AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Migration Routes of Elk in the Jackson Herd in Wyoming

Elk within the Jackson herd have been the focus of management for over a century. The herd, which numbers between 9,000 -13,000, winters in Jackson Hole. Most of the herd winters in the sagebrush basins and irrigated fields of the National Elk Refuge, with less than a quarter of the herd wintering in the Gros Ventre drainage to the east. Migrating animals travel an average one-way distance of 39 miles, with some migrating as far as 168 miles. The herd is partially migratory, containing both migrant and residents. In spring, the migrants move north on either side of Jackson Lake, into the eastern foothills of the Teton Range and into the upper drainages of the Snake River and the southern portion of Yellowstone National Park. A smaller segment migrates east up the Gros Ventre River drainage and its upper tributaries. A study by the National Elk Refuge documented a long-term reduction in the migratory segment of the herd between 1978 and 2012. This trend is thought to be driven by declining calf recruitment of the migratory segment. Few obstacles to migration exist for this herd, which moves through a vast expanse of habitats managed by either the National Forest or National Park system.
These data provide the location of migration routes for Elk (Cervus canadensis) in the Jackson herd in Wyoming. They were developed from Brownian bridge movement models using 595 migration sequences collected from a sample size of 247 animals comprising GPS locations collected every 2-8 hours.

Tags: animal-behavior, jackson, migration-organisms, migration-route, migratory-species, united-states, usgs-5f8db61982ce32418791d56d, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Chirp seismic reflection - shotpoints, tracklines, profile images, and SEG-Y traces for EdgeTech SB-512i chirp data collected during USGS field activity 2019-002-FA (point and polyline shapefiles, CSV text, PNG Images, and SEGY data, GCS WGS 84)

Accurate data and maps of sea floor geology are important first steps toward protecting fish habitat, delineating marine resources, and assessing environmental changes due to natural or human impacts. To address these concerns the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management (CZM), comprehensively mapped the Cape Cod Bay sea floor to characterize the surface and shallow subsurface geologic framework. Geophysical data collected include swath bathymetry, backscatter, and seismic reflection profile data. Ground-truth data, including sediment samples, underwater video, and bottom photographs were also collected. This effort is part of a long-term collaboration between the USGS and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to map the State’s waters, support research on the Quaternary evolution of coastal Massachusetts, the influence of sea-level change and sediment supply on coastal evolution, and efforts to understand the type, distribution, and quality of subtidal marine habitats. This collaboration produces high-resolution geologic maps and Geographic Information System (GIS) data that serve the needs of research, management and the public.  Data collected as part of this mapping cooperative continue to be released in a series of USGS Open-File Reports and Data Releases (https://www.usgs.gov/centers/whcmsc/science/geologic-mapping-massachusetts-seafloor).  This data release provides the geophysical and geologic sampling data collected in Cape Cod Bay during USGS Field Activities 2019-002-FA and 2019-034-FA in 2019.

Tags: atlantic-margin, atlantic-ocean, cape-cod, cape-cod-bay, chirp, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, czm, department-of-the-interior, doi, edgetech, field-activity-number-2019-002-fa, field-activity-number-2019-034-fa, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, gulf-of-maine, image, location, m-v-warren-jr, marine-geology, marine-geophysics, massachusetts, massachusetts-office-of-coastal-zone-management, massczm, navigational-data, oceans, png, sb-512i, sea-floor, seafloor, seg-y-traces, seismic-navigation, seismic-profile, seismic-reflection, seismic-reflection-methods, shapefile, sub-bottom-profiling, trackline-navigation, u-s-geological-survey, united-states-of-america, usgs, usgs-80430f9b-c4bd-4559-ad5c-227b49fb5dc0, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Domoic acid and saxitoxin in seabirds from California and Rhode Island 2015-2017

As harmful algal blooms (HABs) increase in magnitude and duration worldwide, they are becoming an expanding threat to marine wildlife. Over the past decade, domoic acid (DA) and saxitoxin (STX) have been increasingly problematic bicoastally in the United States. We investigated pooled seabird mortality data from opportunistic sampling events between 2007-2018, across three states, to examine the patterns and role of DA and STX in seabird mortality events from the continental United States. Patterns in DA and STX levels and affected tissue type were reviewed, and two specific accounts of localized and pervasive event types were examined. There has been increased toxin detection with expanded tissue testing during large mortality events. Additionally, there is new evidence of metabolic processing of HAB toxins in seabirds, and the first known account of coincident HAB intoxication (DA and STX) in seabirds is documented. This report contributes qualitative insight into temporal trends and provides recommendations for future research.

Tags: algal-blooms, biota, california, domoic-acid, hazards, rhode-island, saxitoxin, seabird, usgs-5dd8450be4b069579767b556
Organization: Department of the Interior
Estimated Water Use by Select Subbasin and State (HUC8/State) in the Pee Dee, Cape Fear, and Neuse-Pamlico River Basins; 2000, 2005, 2010, and 2015

The coastal region which includes areas within South Carolina and North Carolina was chosen as a focus area study (FAS) for the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Water Census (NWC) in 2016. The objective of the NWC is to place technical information and tools in the hands of stake holders so that they can make informed decisions on water availability. The USGS South Atlantic Water Science Center, comprised of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, conducted a 3-year study of water use and availability, climate change, and population growth to provide information related to the competing societal and ecological water needs in the Southeastern Atlantic Coastal Basins of the Carolinas. The Coastal Carolinas study area includes lower parts of the Yadkin/Pee Dee/Waccamaw River, Cape Fear River, and New River Basins extending from Georgetown, South Carolina up through Jacksonville, North Carolina area. One task to meet this objective was compiling water withdrawal and return data and other water-use information from local, regional, and state-scale data sources. This information was used to develop water-use estimates that could be used in a surface-water model, a groundwater model, and an ecological flow model. The simulations produced by these models could then be used to make predictions about future water availability and needs in the Coastal Carolina study area. This data release presents surface-water and groundwater off-stream water-use estimates for selected water use categories; for areas bounded by HUC8 and state boundaries within the Coastal Carolinas study area; from years 2000, 2005, 2010, and 2015.

Tags: cape-fear-river, georgetown-sc, groundwater, huc8, hydrologic-unit-code, hydrologic-units, jacksonville-nc, nc, north-carolina, pee-dee-river, river-basin, sc, south-carolina, subbasin, surface-water, usgs-5df3f07de4b0cdded7372b31, waccamaw-river, water-use, water-withdrawal, watershed, yadkin-river
Organization: Department of the Interior
Morphology of the Gulf of Mexico within GLORIA survey area (MORPHOLOGY.SHP)

Since 1982 the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has collected a large amount of surficial and shallow subsurface geologic information in the deep parts of the Gulf of Mexico. These data include digital sidescan sonar imagery, digital seismic-reflection data, and descriptions and analyses of piston and gravity cores. The data were collected during several different projects that addressed surficial and shallow subsurface geologic processes. Some of these data sets have already been published, but the growing interest in the occurrence and distribution of gas hydrates in the Gulf of Mexico warrants integrating these existing data and associated interpretations into a GIS to provide regional background information for ongoing and future gas hydrate research.

Tags: arcview, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, eez, geologic-long-range-inclined-asdic, geomorphic-interpretation, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, gloria, gloria-interpretation, gulf-of-mexico-gis-database, interpretation, marine-geology, morphology, oceans, polyline, scientific-interpretation, sea-floor-characteristics, shapefile, sidescan-sonar-mosaic, u-s-exclusive-economic-zone, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-0fb8e5c6-8b4b-4d6b-9d60-cf3fabb00c8c, vectors, whsc, woods-hole-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Lower Salinas Valley Hydrologic Models: Climate Data

This digital dataset contains the climate data used for the Lower Salinas Valley Hydrologic Models (Salinas Valley Integrated Hydrologic Model (SVIHM) and Salinas Valley Operational Model (SVOM)). The monthly climate data for the Lower Salinas Valley Hydrologic Models are based on the regional climate data for the Salinas Valley Hydrologic System [Hevesi and others, 2022]. To develop the monthly climate grids, the regional climate data were resampled to a monthly timescale and area weighted to the model grid. The climate data include spatially distributed monthly precipitation and potential evapotranspiration for the model grid for October 1967 to September 2018.

Tags: 180-foot-aquifer, 400-foot-aquifer, california, climate, environment, monterey-county, potential-evapotranspiration, precipitation, salinas, san-luis-obispo-county, usgs-632397a0d34e71c6d67acc4f
Organization: Department of the Interior
Water Data for Nisqually River Delta at Site D4 (ver. 1.1, December, 2019)

An upward-looking acoustic Doppler velocity meter (ADVM, SonTek SW, 3.0 MHz) located in a tidal channel of the Nisqually River Delta at site D4 (N 47d 05’ 37”/W 122d 42’ 18.7”) measured water level and current velocity at 15-minute intervals from October 13, 2016 to May 3, 2017 (158 out of 202 days, excluding missing periods). This site is in a tidal channel at a levee breach where flow is tidally influenced. The water depth of the sensor ranged from 0.19 to 3.71 m and may have been lower during periods of extreme low tide. The sensor elevation was adjusted during inspection on 10/03/2017 and a correction of +0.33 m was added to water depth from 10/03/2017 to 03/13/2017. The elevation (NAVD88) of the ADVM sensor was survey by RTN-GPS. The offset to convert all water depth time-series data to water surface elevation (NAVD88) is -0.18 meters. The instrument temperature ranged from -0.4 to 15.9 degrees C. but may have been bias during periods of low tide due to solar heating of the instrument. Water level in the channel dropped below the elevation of the sensor during periods of low tide. The mean downstream velocity component (Vx) ranged from -0.91 to 1.07 m/s. The mean vertical velocity component (Vy) ranged from -0.20 to 0.26 m/s and signal to noise ratio ranged from 17.6 to 50.4 dB. The ADVM measured the water-velocity profile using a dynamic boundary adjustment mode allowing up to 10 velocity measurements in the water-column profile. Time-series gaps of 15-minutes or more occurred when the instrument was offline or when error thresholds were exceeded. Also at this site, a non-vented, multiparameter sonde (YSI, 600 OMS) measured water depth, water temperature, specific conductance, salinity, and turbidity at 15-minute intervals from October 12, 2016 to March 31, 2017 (123 out of 170 days, excluding missing periods). The depth ranged from 0.06 to 3.66 m. The water temperature ranged from -0.3 to 16.1 degrees C. The specific conductance ranged from 160 to 38,850 micro-siemens per centimeter (uS/cm), and 0.1 to 24.7 practical salinity units (PSU). The turbidity ranged from 2.1 to 1,108 formazin nephelometric units (FNU). This site is also referenced as "USGS 12081518 Area Three near Olympia, WA". Discrete discharge data at this site are available at: https://waterdata.usgs.gov/wa/nwis/inventory/?site_no=12081518&amp;agency_cd=USGS&amp;

Tags: billy-frank-jr-nisqually-national-wildlife-refuge, hydrodynamics, salinity, sediment, specific-conductance, stream-stage, temperature, thurston-county, time-series-data, usgs-59f8d867e4b063d5d309f222
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2021 Site 0656 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-6569e5cbd34e6dde1a4ae158, wetland, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
CE–QUAL–W2 water-quality model for Green Peter and Foster Lakes and the South Santiam River, Oregon: 2002-2011

Green Peter Dam on the Middle Santiam River and the downstream Foster Dam on the South Santiam River in Oregon have altered natural seasonal temperature patterns in those rivers. In response, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is leading efforts to improve conditions for Chinook salmon upstream and downstream of these dams by considering structural alterations and by exploring changes to the way the dams are operated. This data release includes the input and output files from a mechanistic water-quality model (CE–QUAL–W2) that was developed for Green Peter and Foster Lakes and the South Santiam River downstream of Foster Dam. The model was used to estimate how operations at Green Peter and Foster Dams affect water temperature in Foster Lake and in the South Santiam River downstream of Foster Dam, and how the dams can be operated to produce more optimal water temperatures to support fish requirements. The model results provide guidance to reservoir operators and water-resource professionals who seek to manage the South Santiam River Basin for multiple purposes, including improved conditions for endangered anadromous fish.

Tags: ce-qual-w2, dam, environment, foster-dam, green-peter-dam, inlandwaters, model, oregon, south-santiam-river, surface-water, usgs-5fceb284d34e30b9123975e0, water-temperature, willamette-basin
Organization: Department of the Interior
Delaware River Basin depth to bedrock observations, model predictions, and explanatory variables

This data release contains model inputs, R code, and model outputs for predicting depth to bedrock in the Delaware River Basin at a 1km gridded resolution with a random forest model. Model inputs are provided in a comma-separated value (csv) file. The training data used in this study of 72,773 point observations of depth to bedrock (DTB) within the Delaware River Basin (DRB) that was compiled from several sources. These data were attributed with 15 predictor variables representing topographic, soil, geologic, and physiographic characteristics of the depth to bedrock observation. One predictor variable is a grouped surficial geology category that was adapted from the State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017); the grouped lithology categories are provided in this data release as a shapefile dataset. The predictions from the random forest model are provided as a gridded geoTIFF file. Two files are provided - one for uncorrected model predictions and another for predictions that were bias-corrected using the Empirical Cumulative Distribution Matching (ECDM) approach of Belitz and Stackelberg (2021). The bias-corrected predictions are the final model predictions for use in other applications.
Horton, J.D., San Juan, C.A., Stoeser, D.B., 2017. The State Geologic Map Compilation (SGMC) geodatabase of the conterminous United States (Report No. 1052), Data Series. Reston, VA. https://doi.org/10.3133/ds1052
Belitz, K., Stackelberg, P.E., 2021. Evaluation of six methods for correcting bias in estimates from ensemble tree machine learning regression models. Environmental Modelling &amp; Software 139, 105006. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2021.105006

Tags: depth-to-bedrock, geoscientificinformation, hydrogeology, modeling, regolith, usgs-65a003dad34e5af967a3819c
Organization: Department of the Interior
Streambed and suspended sediment data from streams in western Montana from 2018

This data release contains streambed sediment data, suspended sediment data, and stream stage data from tributary streams in Western Montana. These datasets were created to assess the linkages between unpaved roads and instream sediment distributions. Surveys were collected in tributaries and rivers within the Clearwater River and Swan River basins in Montana. Site locations were purposively selected for sampling and the datasets were collected in 2018 using standard sediment sampling procedures. Data were collected by the U.S. Geological Survey and Montana State University and/or affiliated field crews with support from the U.S. Geological Survey and Montana State University.

Tags: biota, clearwater-river, fish, montana, streambed-sediment, suspended-sediment, swan-river, usgs-677bf3e3d34e711d10b7c87b
Organization: Department of the Interior
Stream Temperature in the Lahontan Basin of Nevada and California, 2017-2019

This dataset includes hourly stream temperature data for 139 temperature logger sites throughout the Lahontan Basin Region of Northern Nevada and Eastern California. Data loggers were part a study beginning in 2017, with data available through 2019 for most locations. The spatial data layer contains site locations, geographic information, data summaries, mean August stream temperatures, and modeled NorWeST stream temperatures. The Wet-Dry delineation file contains daily flow status estimates derived from stream temperature data for each site. The Site Visit file contains the date and time of the site visit along with associated information on site flow conditions, water depths, logger conditions, and stream logger water depths.

Tags: california, environment, inlandwaters, intermittent, nevada, perennial, stream-river, stream-temperature, streamflow, surface-water-non-marine, usgs-617084c7d34ea36449a6b3f8, water-temperature, watershed
Organization: Department of the Interior
Chemical and physical data for sediment source tracking of streambed sediment in Black Creek, Indiana, tributary to the Maumee River and western Lake Erie, July 2019

Data include total nitrogen and carbon, carbon species, total metal, and particle-size analyses of soft streambed from the Black Creek basin, Allen County, Indiana that was collected in July 2019. These data will be used in a sediment-source mixing model in order to attribute the proportional contribution of individual sources to suspended sediment in the basin. Source samples were identified as one of five land-cover types:  cropland (corn, soybean, hay, and wheat; sites included a mix of conventional and conservation tillage), active horse pasture, roads, preserved forest, and streambanks along agricultural and non-agricultural channels. Source data were collected in August 2017 (Williamson and others, 2020).
Williamson, T.N, Hardebeck, M.J, and Martin, G.R, 2020, Chemical and physical data for sediment source fingerprinting of suspended and bottom sediment in Black Creek, Indiana, tributary to the Maumee River and western Lake Erie - Source samples: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9W28HF0.

Tags: agricultural-stream, allen-county-indiana, anthropocene, harlan-indiana, holocene, rural-stream, sediment-fingerprinting, sediment-transport, usgs-63e3d56fd34e9fa19a9bb6c3
Organization: Department of the Interior
Regional scale magnetotelluric data from the Rio Grande Rift and southern Rocky Mountains, Station rgr419

This dataset consists of 102 magnetotelluric (MT) stations collected in 2012-2014 in the Rio Grande Rift and southern Rocky Mountains. The U.S. Geological Survey acquired these data to improve regional conductivity models of the western United States. This work is in support of studies of the effect of lithospheric modification on electrical resistivity structure and tectonic evolution of the western United States.

Tags: apparent-resistivity, basin-and-range, electromagnetic-surveying, geology-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, gggsc, impedance, magnetic-field-earth, magnetotelluric, mineral-resources-program, mrp, mt, new-mexico, phase, regional-conductivity-models, rio-grande-rift, time-series, tipper, usgs-5ada26c5e4b0e2c2dd297758
Organization: Department of the Interior
Cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) and internally transcribed spacer region I (ITS1) DNA sequences of Tetracapsuloides bryosalmonae parasites in kidney tissue collected from various water bodies in Montana, USA from 2016 to 2019

This dataset contains DNA sequences of two genomic regions, cytochrome oxidase subunit one and internally transcribed spacer region one, obtained from Tetracapsuloides bryosalmonae infecting the tissue of fish collected from various locations throughout western and central Montana, USA.

Tags: aquatic-biology, biota, montana, parasites, upper-yellowstone, usgs-5f84e9b382cebef40f128d4c
Organization: Department of the Interior