AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
ANN-classified crop type map for the year 2022 in California's Central Valley

Classified map of crop types in California's Central Valley generated using artificial neural network multilayer perceptron models and Harmonized Landsat-8 Sentinel-2 Landsat 30m (HLSL30) data. The model was trained on data from the year 2021 and validated on the independent year 2022.

Tags: agriculture, biota, california, crop-type, land-use-change, neural-network, remote-sensing, united-states-of-america, usgs-668db42dd34e8f12c1064903
Organization: Department of the Interior
Particle size distribution data from U.S. Army Base Fort Drum, Jefferson County, New York, 2023

The dataset documents results from particle size analysis (PSA) conducted on a suite of sediment samples from U.S. Army Base Fort Drum, Jefferson County, New York.  Most of the PSA samples were collected from representative cells in a series of five portable optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) grids, here denoted G1 through G5, to constrain variations in grain size. These samples were also collected in conjunction with OSL for absolute chronology.
In the lab, PSA was conducted using sieving equipment housed in the Bascom Laser Diffraction Sedimentology Laboratory at the U.S. Geological Survey in Reston, Virginia.  Subsamples from G3 and G4 were also analyzed for elemental concentrations via inductively coupled plasma - mass spectrometry (ICP-MS).
This work is a collaboration with the Fort Drum Environmental Division and the Fort Drum Cultural Resources Division and was funded by the National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program.

Tags: biota, delta, fbgc, florence-bascom-geoscience-center, fort-drum, glacial, glacial-lake, grain-size, jefferson-county, lake-iroquois, new-york, particle-size, sedimentology, sieving, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-668d97dfd34eb8d205624c14
Organization: Department of the Interior
Cover, basal diameter, height, and density of deep-rooted perennial grasses, and cover of exotic annual grasses and Poa secunda over the first five years following post-fire drill-seeding on the Soda Wildfire

Data includes functional group cover of exotic annual grasses, shallow rooted perennial grasses, and cover, basal diameter, height, and density of deep-rooted perennial grasses within the first five years after the 2015 Soda wildfire across post-fire drill-seeding treatments.

Tags: biota, bromus-tectorum, community-ecology, drill-seeding, ecology, environment, fires, great-basin, idaho, invasive-species, land-use-and-land-cover, native-species, natural-resource-management, oregon, poa-secunda, remediation, restoration-monitoring, thresholds, usgs-668d806ad34eb8d205624b87, vegetation, vegetation-trajectory
Organization: Department of the Interior
Ground-surface elevation, vegetation, and land type within approximately 10 and 400 meters of 176 water-level gaging stations in the Greater Everglades, Florida 2005-10

The Everglades Depth Estimation Network (EDEN) is an integrated network of water-level gages, interpolation models, web applications, and decision support tools that generates daily water-level data and derived hydrologic data across the freshwater part of south Florida's Greater Everglades. EDEN provides continuous daily water-level and depth surfaces on a 400-meter grid using an interpolation algorithm, a network of over 200 gaging stations, and a digital elevation model (DEM). The water-level surfaces cover an area of 9,132 square kilometers and the water depth surfaces cover an area of 7,491 square kilometers. For a subset of gaging stations, ground elevation measurements were taken to better understand the elevation in the area surrounding the gaging station. The mean, maximum, and minimum ground elevation measurements are provided for the area within a 10-meter radius of the water level gaging station. The major vegetation community type was also recorded. Within a 400-meter radius, a secondary vegetation community type was recorded when possible, along with mean, maximum, and minimum ground elevation measurements.

Tags: arthur-r-marshall-loxahatchee-national-wildlife-refuge, big-cypress-national-preserve, big-cypress-swamp, biota, everglades, everglades-national-park, southern-florida, topography, usgs-668d5057d34eb8d205624a67, vegetation
Organization: Department of the Interior
Silver Carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) Locations in Earthen Ponds Exposed to Three Acoustic Signals, June though August, 2018

This data set includes acoustic telemetry positions for silver carp ranging in total length from 251 to 359 mm (mean = 294 mm) and weight 131 – 427 g (mean = 231 g) tagged with 795-LD transmitters in four earthen ponds at the Columbia Environmental Research Center, Columbia, MO, USA. Positions were monitored using a 16-hydrophone array in each pond before and during a series of trials where fish were exposed to one of three acoustic signals for a length of 30 minutes. Trials occurred from June 11 to August 7, 2018. The telemetry positions were filtered to include 30 minutes before silver carp were exposed to one of three acoustic signals, and 30 minutes during signal playback. This was repeated for five trials with a new lot of fish for each trial, but Trial 4 data were excluded from the dataset due to fish health concerns.

Tags: acoustic-telemetry, animal-behavior, biota, hypophthalmichthys, introduced-fishes, invasive-species, telemetry, usgs-668d2f6ed34e89eaf69182b9
Organization: Department of the Interior
C210NC_video_observations

This part of DS 781 presents video observations from cruise C210NC in northern California. The vector data file is included in "c201nc_video_observations.zip," which is accessible from https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/781/video_observations/data_catalog_video_observations.html.
In 2010, the seafloor in northern California was mapped by California State University, Monterey Bay, Seafloor Mapping Lab (CSUMB) using both multibeam echosounders and bathymetric sidescan sonar units. This mapping mission collected bathymetry and acoustic-backscatter data from about the 10-m isobath to out beyond the 3-nautical-mile limit of California's State Waters. To validate the interpretations of sonar data in order to turn it into geologically and biologically useful information, the USGS ground-truth surveyed the data by towing camera sleds over specific locations throughout the region. During the 2010 ground-truth cruise, the camera sled housed two video cameras (one forward looking and the other vertical looking), a high-definition video camera, and an 8-megapixel digital still camera. The video was fed in real time to the research vessel, where USGS and NOAA scientists recorded both the geologic and biologic character of the seafloor into programmable keypads once every minute. In addition to recording the seafloor characteristics, a digital still photograph was captured once every 30 seconds. This ArcGIS shape file includes the position of the camera, the time each observation was started, and the visual observations of geologic and biologic habitat.

Tags: benthic-habitat, biota, cape-mendocino, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, continental-island-shelf, ecosystems, eel-river, elk, eureka, fisheries, fort-bragg, geoscientificinformation, hardy, kibesillah, marine-habitat, marine-nearshore-subtidal, marine-offshore-subtidal, mendocino, needle-rock, north-pacific-ocean, northern-pacific-ocean, oceans, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, photographic-sampling, point-arena, punta-gorda, reynolds-rock, rock-substrate, sea-floor-characteristics, seabed, shelter-cove, transform-continental-margin, u-s-geological-survey, unconsolidated-mineral-substrate, underwater-photography, usgs, usgs-668cabbb-c7de-47e2-aaac-661fcdaea8a0, video-observation, video-sled-observations, videos, wheeler
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hydrologic datasets for the Medina and Diversion Lake system water-budget analysis, Bandera, Bexar, and Medina Counties, Texas, 1955–2022

To quantify seepage losses from the Medina and Diversion Lake system that provide recharge to the Edwards aquifer and upper zone of the Trinity aquifer, water budgets were analyzed for the period during March 2, 1955–October 6, 2022, and over a range of stages in Medina Lake. In the water-budget analysis, the applicable components of the hydrologic cycle pertaining to Medina and Diversion Lakes were evaluated. The water-budget equation incorporates measurable terms of inflow and outflow to solve for (or otherwise scientifically estimate) unknown gains or losses, or both, from a lake or lake system. The measurable terms include precipitation, evaporation, surface water inflow and outflow, and change in lake storage. The solution to the water-budget equation is obtained by balancing the contribution of each term of the water budget for any given budget period. The net effect of the unknown gains and losses is represented by the residual of the measurable terms and is assumed to represent recharge to the Edwards aquifer and upper zone of the Trinity aquifer.
This data set contains hydrologic data (precipitation, evaporation, streamflow, lake elevation, reservoir storage, and reservoir surface area) collected in the drainage area of Medina and Diversion Lake during 1955–2022. A file containing a list of sites where the data were collected is included. In 2017, a meteorological station was installed on the shore of Medina Lake to collect continuous precipitation and evaporation data; a file containing daily hydrologic data collected during 2017–22 is included, along with a file containing calculated daily water-budget values collected during 2017–22, and a file containing data from selected water-budget periods between 1955 and 2022.

Tags: atmospheric-and-climatic-processes, bandera, bandera-county, bexar-county, diversion-lake, edwards-aquifer, evaporation, geoscientificinformation, groundwater, groundwater-and-surface-water-interaction, helotes, helotes-creek, hydrogeology, hydrographic-datasets, hydrologic-processes, hydrology, inlandwaters, medina-county, medina-lake, medina-river, middle-verde-creek, pipe-creek, precipitation-atmospheric, red-bluff-creek, regression-analysis, riomedina, san-antonio, san-geronimo-creek, statistical-analysis, streamflow, surface-water-non-marine, texas, trinity-aquifer, usgs-668bf6b6d34e463649da9474, water-budget, water-cycle, water-resource-management, water-resources
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mercury Concentrations in Seston, Mussels, Water, Sediments, and Preyfish from Lake Huron, 2022

As part of the larger Great Lakes Cooperative Science and Monitoring Initiative (CSMI) , the U.S. Geological Survey Mercury Research Laboratory (MRL) completed a binational assessment partnering with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA), Environmental Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Michigan-DNR (MI-DNR), University of Minnesota-Duluth Natural Resources Research Institute (UM-NRRI), and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA), to assess contaminant concentrations within seston, mussels, preyfish, waters, and surface sediments within Lake Huron. All matrices were assessed for mercury and methylmercury concentrations to examine spatial trends of mercury within the lakes. Sediments were also analyzed for total mercury stable isotope composition to approximate sources of mercury contamination to the lake.

Tags: benthic, bioaccumulation, biogeochemical-cycling, canada, lake-huron, mercury, methylmercury, pelagic, united-states, usgs-668be91dd34e463649da93f2
Organization: Department of the Interior
Sediment Transport Data from the Totatlanika River, Alaska, August 2021

This data package includes four child items with data about sediment size and transport on the Totatlanika River, northern Alaska Range.
      Child Item 1: "Grain Size Data Collected Along the Totatlanika River, Alaska, August 2021". Scaled and geotagged digital photographs of river sediment and tabular sediment grain size data derived from the photographs.
      Child Item 2: "Boulder Size Data Collected Along the Totatlanika River, Alaska, August 2021". Shapefiles and tabular data representing boulders measured on photogrammetric imagery.
      Child Item 3: "Channel Geometry Data Collected Along the Totatlanika River, Alaska, August 2021". Shapefiles and tabular data representing river channel geometries measured on photogrammetric imagery and extracted from a photogrammetric digital elevation model.
      Child Item 4: "Water Discharge Data Collected and Modeled Along the Totatlanika River, Alaska, August 2021". Shapefiles and tables of water flow data (acquired in the field August 2021) and inputs for calculating annual exceedance probability discharges.

Tags: alaska, alaska-range, buzzard-creek, california-creek, geomorphic-landforms-processes, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, land-surface, land-surface-characteristics, mountains, orogenic-movement, tectonic-landforms, tectonic-processes, tectonic-uplift, topography, totatlanika-river, usgs-66885941d34e6179d07b1b26
Organization: Department of the Interior
Field measurements of visible dye concentration acquired during a tracer experiment on the Missouri River near Lexington, MO, on May 11, 2024

This data release includes in situ measurements of Rhodamine WT dye concentration acquired during a tracer experiment performed on the Missouri River near Lexington, Missouri, on May 11, 2024.  One of the primary goals of this study was to assess the feasibility of inferring concentrations of a visible dye (Rhodamine WT) in a large, highly turbid natural river channel using data from a Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS)-based hyperspectral imaging system. Previous research on remote sensing of tracer dye concentrations demonstrated the ability to obtain moderately precise concentration estimates from standard red-green-blue (RGB) video and orthophotos and this experiment allowed us to evaluate the hypothesis that more detailed spectral information could enable concentrations to be inferred with greater accuracy and precision. The broader objective motivating tracer studies along the Missouri River is to gain insight regarding the dispersion processes that influence the movement and survival of endangered sturgeon larvae.
This data release provides access to two data sets obtained to support this experiment:
1. In situ measurements of Rhodamine WT dye concentration collected by a sonde deployed from a boat as field spectra (see related child item).
2. In situ measurements of Rhodamine WT dye concentration collected by a sonde attached to a fixed buoy located within the spatial footprint of the hyperspectral images (see related child item). The spatial coordinates of the buoy are stored in a separate file.
Please refer to the metadata file for further detail about these data sets. Overall, these data were used to assess the potential for estimating tracer dye concentrations in turbid rivers from UAS-based hyperspectral image data.

Tags: concentration, dispersion, lexington, missouri, missouri-river, pallid-sturgeon, rhodamine-dye, river, tracer-study, usgs-66c3bac8d34e03388287b6c1
Organization: Department of the Interior
Occupancy surveys near Marbled Murrelet (Brachyramphus marmoratus) nest sites and random locations between 2018 and 2022 along the central Oregon coast, USA

There are four data tables (csv documents) provided here which are formatted according to tidy data principles. We identified sites centered on known murrelet nest trees (nest sites) and on randomly selected trees (control sites) and the first table contains variables that vary at the site level. Each site had up to three stations where occupancy surveys were collected, so the second table contains variables varying at the station level. Each station was surveyed multiple times, and the third table contains variables varying at the survey level. Lastly, we had a camera trained on the nests at our active nest sites and the fourth table contains one row for every recorded action taken by an adult or nestling.

Tags: biota, brachyramphus-marmoratus, cryptic-species, endangered-species, marbled-murrelet, oregon-coast-range, presence-absence-survey, usgs-66882dead34e6179d07b1a34
Organization: Department of the Interior
Missouri Stream Conservation and Connectivity Prioritization Tool: Improving and Expanding Existing Conservation Networks

The Missouri Stream Conservation and Connectivity Prioritization Tool contains data tabulating costs to traverse between 10,357 origin and 50,135 destination stream reaches throughout the Central Plains and Ozarks aquatic subregions in Missouri. Below are links to data associated with the more northern drainages and also the southern drainages. These data are intended to be used in the Missouri Stream Conservation and Connectivity Prioritization Tool and are not suitable stand-alone products outside of the context of the application.

Tags: inlandwaters, usgs-66882b94d34e6179d07b1a24
Organization: Department of the Interior
Water-level changes impact angler effort in a large lake: implications for climate change

The data set evaluates the relationship between water surface area and angler effort on Devil's Lake, North Dakota.  Over the last 30+ years, water levels have expanded/contracted in Devil's laking owing to variation in climate (precipitation).  Positive changes (i.e. expansion) in the lake surface area results in increased fish production and angling opportunities that positively influence angler effort and the local economy.

Tags: angler-behavior, climate-change, creel-surveys, farming, recreational-fishing, usgs-66882846d34e6179d07b1a01
Organization: Department of the Interior
Water physicochemical parameters of twenty Texas and New Mexico lakes 2022-2023 (ver. 2.0, December 2024)

Water physicochemical parameters at reservoirs in western Texas and eastern New Mexico to collected to supplement publicly available datasets. Dissolved oxygen, pH, salinity, specific conductance and temperature and turbidity were measured with a water quality probe (for 2022-2023 data, a Eureka Manta 2 or YSI Pro 2030) immersed to a depth of 0.3 meters. In 2022 and 2023, water samples were also collected from the same depth and analyzed using a Hach DR 3900 Spectrophotometer for the parameters of calcium, magnesium, total hardness, total nitrogen, and total phosphorus. Data collected between from 2008 and 2017 followed similar methods, but for details see cross referenced publications.

Tags: environment, inlandwaters, limnology, new-mexico, nutrient-content-water, salinity, surface-water-non-marine, texas, usgs-66881673d34e6179d07b19d2, water-hardness, water-quality, water-temperature
Organization: Department of the Interior
Habitat suitability scores, network scores, and infestation status for 225 lakes in Texas and New Mexico

We applied habitat suitability indices and network analysis to identify the lakes most critical to the establishment and spread of zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha). We included 225 lakes in the study area Habitat suitability indices were based on known tolerances of water chemical and physical parameters in relationship to zebra mussel growth, survival, and reproduction. We created multiple boater movement networks consisting of lake nodes and connecting roadway edges. Each network represented the potential connectivity of lakes for recreational users depending on the maximum roadway distance boaters were likely to travel. We evaluated three different maximum roadway distances based on boater movement surveys: 95% of boaters traveled within 363 km, 75% traveled within 125 km, and 50% traveled within 51 km. We recorded centrality measures of graph analysis, to help identify lakes critical to the spread of zebra mussels by acting as hubs (i.e., degree score), stepping stones (i.e., betweenness centrality), or cutpoints. We also documented each lake's infestation status as of March 2024.

Tags: biota, environment, freshwater-ecosystems, habitat-suitability-indices, inlandwaters, invasive-species, new-mexico, texas, usgs-6688157cd34e6179d07b19c6
Organization: Department of the Interior
Loch Vale Watershed hydroclimate and isotopes of tree-ring cellulose and source-water isotope model

Stable isotopes of water preserved in geologic archives, primarily as oxygen (d18O), have proven critical for documenting Earth’s climatic and hydrologic systems past and present. However, timescale differences of water isotope inputs to proxy systems and the signal embedded in long paleorecords often confound translation to observed hydroclimatic metrics. Here, a unique 20-year dataset of meteorology, hydrology, and the isotopic composition of weekly meteoric and surface water samples (d18O, d2H) are combined with paleoclimate d18O data from tree-ring cellulose and lake carbonate to better understand proxy signals of Upper Colorado river basin drought. Annual tree-ring cellulose d18O from Picea engelmannii growing within a glacier-fed creek and a spring discharge area were used to derive annual source water d18O using a cellulose source-water isotope model. Comparisons with the monitoring record indicates that tree-ring cellulose d18O tracks variations in wet and dry hydroclimatic extremes. The data release contains the annual tree-cellulose isotope data with hydyroclimate and water isotope annual averages, including those used for the cellulose source-water isotope model.

Tags: atmospheres, climatology, climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, geoscientificinformation, inland-waters, inlandwaters, meteorology, usgs-6686e3ded34ebb7843398bab
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data on behavior of adult horses and burros between 2016 and 2020, in Utah and Arizona, USA

We investigated the behavior of feral horses (Equus caballus) at Conger Herd Management Area (HMA), UT, and of burros (Equus asinus) at Lake Pleasant HMA, AZ, and Sinbad HMA, UT between 2016 and 2020 (Sinbad HMA 2016 to 2019; Conger and Lake Pleasant HMAs 2017 to 2020). We collected data on the time budget and social behavior of adults (2 years old and older) between April and September annually in Utah, and year-round in Arizona. We also collected data on group composition year-round at Conger, Lake Pleasant, and Sinbad HMAs with the addition of Frisco HMA (horses; UT) in order to derive social network metrics. 
This dataset includes three .csv files:
Horse_burro_all_occurrence_data_2016_2020.csv - frequency per hour of all occurrence behaviors expressed by individual horses (Conger HMA, UT) and burros (Lake Pleasant HMA, AZ, and Sinbad HMA, UT).
Horse_burro_time_budget_data_2016_2020.csv  - frequency per hour of all maintenance behaviors of individual horses (Conger HMA, UT) and burros (Lake Pleasant HMA, AZ, and Sinbad HMA, UT).
Horse_burro_network_metrics_2016_2020.csv - social network metrics of horse (Conger and Frisco HMAs, UT) and burro (Lake Pleasant HMA, AZ, and Sinbad HMA, UT) populations per season.

Tags: animal-behavior, arizona, biota, burro, equus, feral-horse, horse, lake-pleasant, social-network-development, usgs-6685ab7ad34e10615ec297fc, utah
Organization: Department of the Interior
Glyphosate hormesis in the toxic alga Prymnesium parvum

The dataset associated with this metadata are included in two separate csv files, Trial 1 and Trial 2. Both .cvs files describe cell densities in different cultures at 3, 6, and 9 days of time at different Glyphosate exposure concentrations.

Tags: glyphosate, harmful-algae, hormesis, inlandwaters, usgs-6685a58cd34e8a8b016cdb2d, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior