AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Mean tidal range in marsh units of Fire Island National Seashore and central Great South Bay salt marsh complex, New York


    Biomass production is positively correlated with mean tidal range in salt marshes along the Atlantic coast of the United States of America. Recent studies support the idea that enhanced stability of the marshes can be attributed to increased vegetative growth due to increased tidal range. This dataset displays the spatial variation of mean tidal range (i.e. Mean Range of Tides, MN) in the Fire Island National Seashore and central Great South Bay salt marsh complex,  based on conceptual marsh units defined by Defne and Ganju (2018). MN was based on the calculated difference in height between mean high water (MHW) and mean low water (MLW) using the VDatum (v3.5) database ( http://vdatum.noaa.gov/ ). 
    
    Through scientific efforts initiated with the Hurricane Sandy Science Plan, the U.S. Geological Survey has been expanding national assessment of coastal change hazards and forecast products to coastal wetlands, including the  Fire Island National Seashore and central Great South Bay salt marshes, with the intent of providing Federal, State, and local managers with tools to estimate the vulnerability and ecosystem service potential of these wetlands. For this purpose, the response and resilience of coastal wetlands to physical factors need to be assessed in terms of the ensuing change to their vulnerability and ecosystem services.
    
    References:
    Defne, Z., and Ganju, N.K., 2018, Conceptual marsh units for Fire Island National Seashore and central Great South Bay salt marsh complex, New York: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P95U2MQ7.
   

Tags: atlantic-ocean, bellport-bay, coastal-ecosystems, coastal-processes, environment, estuary, fire-island-national-seashore, geospatial-datasets, great-south-bay, inlandwaters, long-term-ecological-research, lter, marsh-health, narrow-bay, new-york, nicoll-bay, oceans, patchogue-bay, robert-moses-state-park, salt-marsh, suffolk-county, tidal-range, tides-oceanic, united-states, usgs-5bb79be4e4b0fc368e91f56b, vegetation, water-island, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-functions
Organization: Department of the Interior
Survival and drifting patterns of grass carp eggs and larvae in response to interactions with flow and sediment in a laboratory flume

A series of laboratory experiments were conducted to better understand the behavior of grass carp eggs and larvae in moving water in order to develop and implement new strategies for control and prediction of their dispersal and drift at early life stages. Settling velocity and density of a representative sample of eggs were estimated, and three trials of flume experiments with different flow conditions were conducted with live eggs in a temperature-controlled setting with a mobile sediment bed. In these trials, egg and larval stages were continuously analyzed over periods of 80 hours; and eggs and larvae interactions with the flow and sediment bed were monitored and characterized qualitatively and quantitatively. Survival rates were quantified after each trial, highlighting physical causes for increased mortality. Detailed flow analysis was correlated to the observed drifting and swimming behavior of eggs and larvae, to estimate distributions across the water depth, as well as traveling and swimming speeds. Evidence of the influence of mean and turbulent flow in the suspension and transport of eggs are reported, and swimming patterns of larvae at different developmental stages are described. These findings support the development of new strategies for monitoring the spread of eggs and larvae in rivers, and provide new inputs to predict conditions favorable for spawning and hatching, allowing for mitigation measures at early life stages, which are critical to control their dispersal.

Tags: biota, embryo, fluegg, grass-carp, larvae, swimming-behavior, usgs-5bb78c61e4b0fc368e9101ee
Organization: Department of the Interior
Controlled source audio-frequency magnetotellurics (CSAMT) data from the Big Chino Wash and Paulden areas, Yavapai County, Arizona

Controlled source audio-frequency magnetotellurics (CSAMT) data were collected in the Big Chino Valley and Paulden areas, Yavapai County, Arizona, to better understand the hydrogeology of the area. CSAMT data provide vertical cross-section (profile) data about the resistivity of the subsurface, which may be related to lithologic boundaries and (or) grain-size distribution in the subsurface. CSAMT involves transmitting a current at various frequencies in one location, and measuring resistivity differences between electrodes spaced along a receiver line several kilometers from the transmitter.
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Big_Chino_Valley_CSAMT_RawData.zip: These are text files output by the data-collection instrument (GDP-32, Zonge International, Inc.) used in the inversion. These data may be useful for testing alternative inversion schemes. The zip file contains one text file per line.

