AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Greater sage-grouse genetic warning system, western United States

Genetic variation is a well-known indicator of population fitness yet is not typically included in monitoring programs for sensitive species. Additionally, most programs monitor populations at one scale, which can lead to potential mismatches with ecological processes critical to species’ conservation. Recently developed methods generating hierarchically nested population units (i.e., clusters of varying scales) for greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) have identified population trend declines across spatiotemporal scales to help managers target areas for conservation. The same clusters used as a proxy for spatial scale can alert managers to local units (i.e., fine-scale) with low genetic diversity relative to regional units (i.e., coarse-scale), further facilitating identification of management targets. We developed a genetic warning system utilizing previously developed hierarchical population units to identify management-relevant areas with low genetic diversity within the greater sage-grouse range. Within this warning system we characterized conservation concern thresholds based on values of genetic diversity  for hierarchically nested populations.
We developed a spatial data set to display genetic diversity values and conservation concern information from a Genetic Warning System (GWS) for population monitoring of greater sage-grouse, as described in Zimmerman et al. (2022). Here we added the genetic diversity estimates (allelic richness and expected heterozygosity) and GWS information as attributes to the relevant fine-scale (level 2) and coarse-scale (level 13) previously developed hierarchically nested population clusters (O’Donnell et al. 2019, O’Donnell et al. 2022). The GWS incorporates population trend decline watches and warnings from the Targeted Annual Warning System (TAWS) for greater sage-grouse as reported in Coates et al. (2021) to further refine degree of conservation concern.

Tags: adaptive-management, biota, boundaries, california, centrocercus-urophasianus, colorado, conservation-genetics, genetic-diversity, genetic-monitoring, greater-sage-grouse, hierarchical-sampling-units, idaho, montana, nevada, north-dakota, oregon, population-monitoring, south-dakota, united-states, usgs-638e79c7d34ed907bf7bc90c, utah, washington, western-united-states, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Moisture Correction Bands- NDTI

A spread sheet documenting the application and derivation of equations used in the moisture correction process. This sheet outputs a corrected fractional residue cover and also has estimates of standard error, residual standard error, residual mean squared error and range of the calculated fractional residue estimates.

Tags: agriculture, soil-moisture, usgs-597b27d6e4b0a38ca27563ba
Organization: Department of the Interior
Grain-size analysis of sediment samples collected in July 2016 by the U.S. Geological Survey off Town Neck Beach, Sandwich in Massachusetts, during field activity 2016-037-FA (CSV file and simplified shapefile)

Geophysical and geological survey data were collected off Town Neck Beach in Sandwich, Massachusetts, in May and July 2016. Approximately 130 linear kilometers of subbottom (seismic-reflection) and 234-kilohertz interferometric sonar (bathymetric and backscatter) data were collected along with sediment samples, sea floor photographs, and (or) video at 26 sites within the geophysical survey area. Sediment grab samples were collected at 19 of the 26 sampling sites and video and (or) photographic imagery of the sea floor were taken at all 26 sites. These survey data are used to characterize the sea floor by identifying sediment-texture, seabed morphology, and underlying geologic structure and stratigraphy.  Data collected during these 2016 surveys are included in this data release: https://doi.org/10.5066/P9HZHXXV.
      More information can be found on the websites for the Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center field activities at https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2016-017-FA and https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2016-037-FA.
      

Tags: atlantic-ocean, cape-cod, cape-cod-bay, clay, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, csv, field-activity-2016-037-fa, geoscientificinformation, grab-sampling, grain-size-analysis, gravel, ground-truth, gulf-of-maine, location, marine-geology, massachusetts, north-america, oceans, r-v-rafael, sand, sandwich, sea-floor, sea-floor-characteristics, seabed, seabed-observation-and-sampling-system, seaboss, seafloor, seafloor-samples, sediment-data, sediment-samples, sediments, silt, stations, surficial-sediment-classification, town-neck-beach, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-5c926dcde4b0938824573d64, van-veen-grab-sampler, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mineral Commodity Summaries 2022 - CLAYS Data Release

This data release contains the U.S. salient statistics and world production data extracted from the CLAYS data sheet of the USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2022.

Tags: ball-clay, bentonite, common-clay, fire-clay, fullers-earth, kaolin, nonmetallic-mineral-resources, usgs-61ead30ad34e8b818ad9f3a1
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hydrodynamic and Sediment Transport Model Application for OSAT3 Guidance:  Locations of decelerations in the direction of flow in the maximum alongshore current

The U.S. Geological Survey has developed a method for estimating the mobility and potential alongshore transport of heavier-than-water sand and oil agglomerates (tarballs or surface residual balls, SRBs).  During the Deepwater Horizon spill, some oil that reached the surf zone of the northern Gulf of Mexico mixed with suspended sediment and sank to form sub-tidal mats. If not removed, these mats can break apart to form SRBs and subsequently re-oil the beach.  A method was developed for estimating SRB mobilization and alongshore movement.  A representative suite of wave conditions was identified from buoy data for April, 2010, until August, 2012, and used to drive a numerical model of the spatially-variant alongshore currents.  Potential mobilization of SRBs was estimated by comparing combined wave- and current-induced shear stress from the model to critical stress values for several sized SRBs. Potential alongshore flux of SRBs was also estimated to identify regions more or less likely to have SRBs deposited under each scenario.  This methodology was developed to explain SRB movement and redistribution in the alongshore, interpret observed re-oiling events, and thus inform re-oiling mitigation efforts.

Tags: alabama, alongshore-currents, atlantic-ocean, choctawhatchee-bay, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, coastal-processes, contaminant-transport, convergences, current, delft3d, environment, florida, fort-pickens, geoscientificinformation, gradients, gulf-of-mexico, gulf-shores, industrial-pollution, little-lagoon, mathematical-modeling, mobile-bay, north-america, numerical-modeling, ocean-processes, oceans, oceans-and-coastal, oceans-and-estuaries, panama-city, pensacola-bay, petroleum, petroleum-spills, physical-chemical-features, pollution, predictions, santa-rosa, sediment-mobility, spcmsc, srbs, st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, surf-zone, surface-residual-balls, tarballs, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-79a4a925-8e81-401c-a441-52707c4cd3e3, wave, wave-driven-currents, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
DS926 Digital surfaces and thicknesses of selected hydrogeologic units of the Floridan aquifer system in Florida and parts of Georgia, Alabama, and South Carolina -- Points for the thickness of the Floridan aquifer system

Digital surfaces and thicknesses of selected hydrogeologic units of the Floridan aquifer system 
were developed to define an updated hydrogeologic framework as part of the U.S. Geological 
Survey Groundwater Resources Program. This feature class contains data points used to 
generate the thickness of FAS raster.

Tags: 10000-mg-l, alabama, environment, extent, fas, florida, floridan-aquifer-system, geology, georgia, geoscientificinformation, hydrogeology, inlandwaters, regional-groundwater-availability-study, saline-areas, south-carolina, stratigraphy, tds, thickness, total-dissolved-solids, united-states-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-0f58137a-65d6-4158-a80b-fd7ca3f0594f
Organization: Department of the Interior
Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection (LCMAP) Collection 1.1 Annual Land Cover and Land Cover Change Validation Data (1985-2018) for the Conterminous United States

A validation assessment of Land Cover Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection Collection 1.1 annual land cover products (1985–2019) for the Conterminous United States was conducted with an independently collected reference dataset. Reference data land cover attributes were assigned by trained interpreters for each year of the time series (1984–2018) to a reference sample of 24,971 randomly-selected Landsat resolution (30m x 30m) pixels. The LCMAP and reference dataset labels for each pixel location are displayed here for each year, 1985–2018.

Tags: environment, image-analysis, land-change-monitoring-assessment-and-projection, land-use-and-land-cover, land-use-change, landsat, lcmap, location, time-series-datasets, usgs-6076fbd4d34e018b32041edd
Organization: Department of the Interior
Dataset Establishing Temporal Duration of Two Shield Volcanoes in Northern California

This dataset contains paleomagnetic data from 30 sites at two locations in northern California (16 sites at Ash Creek Butte and 14 sites at Crater Mountain), magnetic susceptibility-temperature curves for selected samples at Ash Creek Butte, and geochemical data for map units at Crater Mountain.

Tags: geochemistry, geology, magnetic-susceptibility, paleomagnetic, usgs-63644ee1d34ebe4425074ee3
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital Orthorectified Aerial Image of Cottonwood Lake Study Area Wetland P4 from 09 July 1993

Orthorectified image from aerial photograph of wetland P4 in the Cottonwood Lake Study Area, Stutsman County, North Dakota. This image is part of a collection of photographs of the study area acquired during July and early August from 1975 to 2015.

Tags: aerial-photography, chase-lake-wetland-management-districtgtstutsman-county-waterfowl-production-areagteddy, chase-lake-wetland-management-districtgtstutsman-county-waterfowl-production-areagtshuler, cottonwood-lake-study-area, earth-sciencegtbiospheregtecosystemsgtaquatic-ecosystemsgtwetlands, earth-sciencegtbiospheregtecosystemsgtterrestrial-ecosystemsgtwetlands, environment, image-collections, imagerybasemapsearthcover, inlandwaters, north-dakota, northern-great-plains, platformgtaerial-photographs, prairie-pothole-region, stutsman-county, surface-water-non-marine, united-states-of-america, usgs-587e7af6e4b0a765aab5ecbf, wetland-ecosystems
Organization: Department of the Interior
Elevation Data Collected in 2010 from Sabine National Wildlife Refuge, Louisiana

Data release doi:10.5066/F7BR8QBH associated with this metadata record serves as an archive of elevation data collected in August 2010 from Sabine National Wildlife Refuge (SNWR), Louisiana (U.S. Geological Survey [USGS] Field Activity Number [FAN] 10SWL01). Point (xyz) elevations were collected from historically formed open-water bodies and the surrounding emergent marsh using a combination of stop-and-go (semi-kinematic) and kinematic differential Global Positioning System (DGPS) surveying techniques. These data were collected as part of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Gulf Coast Subsidence project https://coastal.er.usgs.gov/gc-subsidence/) and provide more extensive spatial coverage than water depths and marsh-surface elevations collected along coring transects in 2008 (Bernier and others, 2011). All elevation data use the projected coordinate system North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83), Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Zone 15 North (15N) and all elevations are North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88) orthometric heights, derived using the GEOID09 geoid model.

Tags: accommodation, chenier-plain, dgps, differential-global-positioning-system, elevation, geology, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, inlandwaters, kinematic, location, louisiana, sabine-national-wildlife-refuge, stop-and-go, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-e11650b4-c8fc-455c-bdbc-84ab47973917, wetland-loss
Organization: Department of the Interior
Twelve-digit hydrologic unit soil moisture, recharge, actual evapotranspiration, and snowpack water equivalent storage from the National Hydrologic Model Infrastructure with the Precipitation-Runoff Modeling System, 1980-2016

This dataset is part of the National Water Census Water Budget Estimation and Evaluation Project's ongoing development of best estimates of daily historical water budgets for over 100,000 hydrologic units across the United States. In this release, estimates of actual evapotranspiration and snowpack water equivalent storage are added to the already released estimates of soil moisture, recharge, streamflow, and precipitation. All these estimates are made available per twelve-digit hydrologic unit code watershed as contained in the NHDPlus v2.1 dataset. As this project progresses, it is expected that a complete closed water budget generated from the same water budget model will succeed this data release.
For background on generation of these water budget variables, see: Hay, L.E., 2019, Application of the National Hydrologic Model Infrastructure with the Precipitation-Runoff Modeling System (NHM-PRMS), by HRU Calibrated Version: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9NM8K8W
The water budget variables were converted to a HUC12 basis using area-weighted spatial interpolation. All code used for conversions are included as an attachment to this data release.
Summary of files included:
1) huc12_ids.csv - twelve digit hydrologic unit (HUC12) code identifiers used in all files
2) timesteps.csv - timesteps used in all files.
3) nhm_eta.nc4 - NetCDF version of actual evapotranspiration data
4) nhm_eta_grid.zip - Zipped CSV with one timestep per row version of actual evapotranspiration data
5) nhm_eta_timeseries.zip - Zipped CSV with one HUC12 per row version of actual evapotranspiration data
6) nhm_snowpack.nc4 - NetCDF version of snowpack water equivalent data
7) nhm_snowpack_grid.zip - Zipped CSV with one timestep per row version of snowpack water equivalent data
8) nhm_snowpack_timeseries.zip - Zipped CSV with one HUC12 per row version of snowpack water equivalent data
9) nhm_recharge.nc4 - NetCDF version of recharge data
10) nhm_recharge_grid.zip - Zipped CSV with one timestep per row version of recharge data
11) nhm_recharge_timeseries.zip - Zipped CSV with one HUC12 per row version of recharge data
12) nhm_soil_moist.nc4 - NetCDF version of soil moisture data
13) nhm_soil_moisture_grid.zip - Zipped CSV with one timestep per row version of soil moisture data
14) nhm_soil_moisture_timeseries.zip - Zipped CSV with one HUC12 per row version of soil moisture data
15) scripts.zip - A reproducible R workflow to create outputs implemented with the drake package

Tags: hydrologic-processes, hydrology, inlandwaters, usgs-651346cad34eeedefc139ec9
Organization: Department of the Interior
EC_Q01.TIF - U.S. Atlantic East Coast EEZ GLORIA sidescan-sonar data mosaic (1 of 23) (ACEA, 50 m, Clarke1866)

From February to May 1987 the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) conducted five cruises to cover the U.S. Atlantic Continental Margin Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) seaward of the continental shelf edge, and from the Canadian border southward to the northern Blake Plateau off Florida. As in earlier EEZ reconnaissance surveys, the USGS utilized the GLORIA (Geological LOng-Range Inclined Asdic) sidescan-sonar system to complete the geologic mapping. The collected GLORIA data were processed and digitally mosaicked to produce continuous imagery of the seafloor. Twenty-three digital mosaics of a 2 degree by 2 degree (or smaller) area with a 50-meter pixel resolution were completed for the U.S. Atlantic Continental Margin region.

Tags: acoustic-receivers, acoustic-reflectivity, atlantic-ocean, backscatter, baltimore-canyon, blake-escarpment, blake-plateau, blake-ridge, carolina-slope-and-rise, carolinian-ecoregion, charleston-bump, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, continental-island-rise, continental-island-slope, continental-margin, continental-rise, continental-shelf, continental-slope, distributions, eez, exclusive-economic-zone, exclusive-economic-zone-eez, florida-slope, geological-long-range-inclined-asdic, georges-bank, geoscientificinformation, geotiff-image, gloria, gloria-gt-geological-long-range-inclined-asdic, grey-scale-image, gulf-of-maine-bay-of-fundy-ecoregion, hatteras-canyon, hendrickson-canyon, hudson-canyon, image-mosaics, imagerybasemapsearthcover, marine-geology, marine-geophysics, marine-oceanic, mid-atlantic-region, norfolk-canyon, ocean-bank-plateau, ocean-gt-atlantic-ocean, ocean-gt-atlantic-ocean-gt-north-atlantic-ocean-gt-caribbean-sea, ocean-gt-atlantic-ocean-gt-north-atlantic-ocean-gt-caribbean-sea-gt-bahamas, ocean-gt-atlantic-ocean-gt-north-atlantic-ocean-gt-georges-bank, ocean-gt-atlantic-ocean-gt-north-atlantic-ocean-gt-gulf-of-maine, oceans, oceans-gt-ocean-acoustics-gt-acoustic-reflectivity, physical-habitats-and-geomorphology, scotian-shelf-ecoregion, sea-floor-acoustic-reflectivity, sea-floor-characteristics, seabed, side-scan-sonar, sidescan-sonar, sidescan-sonar-mosaic, u-s-atlantic-coast, u-s-eastcoast, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-39d3fd6e-b4fc-4d52-ba9e-f1dd72cebc67, veatch-canyon, virginian-ecoregion, whsc, whsc-cruise-identifier-frnl87-1, whsc-cruise-identifier-frnl87-2, whsc-cruise-identifier-frnl87-3, whsc-cruise-identifier-frnl87-4, whsc-cruise-identifier-frnl87-5, whsc-serial-number-87004, whsc-serial-number-87008, whsc-serial-number-87010, whsc-serial-number-87015, whsc-serial-number-87018, woods-hole-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
High resolution earthquake catalogs from the 2018 Kilauea eruption sequence

The 2018 Kīlauea eruption and caldera collapse generated intense cycles of seismicity tied to repeated large seismic (Mw ~5) collapse events associated with magma withdrawal from beneath the summit.  To gain insight into the underlying dynamics and aid eruption response, we applied waveform-based earthquake detection and double-difference location as the eruption unfolded. Here, we augment these rapid results by grouping events based on patterns of correlation-derived phase polarities across the network.  From April 29 to August 6, bracketing the eruption, we used ~2800 events cataloged by the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory to detect and precisely locate 44,000+ earthquakes.  Resulting hypocentroids resolve complex, yet coherent structures, concentrated at shallow depths east of Halema‘uma‘u crater, beneath the eventual eastern perimeter of surface collapse.  Based on a preponderance of dilatational P-wave first motions and similarities with previously inferred dike structures, we hypothesize that failure was dominated by coupled shear and crack closure.

Tags: biota, earthquake-occurrences, kilauea, kilauea-crater, usgs-5e0f934ee4b0b207aa155342, volcanology
Organization: Department of the Interior
Evaluation of Survey Methods for Colonial Waterbirds at Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge, North Dakota, data release

We investigated methods to estimate the number of nests of waterbirds at a large, mixed-species colony at Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge in south-central North Dakota in 2012 and 2013. The data were summarized and used in the analyses for a publication in a U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report. The data consist of two data sets that were used to assess visible-nest counts for ciconiiform species conducted from the perimeter of nesting areas (hereafter perimeter counts) and observational surveys from fixed points outside the colony to count flights of adult ciconiiforms in and out of the colony (hereafter flightline surveys) as alternatives to within-colony counts of ciconiiform nests.

Tags: abundance, biota, birds, chase-lake-national-wildlife-refuge, flight-behavior, nests, north-dakota, usgs-5df40299e4b0cdded7372b76, wetland-birds, wetland-ecosystems, wetlands
Organization: Department of the Interior
Shaded-relief GeoTIFF image of a portion of Cape Cod and the surrounding sea floor

In order to test hypotheses about groundwater flow under and into estuaries and the Atlantic Ocean, geophysical surveys, geophysical probing, submarine groundwater sampling, and sediment coring were conducted by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists at Cape Cod National Seashore (CCNS) from 2004 through 2006. Coastal resource managers at CCNS and elsewhere are concerned about nutrients that are entering coastal waters via submarine groundwater discharge, which are contributing to eutrophication and harmful algal blooms. The research carried out as part of the study described here was designed, in part, to help refine assumptions required by earlier versions of models about the nature of submarine groundwater flow and discharge at CCNS. This study was conducted in four phases, with a variety of field techniques and equipment employed in each phase. Phase 1 consisted of continuous resistivity profiling (CRP) surveys of the entire study area conducted in 2004. Phase 2 consisted of CRP ground-truthing via resistivity probe measurements and submarine groundwater sampling from hydraulically-drive piezometers using a barge in the Salt Pond/Nauset Marsh area in 2005. Phase 3 consisted of supplemental detailed CRP surveys in the Salt Pond/Nauset Marsh area in 2006. Finally, Phase 4 consisted of sediment coring and porewater extraction in the Salt Pond/Nauset Marsh area later in 2006 to supplement the 2005 sampling.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, bathymetry, cape-cod, cape-cod-national-seashore, cmgp, coastal, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, computational-methods, dem, digital-elevation-model, elevation, geospatial-datasets, geotiff, inlandwaters, marine-geophysics, massachusetts, multibeam-sonar, north-america, oceans, of-2006-1169, open-file-report, sea-floor-characteristics, shaded-relief, tiff, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-b5e00c1d-b3d9-4570-b927-c9db0af74d6b, woods-hole-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Conterminous U.S. Seismicity Catalogs

Based on the ComCat (2022) and following the methods of Mueller (2019) earthquake database, the eight catalogs of seismicity for the conterminous United States was developed for the purposes of accurate seismic hazard evaluations for the National Seismic Hazard Model (NSHM) of 2023.

Tags: catalogs, conus, declustering, seismic, seismicity, usgs-64ff902fd34ed30c2057b527
Organization: Department of the Interior
Wind rose plots for the volcano: 214090  Porak

This zip folder contains ASCII text files of vectors at the specified volcano at 
12-hour intervals, 
from January 1, 1990 through December 28, 2009.  
The wind vectors are divided into five files, names by their elevation range above 
sea level in the atmosphere: 00-05km.txt; 05-11km.txt; 11-16km.txt; 16-24km.txt; 
and 24-30km.txt. 
The zip folder also contains a subfolder "figures", with Wind rose plots of wind 
direction and speed over 
this time period.  The plots are by season, and by elevation, given a total of 20 
plots (4 seasons, 5 
elevation ranges).  A summary plot is also included which gives the year-round 
wind pattern at the volcano, 
at 0-5 km elevation.  Plots are in both jpg and pdf format.

Tags: meteorology, usgs-58d00fe1e4b0236b68f5281f, volcanic-ash, volcanic-eruption-forecasting, wind
Organization: Department of the Interior