AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Spring Viremia of Carp Virus (SVCV) Infection Trials of Pacific Northwest Amphibians.

Spring viremia of carp virus (SVCV) is a rhabdovirus that primarily infects cyprinid finfishes and causes a disease notifiable to the World Organization for Animal Health. Amphibians, which are sympatric with cyprinids in freshwater ecosystems, are considered non-permissive hosts of rhabdoviruses. The potential host range expansion of SVCV in an atypical host species was evaluated by testing the susceptibility of amphibians native to the Pacific Northwest. Larval long-toed salamanders Ambystoma macrodactylum and Pacific tree frog Pseudacris regilla tad-poles were exposed to SVCV strains from genotypes Ia, Ib, Ic or Id by either intraperitoneal injection, immersion, or cohabitation with virus-infected koi Cyprinus rubrofuscus. Cumulative mortality was 100% for salamanders injected with SVCV, 98-100% for tadpoles exposed to virus via immersion, and 0 – 100% for tadpoles cohabited with SVCV-infected koi. Many of the animals that died exhibited clinical signs of disease and SVCV RNA was found by in situ hybridization in tissue sections of immersion-exposed tadpoles, particularly in the cells of the gastrointestinal tract and liver. SVCV was also detected by plaque assay and RT-qPCR testing in both amphibian species regardless of the virus exposure method, and viable virus was detected up to 28 days after initial exposure. Recovery of infectious virus from naïve tadpoles cohabited with SVCV-infected koi further demonstrated that SVCV transmission can occur between classes of ectothermic vertebrates. Collectively, these results indicated that SVCV, a fish rhabdovirus, can be transmitted to and cause lethal disease in two amphibian species. Therefore members of all five of the major vertebrate groups (mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, and amphibians) appear to be vulnerable to rhabdovirus infections.

Tags: amphibian, aquatic, biota, environment, fish, none, pathogen, usgs-66914778d34efe33cf415701, virus
Organization: Department of the Interior
Scatterplots of the joint distributions of historical (1950-2005) and future (2056-95) drought-event characteristics derived from climate models downscaled by the MACA method assuming historical-standard stomatal resistance

The South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) have evaluated projections of future droughts for south Florida based on climate model output from the Multivariate Adaptive Constructed Analogs (MACA) downscaled climate dataset from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5). The MACA dataset includes both Representative Concentration Pathways 4.5 and 8.5 (RCP4.5 and RCP8.5). 
A Portable Document Format (PDF) file is provided which presents scatterplots of the joint distributions of historical (1950-2005) and future (2056-95) drought-event characteristics (duration and intensity) based on 6-mo. and 12-mo. averaged balance anomaly timeseries derived from climate models downscaled by the MACA method assuming the historical-standard stomatal resistance (rs). Plots of the joint distributions of drought-event characteristics are provided for four regions: (1) the entire South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD), (2) the Lower West Coast (LWC) water supply region, (3) the Lower East Coast (LEC) water supply region, and (4) the Okeechobee plus (OKEE+) water supply meta-region consisting of Lake Okeechobee (OKEE), the Lower Kissimmee (LKISS), Upper Kissimmee (UKISS), and Upper East Coast (UEC) water supply regions in the SFWMD.

Tags: climate, climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, droughts, evapotranspiration, extremes, florida, precipitation-atmospheric, precipitation-extremes, south-florida, south-florida-water-management-district, southern-florida, usgs-66907ad9d34efe33cf4153be
Organization: Department of the Interior
Undersized Fire Mapping Program Thematic Burn Severity Mosaic for CONUS in 2013

This map layer is a thematic raster image of MTBS burn severity classes for all inventoried fires occurring in CONUS during calendar year 2013 that do not meet standard MTBS size criteria. These data are published to augment the data that are available from the MTBS program. This product was produced using the methods of the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity Program (MTBS), however these fires do not meet the size criteria for a standard MTBS assessment. The MTBS Program assesses the frequency, extent, and magnitude (size and severity) of all large wildland fires (wildfires and prescribed fires) in the conterminous United States (CONUS), Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico for the period 1984 and beyond. MTBS typically maps fires using an initial assessment (immediately after the fire) or an extended assessment (peak of green the season after the fire) for low-biomass and high-biomass fires respectively. Refer to MTBS.gov for more information on MTBS methods and criteria. Standard MTBS mappings must meet the size criteria of at least 500 acres for the eastern states and territories and 1,000 acres for the western states and territories to be eligible for mapping. Undersized MTBS fires are those fires that do not meet the standard MTBS size criteria but are otherwise mapped using standard MTBS methodologies.

Tags: ak, alaska, burn-severity, burned-area, continental-u-s, conus, differenced-normalized-burn-ratio, fire-location, fire-occurrence, hawaii, hi, imagerybasemapsearthcover, landsat, location, normalized-burn-ratio, pr, prescribed-fire, puerto-rico, sentinel, united-states, us, usgs-66c653d1d34e0338828ab8c0, wildfire, wildland-fire
Organization: Department of the Interior
Eelgrass (Zostera marina) Maps from 2016 and 2020, Izembek Lagoon, Alaska

This data package includes 40 geospatial rasters (maps) depicting various metrics about eelgrass (Zostera marina) coverage at Izembek Lagoon, Alaska, during 2016 and 2020. Two maps were produced from two Sentinel-2 satellite images collected on July 1, 2016, and August 14, 2020. Spectral classes derived from each satellite image were annotated and mapped based on data collected in the field at plots within each spectral class.

Tags: alaska, alaska-peninsula, angiosperms-flowering-plants, animal-and-plant-census, biological-productivity, biomass, biota, coastal-ecosystems, eelgrass, environment, estuarine-ecosystems, field-inventory-and-monitoring, izembek-lagoon, izembek-national-wildlife-refuge, marine-ecosystems, monocots, multispectral-imaging, relative-abundance-analysis, remote-sensing, satellite-imagery, seagrass, seagrass-beds, sentinel-2-satellite, standing-crop, usgs-66b6448ad34eebcf8bb39331, zostera-marina
Organization: Department of the Interior
Laboratory optical measurements to assess long-term changes in water-extractable soil organic matter, U.S. Great Plains

Carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) extracted from soil with water are associated with available plant nutrients and microbial activity, but information about how C and N have changed over time in the U.S. Great Plains is sparse. Optical measurements of absorbance and fluorescence were used to compare dissolved organic matter (DOM) extracted from historic (1947) and contemporary (2018) soil samples collected from Moccasin, MT, Akron, CO, and Big Spring, TX. Extracts were prepared at two temperatures (20 and 80 degrees Celsius) associated with different DOM pools to evaluate changes to soil DOM composition after 71 years of dryland farming practices. Together, water extracts and subsequent optical methods can produce insights into long term patterns of soil change while conserving limited and irreplaceable physical samples of archived soil.

Tags: absorbance, california, california-water-science-center, carbon, dissolved-organic-matter, doc, environment, farming, fluorescence, great-plains, nitrogen, organic-matter-research-lab, sacramento, soil, soil-chemistry, us-department-of-agriculture, usgs-66b66ec8d34eebcf8bb3953b
Organization: Department of the Interior
Density and magnetic susceptibility measurements on Precambrian rocks in the central Upper Peninsula, Michigan, 2021-2022

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) collected rock physical property measurements to help understand causative sources of gravity and magnetic survey anomalies in the central Upper Peninsula of Michigan. A total of 1,460 measurements of magnetic susceptibility and density from 61 outcrops and 37 boreholes have been conducted on Precambrian rocks. The measurements aid in interpretation of gravity and airborne magnetic data that are helping to understand Precambrian geology and potential mineral resources. For outcrop measurements, lithologic info is provided. Sample locations were determined using handheld Global Position System units. Measurements from drill core samples at the State of Michigan public core facility in KI Sawyer and the Cleveland Cliffs Inc. drill core facility in Ishpeming are also presented. For these measurements, the drill hole name, depth, and lithologic unit are provided. We thank Cleveland Cliffs Inc. for allowing access to their drill core facility and outcrops on their lands.

Tags: alger, bulk-density, delta, dickinson, earth-mapping-resources-initiative, earthmri, field-methods, geology-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center, geospatial-datasets, gggsc, gravitational-field-earth, iron, magnetic-field-earth, magnetism, marquette, menominee, michigan, mineral-resource-program, mrp, natural-resource-exploration, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-66b689f1d34eebcf8bb39642
Organization: Department of the Interior
Water chemistry data observed in experimental laboratory mesocosms exposed to different nitrapyrin and nitrogen amendments in the presence or absence of a nitrifier enriched microbial (NEM) community

These data describe the results of a controlled laboratory mesocosm experiment evaluating the effect of nitrapyrin, a nitrification inhibitor, on nitrification in a nitrifier enriched microbial (NEM) community. Parameters described include the water chemistry and nitrapyrin measurement results of experimental mesocosms. Microbial community data is described in a data release linked to this one.

Tags: agriculture, bacteria, biogeochemical-cycling, biota, boone-county-missouri, columbia-environmental-research-center, fertilizers, microbial-ecology, nitrapyrin, nitrification, nitrifying-bacteria, nitrogen, usgs-6697c8ced34e2fec2bd97378, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Density and magnetic susceptibility measurements on Precambrian rocks in the central Upper Peninsula, Michigan, 2021-2022

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) collected rock physical property measurements to help understand causative sources of gravity and magnetic survey anomalies in the central Upper Peninsula of Michigan. A total of 1,460 measurements of magnetic susceptibility and density from 61 outcrops and 37 boreholes have been conducted on Precambrian rocks. The measurements aid in interpretation of gravity and airborne magnetic data that are helping to understand Precambrian geology and potential mineral resources. For outcrop measurements, lithologic info is provided. Sample locations were determined using handheld Global Position System units. Measurements from drill core samples at the State of Michigan public core facility in KI Sawyer and the Cleveland Cliffs Inc. drill core facility in Ishpeming are also presented. For these measurements, the drill hole name, depth, and lithologic unit are provided. We thank Cleveland Cliffs Inc. for allowing access to their drill core facility and outcrops on their lands.

Tags: alger, bulk-density, delta, dickinson, earth-mapping-resources-initiative, earthmri, field-methods, geology-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center, geospatial-datasets, gggsc, gravitational-field-earth, iron, magnetic-field-earth, magnetism, marquette, menominee, michigan, mineral-resource-program, mrp, natural-resource-exploration, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-66b68d53d34eebcf8bb39657
Organization: Department of the Interior
Forecasted water temperature in offshore Lake Michigan from 2041-2049 and 2091-2099

Data files contain simulated mean, daily, offshore, water temperatures for 20 vertical depths (ranging 4 to 159 m below the surface) for 9 years in the 2040s (2041-2049) and nine years in the 2090s (2091-2099) at two sites in Lake Michigan. One site is located in the northern basin where the National Oceanic Atmospheric  Administration (NOAA) has been maintaining a weather buoy since 1979 (buoy 45002: 45.344, -86.411).  The other site is located in the southern basin where NOAA has been maintaining a weather buoy since 1981 (buoy 45007: 42.674, -87.026).  Simulated water temperatures were generated by integrating atmospheric and hydrodynamic models.

Tags: biota, meteorology, usgs-66b78f02d34eebcf8bb3da75, water-circulation, water-temperature
Organization: Department of the Interior
Experiences of experts in managing and researching chronic wasting disease obtained through 2023 semi-structured interviews

The provided dataset is the coded analysis of qualitative semi-structured interviews conducted with managers and researchers who are experts on chronic wasting disease (CWD). CWD is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy disease that affects species in the Cervidae family. CWD has also proven difficult to manage and the disease continues to spread across North America and parts of Europe and Asia. The interviews were conducted with 12 participants, 2 were associated with tribal nation jurisdictions and 10 were associated with state agencies. The interviews sought to describe the experiences of experts working to manage CWD and connect those experiences to ecological transformation; a similarly challenging conservation issue that occurs when rapid shifts in ecosystem processes occur due to broad-scale stressors like global climate change.

Tags: biota, ecological-transformation, qualitative-social-science, usgs-66ba7da4d34eebcf8bb4b6aa, wildlife, wildlife-disease, wildlife-management, wildlife-population-management
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hydrograph Separation of Selected Continuous Discharge Sites in the Colombia Plateau Region of the Pacific Northwest

This data release contains the results from hydrograph separation analysis for 44 separate sites within the Columbia Plateau region of the Pacific Northwest. The hydrograph separation program (HYSEP) (Sloto and Crouse, 1996) was used to perform baseflow separation. HYSEP is an automated approach to traditional graphical hydrograph separation methods and was utilized for this study. For the steady-state datasets a single average is provided for each of the individual streamgages. For the transient datasets, a monthly average is provided for each streamgage for the month-year pair when the gage is active. If a streamgage is missing more than 25% of the daily values for the month it is excluded from the record. Additional data subsets are provided for steady-state and transient simulations where average values for sites with available data between 2000-2007 and post 1980 for the transient simulation.

Tags: columbia-plateau, columbia-river, environment, geoscientificinformation, inlandwaters, oregon, usgs-66ba9cd7d34e03388280ef2e, washington
Organization: Department of the Interior
Lake Powell extent polygons at various elevations

These data were compiled to visualize the extent of Lake Powell at various elevation levels. These data represent water surface elevations for Lake Powell at levels critical to the operation of Glen Canyon Dam, at 5 foot intervals from the "Equalization Tier" ("Full Pool") to "Dead Pool", and at maximum and minimum elevations each water year throughout Glen Canyon Dam's operating history. These data were created for Lake Powell in Arizona and Utah. These data were created by the U.S. Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Grand Canyon Monitoring &amp; Research Center by reclassifying "Modified topobathymetric elevation data for Lake Powell" (Jones and Root, 2021) at discrete elevation levels and converting them into vector format. These data can be used to visualize locations or resources in Lake Powell at various elevation levels as it continues to change.

Tags: adaptive-management, arizona, bathymetry, boundaries, coconino-county, colorado-river, computer-science, data-release, dem, digital-elevation-models, elevation, environment, escalante-river, flood-inundation-modeling, garfield-county, glen-canyon, glen-canyon-dam, glen-canyon-national-recreation-area, grand-canyon-monitoring-amp-research-center, hite, hydrographic-datasets, inland-bathymetry, inlandwaters, kane-county, lake-powell, modeling, natural-resource-management, navajo-mountain, page, reservoir-storage-capacity, san-juan-county, san-juan-river, southwest-biological-science-center, surface-water-level, surface-water-non-marine, topobathymetric, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-66c3a758d34e03388287a719, utah, water-resource-management
Organization: Department of the Interior
Downscaled Climate Projections for the Edwards Aquifer Region (EAR) using CMIP5 for the years 2006 – 2100 and CMIP6 for the years 2015 – 2100

Global climate models (GCMs) are computationally intensive, physics-based research tools used to simulate the climate system. GCM can also be useful in applied research contexts with the use of statistical downscaling techniques. This collection of statistically downscaled climate projections includes 7 sets of SD-processed CMIP5 projections and 12 sets of SD-processed CMIP6 projections of daily high temperature, daily low temperature, and daily total precipitation across the Edwards Aquifer Region (EAR) in south central Texas. These sets of projections were created using four GCMs from the CMIP5 archive (CMCC-CM, HadGEM2-CC, inmcm4, MRI-ESM1) and six GCMs from the CMIP6 archive (EC-Earth3, INM-CM-4-8, INM-CM-5-0, KACE-1-0-G, KIOST-ESM, and MPI-ESM1-2-HR), each of which simulated 21st century climate responses for multiple future emissions scenarios. The CMIP5 GCMs simulated response under the representative concentration pathways (RCPs) 4.5 and 8.5. The CMIP6 GCMs simulated response under the shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs) 2-4.5 and 5-8.5. The equi-distant quantile mapping method (EDQM) was used for statistical downscaling with the Daymet v. 4 as the observational data used for training. The resulting SD-processed projections are on a 1 km by 1 km grid covering the EAR in south central Texas (100.75 degress E to 97.5 degrees E, 28.75 degrees N to 30.50 degrees N). Both historical baseline files (1980-2005 for CMIP5 and 1980-2014 for CMIP6) and future projections (2006-2100 for CMIP5 and 2015-2100 for CMIP6) are provided.
Applied researchers may explore aspects of potential changes in the EAR using these high resolution projections, including as inputs to additional modelling (e.g. hydrology modeling, crop modeling, etc.). This collection should not be considered comprehensive in spanning the entire scope of SD processed climate projections for the EAR. These climate projection data products are provided as is without any warranty and no agreement to support subsequent projects based on this dataset, beyond providing the data to public domain.

Tags: atmospheric-and-climatic-processes, climate-change, climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, downscaling, edwards-aquifer, san-antonio, texas, usgs-66bb5ff6d34e0338828136e0
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data Describing Effects of Bison (Bison bison) Herbivory on Herbaceous Production and Nitrogen Yield throughout Grand Canyon Grasslands from 2021 to 2022.

This dataset includes three datasets collected in 2021 and 2022 to assess the potential effects of bison (Bison bison) herbivory and climate on grassland functional properties throughout semi-arid meadows in Grand Canyon National Park and Kaibab National Forest of northern Arizona. Bison herbivory offtake (utilization) and aboveground herbaceous production are demonstrated in the production offtake dataset titled 'BisonHerbivory_ANPP_Ot.csv'. This dataset includes the experimental treatment variables (Stratum and Treatment) and estimates for seasonal offtake, total annual offtake, total aboveground net primary production, and grazing intensity. Data on herbaceous nitrogen yield provides calculations of percent nitrogen and nitrogen yield for graminoid and forb samples collected from biomass clippings in areas of bison grazing (file titled 'BisonHerbivory_N_Yield.csv'). Meteorological data are presented for seasonal and total annual climate variables including precipitation (measured in mm) and temperature (measured in Growing Degree Days). Climate data is within the file titled 'BisonHerbivory_Climate.csv".

Tags: arizona, biota, bison, consumers-organisms, ecosystem-functions, grand-canyon-national-park, grassland-ecosystems, grasslands, habitat-alteration-and-disturbance, kaibab-national-forest, producers-organisms, usgs-66bba9a6d34e0338828159a8
Organization: Department of the Interior
Atmospheric fallout radionuclide data for soil cores from four uranium mine sites, Mohave County, Arizona, November 2018

The data represent sediment depth profiles of gamma-emitting radionuclides cesium-137 (Cs-137), lead-210 (Pb-210), lead-214 (Pb-214), and bismuth-214 (Bi-214) in native soil locations around four mineralized sites in Mohave County, Arizona. The four sites represent breccia pipe uranium deposits in the Grand Canyon Region in various lifecycle stages of mining: EZ2 complex (exploration), Arizona 1 mine (standby), Pinenut mine (closed, pre-reclamation), and Kanab North Mine (reclaimed). The data were collected to assess the potential of fallout radionuclides (Cs-137 and unsupported Pb-210) to help understand the distribution of subsurface contaminants related to mining activity. Gamma spectroscopy determinations were performed on archive samples from November 2018 that were collected during a previous investigation, which is cited below. The Pb-210, Pb-214, and Bi-214 data can be used to calculate Ra-226 and excess (unsupported) Pb-210. Additional information about the collection of sediment cores and soil-profile measurements can be found in Kauble, R.K., Andraski, B.J., Green, C.T., and Walton-Day, K., 2021, Soil sample data for four uranium mine sites, Mohave County, Arizona, April and November 2018: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9B8I7KC.

Tags: arizona, arizona-1-mine, atmospheric-deposition-chemical-amp-particulate, baaj-nwaavjo-itah-kukveni-ancestral-footprints-of-the-grand-canyon-national-monument, core-analysis, economic-geology, environment, ez2-mine, geochemistry, geoscientificinformation, kanab-north-mine, mine-waste, mineral-resources, mohave-county, pinenut-mine, uranium-lead-analysis, usgs-66bbadafd34e033882815ba9
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geochemical composition of ferromanganese crusts, nodules, and coated cobbles from seamounts in the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument

This portion of the data release provides geochemical analyses data of ferromanganese rock samples collected off the coast of Hawaii. Ferromanganese crusts, nodules, and coated cobbles were collected via ROV from seamounts within the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument (PMNM) in the Pacific Ocean during E/V Nautilus expeditions NA134 and NA138 in 2021 and 2022, respectively. Ferromanganese rock samples were sent to USGS for subsampling and major and trace element geochemical analyses. Major and trace element data as well as location information (latitude, longitude, depth) for each sample are provided here.

Tags: assessments, chemical-analysis, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, dredge-sampling, geochemistry, geoscientificinformation, global-ocean-mineral-resources, mass-spectroscopy, material-resources, metallic-mineral-resources, mineral-resources, nonliving-resources, oceans, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pacific-ocean, papahanaumokuakea-marine-national-monument, pcmsc, physical-chemical-features, sediment-geochemistry, state-of-hawaii, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-66bbe310d34e033882817489
Organization: Department of the Interior