AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
LANDFIRE Remap Forest Canopy Cover (CC) Micronesia

LANDFIRE's (LF) 2016 Remap (Remap) Forest Canopy Cover (CC) describes the percent cover of the tree canopy in a stand, CC is a vertical projection of the tree canopy cover onto an imaginary horizontal plane. In disturbed locations CC is calculated from linear regression equations derived from Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) plot data output, but at non-disturbed locations it is assigned the midpoint of Fuel Vegetation Cover (FVC) forested classes. In some instances, LF Remap assumes the potential burnable biomass in the tree canopy has been accounted for in the surface fuel model. For example, young or short conifer stands where the trees are represented by a shrub type fuel model will not have canopy characteristics.
LF Remap Annual Disturbance products are incorporated into CC to provide informed changes by disturbance type, severity, and time since disturbance (TSD). Annual Disturbance products provide a pre-disturbance scenario represented by LF Remap existing vegetation products. Reporting of the pre-disturbance scenario helps to calculate CC, by providing information about vegetation impacted by a disturbance. Then, vegetation adjustments are modeled in disturbance areas based on disturbance type and severity. CC is then used in the calculation of Canopy Bulk Density (CBD) and Canopy Base Height (CBH). CC supplies information to fire behavior models in order to; determine the probability of crown fire initiation, provide input in the spotting model, calculate wind reductions, and to calculate fuel moisture conditioning. 
CC also has capable fuels functionality. Capable fuels calculate TSD assignments for disturbed areas using an "effective year." For example, year 2020 fuels may be calculated for the year 2020. the new process considers all the existing disturbances included in LF Remap and adjusts the TSD for these to the effective year (2020 in the example), making the products "2020 capable fuels." More information about capable fuels can be found at https://www.landfire.gov/lf_remap.php.

Tags: biota, canopy-cover, cc, federated-states-of-micronesia, fires, geographic-information-systems, geospatial-datasets, hazard-preparedness, ia, image-collections, imagerybasemapsearthcover, insular-areas, landfire-2016-remap, lf-2016-remap, micronesia, oconus, raster-digital-data, remote-sensing, u-s-forest-service-usfs, u-s-geological-survey-usgs, united-states, us, usgs-b1732675-88cf-4359-93c8-39b9e1f8f5f3
Organization: Department of the Interior
Post-wildfire sagebrush seedling establishment dataset

This dataset contains observations used to better understand the initial establishment of sagebrush (Artemisia sp.), in the first 1-2 years post-wildfire. Field data come from 460 sagebrush populations sampled across the Great Basin and many GIS-derived co-variates are included as well.

Tags: biota, environment, fertile-island, field-inventory-and-monitoring, field-sampling, great-basin, idaho, monitoring, natural-resource-management, nevada, north-america, oregon, post-wildfire, remediation, restoration, sagebrush, united-states, usgs-6272bfdad34e76103cd64515, utah, western-united-states
Organization: Department of the Interior
Transient electromagnetic (TEM) sounding data; San Luis Valley, Colorado, 2011

Transient electromagnetic (TEM) soundings were made in the San Luis Valley, Colorado, to map the location of a blue clay unit as well as to investigate the presence of suspected faults. A total of 147 soundings were made near and in Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, an additional 6 soundings were made near Hansen Bluff on the eastern edge of the Alamosa National Wildlife Refuge. The blue clay is a significant hydrologic feature in the area that separates an unconfined surface aquifer from a deeper confined aquifer. Knowledge of its location is important to regional hydrological models. Previous analysis of well logs has shown that the blue clay has a resistivity of 10 ohm-meters or less, which is in contrast to the higher resistivity of sand, gravel, and other clay units found in the area, making it a very good target for TEM soundings. The top of the blue clay was found to have considerable relief suggesting the possibility of deformation of the clay during or after deposition. Because of rift activity deformation is to be expected. Of the TEM profiles made across faults identified by aeromagnetic data, some showed resistivity variations and (or) subsurface elevation relief of resistivity units suggestive of faulting. Such patterns were not associated with all suspected faults. The Hansen Bluff profile showed variations in resistivity and depth to conductor that coincide with a scarp between the highlands to the east and the floodplain of the Rio Grande River to the west.

Tags: alamosa-county, alamosa-national-wildlife-refuge, aquifer, clay, clay-deposits, colorado, electromagnetic-surveying, fault-detection, faulting-geologic, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, great-sand-dunes-national-park, great-sand-dunes-national-preserve, groundwater, saguache-county, san-luis-valley, subsurface-mapping, subsurface-maps, tem, transient-electromagnetic-sounding, usgs-5841f58ae4b04fc80e518d72
Organization: Department of the Interior
NOSBATC - bathymetric contour data for the Monterey Bay region from Point Ano Nuevo to Point Sur, California based on NOAA/NOS data (UTM)

This dataset contains bathymetric contours for the greater Monterey Bay area between Point Ano Nuevo to the north and Point Sur to the south. Contours are provided at 10-m intervals to a depth of 200 m and 100-m intervals to maximum depth. The data from which the contours were derived were hydrographic survey points published by NOAA NOS in 1998. This is one of a collection of digital files of a geographic information system of spatially referenced data related to the USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Project (see this and other older Monterey Bay USGS works archived at https://archive.usgs.gov/archive/sites/walrus.wr.usgs.gov/monterey/index.html.
      

Tags: bathymetry, bathymetry-and-elevation, central-california, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, coastal-geology, continental-margin, continental-margins, continental-shelf, contouring, elevation, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, marine-geology, monterey, monterey-bay, monterey-bay-national-marine-sanctuary, moss-landing, north-america, north-pacific-ocean, northern-california, northern-pacific-ocean, oceans, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pacific-ocean, pcmsc, point-ano-nuevo, point-arena, point-sur, santa-cruz, sea-floor-characteristics, u-s-geological-survey, united-states-of-america, usa, usgs, usgs-1222e7c5-f15f-49f8-bfc7-b63c06f9acfb
Organization: Department of the Interior
Summary of Responses at the 2021 Colorado River Basin Science and Technology Meetings

In June and July 2021, the Colorado River Basin Actionable and Strategic Integrated Science and Technology (ASIST) pilot team held a series of 12 Science and Technology Collaboration meetings with U.S. Geological Survey science staff to discuss complex integrated science challenges and solutions related to drought in the Colorado River Basin. These meetings were structured to explore existing opportunities for co-production of science information, identify challenges experienced by participants when working in isolation on complex problems, and envision future collaborative efforts that leverage new technology. We collected 865 individual responses to six discussion prompts (challenges, knowledge gaps, existing capabilities, strategies and actions, example applications, and next steps) using structured online collaboration tools. We then used terms from the U.S. Geological Survey Thesaurus and the Data Lifecycle model to attribute and summarize participant responses submitted to discussion prompts. In this data release, we provide relevant terms from the U.S. Geological Survey Thesaurus and Data Lifecycle model assigned to self-reported biographies of each participant (response_attendees.csv) and responses to each discussion prompt  (response_challenges.csv, response_knowledge_gaps.csv, response_existing_capabilities.csv, response_strategies_actions.csv, response_example_applications.csv, and response_next_steps.csv). We also provide a summary of assigned terms by discussion prompt, across meetings, and by their associated Tier 1 and Tier 2 terms based on the U.S. Geological Survey Thesaurus hierarchy of terms (tiered_response_summary.csv).

Tags: administrative-and-political-boundaries, aquatic-ecosystems, arizona, atmospheric-and-climatic-processes, colorado, computational-methods, data-communication, droughts, environment, hydrology, information-technology-methods, institutional-structures-and-activities, interdisciplinary-programs, nevada, new-mexico, official-communications, risk-assessment, terrestrial-ecosystems, usgs-65690dd6d34e17319ded10b2, utah, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
The Vigil Network: Aching Shoulder Slope, New Mexico

Long-term monitoring data of geomorphic, hydrological, and biological characteristics of landscapes. This information provides an effective means of relating observed change to possible causes of the change. Identification of changes in basin characteristics, especially in arid areas where the response to altered climate or land use is generally rapid and readily apparent, might provide the initial direct indications that factors such as global warming and cultural impacts have affected the environment. The Vigil Network provides an opportunity for earth and life scientists to participate in a systematic monitoring effort to detect landscape changes over time, and to relate such changes to possible causes. This data release includes 70 sites and basins used to monitor landscape features. This data release includes information for Vigil Network sites monitored in the United States. The data and information in this data release are historical and were obtained from original documents.

Tags: geomorphology, land-surveying, sedimentation, sedimentology, streamflow, usgs-5fe395bbd34ea5387deb4950, vegetation
Organization: Department of the Interior
Wind rose plots for the volcano: 320080  Hoodoo Mountain

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

Tags: meteorology, usgs-58d015bde4b0236b68f52fdc, volcanic-ash, volcanic-eruption-forecasting, wind
Organization: Department of the Interior
Molecular detection of Tetracapsuloides bryosalmonae DNA from fish tissues and environmental DNA water samples collected throughout the Inter-mountain West, USA from 2011 to 2019

This dataset contains molecular diagnostic results of the myxozoan parasite Tetracapsuloides byrosalmonae in fish tissue collected from the inter-mountain West, USA.

Tags: aquatic-biology, california, farming, idaho, montana, parasites, upper-snake, upper-yellowstone, usgs-5f84eaf082cebef40f128d52
Organization: Department of the Interior
Genetically informed seed transfer zones for Pleuraphis jamesii, Sphaeralcea parvifolia, and Sporobolus cryptandrus across the Colorado Plateau and adjacent regions

These data were compiled to provide seed transfer and native plant materials development guidance to managers and practitioners across the Colorado Plateau and in adjacent regions. This data release contains empirical seed transfer zones  derived from molecular genetic data  for Pleuraphis jamesii (syn. Hilaria jamesii), Sphaeralcea parvifolia, and Sporobolus cryptandrus. Pleuraphis jamesii and Sphaeralcea parvifolia show distinct population structure (i.e., genetic differentiation) across their ranges ; as such, seed transfer zones reflect both patterns of genetic differentiation and information on each species' unique  adaptations to climatic gradients. Sporobolus cryptandrus did not display discrete population structure across the Colorado Plateau, and its seed transfer zones reflect only patterns of adaptation inferred from its genetic data. These shapefile data may support successful restoration outcomes  if, for example, seed transfer follows seed transfer zones depicted herein and/or composite seed strategies for native plant materials development utilize seed transfer zones when determining which seed accessions may be combined. The ultimate goal of these seed transfer zones is to protect natural patterns of genetic variation and maximize (or at least better understand) species' adaptations to local environmental conditions. This work was funded by the Bureau of Land Management's Colorado Plateau Native Plant Program.

Tags: adaptation, arizona, biogeography, biota, california, climatic-gradients, colorado, colorado-plateau, differentiation, environmental-restoration, flora-restoration, genetic-differentiation, genetic-diversity, genetic-resources, genetic-variation, kansas, molecular-genetic-data, native-plant, nevada, new-mexico, oklahoma, pleuraphis-jamesii-syn-hilaria-jamesii, population-differentiation, restoration, seed-accessions, seed-strategies, seed-transfer, seed-transfer-zones, sphaeralcea-parvifolia, sporobolus-cryptandrus, texas, usgs-5d8ba40de4b0c4f70d0bcc89, utah, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Video transects of the sea floor on Stellwagen Bank on U.S. Geological Survey field activity 2015-062-FA, aboard the R/V Auk, Oct. 21 and 22 and Nov. 3 and 4 2015 (geographic, WGS84, 2015-062-FA_driftlines.shp polyline)

This field activity is part of the effort to map geologic substrates of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary region off Boston, Massachusetts. The overall goal is to develop high-resolution (1:25,000) interpretive maps, based on multibeam sonar data and seabed sampling, showing surficial geology and seabed sediment dynamics. This cruise was conducted in collaboration with the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, and the data collected will aid research on the ecology of fish and invertebrate species that inhabit the region. The Sanctuary's research vessel, R/V Auk, visited 75 locations on Stellwagen Bank at which a customized Van Veen grab sampler (SEABOSS) equipped with a video camera and a CTD was deployed in drift mode to collect sediment for grain-size analysis, video imagery of the seabed, and temperature, conductivity, and depth measurements of the water column. Additional information regarding this field activity is available from https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fa=2015-062-FA.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, location, massachusetts, massachusetts-bay, navigation, navigational-data, north-america, oceans, polyline-shapefile, sbnms, sea-floor-characteristics, seabed-observation-and-sampling-system, seaboss, stations, stellwagen-bank, stellwagen-bank-national-marine-sanctuary, trackline, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-f3cea39e-fdc0-4c3e-b662-d59f7993bdff, video, videos, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geospatial Bathymetry Dataset and Elevation-Area-Capacity Table for Ashokan Reservoir, 2013 to 2014

From 2013 to 2015, bathymetric surveys of New York City’s six West of Hudson reservoirs (Ashokan, Cannonsville, Neversink, Pepacton, Rondout, and Schoharie) were performed to provide updated capacity tables and bathymetric maps.  Depths were surveyed with a single-beam echo sounder and real-time kinematic global positioning system (RTK-GPS) along planned transects at predetermined intervals for each reservoir.  A separate set of echo sounder data was collected along transects at oblique angles to the main transects for accuracy assessment.  Field survey data was combined with water-surface elevations in a geographic information system to create three-dimensional surfaces representing reservoir-bed elevations in the form of triangulated irregular networks (TINs); the TINs were linearly enforced to better represent geomorphic features within the reservoirs.  The linearly enforced TINs were used to create bathymetric maps of the reservoirs; contours were mapped at 2-foot intervals and capacity was calculated at 0.01-foot intervals.

Tags: ashokan-reservoir, bathymetry, gps-measurement, single-beam-echo-sounder, ulster-county, usgs-57fd1c49e4b0824b2d130f67
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2021 Site 2154 land-water classification data

Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring efforts to determine the efficacy of these efforts. 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 398 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. A DOQQ is a raster image in which displacement in the image caused by sensor orientation and terrain relief has been removed and combines the image characteristics of a photo with geometric qualities of a map. The DOQQs generated for this project consist of 2021 Color Infrared (CIR) Digital Imagery. These images were classified into land and water categories using a threshold of the near infrared (NIR) band, followed by supervised and unsupervised classification.  Initial classification results are then reviewed by multiple image analysts to identify and manually recode errors. The final land-water classifications are intended to serve as both geographic and quantitative assessments of landscape composition on the date of acquisition. Five previous assessments have been conducted (2005, 2008, 2012, 2015/2016, and 2018). Once the program creates enough data points for statistical analyses, these data will be used for land area change rate calculation.

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-6569e62bd34e6dde1a4ae1a2, wetland, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data from the development and evaluation of a CRISPR/Cas12a-based biosensor for the detection of DNA from Pseudogymnoascus destructans using samples collected from various species of bats across the United States, from 2018 to 2023

Reported here are the fluorescence data points recorded from CRISPR/Cas12a biosensor assays to detect the presence or absence of DNA from Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Pd), the causative fungal agent of white-nose syndrome in bats, from artificial controls, dermal swab, and guano samples. Ct values from qPCR experiments are also provided in a table. Furthermore, we also provide the GenBank accession numbers used to develop the aforementioned CRISPR/Cas12a biosensor assay for Pd DNA detection.

Tags: bats, fungi, usgs-651ed60bd34e44db0e2dd27a, white-nose-syndrome, wildlife-disease
Organization: Department of the Interior
Wind rose plots for the volcano: 273804  Labo

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

Tags: meteorology, usgs-58d01311e4b0236b68f52c55, volcanic-ash, volcanic-eruption-forecasting, wind
Organization: Department of the Interior
Physical and chemical data for dust deposited on Colorado Rocky Mountain snow cover during water year 2013 through water year 2016.

Atmospheric particulate matter deposited to snow cover diminishes snow-surface albedo and results in early onset and rapid snow melting, challenging management of downstream water resources. We present here physical and chemical data from snow samples from 14 sites during the melt seasons of water years 2013-16 across 60,000 km2 of the central Rocky Mountains within the Upper Colorado River basin. The samples represented the last remaining particulate-laden surfaces after individual dust layers and particles from background fallout had merged. The samples were examined for relations among properties of spectral reflectance, types and amounts of light absorbing particles (LAPs), chemical composition, and particle sizes.

Tags: berthoud-pass, black-carbon, colorado-river-basin, colorado-rocky-mountains, dust, dust-on-snow, ferric-oxide-minerals, grand-mesa, grizzly-peak, hoosier-pass, independence-pass, keebler-pass, light-absorbing-particles, loveland-pass, mcclure-pass, micro-plastics, park-cone, rabbit-ears-pass, snow-radiation-modeling, spring-creek-pass, swamp-angel-study-plot, usgs-66194853d34e7eb9eb7dcaa3, water-resource-management, willow-creek-pass, wolf-creek-pass
Organization: Department of the Interior
Black Carp in North America: a description of range, habitats, date, and methods of reported captures May 2018-October 2022

Black Carp collections (n=534) by commercial fishers, biologists, and recreational anglers from the Mississippi River basin recorded from 2018 to 2022 are reported here. Geographic coordinates, total length (TL), weight, girth, date of capture, sex, and gear were recorded. Total length was measured from the tip of the snout to the longest caudal fin ray with the caudal fin lobes pinched. Girth was measured as the circumference of the fish anterior of the dorsal fin, representing wedge capture in passive gears. When provided by fishers, the gear dimensions such as the diameter, mesh, and bait used for hoop nets, and mesh size of gill nets were recorded.

Tags: atchafalaya-river, biota, black-carp, commercial-fishing, cumberland-river, fish, fish-nets, gillnets, hoop-net, illinois-river, invasive-carp, invasive-species, mississippi-river, missouri-river, netting, ohio-river, passive-fishing-gears, tennessee-river, trammel-net, usgs-66561be1d34ef3137d35ea03
Organization: Department of the Interior