AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Argos Satellite Tracking Data for Bar-tailed Godwits (Limosa lapponica) - 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 satellite transmitters attached to 63 Bar-tailed Godwits at multiple sites across their annual range, 2005-2010. 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: alaska, animal-tracking, animals-vertebrates, annual-cycle, argos, australia, bar-tailed-godwit, biota, birds, breeding-sites, capture-recapture-studies, china, coastal-ecosystems, environment, limosa-lapponica, marine-ecosystems, migratory-birds, migratory-rates-routes, migratory-species, national-petroleum-reserve-alaska, new-zealand, non-breeding-range, npr-a, ornithology, overwintering, platform-transmitter-terminal, ptt, russia, satellite-transmitter, seasonal-distribution, seasonal-movement, species-life-history, tagging-devices, telemetry, tracking-equipment, usgs-asc571, waders-gulls-auks-and-allies, wildlife, yukon-delta, yukon-delta-national-wildlife-refuge, yukon-kuskokwim-river-delta
Organization: Department of the Interior
Nearshore wave time-series: CMIP6 historical period 1979-2014 - U.S. Canada border to Norton Sound, Alaska

Modeled wave time series from a downscaled wave data base (DWDB) are presented for the period 1979 to 2014, for locations from the U.S. Canada border to the southern boundary of Norton Sound along the approximate 5 and 10 m isobaths. The model boundary conditions were determined from wave time-series computed with a global WAVEWATCHIII (WWIII) model (Erikson and others, 2024) and wind conditions, forced with models from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) historical period.
Wave data are provided for four CMIP6 models (see Process Description for details) from the HighResMIP project. Outputs include three-hourly nearshore significant wave heights (Hs), mean wave periods (Tm01) and mean wave directions (Dm) for 8485 (5 m isobath) and 8232 (10 m isobath) locations. Data are available as netCDF files and are packaged for the Beaufort Sea region from the U.S. Canada border to Nuwuk (Point Barrow), for the Chukchi Sea region from Nuwuk to Kotzebue Sound and from Kotzebue Sound to the Bering Strait, and from the Bering Strait to Norton Sound. The methods used to create this dataset are described in detail in Engelstad and others, 2024.

Tags: beaufort-sea, bering-strait, chukchi-sea, climate-change, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, coastal-processes, distributions, extreme-weather, geoscientificinformation, hazards-planning, kotzebue-sound, norton-sound, numerical-modeling, nuwuk, ocean-waves, ocean-winds, oceans, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, point-barrow, predictions, state-of-alaska, storms, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-bde80e6c-a351-4e69-8067-9f1870b75e97, waves, wind
Organization: Department of the Interior
Argos Satellite Tracking Data for Bar-tailed Godwits (Limosa lapponica) - 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 satellite transmitters attached to 63 Bar-tailed Godwits at multiple sites across their annual range, 2005-2010. 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: alaska, animal-tracking, animals-vertebrates, annual-cycle, argos, australia, bar-tailed-godwit, biota, birds, breeding-sites, capture-recapture-studies, china, coastal-ecosystems, environment, limosa-lapponica, marine-ecosystems, migratory-birds, migratory-rates-routes, migratory-species, national-petroleum-reserve-alaska, new-zealand, non-breeding-range, npr-a, ornithology, overwintering, platform-transmitter-terminal, ptt, russia, satellite-transmitter, seasonal-distribution, seasonal-movement, species-life-history, tagging-devices, telemetry, tracking-equipment, usgs-asc572, waders-gulls-auks-and-allies, wildlife, yukon-delta, yukon-delta-national-wildlife-refuge, yukon-kuskokwim-river-delta
Organization: Department of the Interior
Reef-census data from Buck Island Reef

In July of 2016, Florida Institute of Technology researchers, in collaboration with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), conducted reef-census surveys at 54 sites around Buck Island Reef National Monument, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. The sites are divided across two reef sectors (North and South) and three reef habitats (fore reef, reef crest, and back reef). The surveys provided data on the percent coverage of corals and other benthic taxa, and abundance of bioeroding parrotfishes and urchins.

Tags: animal-and-plant-census, benthos, buck-island, buck-island-reef-national-monument, caribbean-islands, coelenterates, ecology, erosion, geoscientificinformation, oceans, reef-ecosystems, saint-croix, saint-croix-island, underwater-photography, united-states-virgin-islands, usgs-6cb4d7dc-e86d-45b8-96f5-bbfef78d3a32, virgin-islands-of-the-united-states
Organization: Department of the Interior
Selected Peak-Flow Special Conditions for USGS Streamgages in Alaska

This data package documents selected special conditions affecting the magnitude of peak flows at streamgages in Alaska. The data consist of a table of special conditions for selected peak flows and a table of data sources. This dataset verifies the basis for assignment of peak-flow qualification codes in the USGS National Water Information System (NWIS; https://doi.org/10.5066/F7P55KJN) to resolve ambiguity arising from the limited qualification codes available for special conditions. For peak flows assigned a code 3 or 9 in the NWIS peak-flow database, the special conditions forming the basis for code assignment were (1) snowmelt or (2) a sudden release of water. Subcategories of sudden releases of water included glacier dammed lake outburst, glacier and debris dammed lake outburst, sediment dammed lake outburst, mass failure/lake outburst, landslide debris dam breakup, beaver dam breakup, natural flow diversion, or subsidence from detonation. Data sources used to verify the basis for the codes included reports, online data, and USGS streamgaging notes.

Tags: discharge-flow, floods, hydrographic-datasets, hydrology, inlandwaters, rivers-streams, terrestrial-hydrosphere, time-series-datasets, usgs-asc573
Organization: Department of the Interior
GPS Location Data from Polar Bears (Ursus maritimus) Instrumented on Land, Western Hudson Bay, Canada, 2019-2022

This dataset is one table with GPS locations collected by satellite-linked GPS receivers on collars (Vertex Plus collar with camera option, Vectronic Aerospace GmbH, Berlin, Germany) attached to 20 polar bears that were instrumented on land near Churchill, Manitoba, Canada for 19 - 23 days in 2019, 2021, and 2022.

Tags: animal-behavior, animals-vertebrates, bears, bioenergetics, biogeography, biota, canada, carnivores, coastal-ecosystems, environment, hudson-bay, mammals, marine-ecosystems, marine-mammals, metabolism, polar-bear, species-life-history, ursus-maritimus, use-feeding-habitat, usgs-asc575, wildlife
Organization: Department of the Interior
Acoustic Doppler current profiler raw measurements on the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers, 2000-2016, Columbia Environmental Research Center

Between the years 2000 and 2016, scientists and technicians from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Columbia Environmental Research Center (CERC) have collected over 400 field-days worth of acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) measurements on the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers, primarily for the purposes of assessing physical aquatic habitat for the pallid sturgeon. Scientists and technicians collected data using boat-mounted Teledyne Rio Grande ADCPs, which were processed using customized scripting tools and archived in standardized formats. To assess longitudinal variability in depth and velocity distributions along the Missouri River, as well as compare the Missouri River to its unaltered analog, the Yellowstone River, we compiled the collected datasets into a single comma-separated value (csv) file using a series of data-processing scripts written in Python. To allow for the comparison of measurements collected only within a specific window of flow exceedance, we conducted geospatial analyses to attribute each ADCP measurement by a discharge from the most relevant USGS gage location (with the most relevant gage location being the gage located between the same major tributaries as the measurement, even if it was not the closest spatially), and assigned each measurement a flow exceedance percentile based on the relevant gage's record between 2000 and 2016. We also conducted general quality control on the data, discarding any ADCP returns where the ADCP measured a depth-averaged velocity greater than 3 meters per second or a depth greater than 16 meters; these values were considered to be an approximate upper bounds for realistic values on the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers. The presented csv file lists individual ADCP bins for all measurements that have been archived between 2000 and 2016 by CERC scientists along with their three-dimensional velocity components, depth-averaged velocity magnitude for a given ADCP return, average channel depth for a given ADCP return (computed from four ADCP beams), and fields to classify the data by river location and flow exceedance.

Tags: acoustic-doppler-current-profiling, inlandwaters, missouri-river, river-systems, state-of-iowa, state-of-kansas, state-of-missouri, state-of-montana, state-of-nebraska, state-of-north-dakota, state-of-south-dakota, usgs-58627f45e4b0cd2dabe7bc2f, yellowstone-river
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hawaiʻi Island ʻōpeʻapeʻa transmitter retention, 2018-2021

Hawaiian hoary bats ('ōpe'ape'a; Lasiurus semotus) were captured at 23 sites on Hawaiʻi Island from May 2018 through August 2021. Radio transmitters were affixed to captured bats and, when possible, radio telemetry was used to locate bats in trees or forest stands used for day-roosts. Repeated visits to confirm bat presence were conducted until radio-tagged bats were no longer detected. Of the total 148 captured bats we affixed 131 with radio transmitters and attempted to relocate 127 (38 female; 89 male; 120 adult; 7 juvenile) on subsequent days of tracking. Radio signals were not detected for 36 bats (6 female; 30 male). Of the 91 bats (32 female; 59 male) relocated, males retained transmitters longer than females with a mean low estimate of 9 ± 6 days for males and 6 ± 4 days for females (time from capture to the last day a signal was confirmed). This data file includes data related to dates of capture and subsequent tracking effort, sex and age of captured individuals, and tracking methods.

