AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Bird detections from multi-species point surveys at lowland forest restoration sites, Indiana, United States, April – June 2016, with resampling code

These data pertain to bird point surveys collected from 30 April 2016 to 12 May 2016 and 23 May 2016 to 25 June 2016 at four bottomland hardwood restoration sites in northeastern Indiana. The data are a single monitoring occasion with the purpose of documenting bird communities across these sites. During the time of collection, sites contained areas of hardwood planting ranging in age from 2 to 22 years, mature forest, old fields, and cropland. Each site was surveyed at multiple, fixed bird survey points; each point was visited at least 7 times. Bird point surveys were conducted between sunrise and 11:00 Central Daylight Time, lasted 5 minutes, and aimed to record all bird species seen and heard within 100 meters of the survey point center. Taxonomic and other classification information is provided for each bird taxon. Other classifications include designation of species as Partners in Flight regional conservation concern species and/or interior forest specialists. Also given are the spatial coordinates of each survey point with a rough habitat classification of each point, either woody plant-dominated or grassland-like. Bird survey data contain detection and non-detection data for 106 bird taxa within 100 meters during each survey, as well as observations of flyover species. Also included is R code to resample the data to create resampled datasets for use in rarefaction-based analyses. Values within the resampled dataset include site, number of points surveyed (samples), number of survey visits per point (subsamples), cumulative number of resampling occasions, presence of grassland-like habitat points among the samples within a resampling occasion., presence of woody plant-dominated habitat points among the samples, and detection/non-detection of different landbird species.

Tags: biodiversity-conservation, biota, birds, ecological-restoration, forest-ecosystems, indiana, midwest, migratory-species, species-diversity, surveys, usgs-66717d52d34e84915adb4731
Organization: Department of the Interior
Light-Level Geolocator Tracking Data for Black Brant (Branta bernicla nigricans)

This data package contains all location data collected by light-level geolocators attached to 68 Black Brant at breeding areas in Alaska. The data include: a deployment attributes file with details of each brant at the time of capture, the raw light-level data in ASCII files as downloaded and decompressed, and twice-daily estimated locations.

Tags: alaska, animal-tracking, animals-vertebrates, annual-cycle, baja-california, biota, birds, black-brant, branta-bernicla-nigricans, breeding-sites, capture-recapture-studies, coastal-ecosystems, ducks-geese-swans, environment, izembek-national-wildlife-refuge, light-level-geolocator, mexico, migratory-birds, migratory-rates-routes, migratory-species, national-petroleum-reserve-alaska, non-breeding-range, npr-a, ornithology, overwintering, seasonal-distribution, seasonal-movement, species-life-history, tagging-devices, telemetry, tracking-equipment, tundra-ecosystems, usgs-6670c0bdd34e89718fa3fabe, vhf-radio-transmitter, waterfowl, wildlife, yukon-delta, yukon-delta-national-wildlife-refuge, yukon-kuskokwim-river-delta
Organization: Department of the Interior
New Hampshire Fish and Game Department Volume 1 (2014 - 2024)

This volume's release consists of 463615 media files captured by autonomous wildlife monitoring devices under the project, New Hampshire Fish and Game Department.  The attached files listed below include several CSV files that provide information about the data release.   The file, "media.csv" provides the metadata about the media, such as filename and date/time of capture.   The actual media files are housed within folders under the volume's "child items" as compressed files.   A critical CSV file is "dictionary.csv", which describes  each  CSV file, including field names, data types, descriptions, and the relationship of each field to fields in other CSV files.    Some of the media files may have been "tagged" or "annotated" by either humans or by machine learning models,  identifying wildlife targets within the media.  If so, this information is stored in  "annotations.csv" and "modeloutputs.csv", respectively.   To protect privacy, all personally identifiable information (PII) have been removed, locations have been "blurred" by bounding boxes, and media featuring sensitive taxa or humans have been omitted.   To enhance data reuse, the sbRehydrate() function in the AMMonitor R package will download files and re-create the original AMMonitor project (database + media files).  See source code at https://code.usgs.gov/vtcfwru/ammonitor.

Tags: aegolius-acadicus, alces-americanus-americanus, animal-tracking, biota, bonasa-umbellus, camera-trap, canachites-canadensis, canis-latrans, canis-lupus, castor-canadensis, cathartes-aura, colaptes-auratus, conservation, corvus-brachyrhynchos, cyanocitta-cristata, didelphis-virginiana, ecosystem-monitoring, environment, erethizon-dorsatus, felis-catus, field-inventory-and-monitoring, forest, lontra-canadensis, lynx-canadensis, lynx-rufus, management, martes-americana, meleagris-gallopavo, mephitis-mephitis, mustela-frenata, mustela-vison, odocoileus-virginianus, pekania-pennanti, procyon-lotor, sciurus-carolinensis, scolopax-minor, strix-varia, sylvilagus-floridanus, tamias-striatus, tamiasciurus-hudsonicus, time-series-datasets, turdus-migratorius, ursus-americanus, usgs-6670b566d34e89718fa3fa7a, vertebrates, vulpes-vulpes, wildlife, wildlife-biology
Organization: Department of the Interior
US Islands Conservation Data

A new 30 meter resolution polygon data layer of the islands of the United States, with associated attributes describing key physical and conservation geography characteristics. Islands were grouped into a three-tiered hierarchy of island provinces (12), island regions (28), and individual islands (a total of 19,023 islands were extracted). Islands were classified as estuarine vs non-estuarine, and nearshore vs. offshore.

Tags: islands, united-states, usgs-6670adb3d34e89718fa3f96b
Organization: Department of the Interior
Greater Sage-Grouse Abundance in Sagebrush Focal Areas near Critical Mineral Resources (ver. 2.0, September 2024)

We quantified the relative abundance of greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) populations within Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Sagebrush Focal Areas (SFAs).

Tags: biota, environment, habitat-alteration-and-disturbance, human-impacts, idaho, land-use-change, long-term-ecological-monitoring, metallic-mineral-resources, mineral-resources, montana, native-species, nevada, oregon, shrubland-ecosystems, usgs-6670ab80d34e89718fa3f961, utah, western-united-states, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Drone aerial image collection to produce ortho-imagery and digital terrain models for two sites in coastal Louisiana

South Louisiana's continued land-loss due to erosion and subsidence is a constant process and demands attention thru restoration and mitigation efforts.  Data is needed to determine elevation and vegetation related to subsidence, climate change and saltwater intrusion.  This information is critical to our partners for continued monitoring of marsh in degrading landscape.  Weather from subsidence ,erosion or other factors, changing sediments is having detrimental effects on the marsh landscape.  Providing imagery and digital surface models will help researchers correlate other datasets to determine factors contributing to marsh changes.

Tags: biota, coastal-restoration-and-monitoring-system, louisiana-drone-imagery, louisiana-marsh-loss, usgs-66709524d34e89718fa3f8f8
Organization: Department of the Interior
Large-Scale Marsh Creation Project – Upper Barataria Component (BA-0207): 2021 land-water classification

The Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority and the Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) develop restoration plans in order to conserve, restore, create and enhance Louisiana's coastal wetlands. The wetland restoration plans developed specifically require an evaluation of the effectiveness of each coastal wetlands restoration project in achieving long-term solutions to arresting coastal wetlands loss. This data set includes mosaicked aerial photographs for the Large-Scale Marsh Creation Project – Upper Barataria Component Restoration (BA-0207) project for 2021. This data is used as a basemap land-water classification. It also serves as a visual tool for project managers to help them identify any obvious problems or land loss within their project boundary. To better evaluate the effectiveness of restoration efforts, a land-water classification is performed on specific restoration sites to help assess landscape changes.

Tags: aerial-photography, ba-0207, conservation, digital-elevation-models, ecosystem-monitoring, geographic-information-systems, gulf-of-mexico, image-collections, image-mosaics, louisiana, louisiana-coastal, natural-resource-damage-assessment-nrda, remote-sensing, usgs-66709302d34e89718fa3f8e8, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital orthophotos acquired during a tracer experiment on the Missouri River near Lexington, MO, on May 11, 2024

This data release includes digital orthophotos acquired during a tracer experiment performed on the Missouri River near Lexington, Missouri, on May 11, 2024. The orthophotos were acquired from a fixed-wing crewed aircraft and are provided as background images. One of the primary goals of this study was to assess the feasibility of inferring concentrations of a visible dye (Rhodamine WT) in a large, highly turbid natural river channel using data from a Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS)-based hyperspectral imaging system. Previous research on remote sensing of tracer dye concentrations demonstrated the ability to obtain moderately precise concentration estimates from standard red-green-blue (RGB) video and orthophotos and this experiment allowed us to evaluate the hypothesis that more detailed spectral information could enable concentrations to be inferred with greater accuracy and precision. The broader objective motivating tracer studies along the Missouri River is to gain insight regarding the dispersion processes that influence the movement and survival of endangered sturgeon larvae. 
This data release provides access to two digital orthophotos acquired from a fixed-wing crewed aircraft to support this experiment:
1. A reach-scale mosaic that shows the dye pulse shortly after injection into the river and provides context for the study and the various data sets acquired during the experiment.
2. A higher-resolution orthophoto focused on the area where hyperspectral image transects were obtained, provided to serve as a background reference image for the other data sets.
Please refer to the metadata file for further detail about each data set.  Overall, these data were used to assess the potential for estimating tracer dye concentrations in turbid rivers from UAS-based hyperspectral image data.

Tags: digital-orthophoto, dispersion, lexington, missouri, missouri-river, pallid-sturgeon, remote-sensing, river, tracer-study, usgs-66c48765d34e03388288c0e3
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mercury, carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios in seven Great Lake fish species from 1975 to 2021

Atmospheric mercury (Hg) deposition, which has been declining in North America since 1985, is the preeminent delivery pathway to the Great Lakes, making them sentinels for tracking shifts in atmospheric deposition. Lake productivity is changing as a result of reductions in phosphorus inputs and habitat shifts in productivity due to invasive mussels. This has altered Hg cycling and energetic coupling within the Lakes. Seven fish species were analyzed for bulk carbon, nitrogen, and Hg isotope ratios and amino acid-specific nitrogen isotopes ratios in fish from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Great Lake Fish Monitoring and Surveillance Program archives (1975 – 2021) and the 1994 Lake Michigan Mass Balance to reconstruct the energetic- and Hg-source spatial and temporal trends within each lake. Data for the following fish species are included in this dataset: alewife, bloater, chub, coho salmon, lake trout, rainbow smelt, walleye.

Tags: archive, biota, carbon-isotopes, compound-specific-amino-acids, fish, lake-erie, lake-huron, lake-michigan, lake-ontario, lake-st-claire, lake-superior, laurentian-great-lakes, mercury, nitrogen-isotopes, usgs-66705be4d34e2fc9b7e49c23
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data for Genomic Characterization of Highly Pathogenic H5 Avian Influenza Viruses from Alaska in 2022

This data set describes genomic sequence information from 2022 used to infer spatiotemporal trends pertaining to the introductions of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza viruses into Alaska and spread among wild birds, backyard poultry, and mammals.

Tags: animals-vertebrates, avian-influenza, backyard-bird, biota, birds, disease-detection, disease-reservoirs, disease-spread, ducks-geese-swans, eagles, environment, gulls, health, health-and-disease, influenza-a-virus-h5n1-subtype, mammals, migratory-birds, raptors-eagles, usgs-667058f6d34e2fc9b7e49c18, virus-diseases, viruses, waders-gulls-auks-and-allies, waterfowl, wildlife, wildlife-disease
Organization: Department of the Interior
Soil-Water-Balance MODEL INPUT for simulations of net infiltration and runoff in the Beaver Creek, Alaska basin, 1944 to 2050

This item provides the input files for water budget simulations for the Beaver Creek Basin and surrounding areas during the historical period 1944 to 2023 and a future conditions period that starts in 2014 and goes to 2050 and uses climate projection data. The simulations produce gridded daily data estimates of net infiltration (water that might become groundwater recharge), rejected net infiltration, runoff, actual evapotranspiration and gross precipitation. The model output files are in netcdf4 format and all water budget components are in inches. The outputs used in the Beaver Creek groundwater and stream temperature model (net infiltration, rejected net infiltration, and runoff) and included in the Soil-water-balance model output child item associated with the parent data release that  this input directory is contained in.  These simulations were done with the USGS SWB model (version 2; Westenbroek and others, 2018).   
Further details about this application of the SWB model can be found in the related primary publication.

Tags: alaska, elevation, geoscientificinformation, groundwater, groundwater-recharge, groundwater-recharge-model, hydrology, inlandwaters, kenai-peninsula, net-infiltration, soil-water-balance-model, swb, usgs-667051bad34e2fc9b7e49c01, usgssoilwaterbalancemodel, water-availability, water-budget
Organization: Department of the Interior
Estimated crop irrigation water use withdrawals in Ranegras Plain Groundwater Basin, Arizona for 2023

Observations of irrigated agricultural land within the Ranegras Plain Groundwater Basin in Arizona. Crops were verified in situ twice in 2023, first on May 10th and again on Sep 28th; based on digitized field boundaries. Field boundaries were digitized from U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agriculture Imagery Program County Mosaic 2023 imagery for Arizona and supplemented with the Sentinel2 imagery collection accessed via the European Space Agency, Copernicus Browser (https://browser.dataspace.copernicus.eu/). Satellite images were also used to identify the length of the growing season and crop condition. Water withdrawals were calculated using the modified Blaney-Criddle model of calculating consumptive use (U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1992 appendix A) using crop coefficients from Doorenbos and Pruitt (1975), the number of acres with active crops, crop condition, and irrigation system efficiency. The withdrawal equation was modified from "Water withdrawals for irrigation, municipal, mining, thermoelectric-power, and drainage uses in Arizona outside of active management areas, 1991-2000" (Tadayon, 2005) to account for variations in water application.

Tags: agricultural-sites, arizona, groundwater, irrigation, la-paz, ranegras-plain-groundwater-basin, usgs-666f9e19d34e44c2a515808c, water-use
Organization: Department of the Interior
Pesticide persistence in weathered avian droppings

Dataset includes: Bird body weight, Number of seeds dosed per day per bird,amount of pesticide dosed, pesticide residues on seeds, weight of treated seed dosed per day, weight of fecal sample for each sample, residue analyses of fecal samples, the weather conditions during the two weathering periods

Tags: biota, birds, ecotoxicology, pesticides-and-fungicides, treated-seeds, usgs-666c910ad34e9bcc607c22ee
Organization: Department of the Interior
Concentrations of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from validation experiments and custom sample analysis by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Water Quality Laboratory (NWQL) Laboratory Code 9660, December 2020 to March 2022

This data release contains concentration and isotope-dilution standard (IDS) recovery data from individual samples that are summarized and interpreted in the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Techniques and Methods (T&amp;M) Report "Determination of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Water by Direct Injection of Matrix-Modified Centrifuge Supernatant and Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry with Isotope Dilution".  This includes results from method validation experiments and quality control data collected in conjunction with custom sample analysis for customers using USGS National Water Quality Laboratory (NWQL) Laboratory Code 9660 between December 15, 2020 and March 2, 2022.  Results in the T&amp;M Report are presented as statistical summaries of data from multiple related samples, the individual sample data that underlie those summaries are presented here.

Tags: laboratory-methods, lc-ms-ms, pfas, usgs-666b09c0d34e9bcc607be361, water-chemistry
Organization: Department of the Interior
Waterfowl brood drone surveys from Suisun, California 2019

Effective waterfowl management relies on the collection of relevant demographic data to inform land management decisions; however, some types of data are difficult to obtain. For waterfowl, brood surveys are difficult to conduct because wetland habitats often obscure ducklings from being visually assessed. Here, we used Unoccupied Aerial Systems (UAS) to assess what wetland habitat characteristics influenced brood abundance in Suisun Marsh, California, USA. Using a thermal imaging camera, we surveyed 17 wetland units encompassing 332 ha of flooded area on seven waterfowl hunting clubs during the waterfowl breeding season. Additionally, using a combination of multispectral imagery collected from the UAS flights and LiDAR data from the previous year, we mapped habitat composition within each unit to relate to brood observation counts. From June 3-7, 2019, we identified 113 individual broods comprised of 827 ducklings. We found a positive relationship between the number of broods observed and the proportion of the unit that was flooded. We also found a positive relationship between the number of broods observed and the area of effective habitat, a metric of flooded habitat within a specific distance to flooded vegetation. Brood surveys using UAS could compliment the traditional Breeding Population Survey and provide local managers with fine scale and timely information regarding shifts in brood abundance in the region.

Tags: biota, birds, image-analysis, usgs-666a3123d34e9bcc607bda5c, wetland-ecosystems
Organization: Department of the Interior
Survey results for yellow-billed Cuckoo occupancy and nesting in xeroriparian habitat in southeastern Arizona from 2013 through 2020

These data were compiled to investigate the distribution and breeding status of yellow-billed cuckoos (Coccyzus americanus) in southeastern Arizona xeroriparian habitat by comparing the results of standardized call-playback surveys to the results of nest searching efforts in the same sites from 2018 to 2020. The primary purpose of the study associated with these data was to determine and document the occurrence and extent of nesting in these poorly studied xeroriparian habitats. These data represent breeding evidence for yellow-billed cuckoos at 54 documented sites from 2018-2020 and the results of yellow-billed cuckoo surveys collected at 163 sites from 2013-2020 in xeroriparian habitats in southeastern Arizona. These data were collected in major mountain ranges and foothills between the San Pedro River and the Baboquivari Mountains (2018 - 2020), and additional historic data collected east of the San Pedro River were compiled and added from survey data collected between 2013 and 2020. These data were collected by the study authors, along with over 100 cooperators and volunteers from public and private organizations, using standardized protocols developed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Halterman et al. 2015). These data can be used to evaluate breeding distribution and population trends in western populations of the yellow-billed cuckoo.

Tags: altar-valley, animal-and-plant-census, arizona, atascosa-highlands, avifauna, baboquivari-mountains, biogeography, biota, birds, breeding, canelo-hills, chiricahua-mountains, coccyzus-americanus, data-release, dragoon-mountains, ecosystems, field-inventory-and-monitoring, field-sampling, floodplain-habitat, freshwater-ecosystems, geography, habitats, huachuca-mountains, location, nesting, occurrence, ornithology, patagonia-mountains, population-and-community-ecology, population-dynamics, rincon-mountains, river-systems, san-pedro-river, santa-catalina-mountains, santa-rita-mountains, southeastern-arizona, usgs-666a2c4fd34e9bcc607bda51, vegetation, western-north-america, whetstone-mountains, wildlife-biology, xeroriparian-habitat, yellow-billed-cuckoo
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data on the behavior of grass carp, silver carp, and bighead carp during laboratory exposures to the amino acids L-alanine, L-arginine, L-aspartic acid, and L-glutamic acid

These data pertain to behavior trials conducted on three different species of invasive carp in a laboratory setting between the dates of 29 April 2021 to 14 December 2021. The three species tested were grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon Idella), bighead carp (Hypophthalmichthys nobilis) and silver carp (H. molitrix). The amino acids L-alanine, L-arginine, L-aspartic acid, and L‑glutamic acid were selected for this study to analyze how exposure may impact fish behavior, with a specific focus on avoidance and attraction. Each trial involved two individuals of the same species being exposed to one amino acid and a control water. Water inputs were on each end of the long exposure chamber and drained in the center to maintain a delineation between amino acid and the control water. For each combination of species (3 total) and amino acid (4 total), we performed 10 replicates, totaling 120 trials with each trial utilizing two fish (240 individuals). The chamber and fish were recorded from overhead video cameras and fish movement and position within the chamber determined using tracking software. After the software provided the initial tracking analysis, additional manual tracking was done to address any errors that occurred due to fish overlap. Of the 120 trials conducted, 69 trials, 5 to 7 from each combination of species × amino acid, were randomly chosen and manually examined and tracked, thus fixing identity swapping for those trials. The complete set of data were not manually tracked due to limited resources; questions related to average location could still be answered without tracking the identity of each fish.

Tags: amino-acids, animal-behavior, biota, boone-county-missouri, columbia-environmental-research-center, ctenopharyngodon, hypophthalmichthys, invasive-species, olfactory-receptors, usgs-6669e586d34e9bcc607bd929
Organization: Department of the Interior