AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
A Preliminary Study of Natural Aquifer Discharge on Guam

This data package was created 2025-12-03 08:43:18 by NPSTORET and includes selected project, location, and result data.  Data are from William J. Zolan's (University of Guam's Water and Energy Research Institute of the Western Pacific) 1982 Technical Report #34 entitled "A Preliminary Study of Natural Aquifer Discharge on Guam".  The primary objective of this study was to investigate the quality of groundwater seeps along the northern coast of Guam and determine if major regional differences in quality exist.  Samples were collected over an eight-month period to evaluate the consistency of seepage water quality.  A further objective of the study was to determine the effects of groundwater discharge on the immediate marine receiving waters through the measurement of inorganic nutrients, chlorophyll and carotenoid pigments.

Data contained in WAPA_NPSTORET_BE.ACCDB (NPSTORET back-end file) were filtered to include:

Organization:
- WAPA: War in the Pacific National Historical Park
Project:
- WAPA0012: A Preliminary Study of Natural Aquifer Discharge on Guam
Station:
- Include Trip QC And All Station Visit Results
Value Status:
- Accepted or Certified (exported as Final) or Final

The data package is organized into five data tables:
- Projects.csv - describes the purpose and background of the monitoring efforts
- Locations.csv - documents the attributes of the monitoring locations/stations
- Results.csv - contains the field measurements, observations, and/or lab analyses for each sample/event/data grouping
- HUC.csv - enumerates the domain of allowed values for 8-digit and 12-digit hydrologic unit codes utilized by the Locations data table
- Characteristics.csv - enumerates the domain of characteristics available in NPSTORET to identify what was sampled, measured or observed in Results

Period of record for filtered data is 1980-12-15 to 1981-08-27.  This data package is a snapshot in time of one National Park Service project. The most current data for this project, which may be more or less extensive than that in this data package, can be found on the Water Quality Portal at:

https://www.waterqualitydata.us/data/Result/search?project=WAPA0012&mimeType=csv&zip=yes&dataProfile=biological&providers=STORET

Tags: alkalinity, ammonia, bacteria, chloride, chlorophyll, chlorophyll-a, dissolved-organic-compounds, dissolved-oxygen, elements-and-compounds, nitrate, nitrite, npstoret, ph, phosphate, sulfate, water-properties, water-quality, water-temperature
Organization: Department of the Interior
Field data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Johnstown Flood National Memorial - Open Format Data Package

These data were converted from the originally delivered Microsoft Access PLOTs database from the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Johnstown Flood National Memorial.  These comma-delimited data tables contain(s) vegetation mapping plot classification and accuracy assessment data, as well as summary information about the data itself. If a table is empty, then it was empty in the original database.

Tags: accuracy-assessment, botanical-survey, classification, database, habitat-types, imagery, jofl, johnstown-flood-national-memorial, national-vegetation-classification, nvc, nvcs, plots, releve, remote-sensing, usnvcs, vegetation, vegetation-inventory, vegetation-map, vegetation-mapping
Organization: Department of the Interior
Field data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site - Open Format Data Package

These data were converted from the originally delivered Microsoft Access PLOTs database from the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site.  These comma-delimited data tables contain(s) vegetation mapping plot classification and accuracy assessment data, as well as summary information about the data itself. If a table is empty, then it was empty in the original database.

Tags: accuracy-assessment, botanical-survey, classification, database, habitat-types, hubbell-trading-post-national-historic-site, hutr, imagery, national-vegetation-classification, nvc, nvcs, plots, releve, remote-sensing, usnvcs, vegetation, vegetation-inventory, vegetation-map, vegetation-mapping
Organization: Department of the Interior
Field data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Indiana Dunes National Park - Open Format Data Package

These data were converted from the originally delivered Microsoft Access PLOTs database from the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Indiana Dunes National Park.  These comma-delimited data tables contain(s) vegetation mapping plot classification and accuracy assessment data, as well as summary information about the data itself. If a table is empty, then it was empty in the original database.

Tags: accuracy-assessment, botanical-survey, classification, database, habitat-types, imagery, indiana-dunes-national-lakeshore, indu, national-vegetation-classification, nvc, nvcs, plots, releve, remote-sensing, usnvcs, vegetation, vegetation-inventory, vegetation-map, vegetation-mapping
Organization: Department of the Interior
Air and water temperature and conductivity at six stream monitoring sites at Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area and New River Gorge National Park and Preserve (2014-2024) Data Package

Air temperature, water temperature, and specific conductance of water were continuously measured with data loggers (measurement interval = 30 min.) from 2014 to 2024 at six wadeable stream sites throughout Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area (n = 3) and New River Gorge National Park and Preserve (n = 3). Data loggers were deployed at stream reaches where benthic macroinvertebrate, fish, and streamside bird communities have been monitored by the National Park Service since 2014. These data were collected as part of a multi-agency Regional Monitoring Network of reference (i.e., relatively undisturbed) streams throughout the Mid-Atlantic Region. Sites were selected based on their high degree of ecological integrity as inferred from previous biological surveys. Methods followed existing protocols that were consistent with approaches used throughout the Regional Monitoring Network.

Tags: conductivity, delaware-water-gap-national-recreation-area, dewa, eastern-rivers-and-mountains-network, ermn, imd, inventory-and-monitoring-division, national-park-service, neri, new-river-gorge-national-park-and-preserve, nps, specific-conductance, stream-temperature-monitoring, thermal-regime, water-temperature
Organization: Department of the Interior
Southwest Alaska remote sensing Lake ice phenology for 17 lakes and lake clusters for 2002-2016 water years

The need for establishing a record of lake ice phenology for Alaska’s maritime regions has been recognized by the U.S. National Park Service Southwest Alaska Network Inventory and Monitoring Program (SWAN). The lakes of the Southwest Alaska region are critical habitat to many species, including the world’s largest Sockeye Salmon fishery, and they provide livelihood to many communities through transportation, subsistence and recreational opportunities. 

Reed et al. (2009) used an interpretation dataset provided by the MODIS Rapid Response System (Rapidfire images) for detecting the lake ice phenology of five large freshwater lakes for 2000-2008 in southwest Alaska and established the optical properties of open water and ice in various phases of formation and break-up for the region. Rapidfire imagery products were recognized as useful due to their high temporal frequency for this location, however they can be limited by persistent cloud cover in the region. 

In this study, we use the methods developed by Reed et.al (2009) to establish a 15-year lake ice phenology record from water year 2002 to 2016 of 17 freshwater lakes in southwest Alaska and report the results in this data series.
Reed, B.; Budde, M.; Spencer, P.; Miller, A.E. 2009. Integration of MODIS-derived metrics to assess interannual variability in snowpack, lake ice, and NDVI in southwest Alaska. Remote Sensing of Environment. 113: 1443-1452. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2008.07.020.

Tags: alaska, alaska-peninsula, gulf-of-alaska, katmai-national-park-and-preserve, kenai-fjords-national-park, kenai-peninsula, lake-clark-national-park-and-preserve
Organization: Department of the Interior
Klamath Vegetation Monitoring Data Package

This dataset contains monitoring data for vegetation at Crater Lake NP, Lassen Volcanic NP, Lava Beds NM, Oregon Caves NMP, Redwood NSP, and Whiskeytown NRA. A core concept of the Klamath Inventory and Monitoring Networks vegetation monitoring protocol is that assessing the composition, structure, and function of vegetation communities, can be used to evaluate the ecological integrity of wider park habitats. Therefore, monitoring vegetation change is imperative to detecting and understanding the status and trends in park ecosystems. Objectives are to: sample vegetation and environmental parameters every 3 years using a 3 year revisit frequency; monitor status and trends in vegetation composition; monitor status and trends in vegetation structure and function.

Tags: ecological-data, ecological-monitoring, function, long-term-monitoring, national-parks, structure, vegetation
Organization: Department of the Interior
Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park Winter Bird Monitoirng Data FY 2014

Data are part of the GULN Inventory and Monitoring Program Landbird monitoring project for PAAL. Data were collected by Kenneth Pruitt through a cooperative agreement with GULN and UT Brownsville in 2014. Data were entered into the Eastern Avian Data Center and export to Excel 2010 format by GULN data manager, Whitney Granger. A separate reference is available for the Field Sheets that accompanies this data set.

Tags: ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-birds
Organization: Department of the Interior
The Ephemeroptera, Odonata, Plecoptera, Megaloptera, and Trichoptera of Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site

The U.S. Geological Survey conducted an inventory of aquatic insects of the orders Ephemeroptera (mayflies), Odonata (dragonflies, damselflies), Plecoptera (stoneflies), Megaloptera (fishflies, dobsonflies, and hellgrammites), and Trichoptera (caddisflies) (the EOPMT taxa) in Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site (ABLI) in 2006. This inventory is part of a broader survey of the EOPMT faunas of the 18 parks in the Cumberland Piedmont and the Appalachian Highlands monitoring networks of the National Park Service (NPS) Southeast Region. Standard aquatic sampling techniques supplemented with light-trap sampling were used to investigate the fauna.

Tags: abli, belostoma-flumineum, berosus-pantherinus, berosus-peregrinus, blue-dasher, caenis, ceraclea, cercyon-praetextatus, chauliodes, cheumatopsyche-analis, cheumatopsyche-campyla, cheumatopsyche-oxa, cheumatopsyche-pasella, chimarra-aterrima, chimarra-obscura, choroterpes-basalis, clioperla-clio, clivina-postica, cupn, diplectrona-metaqui, diploperla-robusta, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-freshwater-invertebrates, enochrus-sayi, epeorus, ephemeroptera, ept, fragile-forktail, helichus-lithophilus, helicopsyche-borealis, helisoma, hydropsyche-betteni, inventory, ischnura-posita, lestes-australis, leuctra-tenuis, lype-diversa, megaloptera, merope-tuber, micrasema, neophylax-concinnus, neophylax-wigginsi, neoporus, odonata, oecetis-ditissa, oecetis-inconspicua, oecetis-nocturna, orthotrichia-aegerfasciella, ostrocerca-truncata, pachydiplax-longipennis, phryganea-sayi, physa, plecoptera, polycentropus-blicklei, polycentropus-centralis, potamyia-flava, protoptila, ptilostomis-postica, setodes-incertus, southern-spreadwing, stenacron-interpunctatum, stenonema-femoratum, taeniopteryx, triaenodes-ignitus, trichoptera, tropicus-pusillus, wormaldia-moesta
Organization: Department of the Interior
Pilot Landbird Monitoring at Grand Teton National Park, 2005-2008 - Raw Data

Landbird monitoring is a widely used monitoring type that can help land managers determine the habitat quality within the survey area. The Greater Yellowstone Network (GRYN) used landbird monitoring to determine the quality of select habitats within Grand Teton National Park (GRTE): High elevation/Alpine, aspen, riparian floodplain, riparian willow, and sage shrub steppe/sagebrush. Both point count and transect methods were employed to record the landbirds encountered along randomly-selected 2.1 km-long transects and 15 points within these habitats. In addition to habitat quality, the data found in these surveys can be used to determine the distribution and density of target landbird species, community dynamics, and habitat (vegetation) structure. The surveys that produced these data were performed in the months following the end of spring migration yearly, from 2005 to 2008.

Tags: alpine, application-inventory-registry, aspen, birds, grand-teton-national-park, greater-yellowstone-network, grte, gryn, high-elevation, imd, inventory-and-monitoring-division, land-birds, landbirds, point-count, riparian, riparian-floodplain, riparian-willow, sage-shrub-steppe, transect
Organization: Department of the Interior
Genetic connectivity in a cooperatively-breeding carnivore between two protected areas: Dataset

Wildlife populations are increasingly threatened by human activities. Most studies, however, are often short in duration or do not encompass the large spatial extent necessary to measure the potential effects of human activities on population vital rates. Furthermore, the life history features of species with high fecundity and excellent dispersal capabilities can act as buffers against the potential negative effects of human activities on their populations. We used a 30-year dataset of genetic samples from gray wolves (Canis lupus) in Alaska, USA to examine genetic connectivity and diversity between National Park units separated by a region with recurrent human-caused mortality. We found that the 2 protected populations were genetically similar and that dispersal events occurred between them even though they are >450 km apart. We posit that intact ecosystems and a history of continuous distribution of wolves surrounding the affected regions likely maintained the genetic connectivity of wolves in the 2 protected areas.

Tags: alaska, canis-lupus, dispersal, genetic-diversity, gray-wolf, microsatellites, nps-gov-subject-site-alaska, pedigree-reconstruction, wolf
Organization: Department of the Interior
2019 GATE Sediment Elevation Table Monitoring Data, exported from IMD SQL Server database

These files contain SET monitoring data collected at Gateway National Recreation Area

Tags: application-inventory-registry, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-terrestrial-complex, ecological-framework-geology-and-soils-geomorphology-coastal-oceanographic-features-and-process, elevation, gate, gateway-national-recreation-area, im, inventory-monitoring, ncbn, northeast-coastal-and-barrier-network, salt-marsh, sediment, vital-sign
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data Package: Long-term Continuous Water-Quality Monitoring at Obed Wild and Scenic River (OBRI), 2013-2024

Data from continuous water quality datasondes co-located at three USGS gage sites at Obed Wild and Scenic River (OBRI). 2013-2024

Tags: aphn, aphndidthis, obed-wild-and-scenic-river, obri, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Wetlands Ecological Integrity Vegetation data package 2007-2022 at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Great Sand Dunes National Park, and Rocky Mountain National Park.

Wetlands Ecological Integrity Vegetation data from 2007-2022, including data at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Great Sand Dunes National Park, and Rocky Mountain National Park.

Tags: ecological-integrity, ground-cover, romn-wei-data-package, vegetation, vegetation-dataset, wetlands
Organization: Department of the Interior
Pilot Terrestrial Vegetation Monitoring in the Southeastern United States, 2009-2010 - Data Package

Vegetation communities are the primary drivers for a range of ecological processes and are integral to the proper function of park ecosystems. They serve as the foundation for food webs and wildlife habitat for many species, and function as a carbon sink, produce oxygen, cycle nutrients and energy through an ecosystem, influence the local climate, improve water quality, and moderate flooding and erosion. Given the widespread anthropogenic influences in Southeast Coast Network (SECN) parks and the importance of vegetation communities, quantifying trends in plant cover, frequency, diversity, and distribution is vital to understanding the ecological processes and identifying stressors and their impacts. Evaluating trends in plant cover, frequency, diversity and distribution provides measures for assessing the ecological integrity and sustainability of southeastern ecosystems, and identifying the need for specific management activities on our park lands. The National Park Service Omnibus Management Act of 1998 and other reinforcing policies and regulations require park managers to establish baseline information and to provide information on the long-term trends in the condition of National Park System resources (Title II, Sec. 204). The vegetation-community monitoring data summarized herein is a tool to assist park managers in fulfilling this mandate.

Tags: frequency, groundcover, shrub-cover, tree-diameter, vegetation-plots
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data for Stream stage, stream temperature, stream turbidity, stream conductivity, precipitation and air temperature for the Nisqually River at Longmire Water year 2019

Raw tabular data from this study is available as a Microsoft Excel file and includes two worksheets: “15 Minute Data” and “WY2019 Stats.” “15 Minute Data” includes the raw 15-minute data from WY2019 with the following columns (35,041 rows): Date/Time, Day of Water Year, Stage, Water Temperature, Air Temperature, Turbidity Level, Cumulative Precipitation and Water Conductivity. “WY2019 Stats” is the daily summary data of the 15 minute data for WY2019 and includes the following columns (366 rows): Date; Day of Water Year; Number of Measurements; Minimum, Average and Maximum Stage; Minimum, Average and Maximum Water Temperature; Minimum, Average and Maximum Air Temperature; Minimum, Average and Maximum Turbidity; Daily and Cumulative Precipitation; and Minimum, Average and Maximum Conductivity.

