AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Precipitation and soil-moisture data from the Two Towers landslide, Trinity County, California

We performed hourly monitoring of precipitation and soil moisture at the Two Towers landslide located in northern California near the town of Zenia. Data were acquired January 19, 2017 to April 29, 2020. Rainfall was measured near the center of the landslide using a tipping-bucket rain gauge with resolution of 0.254 mm and accuracy of ±2% to 250 mm/h (resolutions and accuracies stated herein are as specified by sensor manufacturers and accounting for datalogger resolution). Soil moisture (volumetric ratio of water volume to total volume; unitless) was measured near the center of the landslide using a dielectric sensor installed at 19-cm depth into the wall of a hand-excavated pit that was subsequently backfilled using material obtained during excavation. The soil-moisture sensor utilized factory calibration and has resolution of 0.001 and accuracy of +/- 0.03. These data support a study described in Liao, T.-H., Kim, S.-B., Handwerger, A.L., Fielding, E.J., Cosh, M., and Schulz, W.H., 2021, High-resolution soil moisture maps over landslide regions in northern California grassland derived from SAR backscattering coefficients: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 10.1109/JSTARS.2021.3069010.

Tags: hydrology, landslide, usgs-5f7b41d982ce1d74e7d91195
Organization: Department of the Interior
ANGD2014_BE_z20_n88g12A_mosaic_metadata: Lidar-Derived Bare-Earth Digital Elevation Model (DEM) Mosaic for Coastal Topography—Anegada, British Virgin Islands, 2014

A digital elevation model (DEM) mosaic was produced for Anegada, British Virgin Islands, from remotely sensed, geographically referenced elevation measurements collected by Watershed Sciences, Inc. (WSI)/Quantum Spatial using an Optech Orion M300 (1064-nm wavelength) lidar sensor on January 21, 2014.

Tags: altimetry, anegada, bathymetry-and-elevation, british-virgin-islands, caribbean-sea, cessna-210, dem, digital-elevation-models, distributions, doi-usgsgt-u-s-geological-survey-u-s-department-of-interior, elevation, land-surface-gt-topography-gt-terrain-elevation, laser-altimetry, lidar, lidar-gt-light-detection-and-ranging, ocean-gt-coastal-processes-gt-beaches, ocean-gt-coastal-processes-gt-shoreline-displacement, remote-sensing, shoreline, topographic-mapping, topography, usgs-1a074625-c69a-4a57-8eb2-43de6a885798
Organization: Department of the Interior
Washington Mule Deer Klickitat Stopovers

The Klickitat mule deer herd inhabits the Columbia Hills and surrounding terrain to the north along the Columbia River, Washington (fig. 23). The Klickitat River is the western boundary of the herd and is part of a transition zone between black-tailed deer and mule deer distributions. Habitats in the western half of the herd’s range include Quercus garryana (Oregon white oak) mixed with Abies spp. (fir), pine, or grassland species. The western half of the herd’s range comprises a mix of public and private lands, including rangeland, farmland, and the Klickitat Wildlife Area, which has protected crucial winter range since the 1950s. Sagebrush steppe is more prevalent in the eastern half of the herd’s range with Quercus garryana Douglas ex Hook. (Oregon white oak) and ponderosa pine in drainages such as Rock Creek, which serves as a popular wintering area. Dryland wheat, rangeland, and viticulture are also common in the eastern half, which is mostly privately owned.
Klickitat mule deer are partially migratory with more residents in the eastern half of the herd’s range and a higher proportion of migrants in the western half of the herd’s range. As vegetation green up progresses during spring, migrants travel from low-elevation winter ranges to high-elevation summer ranges in the Cascade Range and Simcoe Mountains. Some individuals migrate short distances (5 mi [8 km]), especially mule deer in the eastern half of the herd’s range. Increasing residential development in the western half of the range and renewable energy development and conversion to viticulture in the eastern half of the range are the greatest concerns for winter ranges and migration corridors. Additionally, U.S. Highway 97 is a semipermeable barrier to migration with only one wildlife underpass, built in 2012.
These mapping layers show the location of the Migration stopovers for mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) in the Klickitat population in Washington. They were developed from 78 migration sequences collected from a sample size of 103 animals comprising GPS locations collected every 4 hours.

Tags: animal-behavior, biota, goldendale, migration-organisms, migratory-species, united-states, usgs-6584b60ad34eff134d42da37, washington
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2016 Site 2614 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-5b5f5354e4b006a11f66eaf3, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data from a turtle trapping effort at a release site of head-started alligator snapping turtles, Macrochelys temminckii, in southwest Louisiana in 2018 (ver. 2.0, September 2021)

This dataset contains initial data from head-started alligator snapping turtles released by Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) from November 2015 to October 2016. In addition, it contains data from a five-day trapping effort at each of seven release sites by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from late June to early October 2018. Trapping was completed using hoop nets of three sizes. We recaptured eight head-started alligator snapping turtles as well as four individuals native to the creek.

Tags: beauregard-parish, biota, ecology, freshwater-ecology, life-history, louisiana, turtles, usgs-5d39ddf2e4b01d82ce8c00e5
Organization: Department of the Interior
Precipitation, river surface velocity, and river stage measurements within the Spring Creek Burn Scar, Colorado, USA, during select storms in 2019 and 2021

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) installed and operated several flood and debris flow warning gages within or downstream from the Spring Creek burn scar, Colorado, U.S.A. The warning gages were operated during several years post fire (2019-21) in cooperation with the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT).  The USGS warning gages were part of a larger post-wildfire hydrometeorological observatory, comprised of both remote-sensing and in-situ instrumentation. In-situ measurements of precipitation, river surface velocity, and river stage measurements collected at USGS warning gages during select storms in 2019 and 2021 are presented in this data release. These data were used to validate estimates of rainfall accumulation from the National Severe Storms Laboratory’s mobile, X-band weather radar (NOXP) and to evaluate lag times between high intensity precipitation and peak flooding.
Gages were designed to provide advanced warning of hydrologic hazards at key points that could affect CDOT infrastructure (particularly where roads crossed over rivers). USGS warning gages also provided advanced warning of hydrologic hazards to the Pueblo Weather Forecast Office, local Emergency Managers (Huerfano County, CO), and residents in the immediate area.

Tags: stream-discharge, usgs-66ac0fb1d34e20d4a0358559
Organization: Department of the Interior
Wind rose plots for the volcano: 243112  Lobster

This zip folder contains ASCII text files of vectors at the specified volcano at 
12-hour intervals, 
from January 1, 1990 through December 28, 2009.  
The wind vectors are divided into five files, names by their elevation range above 
sea level in the atmosphere: 00-05km.txt; 05-11km.txt; 11-16km.txt; 16-24km.txt; 
and 24-30km.txt. 
The zip folder also contains a subfolder "figures", with Wind rose plots of wind 
direction and speed over 
this time period.  The plots are by season, and by elevation, given a total of 20 
plots (4 seasons, 5 
elevation ranges).  A summary plot is also included which gives the year-round 
wind pattern at the volcano, 
at 0-5 km elevation.  Plots are in both jpg and pdf format.

Tags: meteorology, usgs-58d01166e4b0236b68f52a17, volcanic-ash, volcanic-eruption-forecasting, wind
Organization: Department of the Interior
Whiskey Island Caillou Lake Headlands restoration area – 2018 habitat map, Louisiana Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring Program

