AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Winter Ranges of Mule Deer in the Modoc Interstate Herd in California

The Modoc Interstate mule deer  (Odocoileus hemionus) herd migrates from a winter range near Clear Lake Reservoir in Modoc County, California north into Oregon in Klamath and Lake counties for the summer. Much of this herd likely resides in Oregon year-round as California population estimates (2000-3000) are lower than Oregon estimates (~15,000). Female mule deer were captured in Modoc in February 2017 and equipped with satellite collars manufactured by Lotek. Additional GPS data was collected between 1999-2001 from deer captured in 1999, and was included to supplement the small sample size of the 2017-2020 dataset. The data was collected with a priority to ascertain general distributions, survival, and home range, and not to model migration routes, hence the low sample sizes. Threats to this herd include increased fire frequency and conversion to non-native annual grass. Moreover, increased juniper woodlands has resulted in a loss of forbs, grass, and shrubs.
These data provide the location of winter ranges for mule deerin the Modoc Interstate population in California and Oregon. They were developed from 32 winter sequences collected from a sample size of 20 animals comprising GPS locations collected every 8-12 hours.

Tags: animal-behavior, california, economy, environment, migration, migration-organisms, migratory-species, oregon, united-states, usgs-620e4b06d34e6c7e83baa394
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital data set of water-level changes in the High Plains aquifer in parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming, 1980 to 1996

This data set consists of digital water-level-change contours
for the High Plains aquifer in the Central United States, 1980 to 1996.  The
High Plains aquifer extends from south of 32 degrees to almost 44 degrees north
latitude and from 96 degrees 30 minutes to 104 degrees west longitude.  The aquifer
underlies about 174,000 square miles in parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska,
New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming.
		
This digital data set was created from 5,429 wells measured in both 1980 and
1996.  The water-level-change contours were drawn manually on mylar.
The contours were converted into a digital map at a scale of 1:1,000,000.  The data
should not be used at scales larger than 1:1,000,000.

Tags: aquifers, environment, geoscientificinformation, great-plains-region, ground-water, groundwater, high-plains, high-plains-aquifer, inlandwaters, ogallala-aquifer, ogallala-formation, usgs-e64eae5a-d5be-47af-af1b-f79ad418b9d1, water-level-change, western-u-s
Organization: Department of the Interior
Probable suitable habitat for Owens Valley checkerbloom (Sidalcea covillei) in the California desert

Here we present the map of probable suitable habitat for Owens Valley checkerbloom (Sidalcea covillei). The data indicate both how many models predicted each location to be suitable for the species, and the average standardized habitat suitability score for each location.Data are presented at a spatial resolution of 10 m pixels, which was required to harmonize the original model inputs. However, maps of suitable habitat should be used at a resolution no smaller than 360 m (i.e., 36 pixels x 36 pixels), which corresponds with the resolution of the coarsest model input. This product can be used to inform future conservation, planning, and management actions in the California desert. Complete methods and other additional information are provided in the article associated with this data release (Reese and others, 2019).

Tags: biota, species-distribution-model, usgs-5c9a38c5e4b0b8a7f62a5e1d
Organization: Department of the Interior
Chance of damage from an earthquake in 2016 based on the average of horizontal spectral response acceleration for 1.0-second period and peak ground acceleration

A one-year seismic hazard forecast for the Central and Eastern United States, based on induced and natural  earthquakes, has been produced by the U.S. Geological Survey.  The model assumes that earthquake rates calculated from several different time windows will remain relatively stationary and can be used to forecast earthquake hazard and damage intensity for the year 2016. This assessment is the first step in developing an operational earthquake forecast for the CEUS, and the analysis could be revised with updated seismicity and model parameters. Consensus input models consider alternative earthquake catalog durations, smoothing parameters, maximum magnitudes, and ground motion estimates, and represent uncertainties in earthquake occurrence and diversity of opinion in the science community.  Near some areas of active induced earthquakes, hazard is higher than in the 2014 USGS National Seismic Hazard Model (NHSM) by more than a factor of 3; the 2014 NHSM did not consider induced earthquakes. In some areas, previously observed induced earthquakes have stopped, so the seismic hazard reverts back to the 2014 NSHM.
This data set represents the results of calculations of hazard curves for a grid of points with a spacing of 0.05 degrees in latitude and longitude.  It represents the chance of experiencing damaging earthquakes for fixed ground shaking levels that corresponds with MMI = VI.  The values are obtained by averaging the probability of experiencing MMI = VI based on a peak ground acceleration value of 0.1155 g for site class D, and the probability of experiencing MMI = VI based on 1.0-second spectral acceleration value of 0.102 g for site class D.  The data are for the Western United States and are based on the long-term 2014 National Seismic Hazard Model.

Tags: arizona, california, colorado, earthquake, hazard, idaho, induced, montana, natural, nevada, new-mexico, oregon, seismic, texas, united-states, usa, usgs-571fa016e4b071321fe56c97, utah, washington, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Effects of estrogens and atrazine on functional immune responses of largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides)

Disease outbreaks, skin lesions, fish kill events, and reproductive abnormalities have been observed in wild populations of bass in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Occurrence of synthetic and natural hormones from wastewater treatment plants and livestock operations, pesticides from agricultural lands, and phytoestrogens from cover crops have been implicated as potential causes of these adverse effects. Late summer to fall is the period of early gonad recrudescence in adult bass when spermatogenesis and oogenesis begin for the upcoming spawning event in spring. Our objective was to assess whether early gonad recrudescence was a period of sensitivity for inducing immunomodulation. Adult largemouth bass (LMB; Micropterus salmoides) were exposed in outdoor pond mesocosms from post-spawning (July) through early gonad recrudescence (November) to either a model estrogen, 17alpha-ethinylestradiol (EE2; 2.4 ng/L), a mixture of endocrine-active substances commonly detected in the Chesapeake Bay watershed (MIX; 5.4 µg atrazine/L and 47.9 ng estrone/L), or a solvent control. Immune endpoints including mitogenesis and respiratory burst were assessed in fish sampled during December and April.

Tags: environmental-health, estrogenic-endocrine-disruption, immunology, lakes, largemouth-bass, micropterus-salmoides, rivers, streams, usgs-645900dbd34eefd5da884e01
Organization: Department of the Interior
Fish species abundance data for selected streams of the Potomac River basin

This Data Release contains data on fish species abundance for selected streams of the Potomac River basin in eastern North America. This dataset supports analysis of karst streams in the Chesapeake Bay headwaters region and was funded by USGS Chesapeake Bay studies.

Tags: biota, fish, usgs-635815b7d34ebe4425032057
Organization: Department of the Interior
Magnetotelluric data from Gabbs Valley, Nevada, 2017, station gv20

This dataset consists of 24 magnetotelluric (MT) stations collected in 2017 in Gabbs Valley, Nevada. The U.S. Geological Survey acquired these data as part of Phase 2 of the Nevada Play Fairway Analysis Project led by the University of Nevada at Reno and funded by the Department of Energy (grant number DE-EE0006731) with support from the U.S. Geological Survey's Energy Program.

Tags: apparent-resistivity, cenozoic, earth-magnetic-field, electromagnetic-surveying, energy-resources-program, erp, gabbs-valley, gabbs-valley-range, geology-minerals-energy-and-geophysics-science-center, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, gmegsc, impedance, magnetotelluric-surveying, magnetotellurics, mesozoic, mineral-county, mt, nevada, phase, time-series, tipper, usgs-5ca6d2b2e4b0c3b0064c2cf9
Organization: Department of the Interior
Failed Brown Treesnake bait cartridges from an aerially application in Guam, 2018

The dataset contains 6 columns of data collected during line transect surveys (Line) that evaluated bait cartridge efficacy for Brown Treesnake control on Guam. Two-person teams recorded all bait cartridges observed while walking the center line of transects in the Habitat Management Unit (HMU). Perpendicular distance (DIST (m)) to cartridges from center line was measured to the nearest 0.005 meters.

Tags: biota, brown-treesnake, control-tool, distance-sampling, usgs-5dcf3c19e4b06957976277e3
Organization: Department of the Interior
Processed continuous resistivity profiling data collected in the Indian River Bay, Delaware, on April 14, 2010, on U.S. Geological Survey Field Activity 2010-006-FA

A geophysical survey to delineate the fresh-saline groundwater interface and associated sub-bottom sedimentary structures beneath Indian River Bay, Delaware, was carried out in April 2010. This included surveying at higher spatial resolution in the vicinity of a study site at Holts Landing, where intensive onshore and offshore studies were subsequently completed. The total length of continuous resistivity profiling (CRP) survey lines was 145 kilometers (km), with 36 km of chirp seismic lines surveyed around the perimeter of the bay. Medium-resolution CRP surveying was performed using a 50-meter streamer in a bay-wide grid. Results of the surveying and data inversion showed the presence of many buried paleochannels beneath Indian River Bay that generally extended perpendicular from the shoreline in areas of modern tributaries, tidal creeks, and marshes. An especially wide and deep paleochannel system was imaged in the southeastern part of the bay near White Creek. Many paleochannels also had high-resistivity anomalies corresponding to low-salinity groundwater plumes associated with them, likely due to the presence of fine-grained estuarine mud and peats in the channel fills that act as submarine confining units. Where present, these units allow plumes of low-salinity groundwater that was recharged onshore to move beyond the shoreline, creating a complex fresh-saline groundwater interface in the subsurface. The properties of this interface are important considerations in construction of accurate coastal groundwater flow models. These models are required to help predict how nutrient-rich groundwater, recharged in agricultural watersheds such as this one, makes its way into coastal bays and impacts surface water quality and estuarine ecosystems. For more information on the survey conducted for this project, see https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2010-006-FA.

Tags: agi-supersting, bathymetry, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, continuous-resistivity-profiling, crp, delaware, elevation, field-activity-number-2010-006-fa, geoscientificinformation, groundwater, holts-landing, image-collections, indian-river-bay, indian-river-inlet, info-bank-id-k-6-10-dl, location, navigation, north-america, north-atlantic-ocean, oceans, open-file-report-2011-1039, piney-neck, processed-data, r-v-knob, rosedale-beach, submarine-groundwater, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-56fb257b-2063-40b2-95b3-85587bdd80a8, water-temperature, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Surveys and monitoring of coastal cactus wren in southern San Diego County, 2020

Data presented are results of surveys in 2020 for San Diego Cactus Wren (Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus) in southern San Diego County. Surveys were conducted at 378 plots. Plots were surveyed twice in 2020 and the number, age (adult or juvenile), banding status (color banded or not), and breeding status (paired, unpaired, or unknown) of all wrens recorded. Habitat covariate data were collected including amount of dead and stressed cactus in the plot, percent cover of bare ground, and the dominant and percent cover of invasive species.

Tags: animal-and-plant-census, biota, birds, california, drought, habitats, monitoring, productivity, san-diego, survey, survival, usgs-6307e80fd34e3b967a8c1579, vocalization-methods
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital Surface Models (DSM) from UAS surveys of the beaches at Fort Stevens State Park, OR, and Cape Disappointment State Park, WA, August 2017

This portion of the data release presents digital surface models (DSM) of the ocean beach at Fort Stevens State Park, OR, and Benson Beach at Cape Disappointment State Park, WA. The DSMs have resolutions of 10 centimeters per pixel and were derived from structure-from-motion (SfM) processing of aerial imagery collected with unoccupied aerial systems (UAS) during low tides on 7 and 8 August 2017. Unlike a digital elevation model (DEM), the DSMs represent the elevation of the highest object within the bounds of a cell. Vegetation, buildings, and other objects have not been removed from the data. The raw imagery used to create the DSMs was acquired with a UAS fitted with a Ricoh GR II digital camera featuring a global shutter. The UAS was flown on pre-programmed autonomous flight lines spaced to provide approximately 70 percent overlap between images from adjacent lines. The camera was triggered at 1 Hz using a built-in intervalometer. The raw imagery was geotagged using positions from the UAS onboard single-frequency autonomous GPS. Survey control was established using temporary ground control points (GCPs) consisting of a combination of small square tarps with black-and-white cross patterns and temporary chalk marks placed on the ground. The GCP positions were measured using dual-frequency post-processed kinematic (PPK) GPS with corrections referenced to a static base station operating nearby. The images and GCP positions were used for structure-from-motion (SfM) processing to create topographic point clouds, high-resolution orthomosaic images, and DSMs. The DSMs, which are presented in this portion of the data release have been formatted as cloud optimized GeoTIFFs with internal overviews and masks to facilitate cloud-based queries and display.

Tags: aerial-and-satellite-photography, aerial-photography, altimetry, bathymetry-and-elevation, benson-beach, cape-disappointment, chmrp, clatsop-county, clatsop-spit, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, columbia-river, elevation, fort-stevens, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, image-mosaics, north-head, orthophotography, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pacific-county, pacific-ocean, pcmsc, photography, remote-sensing, state-of-oregon, state-of-washington, structure-from-motion, topographic-maps, topography, u-s-geological-survey, uas, unmanned-aerial-system, usgs, usgs-63af854bd34e92aad3ca60f3
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, and 2016 Site 0200 land-water matrix

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 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. This dataset consists of a matrix of four land-water products (2005, 2008, 2012, and 2016).  The resulting matrix has 16 possible classes defined by the combination of land and water categories on those four dates.

Tags: alteration-of-wetland-habitats, cartography, coastal, crms, doqq, emergent-wetland, forested-wetland, geographic-information-system, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-water, louisiana, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, scrub-shrub-wetland, state-of-louisiana, usgs-5b6319f8e4b006a11f71774a, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetlands
Organization: Department of the Interior
Characterization of the Impact of Agricultural Conservation Practices on Natural Resource Concerns in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) provides funding and technical assistance for the implementation of practices that enable people to conserve, maintain, or improve soil, water, and related natural resources. NRCS conservation practices, or best management practices, relate the conservation practices to conservation practice physical effects (CPPE). Physical effects are listed in the data and purpose and include effects such as nutrients and pesticides transported to surface and/or groundwater. The CPPE is published in the NRCS Field Office Technical Guide and is listed in the sources section. NRCS's CPPE includes a limited set of practices. All practices that do not have an NRCS-assigned CPPE were evaluated using NRCS practice standard criteria and required enhancements to determine the most comparable practice that with an assigned CPPE. The CPPE categories are ranked on a scale of -5 to +5. These rankings are categorical and indicate a range from substantial worsening (-5) to substantial improvement (+5) with zero indicating no effect. NRCS conservation practice data are available to USGS researchers via a data sharing agreement.

Tags: best-management-practices, chesapeake-bay-watershed, conservation-practice-physical-effects, conservation-practices, delaware, environment, farming, maryland, new-york, pennsylvania, pesticides, usgs-62e81bd7d34e749ac04cba22, virginia, water-quality, west-virginia
Organization: Department of the Interior
National Water Model V2.0 retrospective for selected NWIS gage locations (1993-2018)

This dataset contains modeled hourly streamflow in cubic meters per second at each of about eighteen thousand selected operational and water-quality stream gage locations. It was assembled from publicly available retrospective V2.0 National Water Model outputs. The streamflow variable was extracted from model output files and the data were reshaped to optimize read performance. The stream gage locations were derived from several ongoing USGS project gages for evaluation of streamflow, water quality, and real-time monitoring, however only National Water Model identifiers and NHDPlus catchment outlet locations are used to identify model results. Relationships between NWIS gages and National Water Model prediction locations were not reviewed for release at the time of publication of this data. Please contact the author for up to date information. All processing resources used for data reformatting and extraction can be found in this repository: https://code.usgs.gov/water/nwm_subset. This supporting code also contains Docker images that are capable of processing real-time National Water Model outputs into similar formats as this dataset and provide data services via the THREDDS Data Server. The retrospective is available in one NetCDF file. These data conform to the NetCDF-CF Discrete Sampling Geometry conventions.
The retrospective data are available from public cloud data outlets (Such as: https://registry.opendata.aws/nwm-archive/). More information on these data are available from the National Water Model v2 release notes here. https://www.weather.gov/media/notification/scn19-42natl_water_model.pdf. The contents of that pdf have been archived with this dataset.

Tags: forecast, inlandwaters, prediction, streamflow, usgs-5e5d8a84e4b01d50924f2dea
Organization: Department of the Interior
Response of juvenile mussels and amphipods to metal concentrations in water and sediment of streams draining the Tri-State Mining District, Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma, USA- H. azteca and L. siliquoidea in long term exposures

This data release includes data from laboratory bioassay sediment exposures to Lampsilis siliquoidea and Hyallela azteca. Sediment was collected from streams and rivers within the Tri-State Mining District (TSMD).  Endpoints include survival, reproduction and growth, metal concentrations, and various water quality parameters collected during the exposures

Tags: bioassays, bioavailablility, biota, chronic-toxicity, dissolved-metals, heavy-metals, kansas, metals-toxicity, mining-hazards, missouri, oklahoma, toxicity, toxicity-testing, tri-state-mining-distict, usgs-631b5579d34e71c6d67a23b6, water-chemistry, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Wind rose plots for the volcano: 357150  Puyehue-Cordon Caulle

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-58d01815e4b0236b68f532df, volcanic-ash, volcanic-eruption-forecasting, wind
Organization: Department of the Interior