Tags: arizona, arizona-water-science-center, big-chino-williamson-valley, electromagnetic-surveying, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, hydrogeology, paulden, upper-verde, usgs-5bbc0cc4e4b0fc368ead0ab7, yavapai
Organization: Department of the Interior
Water quality and gas fluxes of streams and lakes in Interior Alaska (ABoVE project)

This product consists of multiple tabular datasets and associated metadata of water quality information related to rivers, streams, and lakes in the Yukon River watershed between 2014 and 2018. This data release is apart of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) funded Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) and is an assessment of water quality, quantity, and gas fluxes within the interior of Alaska. Data consist of organic and inorganic carbon related species, carbon dioxide and methane gas fluxes calculated from manual chamber measurements, nitrogen species, carbon isotopes, oxygen isotopes, cations, anions, trace metals, and various in situ measurements including: pH, water temperature, air temperature, barometric pressure, secchi depth, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, fluorescent dissolved organic matter, and specific conductance. Sampling frequency varied across locations, with some sites sampled twice a year or more.

Tags: alaska, alkalinity, anions, carbon-fluxes, cations, climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, dalton-highway, dissolved-inorganic-carbon, dissolved-organic-carbon, elevation, inland-aquatic-ecosystems, interior-alaska, nitrogen-species, steese-highway, terrestrial-export, usgs-5bb786b0e4b0fc368e906b09, utilitiescommunication, water-quality, water-quantity, water-resources, water-temperature, yukon-river-basin
Organization: Department of the Interior
Elevation of marsh units in Fire Island National Seashore and central Great South Bay salt marsh complex, New York


    Elevation distribution in the Fire Island National Seashore and central Great South Bay salt marsh complex is given in terms of mean elevation of conceptual marsh units defined by Defne and Ganju (2018). The elevation data is based on the 1-meter resolution Coastal National Elevation Database (CoNED). Through scientific efforts initiated with the Hurricane Sandy Science Plan, the U.S. Geological Survey has been expanding national assessment of coastal change hazards and forecast products to coastal wetlands, including the  Fire Island National Seashore and central Great South Bay salt marshes, with the intent of providing Federal, State, and local managers with tools to estimate the vulnerability and ecosystem service potential of these wetlands. For this purpose, the response and resilience of coastal wetlands to physical factors need to be assessed in terms of the ensuing change to their vulnerability and ecosystem services.
    
    References:
    Defne, Z., and Ganju, N.K., 2018, Conceptual marsh units for Fire Island National Seashore and central Great South Bay salt marsh complex, New York: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P95U2MQ7.
   

Tags: atlantic-ocean, bellport-bay, coastal-ecosystems, coastal-processes, elevation, environment, estuary, fire-island-national-seashore, geospatial-datasets, great-south-bay, inlandwaters, long-term-ecological-research, lter, marsh-health, narrow-bay, new-york, nicoll-bay, oceans, patchogue-bay, robert-moses-state-park, salt-marsh, suffolk-county, united-states, usgs-5bb7833de4b0fc368e9030df, vegetation, water-island, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-functions
Organization: Department of the Interior
Unvegetated to vegetated marsh ratio in Fire Island National Seashore and central Great South Bay salt marsh complex, New York


    Unvegetated to vegetated marsh ratio (UVVR) in the Fire Island National Seashore and central Great South Bay salt marsh complex,  is computed based on conceptual marsh units defined by Defne and Ganju (2018). UVVR was calculated based on U.S. Department of Agriculture National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) 1-meter resolution imagery. Through scientific efforts initiated with the Hurricane Sandy Science Plan, the U.S. Geological Survey has been expanding national assessment of coastal change hazards and forecast products to coastal wetlands, including the  Fire Island National Seashore and central Great South Bay salt marshes, with the intent of providing Federal, State, and local managers with tools to estimate the vulnerability and ecosystem service potential of these wetlands. For this purpose, the response and resilience of coastal wetlands to physical factors need to be assessed in terms of the ensuing change to their vulnerability and ecosystem services.
    
    References:
    Defne, Z., and Ganju, N.K., 2018, Conceptual marsh units for Fire Island National Seashore and central Great South Bay salt marsh complex, New York: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P95U2MQ7.
   

Tags: atlantic-ocean, bellport-bay, coastal-ecosystems, coastal-processes, environment, estuary, fire-island-national-seashore, geospatial-datasets, great-south-bay, inlandwaters, long-term-ecological-research, lter, marsh-health, narrow-bay, new-york, nicoll-bay, oceans, patchogue-bay, robert-moses-state-park, salt-marsh, suffolk-county, united-states, usgs-5bb77b87e4b0fc368e8fb9f2, uvvr, vegetation, water-island, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-functions
Organization: Department of the Interior
Phytoplankton enumeration and identification from recurring algal bloom locations in Kabetogama Lake, northern Minnesota, 2016-2017

This data release provides phytoplankton identification, phytoplankton enumeration, chlorophyll concentration, phaeophytin concentration, phycocyanin data, and nutrient quality assurance data from three recurring algal bloom sites in Kabetogama Lake, Voyaguers National Park, Minnesota in 2016 and 2017. The goal of this research is to better understand the drivers of algal bloom toxicity in the large lakes of Voyageurs National Park so that resource managers may better predict, manage, and mitigate the occurrence of harmful algal blooms. A total of 126 environmental samples were collected at three recreational areas where blooms frequently occur. One site, Sullivan Bay, was chosen for more intensive sampling, including the algal enumeration and identification of the samples collected as part of this data release. Samples were also analyzed for field parameters, nutrients, cyanotoxins, and cyanobacteria by molecular methods. Other analyses for the three sampling locations are available in the U.S. Geological Survey National Water Information System (NWIS) at the links listed under Related External Resources/Cross References: Sullivan Bay (USGS 482542092493701), Ellsworth Rock Garden (USGS 482947092584401) and Ek Lake Trail (USGS 482804092494701). As recommended by the World Health Organization, this research will provide further data on Kabetogama Lake, where blooms have contained the toxin microcystin at levels exceeding the high-risk category for recreational exposure.

Tags: algal-blooms, biota, kabetogama-lake, koochiching, lakes, minnesota, phytoplankon, st-louis-counties-minnesota, usgs-5bb77507e4b0fc368e8f4c9a, voyageurs-national-park
Organization: Department of the Interior
Bee-Gap: Ecology, Life-History, and Distribution of Bee Species in the United States 2017

Bee-Gap describes the ecology, life-history, and distribution of 3,925 bee species in the United States that have geographical data and verified taxonomy. The database was constructed by compiling information from a broad range of internet sources and peer-reviewed journal articles. The 10 traits included in the database are: native status (native versus exotic/introduced), state and territory presence/absence, adult habitat, nesting strategy, voltinism, sociality, host bee species (for parasitic bees only), foraging strategy (generalist vs specialist), known host plants, and tongue length.

Tags: animal-behavior, bees-and-wasps, biota, commonwealth-of-puerto-rico, commonwealth-of-the-northern-mariana-islands, ecology, guam, life-history, north-america, pollination, trait-database, united-states, united-states-virgin-islands, usgs-5bd868b2e4b0b3fc5ce9dadd
Organization: Department of the Interior
Conceptual marsh units for Fire Island National Seashore and central Great South Bay salt marsh complex, New York

The salt marsh complex of Fire Island National Seashore (FIIS) and central Great South Bay was delineated to smaller, conceptual marsh units by geoprocessing of surface elevation data. Flow accumulation based on the relative elevation of each location is used to determine the ridge lines that separate each marsh unit while the surface slope is used to automatically assign each unit a drainage point, where water is expected to drain through. Through scientific efforts initiated with the Hurricane Sandy Science Plan, the U.S. Geological Survey has been expanding national assessment of coastal change hazards and forecast products to coastal wetlands, including the  Fire Island National Seashore and central Great South Bay salt marshes, with the intent of providing Federal, State, and local managers with tools to estimate the vulnerability and ecosystem service potential of these wetlands. For this purpose, the response and resilience of coastal wetlands to physical factors need to be assessed in terms of the ensuing change to their vulnerability and ecosystem services.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, bellport-bay, coastal-ecosystems, coastal-processes, environment, estuary, fire-island-national-seashore, geospatial-datasets, great-south-bay, inlandwaters, long-term-ecological-research, lter, marsh-health, narrow-bay, new-york, nicoll-bay, oceans, patchogue-bay, robert-moses-state-park, salt-marsh, suffolk-county, united-states, usgs-5bb77371e4b0fc368e8f364e, vegetation, water-island, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-functions
Organization: Department of the Interior
Surveyed ground control and elevation checkpoints acquired at Barter Island, Alaska, 2014-2016

Ground control points and checkpoints were collected during Global Positioning System (GPS) surveys conducted between September 6, 2014 and September 18, 2016 along the northern coast of Barter Island, Alaska. Data were acquired and post-processed using precise positioning and used to co-register and assess accuracy of photogrammetric data sets.

Tags: arctic-national-wildlife-refuge, arctic-ocean, barter-island, beaufort-sea, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, elevation, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, global-positioning-system-gps-observations, kaktovik, north-slope, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, physical-habitats-and-geomorphology, state-of-alaska, topography, u-s-geological-survey, united-states-of-america, usgs, usgs-5bb6a28ce4b0fc368e89476b
Organization: Department of the Interior
Elevation point clouds of the north coast of Barter Island, Alaska acquired July 01 2014, September 07 2014, and July 05 2015 (LAZ file)

Six elevation point cloud files in LAZ format (compressed LAS binary data) are included in this data release: 3 raw point clouds of unclassified and unedited points and 3 modified point clouds that were spatially shifted and edited to remove outliers and spurious elevation values associated with moving water surfaces. An XYZ coordinate shift was applied to each data set in order to register the data sets to an earth-based datum established from surveyed ground control points. Points are unclassified and ground-reflected color values in the red-green-blue (RGB) schema are included. The horizontal coordinate system is WGS84, UTM Zone 7 North meters; vertical coordinates are relative to the WGS84 ellipsoid. Aerial photographs were collected from a small, fixed-wing aircraft over the coast of Barter Island Alaska on three separate dates: July 01 2014, September 07 2014, and July 05 2015. Precise aircraft position information and structure-from-motion photogrammetric methods were combined to derive high-resolution elevation point clouds.

Tags: aerial-images, airborne-high-resolution-data, arctic-national-wildlife-refuge, arctic-ocean, barter-island, beaufort-sea, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, coastal-erosion, digital-elevation-models, elevation, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, imagerybasemapsearthcover, kaktovik, north-slope, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, permafrost, physical-habitats-and-geomorphology, point-cloud, state-of-alaska, structure-from-motion, topography, u-s-geological-survey, united-states-of-america, usgs, usgs-5bb6a25fe4b0fc368e894766
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital surface models of the north coast of Barter Island, Alaska acquired on July 01 2014, September 07 2014, and July 05 2015 (GeoTIFF image)

Digital surface elevation models (DSMs) of the coastline of Barter Island, Alaska derived from aerial photographs collected on July 01 2014, September 07 2014, and July 05 2015. Aerial photographs and coincident elevation data were processed using Structure-from-Motion (SfM) photogrammetric techniques. These files are single-band, 32-bit floating point DSMs (digital surface models) that represent surface elevations of buildings, vegetation, and uncovered ground surfaces in meters with 23 cm ground sample distance (GSD). The No Data value is set to -32767. The file employs Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) compression.

Tags: airborne-high-resolution-data, arctic-national-wildlife-refuge, arctic-ocean, barter-island, bathymetry-and-elevation, beaufort-sea, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, coastal-erosion, digital-elevation-models, digital-surface-model, elevation, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, gridded-data, imagerybasemapsearthcover, kaktovik, natural-agents-of-coastal-change, north-slope, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, permafrost, physical-habitats-and-geomorphology, state-of-alaska, topography, u-s-geological-survey, united-states-of-america, usgs, usgs-5bb6a1b3e4b0fc368e89475a
Organization: Department of the Interior
Laboratory Data on Cabbage Looper Moth Response to Xanthotoxin, 2018

A dataset of caterpillar performance in an experiment manipulating mean and variance of xanthotoxin levels in diet.  Caterpillar growth, development time, and egg production of mated females is presented.  Data were collected by all authors in 2017 in a laboratory at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO.

Tags: biota, caterpillar, growth-chamber-study, herbivory, host-switching, nonlinear-averaging, trichoplusia-ni, usgs-5bb67c9be4b0fc368e894684
Organization: Department of the Interior
Sperm motility of quagga mussels exposed to cyanobacteria in a laboratory bioassay, 2016.

These data contain information about sub-lethal effects of cyanobacteria exposure on quagga mussel. Sub-lethal effects of cyanobacteria exposure on quagga mussel (Dreissena rostriformis bugensis) sperm were evaluated. After inducing mussels to spawn using serotonin, sperm were collected and exposed to 11 cultures of cyanobacteria including Anabaena flos-aquae, Aphanizomenon flos-aquae, Dolichospermum lemmermanii, Gloeotrichia echinulata, five cultures of Microcystis aeruginosa, M. wesenbergii, and Planktothrix suspensa. Sperm motility, using endpoints of cumulative distance traveled and mean velocity, was calculated for a minimum of 10 individual sperm using a novel optical biotracking assay method. The distance and velocity at which sperm traveled decreased when exposed to Aphanizomenon flos-aquae and two M. aeruginosa cultures.

Tags: algal-blooms, inlandwaters, invasive-species, sperm-motility, spermatozoa, usgs-5bb674afe4b0fc368e8941a5
Organization: Department of the Interior
Presence or absence of bush honeysuckle map from “Remote Sensing of Bush Honeysuckle in the Middle Blue River Basin, Kansas City, Missouri, 2016-2017”

Amur honeysuckle bush (Lonicera maackii) and Morrow's honeysuckle (Lonicera morrowii) are two of the most aggressively invasive species to become established throughout areas along the Blue River in metropolitan Kansas City, Missouri. These two large, spreading shrubs (locally referred to as bush honeysuckle in the Kansas City metropolitan area) colonize the understory, crowd out native plants, and may be allelopathic, producing a chemical that restricts growth of native species. Removal efforts have been underway for more than a decade by local conservation groups such as Bridging The Gap and Heartland Conservation Alliance, who are concerned with the loss of native species diversity associated with the spread of bush honeysuckle. Bush honeysuckle produces leaves early in the spring before almost all other vegetation and retains leaves late in the fall after almost all other species have lost their leaves. Appropriately timed imagery can be used during early spring and late fall to map the extent of bush honeysuckle. Using multispectral imagery collected in February 2016 and true color aerial imagery collected in March 2016, a coverage map of bush honeysuckle in the study area was made to investigate the extent of bush honeysuckle in a study area along the middle reach of the Blue River in the Kansas City metropolitan area in Jackson County, Missouri. The coverage map was further classified into unlikely, low-, and high-density bush honeysuckle density at a 30-foot cell size. The unlikely density class correctly predicted the absence and approximate density of bush honeysuckle for 86 percent of the field-verification points, the low-density class predicted the presence and approximate density with 73-percent confidence, and the high-density class was predicted with 67-percent confidence.
This data was used to support the project work described in: 
Ellis, J.T., 2018, Remote sensing of bush honeysuckle in the Middle Blue River Basin, Kansas City, Missouri, 2016–17: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map XXXX, 1 sheet., https://doi.org/xxxx.

Tags: blue-river, bush-honeysuckle, image-collections, invasive-species, kansas-city, missouri, remote-sensing, usgs-5bb66e8ee4b0fc368e893d14
Organization: Department of the Interior