AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Single-Beam Bathymetry Sounding Data Offshore from Wiggins Pass to Cape Romano, Florida (2005) in XYZ format

During the last few decades, the coastal environments of south Florida have shown signs of ecological deterioration that has been attributed to changes in freshwater inflows caused by management practices and corresponding increases of salinity and nutrient content in estuarine waters. With plans to restore water levels in the Southern Golden Gate Estates area north of Tamiami Trail to more natural conditions, changes are expected in the amount, timing, and distribution of freshwater discharge through bridges and culverts under US-41, and therefore altering current conditions in the wetlands and estuaries to the south. Bathymetric and hydrologic information throughout the Ten Thousand Islands Aquatic Preserve and adjacent ecosystems is critical for the development and calibration of hydrodynamic models that would help with the evaluation of restoration results. With construction of the Southern Golden Gate Estates Hydrologic Restoration and Tamiami Trail Culvert projects underway, the need to determine the physical characteristics of rivers and bays within the areas to the south of US-41 that will be greatly impacted by both of these projects, becomes even more urgent. There are significant physical information gaps throughout the wetlands and estuaries within the study area that still need to be addressed. Among these gaps are the bathymetry of rivers and bays of the Ten Thousand Islands Preserve, estimates of freshwater flows across the Trail, groundwater information within the marshes south of Tamiami Trail (including Specific Conductance/salinity), flows at or near the mouth of tributaries for the determination of contaminant transport, water level, and salinity data throughout the area.
This report serves as an archive of processed single-beam bathymetry data that were collected offshore from Wiggins Pass to Cape Romano, Florida in 2005. Geographic information system data products include a XYZ data, bathymetric contours, and USGS quadrangle map. Additional files include formal Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) metadata.

Tags: bathymetry, caloosahatchee-river, cape-romano, captiva-island, charlotte-harbor, circulation-model, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, echosounder, elevation, environment, erosion, fl, florida, geoscientificinformation, gulf-of-mexico, hydrography, hydrology, imagerybasemapsearthcover, inlandwaters, lovers-key, mapping, marco-island, naples, oceans, orthometric, sands, sea-floor, sediment-dynamics, single-beam, soundings, spcmsc, st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, system-for-accurate-nearshore-depth-surveying, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, us, usgs, usgs-7c8bc891-e4be-4b54-9291-31c5d00caed1, water-depth, wiggins-pass
Organization: Department of the Interior
Dynamic SPARROW Model Application Data for the Puget Sound Region, 2005 through 2020

This data release contains seasonal source-specific estimates of total nitrogen (TN) and total phosphorus (TP) loads from watersheds draining to Washing water of the Salish Sea (Puget Sound region,12,314 e2NHDPlusV2 reaches plus 2 added transfer reaches) using a dynamic SPARROW (Spatially Referenced Regressions on Watershed attributes) model. Input data, output predictions, model control files, and model source code are provided to fully reproduce results. The modeled period was from January 2005 through December 2020 in seasonal time steps, or 64 periods, and the following seasonal definitions were applied: winter includes January, February, and March; spring includes April, May, and June; summer includes July, August, and September; and fall includes October, November, and December.

Tags: inlandwaters, river-nutrients-nitrogen-phosphorus-streamflow, usgs-65860a06d34eff134d437200
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2021 Site 0337 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 2021 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. Five previous assessments have been conducted (2005, 2008, 2012, 2015/2016, and 2018). 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-653c1e20d34ee4b6e05bc40a, wetland, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Laboratory Observations of Artificial Sand and Oil Agglomerates Video and Velocity Data: Sea Floor Interaction Experiment Interpretive Video

Weathered oil in the surf-zone after an oil spill may mix with suspended sediments to form sand and oil agglomerates (SOA). Sand and oil agglomerates may form in mats on the scale of tens of meters (m), and may break apart into pieces between 1 and 10 centimeters (cm) in diameter. These more mobile pieces are susceptible to alongshore and cross-shore transport, and lead to beach re-oiling on the time scale of months to years following a spill. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) conducted experiments March 10 - 13, 2014, to expand the available data on sand and oil agglomerate motion; test shear stress based incipient motion parameterizations in a controlled, laboratory setting; and directly observe SOA exhumation and burial processes.  Artificial sand and oil agglomerates  (aSOA) were created and deployed in a small-oscillatory flow tunnel in two sets of experiments, during which, video and velocity data were obtained. The first experiment, which was set up to help researchers investigate incipient motion, used with an immobile, rough bottom (referred to as false-floor) and the second–testing seafloor interactions–utilized with a coarse grain sand bottom (movable sand bed). Detailed information regarding the creation of the aSOA can be found in Dalyander et al. (2015).  More information about the USGS laboratory experiment conducted in collaboration with the Naval Research Laboratory can be found in the associated Open File Report (OFR Number Unknown).

