AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Riparian Vegetation Structure and Composition of Wadeable Streams Monitoring for the Northern Colorado Plateau Network: 2008-2021 – Data Package

Because of the scarcity of water on the Colorado Plateau and their disproportionately high use by flora and fauna, riparian areas have been identified as an ecosystem of concern for Northern Colorado Plateau Network (NCPN) parks. Riparian ecosystems are potentially sensitive indicators of landscape-level change because they are linked to both aquatic and upland systems, perform important ecological functions, and are biologically diverse. Riparian systems face a number of anthropogenic threats, including stream-flow damming or diversion, channel-stabilization structures, invasive exotic species, livestock grazing, timber harvesting, agricultural clearing, groundwater pumping, and trail creation. These disturbances can alter watershed conditions and directly or indirectly influence downstream riparian ecosystems.

In the Northern Colorado Plateau Network, riparian monitoring of wadeable streams occurs in the streams of four parks: Courthouse Wash in Arches National Park, Armstrong Canyon in Natural Bridges National Monument, the Fremont River in Capitol Reef National Park, and the East Fork Virgin River in Zion National Park. This data package pertains to the vital sign riparian vegetation structure and composition. The goal for monitoring this vital sign is to determine long-term trends in vegetation dynamics in the context of changes in other ecological drivers, stressors, and processes. Above-ground structures of riparian plants modify the physical environment by shading and depositing litter, strongly affecting spatial and temporal patterns of soil-resource availability to other organisms. The data herein includes vegetation and surface cover, tree seedling counts, diameter and counts of overstory trees, canopy closure, and frequency of exotic species.

Tags: canopies, climate, diameter-at-breast-height, long-term-monitoring, riparian, trees, vegetation, water-resources
Organization: Department of the Interior
SFCN Spiny Lobster Data Package Version 1.2: 2019-2024

The Caribbean spiny lobster (Panulirus argus) is one of the most economically important fisheries in both Florida and the USVI. The crustacean is under substantial recreational and commercial fishing pressure in the regions and in some cases within park boundaries. The monitoring program objectives focus on estimating a population level relative density index, frequency of occurrence index, and average size of spiny lobster and using these metrics to assess changes through time. Changes in these metrics can be evaluated after each survey season and with respect to habitat features, physical environment, and management actions.

This dataset includes data from the following sampling missions:

2019 - Buck Island Reef National Monument and Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve
2021 - Virgin Islands National Park
2021 - Deep-water surveys (100 - 150ft) around St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands as part of a NOAA Cooperative Agreement
2021 - Deep-water surveys (100 - 150ft) around St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands as part of a NOAA Cooperative Agreement
2022 - Biscayne National Park
2023 - Dry Tortugas National Park
2024 - Buck Island Reef National Monument and Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve

This release contains three separate data files:

- Site data: Describes site-level information for lobster surveys. It contains count totals summed from the plot-level. In rare circumstances, if insufficient hardbottom was available, only one plot (not the typical two) was conducted at a site. This is documented in the notes column and the PlotNotVisited column in the Plot data.

- Plot data: Describes diver-level observations within their portion(s) of a lobster survey. Each survey site has two plots, where each diver is responsible for surveying one-half of each plot. Thus, there are 4 records for each plot (1A, 1B, 2A, 2B). In rare circumstances, only enough hardbottom existed to conduct a single plot at a site. This is indicated in the notes column.

- Lobster data: Describes size and demographic characteristics for all individual observed lobsters.

Tags: abundance, caribbean-spiny-lobster, density, lobster, panulirus-argus, spiny-lobster, survey
Organization: Department of the Interior
[PILOT] Herpetological Monitoring Surveys for the Southeast Coast Network: 2011-2012 and 2014 - Raw Data

The Southeast Coast Network (SECN) initiated a pilot program using Automated Recording Devices (ARDs) to monitor vocal anurans in the network parks, with a particular focus emphasis on amphibians. Anurans were chosen for monitoring because of their global importance as ecological indicators, documented population declines and extinctions, and their high level of diversity in the Southeast. The overall goal of the pilot program was to determine trends in species occupancy, distribution, diversity, and community composition in SECN parks. Monitoring was conducted in the spring and summer with ARDs being deployed for 77-day periods. Park boundaries were used as sampling frames and a suite of spatially-balanced random sampling locations were drawn from 0.5-ha grids. Recordings were first machine processed to match vocalization hits using species-detecting algorithms, before being manually processed by researchers for QA/QC purposes. Over 192,000 signal detections determined to represent (in part) approximately 25 species were observed at 10 NPS park units in 2011, 2012, and 2014. Data collected under this protocol are stored in the SECN data management system and are available online in the Integration of Resource Management Applications (IRMA) database maintained by the Inventory and Monitoring Division national office located in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Tags: acoustic-monitoring, anuran, ard, audio-recording, automated-recording-device, caha, calo, cana, canaveral-national-seashore, cape-hatteras-national-seashore, cape-lookout-national-seashore, chat, chattahoochee-river-national-recreation-area, cong, congaree-national-park, cuis, cumberland-island-national-seashore, fofr, foma, fopu, fort-caroline-national-memorial, fort-frederica-national-monument, fort-matanzas-national-monument, fort-pulaski-national-monument, fort-sumter-national-monument, fosu, frog, herp, hobe, horseshoe-bend-national-military-park, kemo, kennesaw-mountain-national-battlefield-park, long-term-monitoring, mocr, moores-creek-national-battlefield, national-park-service, ocmu, ocmulgee-national-monument, reptile, snake, timu, timucuan-ecological-and-historic-preserve, toad, treefrog, turtle, vocal-anuran
Organization: Department of the Interior
Roadkill on HWY 20/26/93 through Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve from Incidental Carcass Counts

Excel spreadsheet with all roadkill data on the HWY through CRMO and within CRMO on the Loop rd. from 1963 to 2023. An update to 2021 version with 2 additional years of data.

Tags: roadkill
Organization: Department of the Interior
Imagery data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Saguaro National Park

This reference contains the imagery data used in the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit.  Orthophotos, raw imagery, and scanned aerial photos are common files held here.

PAG imagery was acquired, at no cost, in the form of natural-color, 1-foot resolution aerial photos. Although these did not contain a near-infrared (NIR) band, which can be useful for visually identifying vegetation in certain environments, the resolution was such that individual shrub canopies and cacti shadows were visible, which proved far more useful in the park’s sparsely vegetated desert areas. At the RMD, multiple remote-sensing mapping efforts were used throughout this project. Not all were fully successful, but the project team learned from each of them. The same PAG imagery that was available for the TMD also covered the RMD, in the form of natural-color, aerial photos of 1-foot resolution from 2011. The RMD had also recently been surveyed using Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR). These raw data were made available to us and our project partners at no cost. The LiDAR measurements, contracted by the Pima Association of Governments in 2008 and 2011, were collected by Sanborn, Inc. The 2008 measurements encompassed portions of eastern Pima County and the western half of the RMD. The 2011 measurements included the eastern half of the RMD, providing a complete dataset for the study area.

Tags: accuracy-assessment, botanical-survey, classification, geodatabase, habitat-types, imagery, national-vegetation-classification, nvc, nvcs, plots, releve, remote-sensing, usnvcs, vegetation, vegetation-inventory, vegetation-map, vegetation-mapping
Organization: Department of the Interior
Streams Ecological Integrity (SEI) Site and Event Data for the Rocky Mountain Network (ROMN): 2007-2024 – Data Package

This data package provides basic information such as date, time, and location information for each streams site and each sampling event for the Rocky Mountain Network’s (ROMN's) ongoing Stream Ecological Integrity (SEI) protocol from 2007-2024.

The Rocky Mountain Inventory & Monitoring (I&M) Network (ROMN) includes a wide range of environments ranging from mountain peaks to deciduous forests to western grasslands. This data package relates to the protocol which monitors Stream Ecological Integrity (SEI) within four network parks: Glacier National Park, Rocky Mountain National Park, Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site, Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument (GLAC, ROMO, GRKO, LIBI). The overall goals for long-term ecological monitoring of ROMN streams focus on documenting the status and trend in stream condition and understanding what's driving change in stream condition to support park management decision-making.

Tags: bioassessment, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-riparian-communities, monitoring, rocky-mountain-network, romn, stream-ecology, streams, survey
Organization: Department of the Interior
Yellow-billed Cuckoo Inventory at Petrified Forest National Park 2023 - Open Format Dataset

Petrified Forest National Park is planning on removing invasive vegetation and restoring native plants along the Rio Puerco. Prior to removal, we conducted surveys for the federally Threatened Yellow-billed Cuckoo, following established survey protocols. Over the course of four surveys, we encountered two Yellow-billed cuckoos in each of two survey periods (four total detections, though possibly representing fewer than four birds). We did not detect any evidence of breeding behavior. We recommend continued monitoring for this species in the park, and proceeding with riparian restoration in accordance with methods that avoid negative impacts to Yellow-billed Cuckoos.

Tags: darwin-core-archive-dwc-a, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-at-risk-biota-te-species-and-communities, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-birds, imd, national-park-service, nps, nps-inventory-and-monitoring-division, nps-species-inventory-program, pefo, petrified-forest-national-park, survey, yellow-billed-cuckoo
Organization: Department of the Interior
Gulf Coast Network 1976-2023 Water Quality Data from Ten Park Projects as of 2024-03-06

This data package was created 2024-10-17 13:01:06 by NPSTORET and includes selected project, location, and result data.

Data contained in the Gulf Coast Network NPSTORET back-end file (GULN_NPSTORET_BE_20240306_20240306_1649.ACCDB) were filtered to include:
Station:
- Include Trip QC And All Station Visit Results
Value Status:
- Accepted or Certified (exported as Final) or Final

The data package is organized into five data tables:
- Projects.csv - describes the purpose and background of the monitoring efforts
- Locations.csv - documents the attributes of the monitoring locations/stations
- Results.csv - contains the field measurements, observations, and/or lab analyses for each sample/event/data grouping
- HUC.csv - enumerates the domain of allowed values for 8-digit and 12-digit hydrologic unit codes utilized by the Locations datatable
- Characteristics.csv - enumerates the domain of characteristics available in NPSTORET to identify what was sampled, measured or observed in Results

Period of record for filtered data is 1976-05-05 to 2023-12-28.  This data package is a snapshot in time of multiple National Park Service projects. The most current data for these projects, which may be more or less extensive than that in this data package, can be found on the Water Quality Portal at:
https://www.waterqualitydata.us/data/Result/search?project=BITH_HAR
https://www.waterqualitydata.us/data/Result/search?project=BITH_WQ
https://www.waterqualitydata.us/data/Result/search?project=GUIS_WQ
https://www.waterqualitydata.us/data/Result/search?project=JELA_WQ
https://www.waterqualitydata.us/data/Result/search?project=NATR_L1
https://www.waterqualitydata.us/data/Result/search?project=NATR_WQ
https://www.waterqualitydata.us/data/Result/search?project=PAAL_WQ
https://www.waterqualitydata.us/data/Result/search?project=PAIS_WQ
https://www.waterqualitydata.us/data/Result/search?project=SAAN_WQ
https://www.waterqualitydata.us/data/Result/search?project=VICK_WQ

Tags: acid-neutralizing-capacity, air-temperature, alkalinity, ammonia, ammonium, atmospheric-properties, bacteria, cadmium, calcium, carbon, chemical-properties, chloride, chlorophyll-a, chromium, copper, depth, dissolved-oxygen, ecosystem-properties, elements-and-compounds, inorganic-nitrogen, iron, lead, magnesium, nickel, nitrate, nitrite, nitrogen, nitrogen-compounds, npstoret, ph, phosphate, phosphorus, potassium, precipitation, salinity, secchi-depth, sodium, species-diversity, specific-conductivity, streamflow, sulfate, suspended-solids, turbidity, water-properties, water-quality, water-temperature, weather, zinc
Organization: Department of the Interior
Great Lakes Network 2006-2023 Inland Lakes Water Quality Monitoring Data as of 2024-04-19

This data package was created 2024-10-17 15:12:07 by NPSTORET and includes selected project, location, and result data.

Data contained in Great Lakes Network NPSTORET back-end file (GLKNLKWQ_NPSTORET_BE_2024_04_19_20240419_1142.ACCDB) were filtered to include:
Station:
- Include Trip QC And All Station Visit Results
Value Status:
- Accepted or Certified (exported as Final) or Final

The data package is organized into five data tables:
- Projects.csv - describes the purpose and background of the monitoring efforts
- Locations.csv - documents the attributes of the monitoring locations/stations
- Results.csv - contains the field measurements, observations, and/or lab analyses for each sample/event/data grouping
- HUC.csv - enumerates the domain of allowed values for 8-digit and 12-digit hydrologic unit codes utilized by the Locations datatable
- Characteristics.csv - enumerates the domain of characteristics available in NPSTORET to identify what was sampled, measured or observed in Results

Period of record for filtered data is 2006-05-02 to 2023-09-20.  This data package is a snapshot in time of one National Park Service project. The most current data for this project, which may be more or less extensive than that in this data package, can be found on the Water Quality Portal at:
https://www.waterqualitydata.us/data/Result/search?project=GLKNLKWQ

Tags: air-temperature, alkalinity, ammonium, biological-substances, calcium, carbon, chloride, chlorophyll-a, depth, dissolved-organic-compounds, dissolved-oxygen, elements-and-compounds, lake-water-quality-monitor, magnesium, nitrogen, nitrogen-compounds, npstoret, ph, phosphorus, physical-properties, potassium, secchi-depth, sodium, specific-conductivity, sulfate, suspended-solids, water-level, water-properties, water-quality, water-temperature, wave-height, weather, wind, wind-direction
Organization: Department of the Interior
Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park and Curecanti National Recreation Area 1959-2024 Water Quality Data from the BLCA_CURE_WQ Project as of 2024-01-19

This data package was created 2024-10-17 14:21:45 by NPSTORET and includes selected project, location, and result data.

The data derive from three sources: (1) samples collected by the park and analyzed by the USGS National Water Quality Lab that aren’t in the USGS National Water Information System (NWIS); (2) field measurements and observations or lab analyses conducted by park staff that aren’t in NWIS; and (3) NWIS data collected by the USGS that aren’t part of the monitoring program at Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park and Curecanti National Recreation Area.

Data contained in the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park and Curecanti National Recreation Area NPSTORET back-end file (BLCACURE_NPSTORET_BE_20240403_0716.accdb) were filtered to include:

Organization:
- BLCACURE: Black Canyon of the Gunnison NP and Curecanti NRA
Station:
- Include Trip QC And All Station Visit Results
Value Status:
- Accepted or Certified (exported as Final) or Final
Excluded 9670 results because the parameter is not in WQX/EQuIS.

The data package is organized into six data tables:
- Projects.csv - describes the purpose and background of the monitoring efforts
- Locations.csv - documents the attributes of the monitoring locations/stations
- Results.csv - contains the field measurements, observations, and/or lab analyses for each sample/event/data grouping
- HUC.csv - enumerates the domain of allowed values for 8-digit and 12-digit hydrologic unit codes utilized by the Locations datatable
- Characteristics.csv - enumerates the domain of characteristics available in NPSTORET to identify what was sampled, measured or observed in Results
- Taxon.csv - enumerates the domain of taxa available in NPSTORET to identify the organism sampled for Results

Period of record for filtered data is 1959-06-16 to 2024-01-19.  This data package is a snapshot in time of one National Park Service project. The most current data for this project, which may be more or less extensive than that in this data package, can be found on the Water Quality Portal at:
https://www.waterqualitydata.us/data/Result/search?project=BLCA_CURE_WQ

Tags: acid-neutralizing-capacity, air-temperature, algae, alkalinity, aluminum, ammonia, antimony, atmospheric-pressure, atmospheric-properties, bacteria, biomass, boron, cadmium, calcium, carbon, chemical-properties, chloride, chlorophyll-a, chromium, copper, depth, dissolved-organic-compounds, dissolved-oxygen, ecosystem-properties, elements-and-compounds, fish, fluoride, hydrogen-ions, hydrological-properties, ions, iron, isotopes, lead, magnesium, manganese, nickel, nitrate, nitrite, nitrogen, nitrogen-compounds, npstoret, organic-nitrogen, particulates, pcbs, pesticide-and-herbicide-contamination, ph, phaeophytin, phosphate, phosphorus, potassium, secchi-depth, silica, sodium, specific-conductivity, streamflow, strontium, sulfate, sulfur, turbidity, water-content, water-properties, water-quality, water-temperature, weather, zinc
Organization: Department of the Interior
Pilot Landbird Monitoring throughout the Southeast Coast Network, 2009-2010 - Raw Data

The Southeast Coast Network (SECN) initiated a pilot program using the Variable-radius circular plot point count method as a way to establish a quality-control method for data collected via automated recording devices (ARDs). Landbirds were selected as a vital sign for monitoring due to their interaction with several trophic levels in the environments they reside in, leading to landbird populations being an effective way to analyze the ecological conditions of those environments. The monitoring was performed in the spring of 2009 and 2010, where selected park units were surveyed once. Observations were made from sampling locations scattered throughout each park. Observed birds, either visually or audially, were recorded throughout a 12-minute time period at each sampling point. Over 19,000 observations of 173 species were made across 14 NPS park units in 2009 and 2010. Data collected under this protocol are stored in the SECN data management system and are available online in the Integration of Resource Management Applications (IRMA) database maintained by the Inventory and Monitoring Division national office located in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Tags: biota, birds, caha, calo, cana, canaveral-national-seashore, cape-hatteras-national-seashore, cape-lookout-national-seashore, chat, chattahoochee-river-national-recreation-area, cong, congaree-national-park, cuis, cumberland-island-national-seashore, foca, foma, fopu, fort-caroline-national-memorial, fort-matanzas-national-monument, fort-pulaski-national-monument, fort-sumter-and-fort-moultrie-national-historical-park, fort-sumter-national-monument, fosu, hobe, horseshoe-bend-national-military-park, kemo, kennesaw-mountain-national-battlefield-park, landbirds, mocr, monitoring, moores-creek-national-battlefield, national-park-service, ocmu, ocmulgee-mounds-national-historical-park, secn, southeast-coast-network, timu, timucuan-ecological-and-historic-preserve, variable-circular-point-count
Organization: Department of the Interior
Great Smoky Mountains National Park 1991-2023 Noland Divide Water Quality Monitoring Data from the GRSM_ND Project as of 2024-05-10

This data package was created 2024-10-17 16:33:32 by NPSTORET and includes selected project, location, and result data.

Data contained in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park NPSTORET back-end file (GRSM_NPSTORET_BE_20240510_20240510_1245.ACCDB) were filtered to include:
Organization:
- GRSM: Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Project:
- GRSM_ND: GRSM Noland Divide Water Quality Monitoring
Station:
- Include Trip QC And All Station Visit Results
Value Status:
- Accepted or Certified (exported as Final) or Final

The data package is organized into five data tables:
- Projects.csv - describes the purpose and background of the monitoring efforts
- Locations.csv - documents the attributes of the monitoring locations/stations
- Results.csv - contains the field measurements, observations, and/or lab analyses for each sample/event/data grouping
- HUC.csv - enumerates the domain of allowed values for 8-digit and 12-digit hydrologic unit codes utilized by the Locations datatable
- Characteristics.csv - enumerates the domain of characteristics available in NPSTORET to identify what was sampled, measured or observed in Results

Period of record for filtered data is 1991-07-05 to 2023-12-15.  This data package is a snapshot in time of one National Park Service project. The most current data for this project, which may be more or less extensive than that in this data package, can be found on the Water Quality Portal at:
https://www.waterqualitydata.us/data/Result/search?project=GRSM_ND

Tags: acid-neutralizing-capacity, aluminum, ammonium, anions, calcium, cations, chloride, copper, ecosystem-properties, hydrogen-ions, hydrological-properties, iron, magnesium, manganese, nitrate, npstoret, ph, potassium, precipitation, silicon, sodium, soil-properties, specific-conductivity, streamflow, sulfate, water-properties, water-quality, water-temperature, zinc
Organization: Department of the Interior
Great Basin National Park Acoustic Monitoring Report 2015: Off-site Listening Results

This dataset presents summarized results of acoustical data gathered by the Natural Sounds and Night Skies Division (NSNSD) at three sites in Great Basin National Park (GRBA) from August–September of 2015. Specifically, these summaries represent the off-site listening analysis conducted by the Colorado State University Listening Lab. The data summaries include hourly audibility (% time audible) results of each natural and non-natural sound source in a subset of the acoustical dataset. The data herein are described in further detail in the corresponding acoustic monitoring report.

Tags: acoustic-monitoring, acoustical-monitoring, natural-sound, noise, sound-source, soundscape
Organization: Department of the Interior