AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Data for Determining Age of Barrow's Goldeneye (Bucephala islandica) from External Characteristics, Alaska and Canada, 2007-2015

These data describe an exercise in which known age and sex class of 100 Barrow’s goldeneyes (Bucephala islandica), determined by expert examination bursa and plumage, was contrasted with age and sex classes estimated from photos by trained observers. 

Tags: age-composition, alaska, animals-vertebrates, barrows-goldeneye, biota, birds, british-columbia, bucephala-islandica, canada, ducks-geese-swans, environment, field-sampling, indian-arm, migratory-birds, plumage, population-dynamics, prince-william-sound, sexing-plants-and-animals, stephens-passage, terrestrial-ecosystems, usgs-asc312, waterfowl, wildlife-biology
Organization: Department of the Interior
Imputed daily salinity and associated covariates to support statistical modeling for 91 salinity monitoring sites in the northern Gulf of Mexico

Imputed salinities from either salinity or specific conductance observations and covariate data in data structures deemed suitable for statistical modeling of salinity in near-coastal environments of the northern Gulf of Mexico are provided for 15 salinity groups. The data herein were created by the 'covardr2formodel.R' script of 'covESTUSAL software' (Asquith and others, 2023), which represents terminal decisions on variable setup and transformations. The design ideal is data downloaded from this data release would be used in some path of “input” within statistical modeling software. Copious documentation of the decision process for data assembly is provided by Asquith and others (2023).

Tags: estuary, gulf-of-mexico, modeling, salinity, usgs-644befe8d34e45f6ddcd47a5
Organization: Department of the Interior
Concentrations of tetrachloroethylene in tree-core samples at the Vienna Wells site on July 29, 2014, Vienna, Missouri.

Concentrations of tetrachloroethylene in tree-core samples at the Vienna Wells site on July 29, 2014, Vienna, Missouri. Also contains information on tree-trunk diameter and species.

Tags: environment, phytoforensics, superfund-site, usgs-59937b71e4b02da3062a17bd, vegetation
Organization: Department of the Interior
Development: Development delineation: Rhode Island National Wildlife Refuge, RI, 2014

Understanding how sea-level rise will affect coastal landforms and the species and habitats they support is critical for crafting approaches that balance the needs of humans and native species. Given this increasing need to forecast sea-level rise effects on barrier islands in the near and long terms, we are developing Bayesian networks to evaluate and to forecast the cascading effects of sea-level rise on shoreline change, barrier island state, and piping plover habitat availability. We use publicly available data products, such as lidar, orthophotography, and geomorphic feature sets derived from those, to extract metrics of barrier island characteristics at consistent sampling distances. The metrics are then incorporated into predictive models and the training data used to parameterize those models. This data release contains the extracted metrics of barrier island geomorphology and spatial data layers of habitat characteristics that are input to Bayesian networks for piping plover habitat availability and barrier island geomorphology. These datasets and models are being developed for sites along the northeastern coast of the United States. This work is one component of a larger research and management program that seeks to understand and sustain the ecological value, ecosystem services, and habitat suitability of beaches in the face of storm impacts, climate change, and sea-level rise.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, barrier-island, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, coastal-armoring, coastal-habitat, coastal-hazards, environment, geographic-information-systems, geospatial-datasets, gis, human-development, land-use-and-land-cover, north-america, rhode-island, rhode-island-national-wildlife-refuge-complex, ri, st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, trustom-pond, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usa, usgs, usgs-5daa376fe4b09fd3b0c9ce74, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital Orthorectified Aerial Image of Cottonwood Lake Study Area Wetlands P2 and P4 from 2003

Orthorectified image from aerial photograph of wetlands P2 and P4 in the Cottonwood Lake Study Area, Stutsman County, North Dakota. This image is part of a collection of photographs of the study area acquired during July and early August from 1975 to 2015.

Tags: aerial-photography, chase-lake-wetland-management-districtgtstutsman-county-waterfowl-production-areagteddy, chase-lake-wetland-management-districtgtstutsman-county-waterfowl-production-areagtshuler, cottonwood-lake-study-area, earth-sciencegtbiospheregtecosystemsgtaquatic-ecosystemsgtwetlands, earth-sciencegtbiospheregtecosystemsgtterrestrial-ecosystemsgtwetlands, environment, image-collections, imagerybasemapsearthcover, inlandwaters, north-dakota, northern-great-plains, platformgtaerial-photographs, prairie-pothole-region, stutsman-county, surface-water-non-marine, united-states-of-america, usgs-588a0e16e4b0ba3b075e06d6, wetland-ecosystems
Organization: Department of the Interior
Shrew (Sorex sp.) Gut Contents Identified by DNA Metabarcoding, North America, 1968-2016

This data package contains four tables related to helminths and bacteria identified in the guts of North American shrews (Genus: Sorex). Tables include: two tables of specimen information about each shrew, such as species, museum collection identification, and NCBI accession IDs; one table of NBCI GenBank accession numbers of previously identified DNA sequences used in this study to design the helminth markers and serve as a reference library for the sequences obtained; and one table of taxonomic details of gut bacteria identified in this study.

Tags: alaska, animals-vertebrates, bacteria-archaea, bacteriology, biodiversity, biota, canada, cestoda, colorado, community-dynamics, community-structure, dna-barcoding-taxonomic, dna-sequencing, ecological-distribution, ecological-dynamics, endoparasites, environment, flatworms-flukes-tapeworms, gastrointestinal-microbiome, genetics, helminths, horsehair-worms, hosts, mammals, nematoda, new-mexico, northwest-territories, parasites, platyhelminths, rna-ribosomal-16s, roundworms, shrews, usgs-asc313, yukon-territory
Organization: Department of the Interior
Wind rose plots for the volcano: 306040  Halla

This zip folder contains ASCII text files of vectors at the specified volcano at 
12-hour intervals, 
from January 1, 1990 through December 28, 2009.  
The wind vectors are divided into five files, names by their elevation range above 
sea level in the atmosphere: 00-05km.txt; 05-11km.txt; 11-16km.txt; 16-24km.txt; 
and 24-30km.txt. 
The zip folder also contains a subfolder "figures", with Wind rose plots of wind 
direction and speed over 
this time period.  The plots are by season, and by elevation, given a total of 20 
plots (4 seasons, 5 
elevation ranges).  A summary plot is also included which gives the year-round 
wind pattern at the volcano, 
at 0-5 km elevation.  Plots are in both jpg and pdf format.

Tags: meteorology, usgs-58d0152ce4b0236b68f52f14, volcanic-ash, volcanic-eruption-forecasting, wind
Organization: Department of the Interior
National Assessment of Oil and Gas Project - Denver Basin Province (039) Boundary

The USGS Central Region Energy Team assesses oil and gas resources of the United States.  The onshore and State water areas of the United States comprise 71 provinces.  Within these provinces, Total Petroleum Systems are defined and Assessment Units are defined and assessed.  Each of these provinces is defined geologically, and most province boundaries are defined by major geologic changes.  
The Denver Basin Province is located in eastern Colorado, western Nebraska, southern South Dakota, and eastern Wyoming encompassing all or parts of Pueblo, El Paso, Crowley, Lincoln, Kit Carson, Elbert, Teller, Douglas, Jefferson, Denver, Arapahoe, Adams, Washington, Yuma, Morgan, Weld, Broomfield, Boulder, Larimer, Logan, Sedwick, Freemont, and Phillips Counties in Colorado. All or parts of Cheyenne, Deuel, Kimball, Banner, Scotts Bluff, Morrill, Garden, Sheridan, Box Butte, Sioux, and Dawes Counties in Nebraska. All or parts of Laramie, Platte, and Goshen Counties in Wyoming, and all of parts of Custer, Fall River, and Shannon Counties in South Dakota. The main population centers within the study area are Denver, Colorado Springs, Fort Collins, and Greeley Colo.; Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Scottsbluff, Nebraska.  The main highways, I-70 and I-80 generally traverse the area from east to west, while I-25 generally traverse the area from north to south. The province boundary was drawn to include the geologic structures generally considered to be in or bounding the Denver Basin.

Tags: 39-denver-basin-province, 503901-coalbed-methane, 50390181-denver-formation-coals, 50390182-laramie-formation-coals, 503902-upper-cretaceous-fractured-niobrara, 50390201-fractured-niobrara-limestone-transitional, 50390261-fractured-niobrara-limestone-silo-field-area, 503903-upper-cretaceous-pierre-shale, 50390361-fractured-pierre-shale, 503904-lower-cretaceous, 50390401-dakota-group-and-d-sandstone, 50390402-subthrust-structural, 503905-permian-pennsylvanian, 50390501-permian-pennsylvanian-reservoirs, 503906-cretaceous-composite, 50390601-pierre-shale-sandstones, 50390661-niobrara-codell-wattenberg-area, 50390662-dakota-group-basin-center-gas, 503907-upper-cretaceous-niobrara-biogenic-gas, 50390761-niobrara-chalk, co, coalbed-methane-resources, colorado-plateau, colorado-plateau-and-basin-and-range, denver-basin, earth-science, economic-geology, energy-resources, gas-hydrate-resources, geology, geoscientificinformation, higley-debra, ks, national-assessment-of-oil-and-gas, natural-gas, natural-gas-resources, natural-resources, ne, noga2000, nogadbasin, oil, oil-sand-resources, oil-shale-resources, oilgas, petroleum, province, resource-assessment, sd, sedimentary-basin, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, us08-colorado, us20-kansas, us31-nebraska, us46-south-dakota, us56-wyoming, usgs, usgs-60ad0baad34e4043c850de46, usgs-world-energy-region-5, wy
Organization: Department of the Interior
Raw and Modified Raw Continuous Resistivity Profile Data Collected in the Potomac River/Chesapeake Bay on Sept. 6, 2006

In order to test hypotheses about groundwater flow under and into Chesapeake Bay, geophysical surveys were conducted by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists on Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac River Estuary in September 2006. Chesapeake Bay resource managers are concerned about nutrients that are entering the estuary via submarine groundwater discharge, which are contributing to eutrophication. The USGS has performed many related studies in recent years to provide managers with information necessary to make informed decisions about this issue. The research carried out as part of the study described here was designed to help refine nutrient budgets for Chesapeake Bay by characterizing submarine groundwater flow and discharge of groundwater beneath part of the mainstem and a major tributary, the Potomac River Estuary.

Tags: agi-supersting, bathymetry, chesapeake-bay, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, continuous-resistivity-profiling, crp, dennis-point-marina, elevation, field-activity-serial-number-06018, geoscientificinformation, groundwater, info-bank-id-k-1-06-ch, inlandwaters, location, lowrance-gps, maryland, navigation, navigational-data, north-america, north-atlantic, oceans, patuxent-river, potomac-river-estuary, r-v-kerhin, raw-data, solomons-maryland, submarine-groundwater, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-52d10a0f-38b2-4eed-98ad-918cf088bc6f, virginia, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Karner blue butterfly densities, resource densities, and resource use at Sandhill Wildlife Area, Wisconsin, 2016

Insects with morphologically different life stages can face a time tradeoff between foraging and egg-laying behavior when larval and adult resources are spatially segregated. Understanding this tradeoff in the Karner blue butterfly (Lycaeides melissa samuelis) can inform resource management for this federally endangered species under changing resource distribution and availability. We collected data on adult butterfly densities, larval (wild blue lupine, Lupinus perennis) and adult (nectaring plants) resource densities, and adult resource use. We defined “resource use” as anytime a butterfly was found (resting, crawling, feeding, laying eggs, mating) on a resource. Data were collected in eight habitat patches (10 x 10 m) occupied by Karner blue butterfly adults across an area of about 105 hectares at Sandhill Wildlife Area, Wisconsin during the first and second adult generations. Butterfly surveys were conducted using modified Pollard-Yates transects in each of the eight plots. Samples of lupine and nectar density were taken in each of the eight plots, one at each of the four corners, and one along each side. Lupine and nectar density samples were also taken across the entire landscape, independent of butterfly presence.

Tags: babcock-wisconsin, butterflies-and-moths, conservation, farming, habitats, natural-resource-management, sandhill-wildlife-area, usgs-5a60cc21e4b06e28e9c13d2d
Organization: Department of the Interior
The Effects of Flow Extremes on Native and Non-Native Stream Fishes in Puerto Rico (Deprecated July 2024)

Freshwater fish are among the most vulnerable taxa to climate change globally but are generally understudied in tropical island ecosystems. Climate change is predicted to alter the intensity, frequency, and variability of extreme flow events on the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico. These changes may impact Caribbean native and non-native stream ecosystems and biota complex ways. We compiled an extensive dataset of native and non-native fish assemblages collected at 119 sites across Puerto Rico from 2005 to 2015. We coupled these data with stream flow indices and dam height to understand how flow dynamics drive fish assemblage structure. Sixteen percent of sites contained exclusively non-native species, 34% contained exclusively native species, and 50% contained a mix of native and non-native species. We built generalized linear models to identify the most critical flow variables for explaining variation in native and non-native species richness and biomass. Mean daily flow was the most important flow variable in driving native species richness (β=-0.06; p&lt;0.05), while flashiness was the most important for non-native species richness (β=1.47; p&lt;0.05). Extreme flow durations were important in explaining variations in native and non-native biomass. Native and non-native biomass decreased by -12.13 kg/ha and -5.93 kg/ha, respectively, with longer annual average low flow durations (p&lt;0.05). Non-native biomass increased by 2.16 kg/ha with longer maximum low flow durations (p&lt;0.05). Annual average low flow durations had a negative effect on both native and non-native assemblages, but the effect on native biomass was twice as large. Native species may be more resilient to one-off extreme low flow events, and non-native species may be more tolerant to the natural flashy flows in the Caribbean than expected. Our results are informative for island ecosystems globally and can guide management and conservation of native fish, particularly in the context of non-native species and climate change. Managers may prioritize maintaining connectivity, refugia and habitat complexity in rivers while preventing non-native fish introductions and establishment to conserve native fish diversity and biomass in Caribbean rivers.

Tags: biota, caribbean, caribbean-ecosystems, extreme-events, fish, flow-extremes, native-assemblages, non-native-species, streams, usgs-6500afbfd34ed30c2057f980
Organization: Department of the Interior
Wind rose plots for the volcano: 341080  Chichinautzin

This zip folder contains ASCII text files of vectors at the specified volcano at 
12-hour intervals, 
from January 1, 1990 through December 28, 2009.  
The wind vectors are divided into five files, names by their elevation range above 
sea level in the atmosphere: 00-05km.txt; 05-11km.txt; 11-16km.txt; 16-24km.txt; 
and 24-30km.txt. 
The zip folder also contains a subfolder "figures", with Wind rose plots of wind 
direction and speed over 
this time period.  The plots are by season, and by elevation, given a total of 20 
plots (4 seasons, 5 
elevation ranges).  A summary plot is also included which gives the year-round 
wind pattern at the volcano, 
at 0-5 km elevation.  Plots are in both jpg and pdf format.

Tags: meteorology, usgs-58d01686e4b0236b68f530ce, volcanic-ash, volcanic-eruption-forecasting, wind
Organization: Department of the Interior
Recent historical and projected (years 2006–99) areas (km2) of managed, flooded habitats used by waterbirds overwintering in Central Valley, California basins for 17 climate, urbanization, and water management scenarios.

The dataset accompanies Figures 2–4 of Matchett and Fleskes (2018) and therein the subject data are referenced as "Table A1". Data summarize peak abundance (km2) of Central Valley waterbird habitats (i.e., wetland and flooded cropland types) that are available between August and April (of the following year) for each of 17 projected scenarios by planning basin, scenario, and habitat. Area of each habitat for each scenario-basin combination is provided for the month when the most area of the respective habitat is typically flooded and available for waterbird use (i.e., January for all wetlands and winter-flooded rice and corn, and September for other winter-flooded crops in Tulare Basin). The dataset also includes relatively recent (year 2005) area of habitat (i.e., “existing_km2”) for comparison with habitat areas based on scenarios. Flooded cropland habitats are defined as winter-flooded rice, winter-flooded corn, and other winter-flooded cropland (in Tulare basin). Wetlands are defined as summer-irrigated seasonal wetland, seasonal wetland that is not summer irrigated, and semipermanent wetland (combines semipermanent and permanent wetland types). This dataset includes results for eight of nine basins defined by the Central Valley Joint Venture in the Central Valley Joint Venture Implementation Plan (2006); subject basins are the Colusa, Butte, Sutter, American, Yolo, Delta, San Joaquin, and Tulare Basins (Suisun Basin excluded). Data on availability of waterbird habitats is summarized by planning basin, scenario, habitat, and month in 5 metrics (in addition to recent historical area): the least available area; areas available in ≥ 25%, ≥ 50%, and ≥ 75% of years; and maximum available area.
These data support the following publication: Matchett EL, Fleskes JP. 2018. Waterbird habitat in California’s Central Valley basins under climate, urbanization, and water management scenarios. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management. Online early. doi:10.3996/122016-JFWM-095

Tags: basin, birds, central-valley-of-california, climate-change, cropland, habitat-alteration, habitats, urbanization, usgs-59a8a446e4b07e1a023b911d, water-availability, water-resource-management, water-resources, water-use, waterbirds, wetland-restoration, wetlands
Organization: Department of the Interior
Eutrophication models to simulate changes in the water quality of Green Lake, Wisconsin in response to changes in in phosphorus loading and supporting water-quality data for the lake, its tributaries, and atmospheric deposition

In this data release, we provide data to describe the water quality in Green Lake, Wisconsin, from 1905 to 2020, primarily the constituents for which it is impaired, including near-surface total phosphorus concentrations and metalimnetic dissolved oxygen concentrations, and quantify the water and phosphorus inputs to the lake. We also provide inputs to and outputs from the General Lake Model coupled to the Aquatic Ecodynamics modeling library (GLM-AED) hydrodynamic water-quality model to describe the factors that have caused low dissolved oxygen concentrations in the metalimnion of Green Lake; and quantify how changes in phosphorus loading should affect near-surface total phosphorus and chlorophyll-a concentrations, water clarity, and the minimum dissolved oxygen concentrations in the metalimnion the lake. This data release includes 5 zipped files in child items: (1) Met_Stream_Lake_data, which contains morphology, meteorology, atmospheric deposition, water quality data and mass balance data for the lake; (2) GLM_calibration, which contains inputs to and outputs from the GLM model for which physical parameters in the model were calibrated; (3) GLMAED_Calibration, which contains inputs to and outputs from the GLM-AED model for which physical, chemical, and biological parameters in the model were calibrated; (4) GLMAED_MOMCauses, which contains all of the data needed to run the model to determine the causes of metalimnetic oxygen minima (MOM), and the outputs from the model; and (5) GLMAED_ChangesInPhosphorusLoading, which contains all of the data needed to run the model to determine how dissolved oxygen, near surface total phosphorus, and near-surface chlorophyll-a concentrations respond to changes in phosphorus loading from the watershed, and the outputs from the model.

Tags: aquatic-biology, atmospheric-deposition, biota, chlorophyll, dissolved-oxygen, freshwater-ecosystems, glm-aed-model, green-lake, green-lake-county, lake, limnology, metalimnetic, meteorology, minimum, morphology, nutrients, plankton, secchi-depth, streams, surface-water-quality, temperature, total-phosphorus, usgs-60a4145ed34ea221ce45d83d, water-quality, wisconsin
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mangrove coverage of Ten Thousand Islands NWR, Florida in 2005

This shapefile is the approximate location of mangroves within the boundary of Ten Thousand Islands NWR in 2005.

Tags: biota, collier-county, florida, gulf-of-mexico, southern-florida, ten-thousand-islands-national-wildlife-refuge, usa, usgs-5bae8742e4b08583a5d3126f
Organization: Department of the Interior
Structure-from-Motion model for the Nelson Slides area, Mushroom Rock region, northeastern California

This dataset contains a point cloud and corresponding orthophoto of the bedrock cliff exposure at Nelson Slides, California, USA

Tags: burney, california, geologic-faulting, geospatial-datasets, mccloud, miocene, pleistocene, pliocene, quaternary, shasta-county, siskiyou-county, structure-from-motion, usgs-622697c7d34ee0c6b38b7b56, volcanic-rocks
Organization: Department of the Interior