Tags: artificial-sand-and-oil-agglomerate, asoa, beach-re-oiling, canon-7d-dslr-camera, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, elevation, hazards, image-collections, industrial-pollution, jpeg, laboratory-experiment, laboratory-experiments, marine-geology, mississippi, mp4-video, mpeg-4, naval-research-laboratory, nrl, ocean-sciences, oceans, oil-spill, petroleum, photographs, photography, photos, saint-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, sand-and-oil-agglomerate, sea-floor, sea-floor-interaction, seabed, seafloor, shear-stress-parameterization, small-oscillatory-flow-tunnel, soa, spcmsc, stennis, stennis-space-center, surf-zone, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-e786fcac-2861-4987-9f1d-1b2a39351214, vectrino-acoustic-velocity-profiler, videos
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data release for Influence of multi-decadal land use, irrigation practices and climate on riparian corridors across the Upper Missouri River headwaters basin, Montana

The Upper Missouri River headwaters (UMH) basin (36 400 km2 ) depends on its river corridors to support irrigated agriculture and world-class trout fisheries. We evaluated trends (1984–2016) in riparian wetness, an indicator of the riparian condition, in peak irrigation months (June, July and August) for 158 km2 of riparian area across the basin using the Landsat normalized difference wetness index (NDWI). We found that 8 of the 19 riparian reaches across the basin showed a significant drying trend over this period, including all three basin outlet reaches along the Jefferson, Madison and Gallatin rivers. The influence of upstream climate was quantified using per reach random forest regressions. Much of the interannual variability in the NDWI was explained by climate, especially by drought indices and annual precipitation, but the significant temporal drying trends persisted in the NDWI–climate model residuals, indicating that trends were not entirely attributable to climate. Over the same period we documented a basin-wide shift from 9 % of agriculture irrigated with center-pivot irrigation to 50 % irrigated with center-pivot irrigation. Riparian reaches with a drying trend had a greater increase in the total area with center-pivot irrigation (within reach and upstream from the reach) relative to riparian reaches without such a trend (p &lt; 0.05). The drying trend, however, did not extend to river discharge. Over the same period, stream gages (n = 7) showed a positive correlation with riparian wetness (p &lt; 0.05) but no trend in summer river discharge, suggesting that riparian areas may be more sensitive to changes in irrigation return flows relative to river discharge. Identifying trends in riparian vegetation is a critical precursor for enhancing the resiliency of river systems and associated riparian corridors.

Tags: climate, corridors, irrigation, landsat-5, landsat-7, landsat-8, missouri-river-headwater-basin, montana, riparian, rivers, usgs-5c58906ce4b0708288ff2952
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data on flea larvae survival following exposure to black-tailed prairie dog scat, 2016-2018

We collected fecal pellets from six black-tailed prairie dogs in captivity. Prairie dogs were provided free access to non-treated grain (oat groats) or fipronil-treated grain for 5 days. Two prairie dogs received non-treated grain and four prairie dogs received fipronil grain. During each day of the feeding trial, prairie dog fecal pellets were collected, stored in sealable plastic bags, labeled by treatment, and frozen. Fecal pellets from days 2, 3, 4, and 5 were placed in 1.5 milliliter (mL) centrifuge tubes, ground into morsels and powder (fine particles for flea larvae to eat) with a disposable polypropylene pestle, separated as 0.50 milligram (mg) subsamples into pre-labeled centrifuge tubes, and frozen. Oropsylla montana flea larvae were assayed in 6-well microplates (first experiment) or 12-well microplates (second experiment). Small holes were made in the microplate caps, immediately above each well, to allow for air exchange. Each well contained sterilized fine sand substrate (~1/4 to 1/2 of well depth) for larvae locomotion and refuge. During each experiment, wells in some of the test plates received fipronil-laced prairie dog feces and wells in the remaining plates received non-treated feces (0.50 mg/well). The microplates were lidded, loosely covered with aluminum foil, and stored in a dark, cool storage location for 24 hours at ~23 °C and ~85% relative humidity. After 24 hours, the microplates were uncovered and opened. Probes were used to prod each larva for 2 seconds. Live larva responded by coiling and moving away from the prod. Larvae that did not respond within 2 seconds were prodded for 5 additional seconds and considered dead if no movement was observed. A 60x to 120x pocket microscope was used to determine if each larva consumed prairie dog feces (yes = visible meal, colored like prairie dog scat, in the gut; no = no visible meal in the gut).    
The data set (Fipronil Flea Larvae Survival Data.xlxs) includes data from the two experiments (Experiment = 1 or 2) with four Treatments (non-fipronil grain, no feces consumed by larvae; non-fipronil grain, feces consumed by larvae; fipronil grain, no feces consumed by larvae; fipronil grain, feces consumed by larvae). The data includes the number of larvae tested in each treatment and the number of larvae classified as alive 24 hours after initial exposure to prairie dog feces. 
Financial and logistical support were provided by U.S. Geological Survey, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Colorado State University. Additional logistical support was provided by Scimetrics Limited Corporation and Genesis Laboratories, Inc.

Tags: biota, colorado, cynomys-ludovicianus, ecology, fipronil, flea, fort-collins, oropsylla-montana, plague, usgs-6259fce4d34e21f82770aa4b
Organization: Department of the Interior
Water-level change, High Plains aquifer, 1980 to 1995

This raster data set represents water-level change in the High Plains aquifer of the United States from 1980 to 1995, 
in feet. The High Plains aquifer underlies 112.6 million acres (176,000 square miles) in parts of eight States: Colorado, 
Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming. The aquifer's saturated thickness 
ranges from near zero to about 1,200 feet (Weeks and Gutentag, 1981). Water-level declines occurred in parts of the 
High Plains aquifer soon after the onset of substantial irrigation with groundwater (about 1950) (Luckey and others, 
1981; Gutentag and others, 1984). This data set was generated in ESRI ArcInfo Workstation Version 9.3, which is 
a geographic information system (GIS), using water-level-change data from wells measured in 1980 and 1995 and 
from some additional wells in New Mexico, which were measured in 1996 and 1997.  For this data set, areas of no 
substantial change were designated as areas where water-level change was between a rise of 3 feet and and decline 
of 3 feet; the raster was set to zero in the areas of no substantial change.
REFERENCES CITED -- 
Gutentag, E.D., Heimes, F.J., Krothe, N.C., Luckey, R.R., and Weeks, J.B., 1984, 
Geohydrology of the High Plains aquifer in parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, 
Texas, and Wyoming: 
U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1400-B, 63 p.
Luckey, R.R., Gutentag, E.D., and Weeks, J.B., 1981, 
Water-level and saturated-thickness changes, predevelopment to 1980, in the High Plains aquifer in parts of Colorado, 
Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming: 
U.S. Geological Survey Hydrologic Investigations Atlas HA-652, 2 sheets, scale 1:2,500,000.
Weeks, J.B., and Gutentag, E.D., 1981, 
Bedrock geology, altitude of base, and 1980 saturated thickness of the High Plains aquifer in parts of Colorado, Kansas, 
Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming: 
U.S. Geological Survey Hydrologic Investigations Atlas HA-648, 2 sheets, scale 1:2,500,000.

Tags: aquifers, colorado, geoscientificinformation, great-plains, ground-water, groundwater, high-plains, high-plains-aquifer, inlandwaters, kansas, nebraska, new-mexico, ogallala-aquifer, oklahoma, south-dakota, texas, usgs-f16079c1-a9e9-44d8-b1b8-a0b03afb29bb, water-level-change, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
North American Grid-Based Sampling Frame: Continental United States at a 5x5km resolution

This sampling frame is a set of grid-based finite-area frames spanning Canada, the United States, and Mexico.  The grid for the United States is broken into individual grids for the continental United States, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico.  Alaska is combined with Canada into a single grid.  Each country/state/territory extent consists of four nested sampling grids at 50x50km, 10x10km, 5x5km, and 1x1km resolutions.  The original 10x10km continental United States grid was developed by the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture for use in the interagency "Bat Grid" monitoring program in the Pacific Northwest and was expanded program in the Pacific Northwest and was expanded across Canada, the United States, and Mexico for the North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat).  Additional grids for Hawaii and Puerto Rico were created for this data release.
This vector dataset is the individual grid-based sampling grid for Continental United States at a 5x5km resolution.

Tags: biota, ecosystem-monitoring, location, usgs-5b7c36d7e4b0f5d57886034d
Organization: Department of the Interior
Report Card SQSS for 2015 - Most Recent

This file includes Report Card Dual Credit, 9th Grade on track, and regular attendance data for the 2014-15 school year through the most recent year of data available. This data is disaggregated by the school, district, and state levels and includes counts and rates of students by the following groups: grade level, gender, race/ethnicity, and student programs and special characteristics. Please review the notes below for more information and notes for downloading this data.

Tags: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, k12, ospi, sqss, student
Organization: State of Washington
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2016 Site 3800 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 390 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 2016 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. Three previous assessments have been conducted (2005, 2008, and 2012). 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-5b5f53b2e4b006a11f66eb35, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Inundation polygons for flood-inundation maps for the Schoharie Creek in North Blenheim, NY

This child item data set contains polygons delineating inundated areas derived from flood-inundation maps for the Schoharie Creek in North Blenheim, New York.

Tags: flood, flood-inundation-maps, flooded-area, floods, geospatial-analysis, high-water-marks, inundated-area, new-york-state, north-blenheim, river-stream, schoharie-county, schoharie-creek, town-of-blenheim, usgs-6138bb74d34e40dd9c0d5b19
Organization: Department of the Interior
Estimated habitat suitability for the American burying beetle using land cover classes in the Southern Plains (ver. 1.1, June 2020)

Potentially suitable habitat for the American burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus) was identified within the Southern Plains. The American burying beetle (ABB) is listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act, but in 2019 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed to reclassify this species as threatened. We applied a deductive model for the ABB that identified potentially suitable habitat using LANDFIRE Existing Vegetation Types (EVT). The habitat model ranked each EVT using one of four categories: (1) favorable; suitable vegetation to support all or critical portions of the ABB life cycle, (2) conditional; favorable only under certain conditions including seasonality of flooding and land management practices, (3) marginal; may provide limited habitat for portions of the ABB life cycle, or (4) unsuitable; does not provide habitat for any portion of the life cycle. We supplemented the habitat model with an ancillary dataset that mapped the estimated surface disturbance footprint from development (agriculture, transportation, urban, and energy and minerals). All cells ranked as favorable, conditional, or marginal were reclassified as unsuitable if any development was present. Source and derived raster datasets have a spatial resolution of 30 x 30 meters. The derived habitat suitability map indicates the location of potential ABB habitat based on EVT and development within the Southern Plains. Because additional factors can strongly affect ABB occurrence (including soil type, availability of carrion, management activities, seasonality of flooding, and climate), areas identified as favorable or conditional habitat may not be occupied by the ABB.

Tags: american-burying-beetle, arkansas, biota, endangered-species, entomology, habitat-suitability, habitats, insects, kansas, landfire, missouri, nicrophorus-americanus, oklahoma, southern-plains, surface-disturbance, texas, united-states, usgs-5e178316e4b0ecf25c59f929, vegetation, vegetation-classification, wildlife-biology
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data for leaf photosynthesis and net ecosystem exchange of CO2 and CH4 from wetland forest, marsh, and mudflats under simulated ambient and elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide (2013-2014)

This study evaluated the net ecosystem exchange of CO2 and CH4 from experimental wetland mesocosms established in elevated CO2 and ambient CO2 glasshouses at the U.S. Geological Survey’s Wetland and Aquatic Research Center (Lafayette, Louisiana). The study duration was approximately two years, and these data represent measured and calculated data from four time points, which the investigators associate with season.

Tags: biota, greenhouse-gases, photosynthesis, usgs-61f425c2d34e622189bb422b, wetland-ecosystem
Organization: Department of the Interior