Tags: bats, biota, hawaiian-hoary-bat, radio-transmitter-retention, telemetry, usgs-647e7409d34eac007b55edb7, wildlife-population-management
Organization: Department of the Interior
SVAN1M.TIF - Point Agruello (South Vandenberg Reserve) sidescan sonar backscatter image in the Nearshore Benthic Habitat Mapping Project S. California map series. (UTM 10N, NAD83)

The sidescan sonar image of the nearshore seafloor (0 to 100 m water depths) of the Big Sycamore reserve area was mosaicked from data collected in 1998.  A Klein 2000 sidescan system was used for geophysical surveying. A Triton Elics Isis brand side-scan data recording system was used on the cruise.  The 1998 survey was navigated with a Leica Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS) which provided a ship position with accuracy of 1-5 m in DGPS mode. At times during the cruise differential signal was interrupted. In non-differential mode, the receiver provided a position with 30-50 m accuracy. A KVH Industries Inc. azimuth digital gyro-compass provided ship headings with 0.5 degree accuracy. Navigation data were recorded using Yo-Nav version 1.19 (Gann, 1992). The sidescan fish was towed approximately 30 m above the seafloor. The distance of the fish behind the ship was not known during this survey and must be estimated when the data are processed in order to produce the sidescan image mosaics.  The resolution of the processed data mosaics is 0.2 m.  The data are presented here at a resolution of 1 m.  This is one of a collection of digital files of a geographic information system of spatially referenced data related to the USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program Nearshore Benthic Habitat Mapping Project.  See &lt;http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/nearshorehab&gt; for more information.

Tags: ca, california, channel-islands-national-marine-sanctuary, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, coastal-geology, field-activity-identifier-b-2-99-sc, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, geotiff, grey-scale-image, habitat-mapping, habitats, image-mosaics, imagerybasemapsearthcover, isis, klein, marine-geology, marine-geophysics, mips, nearshore-benthic-habitat, north-pacific-ocean, northern-pacific-ocean, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, point-arguello, r-v-ballena, remote-sensing-image, santa-barbara, sea-floor-acoustic-reflectivity, sea-floor-characteristics, seafloor-mapping, sidescan-sonar, south-vandenberg-reserve, southern-california, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usa, usgs, usgs-96b1c9ff-d787-4d30-8f50-555b3daa5231, vandenberg-state-marine-recreation-management-area, ventura, west-coast
Organization: Department of the Interior
LANDFIRE Remap Fuel Vegetation Cover (FVC) HI

The LANDFIRE (LF) Remap Fuel Vegetation Cover (FVC) represents a modified pre-disturbance version of the Existing Vegetation Cover (EVC) product from previous LF versions. LF Remap EVC is mapped as continuous estimates of canopy cover for tree, shrub, and herbaceous lifeforms with a potential range from 10% to 100%. To translate continuous EVC values into fuel model assignments, EVC values are binned to correspond with the bins from previous LF versions. FVC leverages fuel transition assignments related to disturbed areas by re-establishing pre-disturbance vegetation and is developed using the full suite of LF vegetation releases, plus the most recent 10 years of disturbance data. FVC is a capable fuels product that calculates Time Since Disturbance (TSD) assignments for disturbed areas using an “effective year." For example, year 2020 fuels may be calculated for the year 2020. This new process considers all the existing disturbances included in LF Remap and adjusts the TSD for these to the effective year (2020 in this example), making the products "2020 capable fuels." More information about capable fuels can be found at https://www.landfire.gov/lf_remap.php.

Tags: biota, evc, existing-vegetation-cover, fires, fuel-vegetation-cover, fvc, geographic-information-systems, geospatial-datasets, hawaii, hazard-preparedness, hi, image-collections, imagerybasemapsearthcover, landfire-2016, landfire-remap, oconus, raster-digital-data, remote-sensing, u-s-forest-service-usfs, u-s-geological-survey-usgs, united-states, us, usgs-fb82254d-f5fc-4109-ae7b-12a9e1c26397
Organization: Department of the Interior
DS926 Digital surfaces and thicknesses of selected hydrogeologic units of the Floridan aquifer system in Florida and parts of Georgia, Alabama, and South Carolina -- Extent of the low-permeable areas of the Floridan aquifer system in the Gulf Trough

Digital surfaces and thicknesses of selected hydrogeologic units of the Floridan aquifer system 
were developed to define an updated hydrogeologic framework as part of the U.S. Geological 
Survey Groundwater Resources Program. This feature class contains low permeability areas 
of the Gulf Trough determined from well data provided by the Georgia Environmental Protection 
Division Agricultural Permitting Unit

Tags: alabama, contour, environment, fas, florida, floridan-aquifer-system, geology, georgia, geoscientificinformation, hydrogeology, inlandwaters, regional-groundwater-availability-study, south-carolina, stratigraphy, thickness, united-states-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-1226f045-f846-4583-bcbd-4dddbf9d639c
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital Shoreline Analysis System version 4.3 transects and long-term linear regression shoreline change statistics for all data available within the South Shore coastal region from Hewitts Cove in Hingham to the Cape Cod Canal in Sandwich (SouthShore_transects_rates_LTw.shp)

Due to continued coastal population growth and increased threats of erosion, current data on trends and rates of shoreline movement are required to inform shoreline and floodplain management. The Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management launched the Shoreline Change Project in 1989 to identify erosion-prone areas of the coast. In 2001, a 1994 shoreline was added to calculate both long- and short-term shoreline change rates at 40-meter intervals along ocean-facing sections of the Massachusetts coast.
The Coastal and Marine Geology Program of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management, has compiled reliable historical shoreline data along open-facing sections of the Massachusetts coast under the Massachusetts Shoreline Change Mapping and Analysis Project 2013 Update. Two oceanfront shorelines for Massachusetts (approximately 1,800 km) were (1) delineated using 2008/09 color aerial orthoimagery, and (2) extracted from topographic LIDAR datasets (2007) obtained from NOAA's Ocean Service, Coastal Services Center. The new shorelines were integrated with existing Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management and USGS historical shoreline data in order to compute long- and short-term rates using the latest version of the Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS).

Tags: accretion, atlantic-coast, baseline, cape-cod-canal, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, coastal-processes, digital-shoreline-analysis-system, dsas, erosion, esri-polyline-shapefile, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, hingham, historic-shoreline, linear-regression-rate, long-term, lrr, massachusetts, massachusetts-office-of-coastal-zone-management, net-shoreline-movement, new-england, nsm, oceans, sandwich, sce, shoreline, shoreline-change-envelope, shoreline-change-rate, south-shore, transect, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-df959fbe-89c2-4bbb-a3c0-9dcac33f155a, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Sea Turtle Nesting Decision Points and Cross-Shore Beach Profile Data Collected on July 17, 2019, from Melbourne Beach, Florida

On July 17, 2019, surveys were conducted on ‘high-density’ sea turtle nesting areas located on Melbourne Beach, Florida. This dataset, Melbourne_20190717.zip, was collected and processed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center (SPCMSC) and includes sea turtle nesting decision point locations (.csv) and cross-shore beach profiles (.xyz) at those locations. Utilizing previously published methods for collecting beach profile data (Henderson and others, 2016; Brown and others, 2018), data were acquired by USGS scientists walking along cross-shore transect lines while carrying a survey backpack that was equipped with a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver and GNSS antenna. The horizontal position data are provided in the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinate system, Zone 17 North (17N), referenced to the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83), and the elevation data are referenced to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88), GEOID12B.

Tags: altimetry, beach, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, distributions, earth-science-gt-land-surface-gt-topography-gt-terrain-elevation, earth-science-gt-oceans-gt-coastal-processes-gt-beaches, elevation, elevation-data, florida, geology, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, global-navigation-satellite-system-gnss-observations, gnss-measurement, marine-geology, oceans, providers-gt-government-agencies-u-s-federal-agencies-gt-doi-gt-usgs-gt-doi-usgs-cmg, south-atlantic, spcmsc, st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, topographic-mapping, topography, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-188338bd-b186-4644-acca-7acf2eca7719
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data for Model Estimated Baseflow for Streams Containing Endangered Atlantic Salmon in Maine, USA (version 1.1, July 2022)

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with NOAA, developed a regression model for estimating August mean baseflow per square mile of drainage area to help resource managers assess relative amounts of baseflow in streams with Maine Atlantic Salmon habitat. The model was derived from August mean baseflows computed at 31 USGS streamgages in and near the Gulf of Maine Atlantic Salmon Habitat Recovery Units. An ordinary least squares regression model estimates August mean baseflow per unit drainage area using two explanatory variables: percentage of the basin underlain by sand and gravel aquifers, and the basin mean July precipitation. This model provides the means to estimate August mean baseflow in cubic feet per second per square mile of basin area on user-selected ungaged sites throughout Maine south of 46º 21′55″ N latitude.  Estimates will support prioritization of habitat conservation and restoration work for those reaches that offer baseflow refugia during summer low-flow periods, and thus have the potential to be high-quality Atlantic Salmon habitat. This data release includes 3 excel tables of data used in these analyses.

Tags: atlantic-salmon, baseflow, distinct-population-segment, habitat, refugia, streamflow, usgs-5fb28c5bd34eb413d5e08755
Organization: Department of the Interior