usgs-62338070d34ec9f19eeb496f
Organization: Department of the Interior
Accelerometer Data from Collared Female Polar Bears in the Beaufort Sea, 2009-2016

This dataset includes accelerometer data collected on collars deployed on female polar bears in the southern Beaufort Sea from 2009-2016. The accelerometer was built in to collars by Telonics, Inc. and provides a single activity value of the number of seconds active per time interval of data collection. Data were collected every 15-30 minutes. GPS and ARGOs locations collected via collars were used to generate a CRAWL model, as referenced within the data set, of estimated locations that match the time frame of activity sensor data collection and are provided with this dataset. CRAWL data were also used to determine the habitat (land or sea ice) occupied by the bear at the end of the interval of activity data collection. Temperature data were used to identify denning behavior and activity during denning has been removed from this data set.

Tags: alaska, animal-behavior, animal-tracking, animals-vertebrates, bears, beaufort-sea, biota, carnivores, consumer-behavior, environment, mammals, marine-mammals, species-life-history, telemetry, threatened-species, usgs-asc249, wildlife, wildlife-biology
Organization: Department of the Interior
Darcy flux, ethylene dibromide mass flux, benzene mass flux, toluene mass flux, ethylbenzene mass flux, and xylene mass flux at the Kirtland Air Force Base Bulk Fuels Facility, Albuquerque, New Mexico

This United States Geological Survey (USGS) dataset contains Darcy flux, ethylene dibromide (EDB) mass flux, benzene mass flux, toluene mass flux, ethylbenzene mass flux, and xylene mass flux measured in Albuquerque, New Mexico, using passive flux meters (PFMs) in the wells associated with the Kirtland Air Force Base (KAFB) Bulk Fuels Facility (BFF). The measurements were conducted by the USGS in cooperation with KAFB, the Air Force Civil Engineer Center, EA Engineering, Science and Technology, Inc. (an engineering consulting firm), and the University of Florida.

Tags: albuquerque, benzene-mass-flux, bernalillo-county, bulk-fuels-facility, darcy-flux, edb-mass-flux, environment, ethylbenzene-mass-flux, kirtland-air-force-base, new-mexico, passive-flux-meter, toluene-mass-flux, usgs-62705faed34e76103cd3fd07, xylene-mass-flux
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, 2015 and 2018 Site 0619 land-water matrix

Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring to determine the efficacy of these projects. 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 five land-water products (2005, 2008, 2012, YYYY and 2018).  The resulting matrix has 32 possible classes defined by the combination of land and water categories on those five dates.

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-611f13e6d34e40dd9c01d267, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Lines used to illustrate the general direction of groundwater flow of Dixie Valley, west-central Nevada

This data set contains lines illustrating general direction of groundwater flow 
within Dixie Valley, west-central Nevada.

Tags: 1951, 2012, direction, dixie-valley, elevation, flow, geoscientificinformation, great-basin, groundwater, inlandwaters, nevada, usgs-7698f5db-8380-4fa9-8c1c-2dbcf21c6323, west-central-nevada
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2021 Site 0618 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-6569e59ed34e6dde1a4ae12e, wetland, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Virally-vectored vaccine candidates against white-nose syndrome induce anti-fungal immune response in little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus)

White-nose syndrome (WNS) caused by the fungus, Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Pd) has killed millions of North American insect-eating bats. Currently, methods to prevent the disease are limited. We conducted two trials to assess potential WNS vaccine candidates in wild-caught Myotis lucifugus.  In a pilot study, we immunized bats with one of four vaccine treatments or PBS as a control and challenged them with Pd upon transfer into hibernation chambers.  Bats in one vaccine-treated group, that received raccoon poxviruses (RCN) expressing Pd calnexin  (CAL) and serine protease (SP), developed WNS at a lower rate (1/10) than other treatments combined (14/23), although samples sizes were small.  The results of a second similar trial provided additional support for this observation. Bats vaccinated orally or by injection with RCN-CAL and RCN-SP survived Pd challenge at a significantly higher rate (P = 0.01) than controls.  Using RT-PCR and flow cytometry, combined with fluorescent in situ hybridization, we determined that expression of IFN-γ transcripts and the number of CD4+ T-helper cells transcribing this gene were elevated (P &lt;0.10) in stimulated lymphocytes from surviving vaccines (n=15) compared to controls (n=3). We conclude that vaccination with virally-vectored Pd antigens induced antifungal immunity that could potentially protect bats against WNS.

Tags: bats, biota, madison-wisconsin, usgs-5cba419de4b0c3b006618584, usgs-national-wildlife-health-center, vaccination, white-nose-syndrome
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data and Model-Based Estimates from Black Brant (Branta bernicla nigricans) Fall Age Ratio Surveys at Izembek Lagoon, Alaska

These data are in two tables relating to fall age ratios (number of juvenile birds : total birds aged) of Black Brant (Branta bernicla nigricans) staging in Izembek Lagoon, Alaska, since 1963. The first table is observation data for the age classes of Black Brant during surveys, and associated survey characteristics. The second table contains model-based estimates of age ratios by year along with Standard Error (SE), and 95% Bayesian credible intervals around estimates.

Tags: alaska, animal-populations, animals-vertebrates, biota, birds, black-brant, branta-bernicla-nigricans, brent-goose, computational-methods, ecological-dynamics, environment, izembek-lagoon, izembek-national-wildlife-refuge, mathematical-modeling, migratory-birds, population-dynamics, species-life-history, species-population-interactions, usgs-asc256, waterfowl, wildlife-biology
Organization: Department of the Interior