AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
EXO2 continuous profiling in porous organic sediments at unnamed north lake near Bemidji, Minnesota, 2019

These data were collected in coordination with the U.S. Geological Survey Hydrogeophysics Branch for the National Crude Oil Spill Fate and Natural Attenuation Research Site. Data were collected using an EXO2 suspended 5.5 feet below a kayak.  Sensor was dragged along the bottom of the lake except in instances where water depth was greater than 5.5 ft.  The continuous profiling was conducted while paddling a kayak using  Hypack 2017a to navigate survey lines set on a georeferenced background map to the best of ability.  An EXO 2.0 handheld controller was used for coordinate information.  Data collected includes, water temperature, specific conductance, pH, dissolved oxygen, and turbidity. 
These data are provided in two formats: a CSV file named EXO2_Sediment_WQ.csv, and in the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) shapefile format consisting of a group of files that have been compressed into a zip archive that is named EXO2_Sediment_WQ_shapefile.zip.

Tags: auv, beltrami-county, bemidji, biota, ecomapper, exo2, lake, minnesota, national-crude-oil-spill-fate-and-natural-attenuation-research-site, oil-spill, research, united-states, usgs-5f59378f82cefd9f2082c338, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Standard deviation of the vegetated fraction in coastal wetlands along the U.S. Atlantic Coast (16-bit GeoTIFF)

Prior research has shown that sediment budgets, and therefore stability, of microtidal marsh complexes scale with areal unvegetated to vegetated marsh ratios (UVVR) suggesting these metrics are broadly applicable indicators of microtidal marsh vulnerability. This effort has developed the UVVR metric using Landsat 8 satellite imagery for the coastal areas of the contiguous United States (CONUS). These datasets provide annual averages of 1) developed, 2) vegetated, 3) unvegetated fractional covers and 4) an unvegetated to vegetated ratio (UVVR) at 30-meter resolution over the coastal areas of the contiguous United States for the years 2014-2018. Additionally, multi-year average values of vegetated fractional cover and its standard deviation are provided for the coastal wetlands of the contiguous United States based on the National Wetland Inventory delineation. Finally, a UVVR based on the annually-averaged vegetated fractional cover is also provided for the same extent.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, coastal-ecosystems, coastal-processes, geotiff, inlandwaters, marsh-health, marsh-stress, resilience, salt-marsh, sedimentation, society, united-states, usgs-5f593d2582cefd9f2082c3f9, vegetation, vulnerability, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-functions
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data on Utah prairie dog body condition and reproductive success, Awapa Plateau, Utah, USA, 2013–2016

Data on body condition and reproduction of Utah prairie dogs at 5 colonies on the Awapa Plateau, Utah, USA, June-August 2013-2016. Utah prairie dogs were live-trapped and sampled on 5 colonies. We recorded the age (juvenile/adult) and mass (nearest 5 grams) of each prairie dog and marked its ears and body with metal tags and passive integrated transponders, respectively, for permanent identification. We measured each prairie dog's right hind foot length (nearest millimeter). We indexed each adult prairie dog's body condition as the ratio between its mass and hind-foot length. Prairie dogs were allowed to recover from anesthesia and released at their trapping locations. We indexed prairie dog reproduction, by colony and year, as the ratio of the number of juveniles per adult (juvenile:adult ratios).
Funding and logistical support were provided by the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS), Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, and Colorado State University. Fieldwork was completed by the USGS Fort Collins Science Center, and lab work and flea identifications were completed by the USGS National Wildlife Health Center.

Tags: biota, capturing-animals, cynomys, population-dynamics, prairie-dog, usgs-5f597b5f82cefd9f2084009e
Organization: Department of the Interior
Physical and Chemical Data to Characterize Water-Quality Conditions in the Sakonnet River, Rhode Island, 2018-2019

Physical and chemical data were collected to characterize water-quality conditions in the Sakonnet River, a tidal strait located on the east side of Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island, from April 28 to November 11, 2018 and from June 19 to November 26, 2019. Specifically, the 2018 information in this data release includes: vertical profiles of water quality from 16 to 18 locations and data collected from three surface spatial surveys (moving boat surveys) designed to characterize near-surface water-quality conditions in the river. Temperature, pH, specific conductance, salinity, dissolved oxygen concentration and saturation, turbidity, and chlorophyll a data were collected with calibrated water-quality sensors. Water-quality profiles and moving boat surveys were conducted on July 26, August 28, and September 25, 2018. Similar to 2018, information collected in 2019 includes vertical profiles of water quality from three locations during three moving boat surveys of a single east-west transect using the same sensors as in 2018. Data were collected on August 15, 2019, at three different times during the tidal cycle. 
The dataset in this data release includes one comma-delimited test (.txt) file of all station locations, four .txt files of vertical water-quality profiles, four .txt files of moving boat surveys, and two tagged image file format (.tiff) files of map images showing 2018 and 2019 profile locations and example moving boat survey tracks. Additional data collected during the investigation are available from the USGS National Water Information System (NWIS). These include (1) continuous water-quality records from three monitoring buoy stations during 2018 (USGS station identifiers 413642071125701, 413252071131501, and 412932071124701) and from a single monitoring buoy station during 2019 (413642071125701) and (2) laboratory analytical results of water-quality samples collected from surface and bottom waters at the 2018 and 2019 continuous monitoring stations.

Tags: little-compton, marine-ecosystems, middletown, oxygen-content-water, portsmouth, profiles, rhode-island, sakonnet-river, spatial-analysis, tiverton, usgs-5f5a321f82cefd9f20863b53, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Non-native Asian swamp eel, Monopterus albus/javanensis (Zuiew, 1973/Lacepede, 1800), responses to low temperatures

Asian swamp eel, Monopterus albus/javanensis [Zuiew, 1973/Lacepede, 1800], has been established in the southeastern USA since at least 1994, yet little is known about its ability to survive low winter temperatures. We use standard thermal methodologies to quantify low-temperature responses and provide a detailed description of swamp eel reactions to cold temperatures. When exposed to chronic temperature decreases of 1.0 C per day, swamp eels ceased foraging at 15.0 C, markedly diminished movements below 11.0 C, and became incapacitated near 9.6 C. During critical thermal minima (CTmin) trials, swamp eels exposed to acute temperature drops (0.25 C per minute) tolerated temperatures as low as 6.2 C. Swamp eels exhibited a moderate cold acclimation response, gaining 0.23 C in cold tolerance for every 1 C drop in acclimation temperature. Progressive time-series CTmin estimates for eels acclimated to 20.5°C followed by an acute temperature decrease to 16.0 C, revealed that cold acclimation may occur in only 8 days.

Tags: biota, nonindigenous-species, usgs-5f5a402e82cefd9f20863be3
Organization: Department of the Interior
Sources of fine-grained sediment in the Linganore Creek Watershed, Frederick and Carroll Counties, Maryland, 2008-2010

This dataset provides physical and chemical data for a sediment-fingerprinting study conducted in the upper parts of the Linganore Creek watershed in an effort to quantify and determine the sources of fine-grained sediments eroded from and deposited on streambanks, flood plains, channel beds, and agricultural and forested uplands. Data were collected from August 1, 2008 through December 31, 2010. Chemical data include median particle size, total organic carbon (C) and total nitrogen (N), and concentrations for 19 elements. Physical data includes upstream drainage area from sampling location as well as land-use type.

Tags: agriculture, carroll-county, environment, field-monitoring-station, frederick-county, inlandwaters, land-use-and-land-cover, linganore-creek, maryland, monocacy-river, sediment-transport, surface-water-quality, suspended-material, usgs-5f5f844782ce3550e3bff19e
Organization: Department of the Interior
Ecological Model Support for RECOVER’s Update of Interim Goals, 2019

Ecological models facilitate evaluation and assessment of alternative approaches to restore the Greater Everglades ecosystem. However, the provision of useful and accessible models is a challenge because there is often a disconnect between model output and its use by decision makers. Joint Ecosystem Modeling (JEM) meets this challenge by providing ecological model output tailored to management decisions. JEM is a partnership among Federal and state agencies, universities, and other organizations. Ecological models (i.e., ecological planning tools) were used by the multi-agency REstoration, COordination and VERification (RECOVER) science team during the Central Everglades Planning Project (CEPP) and Interim Goals Interim Targets (IGIT) planning to evaluate potential effects to natural resources within the study area. RECOVER is required to perform a system-wide evaluation of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) and IGIT per the 2003 programmatic regulations. The purpose of IGIT is to predict the performance of specific ecological indicators as they relate to the implementation of CERP to ensure that the goals and objectives of the project are being met. The models used were: (1) Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow Marl Prairie Indicator in conjunction with (2) Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow Helper, (3) Florida apple snail (native) population model (EverSnail), (4) Wader Distribution Evaluation Modeling (WADEM), (5) Small-sized freshwater fish density, and (6) American alligator production probability (i.e., habitat suitability index (HSI)). These ecological models are used to examine potential impacts on the above listed flora and fauna in evaluation of the update of the IGIT Technical Report.

Tags: biota, modeling, usgs-5f5a42b682cefd9f20863bf9
Organization: Department of the Interior
Alaska permafrost characterization: Borehole Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Data &amp; Models from 2019-2020

Borehole nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) data were collected by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) at Big Trail Lake, a thermokarst lake outside of Fairbanks, Alaska, to quantify unfrozen water content and soil properties at select sites in and around the lake edge. In September 2019, NMR data were collected within two 2.3 m deep boreholes adjacent to the East and North perpendicular electrical resistivity survey lines. Manual permafrost-probe measurements of thaw depths were also collected. These two boreholes were logged a second time in late March 2020. Additional one-time NMR measurements of liquid water content were collected in September 2019 within the lakebed sediments (0-25 cm depth) in approximately 2.5 m lateral increments moving away from the shorelines in the East and North, between 0 and 12 m from shore. These NMR transects roughly coincided with the perpendicular electrical resistivity lines.

Tags: active-layer-thickness, alaska, bonanza-creek, borehole-nuclear-magnetic-resonance, disturbance, environment, fairbanks-north-star, fires, geology-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center, geoscientificinformation, gggsc, hydrologic-processes, land-change-science-program, permafrost, soil-moisture, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-5f5a5ab882cefd9f20865888
Organization: Department of the Interior
Alaska permafrost characterization: Electrical Resistivity Tomography Data &amp; Models from 2019

Electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) measurements were collected by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) at two sites in Interior Alaska in September 2019 for the purposes of imaging permafrost structure and quantifying variations in subsurface moisture content in relation to thaw features. First, ERT data were collected at Big Trail Lake, a thermokarst lake outside of Fairbanks, Alaska, to quantify permafrost characteristics beneath the lake and across its shorelines. Three 222 m ERT survey lines were collected perpendicular to the North, East, and South shorelines, and two 110 m lines were collected parallel to the southeast and northeast shorelines. Models of electrical resistivity produced from these data revealed the distribution of frozen and thawed soil to depths of 10-40 m below the surface. Second, an ERT survey was conducted at Bonanza Creek LTER (Long Term Ecological Research), approximately 30 km southwest of Fairbanks, Alaska. This survey was a repeat of a previous ERT survey done in the same exact location in late August 2016, those data and models can be found here. The new survey line was 125 m in length and spanned the transition between burned and unburned forest. Models of electrical resistivity for this site imaged the structure of frozen and thawed soils to depths of 10-15 m. At both sites, manual permafrost-probe measurements of thaw depths were collected at set intervals along each ERT transect and used for comparison to the resistivity models.

Tags: active-layer-thickness, alaska, big-trail-lake, bonanza-creek, disturbance, electrical-resistivity, electrical-resistivity-tomography, environment, fairbanks-north-star, fire, fires, geology-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center, geoscientificinformation, gggsc, hydrologic-processes, land-change-science-program, permafrost, soil-moisture, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-5f5a5d9382cefd9f20866163
Organization: Department of the Interior
Stream temperature predictions for the Willamette River Basin, northwestern Oregon estimated from regression equations (1954 – 2018)

This data release contains estimated stream temperature metrics at three locations in the Willamette River Basin, northwestern Oregon for various periods between 1954 and 2018. These locations were the Willamette River at Albany, the Willamette River at Harrisburg, and the Willamette River at Keizer. A regression program (written in the R programming language) was used to relate the values for two stream temperature metrics (the seven-day average of the daily mean and the seven-day average of the daily maximum) to the seven-day average of the daily mean or the seven-day average of the daily maximum air temperature, and to the mean daily streamflow for five seasonal time periods at each of the locations. The regression equations were used to predict the seven-day average of the daily mean stream temperature and the seven-day average of the daily maximum stream temperature for each day during the modeled time period at each location. The regression equations were based on data collected at these three locations and at nine additional locations. These additional locations included the Willamette River at Willamette Falls, the Willamette River at Newberg, the Willamette River at Owosso Bridge, the Santiam River at Jefferson, the North Santiam River near Mehama, the McKenzie River at Hayden Bridge, the McKenzie River at Vida, the Middle Fork Willamette River at Jasper, and the Coast Fork Willamette River at Goshen.

Tags: surface-water-quality, usgs-5f5a5dee82cefd9f2086630c
Organization: Department of the Interior
Rincon, Puerto Rico, wave and water level data, 2019

Time series data of wave height and water surface elevation were acquired for 147 days at eleven locations, in two cross-reef transects, off of the west coast of Rincon, Puerto Rico, in support of a study on the coastal circulation patterns and the transformation of surface waves over the coral reefs. The relative placement of sensors on the reef were as follows:
PRI19N01 – offshore reef crest, north transect
PRI19N02, PRI19N03 – offshore reef flat, north transect
PRI19S03 – offshore reef flat, south transect
PRI19N04, PRI19N05 and PRI19N06 – inner reef flat, north transect
PRI19S04, PRI19S05, PRI19S06, PRI19S07 and PRI19S08 – inner reef flat, south transect

Tags: balneario-de-rincon, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, geoscientificinformation, marine-water-quality, mona-passage, oceans, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, physical-oceanography, puerto-rico, rincon, tides, time-series-datasets, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-5f5a90b082cefd9f208689cf, water-column-features, waves
Organization: Department of the Interior
Standard deviation of the vegetated fraction in coastal wetlands along the U.S. Pacific Coast (16-bit GeoTIFF)

Prior research has shown that sediment budgets, and therefore stability, of microtidal marsh complexes scale with areal unvegetated to vegetated marsh ratios (UVVR) suggesting these metrics are broadly applicable indicators of microtidal marsh vulnerability. This effort has developed the UVVR metric using Landsat 8 satellite imagery for the coastal areas of the contiguous United States (CONUS). These datasets provide annual averages of 1) developed, 2) vegetated, 3) unvegetated fractional covers and 4) an unvegetated to vegetated ratio (UVVR) at 30-meter resolution over the coastal areas of the contiguous United States for the years 2014-2018. Additionally, multi-year average values of vegetated fractional cover and its standard deviation are provided for the coastal wetlands of the contiguous United States based on the National Wetland Inventory delineation. Finally, a UVVR based on the annually-averaged vegetated fractional cover is also provided for the same extent.

Tags: coastal-ecosystems, coastal-processes, geotiff, inlandwaters, marsh-health, marsh-stress, pacific-ocean, resilience, salt-marsh, sedimentation, society, united-states, usgs-5f5aa0f282cefd9f20868a81, vegetation, vulnerability, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-functions
Organization: Department of the Interior
Approximate maximum extent of Gumboot Lake from plate 1 of the report Effects of ground-water development on the water regimen of Paradise Valley, Humboldt County, Nevada, 1949-1968 and Hydrologic Reconnaissance of the Tributary Areas

This dataset consists of a polygon representing the approximate maximum extent of Gumboot Lake as published on plate 1 of the report Effects of ground-water development on the water regimen of Paradise Valley, Humboldt County, Nevada, 1948-1968 and Hydrologic Reconnaissance of the Tributary Areas (Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Water Resources Bulletin 39).

Tags: basin-069, geospatial-datasets, gumboot-lake, humboldt-river, humboldt-river-basin, humboldt-river-region, hydrographic-region-4, hydrology, inlandwaters, lake, nevada, paradise-valley, surface-water-non-marine, usgs-5f5ab4db82cefd9f20869f4b
Organization: Department of the Interior
Vegetated fraction in coastal wetlands along the U.S. Pacific Coast (16-bit GeoTIFF)

Prior research has shown that sediment budgets, and therefore stability, of microtidal marsh complexes scale with areal unvegetated to vegetated marsh ratios (UVVR) suggesting these metrics are broadly applicable indicators of microtidal marsh vulnerability. This effort has developed the UVVR metric using Landsat 8 satellite imagery for the coastal areas of the contiguous United States (CONUS). These datasets provide annual averages of 1) developed, 2) vegetated, 3) unvegetated fractional covers and 4) an unvegetated to vegetated ratio (UVVR) at 30-meter resolution over the coastal areas of the contiguous United States for the years 2014-2018. Additionally, multi-year average values of vegetated fractional cover and its standard deviation are provided for the coastal wetlands of the contiguous United States based on the National Wetland Inventory delineation. Finally, a UVVR based on the annually-averaged vegetated fractional cover is also provided for the same extent.

Tags: coastal-ecosystems, coastal-processes, geotiff, inlandwaters, marsh-health, marsh-stress, pacific-ocean, resilience, salt-marsh, sedimentation, society, united-states, usgs-5f5ba30c82cefd9f2087d224, vegetation, vulnerability, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-functions
Organization: Department of the Interior
Videos and tracklines along which bottom video was collected in Little Egg Inlet and offshore the southern end of Long Beach Island, NJ, during USGS Field Activity 2018-049-FA (MP4 video files and polyline shapefile)

The natural resiliency of the New Jersey barrier island system, and the efficacy of management efforts to reduce vulnerability, depends on the ability of the system to recover and maintain equilibrium in response to storms and persistent coastal change. This resiliency is largely dependent on the availability of sand in the beach system. In an effort to better understand the system's sand budget and processes in which this system evolves, high-resolution geophysical mapping of the sea floor in Little Egg Inlet and along the southern end of Long Beach Island near Beach Haven, New Jersey was conducted from May 31 to June 10, 2018, followed by a sea floor sampling survey conducted from October 22 to 23, 2018, as part of a collaborative effort between the U.S. Geological Survey and Stockton University. Multibeam echo sounder bathymetry and backscatter data were collected along 741 kilometers of tracklines (approximately 200 square kilometers) of the coastal sea floor to regionally define its depth and morphology, as well as the type and distribution of sea-floor sediments. Six hundred ninety-two kilometers of seismic-reflection profile data were also collected to define the thickness and structure of sediment deposits in the inlet and offshore. These new data will help inform future management decisions that affect the natural and recreational resources of the area around and offshore of Little Egg Inlet. These mapping surveys provide high-quality data needed to build scientific knowledge of the evolution and behavior of the New Jersey barrier island system.

Tags: beach-haven, bottom-imagery, bottom-video, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, department-of-the-interior, doi, field-activity-number-2018-001-fa, field-activity-number-2018-049-fa, forsythe-wildlife-refuge, geoscientificinformation, ground-truth, holgate, imagery, little-egg-inlet, location, long-beach-island, marine-geology, mini-seaboss, mp4, navigational-data, new-jersey, oceans, r-v-petrel, sea-floor, seabed, seabed-imagery, seabed-observation-and-sampling-system, seabed-video, seaboss, seafloor, seaviewer-6000-hd-sea-drop, sediments, shapefile, stations, stockton-university, u-s-geological-survey, united-states-of-america, usgs, usgs-5f5e36b982ce3550e3bfed98, video-monitoring, videography, videos, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior