AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Smalltooth Sawfish Critical Habitat

These data represent the critical habitat for smalltooth sawfish (Pristis pectinatat) as designated by 74 FR 45353, September 2, 2009, Rules and Regulations.

Tags: caloosahatchee river, charlotte county, charlotte harbor, collier county, critical habitat, doc/noaa/nmfs/sero, endangered species, endangered species information, estero bay, everglades national park, fishery-dependent, florida, florida bay, gasparilla sound, gis, gulf of mexico, lee county, matlacha pass, miami-dade county, monroe county, myakka river, national marine fisheries service, noaa, non-environmental data, peace river, pine island sound, pristis pectinata, san carlos bay, smalltooth sawfish, southeast regional office, ten thousand islands, u.s. department of commerce
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Right Whale Critical Habitat

These data represent the critical habitat for Right Whale as designated by Federal Register Vol. 59, No. 28805, May 19, 1993, Rules and Regulations. This rule was updated by Federal Register Vol. 81, No. 4838, January 27, 2016.

Tags: critical habitat, doc/noaa/nmfs/sero, endangered species, endangered species information, eubalaena glacialis, fishery-dependent, florida, georgia, gis, national marine fisheries service, noaa, non-environmental data, north atlantic right whale, south atlantic, southeast regional office, u.s. department of commerce
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Eco-spatial data layers of coral reef ecosystem drivers in American Samoa

Understanding the spatial distribution, intensity, overlap, and cumulative impact of human activities and environmental stressors is essential for effective management and protection of ecosystem services generated by coral reefs. The data described here are that of the GIS layers of the eco-geospatial tool developed by staff of the Ecosystem Sciences Division (ESD) at the Pacific Island Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC) for American Samoa Coral Reef Drivers, hosted by Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System (PACIOOS) at http://www.pacioos.hawaii.edu/projects/coral-drivers-amsam/.  Partners included the American Samoa Division of Marine and Wildlife Resources and the American Samoa Coral Reef Advisory Group. 

This eco-geospatial tool gathers, organizes, analyzes, models and visualizes spatially-explicit information for American Samoa. Hereby, GIS layers are developed to provide the spatial patterns of anthropogenic and environmental drivers that influence the status of coral reefs in the region and the potential for degradation, including satellite-based oceanography (sea surface temperature [SST], chlorophyll-a, photosynthetically active radiation [PAR], Turbidity [Kd490]), wave power, coastal habitat modification, and sediment export to nearshore.

These geospatial products provide the basis to answer questions such as which places and habitat types are the most impacted; which stressors should be the greatest concern in different areas; and where to prioritize different management strategies. In addition, these datasets also inform watershed management and conservation action plans.

Tags: american samoa, american samoa (14s170w0000), biosphere, central pacific ocean, chlorophyll-a, coastal areas, coastal processes, computer, coral reef, coral reef ecosystem division, coral reef ecosystem program, coral reef studies, coral reef watch, coral reefs, corals, country/territory, cred, crep, crw, doc/noaa/nmfs/pifsc, earth science, eco-geospatial tool, ecosystem sciences division, ecosystems, environmental impacts, environmental modeling, environmental sustainability, erosion, errdap, esd, gis, gis product, habitat conversion/fragmentation, habitat modification, human dimensions, human settlements, infrastructure, irradiance, land-based source pollution, layers, lbsp, mapping, marine ecosystems, model output, national marine fisheries service, nmfs, noaa, ocean, ocean acidification program, ocean basin, oceans, only one coris discovery thesaurus required, pacific islands fisheries science center, pacific ocean, pacioos, photosynthetically active radiation, pifsc, ramp, reef, reef assessment and monitoring program, reef monitoring and assessment, satellite data, sea surface temperature, sedimentation, south pacific ocean, sustainability, turbidity, u.s. department of commerce, united states of america, us doc, vulnerability assessment, wave power, zoology
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Hawaii Small Boat Cost-Earnings Data: 2014

These data represent a cost-earnings study of the Hawaii small boat fishery in 2014. Data collected include fisher classification, vessel characteristics, levels of investment, trip-level expenditures, fishing behavior, market participation, social aspects of the fishery, and demographics.

Tags: 2014, cost earnings data - small boat fishery, cost-earnings, doc/noaa/nmfs/pifsc, economics, hawaii, hawaii small boat fishery, main hawaiian islands, national marine fisheries service, noaa, pacific islands fisheries science center, pacific ocean, pifsc, socioeconomics, u.s. department of commerce
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
EOP Temperature data for deep corals

Thermographs were deployed opportunistically in patches of deep coral at depths greater than 300 m.  Sites included the Makapuu precious coral bed, the Cross Seamount bed, the bed on the east extension of French Frigate Shoals and the black coral bed in the channel waters off Maui.   Some other shallower sites (<100 m) in the NWHI were instrumented for a shorter periods are included as separate files within the data set.

Tags: cross seamount, daily, data loggers, doc/noaa/nmfs/pifsc, eop, eop in situ observational data, esd, every 6 hours to every hour, hawaiian archipelago, legacy data set, makapuu, national marine fisheries service, noaa, nwhi, pacific islands fisheries science center, precious corals, seafloor temperature records, subphotic depths, subphotic environment, subphotic french frigate shoals (ffs), u.s. department of commerce
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Fisheries management metrics and other geospatial layers compiled for the pilot project: Develop a Spatial Management Evaluation Tool for American Samoa and Guam: Fish-BANC (Fish-Based Area Necessary Credit) (NCEI Accession 0310551)

A pilot project entitled, "Develop a Spatial Management Evaluation Tool for American Samoa and GuamÃ¢ÂÂ, branded Fish-BANC (Fish-Based Area Necessary Credit)." This project was executed by @Orchard, LLC for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), Pacific Islands Regional Office (PIRO), via Contract #1305M424D0026, Task Order #1305M324F0317.
The data and model outputs focus on examining fish biological data around Guam and American Samoa, with outputs such as fish biomass, fish size, and fish spawning potential ratio (SPR). The priority fish species that were examined for Guam include: Chlorurus microrhinos, Chlorurus spilurus, and Naso lituratus, whereas the priority fish species that were examined for American Samoa include: Acanthurus lineatus, Naso lituratus, and Scarus rubroviolaceus. Data collection range varies 2000-20250929.

Tags: 31434, acanthurus lineatus, american samoa, american samoa (14s170w0000), animals/vertebrates, biological, biological classification, biological data, branded fish-banc (fish-based area necessary credit), chlorurus microrhinos, chlorurus spilurus, contract #1305m424d0026, coral reef studies, country/territory, develop a spatial management evaluation tool for american samoa and guamâ, doc/noaa/nmfs/piro, earth science, fish, fish biomass, fish size, fish spawning potential ratio (spr), fish species, fish stock characteristics, fish-banc, fish-banc / a mechanism for incorporating a spatial management credit into sustainable coral reef fi, fisheries, geographic information, gis, guam, guam (13n144e0000), in situ, marine biology, model output, naso lituratus, national marine fisheries service, noaa, north pacific ocean, ocean, ocean basin, oceanography, oceans, pacific islands regional office, pacific ocean, philippine sea, scarus rubroviolaceus, south pacific ocean, task order #1305m324f0317, u.s. department of commerce, united states, united states of america, western pacific ocean
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
SOD EK60 Active Acoustics

Accurate and precise stock assessments are predicated on accurate and precise estimates of life history parameters, abundance, and catch across the range of the stock. NOAA Fisheries is increasingly looking to advanced fishery-independent survey methods to estimate stock abundance and many authors have highlighted the continued need for development of non-intrusive methods that can be used in areas both open and closed to fishing, as well as for stocks where extractive sampling may remove a significant portion of the yearly quota. While it is commonly agreed that a combination of survey methods is preferable to any single method, in order to be used effectively and efficiently, such methods must be quantitatively evaluated and compared. The development of adequate calibration factors allows pooling of data from disparate methods to generate robust metrics of abundance. In this study, we quantitatively compare a suite of autonomous optical, acoustic, and cooperative research fishery-independent sampling methods for estimating species-specific size-structured abundance for six snapper species and one grouper species, which comprise the major insular commercial fishery in the Main Hawaiian Islands  (known as the Deep 7 bottomfish complex). This comparison serves as the basis for an operational, fishery-independent survey for stock assessment in the Main Hawaiian Islands.

