AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Late Pleistocene and Holocene molluscan taxa from south Florida – an examination of survivorship

Conservation planners and resource managers are concerned about ecological resilience and survival of species as climate and sea level change. The fossil record contains an excellent means to test species responses to changing conditions. This dataset utilizes molluscan faunal data extracted from a fossil database – the Paleobiology Database (PBDB; https://paleobiodb.org/classic) – for the late Pleistocene through Holocene (129,000 years before present (ybp) to present), limited to the south Florida region, as a way to address the question how many molluscan taxa survived the significant changes to Florida’s coastline over approximately the last 129,000 years. The initial PDBD download was cleaned by eliminating duplicate entries and invalid taxa. After the data cleaning and validation, 347 taxa remained (327 late Pleistocene, and 20 Holocene); of these, 314 are considered valid taxa for this study (294 late Pleistocene, 20 Holocene). The remaining 33 taxa had some uncertainty in their taxonomic standing that could not be resolved, but the names were retained for portions of the analysis. All 347 taxa were compared to databases and published lists of extant mollusks to determine which taxa have survived to the present, and if they are still found within Florida. When only the 314 valid species are examined for the late Pleistocene and Holocene, 93% of the taxa are still alive today, indicating survival throughout the last glacial cycle; 7% went extinct; and &lt;1% were locally extirpated. Surviving species drop to 86% and extinct species rise to 13% if the 33 uncertain taxa are included for the late Pleistocene and Holocene. If just the late Pleistocene (0.129 Ma to 0.0117 Ma) valid taxa are compared to extant fauna, 92% survived, 8% went extinct, and less than 1% were locally extirpated. These data suggest that the molluscan fauna of south Florida are relatively resilient to significant changes, information that can be of value as resource managers develop conservation plans for changing conditions. 
The work described here is funded by the Greater Everglades Priority Ecosystem Science program of the USGS.

Tags: africa, caribbean, europe, extant, extinction, extirpation, florida, fossil, holocene, late-pleistocene, mexico, mollusks, north-america, south-america, survivors, united-states, usgs-66e45171d34e1cc1f894ec28
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital elevation model of the Green River channel bed constructed from multibeam sonar data in Echo, Island and Rainbow Parks, Dinosaur National Monument

These data were compiled to determine the rate and magnitude of channel-planform change, and the topographic change of the channel and floodplain in Echo, Island, and Rainbow Parks within Dinosaur National Monument between the 1990s and 2019. The objective(s) of our study were to analyze geomorphic change within Echo, Island, and Rainbow Parks to determine the magnitude and style of channel change with respect to the past two decades of combined streamflow from Flaming Gorge Dam and the relatively unregulated Yampa River. These data represent river channel planform delineations made within a geographic information system, and topographic channel and floodplain data collected using total stations, depth sounders, Real-Time Kinematic GNSS, and multibeam sonar. These data were collected in June 2019.

Tags: bathymetry, bathymetry-measurement, colorado, controlled-flooding, dam, data-release, datasets, deposition-sediment, digital-elevation-model, dinosaur-national-monument, echo-park, elevation, environment, erosion, flaming-gorge-dam, geologic-processes, geology, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, green-river, hydrology, imagerybasemapsearthcover, inlandwaters, island-park, natural-resource-management, rainbow-park, sand-deposits, sand-surface-change, sedimentation, topographic-maps, topography, unconsolidated-deposits, usgs-66e219a9d34ecba8b8677acc, utah, yampa-river
Organization: Department of the Interior
Topographic data collected along channel cross sections in Echo, Island, and Rainbow Parks in Dinosaur National Monument in the 1990s and 2019

These data were compiled to determine the rate and magnitude of channel-planform change, and the topographic change of the channel and floodplain in Echo, Island, and Rainbow Parks within Dinosaur National Monument between the 1990s and 2019. The objective(s) of our study were to analyze geomorphic change within Echo, Island, and Rainbow Parks to determine the magnitude and style of channel change with respect to the past two decades of combined streamflow from Flaming Gorge Dam and the relatively unregulated Yampa River. These data represent river channel planform delineations made within a geographic information system, and topographic channel and floodplain data collected using total stations, depth sounders, Real-Time Kinematic GNSS, and multibeam sonar. These data were collected by U.S. Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center researchers in June 2019.

Tags: bathymetry, bathymetry-measurement, colorado, controlled-flooding, dam, data-release, datasets, deposition-sediment, digital-elevation-model, dinosaur-national-monument, echo-park, elevation, environment, erosion, flaming-gorge-dam, geologic-processes, geology, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, green-river, hydrology, imagerybasemapsearthcover, inlandwaters, island-park, natural-resource-management, rainbow-park, sand-deposits, sand-surface-change, sedimentation, topographic-maps, topography, unconsolidated-deposits, usgs-66e218afd34ecba8b8677ac6, utah, yampa-river
Organization: Department of the Interior
Delineations of channel and floodplain features mapped on aerial photographs within Echo and Island Parks, including distances along the channel centerline downstream from Flaming Gorge Dam

These data were compiled to determine the rate and magnitude of channel-planform change, and the topographic change of the channel and floodplain in Echo, Island, and Rainbow Parks within Dinosaur National Monument between the 1990s and 2019. The objective(s) of our study were to analyze geomorphic change within Echo, Island, and Rainbow Parks to determine the magnitude and style of channel change with respect to the past two decades of combined streamflow from Flaming Gorge Dam and the relatively unregulated Yampa River. These data represent river channel planform delineations made within a geographic information system, and topographic channel and floodplain data collected using total stations, depth sounders, Real-Time Kinematic GNSS, and multibeam sonar. These data were collected by U.S. Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center researchers in June 2019.

Tags: bathymetry, bathymetry-measurement, colorado, controlled-flooding, dam, data-release, datasets, deposition-sediment, digital-elevation-model, dinosaur-national-monument, echo-park, elevation, environment, erosion, flaming-gorge-dam, geologic-processes, geology, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, green-river, hydrology, imagerybasemapsearthcover, inlandwaters, island-park, natural-resource-management, rainbow-park, sand-deposits, sand-surface-change, sedimentation, topographic-maps, topography, unconsolidated-deposits, usgs-66e2184bd34ecba8b8677ac3, utah, yampa-river
Organization: Department of the Interior
An Unvegetated to Vegetated Ratio (UVVR) for coastal wetlands of the Pacific Coast

Prior research has shown that sediment budgets, and therefore stability, of microtidal marsh complexes scale with areal unvegetated to vegetated marsh ratios (UVVR) suggesting these metrics are broadly applicable indicators of microtidal marsh vulnerability. This effort has developed the UVVR metric using readily available satellite imagery for the coastal areas of the contiguous United States (CONUS). These datasets provide annual averages of the 1) unvegetated fraction, 2) vegetated fraction, 3) water fraction and 4) an unvegetated to vegetated ratio (UVVR) at 30-meter resolution over the coastal areas of the contiguous United States for the years 1985-2023. Additionally, multi-year average values of vegetated ratio, its standard deviation and a UVVR based on the annually-averaged vegetated ratio are provided for the coastal wetlands of the contiguous United States.

Tags: california, coastal-wetlands, conterminous-united-states, fractional-cover, oregon, pacific, unvegetated, unvegetated-to-vegetated-ratio, usgs-66e0e6cad34ecba8b86768fe, uvvr, vegetation, washington, wetland-change, wetland-gain, wetland-loss, wetlands
Organization: Department of the Interior
Horseshoe Crab Research Publications Dataset (1955-2024): Ecology, Conservation, and Biological Studies

The dataset focusing on research publications related to the American horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) and ecological studies over multiple decades.
The dataset contains detailed information about individual research publications, including:
Year and Decade of publication.
Publication Title and a Link to access the document.
Classification of publications based on their relation to either Ecology/Management/Conservation or Physiology/Morphology/Genetics/Evolution.

Tags: biodiversity, biota, coastal-habitat, conservation, ecological-management, habitat-loss, horseshoe-crab, limulus-polyphemus, marine-ecology, population-genetics, species-recovery, usgs-66e08c67d34ecba8b867678d
Organization: Department of the Interior
Report to Congress CWPPRA Dataset 2024

In Louisiana, the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) identifies, prepares, and funds coastal wetland restoration projects. In the Evaluation Report to Congress to be submitted in 2024, geospatially driven visualizations are required to provide conceptual understanding of funded project sizes and locations as they pertain to the geographical region in designated basins, as well as identify key project information and expenditures.

Tags: barataria, basin, breton-sound, calcasieu-sabine, coastal, conservation, cwppra, cwppra-task-force, ecosystems, environment, gulf-of-mexico, louisiana, louisiana-coastal, louisiana-coastwide, mermentau, pontchartrain, ppl, project-priority-list, restoration, teche-vermilion, terrebonne, united-states-of-america, usgs-66e05fcfd34ecba8b867660b, wetland-restoration, wetlands
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital elevation model of the lava dome in the crater of Mount St. Helens, June 23, 1982

The catastrophic, explosive eruption of Mount St. Helens, Washington, on May 18, 1980, is the most well-known eruption of the volcano. Less well known is the May 18 eruption marked the beginning of a period of eruptive activity that lasted through 1986. Beginning in October 1980, a series of 17 dome-building episodes added millions of cubic meters of lava to the crater floor. Most of the growth occurred when magma extruded onto the surface of the dome, forming lava flows up to approximately 198 to 396 meters (650 to 1,300 feet) long and 20 to 40 meters (65 to 130 feet) thick.
This data release is a 1-meter resolution digital elevation model (DEM) and a corresponding hillshade raster derived from a previously unpublished 1:2,000 scale topographic contour map, based on aerial photographs taken on June 23, 1982, created by USGS for use during the response to the eruption.

Tags: cascade-range, dem, elevation, geology, geoscientificinformation, lava, mount-saint-helens, mount-saint-helens-national-volcanic-monument, pacific-northwest, united-states-of-america, usgs-66df7ab0d34ecba8b8674557, volcanic-activity, volcanoes, volcanology, washington
Organization: Department of the Interior
Eastern box turtle detection study field data collected at Patuxent Refuge, Laurel MD

A total of 264 unique turtle shells were observed in the dataset, based on the unique turtle IDs.
Dataset Overview: This dataset contain information about various turtle sightings, with each entry detailing the image file and associated metadata for each turtle sighting. The dataset includes the following fields:
index: An identifier for each row or entry in the dataset (appears to be auto-generated).
photoname: The filename of the photo taken of the turtle, including the date and description of the image (e.g., carapace photos).
turtle_ID: A unique identifier for each turtle, possibly denoting a tag or observation number.
year: The year when the photo was taken.
month: The month when the photo was taken.
day: The day when the photo was taken.
Summary of Data:
The dataset provides a chronological record of turtles identified through their respective photos.
The filenames in the photoname column indicate the type of image (e.g., carapace), and the corresponding turtle ID and date are embedded within the filename.
The dataset spans multiple years (e.g., 2019, 2020, 2023), providing longitudinal information about turtle sightings or tracking.

Tags: biota, detectability, detection-models, detection-probability, detection-strategies, eastern-box-turtle, eastern-box-turtle-conservation, observer-based-detection-studies, population-studies, probability-modeling, shell-scattering, species-monitoring-techniques, turtle-detection-field-experiments, turtle-population-surveys, turtle-shell-visibility, usgs-66df73d3d34ecba8b86744fe, wildlife-management-based-on-detectability
Organization: Department of the Interior
Imagery and digital surface model for the Slumgullion landslide, Lake City, Colorado, June 3, 2024

This dataset contains a point cloud (Slumgullion_PointCloud.laz), 1-meter digital surface model (Slumgullion_DSM.tif), and orthoimagery (0.1-meter resolution) (Slumgullion_Ortho.tif) of the active portion of the Slumgullion landslide in Lake City, Colorado. The Slumgullion landslide is a translational slide with a continuously moving, active portion and an inactive portion. 896 photos from a Sony A7R Mark IV, RGB61 camera mounted on a Wingtra 1 GEN II fixed-wing uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) were collected on June 3, 2024 (Slumgullion_UAV_Images_Geotags.zip). The images were georeferenced using post-possessed kinematics (PPK) from the onboard Global Positioning System (GPS) of the aircraft with corrections from a concurrently operating base station within the study area. The point cloud and digital surface model products were created from the georeferenced photos from four UAV flights using Structure-from-Motion (SfM) photogrammetry techniques with the software Agisoft Metashape (v. 2.1.0 build 17532). 
Any use of trade, firm, or product names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.

Tags: colorado, geoscientificinformation, landslide, photogrammetry, slumgullion, usgs-66df6afbd34ecba8b86744ca
Organization: Department of the Interior
Grade and tonnage data for lithium, cesium, and rubidium pegmatite deposits

Pegmatites are a major host of global lithium, cesium, and rubidium resources. However, the existing grade and tonnage dataset for lithium pegmatites that was published in 1992 does not represent the current industry parameters used to delineate resources. There are no existing grade and tonnage datasets for cesium and rubidium. We present grade and tonnage data for lithium, cesium, and rubidium mineral resources related to pegmatite deposits. This compilation does not include pegmatite deposits with primary tin or tantalum resources, but we do report tin and tantalum concentrations for lithium-dominated deposits where available.
Over 100 potential pegmatite resources were evaluated; however, final selection was limited to resources that were sufficiently delineated in 3-dimensions to define the in-situ resource. The dataset is not an exhaustive list of known pegmatite prospects and deposits but instead aims to capture the current global distribution of in-situ grade and tonnage. The dataset includes two lithium pegmatite deposits in the United States, both in North Carolina. Other known domestic lithium pegmatite resources exist but were excluded because they lack industry-compliant resource estimates. 
These data can be used for lithium, cesium, and/or rubidium mineral resource assessments or supply chain studies. The global lithium pegmatite dataset is sufficiently large for quantitative mineral resource assessments, depending on underlying assumptions of the assessment. We include a separate comma-delimited text file of lithium pegmatite deposits that is pre-formatted as input for probabilistic simulations of undiscovered deposits in the R-based software package MapMark4. Note that MapMark4 users should evaluate the lithium deposit dataset closely to verify the dataset agrees with the deposit type for which they have estimated undiscovered deposits. While an effort was made to isolate lithium-dominated resources for ease of MapMark4 input, note that some deposits have multiple commodities whereas others are solely lithium resources. These factors should be considered, and references for relevant records evaluated, prior to fitting grade and tonnage models. The three-digit ID field can be used as a primary key to link records from the main compilation to the MapMark4-ready dataset.

Tags: australia, brazil, canada, cesium, china, congo-democratic-republic-of-the, critical-minerals, ethiopia, finland, geoscientificinformation, ghana, lithium, mali, mineral-resources, namibia, portugal, rubidium, tantalum, thailand, tin, united-states, usgs-66db3cb7d34eef5af66d9306, zimbabwe
Organization: Department of the Interior
Osprey Reproduction in vicinity of the Choptank River 2024

Nest number, description of nest structure and location, longitude, latitude, dates of observations, presence of adults, eggs, nestlings, outcome of reproductive effort, number of young fledged, and osprey nest platforms occupied by Canada geese.

Tags: biota, bird-conservation, chesapeake-bay, habitat-and-species-modeling, maryland, reproductive-success, usgs-66daf698d34eef5af66d9183
Organization: Department of the Interior
North American Breeding Bird Survey Dataset 1966 - 2023

The 1966-2023 North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) dataset contains avian point count data for more than 700 North American bird taxa (species, races, and unidentified species groupings). These data are collected annually during the breeding season, primarily in June, along thousands of randomly established roadside survey routes in the United States and Canada. Routes are roughly 24.5 miles (39.2 km) long with counting locations placed at approximately half-mile (800-m) intervals, for a total of 50 stops. At each stop, a citizen scientist highly skilled in avian identification conducts a 3-minute point count, recording all birds seen within a quarter-mile (400-m) radius and all birds heard. Surveys begin 30 minutes before local sunrise and take approximately 5 hours to complete. Routes are surveyed once per year, with the total number of routes sampled per year growing over time; just over 500 routes were sampled in 1966, while in recent decades approximately 3000 routes have been sampled annually. No data are provided for 2020. BBS field activities were cancelled in 2020 because of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) global pandemic and observers were directed to not sample routes. In addition to avian count data, this dataset also contains survey date, survey start and end times, start and end weather conditions, a unique observer identification number, route identification information, and route location information including country, state, and BCR, as well as geographic coordinates of route start point, and an indicator of run data quality.

