AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Riparian-Zone Boundaries for the Puget Sound Stormwater Action Monitoring small stream status and trends project

Stormwater Action Monitoring (SAM) is a collaborative monitoring program between western Washington municipal stormwater permittees, state and federal agencies.  SAM’s role is to use the results of regional monitoring and focused studies to inform policy decisions and identify effective strategies to improve stormwater management in the Puget Sound region.  The SAM program includes status and trends monitoring of water quality, stream biota (macroinvertebrates, algae), and stream habitat to measure whether conditions are getting better or worse and identify patterns in healthy and impaired Puget Lowland streams.
To meet this objective, a framework of fundamental geospatial data was required to develop physical and anthropogenic characteristics of the study region, sampled sites and corresponding watersheds, and riparian zones. The riparian-zone boundaries were created from stream centerlines digitized from imagery (hereinafter the "digitized riparian reach") that were buffered by 50 meters on each side of the stream centerline. The length of the digitized riparian reach was calculated as the distance in kilometers equal to the base-10 logarithm of the geospatially-derived watershed area, in kilometers squared (Johnson and Zelt, 2005). This dataset represents the riparian zone boundaries from 105 sites sampled for the SAM small stream study, and is one of the four fundamental geospatial data layers that were developed for this study. In addition, riparian zone boundaries for 16 reference sites in the Puget lowlands sampled by the Washington State Department of Ecology’s Ambient Biological Monitoring program from 2010 to 2015 were also digitized for this analysis to provide a regional context for the SAM study. In total, riparian zone boundaries for 121 total sites are provided in this data release.

Tags: ecological-reach, geographic-information-systems, geospatial-analysis, geospatial-datasets, puget-sound, riparian-reach, riparian-zone, sam, stormwater-action-monitoring, usgs-592dd9c1e4b092b266efeade, washington
Organization: Department of the Interior
A comparison of four pore water sampling methods for mixed metals and dissolved organic carbon, and implications for sediment toxicity evaluations-Data

These replicate data support the findings described in the publication, "A comparison of four pore water sampling methods for mixed metals and dissolved organic carbon, and implications for sediment toxicity evaluations" by Danielle Cleveland, William G. Brumbaugh, and Donald D. MacDonald (Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 2017). The data represent comparison of four commonly-applied techniques for obtaining pore water samples for the quantification of nickel, copper, zinc, arsenic, cadmium, lead and dissolved organic carbon (DOC), including peepers, push points, centrifugation, and diffusive gradients in thin films (DGTs). The methods were evaluated at low and high concentrations of metals in three sediments having different concentrations of total organic carbon, acid volatile sulfide, and particle size.

Tags: centrifugation, diffusive-gradients-in-thin-films, dissolved-organic-carbon, peepers, pore-water-sampling, push-points, trace-metals, usgs-592d93e1e4b08f9d15bea730
Organization: Department of the Interior
Stream-stage Dataset at Agua Fria Canyon near Rio Rico, Arizona, geographic NAD83 (Water Years 2016–2017)

This dataset contains stream-stage data for Agua Fria Canyon near Rio Rico, Arizona (AF2).  The pressure transducer was housed in a crest-stage pipe mounted to the bridge pier of West Frontage Road. The data were recorded using non-vented Solinst Levelogger for the period of October 7, 2015 to December 31, 2016. The data were logged continuously at a 15-minute interval and manually downloaded. Data were corrected with the atmospheric pressure collected from a Solinst Barologger located at SC14 and checked for erroneous data.

Tags: dna, e-coli, escherichia-coli, stage, tumacacori-national-historical-park, upper-santa-cruz-river, usgs-592efb90e4b0e9bd0ea79385, water, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Dissolved Pesticide Concentrations in Weekly Water Samples and Ancillary Data (Midwest, 2013)

Dissolved pesticides were measured in weekly water samples from 100 wadeable freshwater streams across eleven states in the Midwestern U.S. during May-August, 2013, as part of the Midwest Stream Quality Assessment study conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) National Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Project. Of the 100 stream sites, 12 were urban indicator sites and the remaining 88 sites were located along an agricultural gradient of watershed land use. Twelve depth- and width-integrated water samples were collected at each site within the 14-week study period. Water samples were filtered (0.7 micrometers) and analyzed for 227 pesticide compounds by direct-injection liquid chromatography with tandem mass-spectrometry, and for glyphosate by Enzyme-Linked Immunoassay in a separate analysis. Potential aquatic toxicity was evaluated using the Pesticide Toxicity Index and by comparison to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency aquatic-life benchmarks. This data release provides sampling site locations, method information, summaries of quality-control data, and concentration data for pesticide compounds in environmental weekly water samples, in support of the journal article, "Complex mixtures of dissolved pesticides show potential aquatic toxicity in a synoptic study of Midwestern U.S. streams," by Nowell, L.H., Moran, P.W., Schmidt, T., Norman, J.E., Nakagaki, N., Shoda, M.E., Mahler, B.J., Van Metre, P.C., Stone, W.W., Sandstrom, M.W., and Hladik, M.L.

Tags: 2013, aquatic-toxicity, august, corn-belt, fungicide, herbicide, illinois, indiana, insecticide, iowa, july, june, kansas, kentucky, may, minnesota, missouri, mixtures, national-water-quality-assessment, nawqa, nebraska, ohio, pesticide, pesticide-degradate, south-dakota, spring, stream, summer, surface-water, united-states, usgs-5928a5dce4b016f7a93f8d7b, water-quality, wisconsin
Organization: Department of the Interior
Catchments layers from the Hydrologic Derivatives for Modeling and Analysis (HDMA) database -- Asia

This dataset contains the catchments derived from the Digital Elevation Model (DEM) for the Asian continent from the Hydrological Derivatives for Modeling and Analysis (HDMA) database. The HDMA database provides comprehensive and consistent global coverage of raster and vector topographically derived layers, including raster layers of digital elevation model (DEM) data, flow direction, flow accumulation, slope, and compound topographic index (CTI); and vector layers of streams and catchment boundaries. The coverage of the data is global (-180º, 180º, -90º, 90º) with the underlying DEM being a hybrid of three datasets: HydroSHEDS (Hydrological data and maps based on SHuttle Elevation Derivatives at multiple Scales), Global Multi-resolution Terrain Elevation Data 2010 (GMTED2010) and the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). For most of the globe south of 60º North, the raster resolution of the data is 3-arc-seconds, corresponding to the resolution of the SRTM. For the areas North of 60º, the resolution is 7.5-arc-seconds (the smallest resolution of the GMTED2010 dataset) except for Greenland, where the resolution is 30-arc-seconds. The streams and catchments are attributed with Pfafstetter codes, based on a hierarchical numbering system, that carry important topological information.

Tags: dem-stream-hydrologic-derivatives-pfafstetter, digital-elevation-models, elevation, inlandwaters, pfafstetter, streams, usgs-5928666ee4b016f7a93f8caf
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2015 Site 2493 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 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.  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 2015 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.  Three previous assessments have been conducted (2005, 2008, and 2012).  Once the program creates enough data points for statistical analyses, these data will be used for land area change rate calculation.

Tags: cartography, coastal, crms, doqq, geographic-information-system, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-water, louisiana, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, state-of-louisiana, usgs-5938772ae4b0764e6c5d6ca1, wetland
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data for Understanding the captivity effect on invertebrate communities transplanted into an experimental stream laboratory

Little is known about how design and testing methodologies affect the macroinvertebrate communities that are held captive in mesocosms. To address this gap, we conducted a 32-day test to determine how seeded invertebrate communities changed once removed from the natural stream and introduced to the laboratory. We evaluated larvae survival and adult emergence in controls from 4 subsequent experiments, as well as corresponding within-river community changes. The experimental streams maintained about 80% of the invertebrates that originally colonized the introduced substrates. Many macroinvertebrate populations experienced changes in numbers through time suggesting that these taxa are unlikely to maintain static populations throughout experiments. For example, some taxa (Tanytarsini, Simuliidae, Cinygmula sp.) increased in number, grew (Simuliidae), and possibly recruited new individuals (Baetidae) as larvae while several also completed other life history events (pupation and emergence) during the 30 to 32-day experiments. Midges and mayflies dominated emergence, further supporting the idea that conditions are conducive for many taxa to complete their life-cycles while held captive in the experimental streams. However, plecopterans were sensitive to temperature changes greater than 2°C between river and lab. Thus, this experimental stream testing approach can support diverse larval macroinvertebrate communities for durations consistent with some chronic criterion development and life cycle assessments (i.e., 30 days). The changes in communities held captive in the experimental streams were mostly consistent with the parallel changes observed in in-situ river samples, indicating that mesocosm results are reasonably representative of real river insect communities.

Tags: benthic-communities, biota, ecology, ecotoxicology, experimentation, mesocosm, usgs-59274e7de4b0b7ff9fb5dd58
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2015 Site 5992 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 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.  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 2015 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.  Three previous assessments have been conducted (2005, 2008, and 2012).  Once the program creates enough data points for statistical analyses, these data will be used for land area change rate calculation.

Tags: cartography, coastal, crms, doqq, geographic-information-system, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-water, louisiana, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, state-of-louisiana, usgs-59387732e4b0764e6c5d6ca5, wetland
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital data sets that describe aquifer characteristics of the Vamoosa-Ada aquifer in east-central Oklahoma

This data set consists of digitized polygons of constant
hydraulic conductivity values for the Vamoosa-Ada aquifer in
east-central Oklahoma. The Vamoosa-Ada aquifer is an important
source of water that underlies about 2,320-square miles of parts
of Osage, Pawnee, Payne, Creek, Lincoln, Okfuskee, and Seminole
Counties. Approximately 75 percent of the water withdrawn from
the Vamoosa-Ada aquifer is for municipal use. Rural domestic use
and water for stock animals account for most of the remaining
water withdrawn. The Vamoosa-Ada aquifer is
defined in a ground-water report as consisting
principally of the rocks of the Late Pennsylvanian-age Vamoosa
Formation and overlying Ada Group. The Vamoosa-Ada aquifer
consists of a complex sequence of fine- to very fine-grained
sandstone, siltstone, shale, and conglomerate interbedded with
very thin limestones. The water-yielding capabilities of the
aquifer are generally controlled by lateral and vertical
distribution of the sandstone beds and their physical
characteristics. The Vamoosa-Ada aquifer is unconfined where it
outcrops in about an 1,700-square-mile area.
		
The hydraulic conductivity of the Vamoosa-Ada aquifer was
computed as 3 feet per day in a ground-water report. Most of the
hydraulic conductivity polygons were extracted from published
digital geology data sets. The lines in the digital geology data
sets were scanned or digitized from maps published at a scale of
1:250,000 and represent geologic contacts. Some of the lines in
the data set were interpolated in areas where the Vamoosa-Ada
aquifer is overlain by alluvial and terrace deposits near
streams and rivers.

Tags: ada-aquifer, ada-group, aquifers, environment, geoscientificinformation, ground-water, ground-water-vulnerability, groundwater, groundwater-vulnerability, hydraulic-conductivity, inlandwaters, usgs-59273fe3-ebc2-4b89-8771-efd580fb2355, vamoosa-ada-aquifer, vamoosa-aquifer, vamoosa-formation
Organization: Department of the Interior
Life history attributes data for  Arizona Grasshopper Sparrow (Ammodramus savannarum ammolegus) in Arizona 2013

Ammodramus savannarum ammolegus (commonly referred to as the Arizona Grasshopper Sparrow) occurs in the desert and plains grasslands of southeastern Arizona, southwestern New Mexico, and northern Sonora, Mexico.  Although a subspecies of conservation concern, this data was produced as part of the first intensive study of its life history and breeding ecology, providing baseline data and facilitating comparisons with other North American Grasshopper Sparrow subspecies.  This study is described in the publication listed in the larger work citation of this metadata record.
In 2013, the dimensions (length and width) of 1–2 eggs were measured in a randomly selected subset of nests as soon after the nest was found as possible.

Tags: ammodramus-savannarum-ammolegus, arizona, arizona-grasshopper-sparrow, audubon-appleton-whittell-research-ranch-bureau-of-land-management-blm, birds, desert-grassland, ecology, egg-dimensions, grassland-bird, las-cienegas-national-conservation-area, life-history, santa-cruz, united-states, usgs-592727dfe4b0b7ff9fb5dca1
Organization: Department of the Interior
Riparian vegetation species richness in the Elwha River estuary, Washington, in 2007 and 2014

This portion of the data release presents riparian plant species richness (number of unique taxa) data from plots sampled in the Elwha River estuary, Washington, in 2007 and 2014. In August 2007, we established 21 vegetation plots within the study area in a stratified random fashion, with three to five plots in five of the vegetation cover types denoted in the habitat classification maps: mixed riparian forest, willow-alder forest, riparian shrub, emergent marsh/marsh-shrub transition, and dunegrass. Each plot was 100 square meters, usually 10 m x 10 m, but in areas where the vegetation patch was narrow, plots were either 4 m x 25 m or 5 m x 20 m. We visually estimated percent cover by species of all vascular plants within one of ten cover classes and tallied the number of unique taxa to estimate total species richness in each plot. We resampled all plots in August 2014. Plant species richness data are provided in a comma-delimited spreadsheet (.csv).

Tags: clallam-county, dam-removal, elwha-river, environment, estuary, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, olympic-peninsula, port-angeles, river, species-richness, state-of-washington, strait-of-juan-de-fuca, united-states-of-america, usgs-592726f6e4b0b7ff9fb5dc9d, vegetation, wetland-ecosystems
Organization: Department of the Interior
Riparian vegetation abundance (percent cover) in the Elwha River estuary, Washington, in 2007 and 2014

This portion of the data release presents riparian plant species abundance (percent cover) data from plots sampled in the Elwha River estuary, Washington, in 2007 and 2014. In August 2007, we established 21 vegetation plots within the study area in a stratified random fashion, with three to five plots in five of the vegetation cover types denoted in the habitat classification maps: mixed riparian forest, willow-alder forest, riparian shrub, emergent marsh/marsh-shrub transition, and dunegrass. Each plot was 100 square meter, usually 10 m x 10 m, but in areas where the vegetation patch was narrow, plots were either 4 m x 25 m or 5 m x 20 m. We visually estimated percent cover by species of all vascular plants within one of ten cover classes: trace; 0-1 percent; 1-2 percent; 2-5 percent; 5-10 percent; 10-25 percent; 25-50 percent; 50-75 percent; 75-95 percent; 95-100 percent and used the midpoints of the classes for analysis. We resampled all plots in August 2014.  Plant abundance data are provided in a comma-delimited spreadsheet (.csv).

Tags: clallam-county, dam-removal, elwha-river, environment, estuary, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, olympic-peninsula, port-angeles, river, state-of-washington, strait-of-juan-de-fuca, united-states-of-america, usgs-5927162de4b0b7ff9fb56572, vegetation, wetland-ecosystems
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2015 Site 0656 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 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.  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 2015 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.  Three previous assessments have been conducted (2005, 2008, and 2012).  Once the program creates enough data points for statistical analyses, these data will be used for land area change rate calculation.

Tags: cartography, coastal, crms, doqq, geographic-information-system, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-water, louisiana, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, state-of-louisiana, usgs-593875eae4b0764e6c5d6c04, wetland
Organization: Department of the Interior
Acoustic deterrence of bighead carp (Hypophthalmichthys nobilis) to a broadband sound stimulus: Data

Recent studies have shown the potential of acoustic deterrents against invasive silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix). This study examined the phonotaxic response of the bighead carp (H. nobilis) to pure tones (500– 2000 Hz) and playbacks of broadband sound from an underwater recording of a 100 hp outboard motor (0.06–10 kHz) in an outdoor concrete pond (10 × 5 × 1.2 m) at the U.S. Geological Survey Upper Midwest Envi- ronmental Science Center in La Crosse, WI. The number of consecutive times the fish reacted to sound from alter- nating locations at each end of the pond was assessed. Bighead carp were relatively indifferent to the pure tones with median consecutive responses ranging from 0 to 2 reactions away from the sound source. However, fish consistently exhibited significantly (P b 0.001) greater negative phonotaxis to the broadband sound (outboard motor recording) with an overall median response of 20 consecutive reactions during the 10 min trials. In over 50% of broadband sound tests, carp were still reacting to the stimulus at the end of the trial, implying that fish were not habituating to the sound. This study suggests that broadband sound may be an effective deterrent to bighead carp and provides a basis for conducting studies with wild fish.

Tags: aquatic-invasives, barrier, behavior, bighead-carp, integrated-pest-management-system, silver-carp, sound, usgs-592707cae4b0b7ff9fb4ab32
Organization: Department of the Interior