AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Stream Temperature Data in the Little Blitzen watershed of SE Oregon, 2009-15

This dataset includes stream temperatures from two data loggers installed at one site in the Little Blitzen River of SE Oregon as part of a redband trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss gairdnerii) study.  The site was used as an undisturbed reference in comparison with similar temperature monitoring sites in the Willow-Whitehorse watershed that experienced a 2012 fire that burned nearly the entire watershed.

Tags: gnis-id-1123136, harney-county, inlandwaters, little-blitzen-river, oregon, steens-mountain, stream-river, stream-temperature, usgs, usgs-58fe7cb3e4b0f87f0854b1b7, water-temperature, watershed
Organization: Department of the Interior
Neuse River at Kinston, North Carolina Flood Map Files from October 2016

These polygon boundaries, inundation extents, and depth rasters were created to provide an extent of flood inundation along the Neuse River within the community of Kinston, North Carolina. The upstream and downstream reach extent is determined by the location of high-water marks, not extending the boundary far past the outermost high-water marks. In areas of uncertainty of flood extent, the model boundary is lined up with the flood inundation polygon extent. This boundary polygon was used to extract the final flood inundation polygon and depth layer from the flood water surface raster file.  
The passage of Hurricane Matthew through central and eastern North Carolina during October 7-9, 2016, brought heavy rainfall which resulted in major flooding. More than 15 inches of rain were recorded in some areas. Over 600 roads were closed including Interstates 95 and 40, and nearly 99,000 structures were impacted by floodwaters. Immediately after the flooding, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) documented 267 high-water marks (HWM), of which 254 were surveyed. The North Carolina Emergency Management documented and surveyed 353 HWMs. Six communities were mapped using Geographic Information Systems.

Tags: boundary, extent, flood, flood-inundation-maps, flooded-area, geospatial-analysis, high-water-marks, kinston, north-carolina, river-stream, study-area, usgs-58f973b6e4b0b7ea54522b04
Organization: Department of the Interior
Rockfish Creek at Hope Mills, North Carolina Flood Map Files from October 2016

These polygon boundaries, inundation extents, and depth rasters were created to provide an extent of flood inundation along the Rockfish Creek within the community of Hope Mills, North Carolina. The upstream and downstream reach extent is determined by the location of high-water marks, not extending the boundary far past the outermost high-water marks. In areas of uncertainty of flood extent, the model boundary is lined up with the flood inundation polygon extent. This boundary polygon was used to extract the final flood inundation polygon and depth layer from the flood water surface raster file.  
The passage of Hurricane Matthew through central and eastern North Carolina during October 7-9, 2016, brought heavy rainfall which resulted in major flooding. More than 15 inches of rain were recorded in some areas. Over 600 roads were closed including Interstates 95 and 40, and nearly 99,000 structures were impacted by floodwaters. Immediately after the flooding, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) documented 267 high-water marks (HWM), of which 254 were surveyed. The North Carolina Emergency Management documented and surveyed 353 HWMs. Six communities were mapped using Geographic Information Systems.

Tags: boundary, extent, flood, flood-inundation-maps, flooded-area, geospatial-analysis, high-water-marks, hope-mills, north-carolina, river-stream, study-area, usgs-58f9728ae4b0b7ea54522aff
Organization: Department of the Interior
Neuse River at Goldsboro, North Carolina Flood Map Files from October 2016

These polygon boundaries, inundation extents, and depth rasters were created to provide an extent of flood inundation along the Neuse River within the community of Goldsboro, North Carolina. The upstream and downstream reach extent is determined by the location of high-water marks, not extending the boundary far past the outermost high-water marks. In areas of uncertainty of flood extent, the model boundary is lined up with the flood inundation polygon extent. This boundary polygon was used to extract the final flood inundation polygon and depth layer from the flood water surface raster file.  
The passage of Hurricane Matthew through central and eastern North Carolina during October 7-9, 2016, brought heavy rainfall which resulted in major flooding. More than 15 inches of rain were recorded in some areas. Over 600 roads were closed including Interstates 95 and 40, and nearly 99,000 structures were impacted by floodwaters. Immediately after the flooding, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) documented 267 high-water marks (HWM), of which 254 were surveyed. The North Carolina Emergency Management documented and surveyed 353 HWMs. Six communities were mapped using Geographic Information Systems.

Tags: boundary, extent, flood, flood-inundation-maps, flooded-area, geospatial-analysis, goldsboro, high-water-marks, north-carolina, river-stream, study-area, usgs-58f970bfe4b0b7ea54522afc
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, and 2015 Site 0623 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 2015).  The resulting matrix has 16 possible classes defined by the combination of land and water categories on those four dates.

Tags: cartography, coastal, crms, doqq, geographic-information-system, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-water, louisiana, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, state-of-louisiana, usgs-59387686e4b0764e6c5d6c51, wetland
Organization: Department of the Interior
Forest management and cervid herbivory data from Western Oregon, USA, 2012 (Community Data)

Land management practices often directly alter vegetation structure and composition, but the degree to which ecological processes such as herbivory interact with management to influence biodiversity is less well understood. We hypothesized that intensive forest management and large herbivores have compounding effects on early-seral plant communities and plantation establishment (i.e., tree survival and growth), and the degree of such effects is dependent on the intensity of management practices. We established 225 m2 wild ungulate (deer and elk) exclosures nested within a manipulated gradient of management intensity (no-spray Control, Light herbicide, Moderate herbicide and Intensive herbicide treatments), replicated at the scale of whole harvest units (10-19 ha). Herbivory and herbicide applications interacted to drive vegetation structure, composition and crop-tree establishment, with herbivory effects most evident at intermediate herbicide treatments. Control stands were too forage-rich and Intensive stands too forage-poor to be substantially affected by herbivory. However, with Moderate herbicide treatment – which approximates treatments applied to &gt; 2.5 million hectares in Pacific Northwest U.S.A. – foraging by deer and elk exacerbated the effect of the herbicides, resulting in simplified, low-cover plant communities resembling the Intensive herbicide treatment. In the Light herbicide treatment, herbivory suppressed shrub growth following herbicide treatment, improving planted conifer seedling survival, likely via competitive release from shrubs. Minor reductions in management intensity from the Moderate to Light herbicide treatments therefore facilitated the capacity of wild ungulates to benefit seedling survival – which constitutes early evidence of an ecosystem service. However, this ‘service’ may be to the detriment of native early-seral plant communities. These results demonstrate that by changing community composition and vegetation structure, intensive forest management alters foraging selectivity and subsequent plant-herbivore interactions; such shifts in early-seral communities are likely to influence understory plant communities and tree growth in later stages of forest development.

Tags: biodiversity, community, deer, early-seral, elk, forage, forestry, herbicides, herbivory, lincoln-county-oregon, management, oregon, oregon-coast-range, pacific-northwest, plantation, polk-county-oregon, silviculture, tillamook-county-oregon, trophic, usgs-58f93559e4b0b7ea54522a6c, yamhill-county-oregon
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2015 Site 1100 Land-Water Classification Data

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.  A DOQQ is a raster image in which displacement in the image caused by sensor orientation and terrain relief has been removed and combines the image characteristics of a photo with geometric qualities of a map. The DOQQs generated for this project consist of 2015 Color Infrared (CIR) Digital Imagery.  These images were classified into land and water categories using a threshold of the near infrared (NIR) band, followed by supervised and unsupervised classification.  Initial classification results are then reviewed by multiple image analysts to identify and manually recode errors.  The final land-water classifications are intended to serve as both geographic and quantitative assessments of landscape composition on the date of acquisition.  Three previous assessments have been conducted (2005, 2008, and 2012).  Once the program creates enough data points for statistical analyses, these data will be used for land area change rate calculation.

Tags: cartography, coastal, crms, doqq, geographic-information-system, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-water, louisiana, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, state-of-louisiana, usgs-59387688e4b0764e6c5d6c53, wetland
Organization: Department of the Interior
Forest management and cervid herbivory data from Western Oregon, USA, 2012 (Camera Data)

Land management practices often directly alter vegetation structure and composition, but the degree to which ecological processes such as herbivory interact with management to influence biodiversity is less well understood. We hypothesized that intensive forest management and large herbivores have compounding effects on early-seral plant communities and plantation establishment (i.e., tree survival and growth), and the degree of such effects is dependent on the intensity of management practices. We established 225 m2 wild ungulate (deer and elk) exclosures nested within a manipulated gradient of management intensity (no-spray Control, Light herbicide, Moderate herbicide and Intensive herbicide treatments), replicated at the scale of whole harvest units (10-19 ha). Herbivory and herbicide applications interacted to drive vegetation structure, composition and crop-tree establishment, with herbivory effects most evident at intermediate herbicide treatments. Control stands were too forage-rich and Intensive stands too forage-poor to be substantially affected by herbivory. However, with Moderate herbicide treatment – which approximates treatments applied to &gt; 2.5 million hectares in Pacific Northwest U.S.A. – foraging by deer and elk exacerbated the effect of the herbicides, resulting in simplified, low-cover plant communities resembling the Intensive herbicide treatment. In the Light herbicide treatment, herbivory suppressed shrub growth following herbicide treatment, improving planted conifer seedling survival, likely via competitive release from shrubs. Minor reductions in management intensity from the Moderate to Light herbicide treatments therefore facilitated the capacity of wild ungulates to benefit seedling survival – which constitutes early evidence of an ecosystem service. However, this ‘service’ may be to the detriment of native early-seral plant communities. These results demonstrate that by changing community composition and vegetation structure, intensive forest management alters foraging selectivity and subsequent plant-herbivore interactions; such shifts in early-seral communities are likely to influence understory plant communities and tree growth in later stages of forest development.

Tags: biodiversity, cervidae, community, deer, early-seral, elk, forage, forestry, herbicides, herbivory, lincoln-county-oregon, management, oregon, oregon-coast-range, pacific-northwest, plantation, polk-county-oregon, silviculture, tillamook-county-oregon, trophic, ungulate, usgs-58f93500e4b0b7ea54522a63, yamhill-county-oregon
Organization: Department of the Interior
Cottonwood Management at Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota

This data release consists of the following components: 
Sex ratio data from cottonwood trees at random points on the floodplain in the North and South units of Theodore Roosevelt National Park, ND. These data were used to investigate the effects of age, height above, and distance from the channel on mortality of male and female trees of plains cottonwood (Populus deltoides subsp. monilifera) as described in the Friedman and Griffin (2017) report.
Tree core and tree ring data from the North and South Units of Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota. South Unit data was collected in April 2012, North Unit data was collected in the summer and fall of 2010. The trees are located on the floodplain of the Little Missouri River in Theodore Roosevelt National Park. These data were used to reconstruct flow and climate as described in the Friedman and Griffin (2017) report and in other documents cited by that report.  The tree ring data is presented in Standard Tucson format.
Floodplain and riparian cottonwood forest areas in the South Unit were digitized as separate shapefiles using 2010 NAIP imagery.  They were mapped to assist management of cottonwood forests by increasing understanding of the relation between geomorphic setting, flow, precipitation, temperature, and other factors.
Edges of water, channel centerline, valley bottom centerline, extent of valley bottom, and estimated bankfull channel data for the Little Missouri River in the North and South Units were mapped as separate shapefiles from 2010 NAIP imagery as well.

Tags: aerial-imagery, billings-county-nd, cottonwood, dendrochronology, droughts, floods, flow-reconstruction, fluvial-geomorphology, geomorphic-mapping, little-missouri-river, mckenzie-county-nd, mortality, north-dakota, populus, remote-sensing, riparian, sex-ratio, stream-channel, streamflow, theodore-roosevelt-national-park, united-states, usgs-58f907ffe4b0b7ea5452292d, vegetation
Organization: Department of the Interior
Water quality data for urban (centralized versus distributed stormwater management) and forested reference watersheds in Clarksburg, MD (2004-2016)

Data were obtained in order to evaluate differences among watersheds that vary in stormwater management practice arrangement by assessing differences in baseflow nutrient fluxes and stormflow export of suspended sediments and total particulate phosphorus. The study area is located the Piedmont in Clarksburg, Montgomery, County Maryland. Watersheds included a forested watershed (For-MD), centralized stormwater management watershed (Cent-MD), and distributed stormwater management watershed (Dist-MD).

Tags: clarksburg, datasets, montgomery-county, nitrogen, phosphorus, state-of-maryland, surface-water-quality, suspended-material-water, urban, usgs-58f90573e4b0b7ea5452291a, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
CYM_Q01.TIF - Cayman Trough GLORIA sidescan-sonar data mosaic (1 of 2) (Mercator, 50m, Clarke 1866)

From October 22 to November 22, 1985 the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) conducted a single to survey to ensonify the Cayman Trough region. The survey took place over the coastal region of the spreading ridge and along one line to the eastern extremity of the Trough. As in earlier EEZ reconnaissance surveys, the USGS utilized the GLORIA (Geological LOng-Range Inclined Asdic) sidescan-sonar system to complete the geologic mapping. The collected GLORIA data were processed and digitally mosaicked to produce continuous imagery of the seafloor. A total of 2 digital mosaics of a 2 degree by 2 degree area with a 50-meter pixel resolution were completed for the Cayman Trough south of the Cayman Islands.

Tags: acoustic-receivers, acoustic-reflectivity, backscatter, caribbean-sea, cayman-trough, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, continental-island-slope, distributions, eez, exclusive-economic-zone, exclusive-economic-zone-eez, geological-long-range-inclined-asdic, geoscientificinformation, geotiff-image, gloria, gloria-gt-geological-long-range-inclined-asdic, greater-antilles-ecoregion, grey-scale-image, image-mosaics, imagerybasemapsearthcover, infobank-identifier-f-3b-85-cb, marine-geology, marine-geophysics, marine-oceanic, ocean, ocean-gt-atlantic-ocean, ocean-gt-atlantic-ocean-gt-north-atlantic-ocean, ocean-gt-atlantic-ocean-gt-north-atlantic-ocean-gt-caribbean-sea, ocean-gt-atlantic-ocean-gt-north-atlantic-ocean-gt-caribbean-sea-gt-cayman-islands, oceans, oceans-gt-ocean-acoustics-gt-acoustic-reflectivity, physical-habitats-and-geomorphology, sea-floor-acoustic-reflectivity, sea-floor-characteristics, seabed, side-scan-sonar, sidescan-sonar, sidescan-sonar-mosaic, trench, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-58f85e45-b429-4774-b3ab-401aa5246b73, whsc, whsc-cruise-identifier-frnl87-3b, whsc-serial-number-85037, woods-hole-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Collision vulnerability of marine birds within the California Current System

Four metrics were used to determine Collision Vulnerability: Diurnal and nocturnal flight activity, flight-height (defined as time spent in rotor sweep zone), and macro-avoidance. Nocturnal flight activity (NFA) and diurnal flight activity (DFA)—Nocturnal and diurnal flight activity can influence the risk of collision; therefore, we used available information to estimate the amount of time each species spent flying during night and during day. Time spent in the rotor sweep zone (RSZt)— the percentage of time each species spends flying at the same height as wind turbine blades (as opposed to above or below the sweeping zone of the blades) will influence collision vulnerability. Based on flight-height analyses and published accounts, we estimated each species’ percentage of time flying within the rotor sweep zone (RSZ; 10-200 m above the water). Macro-avoidance (MA)—The macro-avoidance values for species indicate the species-specific probability of avoidance with wind power infrastructure. For each species, we derived this value from observed macro-avoidance (via human observation and radar) at existing offshore wind power sites. In cases where species-specific data were not available, we used information from similar taxa. 
These data support the following publication: Adams, J., Kelsey, E.C., Felis J.J., and Pereksta, D.M., 2016, Collision and displacement vulnerability among marine birds of the California Current System associated with offshore wind energy infrastructure: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2016-1154, 116 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20161154.
These data were updated in August 2017: 5 values in the relative displacement vulnerability column have been updated. Users are advised to use the updated CSV: CCS_vulnerability_FINAL_VERSION_v10_CV.csv

Tags: biota, california, california-current-system, environment, ocean-wind-energy, oregon, pacific-outer-continental-shelf, renewable-energy, seabirds, usgs-58f80528e4b0b7ea5451fcaf, vulnerability-assessment, washington
Organization: Department of the Interior
Magnetotelluric sounding data, station 9, Taos Plateau Volcanic Field, New Mexico, 2009

This dataset includes the magnetotelluric (MT) sounding data collected in 2009 in and near the San Luis Basin, New Mexico. The U.S. Geological Survey conducted a series of multidisciplinary studies, including MT surveys, in the San Luis Basin to improve understanding of the hydrogeology of the Santa Fe Group and the nature of the sedimentary deposits comprising the principal groundwater aquifers of the Rio Grande rift. The shallow unconfined and the deeper confined Santa Fe Group aquifers in the San Luis Basin are the main sources of municipal water for the region. The population of the San Luis Basin region is growing rapidly and water shortfalls could have serious consequences. Future growth and land management in the region depend on accurate assessment and protection of the region's groundwater resources.

Tags: apparent-resistivity, aquifer, cerro, cggsc, crustal-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center, electromagnetic-surveying, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, gps-measurement, groundwater, hydrogeology, impedance, impedance-phase, impedance-strike, magnetic-field-earth, magnetic-surveying, magnetotelluric, mineral-resources-program, mrp, mt, new-mexico, questa, rocky-mountains, san-luis-valley, sounding, taos, taos-county, tipper, tres-piedras, usgs-58f7d48fe4b0b7ea5451fb18
Organization: Department of the Interior