Tags: acoustics, advanced technology, deep-7 bottomfish, doc/noaa/nmfs/pifsc, ek60, fishery-independent, kahoolawe, lanai, main hawaiian islands, maui, national marine fisheries service, noaa, pacific islands fisheries science center, pifsc, pifsc science operations (sci ops) division metadata portfolio, sod, stock assessment, u.s. department of commerce
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Benthic surveys along a water quality gradient in Aua, American Samoa: benthic cover derived from analysis of benthic images collected in 2022

This metadata record describes the benthic cover data of Aua Reef, American Samoa, produced from the benthic imagery analysis performed by the Ecosystem Sciences Division (ESD) of the Pacific Island Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC) and funded by the Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP). Benthic imagery was collected at 18 randomly-selected sites during coral demographic surveys by the NOAA ESD during the 2022 fly-in mission to American Samoa (MP2206). After processing and sorting site photos, imagery was qualitatively analyzed using the web-based CoralNet image annotation tool. CoralNet projects random points on each image, and the benthic elements falling directly underneath each point are identified by trained scientists.  The source imagery analyzed to produce benthic cover estimates as well as coral demography data are described and archived separately, see 'Related Items' below.

Data from benthic surveys of Aua Reef establishes a comprehensive biological baseline for land-based sources of pollution impacts on benthic composition and coral demography. These efforts feed into the higher-level CRCP objectives by establishing an in-situ tracking system to assess the effects of management and mitigation strategies and activities in the target watersheds to reduce land-based sources of pollution impacts on coral reefs.

Tags: 31303, algae, algal cover, american samoa, aquatic habitat, archipelagic research program, aua (14s170w0028), baseline studies, belt transect, benthic, benthic biology, benthic communitiies, benthic cover, benthic habitat, benthic missions, benthic species, benthos analysis, biosphere, chartered vessel, coastal processes, coral cover, coral reef conservation program, coral reef ecology, coral reef studies, coral reefs, coralnet, corals, country/territory, crustose coralline algae, doc/noaa/nmfs/pifsc, earth science, ecosystem sciences division, encrusting macroalgae, esd, fleshy macroalgae, hard coral cover, image analyses, imagery, land-based source pollution, lbsp, linking watershed management actions to reef health in american samoa, macroalgal cover, national marine fisheries service, nmfs, noaa, numeric data sets, ocean basin, oceans, pacific islands fisheries science center, pacific ocean, photographic analysis, pifsc, reef habitat, reef monitoring and assessment, south pacific ocean, transect monitoring, turf algae, tutuila island, u.s. department of commerce, united states of america, us doc, vegetation, zoology
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Cost Earnings Data 2009 - American Samoa Longline

The data collection project assessed the economic performance of American Samoa-based longline vessels that made trips in 2009. Operational and vessel costs were collected by personal interviews with vessel owners, captains, and crew. The project estimated the cost-earnings for each individual longline vessel.

Tags: 2009, american samoa, american samoa longline, cost earnings data - longline (american samoa and hawaii), cost-earnings, doc/noaa/nmfs/pifsc, economics, legacy data set, national marine fisheries service, noaa, pacific islands fisheries science center, pacific ocean, pifsc, socioeconomics, u.s. department of commerce
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Green Sturgeon Acoustic Monitoring

This database is used to hold tracking data for green sturgeon tagged in Central California.  The data collection began in late 2002 and is ongoing.

Tags: acipenser medirostirus, acoustic tagging, california, doc/noaa/nmfs/swfsc, landscape ecology team, national marine fisheries service, noaa. u.s. department of commerce, southwest fisheries science center, sturgeon
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Rebreather Fish Surveys in American Samoa from 2016-04-15 to 2016-05-05

Surveys were conducted in the course of a reef fish survey cruise conducted by the NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP) at the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC). These data come from surveys conducted using close-circuit rebreathers. The use of rebreathers is intended to provide data that can be compared against data gathered on open-circuit SCUBA, which is the breathing apparatus typically used by CREP.

The survey domain encompassed hard bottom habitats in American Samoa and the stratification included island, reef zone, and depth. Sites were surveyed using the stationary point count (SPC) method to quantify reef fish assemblages.  At each survey site, fish biologists entered the water and conducted paired fine-scale (~700 square meters) and high degree of taxonomic resolution Rapid Ecological Assessment (REA) survey to assess species diversity, size distribution, and abundance of fishes at the site. At each site, one survey was conducted on open-circuit SCUBA and one on closed circuit rebreather. Only rebreather survey data is described here.

Tags: american samoa, american samoa (14s170w0000), aquatic habitat, biosphere, coastal processes, coral reef ecology, coral reef ecosystem division, coral reef ecosystem program, coral reefs, corals, country/territory, cred, crep, doc/noaa/nmfs/pifsc, earth science, ecological dynamics, ecosystem monitoring and assessment, fish, fish - coral reef, fish assemblages, fish biomass, fish census, fish species, manu'a group, marine biology, national coral reef monitoring program, national marine fisheries service, nmfs, noaa, numeric data sets, ocean basin, oceans, ofu island (14s169w0013), olosega island (14s169w0014), oscar elton sette, pacific islands fisheries science center, pacific ocean, pacific reef and assessment monitoring program, pifsc, ramp, rapid assessment studies, rapid ecological assessment, rea, reef assessment and monitoring program, reef fish, reef fish census, reef habitat, reef monitoring and assessment, rose atoll marine national monument, rose island, rose island (rose atoll) (14s168w0001), south pacific ocean, spc, species identification, species identification - count, species identification - organism length, species richness, stationary, stationary point count, survey, survey - biological, survey - swimmer/diver, ta'u island (14s169w0012), tutuila island (14s170w0016), u.s. department of commerce, united states of america, us doc, visual estimate, zoology
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
HMSRP Hawaiian Monk Seal Handling Data

This data set contains records for all handling and measurement of Hawaiian monk seals since 1981.  Live seals are handled and measured during a variety of events including tagging, instrumenting, disentangling, translocation, and health screening by  PSD personnel and cooperating scientists as part of the ongoing monk seal population assessment and recovery efforts.   In addition, this data set contains measurements of dead seals collected during necropsy and handlings for all seals that were tagged by USFWS in earlier years, and still present in the population when the current research effort began.  These handling records extend as far back as 1967.   The remainder of the USFWS handling data (data for seals that disappeared prior to the inception of the PSD research program) are housed at PIFSC in paper form.

Tags: doc/noaa/nmfs/pifsc, handlings, hawaiian archipelago, hawaiian monk seal, hmsrp, hmsrp hawaiian monk seal population assessment data, national marine fisheries service, noaa, pacific islands fisheries science center, pacific region, pifsc, population assessment, protected species, psd, u.s. department of commerce
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
California Pelagic Longline Fishery

This data set contains catch and effort, landings, and observer data from longline vessels fishing in the North Pacific outside the U.S. west coast EEZ. Logbooks and landings data are available from 1991 to the present and observer data is available from 2001 to present. California-based longliners target swordfish and bigeye tunas, however, other species of tunas, billfishes, and sharks are also caught.

Tags: doc/noaa/nmfs/swfsc, eastern pacific ocean, logbook, longline, marlin, national marine fisheries service, noaa. u.s. department of commerce, pacific highly migratory species data, pacific islands fisheries science center (pifsc), protected species, shark, southwest fisheries science center, southwest fisheries science center (swfsc), swordfish, tuna
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
2015 Akule Aerial Survey Data

This dataset contains estimates of the size of schools of akule from an aerial spotter pilot, as well as catch information on harvested schools including length and weight of captured fish, for akule around Oahu Hawaii from November 2015 to October 2016. The pilot data includes the pilot name; the trip number within a month (which was based on a randomized sampling design); the date of the trip; the start and end time of the trips as well as the time at which a school of akule was spotted on the trip; the approximate location of the school in latitude and longitude; whether the akule were a school of juveniles, adults or mixed; the estimate of size in pounds of the school; an indication of whether the school was fished (fishing data are in another dataset); and an indication of cloud cover to gauge visibility. The catch data contains fisher identification; the date fishing took place; the spotter pilot estimate of the size of the school being fished; the gear used to fish; start and end times of fishing; latitude and longitude; state of hawaii commercial fishing grid; environmental information including wind, wave, clarity, temperature, cloud cover; and catch weight and catch number of all species caught. The length data contains fish number (1-25), date fished/measured, gear used to catch fish, length, weight, latitude and longitude of fishing location, and total catch from the fishing trip. Trips started and ended at honolulu airport and circumnavigated Oahu in either a clockwise or counter-clockwise direction at the discretion of the pilot.

Tags: akule aerial survey 2015 and 2017, doc/noaa/nmfs/pifsc, frmd, national marine fisheries service, noaa, pacific islands fisheries science center, pifsc, sap, u.s. department of commerce
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Benthic percent cover derived from analysis of benthic images collected at coral reef sites in Batangas, Philippines in 2015

The benthic cover data described here result from benthic photo-quadrat surveys conducted by the NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP) in 2015 along transects at fixed climate survey sites located on hard bottom shallow water (< 15 m) habitats in the Philippines. Climate sites were established by CREP to assess multiple features of the coral reef environment (in addition to the data described herein) over time.

Benthic habitat photographs were quantitatively analyzed using a web-based annotation tool called CoralNet (Beijbom et al. 2016). Images were analyzed to produce three functional group levels of benthic cover: Tier 1 (e.g., hard coral, soft coral, macroalgae, turf algae, etc.), Tier 2 (e.g., Hard Coral = massive, branching, foliose, encrusting, etc.; Macroalgae = upright macroalgae, encrusting macroalgae, bluegreen macroalgae, and Halimeda, etc.), and Tier 3 (e.g., Hard Coral = Astreopora sp, Favia sp, Pocillopora, etc.; Macroalgae = Caulerpa sp, Dictyosphaeria sp, Padina sp, etc.).

These benthic cover data for the Philippines provide an estimate of the benthic community composition at each climate survey site, and give context to the results from the other climate survey components (archived separately). The data can be accessed online via the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) Ocean Archive.

Tags: 483, algae, algal cover, aquatic habitat, arthur's reef, arthur's rock (13n120e0002), balayan bay, baseline data from climate stations in batangas, baseline studies, batalang bato, batangas, batong buhay, benthic, benthic biology, benthic habitat, benthos analysis, biodiversity and fisheries in the coral triangle: embracing the e in ecosystem approaches to fisheri, biosphere, blue-green algae, climate, coastal processes, coral, coral communities, coral cover, coral reef conservation program, coral reef ecology, coral reef ecosystem division, coral reef ecosystem program, coral reef studies, coral reefs, coral triangle initiative, corals, country/territory, cred, crep, crustose coralline algae, derived products, doc/noaa/nmfs/pifsc, earth science, ecosystem sciences division, encrusting macroalgae, hard coral cover, in situ biological, koala reserve area, mabini (13n120e0032), maricaban island, marine biology, marine invertebrates, microbiota, national marine fisheries service, nmfs, noaa, numeric data sets, nw pacific (limit-180), ocean basin, oceans, octocoral cover, pacific islands fisheries science center, pacific ocean, philippines, philippines from 2012 to 2015, photograph analysis, photographic analysis, pifsc, quadrat monitoring, reef and/or bottom regime - percent cover, reef habitat, reef monitoring and assessment, south china sea, tingloy (13n120e0009), turf algae, twin rocks, twin rocks sanctuary (13n120e0005), u.s. department of commerce, united states agency for international development, us doc, usaid, vegetation, verde island passage, zoology
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce