AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
California Mule Deer Blue Canyon Routes

The Blue Canyon mule deer herd winters in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada south of Interstate 80. The winter range includes dense conifer and oak woodland that is shared with a resident portion of the herd on a mix of public and private lands. In the spring, the Blue Canyon herd migrates from their winter range eastward along two main paths both north and south of the Forest Hill Divide to higher elevation terrain near Soda Springs and the crest of the Sierra Nevada in the Granite Chief Wilderness. The summer range includes primarily mixed conifer opening up to high alpine granite near the crest of the Sierra Nevada. The population size is not well known due to limited surveys, but is considered stable to declining, affected primarily by dense overstory and habitat loss. This GPS collaring project was designed as part of a region-wide effort to obtain abundance estimates for deer using fecal DNA and home range analyses, with pinpointing migration routes and identifying winter ranges a secondary priority. Due to the small sample of GPS-tagged mule deer, additional migration routes and winter range areas probably exist beyond the extent of our model output.
These mapping layers show the location of the migration routes for mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) in the Blue Canyon population in California. They were developed from 9 migration sequences collected from a sample size of 3 animals comprising GPS locations collected every 1-12 hours.

Tags: animal-behavior, biota, california, migration-organisms, migration-route, migratory-species, soda-springs, united-states, usgs-63650b7ad34ebe442507ce59
Organization: Department of the Interior
California Mule Deer Blue Canyon Corridors

The Blue Canyon mule deer herd winters in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada south of Interstate 80. The winter range includes dense conifer and oak woodland that is shared with a resident portion of the herd on a mix of public and private lands. In the spring, the Blue Canyon herd migrates from their winter range eastward along two main paths both north and south of the Forest Hill Divide to higher elevation terrain near Soda Springs and the crest of the Sierra Nevada in the Granite Chief Wilderness. The summer range includes primarily mixed conifer opening up to high alpine granite near the crest of the Sierra Nevada. The population size is not well known due to limited surveys, but is considered stable to declining, affected primarily by dense overstory and habitat loss. This GPS collaring project was designed as part of a region-wide effort to obtain abundance estimates for deer using fecal DNA and home range analyses, with pinpointing migration routes and identifying winter ranges a secondary priority. Due to the small sample of GPS-tagged mule deer, additional migration routes and winter range areas probably exist beyond the extent of our model output.
These mapping layers show the location of the migration corridors for mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) in the Blue Canyon population in California. They were developed from 9 migration sequences collected from a sample size of 3 animals comprising GPS locations collected every 1-12 hours.

Tags: animal-behavior, biota, california, migration-organisms, migration-route, migratory-species, soda-springs, united-states, usgs-63650b76d34ebe442507ce57
Organization: Department of the Interior
Arizona Pronghorn Big Lake Corridors

The Big Lake pronghorn herd resides in the White Mountains of eastern Arizona within Game Management Unit 1. Mid-March, the Big Lake pronghorn migrate, crossing the Little Colorado River approximately four miles north of River Reservoir, to their high-elevation summer range. The summer range consists primarily of high-elevation grasslands and large alpine meadows near Big Lake. Some individuals continue several miles farther south to summer near Middle Mountain. Fall migration occurs in early to mid-October, when the herd moves north to low-elevation grassland habitats west of Eagar, Arizona. The primary threat to this migration corridor is State Route 260, which experiences high traffic volume and requires crossing for pronghorn to access seasonal ranges. 
These mapping layers show the location of the migration corridors for pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) in the Big Lake population in Arizona. They were developed from 22 migration sequences collected from a sample size of 8 animals comprising GPS locations collected every 2-4 hours.

Tags: animal-behavior, arizona, eagar, migration-organisms, migration-route, migratory-species, springerville, united-states, usgs-63650b66d34ebe442507ce4f
Organization: Department of the Interior
Arizona Mule Deer South of I 40 Winter Range

South of Interstate 40 mule deer reside in Game Management Units (GMU) 8 and 6B in Arizona. The herd summers in high-elevation open meadows and ponderosa pine habitat southwest of Flagstaff, Arizona. In late October, the herd migrates west to lower elevation pinyon-juniper and shrub habitats near the junction of Interstate 40 and U.S. Highway 89. With funding support by the U.S. Department of the Interior (USDI) through Secretarial Order 3362, research on this herd’s migration began in February 2020. Additional GPS collars were deployed in January 2022 with support from the U.S. Forest Service, Mule Deer Foundation, and other partners. Primary threats to the herd’s migration involve high volume roads including Interstate 40, and U.S. Highways 89 and 89A.
These mapping layers show the location of the winter ranges for mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) in the South of I-40 population in Arizona. They were developed from 5 migration sequences collected from a sample size of 5 adult animals comprising GPS locations collected approximately every 3 hours.

Tags: animal-behavior, arizona, ash-fork, bellemont, biota, flagstaff, migration-organisms, migration-route, migratory-species, parks, united-states, usgs-63650b61d34ebe442507ce4d, williams
Organization: Department of the Interior
Arizona Mule Deer South of I 40 Routes

South of Interstate 40 mule deer reside in Game Management Units (GMU) 8 and 6B in Arizona. The herd summers in high-elevation open meadows and ponderosa pine habitat southwest of Flagstaff, Arizona. In late October, the herd migrates west to lower elevation pinyon-juniper and shrub habitats near the junction of Interstate 40 and U.S. Highway 89. With funding support by the U.S. Department of the Interior (USDI) through Secretarial Order 3362, research on this herd’s migration began in February 2020. Additional GPS collars were deployed in January 2022 with support from the U.S. Forest Service, Mule Deer Foundation, and other partners. Primary threats to the herd’s migration involve high volume roads including Interstate 40, and U.S. Highways 89 and 89A.
These mapping layers show the location of the migration routes for mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) in the South of I-40 population in Arizona. They were developed from 20 migration sequences collected from a sample size of 7 adult animals comprising GPS locations collected approximately every 3 hours.

Tags: animal-behavior, arizona, ash-fork, bellemont, biota, flagstaff, migration-organisms, migration-route, migratory-species, parks, united-states, usgs-63650b5bd34ebe442507ce49, williams
Organization: Department of the Interior
Arizona Mule Deer South of I 40 Corridors

South of Interstate 40 mule deer reside in Game Management Units (GMU) 8 and 6B in Arizona. The herd summers in high-elevation open meadows and ponderosa pine habitat southwest of Flagstaff, Arizona. In late October, the herd migrates west to lower elevation pinyon-juniper and shrub habitats near the junction of Interstate 40 and U.S. Highway 89. With funding support by the U.S. Department of the Interior (USDI) through Secretarial Order 3362, research on this herd’s migration began in February 2020. Additional GPS collars were deployed in January 2022 with support from the U.S. Forest Service, Mule Deer Foundation, and other partners. Primary threats to the herd’s migration involve high volume roads including Interstate 40, and U.S. Highways 89 and 89A.
These mapping layers show the location of the migration corridors for mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) in the South of I-40 population in Arizona. They were developed from 20 migration sequences collected from a sample size of 7 adult animals comprising GPS locations collected approximately every 3 hours.

Tags: animal-behavior, arizona, ash-fork, bellemont, biota, flagstaff, migration-organisms, migration-route, migratory-species, parks, united-states, usgs-63650b56d34ebe442507ce46, williams
Organization: Department of the Interior
Formation tops data from the stratigraphic cross sections of the Lewis Shale in the eastern part of the Southwestern Wyoming Province, Wyoming and Colorado

This data release contains data associated with the USGS SIM publication "Stratigraphic Cross Sections of the Lewis Shale in the eastern part of the Southwestern Wyoming Province, Wyoming and Colorado". North-to-southeast (A–A’), west-to-east (B–B’), and southwest-to-northeast (C–C’) cross sections were created from 105 wells throughout the eastern part of the Southwestern Wyoming Province. The cross sections highlight 15 clinothems within the Lewis Shale, Fox Hills Sandstone, and Lance Formation progradational system.  
Data include well information and depths to key stratigraphic surfaces for 105 wells within the three cross sections. Well information includes the cross section identification, API #, well name, latitude in decimals, longitude in decimals, projection datum, county, state, Kelly Bushing elevation in feet, section, township, and range. Wells 19*, 26*, 69* and 70* are intersection points between the three sections. The stratigraphic data are all listed in measured depth relative to the Kelly bushing elevation and include the depth to the top of the Almond Formation, depth to the top and base of the informal Asquith marker, depth to the tops of 15 flooding surfaces which define the series of clinothems within the Lewis Shale, depth the top of the Lewis Shale, and depth to the top of the Fox Hills Sandstone.

Tags: continuous-assessment, energy-resources, geology, geoscientificinformation, national-and-global-assessment-oil-and-gas, natural-gas, natural-gas-resources, oil, oilgas, resource-assessment, southwest-wyoming-province-37, southwestwyoming, state-of-colorado, state-of-wyoming, unconventional-assessment, united-states-of-america, usgs-6363ee79d34ebe442507071b
Organization: Department of the Interior
Everglades Vulnerability Analysis (EVA) modeling scripts and output

The Everglades Vulnerability Analysis (EVA) is a series of connected Bayesian networks that models the landscape-scale response of indicators of Everglades ecosystem health to changes in hydrology and salinity on the landscape. Using the uncertainty built into each network, it also produces surfaces of vulnerability in relation to user-defined ‘ideal’ outcomes. This dataset includes the code used to build the modules and generate outputs of module outcome probabilities and landscape vulnerability.

Tags: biota, decision-support-methods, ecological-indicators, everglades, everglades-national-park, florida, modeling, natural-resource-management, southern-florida, spatial-analysis, usgs-636bb6ded34ed907bf6ab9f5, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Spring 2022 Arcata to Eureka, California, Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) experiment: Nodal Seismometer data 2022-06-16 through 2022-07-23

These data are from a 3-month long deployment of nodal seismometers that ran from May 18th, 2022 until September 1st, 2022 as part of a Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) experiment above the Gorda plate (McGuire, et al., 2022).  The sensors were deployed at 44 locations along Old Arcata Rd between Arcata and Eureka California (Figure 1); these locations track the approximate location of the fiber optic cable used as part of the DAS experiment. The instruments have a battery recording life of approximately one month and were swapped out in the same locations in Mid-June, and Mid-July.  Thus, there are 132 instruments that were deployed at 44 distinct locations. This record covers the data from the second month (2022-06-16 through 2022-07-23) of the deployment

Tags: biota, earthquake, earthquakes, usgs-636199fed34ebe4425065705
Organization: Department of the Interior
Spring 2022 Arcata to Eureka, California, Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) experiment: Nodal Seismometer data

These data are from a 3-month long deployment of nodal seismometers that ran from May 18th, 2022 until September 1st, 2022 as part of a Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) experiment above the Gorda plate (McGuire, et al., 2022).  The sensors were deployed at 44 locations along Old Arcata Rd between Arcata and Eureka California (Figure 1); these locations track the approximate location of the fiber optic cable used as part of the DAS experiment. The instruments have a battery recording life of approximately one month and were swapped out in the same locations in Mid-June, and Mid-July.  Thus, there are 132 instruments that were deployed at 44 distinct locations.

Tags: biota, earthquake, earthquakes, usgs-63619845d34ebe44250656f8
Organization: Department of the Interior
Median estimates of impact potential from geothermal energy production activities on Greater Sage-grouse populations in Nevada and California (2022)

These data are the result of an intersection between a surface representing the delta-finite rate of population change and another surface representing Greater Sage-grouse abundance and space-use. It was used to rank candidate sites according to greatest potential impact to Greater Sage-grouse populations resulting from the presence of geothermal energy activity. In 2022, candidate geothermal sites were identified in Nevada and eastern California, then buffered by 10 kilometers. While the extent of the overall raster layer encompasses a very large swath of the western US, data values are limited to fall within these 10 kilometer buffers.

Tags: before-after-control-impact, biota, california, decision-support-tool, great-basin, habitat-alteration-and-disturbance, human-impacts, land-use-change, native-species, nevada, sagebrush-ecosystem, shrubland-ecosystems, state-space-model, survival-analysis, usgs-63618ebad34ebe44250656e3, western-united-states
Organization: Department of the Interior
Cataloging and Digitizing USGS Indirect Measurements for Montana through Water Year 2020

In 2021, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation Program, 
cataloged and scanned notes and calculations for indirect measurements taken during flood events in Montana. This product provides a publicly available catalog of the field notes, photos, survey information, and calculations for indirect measurements at selected sites.  Indirect measurements are surveyed by the USGS after floods by identifying high water marks along rivers indicating the maximum stream stage.  These high water marks are used to estimate the peak discharge through standardized methods.  Estimates of peak streamflow from the indirect estimates were were added to the National Water Information System. The estimates from the measurements can be used to calculate peak-flow frequencies, inform floodplain management, or add information to flood databases.

Tags: datasets, flood, floods, hazard-preparedness, inlandwaters, land, montana, north-america, stream-gage-measurement, streamflow, united-states, usgs-63617e9bd34ebe442506566c, watershed-management
Organization: Department of the Interior
Peak-Flow Frequency Analysis for U.S. Geological Survey Streamgage 05481510 Bluff Creek at Pilot Mound, Iowa, in the Des Moines River Basin, Iowa, Based on Data Through Water Year 2021

This data release presents a peak-flow frequency analysis for U.S. Geological Survey streamgage 05481510 Bluff Creek at Pilot Mound, Iowa. The annual peak-flow record at this streamgage consists of both a discrete crest-stage period and a continuous partial-record period. The streamgage, which is in the Des Moines River Basin, is located on 130th Street in Pilot Mound, Iowa. Drainage area at the streamgage is 23.5 square miles. Annual peak-flow data are available for the period 1966-2021. The peak of record, 1,290 cubic feet per second, occurred on June 16, 1990. The annual peak-flow data used in the frequency analysis were downloaded from the U.S. Geological Survey National Water Information System database (U.S. Geological Survey, 2022) and the procedures for the flood frequency analyses are described in Eash and others (2013). The program PeakFQ version 7.4 was used for these analyses, a description of this program can be found in Flynn and others (2006) and Veilleux and others (2014).
References Cited:
Eash, D.A., Barnes, K.K., and Veilleux, A.G., 2013, Methods for estimating annual exceedance-probability discharges for streams in Iowa, based on data through water year 2010: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2013-5086, 63 p. with appendix., http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2013/5086/.
Flynn, K.M., Kirby, W.H., and Hummel, P.R., 2006, User’s Manual for Program PeakFQ Annual Flood-Frequency Analysis Using Bulletin 17B Guidelines: U.S. Geological Survey, Techniques and Methods Book 4, Chapter B4; 42 pgs., accessed on July 1, 2022, at https://pubs.usgs.gov/tm/2006/tm4b4/tm4b4.pdf.
U.S. Geological Survey, 2022, USGS water data for the Nation: U.S. Geological Survey National Water Information System database, accessed September 12, 2022, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7P55KJN. [Site information directly accessible at https://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/inventory/?site_no=05481510&amp;agency_cd=USGS&amp;amp;].
Veilleux, A.G., Cohn, T.A., Flynn, K.M., Mason, R.R., Jr., and Hummel, P.R., 2014, Estimating magnitude and frequency of floods using the PeakFQ 7.0 program: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2013–3108, 2 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/fs20133108.