Tags: 2019, air, and, conductivity, data, longmire, nisqually, precipitation, river, stage, stream, temperature, turbidity, water, year
Organization: Department of the Interior
Rocky Intertidal Monitoring Datasets for the San Francisco Bay Area Network: 2006-2024 - Data Package

This dataset contains data collected at 5 monitoring stations in Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Point Reyes National Seashore as part the San Francisco Bay Area Network Rocky Intertidal Monitoring Program. Monitoring involves annual summer-fall sampling of permanent photoquadrats, ochre star (Pisaster ochraceus) transects, surfgrass (Phyllospadix spp.) transects, mussel beds, motile invertebrates, and owl limpet (Lottia gigantea) plots. This dataset also includes legacy photoplot and seastar data collected at Golden Gate NRA from 1989-2005. Permanent photoplots (50 x 75 cm) are established in target assemblages (i.e. barnacles, mussels, turfweed, etc.) and percent cover of the major taxa within these photoplots is assessed using photographic analysis or field scoring. Owl limpet plots were established and sampled once in 2016 at Pt. Bonita, while motile invertebrate surveys were discontinued in 2014 at all sites. Table 'checklist_sampled_PORE_GOGA.csv' defines the monitoring components by site, survey date, survey type, target assemblage and quatraplot by survey event that were sampled. This table should be referenced to understand sampling effort and completeness of sampling by events.  The purpose of this dataset is to provide monitoring information on the temporal dynamics of target invertebrate, algal species and surfgrass across accessible, representative, and historically sampled rocky intertidal sites at Point Reyes National Seashore and Golden Gate National Recreation Area to help assess level of impacts and changes outside normal limits of variation due to oil spills, non-point source pollution, or other anthropogenic stressors that may come from within and outside the parks; to help determine status, trends, and effect sizes through time for morphology, color ratios, and other key parameters describing population status (e.g., size, structure) of the selected intertidal organisms; and to document invasions of non-native species, changes in species ranges, disease spread, and rates and scales of processes affecting the structure and function of rocky intertidal populations and communities to better understand normal limits of variation. All tables were exported from the Multi-Agency Rocky Intertidal Network database managed by the University of California Santa Cruz.

Tags: ecological-data, ecological-monitoring, long-term-monitoring, national-parks, ri-data-package, rocky-intertidal
Organization: Department of the Interior
Ozone and Associated Foliar Injury Monitoring at Cumberland Piedmont Network Parks: 2008-2023 – Raw Data

Ozone is a naturally occurring gas that can also be generated in reactions with anthropogenically created nitrogen oxides. While stratospheric ozone prevents ultraviolet radiation from making its way to the Earth’s surface, tropospheric ozone that is in higher than naturally occurring concentrations can have harmful effects on the health of people and plants. As several plant species that are susceptible to ozone injury exist in Cumberland Piedmont Network (CUPN) Parks, ozone and foliar injury are monitored by the network as a key vital sign and indicator of possible anthropogenic effects to overall ecosystem health. Monitoring takes place within natural vegetation areas of 14 national park units within CUPN, with one to three foliar injury sites monitored per park depending on availability of sites with adequate ozone-sensitive species richness and abundance living under abiotic conditions that can manifest injury. Parks are sampled on a panel design, with three to four parks sampled each year over the course of a six-year sampling rotation. Sampling is completed annually between late July and late August and the data collected in each site include individual plant assessments of symptomology, site mapping, and site conditions. The raw data described here is foliar injury data, while ozone exposure indices are retrieved from the Air Resources Division of the National Park Service (NPS-ARD). The goals of ozone reporting and foliar injury monitoring are to assess exposure to ozone and its impacts to susceptible plant life at those parks. The results of ozone and foliar injury monitoring can be used by park managers to inform park planning documents and to work with state regulatory agencies.

Tags: abraham-lincoln-birthplace-national-historical-park, air-pollution, air-quality, carl-sandburg-home-national-historic-park, chickamauga-and-chattanooga-national-military-park, cowpens-national-battlefield, cumberland-gap-national-historical-park, fort-donelson-national-battlefield, guilford-courthouse-national-military-park, kings-mountain-national-military-park, little-river-canyon-national-preserve, mammoth-cave-national-park, ninety-six-national-historic-site, ozone, ozone-effects, plant-injury, russell-cave-national-monument, shiloh-national-military-park, stones-river-national-battlefield
Organization: Department of the Interior