AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Greater sage-grouse adult and nest observations before and after wildfire in northwest Nevada (2008-2019)

Wildfire events are becoming more frequent and severe on a global scale. Rising temperatures, prolonged drought, and the presence of pyrophytic invasive grasses are contributing to the degradation of native vegetation communities. Within the Great Basin region of the Western United States, increasing wildfire frequency is transforming the ecosystem toward a higher degree of homogeneity, one dominated by invasive annual grasses and declining landscape productivity. Greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus; hereafter sage-grouse) are a species of conservation concern that rely on large tracts of structurally and functionally diverse sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) communities. Using a 12-year (2008-2019) telemetry dataset, we documented immediate impacts of wildfire on demographic rates of a population of sage-grouse that were exposed to two large wildfire events (Virginia Mountains Fire Complex - 2016; Long Valley Fire - 2017) near the border of California and Nevada. Spatiotemporal heterogeneity in demographic rates were accounted for using a Before-After Control-Impact Paired Series (BACIPS) study design.

Tags: biota, ecology, fires, great-basin, habitat-alteration-and-disturbance, nevada, shrubland-ecosystems, usgs-6479145bd34eac007b511d3f, vegetation, western-united-states
Organization: Department of the Interior
Chemistry data from leachates of hydraulic fracturing proppants collected from southeastern New Mexico, 2018-2019

Proppants used during hydraulic fracturing of oil and gas wells are manufactured to maximize petroleum yield by controlling the size, shape, density, and strength of the proppant material. The most common types of proppants are mined silica sand and manufactured ceramics, some of which are further modified with organic resin coatings to improve performance. Much of the work on the environmental and human health effects of proppant releases into the environment has focused on occupational silicosis, with little attention given to the potential effects from the organic coatings on these materials. This oversight is especially relevant in the context of dumping of unwanted proppant on the land surface, which has been a recurring problem on Bureau of Land Management lands in southeast New Mexico.
In this study, samples of hydraulic fracturing proppants dumped on the land surface in southeastern New Mexico were collected and leached with ASTM Type I water. The resulting leachates were analyzed for trace metals and organic constituents including reactive phenols, non-purgeable dissolved organic carbon, and fluorescent dissolve organic material.

Tags: bone-spring-limestone, chemical-analysis, environment, geochemistry, geoscientificinformation, hydraulic-fracturing, petroleum, usgs-6478fbcfd34eac007b50f088, wolfcamp-formation
Organization: Department of the Interior
Thalwegs at selected study sites in the Pacific Northwest, USA, May 2023

In May 2023, the U.S. Geological Survey provided training for bathymetric data acquisition and processing for the Iraq Ministry of Water Resources. The training included multibeam sonar theory, survey planning, data collection and processing, and dissemination. This data release presents the raw survey data, a digital elevation model (DEM), and a thalweg shapefile for three survey areas in the Pacific Northwest, USA (Mores Creek, Idaho; Columbia River, OR; Willamette River, OR). Additionally, metadata describes the processing steps, quality assurance and control, and an overall summary of each dataset. The bathymetry point cloud data were collected at selected study sites in the Pacific Northwest, U.S.A, May 2023 to produce a digital elevation model that was used to delineate a thalweg for each of the selected study sites. The DEM files were used to determine the best estimate of the location of the channel thalweg line for each selected study site. The thalweg is the lowest elevation along the longitudinal profile of the riverbed.

Tags: arcmap-pro, bathymetry, columbia-river, data-collection-tool-dct, digital-elevation-model-dem, elevation, geoscientificinformation, hypack, hysweep, id, idaho, inlandwaters, las, laz, lucky-peak-lake, mores-creek, norbit, or, oregon, pacific-northwest, pospac-mms, thalweg, usa, usgs-6478f876d34eac007b50f07d, willamette-river
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hawaiʻi Island ʻōpeʻapeʻa roost thermal video monitoring, 2020–2021

Hawaiian hoary bats ('ōpe'ape'a; Lasiurus semotus) were captured and tracked back to roosting locations on Hawaiʻi Island. Roosting bats were monitored by thermal video at 9 roost trees from 2020 to 2021. This data file includes data pertaining to thermal monitoring efforts including, location, nights sampled and rat presence.

Tags: bat-roost, bats, biota, endangered-species, hawaiian-hoary-bat, rat-predation, usgs-647ff229d34eac007b56a7be, wildlife-biology
Organization: Department of the Interior
Biological soil crust and vascular plant data from Horse Heaven Hills, Washington, measured in 1999 and remeasured in 2020

This dataset contains biocrust lichen and moss cover at 186 plots at Horse Heaven Hills in Washington, USA. These data were measured by Jeanne Ponzetti in 1999 and remeasured by Heather Root in 2020. In addition to the biocrust data, we include site data such as elevation, location, wildfire history, and cover classes of dominant plants, rock and soil.

Tags: biological-soil-crusts, biota, bromus-tectorum, cheatgrass, columbia-basin, environment, fires, horse-heaven-hills-washington, invasive-species, shrubland-ecosystems, usgs-6478dd88d34eac007b50ebf1
Organization: Department of the Interior
Attributes of Upper Mississippi River System contiguous forest areas - Pool 26

To support floodplain forest research and management actions on the Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS), contiguous forested areas in the UMRS floodplain were developed and a wide range of attributes were created that define basic ecosystem conditions within such forested areas. The data allows users to query on a set of attributes (e.g., size, shape, inundation characteristics, etc…) to visualize the distribution of various ecological conditions. In addition, the data allow for future data analyses of relationships among different ecological conditions and other data, such as animal and plant population distributions. This data set is based upon the 2020 land cover/land use data developed by the Upper Mississippi River Restoration Program Long Term Resource Monitoring element.

Tags: illinois, missouri, usgs-6478b6c8d34eac007b50e6ef
Organization: Department of the Interior
Attributes of Upper Mississippi River System contiguous forest areas - Pool 13

To support floodplain forest research and management actions on the Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS), contiguous forested areas in the UMRS floodplain were developed and a wide range of attributes were created that define basic ecosystem conditions within such forested areas. The data allows users to query on a set of attributes (e.g., size, shape, inundation characteristics, etc…) to visualize the distribution of various ecological conditions. In addition, the data allow for future data analyses of relationships among different ecological conditions and other data, such as animal and plant population distributions. This data set is based upon the 2020 land cover/land use data developed by the Upper Mississippi River Restoration Program Long Term Resource Monitoring element.

Tags: illinois, iowa, usgs-6478b69bd34eac007b50e6ed
Organization: Department of the Interior
Attributes of Upper Mississippi River System contiguous forest areas - Pool 8

To support floodplain forest research and management actions on the Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS), contiguous forested areas in the UMRS floodplain were developed and a wide range of attributes were created that define basic ecosystem conditions within such forested areas. The data allows users to query on a set of attributes (e.g., size, shape, inundation characteristics, etc…) to visualize the distribution of various ecological conditions. In addition, the data allow for future data analyses of relationships among different ecological conditions and other data, such as animal and plant population distributions. This data set is based upon the 2020 land cover/land use data developed by the Upper Mississippi River Restoration Program Long Term Resource Monitoring element.

Tags: minnesota, usgs-6478b676d34eac007b50e6ea, wisconsin
Organization: Department of the Interior
Attributes of Upper Mississippi River System contiguous forest areas - Pool 4

To support floodplain forest research and management actions on the Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS), contiguous forested areas in the UMRS floodplain were developed and a wide range of attributes were created that define basic ecosystem conditions within such forested areas. The data allows users to query on a set of attributes (e.g., size, shape, inundation characteristics, etc…) to visualize the distribution of various ecological conditions. In addition, the data allow for future data analyses of relationships among different ecological conditions and other data, such as animal and plant population distributions. This data set is based upon the 2020 land cover/land use data developed by the Upper Mississippi River Restoration Program Long Term Resource Monitoring element.

Tags: minnesota, usgs-6478b590d34eac007b50e6e5, wisconsin
Organization: Department of the Interior
Russian River Integrated Hydrologic Model (RRIHM): Wells

The Russian River Watershed (RRW) covers about 1300 square miles (without Santa Rosa Plain) of urban, agricultural, and forested lands in northern Sonoma County and southern Mendocino County, California. Communities in the RRW depend on a combination of Russian River water and groundwater to meet their water-supply demands. Water is used primarily for agricultural irrigation, municipal and private wells supply, and commercial uses - such as for wineries and recreation. Annual rainfall in the RRW is highly variable, making it prone to droughts and flooding from atmospheric river events. In order to better understand surface-water and groundwater issues, the USGS is creating a Coupled Ground-Water and Surface-Water Flow Model (GSFLOW; Markstrom and others, 2008) of the RRW. This model will include climate, geology, surface-water, groundwater, and land-use data.
This data release is part of the larger Russian River Integrated Hydrologic Model (RRIHM) community of data releases (https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/62ffdd40d34ed6dc55924a4b). It contains 4 shapefiles and a comma separated values (.csv) file. The data release includes municipal and industrial wells represented in the MODFLOW Multi-Node Wells package, along with rural domestic wells represented in the MODFLOW Wells package (Harbaugh, 2005; Konikow, L.F., et al., 2009)
Reference: 
Harbaugh, A.W., 2005, MODFLOW-2005, the U.S. Geological Survey modular ground-water model -- the Ground-Water Flow Process: U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods 6-A16.
https://doi.org/10.3133/tm6A16
Konikow, L.F., Hornberger, G.Z., Halford, K.J., and Hanson, R.T., 2009, Revised multi-node well (MNW2) package for MODFLOW ground-water flow model: U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods 6–A30, 67 p.

Tags: california, environment, hydrology, modeling, russian-river, united-states, usgs-6477e298d34eac007b50c5c2, water-resources, water-well
Organization: Department of the Interior
Bathymetry Point Clouds at selected study sites in the Pacific Northwest, USA, May 2023

In May 2023, the U.S. Geological Survey provided training for bathymetric data acquisition and processing for the Iraq Ministry of Water Resources. The training included multibeam sonar theory, survey planning, data collection and processing, and dissemination. This data release presents the raw survey data, a digital elevation model (DEM), and a thalweg shapefile for three survey areas in the Pacific Northwest, USA (Mores Creek, Idaho; Columbia River, OR; Willamette River, OR). Additionally, metadata describes the processing steps, quality assurance and control, and an overall summary of each dataset. The bathymetry point cloud data were collected at selected study sites in the Pacific Northwest, U.S.A, May 2023 to produce a digital elevation model that was used to delineate a thalweg for each of the selected study sites. These data were the first step in producing the thalweg at each site.

Tags: arcmap-pro, bathymetry, columbia-river, data-collection-tool-dct, digital-elevation-model-dem, elevation, geoscientificinformation, hypack, hysweep, id, idaho, inlandwaters, las, laz, lucky-peak-lake, mores-creek, norbit, or, oregon, pacific-northwest, pospac-mms, thalweg, usa, usgs-6478f6ffd34eac007b50f06d, willamette-river
Organization: Department of the Interior
Russian River Integrated Hydrologic Model (RRIHM): Model Grid Properties

The Russian River Watershed (RRW) covers about 1300 square miles (without Santa Rosa Plain) of urban, agricultural, and forested lands in northern Sonoma County and southern Mendocino County, California. Communities in the RRW depend on a combination of Russian River water and groundwater to meet their water-supply demands. Water is used primarily for agricultural irrigation, municipal and private wells supply, and commercial uses - such as for wineries and recreation. Annual rainfall in the RRW is highly variable, making it prone to droughts and flooding from atmospheric river events. In order to better understand surface-water and groundwater issues, the USGS is creating a Coupled Ground-Water and Surface-Water Flow Model (GSFLOW; Markstrom and others, 2008) of the RRW. This model will include climate, geology, surface-water, groundwater, and land-use data.
This data release is part of the larger Russian River Integrated Hydrologic Model (RRIHM) community of data releases (https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/62ffdd40d34ed6dc55924a4b). This is a shapefile of the Russian River Integrated Hydrologic Model (RRIHM) model grid. The attribute table specifies the active and inactive model grid cells in each of the three model layers. It also specifies the elevations of the top of the first model layer and the bottoms of all model layers. This information is used in the model to define the spatial extent and thickness of each of the model layers.

Tags: california, environment, hydrology, modeling, russian-river, united-states, usgs-6477e23cd34eac007b50c5bd, water-resources
Organization: Department of the Interior
Detections, Physical Captures, Water Quality, and Fish Health associated with Endangered Suckers in Three Net Pens in Upper Klamath Lake, 2020

To determine how initial length affects survival of captively-reared juvenile suckers, we introduced Passive Integrated Transponder (PIT) tagged juvenile suckers into three net pens in Upper Klamath Lake. The suckers originated from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Sucker Assisted Rearing Program in Klamath Falls, Oregon, which rears suckers collected as larvae in Upper Klamath Lake including Lost River sucker (Deltistes luxatus), shortnose sucker (Chasmistes brevirostris), and Klamath largescale sucker (Catostomus synderi). Suckers were monitored continuously by PIT antennas. These data contain all remote detections from the PIT antennas, all physical captures, water quality data associated with each net pen, and dates when damage to two of the net pens was first detected. The results from a diagnostic work-up following standard fish health methods of four moribund suckers  that were exhibiting fin hemorrhage and tail erosion during the study are also contained in these data.

Tags: farming, fish, lake-ecology, large-lakes, net-pen-rearing, upper-klamath, upper-klamath-lake, usgs-6477b827d34e3ac335bed036, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Thalweg determination for three rivers in the Pacific Northwest, USA, 2023

In May 2023, the U.S. Geological Survey provided training for bathymetric data acquisition and processing for the Iraq Ministry of Water Resources. The training included multibeam sonar theory, survey planning, data collection and processing, and dissemination. This data release presents the raw survey data, a digital elevation model (DEM), and a thalweg shapefile for three survey areas in the Pacific Northwest, USA (Mores Creek, Idaho; Columbia River, OR; Willamette River, OR). Additionally, metadata describes the processing steps, quality assurance and control, and an overall summary of each dataset. The bathymetry point cloud data were collected at selected study sites in the Pacific Northwest, U.S.A, May 2023 to produce a digital elevation model that was used to delineate a thalweg for each of the selected study sites. The bathymetry digital elevation models (DEM) were derived from point cloud data which were then used to determine the location of the channel thalweg.

Tags: arcmap-pro, bathymetry, columbia-river, data-collection-tool-dct, digital-elevation-model-dem, elevation, geoscientificinformation, hypack, hysweep, id, idaho, inlandwaters, las, laz, lucky-peak-lake, mores-creek, norbit, or, oregon, pacific-northwest, pospac-mms, thalweg, usa, usgs-6477af7bd34e3ac335bed021, willamette-river
Organization: Department of the Interior
Antibiotic and Antibiotic Resistance Signatures in Iowa Streams, 2019

Chemical and microbiological results, quality assurance and quality control, site location, and method information for surface water, bed sediment, and wastewater effluent collected from 34 stream locations across Iowa (United States).  Environmental samples were analyzed for a suite of 29 antibiotics, plated on selective media for 15 types of bacteria growth, and DNA was extracted from culture growth and used in downstream polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays for the detection of 24 antibiotic resistance genes.  Environmental field data were collected in-situ for water temperature (°C), specific conductivity (µs/cm), dissolved oxygen (mg/L), pH (standard units), and turbidity (FNU) using a multiparameter sonde and recorded in the National Water Information System (NWIS) (Table S2).  Stream discharge (ft3/s) and gage height (ft) values were estimated using available rating curves from adjacent USGS stream gages when available and relative flow was categorized by comparing discharge on the day of sample collection to discharge over the previous three to five years.  Samples were analyzed at U.S. Geological Survey laboratories: bacteria enumeration and growth and antibiotic resistance genes at the Michigan Bacteriological Research Laboratory and antibiotic concentrations at the Organic Geochemistry Research Laboratory.

Tags: antibiotic-resistance, antibiotics, bacteria, environment, environmental-health, human-health, iowa, sediment, united-states, usgs-64779a3ad34e3ac335becbd3, water, water-quality, wildlife-health
Organization: Department of the Interior
Puuhonua o Honaunau and Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Parks, carbon dioxide treatment and qPCR eDNA assays for eradicating and monitoring invasive fish in anchialine pools, limit of detection, 2019-2022

This data release documents sensitivity of quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) assays to detect environmental DNA (eDNA) from tilapia, western mosquito fish and guppies. These assays provide new tools for resource managers to monitor effectiveness of management efforts to remove invasive fish from anchialine pools in Hawaii and to also survey pools for presence and absence of invasive fish. The lab work was conducted during 2019-2022.

Tags: biota, environmental-dna, hawaii-island, invasive-fish, koloko-honokohau-national-historical-park, puuhonua-o-honaunau-national-historical-park, quantitative-pcr, usgs-647eb30ed34eac007b55ee30
Organization: Department of the Interior
Median estimates of raven density in California, Nevada, and Idaho (2012 - 2019)

Rasters representing median raven density estimates, calculated from approximately 28,000 raven point count surveys conducted between 2009 and 2019. Estimates were the result of a Bayesian hierarchical distance sampling model, using environmental covariates on detection and abundance.

Tags: anthropogenic-subsidies, bi-state, biota, california, conservation-planning, decision-support, density-surface-model, distance-sampling, ecology, great-basin, human-impacts, idaho, native-species, nest-survival, nevada, population-decline, predation, predator-prey, sagebrush, species-distribution, species-of-concern, usgs-64890951d34ef77fcafe4498, wildlife
Organization: Department of the Interior
Early Estimates of Exotic Annual Grass (EAG) in the Sagebrush Biome, USA, 2023 (ver. 5.0, May 2023)

These datasets provide early estimates of 2023 fractional cover for exotic annual grass (EAG) species and one native perennial grass species on a weekly basis from May to early July. The EAG estimates are developed typically within 7-13 days of the latest satellite observation used for that version. Each weekly release contains four fractional cover maps along with their corresponding confidence maps for: 1) a group of 16 species of EAGs, 2) cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum); 3) medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae); and 4) 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 28,901 AIM plots from years 2016–2022 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 grassland/herbaceous by the 2019 National Land Cover Database at or below 2350-m elevation.
Note:
Maps of May 1st, 2023 were developed using satellite observation data no later than April 28.
Maps of May 8th, 2023 were developed using satellite observation data no later than May 05.
Maps of May 15th, 2023 were developed using satellite observation data no later than May 11.
Maps of May 22nd, 2023 were developed using satellite observation data no later than May 19.
Maps of May 29th, 2023 were developed using satellite observation data no later than May 26.
Releases: 
First Release: May 01, 2023 (ver. 1.0)
Revised: May 08, 2023 (ver. 2.0)
Revised: May 15, 2023 (ver. 3.0)
Revised: May 22, 2023 (ver. 4.0)
Revised: May 29, 2023 (ver. 5.0)

Tags: annual-grass, annual-herbaceous, arizona, california, cheatgrass, colorado, exotic, 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-64775a68d34e3ac335bec743, utah, washington, western-united-states, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior