AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Regional scale magnetotelluric data from the Rio Grande Rift and southern Rocky Mountains, Station rgr317

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, 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, rocky-mountains, time-series, tipper, usgs-5ada0edae4b0e2c2dd28d391
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2018 Site PO-142 CRMS-like 02 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 2018 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. Four previous assessments have been conducted (2005, 2008, 2012, and 2015/2016). 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-611e7082d34e40dd9c01970f, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Russian River Integrated Hydrologic Model (RRIHM):  Wells

This dataset provides a shapefile containing the the agricultural wells used in the Russian River Coupled Groundwater and Surface-Water Flow Model (GSFLOW) model.

Tags: california, environment, groundwater, groundwater-and-surface-water-interaction, groundwater-level, hydrology, modeling, precipitation-atmospheric, russian-river, streamflow, surface-water-non-marine, united-states, usgs-64a5fd43d34ef77fcb06295d, water-resources
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mineral Commodity Summaries 2023 - IRON AND STEEL SCRAP Data Release

This data release contains the U.S. salient statistics and world production data extracted from the IRON AND STEEL SCRAP data sheet of the USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2023.

Tags: iron-and-steel-scrap, usgs-63d1a42cd34e06fef15006f8
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data release for Monarch Habitat as a Component of Multifunctional Landscape Restoration Using Continuous Riparian Buffers

Stabilizing the eastern, migratory population of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) is expected to require substantial habitat restoration on agricultural land in the core breeding area of the Upper Midwestern U.S. Previous research has considered the potential to utilize marginal land for this purpose because of its low productivity, erodible soils, and high nutrient input requirements. This strategy has strong potential for restoring milkweed (Asclepias spp.), but may be limited in terms of its ability to generate additional biophysical and socioeconomic benefits for local communities. Here we explore the possibility of restoring milkweed via the creation of continuous riparian buffer strips around perennial and intermittent streams throughout the region. We use a GIS-based analysis to consider the potential of several different buffer-width scenarios to meet milkweed restoration targets. We further estimate the ability of these habitat areas to provide additional functionality in the form of crop pollination and water quality regulation across the entire region. Finally, we estimate the conservative economic value of these ecosystem services and compare it with the lost value of crops associated with each scenario. Results suggest that riparian buffers could be used to meet 10-43% of the total milkweed restoration target of 1.3 billion new stems with moderate management. The value of water quality and pollination benefits provided by buffers is estimated to exceed costs only for our smallest buffer-width scenario, with a cost-benefit ratio of 1:2.05. Larger buffer widths provide more milkweed, but costs to farmers exceed the benefits we were able to quantify. The large-scale restoration of multifunctional riparian corridors thus has the potential to add milkweed stems while also providing a variety of other valuable benefits. This suggests the potential to leverage monarch habitat restoration efforts for the benefit of a wider variety of species and a broader coalition of beneficiaries.

Tags: ecosystem-services, geospatial-analysis, pollination, united-states, upper-midwestern-u-s, usgs-5d122bbde4b0941bde56e7c0, water-quality, wild-pollinators
Organization: Department of the Interior
Shapefiles and Historical Aerial Photographs, Little Missouri River, pre1939

The pre1939 shapefile displays the boundary between the floodplain and the uplands (a boundary that remains constant), while the 1939-2003 shapefiles (assicated with the geoTIFFs) display both the constant boundary between the floodplain and uplands and the changing boundary between the channel and the floodplain. The pre1939 shapefile is included to represent the floodplain formed before the earliest imagery in 1939. Both the flood plain and active channel of the river were delineated on the 1995 digital orthophoto quadrangles and overlaid on rectified photos. ArcGIS was used to draw the polygons that delineate the flood plain and active channel; the delineation was saved as a SHP file. There are no aerial images associated with the pre1939 shapefile.

Tags: aerial-photography, central-us, channel-adjustment, erosion, flood, flood-plain-formation, geoscientificinformation, little-missouri-river, mckenzie-county, nd, north-dakota, plains-cottonwood, theodore-roosevelt-national-park, united-states, usgs-59af04ebe4b0e9bde133eb90
Organization: Department of the Interior
Vegetation survey of southwest Florida for use in assessment of the Picayune Strand Restoration Project effects

This release consists of vegetation data collected across an environmental gradient at Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge (TTI NWR) near Naples, Florida, USA. The refuge is within the impact area of the Picayune Strand Restoration Project (PSRP), a large-scale hydrologic restoration project in southwest Florida that was authorized by the U.S. Congress in 2007. Vegetation transects were located in the following wetland types on the refuge: brackish marsh, salt marsh, and transition marsh. Data from vegetation transects established in nearby areas outside of the PSRP impact area, in Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park (FSPSP) and Big Cypress National Preserve (BICY), are also included. The study spanned nine years, from 2007 to 2016.  A collection of photographs taken over time at each vegetation transect is included with this Data Release. Information provided with each photograph includes the transect name and the date the image was obtained. Five separate directories of photographs are organized by identified wetland types and are designated: Control Saline Marsh sites, Ten Thousand Islands Brackish Marsh sites, Ten Thousand Islands Salt Marsh sites, Ten Thousand Islands Transition Marsh sites, and Ten Thousand Islands Burn Marsh sites.

Tags: big-cypress-national-preserve, biota, brackish-marsh, copeland, estuarine-ecosystems, fakahatchee-strand-preserve-state-park, florida, low-and-intermediate-salt-marsh, naples, ochopee, ten-thousand-islands-national-wildlife-refuge, united-states, usgs-6078834ad34e018b32067d37, vegetation, wetland-ecosystems
Organization: Department of the Interior
Abundance, density, habitat placement and behaviors of Eumunida picta in the western Atlantic off the southeastern U.S. coastline from 2000-2009

Data on the abundance, density, habitat placement and behaviors of Eumunida picta observed from analyzed videos recorded during submersible dives from 2000-2009 in the western Atlantic off the southern U.S. coastline.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, boundaries, cold-water-corals, eumunida-picta, feeding-behavior, florida, georgia, lophelia-pertusa, north-carolina, south-carolina, squat-lobster, usgs-63592585d34ebe442503e7da, video-analysis
Organization: Department of the Interior
Thin section images of drill core from the Chrome Lake area in the Stillwater Complex, Montana

This dataset includes photographic images of thin sections of drill core from the Stillwater Complex, Montana, along with a shapefile representing the locations of the drill holes. The core was drilled in order to study contact-type copper and nickel sulfide mineralization in the Stillwater Complex. The images of the entire thin section, both in plane- and cross-polarized light, were taken using a high-resolution digital camera on a macro stand. Each zip file, named with the drill hole identification number, contains the images for a single drill hole. The data in each zip file is organized into a folder containing the 'RAW' unprocessed CR2 images and a folder containing processed jpg images. Folders with a "p1" or "p2" designation (representing parts 1 and 2) were organized into two parts in response to file size restrictions. The file name of each photograph correlates to the name and depth of the drill hole from which the thin section was sourced, and whether the photograph represents a plane-polarized (ppl) or cross-polarized (xpl) light image. For example, the "ST-8-385_ppl.JPG" file is a plane-polarized image of the thin section sourced from drill hole ST-8 at a depth of 385 feet. Multiple images from the same drill hole and depth are identified with "(2)", "(3)", etc. in the file name.

Tags: geoscientificinformation, montana, petrography, stillwater, sweet-grass, usgs-601c3213d34edf5c66f0e8ac
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data Release: Buttonland Swamp, seed data

This dataset contains canopy measurements of Taxodium distichum taken outside of the Wetland and Aquatic Research Center in Lafayette, Louisiana. The measurements were used to produce data on tree canopy area and seeds produced per Taxodium distichum tree.

Tags: biota, climate-change, forested-wetland, freshwater-swamp, global-warming, lafayette, louisiana, swamp, united-states, usgs-651c6437d34e44db0e2ce1be, wetland-and-aquatic-research-center, wetlands
Organization: Department of the Interior
Migration Routes of Mule Deer in the Red Desert Population in Wyoming

Mule deer within the Red Desert population, part of the larger Sublette herd, make the longest ungulate migration ever recorded in the lower 48 states (fig. 33). Here, mule deer travel an average one-way distance of 150 mi (241 km) from the Red Desert in the south to the Gros Ventre Range and Teton Range in the north. This migration originates in the desert sagebrush basins of the Red Desert area of southwest Wyoming where deer winter. In spring, an estimated 500 deer travel 50 mi (84 km) north across the desert to the west side of the Wind River Range. From there they merge with 4,000 to 5,000 other deer that winter in the foothills of the Wind River Range and then travel a narrow corridor along the base of the Wind River Range for 60 mi (97 km) before crossing the upper Green River Basin. Deer must navigate several bottlenecks, one as narrow as 50 m (164 ft) wide, at the outlets of Fremont, Willow, and Boulder Lakes. In the final leg of the journey, they travel another 30–50 mi (48–80 km) to individual summer ranges in the Gros Ventre Range.
These data provide the location of migration routes for mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) in the Red Desert herd in Wyoming. They were developed from Brownian bridge movement models using 392 migration sequences collected from a sample size of 148 animals comprising GPS locations collected every 2-8 hours.

Tags: animal-behavior, meeteetse, migration-organisms, migration-route, migratory-species, united-states, usgs-5f8db68e82ce32418791d590, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Video transects of the sea floor on Stellwagen Bank during U.S. Geological Survey field activity 2016-004-FA, aboard the R/V Auk, January 28, 2016

This field activity is part of the effort to map geologic substrates of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary region off Boston, Massachusetts. The overall goal is to develop high-resolution (1:25,000) interpretive maps, based on multibeam sonar data and seabed sampling, showing surficial geology and seabed sediment dynamics. This cruise was conducted in collaboration with the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, and the data collected will aid research on the ecology of fish and invertebrate species that inhabit the region. The Sanctuary's research vessel, R/V Auk, visited 19 locations on Stellwagen Bank at which a customized Van Veen grab sampler (SEABOSS) equipped with a video camera and a CTD was deployed in drift mode to collect sediment for grain-size analysis, video imagery of the seabed, and measurements of water column properties.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, location, marine-geology, massachusetts, massachusetts-bay, national-oceanic-and-atmospheric-administration, navigation, navigational-data, noaa, north-america, oceans, polyline-shapefile, sbnms, seabed-observation-and-sampling-system, seaboss, stations, stellwagen-bank, stellwagen-bank-national-marine-sanctuary, trackline, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-80954c7f-6106-475f-937f-4ae6a23d3461, video, video-observation, videography, videos, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
EAARL Topography - Gateway National Recreation Area

A bare earth elevation map (also known as a Digital Elevation Model or DEM) of Gateway National Recreation Area was produced from remotely-sensed, geographically-referenced elevation measurements in cooperation with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), National Air and Space Administration (NASA), and the National Park Service (NPS). Elevation measurements were collected over the area using the NASA Experimental Advanced Airborne Research Lidar (EAARL), a pulsed laser ranging system mounted onboard an aircraft to measure ground elevation, vegetation canopy, and coastal topography. The system uses high frequency laser beams directed at the earth's surface through an opening in the bottom of the aircraft's fuselage. The laser system records the time difference between emission of the laser beam and the reception of the reflected laser signal in the aircraft. The plane travels over the target area at approximately 50 meters per second at an elevation of approximately 300 m. The EAARL, developed by NASA at Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, measures ground elevation with a vertical resolution of 15 centimeters. A sampling rate of 3 kHz or higher results in an extremely dense spatial elevation data set. Over 100 kilometers of coastline can be easily surveyed within a 3- to 4-hour mission time period. When subsequent elevation maps for an area are analyzed, they provide a useful tool to make management decisions regarding land development.
For more information on Lidar science and the Experimental Advanced Airborne Research Lidar (EAARL) system and surveys, see http://ngom.usgs.gov/dsp/overview/index.php and http://ngom.usgs.gov/dsp/tech/eaarl/index.php .

Tags: airborne-lidar-processing-system, alps, altimetry, bare-earth-elevation, bathymetry-and-elevation, derived-surface, digital-elevation-model, digital-elevation-models, distributions, eaarl, elevation, elevation-change, experimental-advanced-airborne-research-lidar, gateway-national-recreation-area, laser-altimetry, lidar, new-jersey, new-york, resource-management, topographic-mapping, topography, usgs-7b5e6888-4e1d-42ae-88be-5118352a9d65
Organization: Department of the Interior
LANDFIRE Annual Disturbance Puerto Rico US Virgin Islands 2021

LANDFIRE’s (LF) Annual Disturbance products provide temporal and spatial information related to landscape change. Annual Disturbance depicts areas of 4.5 hectares (11 acres) or larger that have experienced a natural or anthropogenic landscape change (or treatment) within a given year. For the creation of the Annual Disturbance product, information sources include national fire mapping programs such as Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS), Burned Area Reflectance Classification (BARC) and Rapid Assessment of Vegetation Condition after Wildfire (RAVG), 18 types of agency-contributed “event” perimeters (see LF Public Events Geodatabase), and remotely sensed Landsat imagery.  
To create the LF Annual Disturbance products, individual Landsat scenes are stacked and made into composites representing the 50th percentile of all stacked pixels (band-by-band) to reduce data gaps caused by clouds or other anomalies. Composite imagery from the specified mapping year, the two prior years, and the following year serve as the base data from which change products such as the Normalized Differenced Vegetation Index (dNDVI), the Normalized Burn Ratio (dNBR), and the Multi-Index Integrated Change Algorithm (MIICA) (Jin et al. 2013) are derived. Image analysts collectively use these datasets (separately or in combination) to isolate the true change from false change (commission errors). False changes can be attributed to many anomalies but are mostly caused by differences in annual or seasonal phenology, and/or artifacts in the image composites. 
Fire-caused disturbances sourced from MTBS may contain data gaps where clouds obscure the full burn scar from being mapped. Models trained from pre-fire and post-fire Landsat data are used to fill these gaps. The result is gap-free continuous severity and extent information for all MTBS fire disturbances. MTBS pixels derived from gap filling techniques, such as modeling, are noted as such in the Annual Disturbance attribute table. Smaller fires that do not meet the size criteria set forth by MTBS may be attributed using Burned Area (BA), informed from Landsat Level-3 science products and only available in the lower 48 states. Causality and severity information assigned to a disturbance are prioritized by source, with the highest priorities reserved for fire mapping programs (MTBS, BARC, and RAVG) followed by user-contributed events contained in the LF Events Geodatabase, and lastly, Landsat image-based change.

Tags: annual-disturbance, annual-disturbance-2021, biota, fires, geographic-information-systems, geospatial-datasets, hazard-preparedness, ia, image-collections, imagerybasemapsearthcover, insular-areas, landfire-2022, lf-2022, oconus, puerto-rico, raster-digital-data, remote-sensing, u-s-forest-service-usfs, u-s-geological-survey-usgs, united-states, us, us-virgin-islands, usgs-65553cd8d34ee4b6e05c4608, yearly-disturbance
Organization: Department of the Interior
Experimental evaluation of predator exclosures on nest, chick, and adult survival data for the Northern Great Plains piping plover, 2014 - 2016

This dataset presents four tabular data files that evaluate the effect of predator exclosures around piping plover (Charadrius melodus) nests affects plover nest, chick, within-season, and annual adult survival. During 2014-2016, this data was part of a designed experiment to examine nest (n = 418), chick (n = 453), and adult (n = 367) survival at alkaline wetlands of the Northern Great Plains. Alkaline wetlands were divided between treatment wetlands and control wetlands (no exclosures placed anywhere on wetland). Field crews aimed to place predator exclosures around half of all plover nests found resulting in three treatment types: uncaged nest on control wetland, uncaged nest on treatment wetland, and caged nest on treatment wetland. The nest survival dataset includes values used with the Shaffer logistic exposure model as well as the treatment of nest and wetland separately. The chick survival dataset includes a censored Cormack-Jolly-Seber encounter history based on when chicks were searched for and in addition to the experimental treatment, the region of the study area and the density of chicks at each wetland basin are included. Adult survival was examined over two time periods, during incubation (within season) and annually, resulting in two separate datasets, and took advantage of resightings of individuals outside the focal study area. The within season survival dataset includes a Barker model encounter history, region, experimental treatment, and a measure of habitat availability based on a climate index (standardized precipitation-evapotranspiration index). The annual adult survival dataset includes a Barker model encounter history and the time-varying experimental treatment.

Tags: biota, birds, capturing-animals, endangered-species, field-experiments, montana, nests, north-dakota, population-and-community-ecology, population-ecology, usgs-611c13e7d34e40dd9bffd896, wildlife-biology, wildlife-population-management
Organization: Department of the Interior