Tags: annual-exceedance-probability, bluff-creek, floods, hazard-preparedness, hazards, hydrology, iowa, peak-flow-frequency, pilot-mound, statistical-analysis, streamflow, time-series-analysis, usgs-636174d9d34ebe4425065650
Organization: Department of the Interior
Water temperature data to support effectiveness monitoring of channel and floodplain restoration projects along the Willamette River, Oregon: Willamette Mission State Park 2020-2021

Continuous water temperature data were collected at multiple sites along the Middle Fork and mainstem Willamette Rivers between Jasper and Newberg, Oregon, to support effectiveness monitoring for a large-scale channel and floodplain restoration program (Willamette Focused Investment Partnership, WFIP). Continuous water temperature loggers were deployed at a subset of WFIP restoration sites where river restoration activities were implemented to improve habitat conditions for native fish species. Data from water temperature monitoring will be used to evaluate the effectiveness of restoration activities at improving habitat conditions for Endangered Species Act (ESA)-listed salmonids and other native fish in the Willamette River. Additionally, water temperature monitoring in summer and early fall months at restoration sites is useful for determining whether thermal conditions at these sites are optimal, sub-optimal, or lethal for cold-water adapted fish species like spring Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha). Water temperature monitoring for this study spans 2019 through 2022. Water temperature loggers were suspended in the water column on a wire between a concrete block and a buoy as part of a monitoring arrays installed at multiple off-channel location throughout the study area.
This document describes data collected at the Willamette Mission State Park monitoring site between 09/22/2020 and 10/18/2021 and associated data quality files. The monitoring sites are within Mission Lake, a lake not connected to the Willamette River year-round, and Windsor Slough, an alcove along the Willamette River which flows around Windsor Island. These sites contain various configurations of monitoring arrays consisting of water temperature loggers suspended at different elevations in the water column. One monitoring array consisting of one water temperature logger was deployed from 09/22/2020 to 10/18/2021 at the Mission Lake monitoring site. Two monitoring arrays consisting of one water temperature loggers per array were deployed from 09/22/2020 to 04/20/2021 at the Windsor Slough monitoring site. The two arrays at Windsor Slough were replaced by one monitoring array consisting of two water temperature loggers from 04/20/2021 to 10/18/2021. These data and metadata have been added to the data release originally published in 2021.

Tags: albany, alcove, bowers-rock-state-park, browns-island, collins-bay, effectiveness-monitoring, gravel-pit, hydrology, inlandwaters, lake, middle-fork-willamette-river, middle-willamette-river, minto-brown-island-park, minto-island, mission-lake, native-fish, off-channel, oregon, pond, restoration, river, salem, springfield, surface-water, upper-willamette-river, usgs-63604702d34ebe442505e9e6, water-temperature, willamette-basin, willamette-confluence-preserve, willamette-mission-state-park, willamette-river, willamette-slough, windsor-island, windsor-slough
Organization: Department of the Interior
Fat content and morphometric data in barred owls (Strix varia) in the Pacific Northwest

Body condition indices and related metrics can help assess habitat quality and other ecological processes, and ideally these metrics are based on measures of lipids directly extracted from the species of interest. In recent decades, barred owls (Strix varia) have become a species of conservation concern as they invaded older forests of the U.S. Pacific Northwest, and caused population declines of the closely related and federally threatened northern spotted owl (S. occidentalis caurina). A simple and effective measure of barred owl body condition could help to understand how habitat quality varies within their new range, which in turn can inform their management and other aspects of their ecology. Using 77 barred owl carcasses collected during experimental removals in Washington and Oregon, USA, we measured the amount of lipid in each specimen with proximate body composition analysis.

Tags: biota, body-condition-index, fat-score, invasive-species, lipid-extraction, oregon, pacific-northwest, raptor, usgs-63602255d34ebe442505e817, washington
Organization: Department of the Interior
Model Archive Summary and Time-Series Suspended-Sediment Concentration Computed from a Surrogate Turbidity Regression at USGS station 382829121351801; Toe Drain Near Babel Slough Near Freeport, California (2014-2019)

Model archive summary (MAS) describing the development of a continuous 15-minute suspended-sediment concentration (SSC) time series regression model for the site: Toe Drain Near Babel Slough Near Freeport, California (USGS site # 382829121351801).

Tags: california, environment, geomorphology, hydrology, sacramento-san-joaquin-delta, sediment-transport, suspended-material-water, turbidity, usgs-63601d16d34ebe442505e7f3, water-quality, water-resources
Organization: Department of the Interior