AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Juvenile thresher shark habitat suitability model for Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Biogeographic Assessment

The National Marine Sanctuary Program (NMSP) updates and revises the management plans for each of its 13 sanctuaries. This process, which is open to the public, enables each site to revisit the reasons for sanctuary designation and assess whether they are meeting their goals, as well as to set new goals consistent with the mandates of the National Marine Sanctuaries Act. Issues raised by the public during this process are evaluated and a determination is made as to whether they will be incorporated into the updated plan. Many of these issues focus on topics such as the implementation of marine zoning or sanctuary boundary adjustments, both of which require information on the distribution of resources within and around the sanctuary. Recognizing this, NMSP and NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) formalized an agreement to collaborate in the revision process by developing such information through a series of biogeographic assessments conducted in selected sanctuaries. The resulting products are then supplied to sanctuary managers and staff for use in the policy and decision making process. This collaborative effort began along the west coast of the U.S. with the Cordell Bank, Gulf of Farallones, and Monterey Bay national marine sanctuaries, and is herein centered on the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary (CINMS).

Tags: animals/vertebrates, benthic, biological classification, biosphere, ca, california, channel islands, channel islands national marine sanctuary, cinms_assessment, community dynamics, community structure, continent, doc/noaa/nos/nccos, dynamic vegetation/ecosystem models, earth science, earth science services, ecological dynamics, ecosystem functions, ecosystems, environmental assessments, environmental governance/management, environmental monitoring, fish, geographic information, human dimensions, marine biology, marine ecosystems, models, national centers for coastal ocean science, national ocean service, noaa, north america, oceans, pelagic, polygons, sharks/rays/chimaeras, southern california, species/population interactions, u.s. department of commerce, united states of america, use/feeding habitats
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Seagrass distribution off California

These data are a compilation of currently available seagrass GIS data sets for the west coast of the United States.  These data have been compiled from seventeen different data sources.  The source data were acquired over a large range of time periods, at many different spatial resolutions using a variety of methods, including aerial photography, videography, multispectral sensors, sonar, and field surveys.  Users are cautioned to use these data as only a regional view of seagrass locations.  Areas without mapped seagrass may contain seagrass, but digital data were unavailable during this data compilation

Tags: angiosperms (flowering plants), benthic, biological classification, biosphere, california, cinms_assessment, community dynamics, community structure, continent, doc/noaa/nos/nccos, dynamic vegetation/ecosystem models, earth science, earth science services, ecological dynamics, ecosystem functions, ecosystems, eelgrass, environmental assessments, environmental governance/management, environmental monitoring, essential fish habitat (efh), estuarine, human dimensions, marine, marine ecosystems, models, monocots, national centers for coastal ocean science, national ocean service, noaa, north america, northwest pacific ocean, oregon, pelagic, phyllospadix sp., plants, seafloor, seagrass, species/population interactions, surfgrass, u.s. department of commerce, united states of america, use/feeding habitats, washington, west coast, zostera spp.
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
White abalone habitat suitability model for Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Biogeographic Assessment

The National Marine Sanctuary Program (NMSP) updates and revises the management plans for each of its 13 sanctuaries. This process, which is open to the public, enables each site to revisit the reasons for sanctuary designation and assess whether they are meeting their goals, as well as to set new goals consistent with the mandates of the National Marine Sanctuaries Act. Issues raised by the public during this process are evaluated and a determination is made as to whether they will be incorporated into the updated plan. Many of these issues focus on topics such as the implementation of marine zoning or sanctuary boundary adjustments, both of which require information on the distribution of resources within and around the sanctuary. Recognizing this, NMSP and NOAA?s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) formalized an agreement to collaborate in the revision process by developing such information through a series of biogeographic assessments conducted in selected sanctuaries. The resulting products are then supplied to sanctuary managers and staff for use in the policy and decision making process. This collaborative effort began along the west coast of the U.S. with the Cordell Bank, Gulf of Farallones, and Monterey Bay national marine sanctuaries, and is herein centered on the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary (CINMS).

Tags: animals/invertebrates, benthic, biological classification, biosphere, ca, california, channel islands, channel islands national marine sanctuary, cinms_assessment, community dynamics, community structure, continent, doc/noaa/nos/nccos, dynamic vegetation/ecosystem models, earth science, earth science services, ecological dynamics, ecosystem functions, ecosystems, environmental assessments, environmental governance/management, environmental monitoring, gastropods, geographic information, human dimensions, invertebrates, marine biology, marine ecosystems, models, mollusks, national centers for coastal ocean science, national ocean service, noaa, north america, oceans, pelagic, polygons, southern california, species/population interactions, u.s. department of commerce, united states of america, use/feeding habitats
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
2019 NOAA Bathymetric Lidar with Waveform Metrics: Saipan, CNMI

This data package contains bathymetric light detection and ranging (lidar) Chiroptera-4X .LAS 1.4 files with waveform metrics (as extra bytes) for 0 to 50 meter depths around the island of Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI). Bathymetric lidar waveforms depict the amount of laser light returned from the seafloor recorded during each laser pulse. Typically, only the leading edge of the seafloor return is used to calculate bottom depth. However, the shape of the seafloor return also contains novel information about the physical structure and biological cover on the seafloor (Collin et al. 2011, Wilson et al. 2019). To extract this information, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) partnered with Oregon State University (OSU), NOAA Office for Coastal Management (OCM), Woolpert and Hexagon Leica to develop software to export, process, normalize and rasterize 16 LWFM describing the shape of the seafloor return (Jung et al. In Review; Collin et al. 2011; Parrish et al. 2014; Kashani et al. 2015; Kogut et al. 2022). The resulting LWFM rasters were used to predict the distribution of key coral reef taxa and habitats west of Saipan (Costa et al. 2024). This effort marks one of the few studies that have used LWFM to predict tropical coral reef habitats to date. These processing workflows and associated software will also make LWFM creation easier and more routine for future Chiroptera-4X lidar collections by NOAA and its partners. This project was funded by NOAA's Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP), and leverages significant investments made by NOAA NCCOS, NOAA National Geodetic Survey, NOAA Office for Coastal Management, and the U.S. Geological Survey in the region.

Tags: 1 meter - < 10 meters, airplane, backscatter, bathymetry, bathymetry/seafloor topography, benthic, biogeography, biosphere, chalan kanoa (15n145e0012), coastal processes, continent, coral reef ecology, coral reefs, corals, country/territory, derived data product, doc/noaa/nos/nccos, earth science, field observation, geographic information, geospatial, gis, habitat - benthic, habitat mapping, habitats, hawkeye-4x topo-bathymetric lidar, international, lidar, lidar waveform, light detection and ranging, map images, mapping, mariana islands, marine management areas, marine spatial ecology, micronesia, national centers for coastal ocean science, national ocean service, nccos research data type, nccos research location, nccos research priority, nccos research topic, noaa, noaa coral reef conservation program, north america, northern mariana islands, numeric data sets, ocean, ocean basin, oceans, pacific ocean, reef monitoring and assessment, region, reims f406 - zk-xlf, rugosity, saipan, saipan island, saipan island (15n145e0002), sea floor, slope, spectral/engineering, u.s. department of commerce, u.s. states and territories, united states of america, vertical location, water depth, western pacific ocean, zoology
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Northern right-whale dolphin at-sea density off California

The National Marine Sanctuary Program (NMSP) updates and revises the management plans for each of its 13 sanctuaries. This process, which is open to the public, enables each site to revisit the reasons for sanctuary designation and assess whether they are meeting their goals, as well as to set new goals consistent with the mandates of the National Marine Sanctuaries Act. Issues raised by the public during this process are evaluated and a determination is made as to whether they will be incorporated into the updated plan. Many of these issues focus on topics such as the implementation of marine zoning or sanctuary boundary adjustments, both of which require information on the distribution of resources within and around the sanctuary. Recognizing this, NMSP and NOAAs National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) formalized an agreement to collaborate in the revision process by developing such information through a series of biogeographic assessments conducted in selected sanctuaries. The resulting products are then supplied to sanctuary managers and staff for use in the policy and decision making process. This collaborative effort began along the west coast of the U.S. with the Cordell Bank, Gulf of Farallones, and Monterey Bay national marine sanctuaries, and is herein centered on the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary (CINMS).

Tags: aerial surveys, animals/vertebrates, benthic, biological classification, biosphere, california, cetaceans, channel islands, cinms_assessment, community dynamics, community structure, continent, doc/noaa/nos/nccos, dynamic vegetation/ecosystem models, earth science, earth science services, ecological dynamics, ecosystem functions, ecosystems, environmental assessments, environmental governance/management, environmental monitoring, human dimensions, mammals, marine biology, marine ecosystems, marine mammals, models, national centers for coastal ocean science, national ocean service, noaa, north america, oceans, pelagic, species/population interactions, toothed whales, u.s. department of commerce, united states of america, use/feeding habitats
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Baseline assessment of benthic communities of the Flower Garden Banks (2010 - 2013) using technical diving operations: 2011

The proposed work develop baseline information on fish and benthic communities within the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary (FGBNMS). Surveys will employ diving, technical diving, ROV, and hydroacoustics technologies for a comprehensive assessment of the fish and benthic habitat communities of the East and West Bank. The FGBNMS represents the northernmost tropical western Atlantic coral reef on the continental shelf and support the most highly developed offshore hard bank community in the region. The complexity of habitats supports a diverse assemblage of organisms including approximately 250 species of fish, 23 species of coral, and 80 species of algae in addition to large sponge communities. Understanding and monitoring these resources is critical to both sanctuary inventory and management activities. During the course of the sanctuary's management plan review process, the impact of fishing was identified as a priority issue, and the concept of a research only area was suggested. The purpose of this project will be to provide baseline data for all benthic habitats and communities.

Tags: algae, algal cover, aquatic habitat, atlantic ocean, baseline studies, belt transect, benthic habitat, benthos analysis, biodiversity, biology, biosphere, bleaching, calcareous macroalgae, census, coastal processes, coral cover, coral diseases, coral reef ecology, coral reefs, coralline algae, corals, country/territory, crustose coralline algae, description, doc/noaa/nos/nccos, earth science, east flower garden banks (27n093w0001), encrusting macroalgae, fgb, fleshy macroalgae, flower garden banks, gulf of america, gulf of mexico, habitats, hard coral cover, hard coral cover dead percentage, hard coral cover live percentage, in situ, in situ biological, macroinvertebrates, marine biology, marine invertebrates, national centers for coastal ocean science, national ocean service, noaa, north atlantic ocean, numeric data sets, ocean, ocean basin, oceans, octocoral cover, population density, quadrat monitoring, rapid assessment studies, reef habitat, reef monitoring and assessment, rugosity, texas, transect monitoring, turf algae, u.s. department of commerce, united states of america, vegetation, west flower garden banks (27n093w0002), zoology
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
2022 NOAA NGS Topobathy Lidar: Bethany Beach to Chincoteague, MD

These data were collected by Woolpert using a Leica Hawkeye4X system. The data were acquired from from November 3, 2022 through February 5, 2023. The data includes topobathy data in an LAS 1.4 format file classified as unclassified (1), ground (2), low noise (7), topo water surface (9), high noise (18), bathymetric point (40), bathymetric water surface (41), synthetic derived water surface (42), and submerged object (43), in accordance with the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) classification standards.

Tags: airplane, bathymetry, bathymetry/seafloor topography, coastal bathymetry, coastal elevation, coastal processes, continent, doc/noaa/nos/ngs, earth science, land surface, lidar, light detection and ranging, maryland, national geodetic survey, national ocean service, ngs lidar, noaa, north america, oceans, terrain elevation, topographical relief maps, topography, u.s. department of commerce, united states of america
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Baseline assessment of fish communities of the Flower Garden Banks (2010 - 2013) using technical diving operations: 2011

The proposed work develop baseline information on fish and benthic communities within the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary (FGBNMS). Surveys will employ diving, technical diving, ROV, and hydroacoustics technologies for a comprehensive assessment of the fish and benthic habitat communities of the East and West Bank. The FGBNMS represents the northernmost tropical western Atlantic coral reef on the continental shelf and support the most highly developed offshore hard bank community in the region. The complexity of habitats supports a diverse assemblage of organisms including approximately 250 species of fish, 23 species of coral, and 80 species of algae in addition to large sponge communities. Understanding and monitoring these resources is critical to both sanctuary inventory and management activities. During the course of the sanctuary's management plan review process, the impact of fishing was identified as a priority issue, and the concept of a research only area was suggested. The purpose of this project will be to provide baseline data for all benthic habitats and communities.

Tags: atlantic ocean, belt transect, biology, biosphere, coral reef fishes, corals, country/territory, doc/noaa/nos/nccos, earth science, east flower garden banks (27n093w0001), ecological dynamics, fgb, fish, fish assemblages, fish census, flower garden banks, gulf of america, gulf of mexico, linear transect, marine biology, national centers for coastal ocean science, national ocean service, noaa, north atlantic ocean, numeric data sets, ocean, ocean basin, oceans, reef fish census, reef monitoring and assessment, species richness, texas, u.s. department of commerce, united states of america, west flower garden banks (27n093w0002), zoology
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
RESTORE Sponsored Research Project: Ecosystem Modeling to Improve Fisheries Management in the Gulf of Mexico

This project will integrate information on ecosystem stressors and predator-prey interactions into the fisheries assessment and management process in the Gulf of Mexico.

Tags: atlantic ocean, doc/noaa/nos/nccos, dynamic vegetation/ecosystem models, earth science services, fy17, gulf of america, gulf of mexico, model, models, national centers for coastal ocean science, national ocean service, nccos research data type, nccos research location, nccos sponsored research, noaa, north atlantic ocean, ocean, region, restore science program, u.s. department of commerce
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Killer whale at-sea density off California

The National Marine Sanctuary Program (NMSP) updates and revises the management plans for each of its 13 sanctuaries. This process, which is open to the public, enables each site to revisit the reasons for sanctuary designation and assess whether they are meeting their goals, as well as to set new goals consistent with the mandates of the National Marine Sanctuaries Act. Issues raised by the public during this process are evaluated and a determination is made as to whether they will be incorporated into the updated plan. Many of these issues focus on topics such as the implementation of marine zoning or sanctuary boundary adjustments, both of which require information on the distribution of resources within and around the sanctuary. Recognizing this, NMSP and NOAAs National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) formalized an agreement to collaborate in the revision process by developing such information through a series of biogeographic assessments conducted in selected sanctuaries. The resulting products are then supplied to sanctuary managers and staff for use in the policy and decision making process. This collaborative effort began along the west coast of the U.S. with the Cordell Bank, Gulf of Farallones, and Monterey Bay national marine sanctuaries, and is herein centered on the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary (CINMS).

Tags: aerial surveys, animals/vertebrates, benthic, biological classification, biosphere, california, cetaceans, channel islands, cinms_assessment, community dynamics, community structure, continent, doc/noaa/nos/nccos, dynamic vegetation/ecosystem models, earth science, earth science services, ecological dynamics, ecosystem functions, ecosystems, environmental assessments, environmental governance/management, environmental monitoring, human dimensions, mammals, marine biology, marine ecosystems, marine mammals, models, national centers for coastal ocean science, national ocean service, noaa, north america, oceans, pelagic, species/population interactions, toothed whales, u.s. department of commerce, united states of america, use/feeding habitats
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Baseline assessment of the benthic communities of the Flower Garden Banks

The work developed baseline information on fish and benthic communities within the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary (FGBNMS). Surveys employed diving, technical diving, ROV, and hydroacoustics technologies for a comprehensive assessment of the fish and benthic habitat communities of the East and West Bank. The FGBNMS represents the northernmost tropical western Atlantic coral reef on the continental shelf and support the most highly developed offshore hard bank community in the region. The complexity of habitats supports a diverse assemblage of organisms including approximately 250 species of fish, 23 species of coral, and 80 species of algae in addition to large sponge communities. Understanding and monitoring these resources is critical to both sanctuary inventory and management activities. During the course of the sanctuary's management plan review process, the impact of fishing was identified as a priority issue, and the concept of a research only area was suggested. The purpose of this project will be to provide baseline data for all benthic habitats and communities.

Tags: algae, algal cover, aquatic habitat, atlantic ocean, baseline studies, belt transect, benthic habitat, benthos analysis, biodiversity, biology, biosphere, bleaching, calcareous macroalgae, census, coastal processes, coral cover, coral diseases, coral reef ecology, coral reefs, coralline algae, corals, country/territory, crustose coralline algae, description, doc/noaa/nos/nccos, earth science, east flower garden banks (27n093w0001), encrusting macroalgae, fgb, fleshy macroalgae, flower garden banks, gulf of america, gulf of mexico, habitats, hard coral cover, hard coral cover dead percentage, hard coral cover live percentage, in situ, in situ biological, macroinvertebrates, marine biology, marine invertebrates, national centers for coastal ocean science, national ocean service, noaa, north atlantic ocean, numeric data sets, ocean, ocean basin, oceans, octocoral cover, population density, quadrat monitoring, rapid assessment studies, reef habitat, reef monitoring and assessment, rugosity, texas, transect monitoring, turf algae, u.s. department of commerce, united states of america, vegetation, west flower garden banks (27n093w0002), zoology
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce