AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Concentrations of pesticides in silicone bands placed in National Wildlife Refuges of the Sacramento River Valley of California, 2023

To better understand pesticide exposure, silicone band samples were placed in five National Wildlife Refuges in the Sacramento Valley of Northern California. Silicone bands, used as aerial passive sampling collection devices, were flag-pinned half a meter off the ground and deployed for 28 days in the spring of 2023 (total of 176 bands). Upon retrieval, silicone bands were extracted via sonication with ethyl acetate and evaporated to 0.2 milliliters in acetonitrile. Samples were analyzed for 198 pesticides and degradates using both gas and liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry. Overall, 36 pesticides and degradates were detected in the silicone bands.

Tags: contamination-and-pollution, ecotoxicology, environment, gas-chromatography, liquid-chromatography, mass-spectroscopy, national-wildlife-refuges, pesticide-and-herbicide-contamination, sacramento-valley, usgs-66c647c0d34e0338828ab1d7
Organization: Department of the Interior
Multi-source Discrete Chlorophyll Data in the Illinois River Basin, 1981–2023

This data release contains discrete chlorophyll data, specifically corrected chlorophyll a, uncorrected chlorophyll a, and pheophytin pigments, from inland waters in the Illinois River Basin for 1981–2023. These data are discrete samples (collected in the field and analyzed in the laboratory) of plankton (suspended algae) and periphyton (benthic algae) from lakes, streams, rivers, canals, and other aquatic sites. These data support the investigation of harmful algal blooms (HABs) in the Illinois River Basin. The data are multi-source, meaning multiple monitoring organizations collected and analyzed these samples. Data were sourced from the Water Quality Portal (WQP; which contains water quality data from many organizations), Illinois Natural History Survey (INHS), the Fox River Study Group (FRSG; which also contains data from multiple organizations), and previously unpublished data from the US Geological Survey’s National Water Quality Laboratory.
Final chlorophyll data are provided in the "all_combined_chl_data.csv" file. Data provided by the INHS included non-chlorophyll water quality data that are published in the "all_other_inhs_data.csv" file. Site information is provided in the "site_list_final.csv" file. The "site_list_original.csv" file provides information for collocated sites that had multiple identifiers (i.e., different site numbers provided by different organizations though samples were all collected at the same physical location). These collocated sites were assigned a single identifier which is used in "site_list_final.csv." Additional details are found in the process steps.

Tags: algae, algal-blooms, aquatic-biology, illinois, illinois-river-basin, inlandwaters, limnology, river-reaches, river-systems, usgs-663933ced34e778908396760, water-resources
Organization: Department of the Interior
Sediment Thickness Data in the Deep-Sea Basins of the Bering Sea

A raster grid of sediment thickness in GeoTIFF format (BeringSeaBasins-SedimentThicknessGrid.tif) of the Aleutian,
Bowers, and Komandorsky Basins was created by merging GeoTIFF grids of the Aleutian and Bowers Basins and of the
Komandorsky Basin, provided in other sections of this data release.  The raster grid file, along with a
corresponding CSDGM FGDC-compliant metadata file, is provided in a zip archive file.

Tags: aleutian-basin, bering-sea, bowers-basin, bowers-ridge, geoscientificinformation, komandorsky-basin, maps-and-atlases, stratigraphic-thickness, usgs-66392c3fd34e2537768ce988
Organization: Department of the Interior
Early Estimates of Exotic Annual Grass (EAG) in the Sagebrush Biome, USA, 2024 (ver. 4.0, May 2024)

These datasets provide early estimates of 2024 fractional cover for exotic annual grass (EAG) species and one native perennial grass species on a weekly basis from April to late June. Typically, the EAG estimates are publicly released within 7-13 days of the latest satellite observation used for that version. Each weekly release contains five fractional cover maps along with their corresponding confidence maps for: 1) a group of 16 species of EAGs, 2) cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum); 3) Field Brome (Bromus arvensis); 4) medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae); and 5) Sandberg bluegrass (Poa secunda). These datasets were generated leveraging field observations from Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring (AIM) data plots; Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS) based Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI); other relevant environmental, vegetation, remotely sensed, and geophysical drivers; and artificial intelligence/machine learning techniques. A total of 38,242 AIM plots from years 2016–2023 were used to train an ensemble of five-fold regression-tree models using a cross-validation approach (each observation was used as test data once and as training data four times) that developed all the fractional cover maps. The geographic coverage includes arid and semi-arid rangelands in the western U.S classified as shrubs or grassland/herbaceous by the 2021 National Land Cover Database at or below 2350-m elevation.
Note:
Maps of April 19th, 2024, were developed using satellite observation data no later than April 12.
Maps of April 29th, 2024, were developed using satellite observation data no later than April 19.
Maps of May 3rd, 2024, were developed using satellite observation data no later than April 26.
Maps of May 10th, 2024, were developed using satellite observation data no later than May 3.  
Releases: 
First Release: April 19, 2024 (ver. 1.0)
Revised: April 29, 2024 (ver. 2.0)
Revised: May 03, 2024 (ver. 3.0)
Revised: May 10, 2024 (ver. 4.0)

Tags: annual-grass, annual-herbaceous, arizona, california, cheatgrass, colorado, exotic, field-brome, great-basin, harmonized-landsat-sentinel, idaho, invasive-species, kansas, medusahead, montana, ndvi, nebraska, nevada, new-mexico, nonindigenous-species, north-dakota, noxious, oklahoma, oregon, perennial-grass, poa-secunda, red-brome, remote-sensing, rye-brome, sagebrush, soft-brome, south-dakota, texas, texas-brome, united-states, usgs-66391b1cd34e2537768ce8e3, utah, washington, western-united-states, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Apical outcomes associated with exposure of Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) to hexabromocyclododecane flame retardant: F0 and F1 generation

This data set was generated from a study investigating potential effects of hexabromocyclododiene (HBCD) exposure across multiple generations of Japanese quail, (Coturnix japonica, JQ).  Exposures ranged from dietary for the initial generation (F0), to dietary and possible maternal deposition) for the second generation (F1), and possible maternal deposition only for the third generation (F2) fed untreated, control feed. The current apical data include embryonic survival and hatching success, and morphometrics for F1 day 14 of embryonic development and F1 adult male and female, end of exposure..

Tags: aves, biota, ecotoxicology, endocrine-active-chemical, flame-retardant, molecular-biology, multi-generational-exposure, usgs-66390a36d34edc29f40aed1a
Organization: Department of the Interior
Grain-size analysis data from sediment samples in support of oceanographic and water-quality measurements in the nearshore zone of Sandy Neck Beach, Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts, collected in March and April, 2021

The U.S. Geological Survey Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center collected data to assess cross-shore sediment transport prediction techniques in coastal models for a wave-dominated sandy coast. A quadpod was deployed on the seafloor in the nearshore zone of Sandy Neck Beach, Cape Cod Bay, MA in March 2021 to analyze water velocities near the seabed and the response of the seabed to these forces. The quadpod was mounted with upward- and downward-looking Nortek Signatures to measure velocity throughout the water column, two Nortek Vectors to measure water velocity at the seabed, a Seabird Microcat to measure temperature, salinity, and depth, a Seabird Seagauge to measure pressure, an Imagenex Sonar to image the seabed, and an Aquatech Aquascat to measure acoustic backscatter. Additionally, sediment samples were collected for grain-size analysis. These data will be used in a coupled ocean-atmosphere-wave-sediment transport (COAWST) model at different grid scales to encompass storm events, regional waves and currents, and fine-resolution wave-breaking to increase our understanding of the drivers that control sediment movement in Cape Cod Bay. The results will allow coastal zone managers to better address shoreline change issues.

Tags: atlantic, atlantic-ocean, cape-cod-bay, cmhrp, geoscientificinformation, grab-sampling, grain-size-analysis, massachusetts, oceans, sandy-neck-beach, sediment-transport, u-s-geological-survey, usgs-663901b2d34edc29f40aec64, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) version 5.1 transects with long-term linear regression rate calculations for the exposed central Beaufort Sea coast of Alaska from the Hulahula River to the Colville River

This dataset consists of long-term (70 years) shoreline change rates for the exposed, open-ocean coast of Alaska from the Hulahula River to the Colville River. Rate calculations were computed within a GIS using the Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) version 5.1, an ArcGIS extension developed by the U.S. Geological Survey. Long-term rates of shoreline change were calculated using a linear regression rate-of-change method based on available shoreline data between 1947 and 2017. 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 long-term rates.

Tags: anwr, arctic, arctic-national-wildlife-refuge, beaufort-sea, canning-river, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, coastal-processes, colville-river, digital-shoreline-analysis-system, distributions, dsas, environment, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, harrison-bay, kuparuk-river, north-slope, oceans, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, physical-chemical-features, prudhoe-bay, sagavanirktok-river, shoreline, shoreline-accretion, shoreline-change, shoreline-erosion, staines-river, state-of-alaska, u-s-geological-survey, united-states-of-america, usgs, usgs-663a50c9d34e77890839b03b
Organization: Department of the Interior
Concentrations of 6PPD and 6PPD-Quinone in a United States reconnaissance of stormwater, surface water, and groundwater, 2018-24

From 2018 to 2024 surface waters (fresh and brackish), groundwater, and stormwater (runoff, re-use) samples were collected from sites with varying landuse (agricultural, forested, and urban) and streamflow conditions and analyzed at the Organic Geochemistry Research Laboratory in Lawrence, Kansas for the tire antioxidant 6PPD (6-p-phenylenediamine; N-(1,3-Dimethylbutyl)-N’-phenyl-p-phenylenediamine) and ozonated transformation product 6PPD-quinone (6PPD-Q, 2-((4-Methylpentan-2-yl)amino)-5-(phenylamino)cyclohexa-2,5-diene-1,4-dione)). There were 78 urban sampling sites in Colorado (N=15), Connecticut (N=1), Georgia (N=1), Hawaii (N=22), Kansas (N=7), Michigan (N=1), Minnesota (N=1), North Carolina (N=1), Oklahoma (N=7), Oregon (N=7), Texas (N=5), Virginia (N=1), and Washington (N=9); four forested sites in Maryland (N=1) and Oregon (N=3); two suburban sites in Texas; one site in Oklahoma with no urban impacts; one agriculture and suburban site in Maryland; seven rural or agricultural sites in Oklahoma (N=3), Oregon (N=1), and Texas (N=3); and one site from a large inland river in Oregon. Also included with the environmental data is data for the laboratory generated 6PPD-Q solutions holding times to inform bottle material, headspace, and filter materials. The analytical method quality assurance and quality control data are also provided (blanks, continuing calibration verification standards, replicates, and spikes).

Tags: 6ppd, 6ppd-q, environment, inlandwaters, liquid-chromatography, mass-spectrometry, stormwater, tire, tire-and-road-wear-particles, united-states, urban, usgs-6637d5aed34edc29f40acffb, water-chemistry
Organization: Department of the Interior
Shoreline seasonality measurements from Landsat satellite imagery for California beaches, 2000-2022

Shoreline position data from the CoastSat methodology were used to describe seasonal cycles of California beaches using time-series analyses. This data release includes the results of the time-series analyses, including parameters from the Seasonal Trend decomposition with LOESS (STL), spectral analyses, and unsupervised clustering. These techniques were applied to 7777 shoreline transects of California beaches. The original shoreline time-series that formed the basis of these data are can be found at: Vos, K., 2023, Time-series of shoreline change along the Pacific Rim (v1.4) [Data set]. Zenodo, doi: 10.5281/zenodo. 7758183

Tags: agents-of-coastal-change, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, geography, geoscientificinformation, image-analysis, location, oceans, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, remote-sensing, sand-resources, sediment-resources, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-6635585ad34edc29f409e2f5
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mean monthly wave properties for CoastSat transects of California beaches, 2000-2022

Shoreline position data from the CoastSat methodology were used to describe seasonal cycles of California beaches using time-series analyses. This data release includes summary wave properties offshore of the 7777 CoastSat transects from California beaches. These wave properties are based on the hindcast data generated by the Coastal Data Information Program [CDIP, https://cdip.ucsd.edu] using the techniques of O’Reilly and others (2016) applied to the California coast and published in the CDIP THREDDS Data Server [https://thredds.cdip.ucsd.edu/thredds/catalog/cdip/model/MOP_alongshore/catalog.1072 html (Accessed 2 February 2024)]. For more information about the CDIP THREDDS server, see [https://cdip.ucsd.edu/m/documents/data_access.html (Accessed 2 May 2024)]. [Reference Cited:  O’Reilly W.C., Olfe C.B., Thomas J., Seymour R.J., and Guza R.T., 2016, The California coastal wave monitoring and prediction system. Coastal Engineering, 116:118–132. doi: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2016.06.005].

Tags: agents-of-coastal-change, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, geography, geoscientificinformation, image-analysis, location, oceans, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, remote-sensing, sand-resources, sediment-resources, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-663553ced34edc29f409e229
Organization: Department of the Interior
Current and projected sagebrush ecological integrity across the Western U.S., 2017-2100 (ver. 2.0, February 2025)

Understanding how climate change will contribute to ongoing declines in sagebrush ecological integrity is critical for informing natural resource management. We assessed potential future changes in sagebrush ecological integrity under a range of scenarios using an individual plant-based simulation model, integrated with remotely sensed estimates of current sagebrush ecological integrity. The simulation model allowed us to estimate how climate change, wildfire, and invasive annuals interact to alter the potential abundance of key plant functional types that influence sagebrush ecological integrity: sagebrush, perennial grasses, and annual grasses. We provide GeoTIFFs of biome-wide projections of future sagebrush ecological integrity (as described in Holdrege et al., 2024) under two representative concentration pathways (RCP4.5 and RCP8.5) and time-periods (2031-2060 and 2071-2100) and we provide these projections for multiple model assumptions. Additionally, this data set provides accompanying projections of three of the components of sagebrush ecological integrity, which are the Q (‘quality’, see Doherty et al., 2022) scores for sagebrush, perennial forbs and grasses, and annual forbs and grasses. Additional GeoTIFFs included provide current (2017-2020) Q scores and sagebrush ecological integrity, as well as projected changes in the extent of Core Sagebrush Areas, Growth Opportunity Areas, and Other Rangeland Areas.

Tags: annual-grasses, arizona, artemisia-tridentata, big-sagebrush, biota, california, climate-change, colorado, core-sagebrush-areas, ecological-processes, ecosystems, geospatial-datasets, growth-opportunity-areas, idaho, montana, nebraska, nevada, new-mexico, north-dakota, oregon, other-rangeland-areas, perennial-grasses, sagebrush-biome, sagebrush-conservation-design, sagebrush-ecological-integrity, sagebrush-region, south-dakota, stepwat2, terrestrial-ecosystems, usgs-663547ded34edc29f409ded3, utah, washington, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Undersized Fire Mapping Program Thematic Burn Severity Mosaic for CONUS in 2017

This map layer is a thematic raster image of MTBS burn severity classes for all inventoried fires occurring in CONUS during calendar year 2017 that do not meet standard MTBS size criteria. These data are published to augment the data that are available from the MTBS program. This product was produced using the methods of the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity Program (MTBS), however these fires do not meet the size criteria for a standard MTBS assessment. The MTBS Program assesses the frequency, extent, and magnitude (size and severity) of all large wildland fires (wildfires and prescribed fires) in the conterminous United States (CONUS), Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico for the period 1984 and beyond. MTBS typically maps fires using an initial assessment (immediately after the fire) or an extended assessment (peak of green the season after the fire) for low-biomass and high-biomass fires respectively. Refer to MTBS.gov for more information on MTBS methods and criteria. Standard MTBS mappings must meet the size criteria of at least 500 acres for the eastern states and territories and 1,000 acres for the western states and territories to be eligible for mapping. Undersized MTBS fires are those fires that do not meet the standard MTBS size criteria but are otherwise mapped using standard MTBS methodologies.

Tags: ak, alaska, burn-severity, burned-area, continental-u-s, conus, differenced-normalized-burn-ratio, fire-location, fire-occurrence, hawaii, hi, imagerybasemapsearthcover, landsat, location, normalized-burn-ratio, pr, prescribed-fire, puerto-rico, sentinel, united-states, us, usgs-66c6508cd34e0338828ab6e6, wildfire, wildland-fire
Organization: Department of the Interior
Low flow water quality data for the Animas River, Arrastra Creek to Silverton, Colorado, September 2021

A synoptic sampling campaign was conducted on the Animas River near Silverton, Colorado, under low flow conditions in September 2021. The sampling campaign was designed to quantify constituent loading and identify sources of contamination along a 3.8-kilometer study reach. The study reach began approximately 170 meters upstream of Arrastra Creek and extended downstream to U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) gage 09358000 within the city of Silverton, Colorado. A continuous, instream injection of a sodium bromide tracer was initiated at the head of the study reach three days prior to the start of the sampling campaign and maintained until the completion of main stem sampling. Bromide concentrations were subsequently used to determine streamflow using the tracer-dilution method. Water quality samples were collected at 23 sites along the Animas River main stem, and 28 inflow sites including springs, seeps, small tributaries, and ponded water. Main stem sites were sampled using three sampling approaches. Under the first approach, a subset of 8 main stem sites were sampled "simultaneously" (in less than 20 minutes) to assess the effects of diel variation in constituent concentration. Under the second approach, all main stem sites were sampled with the sampling team working in the downstream-to-upstream direction, a protocol typically used during synoptic sampling. A subset of 5 main stem sites were also sampled using an Equal Discharge Increment approach that was designed to indicate which side of the stream was responsible for the observed constituent loads. This data release includes field parameters (water temperature, pH, and specific conductivity), concentration data (inorganic cations and anions), estimated streamflow, and calculated loads for the sampling campaign. Calculated loads may be used to identify and rank sources of contamination to the Animas River.
The data release consists of a kmz file showing site locations and the following 3 tables:
Table 1, Locations of sampling sites
Table 2, Synoptic sampling results, September 20-21, 2021
Table 3, Spatial profiles of streamflow and constituent load

Tags: acid-mine-drainage, animas-river, bromide, cadmium, colorado, constituent-loads, environmental-health, geochemistry, geoscientificinformation, headwater-stream, hydrologic-tracer, metals, mining, san-juan-county, silverton, synoptic-sampling, tracer-dilution, tracer-study, usgs-66353b57d34edc29f409db9e, water-quality, water-resources, water-sampling, zinc
Organization: Department of the Interior
Black Oystercatcher Morphology and Primary Feather Lengths in Alaska and British Columbia, 2019-2022

These data provide morphological measurements and primary feather length measurements of Black Oystercatcher (Haematopus bachmani) captured at several sites across Alaska and British Columbia between 2019 and 2022. The first table contains mass and morphological measurements of body and bill size. The second table provides lengths of individual primary feathers measured from folded wing photographs using a computer software. These feather lengths are to be used in a size-constrained components analysis to calculate wing shape such as pointedness and convexity.

Tags: age-structure, alaska, animal-morphology, animals-vertebrates, avian-physiology, biota, birds, body-size, body-weight, british-columbia, canada, capturing-animals, coastal-ecosystems, ecology, environment, gulf-islands, haida-gwaii, kachemak-bay, katmai-national-park-and-preserve, kenai-fjords-national-park, marine-biology, marine-ecosystems, migratory-birds, nearshore-marine-ecosystem, pacific-rim-national-park, prince-william-sound, salish-sea, sandpipers, scientific-interpretation, sexual-dimorphism, usgs-66353317d34edc29f409d8a6, wing-shape
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data Associated with a Multi-Stage Captive Trial Assessing the Effects of Saxitoxin Ingestion by Common Murres (Uria aalge)

This data set is comprised of results associated with a multi-stage experimental study to determine the effects of paralytic shellfish toxin ingestion by Common Murres (Uria aalge) conducted in 2021-2022. Data is comprised of eight spreadsheets covering each phase of the study including specific bird dosing data, behavioral observation data, foraging trial data, and tissue testing results for Saxitoxin (STX) and related congeners.

Tags: acute-toxicity, alaska, animals-vertebrates, behavior, bioaccumulation, biological-science-disciplines, biota, biotoxin, birds, disease, dose-response-effects, ecotoxicology, effective-dose, environment, harmful-algal-bloom, health, laboratory-experiments, marine-ecosystems, natural-science-disciplines, neurotoxin, paralytic-shellfish-toxin, pathologic-processes, real-time-monitoring-and-reporting, saxitoxin, seward, tracer-study, usgs-6635267fd34edc29f409d4a6, waders-gulls-auks-and-allies
Organization: Department of the Interior