AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Elicited qualitative value of information scores for eastern black rail uncertainties on the Atlantic Coast from a 2020 adaptive management workshop

The eastern black rail (Laterallus jamaicensis jamaicensis; hereafter rail) is a small, cryptic marshbird that was recently listed as threatened under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. We organized a rapid prototyping workshop to initiate development of an adaptive management for rails on the Atlantic Coast. The in-person workshop spanned 2.5 days and was held in Titusville, Florida in January 2020. Workshop participants, comprised of species experts and land managers of rail habitats, chose to focus the framework on testing habitat management techniques to maximize rail occupancy, in which uncertainties could be reduced through a combination of field management experiments and coordinated monitoring. We used the qualitative value of information to prioritize uncertainties (stated as alternative hypotheses developed by participants in habitat-based breakout groups) that could serve as the basis for experiments within the adaptive management framework. Qualitative value of information (QVoI) is a newly-developed decision analysis tool that scores uncertainties in three areas: (1) Magnitude of uncertainty which reflects the strength of theoretical foundation and empirical support of the hypothesized relationship; (2) Relevance to management decisions which indicates how likely the preferred management alternative is to change if the uncertainty were resolved; and (3) Reducibility which is the degree to which the uncertainty could be resolved through research and monitoring. Magnitude is scored on a scale of 0–4, whereas Relevance and Reducibility can vary from 0–3. These data are the anonymized workshop participant (n=26) scores for nine hypotheses focused on testing habitat management techniques, to determine which hypotheses should serve as the basis for management experiments in an adaptive management framework. The data are contained in a .csv file that can be opened using a spreadsheet program such as Microsoft Excel, or read into a statistical analysis program such as Program R.

Tags: adaptive-management, biota, laterallus-jamaicensis-jamaicensis, mid-atlantic, north-atlantic, qualitative-value-of-information, south-atlantic, structured-decision-making, usgs-6266dfa7d34e76103cce5905, value-of-information
Organization: Department of the Interior
Water Budget of the Sierra Vista Subwatershed of the Upper San Pedro Basin, 2002 - 2012 and 2020

Groundwater budgets were compiled from 2002 to 2012 and 2020 for the Sierra Vista Subwatershed for the Upper San Pedro Partnership. In 2012, the annual groundwater budget was estimated to be about -5,000 acre-ft per year (negative values indicate a deficit, where more water is removed from the system than is being returned; positive values indicate a surplus, where more water is entering the system than is being removed). In 2020 the Sierra Vista Subwatershed groundwater budget deficit has decreased to about -3,600 acre-ft per year. This is the smallest deficit calculated since the Upper San Pedro Partnership started to track the groundwater budget beginning in 2002. The total water budget uncertainty is estimated to be about +/-5,300 acre-ft. Intentional human effects on the groundwater budget have declined somewhat less over this period, from -9,000 acre-ft per year in 2012 to -8,530 acre-ft per year in 2020. For a complete description of the water budget inputs, see SIR 2016-5114 and the accompanying memo.
Included in this data release are the following files:
USPP water_budget_2002-2020_04-26-22.csv: Values for all water budget components  
USPP water_budget_2002-2020_04-26-22_Intentional_Human_Effectsmeta.csv: Values for the intentional human effects on the water budget components
PAC &amp; Admin letter 04-26-22.pdf: Supplemental information to SIR 2016-5114 on how water budget components were calculated.
Study_area_comparison_map.jpg: A comparison of the previous and updated water estimate collection area, which includes the vineyards west of Elgin.

Tags: arizona-water-science-center, cochise-county, geoscientificinformation, groundwater-budget, hydrogeology, pima-county, san-pedro-river, santa-cruz-county, sierra-vista, upper-san-pedro-partnership, usgs-62574a58d34e21f827701ee4
Organization: Department of the Interior
Biomass and methylmercury concentrations in biweekly biological samples from Brownlee and Oxbow Reservoir outflows, Snake River Hells Canyon Complex (Idaho-Oregon), 2018-2019

This dataset describes biomass and methylmercury concentrations in zooplankton, other invertebrates, fish, and coarse and fine detritus samples collected at the outflow locations of Brownlee and Oxbow Reservoirs in the Snake River Hells Canyon Complex. Based on the sampling locations, the sampled materials were presumed to have flowed through the dam turbines or over the spillway, thereby representing biological export from the reservoirs. Samples were collected biweekly at each location over a sixteen-month period, June 2018 – September 2019. Sampling and analysis methods are described in the Processing Steps section of the metadata.

Tags: bioaccumulation, biota, contamination-and-pollution, ecotoxicology, environment, field-sampling, fish, hells-canyon, ictaluridae, idaho, inlandwaters, invertebrates, lepomis-macrochirus, mercury-contamination, methylmercury, micropterus-dolomieu, oregon, perca-flavescens, plankton, pomoxis, snake-river, toxic-trace-element-contamination, usgs-625708ded34e21f827701dfe
Organization: Department of the Interior
Polioptila californica genotype data from California, USA and Baja California, Mexico

This dataset contains genomic records from 184 California Gnatcatchers (Polioptila californica)  collected at 18 sites in southern California (USA), 13 sites in Baja California (Mexico), and 17 sites in Baja California Sur (Mexico). Genomic markers were generated from ddRAD loci (Peterson and others, 2012) and analyzed using the Stacks v2.53 (Catchen and others, 2013) pipeline. The genotypes for all samples are provided in a VCF file with 84,125 independent loci and 7 percent missing data. A companion file is provided with sample names and occurrence designations. These files may be opened and edited in a text editor program, such as Notepad (PC) or BBEdit (Mac). The .vcf file can be loaded into the Stacks population program (Catchen and others, 2013) to calculate genetic diversity statistics, or loaded into R, using vcfR (Knaus and Grunwald, 2017), for further analysis.
References:
Catchen J., Hohenlohe P.A., Bassham S., Amores A., Cresko W.A. Stacks-an analysis tool set for population genomics. Molecular Ecology. 2013; 22:3124-3140.
Knaus, B.J, Grunwald N.J. vcfr: a package to manipulate and visualize variant call format data in R. Molecular Ecology Resources. 2016; 17:44-53.
Peterson B.K., Weber J.N., Kay E.H., Fisher H.S., Hoekstra H.E. Double Digest RADseq-an inexpensive method for de novo SNP discovery and genotyping in model and non-model species: PLoS ONE. 2012; 7:e37135.

Tags: baja-california, biota, ddradseq, endangered-species, evolution, genetic-diversity, mexico, north-america, southern-california, usgs-6255f2b8d34e21f8276f4ae3, western-united-states
Organization: Department of the Interior
PRMS Model Archive for Selected Catchments in the Lake Michigan Basin Used in Examination of Multi-Objective Model Calibration

This model archive contains 20 Precipitation-Runoff Modeling System (PRMS) models for 20 catchments within the Lake Michigan watershed (Mei and others, 2022). PRMS is a process-based distributed deterministic watershed model designed for the simulation of hydrologic processes including evaporation, transpiration, runoff, infiltration, interflow, and groundwater flow (Markstrom and others, 2015). The PRMS model version 5.2.0 (Markstrom and others, 2015) within the Ground-water and Surface-water FLOW (GSFLOW version 2.2.0) modeling platform (Markstrom and others, 2008) was used to construct the 20 catchment models. Each of the catchment models was calibrated using six different calibration schemes that are either single- or multi-objective (Mei and others, 2022). The optimization algorithm applied was the Dynamically Dimensioned Search (DDS) for single-objective (Tolson, 2007) and the Pareto-Archived DDS (PADDS) for multi-objective calibration problems (Asadzadeh and Tolson, 2013), respectively.

Tags: calibration, great-lakes, lake-michigan, mathematical-modeling, modeling, multi-objective, ostrich-multi-objective, precipitation-runoff-modeling-system, prms, surface-water, surface-water-model, usgs-6255e0a7d34e21f8276f4a97, watershed-model
Organization: Department of the Interior
Reported and estimated total produced water disposal volumes (1901-2019) for percolation and evaporation ponds at the southwestern San Joaquin Valley, Kern County, California

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the California State Water Resources Control Board compiled and analyzed data to estimate for 1901-2019 the total volumes of produced water disposed of at percolation and evaporation ponds at the Midway-Sunset, Buena Vista, Elk Hills, McKittrick, Cymric, North Belridge, South Belridge, and Lost Hills Oil Fields in the southwestern San Joaquin Valley (SWSJV), Kern County, California. Data were compiled from state and local agencies databases, including the California State Water Resources Control Board GeoTracker, California Integrated Water Quality System (CIWQS), and Ponds Status Report (2019); the California Geologic Energy Management Division (CalGEM) Well Production and Injection Database (1977-2019); CalGEM Summary of Operations (1920-1976); and the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board Pond List (updated November 19, 2019). For disposal facilities that receive produced water from multiple sources, volumes were estimated from cumulative values (historical through 1986), approximate daily rates of disposal, and annual flow estimates reported in technical and annual monitoring reports and waste discharge requirements. For ponds at individual oil and gas leases, produced water volumes were estimated from annual and monthly flow values in technical and annual monitoring reports; water production volumes from oil wells at the leases were used to estimate disposal volumes during years with no data. Reported values are given in the SWSJV_ponds_disposal_volumes.csv table. At the Midway-Sunset and Buena Vista Oil Fields (MSBV), the total estimated produced water disposal at each pond is summarized in the MSBV_ponds_summary.csv table and a comparison between pond water disposal and oil well water production volumes for years that have data for both is available in the MSBV_disposal_production_comparison.csv table.

Tags: california, disposal-sites, environment, inlandwaters, kern-county, natural-resource-extraction, oil-fields, produced-water, san-joaquin, usgs-6255d24fd34e21f8276f4a6f
Organization: Department of the Interior
Produced water disposal at percolation and evaporation ponds in and near oil fields in the southwestern San Joaquin Valley, California (ver. 2.0, October 2024)

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the California State Water Resources Control Board compiled and analyzed data on water production and produced water disposal on land at Midway-Sunset, Buena Vista, Elk Hills, McKittrick, Cymric, South Belridge, North Belridge, and Lost Hills Oil Fields in the southwestern San Joaquin Valley (SWSJV), Kern County, California. Data were compiled from information in state and local agencies databases and cover a period of record ranging from the early 1900's through 2019. Datasets include shapefiles with locations of retention ponds and natural drainage systems used for produced water disposal, total volumes of produced water disposed of at percolation and evaporation ponds, produced water geochemical data, calculation of pond evaporative water loss, and classifications of groundwater samples as mixing with pond disposal water.

Tags: california, disposal-sites, health, inlandwaters, kern-county, natural-resource-extraction, oil-fields, produced-water, san-joaquin, usgs-6255ce90d34e21f8276f4a5c
Organization: Department of the Interior
Environmental DNA water sample analyses for smallmouth bass surveillance, Gardner River, Montana, March 2022

Environmental DNA results for March 2022 smallmouth bass surveillance in the Gardner River, Montana

Tags: biota, environmental-dna, fish, freshwater-ecosystems, gardner-river, inlandwaters, invasive-species, montana, smallmouth-bass, usgs-6255b186d34e21f8276f49b3, yellowstone-river
Organization: Department of the Interior
Electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) and horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratio (HVSR) data collected east of Box Elder, South Dakota, in 2021

The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the U.S. Air Force Civil Engineer Center, used surface geophysical methods to delineate the top of the Cretaceous Pierre Shale along survey transects in selected areas east of Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota. In 2019, the U.S. Geological Survey performed passive seismic and 2D electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) surveys along 21 co-located survey transects east of Ellsworth Air Force Base. Passive seismic data were analyzed using the horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratio (HVSR) method in the Grilla software suite (https://moho.world/en/) to determine the fundamental resonance frequency peak at each site. Passive seismic data were also collected at existing well sites and the average shear wave velocity for unconsolidated deposits overlying the Pierre Shale was used to calculate the depth to Pierre Shale along survey transects. ERT data were processed using EarthImager2D software from Advanced Geosciences, Inc. (https://www.agiusa.com/agi-earthimager-2d) to remove noisy measurements and produce subsurface resistivity profiles that were interpreted to estimate the depth to the Cretaceous Pierre Shale. HVSR results were plotted with ERT profile results to delineate a continuous bedrock surface for each survey transect. The continuous bedrock surface results were converted to elevations using light detection and ranging (liDAR) elevation data and were extracted to electrodes locations that were part of ERT surveys for each survey transect. The unprocessed and processed data for each geophysical surveys and bedrock delineation are provided as either comma-separated values (.csv) files or zipped folders (.zip) and annotated accordingly in the metadata.

Tags: ellsworth-air-force-base, environment, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, horizontal-to-vertical-spectral-ratio, meade-county, passive-seismic, pennington-county, south-dakota, usgs-62558e6bd34e21f8276f48c8
Organization: Department of the Interior
Satellite tracking data for post-nesting green turtles from Northwest Florida (2002-2020)

This dataset includes processed satellite tracking data collected from green turtles between July 2002 and October 2020 in the Gulf of Mexico. Tracks were located along the west coast of Florida from the Florida Keys to the Gulf Islands National Seashore.
Output from the state-space model (SSM) described in Lamont et al. (2023) is included, as are inter-nesting and foraging centroids calculated using kernel density estimates and minimum convex polygons.

Tags: animal-behavior, animal-tracking, biota, migratory-species, satellite-telemetry, sea-turtles, usgs-625eef59d34e85fa62b7f891
Organization: Department of the Interior
Airborne magnetic and radiometric survey, Munsungun region in northern Maine, 2021

This data release provides digital flight line data for a high-resolution airborne magnetic and radiometric survey over parts of northern Maine. The airborne data collection was funded by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Mapping Resource Initiative (Earth MRI) with goals of better understanding volcanogenic massive sulfide mineral deposits, sediment hosted manganese deposits, and their surrounding geologic framework. Data for this survey were collected and processed by Sander Geophysics under contract with the USGS. The airborne survey took place June-July 2021. Using a fixed wing aircraft with a magnetometer mounted in a tail stinger and a fully calibrated gamma ray spectrometer, data were collected along northwest-southeast flight lines spaced 250 meters (m) apart with northeast-southwest tie lines flown every 2500 m.  The target terrain clearance was 100 m, with higher clearance over areas with rugged topography and population centers due to safety considerations. A total of 43,271-line kilometers (km) of data were collected. Processing details are provided in the contractor report. Binary files in the contractor package are readable using the free software "Geosoft Viewer" or commercial software "Oasis Montaj."

Tags: aeromagnetic-surveying, aeroradiometric-surveying, airborne-geophysical-survey, allagash-lake, aroostook-county, aroostook-river, bever-brook, big-machias-lake, carr-pond, chamberlain-lake, chesuncook-lake, clear-lake, eagle-lake, earth-mapping-resources-initiative, earthmri, economy, fish-river, fish-river-lake, geology-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-centergggsc, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, gero-island, glazier-brook, harrow-lake, harvey-pond, haymock-lake, horizontal-magnetic-gradiometry, little-madawaska-river, longley-pondk, loon-lake, machias-river, magnetic-field-earth, maine, mineral-resources-program, mrp, mud-lake, munsungun-region, northern-maine, penobscot-county, piscataquis-county, pleasant-lake, portage-lake, potassium, pratt-lake, priestly-lake, rocky-brook, round-pond, rowe-lake, saint-froid-lake, shallow-lake, somerset-county, spider-lake, squa-pan-lake, square-lake, third-lake, thorium, twentyfive-mile-brook, twin-lake, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, united-states-of-america, uranium, usa, usgs, usgs-625581aed34e21f8276f488a, vertical-magnetic-gradient, webster-brook, webster-lake
Organization: Department of the Interior
U-Pb zircon data for igneous units related to mineralization in the eastern Yukon-Tanana upland, eastern Alaska

From 2017-2019, framework metallogenic studies were completed in the eastern Yukon-Tanana upland in eastern Alaska. Numerous previously undated plutons known or suspected to contain components of porphyry, epithermal, and intrusion-related gold systems and associated deposit types were sampled for age and zircon trace element determinations between the Black Mountain area and the Yukon border, north of the Tanana River and south of the Yukon River. A collection of 54 samples were collected by Douglas Kreiner (USGS, Alaska Science Center). Zircon grains were separated from each sample. The samples were examined by U-Pb analysis by laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) in a USGS laboratory in Denver, CO. The samples contain evidence of several discrete periods of magmatic activity, with concordant zircon dates that range from ca. 53.3-2727 Ma. The bulk of analyzed samples are between ca. 68-72 Ma. Other specific periods of magmatism based on zircon dates range from ca. 55 Ma, ca. 100-112 Ma, ca. 130 Ma, and ca. 180-211 Ma. The ca. 340-365 Ma dates are likely inherited from host rocks that were previously unidentified in the field area but are known in the regional framework geology. Archean and Proterozoic zircon dates are not common, but likely represent inheritance from sedimentary and metasedimentary protoliths from the region.

Tags: alaska, alaska-science-center, black-mountain, cretaceous, detrital-zircon, geochronology, geology-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center, gggsc, jurassic, la-icpms, laser-ablation-indictively-coupled-plasma-mass-spectrometry, microbeam-laboratory, mineral-resources-program, mrp, paleozoic, plutonic-rocks, radiometric-dating, sem-cathodoluminescence, tanana-river, th, thorium, u-pb, u-s-geological-survey, uranium, uranium-lead-analysis, usgs, usgs-6254aa87d34e21f8276f42f7, yukon, yukon-river, yukon-tanana-upland
Organization: Department of the Interior
Structure-from-Motion photos of bluffs, Miami Park, MI, July 19, 2021

Images were collected using a remotely piloted unoccupied aerial system over the bluffs of the eastern shore of Lake Michigan in Miami Park rural residential area, Allegan County, MI. The digital imagery was collected with the internal camera of a DJI Phantom 4 PRO PPK that was operated by the University of Toledo. on July 19, 2021. They cover an extent between south of Lakestone Dr. to the north and south of A St. to the south. Images were collected to monitor active bluff erosion in the area. The images are presented here in zipped files grouped by type of collection, nadir and oblique. The images were collected in .jpg format and include Exif metadata with GPS date, time, and latitude and longitude, copyright, keywords, and other fields. These files were used in structure-from-motion (SfM) processing to obtain georeferenced 3D data.

Tags: allegan-county, elevation, erosion, geology-minerals-energy-and-geophysics-science-center, geospatial-datasets, gmeg, image-collections, lake-michigan, mgs, miami-park, michigan-geological-survey, national-cooperative-geologic-mapping-program, ncgmp, remote-sensing, state-of-michigan, structure-from-motion, u-s-geological-survey, university-of-toledo, usgs, usgs-62547c73d34e21f8276f4267, ut
Organization: Department of the Interior
Imagery training dataset for the River Imagery Sensing (RISE) application

This data release contains time-lapse imagery taken at U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) stream gaging stations with associated hydrologic and meteorological data related to each image. These data are to help improve the development of models in detecting water elevation at a given stream gaging station. Images of the water surface and surroundings at USGS stream gaging stations were taken at varying time intervals ranging between every five minutes to an hour. Cameras used include trail cameras, web cameras, and the custom river imagery sensing (RISE) camera. Time-lapse images for each USGS stream gaging station are provided in compressed files (file extension .7z). These files are named in a format to identify the USGS stream gaging station’s site number and station name. Hydrologic and meteorological data including stage, discharge, gage height, water surface elevation (or level), precipitation, relative humidity, water and/or air temperature, dew point, air pressure, and other weather condition information associated with each image are provided in comma-separated values files (file extension .csv). These files are named for users to easily relate the time-lapse images provided in the compressed files to the associated data using the same file naming convention. The hydrologic and meteorological data associated to each image is not the same and varies for each stream gaging station.

Tags: camera, image, time-lapse, usgs-62547935d34e21f8276f425d
Organization: Department of the Interior