This package includes a detailed habitat map, general habitat map, and georeferenced imagery from 2018 for the Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) Caillou Lake Headlands project area (TE-0100), also known as Whiskey Island. The project created 170 acres of marsh habitat and 917 acres of dune and beach habitat on Whiskey Island in Terrebonne Parish using material dredged from Ship Shoal. The habitat maps are part of a suite of Whiskey Island habitat maps for the years 2012, 2015, and 2017–19, which span the time period before, during, and after the restoration project was conducted. For more information on this restoration project, see the project page on Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority’s (CPRA) Coastal Information Management System (https://cims.coastal.la.gov/outreach/projects/ProjectView?projID=TE-0100).
The habitat maps developed for this effort were utilized together with ecological data in an avian analysis of habitat occupancy and use/function for several focal species pre- and post- restoration activity. The results of this analysis will help land managers evaluate how restoration and subsequent natural ecological processes impact bird species of conservation concern, and target restoration activities that enhance island sustainability and preserve avian habitat availability. 
The maps in this package use a detailed 15-class habitat scheme and a general eight-class habitat scheme developed by the CPRA’s Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring (BICM) Program. The BICM Program uses both historical data and contemporary data collections to assess and monitor changes to barrier islands. Habitat map products developed using aerial imagery and lidar elevation data are one type of BICM dataset. For more information about the BICM Program, see Kindinger and others (2013); for more information about recent BICM habitat mapping, see Enwright and others (2020). The detailed habitat scheme builds off the general scheme used in previous BICM habitat mapping efforts (Fearnley and others, 2009). The additional classes developed in the detailed scheme are primarily used to further delineate various dune habitats, separate marsh and mangrove, and distinguish between beach and unvegetated barrier flat habitats. To ensure comparability between this effort and previous BICM map products, we have crosswalked the detailed classes to general habitat classes previously used by Fearnley and others (2009). This package includes recommended symbology for BICM detailed habitat classes and BICM general habitat classes with and without outlines.

Tags: barrier-flat, barrier-vegetation, beach, beach-berm, dune, early-lafourche-delta-region, environment, geoscientificinformation, gulf-of-mexico, habitat-map, imagerybasemapsearthcover, louisiana, louisiana-coastal, mangroves-aquatic-vegetation, marsh-ecosystems, remote-sensing, restoration, shrubland-ecosystems, terrebonne-parish, tidal-flat, united-states-of-america, usgs-6140d3e2d34e1449c5d6002c, wetland-ecosystems
Organization: Department of the Interior
Surface water and groundwater water chemistry data collected along the Quashnet River, Mashpee/Falmouth, MA

This data set includes dissolved oxygen (DO) and specific 
conductivity (SpC) data collected in both the surface water and 
shallow streambed at the Quashnet River, Mashpee, USA from 2014-16. 
This data was collected to better understand groundwater discharge to 
the river and associated brook trout habitat. DO was typically near 
saturation in surface water and some groundwater, but is reduced in 
streambed zones that may be influenced by buried peat lenses. SpC was 
used as an indicator of groundwater flowpath dynamics, and  lower 
values were generally associated with higher DO.

Tags: groundwater-and-surface-water-interaction, usgs-5a2032eae4b09fc93ddbad12
Organization: Department of the Interior
Projected Seafloor Elevation Change in the Upper Florida Keys, Florida: 25, 50, 75, and 100 years from 2002

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center conducted research to quantify the combined effect of all constructive and destructive processes on modern coral reef ecosystems by measuring regional-scale changes in seafloor elevation in the Upper Florida Keys, Florida, including both coral-dominated habitats and adjacent, non-coral-dominated habitats. USGS staff used historical bathymetric data from the 1930’s and light detection and ranging (lidar)-derived data acquired in 2002 (Brock and others, 2006, 2007) to calculate changes in seafloor elevation (Yates and others, 2017). Using these changes in seafloor elevation, further analyses were conducted that calculated annual erosion rates and utilized those results to project seafloor elevation changes 25, 50, 75, and 100 years from 2002.

Tags: coelenterates, doi-usgs-cmg-gt-coastal-and-marine-geology-u-s-geological-survey-u-s-department-of-interior, elevation, florida, florida-keys, geoscientificinformation, lidar-gt-light-detection-and-ranging, ocean-gt-bathymetry-seafloor-topography-gt-water-depth, ocean-gt-coastal-processes-gt-erosion, ocean-gt-coastal-processes-gt-sea-level-rise, oceans, reef-ecosystems, sea-floor-characteristics, sea-level-change, sea-level-rise, seafloor, seafloor-accretion, seafloor-elevation, seafloor-erosion, submerged, upper-florida-keys, usgs-72c7b9a4-2d86-4291-9e34-c80606f6cb80
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mercury Concentrations in Wild Rice, Bad River Watershed, Wisconsin, 2006

Seven wild rice samples were collected in 2006 in or near to Bad River tribal lands and analyzed for methyl Hg. Neither the collection of wild rice samples nor the Hg analyses were performed by the U.S. Geological Survey, New York Water Science Center.

Tags: bad-river, lake-superior, mercury-contamination, united-states, usgs-5d63dbaae4b01d82ce986c44, wisconsin
Organization: Department of the Interior
Nitrogen, phosphorus, and suspended-sediment loads and trends measured at the Chesapeake Bay River Input Monitoring stations: Water years 1985-2018

Nitrogen, phosphorus, and suspended-sediment loads, and changes in loads, in major rivers across the Chesapeake Bay watershed have been calculated using monitoring data from the Chesapeake Bay River Input Monitoring (RIM) stations for the period 1985 through 2018. Nutrient and suspended-sediment loads and changes in loads were determined by applying a weighted regression approach called WRTDS (Weighted Regression on  Time, Discharge, and Season).  The load results represent the total mass of nitrogen, phosphorus, and suspended sediment that was exported from each of the RIM watersheds.  To determine the trend in loads, the annual load results are flow normalized to integrate out the year-to-year variability in river discharge.  The trend in load is derived from the flow-normalized load timeseries and represents the change in load resulting from changes in sources, delays associated with storage or transport of historical inputs, and (or) implemented management actions.  Four data tables are provided that describe nitrogen, phosphorus, and suspended-sediment conditions across the RIM: (1) Annual Loads, (2) Monthly Loads, (3) Trends in Annual Loads, and (4) Average Yield (mass per unit area).  Additionally, essential WRTDS Input and Output files are provided.

Tags: chesapeake-bay-watershed, delaware, load-analysis, maryland, new-york, nitrogen, nutrients, pennsylvania, phosphorus, rivers, suspended-sediment, trends, united-states, usgs-5cc1b6cfe4b09b8c0b746dd1, virginia, washington-dc, water-quality, weighted-regression, west-virginia, wrtds
Organization: Department of the Interior
maui_tsu - Tsunami Hazard Intensity Level in the coastal zone of Maui, Hawaii

Tsunami Hazard Intensity Level in the coastal zone of Maui,
Hawaii

Tags: agents-of-coastal-change, coast, coastal, coastal-processes, continental-island-shore-complex, geoscientificinformation, hawaii, hawaii-ecoregion, hazard, hazards, island, kauai, lanai, level, maui, molokai, oahu, oceans, oceans-and-coastal, oceans-and-estuaries, pacific, risk-assessment, tsunami, tsunamis, usgs-03a6370a-aae0-40c9-a3ab-f413598cf496
Organization: Department of the Interior
Wind rose plots for the volcano: 274030  Babuyan Claro

This zip folder contains ASCII text files of vectors at the specified volcano at 
12-hour intervals, 
from January 1, 1990 through December 28, 2009.  
The wind vectors are divided into five files, names by their elevation range above 
sea level in the atmosphere: 00-05km.txt; 05-11km.txt; 11-16km.txt; 16-24km.txt; 
and 24-30km.txt. 
The zip folder also contains a subfolder "figures", with Wind rose plots of wind 
direction and speed over 
this time period.  The plots are by season, and by elevation, given a total of 20 
plots (4 seasons, 5 
elevation ranges).  A summary plot is also included which gives the year-round 
wind pattern at the volcano, 
at 0-5 km elevation.  Plots are in both jpg and pdf format.

Tags: meteorology, usgs-58d01318e4b0236b68f52c5d, volcanic-ash, volcanic-eruption-forecasting, wind
Organization: Department of the Interior
Projected Seafloor Elevation Along the Florida Reef Tract From Deerfield Beach to Homestead, Florida—100 Years From 2014 Based on Historical Rates of Mean Erosion

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center conducted research to quantify the combined effect of all constructive and destructive processes on modern coral reef ecosystems by projecting future regional-scale changes in seafloor elevation for several sites along the Florida Reef Tract, Florida (FL) including the shallow seafloor along the coast of Miami, FL. USGS staff used historical bathymetric point data from the 1930's (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Office of Coast Survey, see Yates and others, 2017) and light detection and ranging (lidar)-derived data acquired in 2002 (Brock and others, 2006, 2007) to calculate historical seafloor elevation changes in the Upper Florida Keys (UFK) (Yates and others, 2017). Using those changes in seafloor elevation, annual rates of erosion were calculated for 13 habitat types found in the UFK reef tract. The annual rate of mean erosion for each habitat type was applied to a digital elevation model (DEM) extending from Deerfield Beach to Homestead, FL that was modified from the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) Miami coastal DEM (NOAA, 2015) to project future seafloor elevation (from 2014) along the Miami section of the Florida Reef Tract. Grid resolution for the DEM is 1/3 arc second (approximately 10 meters).

Tags: altimetry, coelenterates, deerfield-beach, digital-elevation-models, doi-usgs-cmg-gt-coastal-and-marine-geology-u-s-geological-survey-u-s-department-of-interior, elevation, elevation-change, florida, florida-keys, florida-reef-tract, geoscientificinformation, homestead, lidar, lidar-gt-light-detection-and-ranging, marine-geology, miami, ocean-gt-bathymetry-seafloor-topography-gt-water-depth, ocean-gt-coastal-processes-gt-coastal-elevation, ocean-gt-coastal-processes-gt-coral-reefs, ocean-gt-coastal-processes-gt-erosion, ocean-gt-coastal-processes-gt-sea-level-rise, oceans, reef-ecosystems, sea-floor-characteristics, sea-level-change, sea-level-rise, seafloor, seafloor-accretion, seafloor-elevation, seafloor-erosion, submerged, submerged-topography, usgs-9c90e4a4-77ad-4364-a827-2ed68cfeef0a
Organization: Department of the Interior
Attributes for NHDPlus Version 2.1 Catchments and Modified Routing of Upstream Watersheds for the Conterminous United States: Percent NLCD 2011 Tree Canopy

This tabular data set represents percent NLCD 2011 Tree Canopy compiled for two spatial components of the NHDPlus version 2 data suite (NHDPlusv2) for the conterminous United States; 1) individual reach catchments and 2) reach catchments accumulated upstream through the river network. This dataset can be linked to the NHDPlus version 2 data suite by the unique identifier COMID.  The source data for  percent NLCD 2011 Tree Canopy was produced by the United States Department of Agriculture (Tipton and others, 2012). Units are percent. Reach catchment information characterizes data at the local scale. Reach catchments accumulated upstream through the river network characterizes cumulative upstream conditions.  Network-accumulated values are computed using two methods, 1) divergence-routed and 2) total cumulative drainage area. Both approaches use a modified routing database to navigate the NHDPlus reach network to aggregate (accumulate) the metrics derived from the reach catchment scale. (Schwarz and Wieczorek, 2018).

Tags: arkansas-white_red, california, catchment, conterminous-united-states, great-lakes, inlandwaters, lower-mississippi, missouri, nawqa, new-england-and-mid-atlantic, nhdplus, ohio, pacific-northwest, percent-nlcd-2011-tree-canopy-in-100-meter-riparian-buffer, rio-grande-colorado-and-great-basin, souris-red-rainy, south-atlantic-gulf-and-tennessee, sparrow, tennessee, texas-gulf, upper-mississippi, usgs-570572e2e4b0d4e2b75718bc
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data Release: Buttonland Swamp, health survey, 2022

This dataset contains tree health information in 2022 for ten trees in Buttonland Swamp, part of the Cache River Watershed in Illinois. The data includes the height of the trees along with their crown ratio. This allows an understanding of the size and canopy health of Buttonland Swamp cypress trees. A Munsell color chart was utilized in determining leaf color. Leaf color tells whether the trees are healthy or if they are experiencing stress such as lack of nutrients, exposure to pesticides, or impoundment.

Tags: biota, buttonland-swamp, cache-river, illinois, southern-illinois, swamp, united-states, usgs-6363df42d34ebe44250706c5
Organization: Department of the Interior