AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Argos Satellite Tracking Data for Red-throated Loons (Gavia stellata) - Processed Data

This metadata document describes the data contained in the "Argos Processed Data" (Child Item 1) of this data release. This data release contains all data collected by the Argos System from 92 satellite transmitters attached to Red-throated Loons on their breeding range in coastal areas throughout Alaska, 2000-2010. The raw data were processed to accomplish two goals: flag implausible location estimates and decode raw sensor data. Three Comma Separate Value (CSV) tables are included in the "Argos Processed Data" (Child Item 1) of this data release: 1) the "diag_filteredLocations" table contains one record for every location estimate collected, accompanied by a binary flag that denotes an algorithm's plausibility check. Each record also includes a 'Tracking_Status' variable that denotes whether the location was collected from a live animal, a dead animal, or shed transmitter, 2) the "decodedSensor" table contains decoded sensor data such as a transmitter's temperature, battery voltage, and motion (activity), and 3) the "deploymentAttributes" table contains one record for each transmitter deployment in a CSV formatted table. The deployment attributes file contains information such as when the transmitter was attached to the animal, when tracking of a live animal ended, and a variety of variables describing the animal and transmitter. This table is identical to the "deploymentAttributes" table in the "Argos Raw Data" (Child Item 2) of this data release.

Tags: alaska, animal-tracking, animals-vertebrates, argos, biota, birds, breeding-area, breeding-sites, copper-river-delta, distribution, east-asia-flyway, ecological-dynamics, environment, gavia-stellata, loons, migration, migration-organisms, migration-pathway, migratory-birds, migratory-strategies, national-petroleum-reserve-alaska, north-slope, npr-a, ornithology, overwintering, pacific-americas-flyway, platform-transmitter-terminal, point-lay, ptt, red-throated-loon, satellite-transmitter, seasonal-distribution, seasonal-movement, seward-peninsula, species-life-history, species-migration, telemetry, tracking-equipment, usgs-asc148, wildlife, wintering-area, yukon-delta, yukon-delta-national-wildlife-refuge, yukon-kuskokwim-river-delta
Organization: Department of the Interior
Outline of the Multibeam Bathymetry Data Collected During National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Survey H11922 (H11922OUTLINE, Geographic, WGS84)

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), is producing detailed geologic maps of the coastal sea floor. Bathymetry, originally collected by NOAA for charting purposes, provides a fundamental framework for research and management activities off southern New England, shows the composition and terrain of the seabed, and provides information on sediment transport and benthic habitat. During July-August 2008 NOAA completed hydrographic survey H11922 west of Gay Head, Massachusetts, in Rhode Island Sound and during July and September 2010 bottom photographs and surficial sediment data were acquired as part of ground-truth reconnaissance surveys of this area. Interpretations were derived from the multibeam echo-sounder data and the ground-truth data used to verify them. For more information on the ground-truth surveys see http://quashnet.er.usgs.gov/data/2010/10033/ and http://quashnet.er.usgs.gov/data/2010/10005/

Tags: aquinnah, atlantic-ocean, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, cuttyhunk-island, esri-polygon-shapefile, field-activity-number-2010-005-fa, field-activity-number-2010-033-fa, gay-head, geospatial-datasets, h11922, info-bank-id-r-33-10-ri, info-bank-id-u-5-10-bz, marthas-vineyard, multibeam-bathymetry, national-oceanic-and-atmospheric-administration, noaa, noaa-survey-h11922, nomans-land, north-america, oceans, ofr-2011-1004, open-file-report-2011-1004, rhode-island-sound, study-areas, survey-bounds, u-s-east-coast, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-f9b5f169-2703-40ae-a3f1-984825e06146, vineyard-sound, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
US Fish and Wildlife Service Fire Atlas- Burn Severity Mosaic for CONUS in 2002

The U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) requests burn severity assessments through an agreement with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to be completed by analysts with the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) Program. These data products are burned area boundary shapefiles derived from post-fire sensor data (including Landsat TM, Landsat ETM+, Landsat OLI). The pre-fire and post-fire subsets included were used to create Normalized Burn Ratio (NBR) and then a differenced Normalized Burn Ratio (dNBR) image. The objective of this assessment was to generate burned area boundaries for each fire. Data bundles also include post-fire subset, pre-fire subset, NBR, and dNBR images. This map layer is a thematic raster image of burn severity classes for all inventoried fires occurring in CONUS during calendar year 2002. Fires omitted from this mapped inventory are those where suitable satellite imagery was not available, or fires which were not discernable from available imagery.

Tags: burn-severity, burned-area, continental-u-s, conus, differenced-normalized-burn-ratio, fire-location, fire-occurrence, fws, imagerybasemapsearthcover, landsat, location, normalized-burn-ratio, prescribed-fire, sentinel, united-states, us, usgs-65b18fa4d34e36a39044c4bd, wildfire, wildland-fire
Organization: Department of the Interior
Eddy covariance measurements of ET, CO2 and Energy Fluxes, and, ancillary data for the Ft. Logan-Denver urban lawn site

This dataset includes the following measurements made over a managed lawn at Fort Logan Cemetery in Denver Colorado in 2011 and 2012. (No measurements were made in winter months: December, January, February). 
1) half hourly eddy covariance measurements of evapotranspiration and fluxes of carbon dioxide and sensible heat 
2) half hour averages of solar and net radiation, air temperature and humidity, soil temperature, moisture, and heat flux, and half hour sums of precipitation. 
3) approximately weekly measurements of vegetation: leaf area index, height of vegetation, dry and wet weights

Tags: evaporation, greenhouse-gases, land-use-and-land-cover, transpiration, usgs-5e9896ee82ce172707f6a91c
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2018 Site 0108 land-water matrix

Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring to determine the efficacy of these projects. The Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) was developed to assist in a multiple-reference approach that uses aspects of hydrogeomorphic functional assessments and probabilistic sampling for monitoring. The CRMS program includes a suite of approximately 390 sites that encompass the range of hydrological and ecological conditions for each stratum. As part of CRMS, land and water classifications are created from Digital Orthophoto Quarter Quadrangles (DOQQs) approximately every three years at all CRMS sites. This dataset consists of a matrix of five land-water products (2005, 2008, 2012, YYYY and 2018).  The resulting matrix has 32 possible classes defined by the combination of land and water categories on those five dates.

Tags: alteration-of-wetland-habitats, cartography, coastal, coastal-louisiana, crms, doqq, emergent-wetland, forested-wetland, geographic-information-system, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-water, louisiana, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, scrub-shrub-wetland, state-of-louisiana, usgs-611f122dd34e40dd9c01d0b9, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Table 1. Reported and inventoried crop and irrigated acreage in Escambia County, Florida, 1974–2016.

A detailed inventory of irrigated crop acreage is not available at the level of resolution needed to accurately estimate agricultural water-use or to project future water demands in many Florida counties. A detailed summary table of irrigated acreage for the 2016 growing season was developed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) for Escambia County, Florida, and includes totals of acreage by irrigation system. It also provides a comparison between published acreage totals for previous years by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Census of Agriculture and those determined from the 2016 inventory. The irrigated acreage estimated by the USGS for the 2016 inventory was 3,018 acres.

Tags: crop-type, environment, escambia-county, farming, florida, florida-department-of-agriculture-and-consumer-service, groundwater, inland-waters, irrigation-type, landuse, landuse-classification-codes, northwest-florida-water-management-district, orthoimagery, surface-water, usgs-595e70a9e4b0d1f9f057032c
Organization: Department of the Interior
Organic Matter Decomposition across a Coastal Wetland Landscape in Louisiana, U.S.A. Litter Quality (2014-2015)

Coastal wetlands store more carbon than most ecosystems globally. However, little is known about the mechanisms that control the loss of organic matter in coastal wetlands at the landscape scale, and how sea-level rise will impact this important ecological function.

Tags: asymptote, barataria-bain, cellulose-decay, coastal-wetlands, decay-constant, flooding, labile-carbon, landscapescale, lignin-content, litter-quality, louisiana, nitrogen-content, organic-matter-decomposition, refractory-carbon, salinity, sea-level-rise, terrebonne-basin, usgs-57fd41d0e4b0824b2d13107a
Organization: Department of the Interior
Generalized lithology for lithogeochemical classification of the bedrock of Vermont

This data release provides a generalized lithology look-up table for the lithogeochemical classification of Vermont's bedrock geologic map units.  The table is defined from the mapped bedrock geologic units published by Ratcliffe and others (2011) and the generalized lithology of rock group A and rock group B for lithogeochemical classification as defined by Robinson and Kapo (2003).  The 2003 classification was created fro all six New England states and Vermont's geologic units were based on an older, less detailed, bedrock map of Vermont by Doll and others (1961). The new data table in this data release is designed to be joined with the published attribute table from the 2011 map database, as part of the bedrock geologic map unit polygons.  The join attribute is the item called "Lith" in the 2011 map database. The data table is non-interpretive and the 2011 map data were not modified. The data release contains two files, including one metadata file and one comma-delimited (CSV) file: VTcontax_attrib_lithology.csv.
References:
Doll, C.G., Cady, W.M., Thompson, J.B., and Billings, M.P., 1961, Centennial geologic map of Vermont: Vermont Geological Survey, Miscellaneous Map MISCMAP-01, scale 1:250,000.
Ratcliffe, N.M., Stanley, R.S., Gale, M.H., Thompson, P.J., and Walsh, G.J., 2011, Bedrock geologic map of Vermont: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 3184, 3 sheets, scale 1:100,000, https://pubs.usgs.gov/sim/3184/
Robinson, G.R., Jr., and Kapo, K.E., 2003, Generalized lithology and lithogeochemical character of near-surface bedrock in the New England region: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 03-225, https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2003/of03-225/

Tags: bedrock, biota, fbgc, florence-bascom-geoscience-center, lithology, national-cooperative-geologic-mapping-program, ncgmp, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-653138d7d34edd15305a9fe6, vermont
Organization: Department of the Interior
Morphological measurements and subspecies of midcontinent sandhill cranes

The midcontinent population of sandhill cranes (Antigone canadensis) has historically been classified into three putative subspecies, but genetic analyses have identified only two genetically distinct subspecies.  Previous studies have successfully used morphometrics in combination with an individual’s sex to differentiate subspecies of sandhill cranes that had been inferred based on breeding area, but no study has used a sample of genetically determined subspecies to discriminate and develop predictive models. These data were used to support an effort to develop a field-ready tool using common morphometric measurements without determination of an individual’s sex and linear discriminant analysis to classify genetically identified A. c. canadensis (Lesser) and A. c. tabida (Greater) sandhill crane subspecies.

Tags: arizona, biota, birds, environment, game-species, migratory-birds, nebraska, new-mexico, saskatchewan, usgs-5ba003e6e4b08583a5c277d2
Organization: Department of the Interior
Field observation of wind waves and current velocity (2020) along the Fog Point Living Shoreline, Maryland

This dataset contains measurements of wave height, peak wave period, and water depth taken every 0.5 hours from February 13 to June 12, 2020, at three wave gauge locations along the Fog Point shoreline in Martin National Wildlife Refuge, Maryland. These wave gauges were continuously sampled at 10 Hz, capturing 20-minute bursts every 30 minutes (peak wave periods longer than 7s were removed). Additionally, the dataset includes measurements of current velocity at one location during the same period. A tilt current meter (TCM, Lowell Instruments LLC, short-TCMs, range of 0-60 cm/s), consisting of a tilt-corrected compass in a buoyant casing and attached to a concrete tile at the sediment surface, was used to measure current velocities. The TCM was sampled at 16 Hz in bursts of 20 seconds. The measured wave and current data were used for the analysis of wave attenuation along the living shoreline.

Tags: coastal-processes, fog-point, maryland, ocean-waves, oceans, shore, united-states, usgs-64fb3d44d34ed30c2055b0b5, waves
Organization: Department of the Interior
Basin Characteristics Data for the StreamStats Application in the Mystic River Basin, Massachusetts

The U.S. Geological Survey’s StreamStats program is a publicly-accessible web application (https://streamstats.usgs.gov) that can be used to delineate drainage areas, compute basin characteristics, and estimate flow statistics for user-selected locations on streams. StreamStats services are typically implemented at the statewide or watershed scale (referred to as state or basin applications), and although the three core functionalities remain consistent, many states have implemented custom tools to address specific water-resources planning and management needs. In Massachusetts, a watershed-scale application for the Mystic River Basin was developed to support stakeholder efforts to address stormwater challenges in this highly urbanized basin. The Mystic River Basin stormwater functionality was developed by incorporating 1-meter resolution lidar-derived elevation data and municipal storm drain data to accurately represent urban topography and stormwater flow (that is, subsurface piped flow). In the Mystic River Basin application, users can view the network of stormwater pipes and inlets, delineate drainage areas derived from lidar topography and stormwater infrastructure, and compute land-use/land-cover (LULC) basin characteristics.
This data release contains the LULC data available in the Mystic River Basin StreamStats application as a Georeferenced Tagged Image File Format (GeoTIFF) raster dataset. This dataset was developed by processing Massachusetts 2016 LULC data (MassGIS, 2019) and Soil Survey Geographic data (SSURGO; NRCS, 2020) according to Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection guidelines to produce categories consistent with the 2016 Massachusetts Small Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) General Permit Pollutant Loading Export Rates for aggregated land uses (Schifman, 2022).
References:
MassGIS, 2019, 2016 Land Cover/Land Use: MassGIS Bureau of Geographic Information, accessed April 11, 2022, at https://www.mass.gov/info-details/massgis-data-2016-land-coverland-use.
Natural Resources Conservation Service [NRCS], 2020, Soils Polygons for Massachusetts with "Top 20" Fields: MassGIS Bureau of Geographic Information, accessed December 1, 2021, at https://www.mass.gov/info-details/massgis-data-soils-ssurgo-certified-nrcs.
Schifman, L.A, 2022, 2016 Massachusetts Small MS4 Permit Pollutant Loading Export Rates applied to the 2016 Massachusetts Land Use/Land Cover GIS Dataset: Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, 7 p., accessed May 23, 2022, at https://www.mass.gov/doc/2016-massachusetts-small-ms4-permit-pollutant-loading-export-rates.

Tags: arlington, belmont, boston, burlington, cambridge, chelsea, everett, land-cover, land-use, lexington, malden, massachusetts, medford, melrose, middlesex-county, reading, soils-data, somerville, stoneham, storm-drain, streamstats, suffolk-county, usgs-62d754aed34e3b97e58cad62, wakefield, watertown, wilmington, winchester, woburn
Organization: Department of the Interior
USGS Benchmark Glacier Mass Balance and Project Data

Since the late 1950s, the USGS has maintained a long-term glacier mass-balance program at three North American glaciers. Measurements began on South Cascade Glacier, WA in 1958, expanding to Gulkana and Wolverine glaciers, AK in 1966, and later Sperry Glacier, MT in 2005. Additional measurements have been made on Lemon Creek Glacier, AK to compliment data collected by the Juneau Icefield Research Program (JIRP; Pelto and others, 2013). Direct field measurements of point glaciological data are combined with weather and geodetic data to estimate the seasonal and annual mass balance at each glacier in both a conventional and reference surface format (Cogley and others, 2011). The analysis framework (O'Neel, 2019; prior to v 3.0 van Beusekom and others, 2010) is identical at each glacier to enable cross-comparison between output time series. Vocabulary used follows Cogley and others (2011) Glossary of Glacier Mass Balance.

Tags: ablation-zones-accumulation-zones, boundaries, climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, cryosphere, elevation, environment, field-inventory-and-monitoring, geology, geomorphology, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, glaciation, glacier-elevation-ice-sheet-elevation, glacier-mass-balance-ice-sheet-mass-balance, glaciers, glaciers-ice-sheets, glaciology, gulkana-glacier, juneau-icefield, lemon-creek-glacier, precipitation-atmospheric, remote-sensing, snow-and-ice-cover, south-cascade-glacier, sperry-glacier, usgs-asc172, wolverine-glacier
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, 2015 and 2018 Site 0584 land-water matrix

Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring to determine the efficacy of these projects. The Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) was developed to assist in a multiple-reference approach that uses aspects of hydrogeomorphic functional assessments and probabilistic sampling for monitoring. The CRMS program includes a suite of approximately 390 sites that encompass the range of hydrological and ecological conditions for each stratum. As part of CRMS, land and water classifications are created from Digital Orthophoto Quarter Quadrangles (DOQQs) approximately every three years at all CRMS sites. This dataset consists of a matrix of five land-water products (2005, 2008, 2012, YYYY and 2018).  The resulting matrix has 32 possible classes defined by the combination of land and water categories on those five dates.

Tags: alteration-of-wetland-habitats, cartography, coastal, coastal-louisiana, crms, doqq, emergent-wetland, forested-wetland, geographic-information-system, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-water, louisiana, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, scrub-shrub-wetland, state-of-louisiana, usgs-611f13c5d34e40dd9c01d241, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Kuskokwim Bay Chum Salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) Energy Density, Distribution, and Stomach Data, 2004

This dataset documents the dry mass energy density, distribution, and stomach contents of age-0 chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) captured in the Kuskokwim Bay estuary in May and June 2004.

Tags: alaska, anadromous-species, animals-vertebrates, bering-sea, biota, coastal-ecosystems, diets, environment, estuarine-habitat, fish, fisheries, kuskokwim-bay, marine-ecosystems, ontogeny, salmon-trouts, stomach-contents, usgs-asc173
Organization: Department of the Interior
Genetic Data from Arctic, Polar, and Saffron Cod and Walleye Pollock, Alaska and Canada, 2011-2017

Fragment data from 11 nuclear microsatellite loci and sequence data from the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene were gathered from Arctic cod (Boreogadus saida) in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas. Mitogenomic analyses of Arctic cod and three other co-distributed gadoids (Polar cod [Arctogadus glacialis], Saffron cod [Eleginus gracilis], Walleye Pollock [Gadus chalcogrammus]) were also completed. Transcriptomic analyses of Arctic cod were used to identify genes associated with environmental perturbations. Genome-wide scans using RAD-Seq of Arctic cod and the co-distributed Polar Cod were collected.

Tags: alaska, aleutian-islands, aquatic-ecosystems, aquatic-sciences, arctic-cod, arctogadus-glacialis, beaufort-sea, bering-sea, biota, boreogadus-saida, canada, chukchi-sea, dna-mitochondrial, dna-sequencing, eleginus-gracilis, environment, fish, fisheries, gadus-chalcogrammus, gene-flow, genetic-structure, genetic-variance, genetics, genomics, gulf-of-alaska, gulf-of-saint-lawrence, marine-habitat, microsatellite-repeats, norton-sound, nova-scotia, polymerase-chain-reaction, population-dynamics, population-genetics, saffron-cod, systematics-and-taxonomy, usgs-asc175, walleye-pollock, yukon-territory
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data for Montane-Breeding Bird Distribution and Abundance Across National Parks of Southwestern Alaska, 2004-2008

Observation data and model covariate data from breeding bird inventory conducted during May-June 2004 and 2008 primarily in montane areas (&gt;100 m above sea level) in Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve (Aniakchak NMP), Katmai National Park and Preserve (Katmai NPP), and Lake Clark National Park and Preserve (Lake Clark NPP) in southwestern Alaska. Observers conducted 1,021 point counts along 169 transects within 63 10-km × 10-km plots that were randomly selected and stratified by ecological subsection. 

Tags: alaska, aniakchak-national-monument, animals-vertebrates, biological-population-management, biota, birds, distribution, environment, katmai-national-park-and-preserve, lake-clark-national-park-and-preserve, migratory-birds, natural-resource-management, ornithology, seasonal-distribution, usgs-asc174, wildlife
Organization: Department of the Interior