AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
DWH NRDA Waterfowl Search Effort and Live Animal Assessment

Data collection for Deepwater Horizon Bird Study #10 occurred from January to March 2011.  Data were collected primarily by Louisiana State University (LSU) personnel, collaboratively with BP/CardnoENTRIX personnel. The three main objectives for this study included 1) to document dead and live oiled and unoiled waterfowl in representative habitats (shorelines and near-shore waters of the Gulf of Mexico that were accessible by motorized boat and airboat); 2) to estimate the temporal and spatial abundance and distribution of waterfowl within the study area; and 3) to examine oiled and not visibly oiled waterfowl collected from representative habitats. This dataset includes the data collected as part of the first objective. For objective 1, boat and beach-based survey teams conducted searches from mid-January 2011 to early March 2011. A BP/CardnoENTRIX observer joined the boat-based survey team on February 6, 2011. For all waterfowl species detected in a habitat of interest (marsh, open water, or beach), observers recorded time, number of birds, species, and oiling status along the length of the transect. Additionally, observers conducted a point count at one location along each transect where they recorded all bird species seen. Data were documented on two data forms, the “Bird Search Effort – Wintering Waterfowl” form and the “Live Animal Assessment – Wintering Waterfowl Oiling Observations” form. As part of the verification and validation process, the DOI Data Verification/Validation Contractor consolidated these data into one comprehensive dataset, Waterfowl Search Effort and Live Animal Assessment, consistent with the way the data was collected (i.e. concurrently) and with other datasets. Additional details on the surveys, data, and results are provided in the End of Study Report (Workplan for Estimating Wintering Waterfowl Oiling and Mortality Bird Study Plan #10 Draft End of Study Report v3, Deepwater Horizon (Mississippi Canyon 252) Oil Spill Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) Objective 1).

Tags: avian, bird, deepwater-horizon, dwh, general-biology-species-birds, nrda, oil-spill, search-effort, waterfowl, wildlife-search
Organization: Department of the Interior
DWH NRDA Piping Plover Subsite Visitation

This dataset includes the information collected during re-sighting of banded piping plovers at various geographical locations along Gulf of Mexico shorelines.  It includes degree of oiling information for re-sighted banded plovers and notes on oil cleanup activities occurring at the plover habitat sites.  Data collection for the Piping Plover Subsite Visitation effort occurred from the fall of 2010 through the spring of 2011. Data were collected primarily by Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) personnel under the direction of the Department of the Interior (DOI). Assessments focused on documenting the abundance and extent of oiling of piping plovers, and documenting all banded piping plovers in reference and spill-impacted coastal sites along the northern Gulf of Mexico. Additional information collected during these surveys includes trapping information, GPS data, and photographs. The four primary goals of this study were to evaluate over-winter survival at oiled and unoiled areas in 2010, to evaluate winter population abundance and distribution in the area of potential impact (as compared to reference areas) through April 2011, to evaluate oiling of piping plovers in the impact area in 2010/2011, and to re-sight piping plovers at their winter breeding grounds. Additional details on the surveys and results are provided in the End of Study Report (Determining Injury to the Piping Plover from the Deepwater Horizon (MC 252) Oil Spill: Bird Study #7, 2011).

Tags: avian, bird, charadrius-melodus, deepwater-horizon, dwh, general-biology-species-birds, nrda, oil-spill, piping-plover
Organization: Department of the Interior
R1: Oregon Coast: 1988 Aerial Photography of Nesting Seabird Colony Islands for Monitoring Purposes - Stitched Image (Mosaics) Used to Manual Count Nesting Seabirds

Photography from helicopter taken for the purposes of resource monitoring, specifically seabird colony status and distribution. Oregon Coast aerial and boat based photography taken 5/5/1988 and 9/22/1988 on 35mm slide film.  Primarily captured from a helicopter roughly 800-900' in altitude, Right Front Photographer - Roy W. Lowe, USFWS, Right Rear Photographer - Jon B. Anderson, USFWS 

These slides have been scanned at 1200 - 5000 DPI and have about 1-foot pixel resolution. Please note that these photos have not been georeferenced. The photos have not been orthorectified and therefore there will be photo anomalies and mis-matches between adjoining photos. Caution should be exercised if attempting to use this imagery to conduct measurements.

Tags: aerial-photograph, digital-scan, ff01rorg00-002, ff01rtar00-002, general-management-inventory, general-management-monitoring, primr, seabird-colony, slide-film
Organization: Department of the Interior
DWH NRDA Low Level Aerial Surveys

Aerial surveys associated with Deepwater Horizon Bird Study #2 occurred during the summer of 2010 and the winter of 2011. Data collection efforts were led by R.G. Ford Consulting Company, on behalf of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. To conduct the surveys, study personnel flew in airplanes over the spill affected area and documented all observed wildlife along transects including both avian and non-avian species. Although not a goal of the study, some data on the presence of oil and the presence of sargassum were collected as well. Four types of aerial surveys were conducted: 1) marine surveys flown in a north-south direction; 2) outer coast surveys flown along the shoreline; 3) barrier island surveys, which are similar to outer coast surveys but were flown along either side of barrier islands; and 4) nearshore surveys that were flown in a zigzag line pattern between the mainland and the barrier islands. Observations were recorded as audio files and later tabulated into separate observer-specific spreadsheets; associated GPS data were also recorded by the plane’s navigation software. The goal of these efforts was to collect data that would facilitate the development of an estimate of avian abundance in the northern Gulf of Mexico.

Tags: aerial-survey, avian, bird, deepwater-horizon, dwh, general-biology-species-birds, nrda, oil-spill
Organization: Department of the Interior
Little Pend Oreille NWR: Moth (Lepidoptera) Inventory - Tabular Database 2021

This reference archives tabular data collected for Moth (Lepidoptera) Inventory survey (PRIMR Survey ID: FF01RLPO00-091).
This database documents moths trapped on Little Pend Oreille NWR during moth survey performed 2021.

Tags: ff01rlpo00-091, general-biology-species-pollinators, general-management-inventory, general-management-monitoring, lepidoptera, macro-moths, primr-survey
Organization: Department of the Interior
MCSP Monarch and Plant Monitoring - SAS Output Summarizing SOP 1 Descriptive Attributes of 2017 Monitoring Sites

Output from programming code written to summarize data describing 2017 MCSP Trial monitoring sites acquired using a SOP 1 (see ServCat reference 103364) of FWS Legacy Regions 2 and 3. 2017 monitoring sites were selected using a custom GRTS draw conducted by USGS, within monitoring areas associated with select NWRS stations. Areas monitored included Balcones Canyonlands (TX), Hagerman (TX), Washita (OK), Neal Smith (IA), Necedah (WI) NWRs and several locations near the town of Lamoni, Iowa and private lands in northern Missouri.

Tags: danaus-plexippus, general-biology-communities-and-ecosystems-grassland-herbaceous, general-biology-species-invertebrates, general-biology-species-plants, general-biology-species-pollinators, general-management-monitoring, grts-draw, immp, mcsp, monarch, monarch-butterfly, national-vegetation-classification, plant-community-structure, red-imported-fire-ant, site-description, solenopsis-invicta, sop1, surveillance-monitoring, time-to-conduct, tracheophyta, tracheophytes, trial, vascular-plants
Organization: Department of the Interior
Waterbird Monitoring Humboldt Bay NWR Species List

This csv file contains a list of the taxon monitored for the Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge Waterbird Monitoring survey. The Integrated Taxonomic Information System Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN) was chosen as the primary taxonomic data standard. The table includes a cross-walk to taxonomic data standards of FWSpecies and The Institute for Bird Populations. If a particular taxa did not have an equivalent data standard, a null value is used.

Tags: aechmophorus-occidentalis, aeo, american-avocet, american-bittern, american-coot, american-wigeon, anas-acuta, anas-americana, anas-clypeata, anas-crecca, anas-cyanoptera, anas-discors, anas-penelope, anas-platyrhynchos, anas-strepera, anser-albifrons, ardea-alba, ardea-herodias, aythya, aythya-americana, aythya-collaris, black-bellied-plover, black-crowned-night-heron, black-necked-grebe, black-necked-stilt, blue-goose, blue-winged-teal, botaurus-lentiginosus, branta-bernicla-nigricans, branta-canadensis, branta-hutchinsii, branta-hutchinsii-leucopareia, brown-pelican, bubulcus-ibis, bucephala, bucephala-albeola, bufflehead, cackling-goose, calidris-alpina, calidris-mauri, calidris-minutilla, canada-goose, caspian-tern, cattle-egret, charadrius-semipalmatus, charadrius-vociferus, chen-caerulescens, cinnamon-teal, common-merganser, common-snipe, cygnus-columbianus, diving-ducks, double-crested-cormorant, dowitchers, dunlin, eared-grebe, egretta-thula, eurasian-teal, eurasian-wigeon, ff08rhmb00-021, fulica-americana, gadwall, gallinago-delicata, gallinago-gallinago, gavia, general-biology-species-birds, general-management-natural-resources-management-wildlife-management, goldeneyes, great-blue-heron, great-egret, greater-white-fronted-goose, greater-yellowlegs, green-winged-teal, grey-plover, grus-canadensis, gulls, hawaiian-stilt, himantopus-mexicanus, hooded-merganser, horned-grebe, hydroprogne-caspia, killdeer, laridae, least-sandpiper, limnodromus, limosa-fedoa, long-billed-curlew, loons, lophodytes-cucullatus, mallard, marbled-godwit, mergus-merganser, northern-pintail, northern-shoveler, numenius-americanus, numenius-phaeopus, nycticorax-nycticorax, oxyura-jamaicensis, pelecanus-occidentalis, phalacrocorax-auritus, phalaropes, phalaropus, pied-billed-grebe, pluvialis-squatarola, podiceps-auritus, podiceps-nigricollis, podilymbus-podiceps, porzana-carolina, rallus-limicola, recurvirostra-americana, redhead, ring-necked-duck, ruddy-duck, sandhill-crane, semipalmated-plover, skimmers, snow-goose, snowy-egret, sora, species-list, terns, tringa-melanoleuca, tringa-semipalmata, tundra-swan, virginia-rail, waterbird, western-cattle-egret, western-grebe, western-sandpiper, whimbrel, willet, wilsons-snipe
Organization: Department of the Interior
Segment interpretation and validation data - Land Cover Mapping, North Slope of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, 2019

The field data and WorldView imagery were leveraged to generate an extensive set of segments labeled with land cover class. These segment interpretations provided the training and validation data for the mapping. Analysts reviewed each aerial and ground plot from the 2019 field survey, examining the plot center and training polygon over the WorldView mosaic, and reviewing field photos, cover estimates, and notes. For each plot, one image segment was identified as the primary example of the vegetation type of the plot (unless there was no suitable example segment, as in cases when a ground plot was targeting a small but distinct vegetation patch that was not captured in the image segmentation). Usually, the primary segment included or was close to the nominal plot center, but this was not always the case, since the target area for the aerial plots could encompass several segments.

After identifying a primary segment, the analyst also identified a set of 0–15 secondary segments that were good examples of the same vegetation type. This assessment was informed by field experience, review of field photos of the landscape setting, and photo-interpretation of the WorldView mosaic.

An additional set of auxiliary segments were identified and assigned to a land cover class. The first set of auxiliary segments was assigned to non-vegetated classes such as lakes, ponds, ocean, barrens, and snowfields or aufeis. While a limited effort was expended to sample such classes during field work, we knew that these would be readily identifiable with high confidence from the WorldView imagery and so focused the field sampling on vegetated classes. 

Later, after reviewing preliminary models and receiving feedback from Janet Jorgenson (retired plant ecologist for the Arctic Refuge), we added additional auxiliary segments for vegetated classes based on expert photo interpretation. These were designed to provide the model with additional training data to define the breakpoints between similar classes.

Land cover classes were assigned to all of the primary, secondary, and auxiliary segments. 20% of the segments were randomly selected to be withheld from model training. The final model was validated using the reserved validation segment interpretation points (20% of the full set). These segments were not used to develop the model. The map class was extracted from the final land cover map for each validation point. A confusion matrix, overall accuracy metrics, and per-class performance metrics were calculated from the validation data.

Tags: anwr, arctic-coastal-plain, classification, ecological-land-survey, habitat, land-cover, mapping, north-slope, remote-sensing, soil-analysis, vegetation
Organization: Department of the Interior
Willapa NWR: Continuous Air and Stream Temperature Data at Omeara Creek (Aquatic Health and Climate Change) - Raw and Processed Data

Continuous Temperature Data. Raw Hobo data files collected at Willapa NWR (Omeara Creek) and compiled at a regular frequency into a annual (cleaned) dataset (Excel). Omeara Creek had five locations monitored during the pilot project and these data are included in this dataset. Each location could have multiple loggers deployed (planned redundancy in case of logger failure). See the CURRENT-TL-Logger Log for details at https://ecos.fws.gov/ServCat/Reference/Profile/132469.

OMEDSA02W: 46.4021548, -123.9490759
OMEDSA01W: 46.4021189, -123.9487788
OMETSC01W: 46.4019155, -123.9474488
OMEUSK02W: 46.4002542, -123.9445530
OMEUSK03A: 46.4002542, -123.9445530

Tags: air-temperature, ff01rwlp00-065, ff01rwlp00-109, general-air-and-climate-weather-and-climate-climate-change, general-management-monitoring, general-water-hydrology-surface-water, primr-survey, water-temperature
Organization: Department of the Interior
Northeast muskox population sex and age composition summary for all areas (26A+B and 26C (Arctic NWR) in Alaska and northern Yukon), 1972-2011

During June, we perform ground-based composition counts to estimate calf production, recruitment, and adult sex ratio.  We have radiocollared over 100 muskoxen in order to document seasonal shifts in distribution and habitat use, and to estimate survival and cause-specific mortality.

Following the 1969 release, muskoxen increased rapidly in the Arctic Refuge, reaching a peak of approximately 400 individuals in 1986.  This was followed by expansion of the population’s range into contiguous areas of north-central Alaska and northwestern Canada.  We subsequently implemented cooperative surveys with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADFG), Parks Canada, and Yukon Department of Environment to monitor the entire population.  The number of muskoxen within the Refuge declined slightly, and then remained stable at about 325 from 1987 to 1998.

We observed a precipitous decline in abundance of muskoxen within the Arctic Refuge beginning in 1999.  In 2003, we estimated that fewer than 50 muskoxen occurred within Refuge boundaries.  We attribute this decline to shifts in distribution, low calf recruitment, and decreased adult survival.  In a recent cooperative study with ADFG (Reynolds et al. 2002), we determined that predation by grizzly bears was a significant and increasing source of mortality for muskoxen.  The negative effect of predation on survival may be exacerbated by environmental conditions that limit access to forage, such as icing events and deep, persistent snows.  We are continuing to monitor the status of this muskox population and investigate factors responsible for observed trends.

Tags: anwr, arctic-coastal-plain, brown-bear, canis-lupus, chlamydia, distribution, general-biology-communities-and-ecosystems-grassland-herbaceous, general-biology-communities-and-ecosystems-lichen-moss, general-biology-communities-and-ecosystems-riverine, general-biology-communities-and-ecosystems-shrubland, general-biology-infestations-and-disease-animal-diseases, general-biology-species-mammals, general-human-use-consumptive-use, general-management-inventory, general-management-landscape-management-landscape-conservation-planning, general-management-monitoring, gray-wolf, grizzly-bear, herbivore, hunting, life-history, muskox, muskoxen, north-slope, oomingmak, ovibos-moschatus, population-dynamics, subsistence, ungulate, ursus-arctos, wildlife-conservation, wildlife-management, wolf
Organization: Department of the Interior
Alaska ANILCA Purposes Compiled Data and Unique Purpose Criteria Scores

The dataset produced by the Data Compilation Script (compile_ANILCA.ipynb), which summarizes how frequently a given species is mentioned in ANILCA purpose documentation (per Woodward and Beever 2010) and provides a final score for the unique purpose criteria based on that frequency. This dataset can then be cross-walked against a species list for any given refuge to provide a Unique Purpose Criteria dataset for a given refuge in their resources of concern (ROC) selection process.

Tags: alaska-im, anilca-refuge-purposes, resources-of-concern, roc
Organization: Department of the Interior
FWSpecies Taxonomic Changes Dataset

A dataset with FWSpecies records for Alaska refuges and known taxonomic synonyms or splits that may have occurred throughout the course of identifying resources of concern as part of the "Chief's Challenge" (2018-2023). These data are used in the data compilation script that produces a species list and unique refuge purpose criteria scores for the Alaska region.

Tags: alaska-im, anilca-refuge-purposes, resources-of-concern, roc
Organization: Department of the Interior
Snowshoe Hare Population Monitoring at Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge Raw Dataset (1990-2024)

Dataset of snowshoe hare pellet counts across quadrats and sites for surveys conducted 1990-2024 at Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge. Raw data is used to monitor hare density on the refuge over time. For a record of data manipulation for data tidying, see ServCat reference: 187751.

Tags: cyclic-population, density, ff07rtet00-010, general-biology-species-mammals, general-management-monitoring, lepus-americanus, pellet-count, population-monitoring, snowshoe-hare
Organization: Department of the Interior
Supplemental Materials for Identification of Priority Resources of Concern, Kenai National Wildlife Refuge

Kenai National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) staff met February 2022 to identify priority ROC which are the species, species groups, and habitats in highest need of conservation attention. Alaska Inventory and Monitoring (I&M) staff facilitated conversations to develop criteria for a species rating system that reflected Refuge interests. Species ratings guided selection of priority ROC. 

Kenai NWR staff chose 11 criteria to rate species: 1) contribution to Refuge purpose, 2) unique contribution to Refuge purposes among Alaskan Refuges, 3) federal or state conservation status, 4) best science and professional judgment, 5) vulnerability to climate change, 6) scope of stewardship responsibility and endemic species, 7) keystone or ecologically important species, 8) ecological specialists, 9) Refuge management issues and challenges, 10) subsistence or cultural importance, and 11) recreational importance.

Staff weighted the criteria and used the weighted average score to rank species. They identified priority ROC based on species rankings, species groups of similar needs, habitats that supported highly ranked species, and special values of the Kenai NWR.

The 13 priority ROC for Kenai NWR are:

- Freshwater systems (Chinook salmon, coho salmon, sockeye salmon, American beaver, trumpeter swan, arctic char, and moose)
- Wetlands/peatlands (American beaver, trumpeter swan, and arctic char)
- Alpine ecosystems (wolverine and Dall's sheep)
- Boreal forests (brown bear and moose)
- Wilderness (Chinook salmon, coho salmon, sockeye salmon, American beaver, trumpeter swan, arctic char, wolverine, Dall's sheep, brown bear, and moose)
- Salmon species (Chinook, coho, and sockeye)
- American beaver
- Trumpeter swan
- Arctic char
- Wolverine
- Dall's sheep
- Brown bear
- Moose

The priority ROCs will be the focus for the next steps in Refuge planning: developing specific, measurable, achievable, results-oriented, time-fixed (SMART) conservation objectives and the IMP.

Tags: inventory-and-monitoring-plan, resources-of-concern, roc
Organization: Department of the Interior
R1: Oregon Coast: 2009 Aerial Photography of Nesting Seabird Colony Islands for Monitoring Purposes - Selected Raw Images Used to Manual Count Nesting Seabirds and Flight Information

Photography from helicopter taken for the purposes of resource monitoring, specifically seabird colony status and distribution. Oregon Coast aerial and boat based photography taken ordinarily in June, 2009 on digital hand held cameras. Primarily captured from a helicopter roughly 800-900' in altitude, Right Front Photographer - Shawn Stephensen, USFWS, Right Rear Photographer - David B. Ledig, USFWS 

These images are taken as Large jpg and have about 1-foot pixel resolution. Please note that these photos have not been georeferenced. The photos have not been orthorectified and therefore there will be photo anomalies and mis-matches between adjoining photos. Caution should be exercised if attempting to use this imagery to conduct measurements.

Tags: aerial-photograph, digital-scan, ff01rorg00-002, ff01rtar00-002, general-management-inventory, general-management-monitoring, primr, seabird-colony, slide-film
Organization: Department of the Interior
Sample data used to demonstrate analysis of Canada lynx GPS data to evaluate cyclic functional connectivity of Canada lynx populations across North American boreal landscapes.

Two sample data sets, one for residents and one for dispersers, used to demonstrate analysis of Canada lynx GPS data to evaluate cyclic functional connectivity of Canada lynx populations across North American boreal landscapes. Sample data collected from animals collared at Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge. Also included is a data dictionary defining each column in sample data sets.

Tags: alaska, boreal-landscapes, boreallynx, canada-lynx, canadian-lynx, functional-connectivity, gates-of-the-arctic-national-park, general-biology-communities-and-ecosystems-forest, general-biology-species-mammals, general-fire-fire-ecology-fire-dependent-ecosystem, general-fire-wildfire-wildland-fire, general-management-natural-resources-management-wildlife-management, kanuti-national-wildlife-refuge, koyukuk-national-wildlife-refuge, lepus-americanus, lynx, lynx-canadensis, mesocarnivore, movement-ecology, population-cycle, predator-prey, snowshoe-hare, survival, tetlin-national-wildlife-refuge, traveling-wave, yukon-flats-national-wildlife-refuge
Organization: Department of the Interior