AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Geochemical Data from Selected Triassic Rock Samples in Northeastern Alaska

This set of data files contains analyses of samples representing Triassic units (Shublik and Ivishak Formations and Karen Creek Sandstone) in Alaska. The samples were collected from 20 outcrop localities in northeastern Alaska. The data set includes total organic carbon (TOC) and geochemical data from inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectroscopy-mass spectroscopy (ICP-OES-MS) and portable X-ray fluorescence (p-XRF). The data presented here are described and interpreted in a paper titled "Facies Variation within Outcrops of the Triassic Shublik Formation, Northeastern Alaska".

Tags: aichilik-river, alaska, cache-creek, camp-263-creek, cobble-creek, dodo-creek, earth-science, echooka-river, fire-creek, geochemistry, geolex, geoscientificinformation, ivishak-formation, karen-creek-sandstone, kavik-river, kemik-creek, last-creek, porcupine-lake, shublik-formation, stratigraphic-sections, stratigraphic-sequence, stratigraphy, triassic, usgs-asc568
Organization: Department of the Interior
Radiocarbon Data for Tree Ring Samples from Girdwood, Alaska

This dataset consists of sample details and radiocarbon age data of tree-ring samples collected near Girdwood, Alaska, and analyzed at the National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Facility.

Tags: alaska, biota, carbon-14-analysis, coastal-processes, earth-science, earthquakes, geology, geoscientificinformation, girdwood, hazards, tectonic-processes, usgs-asc569
Organization: Department of the Interior
Migration Routes of Pronghorn in the North of Interstate 40 Herd in Arizona

The North of Interstate 40 Pronghorn herd primarily resides in Arizona’s Game Management Unit (GMU) 7. GMU 7 had an estimated population of 550 pronghorn in 2019. The Pronghorn North of Interstate 40 summer in high elevation open meadows and ponderosa pine habitat near Government Prairie. When winter conditions set in the pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) seek lower elevations, migrating through mixed pinyon-juniper woodlands to open grassland and shrub habitats north of Sitgreaves Mountain, often crossing US Highway 180 (US-180) towards Antelope Flat. US-180 is an increasing threat to this migration corridor as traffic volumes rise. However, right-of-way fence improvements and relatively low traffic volumes on US-180 currently allow some degree of permeability across this highway. Additionally, encroaching pinyon-juniper woodlands are a threat to open grassland habitat within both summer and winter range.
These data provide the location of migration routes for American pronghorn from the North of Interstate 40 Herd in Arizona. They were developed from 65 migration sequences collected from a sample size of 16 animals comprising GPS locations collected every 2 hours.

Tags: animal-behavior, arizona, economy, environment, flagstaff, migration, migration-organisms, migratory-species, united-states, usgs-620e4b76d34e6c7e83baa3d8
Organization: Department of the Interior
Seamless Integrated Geologic Map Database of the Intermountain West: Bedrock Geology

This dataset is intended to provide seamless, integrated bedrock geologic mapping of the U.S. Intermountain West region and is funded by the National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program of the U.S. Geological Survey. Bedrock geology are included in this data release as an independent dataset at a variable resolution from 1:50,000 to 1:100,000 scale. No original interpretations are presented in this data set; rather, all interpretive data are assimilated from referenceable publications.
Initial contributions to this data release are along an east-west transect that parallels 37-degrees north latitude extending from the Rio Grande Rift and Great Plains in the east to the Basin and Range and Sierra Nevada to the west. Other areas of the Intermountain West region will be incorporated over time. Data are presented as downloadable file geodatabase (*.gdb) and as features services that can be directly ingested into GIS software for analysis. This dataset is intended to be versioned regularly as new geologic map data is integrated. The data structure follows the Seamless Integrated Geologic Mapping extension (SIGMa) (Turner and others, 2022) to the Geologic Map Schema (GeMS) (USGS, 2020).
U.S. Geological Survey National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program, 2020, GeMS (Geologic Map Schema)—A standard format for the digital publication of geologic maps: U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods, book 11, chap. B10, 74 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/tm11B10.
Turner, K.J., Workman, J.B., Colgan, J.P., Gilmer, A.K., Berry, M.E., Johnstone, S.A., Warrell, K.F., Dechesne, M., VanSistine, D.P., Thompson, R.A., Hudson, A.M., Zellman, K.L., Sweetkind, D., and Ruleman, C.A., 2022, The Seamless Integrated Geologic Mapping (SIGMa) extension to the Geologic Map Schema (GeMS): U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2022–5115, 33 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ sir20225115.

Tags: aztec, bedrock-geologic-units, cambrian, colorado, cretaceous, devonian, early-pleistocene, eocene, espanola-basin, faulting, geologic-maps, holocene, igneous-rocks, jurassic, laramide-orogeny, late-pleistocene, mazatzal-terrane, metamorphic-rocks, middle-pleistocene, miocene, mississippian, national-cooperative-geologic-mapping-program, new-mexico, oligocene, ordovician, paleocene, pennsylvanian, permian, pleistocene, pliocene, plutonic-rocks, proterozoic, quaternary, rio-grande-rift, san-juan-basin, san-juan-mountains, san-luis-valley, sangre-de-cristo-mountains, sedimentary-rocks, southern-rocky-mountains-volcanic-field, taos-plateau-volcanic-field, tertiary, triassic, trinidad, usgs-67129b25d34eb6a152fc7795, volcanic-rocks, western-interior-basin, wet-mountain-valley, wet-mountains, yavapai-terrane
Organization: Department of the Interior
Range Extent for southern sea otters 2016

The GIS shapefile "Range extent of southern sea otters 2016" is a simple polyline representing the geographic distribution of the southern sea otter (Enhydra lutris nereis) in mainland California, based on data collected during the spring 2016 range-wide census. The USGS range-wide sea otter census has been undertaken twice a year since 1982, once in May and once in October, using consistent methodology involving both ground-based and aerial-based counts. The spring census is considered more accurate than the fall count, and provides the primary basis for gauging population trends by State and Federal management agencies. Sea otter distribution in California (the mainland range) is considered to comprise a band of potential habitat stretching along the coast of California, and bounded to the north and south by range limits defined as "the points farthest from the range center at which 5 or more otters are counted within a 10km contiguous stretch of coastline (as measured along the 10m bathymetric contour) during the two most recent spring censuses, or at which these same criteria were met in the previous year".

Tags: aerial-counts, biota, california, central-california-coast, coast, distribution, environment, oceans, range, sea-otter-census, sea-otters, shore-counts, southern-california-coast, usgs-57a3513ee4b006cb45567d47
Organization: Department of the Interior
Breton Island Transects with Shoreline Change Rates (Pre/Post Hurricane Katrina) (Geographic, NAD83)

Breton Island, Louisiana Transects with Shoreline Change Rates (Pre/Post Hurricane Katrina) (Geographic, NAD83) consists of vector transect data that were derived from the Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) version 4.0. Rates from the DSAS statistical output table were joined to the transects to provide a visual representation of the shoreline change rates on a transect-by-transect basis.

Tags: 2004-2005, breton-island, coastal, end-point-rate, environment, geoscientificinformation, gulf-of-mexico, hurricane-katrina, la, linear-regression, louisiana, net-shoreline-movement, oceans, rate-of-change, shoreline-change-extent, transect, transect-data, transect-map, usa, usgs-6fa6b041-39a9-424f-bfc9-810ef757cfba, weighted-linear-regression
Organization: Department of the Interior
Host feeding ecology and trophic position significantly influence isotopic discrimination between a generalist ectoparasite and its hosts: implications for parasite-host trophic studies

Despite being one of the most prevalent forms of consumerism in ecological communities, parasitism has largely been excluded from food-web models. Stable isotope analysis of consumers and their diets has been widely used in the study of food-webs for decades. However, the amount of information regarding parasite stable isotope ecology is limited, restricting the ability of ecologists to use stable isotope analysis to study parasites in food-webs. This study took advantage of distinct differences in the feeding ecology and trophic position of different species of fish known to host the same common micropredatory gnathiid isopod, to study the effects of host stable isotope ecology on that of the associated micropredator. Blood engorged juvenile gnathiids were in most cases indistinguishable from their hosts’ blood, but significant isotope discrimination was observed for adults. Adult males were generally lower in δ13C and δ15N than host blood whereas host specific isotopic discrimination for females varied among the different host species.

Tags: biota, coral-reefs, eastern-caribbean, food-web, parasites, shallow-mesophotic-coral-reef-biota, st-john-united-states-virgin-islands, stable-isotope-analysis, stable-isotopes, symbiosis, usgs-5aa15343e4b0b1c392e86246, virgin-islands-of-the-united-states
Organization: Department of the Interior
Magnetotelluric data from the Northwest Geysers, 2017, station gz27

This dataset consists of 42 magnetotelluric (MT) stations collected in 2017 in the Northwest Geysers, CA. The U.S. Geological Survey acquired these data as part of a project to image the heat source in the Northwest Geysers.  Support was from the U.S. Geological Survey's Volcano Hazards Program.

Tags: apparent-resistivity, california, cenozoic, earth-magnetic-field, electromagnetic-surveying, geology-minerals-energy-and-geophysics-science-center, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, geothermal, gmegsc, impedance, lake-county, magnetotelluric-surveying, magnetotellurics, mesozoic, mt, napa-county, phase, sonoma-county, the-geysers, time-series, tipper, usgs-5d5f407be4b01d82ce985105, vhp, volcano-hazards-program
Organization: Department of the Interior
Water chemistry data for samples collected at groundwater and surface water sites in the Elk Hills study area, June 2017–April 2018, Kern County, California

The California State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) initiated the Oil and Gas Regional Monitoring Program (RMP) to assess effects of oil and gas development on groundwater designated for any beneficial use. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is the technical lead in conducting the RMP through the California Oil, Gas, and Groundwater (COGG) Program, working in cooperation with the State Water Board, and in partnership with other State and local agencies. The USGS collected and analyzed groundwater, surface water, and associated quality control (QC) samples in the Elk Hills study area during June 2017–April 2018. The Elk Hills study area includes the Elk Hills and North Coles Levee Oil Fields and a five-kilometer buffer zone surrounding the administrative boundaries of the two oil fields in Kern County, California. Water samples were collected from twenty-six monitoring wells, four irrigation wells, two public supply wells, and one managed recharge pond. Samples were collected using established groundwater data-collection protocols and procedures. Samples were analyzed for water-quality indicators, major and minor ions, nutrients, trace elements, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), naturally occurring radioactive material, geochemical and age-dating tracers, dissolved organic carbon (DOC) characteristics, dissolved standard and hydrocarbon gases (methane through hexane), and dissolved noble and atmospheric gases. Over 200 constituents and water-quality indicators were measured. Quality-control samples collected as part of this study included replicates, field blanks, equipment blanks, source-solution blanks, and matrix spikes.

Tags: aquifer, california, elk-hills-oil-field, geochemistry, groundwater, groundwater-aquifer, groundwater-chemistry, groundwater-quality, inlandwaters, kern-county, north-coles-levee-oil-field, regional-monitoring-program, salinity, salinity-mapping, usgs-5cd07ec6e4b09b8c0b79a38a, water-chemistry, water-quality-data
Organization: Department of the Interior
1:24,000-scale hydrographic areas, middle Carson River basin, Nevada

This data release consists of 1:24,000-scale polylines and polygons representing hydrographic areas for the middle Carson River basin, Nevada.

Tags: basin, basin-101, basin-102, basin-103, basin-104, basin-105, carson-desert, carson-river, carson-river-region, carson-valley, churchill-valley, dayton-valley, drainage-area, eagle-valley, hydrographic-area, hydrographic-region-8, hydrology, inlandwaters, middle-carson-river-basin, nevada, study-areas, topography, usgs-5ebdba3a82ce476925e44762, watershed
Organization: Department of the Interior
Southern Beaufort Sea Polar Bear Fatty Acid Data, Spring Samples 2004-2016

These data consist of the fatty acid composition (percent of mass) of adipose tissue samples from polar bears in Alaska's southern Beaufort Sea. Fat biopsy samples were collected from polar bears that were either captured or biopsy darted along the north coast of Alaska or on offshore ice during March, April, or May from 2004 to 2016. The data also include an identification code unique to an individual bear, sex, age class, and the date of sample collection.

Tags: alaska, animals-vertebrates, arctic, bears, beaufort-sea, biological-informatics, biota, carnivores, coastal-ecosystems, diets, environment, fatty-acids, mammals, marine-ecosystems, marine-mammals, pelagic-habitat, polar-bear, qfasa, quantitative-fatty-acid-signature-analysis, threatened-species, ursus-maritimus, usgs-asc592
Organization: Department of the Interior
Structure-from-motion point cloud of Mud Creek, Big Sur, California, 2017-05-27

Presented here is a point cloud collected by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) using an oblique plane-mounted camera system, covering the area of the Mud Creek landslide on California State Route 1 (SR1), Mud Creek, Big Sur, California. The point cloud is referenced to previously published lidar data and contains RGB information as well as XYZ. Point cloud coordinates are in NAD83 UTM Zone 10 meters. Imagery was collected with a Nikon D800 camera in RAW format and processed using structure-from-motion photogrammetry with Agisoft PhotoScan version 1.2.8 through 1.3.2. Pointclouds were clipped to an AOI using LASTools. The AOI was created from a KMZ in Google Earth and transformed to a shapefile using ArcMap 10.5.

Tags: aerial-and-satellite-photography, aerial-photography, agents-of-coastal-change, anthropogenic-agents-of-coastal-change, bathymetry-and-elevation, big-sur, california, cape-san-martin, central-california-coastal, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, coastal-change-hazards-topics, coastal-landslides, coastal-landsliding, coastal-processes, coastal-sediment-budget, coastal-zone-management, effects-of-coastal-change, elevation, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, hazards, hazards-and-disasters, human-responses-to-coastal-change, image-analysis, image-collections, imagerybasemapsearthcover, landslides, monterey, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, remote-sensing, topography, transportation, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-5b806f4be4b05f6e32195222, villa-creek
Organization: Department of the Interior
Great Blue Heron collection at Poplar Island Complex and Chesapeake Marshlands National Wildlife Refuge Complex

In the fall of 2005, dead and dying great blue herons (Ardea herodias) exhibiting emaciation, lethargy, inability to fly and a hard abdomen (steatitis confirmed at necropsy) were observed at Poplar Island and nearby Coaches Island (Rattner et al.  2006).  Birds were hand captured at or near impoundments (cells) and ponds that contained large algal blooms, and because of poor prognosis were euthanized.   Seemingly healthy great blue herons were subsequently collected at Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge.  Blood and fecal samples were collected, and submitted to Antech Diagnostics (Lake Success, New York) for Avian/Exotic Combined Blood Count, Comprehensive Avian Chemistries, Fecal Cultures and Vitamin E analysis.  Liver samples were analyzed for microcystin content (An and Carmichael 1994, Carmichael and An 1999; Cyano HAB Lab Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio).  Below is a description of the organization of data that is presented on accompanying spreadsheets.

Tags: biota, blackwater-national-wildlife-refuge, blood-chemistry, fecal-analysis, great-blue-herons, hematology, maryland, microcystin, poplar-island, steatitis, usgs-6201b2bfd34e622189dad9e5, vitamin-e
Organization: Department of the Interior
Total organic carbon, programmed temperature pyrolysis, vitrinite reflectance, organic carbon isotopes, elemental, and spectral gamma-ray data from the Cretaceous Hue Shale (Jago River outcrop), Arctic Alaska, USA

Chemostratigraphic signatures were recorded in a 113 m thick outcrop of late Albian to early Campanian (~103–82 Ma) Hue Shale exposed on the bank of the Jago River in the coastal plain (“1002 Area”) of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), Alaska. Spectral gamma-ray (SGR) data was collected in situ across the Jago River section. A total of 250 samples consisting of predominantly clay-rich mudstone were collected for organic and inorganic geochemical analyses. This data release includes SGR, total organic carbon, programmed temperature pyrolysis, vitrinite reflectance, organic carbon isotopes, and elemental abundance results. For a full explanation of methods and analytical results, see the companion manuscript Botterell et al. (2025).

Tags: alaska, black-shale, geoscientificinformation, jago-river, oceanic-anoxic-events, paleoproductivity, paleoredox, usgs-66e43f97d34e1cc1f894ea0e, volcanism
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hydrochemistry and Age Date Tracers from Springs, Streams, and Rivers in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 2019-2022

These data include water chemistry from springs, streams, rivers, and shallow groundwater collected in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northern Alaska. Chemical analyses were performed for hydrochemical parameters including field parameters, major ions, nutrients, metals, stable isotopes of water, and tritium, as well as for dissolved gases useful for determining the timescale over which the water was in the subsurface (i.e. age dating tracers), including noble gases and chlorofluorocarbons.

Tags: aichilik-river, alaska, arctic-national-wildlife-refuge, canning-river, dissolved-gas, environment, environmental-tracers, field-inventory-and-monitoring, frozen-ground, geoscientificinformation, groundwater-age, hulahula-river, hydrology, inlandwaters, jago-river, katakturuk-river, okerokovik-river, permafrost, rivers-streams, surface-water-chemistry, usgs-asc595, water-quality-water-chemistry
Organization: Department of the Interior
Argos Satellite Tracking Data for Long-billed Curlews (Numenius americanus) - 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 28 satellite transmitters attached to Long-billed Curlews at breeding sites in Oregon, Nevada, and Montana. 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: animal-tracking, animals-vertebrates, argos, biota, birds, breeding-sites, capture-recapture-studies, environment, long-billed-curlew, migratory-birds, migratory-rates-routes, migratory-species, montana, nevada, numenius-americanus, oregon, ornithology, overwintering, platform-transmitter-terminal, ptt, satellite-transmitter, seasonal-distribution, seasonal-movement, species-life-history, tagging-devices, telemetry, tracking-equipment, usgs-asc596, waders-gulls-auks-and-allies, wildlife
Organization: Department of the Interior
Wind rose plots for the volcano: 312050  Dana

This zip folder contains ASCII text files of vectors at the specified volcano at 
12-hour intervals, 
from January 1, 1990 through December 28, 2009.  
The wind vectors are divided into five files, names by their elevation range above 
sea level in the atmosphere: 00-05km.txt; 05-11km.txt; 11-16km.txt; 16-24km.txt; 
and 24-30km.txt. 
The zip folder also contains a subfolder "figures", with Wind rose plots of wind 
direction and speed over 
this time period.  The plots are by season, and by elevation, given a total of 20 
plots (4 seasons, 5 
elevation ranges).  A summary plot is also included which gives the year-round 
wind pattern at the volcano, 
at 0-5 km elevation.  Plots are in both jpg and pdf format.

Tags: meteorology, usgs-58d0156de4b0236b68f52f72, volcanic-ash, volcanic-eruption-forecasting, wind
Organization: Department of the Interior
Argos Satellite Tracking Data for Long-billed Curlews (Numenius americanus) - 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 28 satellite transmitters attached to Long-billed Curlews at breeding sites in Oregon, Nevada, and Montana. 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 Argos location estimate collected, accompanied by a binary flag that denotes an algorithm's plausibility check (based on distance, turning angle, and rate thresholds). 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 the 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: animal-tracking, animals-vertebrates, argos, biota, birds, breeding-sites, capture-recapture-studies, environment, long-billed-curlew, migratory-birds, migratory-rates-routes, migratory-species, montana, nevada, numenius-americanus, oregon, ornithology, overwintering, platform-transmitter-terminal, ptt, satellite-transmitter, seasonal-distribution, seasonal-movement, species-life-history, tagging-devices, telemetry, tracking-equipment, usgs-asc597, waders-gulls-auks-and-allies, wildlife
Organization: Department of the Interior