AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Surveys of channel bed topography from two restored reaches of the lower Merced River, California

Surveys of channel and floodplain topography were used to characterize the morphology of two reaches of the lower Merced River in California's Central Valley and to parameterize a hydraulic model.  These data were collected to support research intended to evaluate the extent to which large-scale restoration projects provided improved salmon spawning habitat. A related goal of this study was to improve our understanding of the geomorphic factors influencing spawning site selection by salmon.  At the Merced River Ranch field site, river channel and floodplain topography was measured using a combination of real-time kinematic (RTK) GPS for wadable parts of the channel, an echo sounder for deep pools, and photogrammetry on dry land [CFS, 2013]. The raw point data were used to generate a triangular irregular network (TIN) and the TIN was converted to a 1 m raster using natural neighbor interpolation. For the 2.5 km long Robinson Reach field site, bed topography was surveyed during the summer of 2012 using real-time kinematic (RTK) GPS, with a mean cross-section spacing of 7 m. The original survey points were interpolated to form a continuous surface using kriging methods developed for curved river channels [Legleiter and Kyriakidis, 2008]. The result of the kriging was a digital elevation model (DEM) of the river channel and 10 m of the floodplain adjacent to each bank, with a spatial resolution of 1 m.

Tags: california, channel-morphology, hydraulic-model, merced-river, river, salmon, spawning, topography, usgs-5bd9e882e4b0b3fc5cec09e8
Organization: Department of the Interior
Reference wells for the regional ground-water potential map by Bedinger and Harrill (2004), Death Valley regional ground-water flow system, Nevada and California

This digital geospatial data set is a compilation of reference points representing wells deeper than 
300 meters in Nevada that were used for the regional ground-water potential map by Bedinger and 
Harrill (2004).  The regional ground-water-potential map was developed to assess potential interbasin 
flow in the Death Valley regional ground-water flow system (DVRFS), a 100,000 square-kilometer 
region of southern Nevada and California. To obtain an adequate network of control points, Bedinger 
and Harrill (2004) used regional potential altitudes derived from surface-water features, ground-water 
levels, topographic settings and springs in addition to the deep well data. A set of general guidelines 
was developed to relate regional ground-water potential to these more readily observed surface and 
near-surface ground-water levels and to hydrologic characteristics of ground-water basins in the 
DVRFS (see "Larger Work Citation", Appendix 1).

Tags: amargosa-desert, ash-meadows, california, california-valley, chicago-valley, china-ranch, clark-county, clayton-valley, coal-valley, death-valley, death-valley-regional-ground-water-flow-system, eastern-california, esmeralda-county, eureka-valley, evapotranspiration, flow-model, franklin-lake, franklin-well, garden-valley, ground-water, ground-water-discharge, ground-water-pumping, ground-water-recharge, hydraulic-conductivity, hydraulic-head, hydraulic-head-observation, hydrogeologic-framework-model, hydrogeology, hydrology, inyo-county, kern-county, las-vegas-valley, lateral-ground-water-flow, lateral-ground-water-model-boundary, lincoln-county, mesquite-valley, mineral-county, mono-county, net-infiltration, nevada, nevada-test-site, nye-county, oasis-valley, owlshead-mountains, pahranagat-range, pahrump-valley, panamint-range, penoyer-valley, railroad-valley, resting-spring, saline-valley, san-bernardino-county, sarcobatus-flat, sheep-range, shoshone, silurian-valley, southern-nevada, spring-flow, spring-mountains, steady-state-ground-water-model, stewart-valley, stone-cabin-valley, tecopa, transient-ground-water-model, usgs-166682f9-da67-4c6e-93a2-aa5be7f251ac, water-level, water-well, yucca-mountain
Organization: Department of the Interior
Scatterplots of the joint distributions of historical (1950-2005) drought-event characteristics derived from the SFWMD Super-grid datasets

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

Tags: climate, climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, droughts, evapotranspiration, extremes, florida, precipitation-atmospheric, precipitation-extremes, south-florida, south-florida-water-management-district, southern-florida, usgs-668ebf48d34e537145a785c3
Organization: Department of the Interior
Gulf Coast Estimated Thickness of the Middle Miocene Sequence

The thickness contours were created using biostratigraphic data in the Paleo-Data, Inc., Tenroc Regional Geologic Database.  The depths of the microfossil locations were associated with the wells data provided by the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources.  Because of the proprietary nature of the Tenroc database, no actual data can be shown and only those data points contained in the Louisiana State wells database are included in the control points layer.  Contouring was accomplished in Dynamic Graphics, Inc., EarthVision modeling software (v.5) using minimum tension gridding.  Three custom programs were used to convert contour lines generated from grids in EarthVision to Arc/Info coverages and then to shapefiles.  The data are provided as both lines and polygons (mmthicklg.shp and mmthickpg.shp), and the public wells that penetrate the entire thickness of the Middle Miocene sequence are provided in a point shapefile (mmthickptg.shp).
These datasets contain basic data and interpretations developed and compiled by the U.S. Geological Survey's Framework Studies and Assessment of the Gulf Coast Project.  Other major sources of data include publicly available information from state agencies as well as publications of the U.S. Geological Survey and other scientific organizations.  In cases where company proprietary data were used to produce various derivatives such as contour surfaces, the source is cited but the data are not displayed.

Tags: coal, coalbed-methane, coalbed-methane-resources, contours, earth-science, economic-geology, economy, energy-resources, geology, geoscientificinformation, gulf-coast, gulf-coast-framework-studies, gulfcoastframework, gulfroom, isopach, la, louisiana, miocene, natural-gas, natural-gas-resources, natural-resources, oil, oil-sand-resources, oilgas, petroleum, resource-assessment, tertiary-systems, thickness, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-60c92f2ad34e86b9389df7c3
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coosa River Bank Topography and Comparisons at Walter Bouldin Dam sites WB101 and WB106, near Wetumpka, Alabama, November 2014 - July 2017

These datasets contain XYZ locations and other attributes of points from topographic bank surveys of sites WB101 and WB106 downstream from Walter Bouldin Dam near Wetumpka, Alabama, from November 20, 2014, through July 20, 2017.  Topographic data were collected using a motion-compensated LiDAR (MC-LiDAR) system mounted on a marine survey vessel equipped with an inertial navigation system (INS).  Data were collected as the vessel traversed the river along a survey line near sites WB101 and WB106.  Data collection software integrated and stored the range and angular measurements from the LiDAR, and the horizontal and vertical position and attitude data of the vessel from the INS in real time.  Data processing required computer software to extract topography data from the raw data files and to summarize and map the information.  Point cloud comparison software was then used to compute the distance and volume gain or loss between surveys.

Tags: al, alabama, ascii, coosa-river, elevation, geology, geoscientificinformation, imagerybasemapsearthcover, inland-waters, inlandwaters, lidar, location, structure, u-s-geological-survey, usa, usgs, usgs-5afe021ae4b0da30c1bdb9af, wetumpka, xyz
Organization: Department of the Interior
Washington Mule Deer Wenatchee Mountains Winter Range

Along the eastern slope of the Cascade Mountains in Chelan and Kittitas counties, the Wenatchee Mountains mule deer herd inhabits a matrix of private and public lands. Historically, the Wenatchee Mountains mule deer were separated into two sub-herds, Chelan and Kittitas; however, recent movement data from GPS-collared individuals associated with Secretarial Order 3362 (Department of the Interior, 2018) revealed that the mule deer south of U.S. Highway 2 and north of Interstate 90 represent one population. Their high-use winter range extends along the foothills west and south of Wenatchee, Washington and throughout the foothills of the Kittitas Valley outside Ellensburg, Washington. The low-use winter range occurs along the foothills west of the Columbia River. In the spring, migratory individuals travel west into the Wenatchee Mountains to their summer range, which includes the Alpine Lakes Wilderness Area. Wenatchee Mountains mule deer are partially migratory; a higher proportion of migratory individuals occupy the northern winter range of the Wenatchee Mountains and non-migratory individuals more commonly inhabit the foothills of the Kittitas Valley. The increasing frequency of large-scale wildfires and residential development continue to degrade and reduce available winter range. Disturbance from human recreation on the winter range continues to be a concern. Semipermeable barriers to spring and fall migration include U.S. Highway 97 or State Route 970, both of which experience relatively high volumes of traffic in the region.
These mapping layers show the location of the winter ranges for Mule Deer (Odocoileus hemionus) in the Wenatchee Mountains population in Washington. They were developed from 146 winter sequences collected from a sample size of 92 animals comprising GPS locations collected every 4 hours.

Tags: animal-behavior, biota, migration-organisms, migration-route, migratory-species, united-states, usgs-63650c5dd34ebe442507cebd, washington, wenatchee
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital database of the previously published geologic map of the Scottsbluff 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nebraska and Colorado

This data release contains a digital compilation of geologic data from the Scottsbluff 1° x 2° quadrangle of western Nebraska and northeastern Colorado, a region predominantly characterized by Quaternary and Tertiary sedimentary and extrusive igneous rocks. This geodatabase, digitized from published resources, includes the position of volcanic ash-bed localities, structural data of inclined beds, orientation of geologic contacts and structural contours of specified stratigraphic horizons, and geographic extent of mapped geologic outcrops. This geologic compilation includes a geodatabase with applicable spatial feature classes accompanied by non-spatial tables with information that describes the data sources, glossary of terms, and description of map units. Spatial data are also available as shapefiles.

