AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Development of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) in Greater-White Fronted Geese (Anser albifrons) for Genetic Stock Identification on Wintering Grounds, 2019

This data set contains a description of 3 mitochondrial DNA and 93 nuclear DNA Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) loci and sequence information developed through double digest restriction-site associated DNA sequencing (ddRADseq) techniques for Greater White-Fronted Goose (Anser albifrons) that winter in California.

Tags: animals, animals-vertebrates, anser-albifrons, biodiversity, biological-population-management, biota, dna, dna-mitochondrial, ducks-geese-swans, environment, geese, genetic-diversity, genetic-variance, genetics, polymorphism-single-nucleotide, population-genetics, systematics-and-taxonomy, terrestrial-ecosystems, usgs-asc208, wildlife
Organization: Department of the Interior
Pacific (Gavia pacifica) and Yellow-billed Loon (G. adamsii) Mark-Resight Encounter History Data; National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, 2011-2014

This data release contains a mark-resight encounter history table for Pacific and Yellow-billed loons from the Arctic Coastal Plain in northern Alaska, 2011-2014.

Tags: alaska, animal-tracking, animals-vertebrates, aquatic-birds, arctic-coastal-plain, band, biota, birds, chipp-river, competition, competitive-behavior, ecological-dynamics, environment, field-methods, field-sampling, inlandwaters, loons, mark-resight, pacific-loon, population-dynamics, resight, species-life-history, species-population-interactions, survival, sympatric-populations, territorial-behavior, territory-retention, usgs-asc207, wildlife-biology, yellow-billed-loon
Organization: Department of the Interior
High Altitude Weather Station Data at USGS Benchmark Glaciers

Since the late 1950s, the USGS has maintained a long-term glacier mass-balance program at three North American glaciers. Measurements began on South Cascade Glacier, WA in 1958, expanding to Gulkana and Wolverine glaciers, AK in 1966, and later Sperry Glacier, MT in 2005. Additional measurements have been made on Lemon Creek Glacier, AK to compliment data collected by the Juneau Icefield Research Program (JIRP; Pelto and others, 2013). Direct field measurements are combined with weather data and imagery analyses to estimate the seasonal and annual mass balance at each glacier in both a conventional and reference surface format (Cogley and others, 2011).
      High-altitude measurements of meteorological data have been collected since the beginning of the USGS Benchmark Glacier Program adjacent to glaciers in order to support related science. This portion of the data collection includes select weather data that has received basic quality control and assurance. Data is released at three different levels of processing, level 0, 1 and 2. Level 0 data contains compiled raw data, before QC procedures are applied, at the original timestep recorded by the instrument. Level 1 data has received a plausible value check, and minimal manual error identification (e.g. errors noted on field visits). Level 2 data has been through more extensive quality control procedures and is provided at both the original instrument timestep as well as aggregated hourly and daily values. However, beyond the procedures detailed in this document, no additional steps have been taken to manually assure quality of the data. Data outside the main record of temperature and precipitation at each site should be considered preliminary, and be utilized with increased scrutiny.

Tags: ablation-zones-accumulation-zones, alaska, climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, cryosphere, environment, environmental-conditions, geology, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, glaciation, glacier-elevation-ice-sheet-elevation, glacier-mass-balance-ice-sheet-mass-balance, glaciers, glaciers-ice-sheets, glaciology, gulkana-glacier, juneau-icefield, lemon-creek-glacier, meteorology, montana, remote-sensing, snow-and-ice-cover, south-cascade-glacier, sperry-glacier, usgs-asc205, washington, weather-stations, wolverine-glacier
Organization: Department of the Interior
Allometrics of Baltic Tellin (Macoma balthica) Bivalves from Cook Inlet, AK, and Baie de Somme, France, 2010-2011

This dataset contains two tables of sampling information and size and mass measurements of the Baltic Tellin (Macoma balthica) from sites in Cook Inlet, Alaska, USA, and the Baie de Somme estuary, France.

Tags: alaska, animals-invertebrates, animals-vertebrates, baie-de-somme, benthic-habitat, biota, birds, bivalves, body-composition, clams, environment, estuarine-ecosystems, field-sampling, france, kasilof-river, laboratory-methods, marine-mollusks, mollusks, sandpipers, specimen-collecting, trophic-relationships, usgs-asc204, wildlife-nutrition
Organization: Department of the Interior
Pacific Sand Lance Energy Density, Length, and Age, Prince William Sound, Alaska, 2012-2016

This data set documents the age, length, dry mass energy density, and dry mass of age-0 and age-1 Pacific sand lance (Ammodytes personatus) captured in Prince William Sound Alaska each July from 2012 to 2016.

Tags: age-composition, alaska, animals-vertebrates, bioenergetics, biota, calorimetry, environment, fish, fisheries, forage-fish, indicator-species, marine-ecosystems, prince-william-sound, species-life-history, trophic-relationships, usgs-asc203
Organization: Department of the Interior
Inventory Data of Lowland-Breeding Birds and Associated Vegetation Types on the Alaska Peninsula, 2004-2007 - Raw Data

These are raw field data from a stratified random survey to inventory the birds breeding in lowlands (elevation below 100m) of the Alaska Peninsula, during summers 2004-2007. Data were collected at 792 survey points (10-minute point counts) on 52 5-km x 5-km plots. The data are in a PDF format of digitally scanned original field data forms which describe the 52 plots (four PDF files, one per year) and 792 points (four PDF files, one per year).

Tags: alaska, alaska-peninsula, alder-flycatcher, aleutian-tern, american-dipper, american-pipit, american-robin, american-tree-sparrow, american-wigeon, animals-vertebrates, arctic-tern, bald-eagle, bank-swallow, barrows-goldeneye, belted-kingfisher, biogeography, biological-classification, biota, birds, black-bellied-plover, black-billed-magpie, black-capped-chickadee, black-legged-kittiwake, black-scoter, black-turnstone, bufflehead, cackling-goose, canada-goose, canvasback, common-goldeneye, common-loon, common-merganser, common-raven, common-redpoll, distribution, double-crested-cormorant, downy-woodpecker, dunlin, earth-science, eastern-yellow-wagtail, emperor-goose, environment, eurasian-wigeon, fox-sparrow, gadwall, glaucous-winged-gull, golden-crowned-sparrow, golden-eagle, gray-cheeked-thrush, greater-scaup, greater-white-fronted-goose, greater-yellowlegs, green-winged-teal, gyrfalcon, habitat-preferences, habitats, harlequin-duck, hermit-thrush, horned-grebe, hudsonian-godwit, lapland-longspur, least-sandpiper, long-tailed-duck, long-tailed-jaeger, mallard, marbled-godwit, merlin, migratory-birds, naknek-river, natural-resource-management, northern-goshawk, northern-harrier, northern-pintail, northern-shoveler, northern-shrike, orange-crowned-warbler, ornithology, pacific-golden-plover, pacific-loon, parasitic-jaeger, pectoral-sandpiper, peregrine-falcon, pine-grosbeak, port-moller, red-breasted-merganser, red-necked-grebe, red-necked-phalarope, red-throated-loon, rock-ptarmigan, rock-sandpiper, rough-legged-hawk, sandhill-crane, savannah-sparrow, seasonal-distribution, semipalmated-plover, semipalmated-sandpiper, short-billed-dowitcher, short-billed-gull-formerly-mew-gull, short-eared-owl, snow-goose, spotted-sandpiper, surf-scoter, tree-swallow, tundra-swan, usgs-asc202, wandering-tattler, western-sandpiper, whimbrel, white-crowned-sparrow, white-winged-scoter, wildlife, willow-ptarmigan, wilsons-snipe, wilsons-warbler, yellow-rumped-warbler, yellow-warbler
Organization: Department of the Interior
Inventory Data of Lowland-Breeding Birds and Associated Vegetation Types on the Alaska Peninsula, 2004-2007

This release includes data collected using stratified random surveys to inventory the birds breeding in lowlands (elevation below 100m) of the Alaska Peninsula, during summers 2004-2007. Data were collected at 792 survey points (10-minute point counts) on 52 5-km x 5-km plots. The data are in seven tables: 1) geographic coordinates of the bounding corners of each of the 52 survey plots, including environmental conditions at the time of the survey, 2) summary of all bird and mammal species encountered on each of the 52 plots before, during, and after the 10-min point counts, 3) geographic coordinates of each of the 792 bird count points and the vegetation cover at each point, 4) counts and behavioral observations of shorebirds and avian predators during 10-min point counts, 5) counts of all bird species not classified as shorebirds or predators that were encountered during 10-min point counts, 6) bird and mammal taxonomy references, and 7) inventory of the habitat photographs taken at each survey point.

Tags: alaska, alaska-peninsula, animals-vertebrates, biogeography, biota, birds, distribution, environment, habitat-preferences, habitats, migratory-birds, naknek-river, natural-resource-management, ornithology, port-moller, seasonal-distribution, shorebird, usgs-asc201, wildlife
Organization: Department of the Interior
Avian Point Transect Survey, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, 2012

This data package contains three tables: 1) avian point-transect survey data collected on the Seward Peninsula in 2012, 2) locations of all survey sites, and 3) an avian taxonomy table for reference.

Tags: alaska, alpine-tundra, animals-vertebrates, avian-abundance, biogeography, biological-productivity, biota, birds, community-ecology, community-structure, distribution, environment, habitat-preferences, habitats, migratory-birds, perching-birds, seasonal-distribution, seward-peninsula, species-richness, terrestrial-ecosystems, usgs-asc19, wildlife
Organization: Department of the Interior
Oblique Videos Taken During Low-Altitude Transects of the Arctic Network of National Park Units and Selawik National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, July 2013

This dataset contains aerial oblique video segments from a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ200 (24x superzoom, variable focal length) and a Panasonic Lumix DMC-SZ7 (10x superzoom, variable focal length) of the arctic landscape during low altitude transects in northwest Alaska, July 2013. Three flight transects were conducted from small aircraft over the National Park Service's Arctic Network (ARCN; Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, Cape Krusenstern National Monument, Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, Kobuk Valley National Park, and Noatak National Preserve) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Selawik National Wildlife Refuge.

Tags: aerial-photography, alaska, arctic-network, bering-land-bridge-national-preserve, biota, cape-krusenstern-national-monument, climate-change, coastal-ecosystems, ecotypes, environment, frozen-ground, gates-of-the-arctic-national-park, gates-of-the-arctic-national-preserve, geography, geomorphic-landforms-processes, geoscientificinformation, image-analysis, image-collections, imagerybasemapsearthcover, inlandwaters, kobuk-valley-national-park, land-cover, land-surface, land-use-and-land-cover, land-use-land-cover, landscape, low-altitude-air-photo, low-altitude-video, noatak-national-preserve, northwest-alaska, northwest-arctic-borough, photogrammetry, selawik-national-wildlife-refuge, tundra-ecosystems, usgs-asc14, vegetation, videography
Organization: Department of the Interior
Oblique Photographs Taken During Low-Altitude Transects of the Arctic Network of National Park Units and Selawik National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, July 2013

This dataset contains aerial oblique digital photos taken of the arctic landscape during low altitude photo survey transects in northwest Alaska, July 2013. Three flight transects were conducted from small aircraft over the National Park Service's Arctic Network (ARCN; Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, Cape Krusenstern National Monument, Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, Kobuk Valley National Park, and Noatak National Preserve) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Selawik National Wildlife Refuge.

Tags: aerial-photography, alaska, arctic-network, bering-land-bridge-national-preserve, biota, cape-krusenstern-national-monument, climate-change, coastal-ecosystems, ecotypes, environment, frozen-ground, gates-of-the-arctic-national-park, gates-of-the-arctic-national-preserve, geography, geomorphic-landforms-processes, geoscientificinformation, image-analysis, image-collections, imagerybasemapsearthcover, inlandwaters, kobuk-valley-national-park, land-cover, land-surface, land-use-and-land-cover, land-use-land-cover, landscape, low-altitude-air-photo, low-altitude-video, noatak-national-preserve, northwest-alaska, northwest-arctic-borough, photogrammetry, selawik-national-wildlife-refuge, tundra-ecosystems, usgs-asc13, vegetation, videography
Organization: Department of the Interior
Nadir Videos Taken During Low-Altitude Transects of the Arctic Network of National Park Units and Selawik National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, July 2013

This dataset contains aerial nadir video segments from a GoPro Hero3 Black Edition (focal length 2.77 mm; 60 frames per second) of the arctic landscape during low altitude photo survey transects in northwest Alaska, July 2013. Two flight transects were conducted from small aircraft over the National Park Service's Bering Land Bridge National Preserve and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Selawik National Wildlife Refuge.

Tags: aerial-photography, alaska, arctic-network, bering-land-bridge-national-preserve, biota, cape-krusenstern-national-monument, climate-change, coastal-ecosystems, ecotypes, environment, frozen-ground, gates-of-the-arctic-national-park, gates-of-the-arctic-national-preserve, geography, geomorphic-landforms-processes, geoscientificinformation, image-analysis, image-collections, imagerybasemapsearthcover, inlandwaters, kobuk-valley-national-park, land-cover, land-surface, land-use-and-land-cover, land-use-land-cover, landscape, low-altitude-air-photo, low-altitude-video, noatak-national-preserve, northwest-alaska, northwest-arctic-borough, photogrammetry, selawik-national-wildlife-refuge, tundra-ecosystems, usgs-asc12, vegetation, videography
Organization: Department of the Interior
Nadir Photographs Taken During Low-Altitude Transects of the Arctic Network of National Park Units and Selawik National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, July 2013

This dataset contains aerial nadir digital photos and ecotype classification data determined from the photos. Aerial nadir photos were taken at 5 second intervals of the arctic landscape during low altitude photo survey transects in northwest Alaska, July 2013. Three flight transects were conducted from small aircraft over the National Park Service's Arctic Network (ARCN; Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, Cape Krusenstern National Monument, Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, Kobuk Valley National Park, and Noatak National Preserve) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Selawik National Wildlife Refuge.

Tags: aerial-photography, alaska, arctic-network, bering-land-bridge-national-preserve, biota, cape-krusenstern-national-monument, climate-change, coastal-ecosystems, ecotypes, environment, frozen-ground, gates-of-the-arctic-national-park, gates-of-the-arctic-national-preserve, geography, geomorphic-landforms-processes, geoscientificinformation, image-analysis, image-collections, imagerybasemapsearthcover, inlandwaters, kobuk-valley-national-park, land-cover, land-surface, land-use-and-land-cover, land-use-land-cover, landscape, low-altitude-air-photo, low-altitude-video, noatak-national-preserve, northwest-alaska, northwest-arctic-borough, photogrammetry, selawik-national-wildlife-refuge, tundra-ecosystems, usgs-asc11, vegetation, videography
Organization: Department of the Interior
Flight Path GPS Logs and Browse Maps of Low-Altitude Transects of the Arctic Network of National Park Units and Selawik National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, July 2013

This dataset contains GPS waypoint logs and browse maps of the aircraft flight paths used during low altitude photo survey transects in northwest Alaska, July 2013. Three flight transects were conducted from small aircraft over the National Park Service's Arctic Network (ARCN; Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, Cape Krusenstern National Monument, Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, Kobuk Valley National Park, and Noatak National Preserve) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Selawik National Wildlife Refuge.

Tags: aerial-photography, alaska, arctic-network, bering-land-bridge-national-preserve, biota, cape-krusenstern-national-monument, climate-change, coastal-ecosystems, ecotypes, environment, frozen-ground, gates-of-the-arctic-national-park, gates-of-the-arctic-national-preserve, geography, geomorphic-landforms-processes, geoscientificinformation, image-analysis, image-collections, imagerybasemapsearthcover, inlandwaters, kobuk-valley-national-park, land-cover, land-surface, land-use-and-land-cover, land-use-land-cover, landscape, low-altitude-air-photo, low-altitude-video, noatak-national-preserve, northwest-alaska, northwest-arctic-borough, photogrammetry, selawik-national-wildlife-refuge, tundra-ecosystems, usgs-asc10, vegetation, videography
Organization: Department of the Interior
Annual Estimates of Water-Budget Components Based on Hydrograph Separation and PRISM Precipitation for Gaged Basins in the Appalachian Plateaus Region, 1900-2011

As part of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Groundwater Resources Program 
study of the Appalachian Plateaus aquifers, estimates of annual water-budget 
components were determined at 849 continuous-record streamflow gaging 
stations from Mississippi to New York. Base flow, which can serve as a proxy 
for annual recharge, streamflow, and runoff were estimated from computer 
programs—PART (Rutledge, 1993), HYSEP (Sloto and Crouse, 1996), and BFI 
(Wahl and Wahl, 1988)—that are included in the hydrograph analysis component 
provided with version 1.0 of the U.S. Geological Survey Groundwater Toolbox. 
Only complete years (January to December) of record at each gage were used 
to determine annual estimates. Estimates of base-flow index, which is the 
percentage of streamflow from base flow, are included in the annual and average 
tables. Precipitation was estimated by calculating the average of cell values in the 
PRISM dataset intercepted by basin boundaries where previously defined in the 
GAGES-II dataset (Falcone, 2011). Estimates of evapotranspiration were then 
calculated from the difference between precipitation and streamflow.

Tags: alabama, appalachian-plateaus, appalachian-plateaus-region, base-flow, base-flow-index, environment, georgia, geoscientificinformation, hydrograph-separation, inlandwaters, kentuchy, mississippi, new-york, ohio, pennsylvania, runoff, streamflow-partitioning, tennessee, usgs-9fc60de3-e030-4cdd-b76a-bac6cae57694, usgs-groundwater-resources-program, water-budgets, west-virginia
Organization: Department of the Interior
MS_AL_XYZ_metadata: Benthic foraminiferal data from the eastern Mississippi Sound salt marshes and estuaries

Microfossil (benthic foraminifera) and coordinate/elevation data were obtained from sediments collected in the coastal zones of Mississippi and Alabama, including marsh and estuarine environments of eastern Mississippi Sound and Mobile Bay, in order to develop a census for coastal environments and to aid in paleoenvironmental reconstruction. These data provide a baseline dataset for use in future wetland and estuarine change studies and assessments, both descriptive and predictive types. The data presented here were collected as part of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Sea-level and Storm Impacts on Estuarine Environments and Shorelines (SSIEES) project (https://coastal.er.usgs.gov/ssiees), Barrier Island Evolution Research (BIER) project (https://coastal.er.usgs.gov/bier), and National Fish and Wildlife Foundation-funded Alabama Barrier Island Restoration Feasibility Study (a collaborative study between the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, Mobile District; the State of Alabama; and the USGS [https://www.usgs.gov/centers/spcmsc/science/alabama-barrier-island-restoration-study]). These projects aim to assess ecological and societal vulnerability that results from long- and short-term physical changes to barrier islands and coastal wetlands. Four sampling surveys were conducted between 2013 and 2016: 13BIM01 (14–18 April 2013; no FA numbering), 14CCT01 (15–19 September 2014; 2014-323-FA), 15BIM09 (18–20 August 2015; 2015-322-FA), and 16CCT03 (16–17 May 2016; 2016-331-FA). During the four trips, 168 replicate sedimentary samples were collected from 86 marsh and estuarine locations. The sediment samples were collected from various coastal environments, stained in the field with rose Bengal (rB) to indicate life, processed in the laboratory to four size fractions (63–125 μm, 125–250 μm, 250–850 μm, and &gt;850 μm), of which the 125–250 μm and 250–850 μm fractions were picked at equal proportions of total sample and reported combined (125–850 μm). Foraminifera were identified to species level under a binocular microscope and counted to establish a census. For further information regarding foraminiferal collection and/or processing methods, refer to Ellis and others (2017). For related datasets from the Mississippi Sound area, please refer to Ellis and others (2017) and DeWitt and others (2017).

Tags: alabama, biota, dauphin-island, ecology, elevation, estuarine-ecosystems, estuary, foraminifera, fossils, fowl-river, geology, geoscientificinformation, grand-bay, gulf-of-mexico, location, microfossil, micropaleontology, mississippi, mississippi-sound, oceans, pascagoula, protists, salt-marsh, sediment, u-s-geological-survey, unconsolidated-deposits, usgs, usgs-9fae5794-2505-40a2-9278-25cff4a63027
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 Woodville Karst Plain

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 dataset contains a polygon of the Woodville 
karst plain.

Tags: acf, alabama, apalachicola-chattahoochee-flint-river-basin, aquifer, closed-depressions, depression-density, environment, florida, floridan-aquifer-system, geology, georgia, geoscientificinformation, groundwater, hydrogeology, inlandwaters, major-springs, regional-groundwater-availability-study, south-carolina, spring-locations, springsheds, stratigraphy, usgs-9fa625e9-fd11-4c5c-ba1e-8b877fc48674, woodville-karst-plain
Organization: Department of the Interior
2012 Digitized Shoreline for Breton Island, Louisiana(Geographic, NAD83)

Shorelines were derived from a U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observations and Science Center (EROS) high-resolution orthorectified image that was collected on October 20, 2012 over Breton Island, Louisiana. Shorelines were digitized in ArcMap 10.2.2 so they could be used for area and shoreline change analysis using the Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) version 4.0.

Tags: barrier-island-migration, boundaries, breton-island, coastal, coastal-processes, elevation, environment, erosion, geoscientificinformation, gulf-of-mexico, la, lidar, louisiana, mapping, mean-high-water, oceans, shore, shoreline, shoreline-accretion, shoreline-data, shoreline-erosion, shoreline-map, usa, usgs-9fa3793d-37db-48d4-b71f-10447514a3c4, vectorization
Organization: Department of the Interior