Tags: avian-point-counts, biodiversity, birds, canada, north-america, population-distribution, population-trends, relative-abundance, united-states, united-states-of-america, usgs-66d9ed16d34eef5af66d534b
Organization: Department of the Interior
Simulated daily soil moisture and water balance 1979-2020 for drought assessments in seven watersheds in the northwestern USA

The objectives for these data are to characterize seasonal and spatial patterns of drought propagation across a set of seven watersheds in the western United States. These watersheds vary in aridity, contain extensive elevation gradients, and support river systems with long-term gage data. We used a soil water balance model SOILWAT2 with soil physical structure from POLARIS and daily weather data from gridMET as well as DayMet as the inputs. Using gridMET inputs, we simulated daily timestep soil moisture and water balance for dozens to hundreds of 1/24th-degree pixels within each watershed. Using DayMet inputs, we simulated daily timestep soil moisture and water balance for hundreds of 1-km pixels within one watershed. We provide daily potential evapotranspiration, daily transpiration, daily total evaporation, daily diffuse recharge and runoff, daily available soil moisture at different soil depths, and long-term daily frozen soil conditions for each pixel.

Tags: available-soil-water, biota, climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, datasets, ecological-drought, ecological-processes, ecosystems, environment, geospatial-datasets, idaho, montana, north-fork-flathead, north-fork-shoshone, northwestern-usa, oregon, shields, snake-headwaters, soilwat2, st-marys, terrestrial-ecosystems, two-medicine, upper-donner-und-blitzen-river, usgs-66d8f277d34eef5af66cb32f, washington, watershed, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
High resolution natural color and thermal imagery collected by uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) for mapping vegetation change and natural spring identification at Tavasci Marsh in the Tuzigoot National Monument, AZ during 2024

The U.S. Geological Survey collected low-altitude airborne natural color imagery and surface temperatures via a hexacopter uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) for mapping Tavasci Marsh in the Tuzigoot National Monument in Arizona. Visual imagery was collected in jpg (for color imagery) and TIFF (for thermal imagery) format and Structure-from-Motion (SfM) photogrammetry techniques were applied to derive high-resolution natural color and thermal (surface temperatures) orthomosaics of the study area in 2024. Ground control points (GCPs), which are temporary targets on the ground located by using a real-time kinematic global navigation satellite system (RTK-GNSS) base station and rover, were used in georectification in the SfM process. Agisoft Metashape Professional (v. 2.0.2 build 16404) was used to create a 10cm resolution natural color orthomosaic and a surface temperature orthomosaic for the data collected in 2024.

Tags: arizona, drone, elevation, health, imagerybasemapsearthcover, orthomosaic, remote-sensing, surface-water-non-marine, tavasci-marsh, thermal, tuzigoot-national-monument, uas, uncrewed-aircraft-system, usgs-66d8d8e8d34eef5af66cb2bb
Organization: Department of the Interior
Lengths, hatch dates, and piscivory for age-0 largemouth bass in Wisconsin lakes

Data include lengths, observations on piscivory, and hatch dates for age-0 largemouth bass in Wisconsin lakes with predicted TLs if the fish would have hatched 7 days earlier or 7 d later.

Tags: biota, fish, midwest, phenology, usgs-66d8b0bcd34eef5af66cb125, wisconsin
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital and NDVI images from Dwarf Cypress, Big Cypress National Preserve from 2021 to 2025 (ver. 2.0, June 2025)

This data set includes images from Dwarf Cypress located within Big Cypress National Preserve. Images were taken multiple times daily from February 2021 to March 2025 using a five-band multispectral camera equipped for normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) sensing and standard high-quality photographs.

Tags: optical-methods, usgs-66d88a84d34eef5af66cada7, vegetation, video-monitoring
Organization: Department of the Interior