Tags: arikaree-group, ash-hollow-formation, broadwater-formation, brule-formation, chadron-formation, colorado, eocene, federal-geographic-data-committee, fgdc, gems, geographic-information-systems, geologic-contacts, geologic-map-schema, geologic-maps, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, gering-formation, harrison-and-monroe-creek-formations, holocene, miocene, national-cooperative-geologic-mapping-program, national-geologic-synthesis-project, ncgmp, nebraska, ngs, north-america, north-platte, ogallala-group, oligocene, pleistocene, pliocene, quaternary, scottsbluff, structure-contours, surficial-geologic-contacts, tertiary, united-states, united-states-geoframework-initiative, usgi, usgs-62ed9d25d34eacf539725793, white-river-group
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data release for the Geographic context affects the landscape change and fragmentation caused by wind energy facilities.

Wind energy generation causes transformation of landscapes as new roads, pads, and transmission lines are constructed.  We mapped, quantified, and analyzed the effects of facilities geographic context on road networks and changes in landscape patterns by digitizing the footprints of 39 wind facilities and the surrounding land cover using high-resolution imagery. We then measured landscape pattern before and after facility construction, using 3 metrics associated with species responses to habitat loss and fragmentation (amount, core area, and connectivity of undeveloped land) at the scale of 1km around newly constructed turbines and roads. This data here was used in understanding how new facilities change the amount of undeveloped land and changes in metrics of landscape patterns as key measures that could be used by developers and planners to make informed siting and layout decisions.  Results showed that for these sites, new facilities decreased the amount of undeveloped land, on average, by just 1.8% while changes in metrics of landscape pattern were relatively much larger (50 to 125%). Linear models in the research paper results indicated levels of pre-construction development were a key factor explaining the impact of new wind facilities on landscape metrics, with pre-construction road networks, turbine spacing, and topography having smaller influences. Furthermore, as the proportion of developed land around facilities increased, a higher proportion of the facility utilized pre-construction developed land and a lower density of new roads were built, resulting in smaller impacts to undeveloped landscapes.

Tags: connectivity, core-area, development, energy, fragmentation, gis, land-use, landscape-pattern, roads, usgs, usgs-5a1343cfe4b09fc93dce6580, wind-facility
Organization: Department of the Interior
Argos Satellite Tracking Data for Common Murres (Uria aalge) - Raw Data

This metadata document describes the data contained in the "Argos Raw Data" (Child Item 2) of this data release. This data release contains all data collected by the Argos System from 28 satellite transmitters attached to Common Murres on their breeding range in arctic and western Alaska, 1994-1996. Five data files are included in the "Argos Raw Data" (Child Item 2) of this data release. Two data files (with identical content) contain the raw Argos DIAG (Diagnostic) data, one in the legacy verbose ASCII format and one in a tabular Comma Separate Value (CSV) format. Two other data files (with identical content) contain the raw Argos DS (Dispose) data, one in the legacy verbose ASCII format and one in a tabular CSV format. The fifth file, "deploymentAttributes", contains one record for each transmitter deployment in a CSV formatted table. The deployment attributes file contains information such as when the transmitter was attached to the animal, when tracking of a live animal ended, and a variety of variables describing the animal and transmitter. This table is identical to the "deploymentAttributes" table in the "Argos Processed Data" (Child Item 1) of this data release.

Tags: alaska, animal-tracking, animals-vertebrates, argos, barren-islands, bering-sea, biota, birds, breeding-area, breeding-sites, cape-lisburne, cape-thompson, capture-recapture-studies, chukchi-sea, coastal-ecosystems, common-murre, environment, gulf-of-alaska, marine-ecosystems, middleton-island, migratory-birds, migratory-rates-routes, migratory-species, ornithology, overwintering, platform-transmitter-terminal, ptt, satellite-transmitter, seasonal-distribution, seasonal-movement, species-life-history, telemetry, tracking-equipment, uria-aalge, usgs-asc291, waders-gulls-auks-and-allies, wildlife, wintering-area
Organization: Department of the Interior
Rock Chemistry for Fort Stanton-Snowy River Samples

The Fort Stanton-Snowy River cave system (FSC) is located in Lincoln County, New Mexico in the upper Rio Hondo Basin.  The entrance of the cave is on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land near the site of historic Fort Stanton.   These data represent the total recoverable rock chemistry associated with the geology of the surface near the cave.  The data include major and trace element concentrations. The rock chemistry will aid investigators in understanding the source of the water that deposits the Snowy River Formation.

Tags: biota, cave-karst-rock-chemistry, usgs-5eac955482cefae35a2473eb
Organization: Department of the Interior
Marine Arctic polygon distribution of Coho Salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) (Walbaum, 1792)

Region(s) of distribution of Coho Salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) (Walbaum, 1792) in the Arctic as digitized for U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2016-5038. For details on the project and purpose, see the report at https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20165038. Complete metadata for the collection of species datasets is in the metadata document "Dataset_for_Alaska_Marine_Fish_Ecology_Catalog.xml" at https://doi.org/10.5066/F7M61HD7. Source(s) for this digitized data layer are listed in the metadata Process Steps section. Note that the original source may show an extended area; some datasets were limited to the published map boundary. Distributions of marine fishes are shown in adjacent Arctic seas where reliable data are available. The data were clipped to show only the marine distribution areas although some species also may have an inland presence.

Tags: alaska, arctic, beaufort-sea, bering-sea, bering-strait, biogeography, chukchi-beaufort-lease-area, chukchi-sea, coho-salmon, distributions, ecology, fish, marine, marine-fishery-resources, northeast-russia, northwest-canada, northwest-territories, nunavut, oncorhynchus-kisutch, u-s-exclusive-economic-zone, usgs-58812df4e4b00a062356ffa9, walbaum-1792, yukon
Organization: Department of the Interior
Argos Satellite Tracking Data for Common Murres (Uria aalge) - Processed Data

This metadata document describes the data contained in the "Argos Processed Data" (Child Item 1) of this data release. This data release contains all data collected by the Argos System from 28 satellite transmitters attached to Common Murres on their breeding range in arctic and western Alaska, 1994-1996. The raw data were processed to accomplish two goals: flag implausible location estimates and decode raw sensor data. Three Comma Separate Value (CSV) tables are included in the "Argos Processed Data" (Child Item 1) of this data release: 1) the "diag_filteredLocations" table contains one record for every Argos location estimate collected, accompanied by a binary flag that denotes an algorithm's plausibility check (based on distance, turning angle, and rate thresholds). Each record also includes a 'Tracking_Status' variable that denotes whether the location was collected from a live animal, a dead animal, or shed transmitter, 2) the "decodedSensor" table contains decoded sensor data such as the transmitter's temperature, battery voltage, and motion (activity), and 3) the "deploymentAttributes" table contains one record for each transmitter deployment in a CSV formatted table. The deployment attributes file contains information such as when the transmitter was attached to the animal, when tracking of a live animal ended, and a variety of variables describing the animal and transmitter. This table is identical to the "deploymentAttributes" table in the "Argos Raw Data" (Child Item 2) of this data release.

Tags: alaska, animal-tracking, animals-vertebrates, argos, barren-islands, bering-sea, biota, birds, breeding-area, breeding-sites, cape-lisburne, cape-thompson, capture-recapture-studies, chukchi-sea, coastal-ecosystems, common-murre, environment, gulf-of-alaska, marine-ecosystems, middleton-island, migratory-birds, migratory-rates-routes, migratory-species, ornithology, overwintering, platform-transmitter-terminal, ptt, satellite-transmitter, seasonal-distribution, seasonal-movement, species-life-history, telemetry, tracking-equipment, uria-aalge, usgs-asc292, waders-gulls-auks-and-allies, wildlife, wintering-area
Organization: Department of the Interior
Scoter (Melanitta sp.) ddRAD SNP and Microsatellite Genetic Data, North America and Europe, 1977-2012

This data set contains sampling information, allele sizes of 11 microsatellite loci, and Genbank accession numbers of ddRAD seq results for scoters (Melanitta sp.). Microsatellite data is provided for three North American species of scoter (black scoter, M. americana n = 61; white-winged scoter, M. deglandi, n = 208; surf scoter, M. perspicillata, n = 145) and their European congeners (common scoter, M. nigra, n = 19; velvet scoter, M. fusca, n = 20). Individuals with ddRAD results include 27 black scoters, 4 common scoters, 32 surf scoters, 28 white-winged scoters, and 4 velvet scoters.

Tags: alaska, alleles, animals-vertebrates, baja-california, biota, birds, british-columbia, canada, coastal-ecosystems, denmark, dna, dna-primers, environment, estuarine-habitat, gene-flow, genetic-markers, genetic-structure, genetics, melanitta-americana, melanitta-deglandi, melanitta-fusca, melanitta-nigra, melanitta-perspicillata, mexico, microsatellite-repeats, midtjylland, migratory-birds, new-brunswick, newfoundland-and-labrador, northwest-territories, nova-scotia, polymerase-chain-reaction, population-dynamics, quebec, rhode-island, saskatchewan, seasonal-distribution, seasonal-movement, sjaelland, syddanmark, terrestrial-ecosystems, usgs-asc279, virginia, washington, waterfowl, wetland-ecosystems, wildlife
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hydraulic model for flood-inundation maps for the Schoharie Creek in North Blenheim, NY

This child item data set contains the hydraulic model used for 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-6138bb8ed34e40dd9c0d5b1b
Organization: Department of the Interior