AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Data on blood cells of the collector urchin, Tripneustes gratilla

Echinoderms such as urchins are important in marine ecosystems, particularly as grazers, and unhealthy urchins can have important ecological implications.  For instance, unexplained mortalities of Diadema sp. in the Caribbean were followed by algal overgrowth and subsequent collapse of coral reef ecosystems. Unfortunately few tools exist to evaluate echinoderm health making management of mortalities or other health issues problematic.  Hematology is often used to assess animal health in many animal groups including invertebrates but is seldom applied to echninoderms.  We used a standard gravitometric technique to concentrate fixed ceolomocytes from the collector urchin Tripneustes gratilla onto microscope slides permitting staining and enumeration.  Using Romanowsky stain and electron microscopy to visualize cell details, we found that in addition to amoebocytes, vibratile, clear and red spherule cells, Tripneustes has at least three other types of coelomocytes.  Moreover, cytophagia of host cells by less than 1% of circulating amoebocytes is common (seen in 71% of sea urchins sampled).   Cytophagocytic amoebocytes seems to target mainly the motile cells including red spherules, clear spherules, and vibratile cells disproportionate to underlying populations of these cell types.   Lectins appear to bind to coelomocytes selectively and could be a useful biomarker for identifying or purifying echinoderm coelomocytes.  The blood collection and smear preparation methods described here are simple, field portable, and might be a useful complementary tool for assessing health of other marine invertebrates and revealing heretofore unknown physiologic phenomena in this animal group.

Tags: biota, coelomocytes, echinoderms, electron-microscopy, hematology, lectins, light-microscopy, tripneustes-gratilla, usgs-5ef4c5f982ced62aaae6732c
Organization: Department of the Interior
Census counts of benthic foraminifera, environmental parameters (temperature, salinity, and oxygen concentration), and radiocarbon measurements from cores obtained under and near a whale-fall off western Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

This data release provides census counts of benthic foraminifera (in percent for the total fauna and as raw counts for just the living specimens) as well as environmental parameters (temperature, salinity, and oxygen concentration) at the sampling sites, and radiocarbon measurements from selected push core samples obtained under and near a whale-fall off western Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

Tags: animals, benthic-foraminifera, biota, british-columbia, canada, carbon-14-analysis, chemical-analysis, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, environment, geochemistry, geologic-dating, habitat, invertebrates, marine-chemistry, microscopy, oceanographic-observations, organisms, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pacific-ocean, pcmsc, protists, radiometric-dating, society, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-6127f62dd34e40dd9c051c99, vancouver-island
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hurricane Sandy: 2013 NWI Data of Selected USFWS Coastal Barrier Resource Act (CBRA) Units along New Jersey

Hurricane Sandy directly hit the Atlantic shoreline of New Jersey during several astronomical high tide cycles in late October, 2012.   The eastern seaboard areas are subject to sea level rise and increased severity and frequency of storm events, prompting habitat and land use planning changes.   Wetland Aquatic Research Center (WARC) has conducted detailed mapping of marine and estuarine wetlands and deepwater habitats, including beaches and  tide flats,  and upland land use/land cover,  using  specially-acquired  aerial imagery  flown at 1-meter resolution.These efforts will assist the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) continuing endeavors to map  the barrier islands adhering to Coastal Barrier Resources Act (CBRA) guidelines. Mapped areas consist of selected federal lands including, National Park Service areas, USFWS National Wildlife  Refuges, and selected CBRA Units, including barrier islands and marshes in New York and New Jersey. These vital wetland areas are important for migratory waterfowl and neotropical  bird habitats, wildlife  food chain support and nurseries for shellfish and finfish populations.  Coastal wetlands also play an important function as storm surge buffers.  This project includes mapping  of dominant estuarine wetland plant species useful for wetland functional analysis and wildlife evaluation and management concerns. It also aims to integrate with and  offer updated databases pertinent to:  USFWS NWR and NWI programs, NOAA tide flats and beaches data, FEMA flood zone data, Natural Heritage Endangered and Threated Species, watershed  management, and state and local land use planning.

Tags: boundaries, environment, planningcadastre, u-s-f-w-s-coastal-barrier-resources-act, u-s-fish-and-wildlife-service-northeast-region, u-s-national-park-service, usgs-5798da90e4b0589fa1c72948
Organization: Department of the Interior
Upper Klamath Basin Landsat Image for August 4, 2004: Path 45 Rows 30 and 31

This image is a mosaic of Landsat-5 images of the upper Klamath Basin. 
The original images were obtained from the U.S. Geological Survey Earth 
Resources Observation and Science Center (EROS). EROS is responsible 
for archive management and distribution of Landsat data products. The 
Landsat-5 satellite is part of an ongoing mission to provide quality remote 
sensing data in support of research and applications activities. The launch 
of Landsat-5 on March 1, 1984 marks the addition of the fifth satellite to the 
Landsat series. The Landsat-5 satellite carries the Thematic Mapper (TM) 
sensor. More information on the Landsat program can be found online at 
http://landsat.usgs.gov/.

Tags: environment, geoscientificinformation, inlandwaters, klamath-basin-restoration-agreement, landsat, oregon, sprague-river-basin, upper-klamath-basin, usgs-d169b56a-4778-4b58-98a1-54be4f739bfb, williamson-river-basin, wood-river-basin
Organization: Department of the Interior
Locations and Properties of Ice-Exposing Scarps and New Impact Craters in the Mid-Latitudes of Mars

Although ice in the Martian mid-latitudes is typically covered by a layer of dust or
regolith, it is exposed in some locations by fresh impact craters or in erosional scarps. In
both cases, the exposed ice is massive or excess ice with a low lithic content. We find that
erosional scarps occur between 50–61 north and south latitude, and that they are
concentrated in and near Milankovič crater in the northern hemisphere and southeast of the
Hellas basin in the southern hemisphere. These may represent locations of particularly thick
or clean bodies of ice. Pits created by retreat of the scarps represent
sublimation-thermokarst landforms that evolve in a manner distinct from other ice-loss
landforms on Mars. New impact craters reveal that clean subsurface ice is widespread at
middle and high latitudes in both hemispheres at depths less than one meter. Both the depth
to ice and the ice content appear to exhibit significant variability over short distances
(tens to hundreds of meters). The lowest-latitude exposed ice is near 39 N and is at the
edge of a region where impact exposures between 40–50 N are common, consistent with other
indications of a high ice content in this area. This lowest-latitude ice may be currently
unstable and subliming. Impact craters on lineated valley fill excavate ice blocks that may
represent the top of debris-covered glacial ice. Together, these landforms indicate
widespread, clean subsurface ice at middle latitudes on Mars. The distribution and
properties of this ice could provide information about past climate conditions.

Tags: geoscientificinformation, ice, mars, milankovic-crater, planetary-science, usgs-5f99f0b8d34e198cb786e8e7
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data related to a ground-based InSAR survey of the Slumgullion landslide, Hinsdale County, Colorado, 26 June 2010-1 July 2010

We performed a ground-based, interferometric, synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) survey of the Slumgullion landslide located in Hinsdale County, Colorado. The survey was performed 26 June 2010-1 July 2010 and utilized the IBIS-L InSAR system developed by IDS Corporation. Radar measurements were supplemented by hourly in-situ displacement, pore-water pressure, and rainfall measurements. In-situ displacement was measured using electronic cable extension transducers (extensometers) at three locations and GPS surveying at one location.  Pore-water pressures were measured at three locations using electronic vibrating-wire pressure transducers (piezometers). Rainfall was measured at one location using a tipping-bucket rain gage. Georeferenced InSAR data were obtained as cumulative line-of-sight displacement of points on and off of the landslide, and in-situ displacement data were obtained as cumulative displacement parallel to the radar line of sight. InSAR data were obtained continuously (hourly) throughout the survey period while in-situ data were obtained sporadically but generally on an hourly basis.
These data are associated with a study described in Schulz, W.H., Coe, J.A., Ricci, P.P., Smoczyk, G.M., Shurtleff, B.L., and Panosky, J., 2017, Landslide kinematics and their potential controls from hourly to decadal timescales: Insights from integrating ground-based InSAR measurements with structural maps and long-term monitoring data: Geomorphology, doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2017.02.011.

Tags: colorado, hinsdale-county, insar, kinematics, landslide, slumgullion, usgs-57052af6e4b0d4e2b756aac0
Organization: Department of the Interior
Wind rose plots for the volcano: 334020  Northern EPR-Segment RO2

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-58d01653e4b0236b68f53089, volcanic-ash, volcanic-eruption-forecasting, wind
Organization: Department of the Interior
Intersects for the Outer Cape Cod, Massachusetts, generated to calculate shoreline change rates using the Digital Shoreline Analysis System version 5.1

The Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management launched the Shoreline Change Project in 1989 to identify erosion-prone areas of the coast and support local land-use decisions. Trends of shoreline position over long and short-term timescales provide information to landowners, managers, and potential buyers about possible future impacts to coastal resources and infrastructure.  In 2001, a 1994 shoreline was added to calculate both long- and short-term shoreline change rates along ocean-facing sections of the Massachusetts coast. In 2013 two oceanfront shorelines for Massachusetts were added using 2008-2009 color aerial orthoimagery and 2007 topographic lidar datasets obtained from NOAA's Ocean Service, Coastal Services Center. In 2018, two new mean high water (MHW) shorelines for the Massachusetts coast extracted from lidar data between 2010-2014 were added to the dataset. This 2021 data release includes rates that incorporate one new shoreline from lidar data extracted in 2018 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Technical Center of Expertise (JALBTCX), added to the existing database of all historical shorelines (1844-2014), for the North Shore, South Shore, Cape Cod Bay, Outer Cape, Buzzard’s Bay, South Cape, Nantucket, and Martha’s Vineyard. 2018 lidar data did not cover the Boston or Elizabeth Islands regions. Included in this data release is a proxy-datum bias reference line that accounts for the positional difference in a proxy shoreline (the high water Line shoreline) and a datum shoreline (the mean high water shoreline. This issue is explained further in Ruggiero and List (2009) and in the process steps of the metadata associated with the rates. This release includes both long-term (~150+ years) and short term (~30 years) rates.  Files associated with the long-term rates have “LT” in their names, files associated with short-term rates have "ST” in their names.

Tags: atlantic-coast, cape-cod, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, coastal-processes, digital-shoreline-analysis-system, dsas, environment, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, intersects, massachusetts, north-america, oceans, outer-cape, shoreline, shoreline-change, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-61094029d34ef8d705668d88, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Tsunami evacuation time map for American Samoa predicted maximum tsunami (PMT) inundation zone and fast run speed

The travel time map was generated using the Pedestrian Evacuation Analyst model (version 1.0.1 for ArcGIS 10.5) from the USGS (https://geography.wr.usgs.gov/science/vulnerability/tools.html). The travel time analysis uses ESRI's Path Distance tool to find the shortest distance across a cost surface from any point in the hazard zone to a safe zone. This cost analysis considers the direction of movement and assigns a higher cost to steeper slopes, based on a table contained within the model. The analysis also adds in the energy costs of crossing different types of land cover, assuming that less energy is expended walking along a road than walking across a sandy beach. To produce the time map, the evacuation surface output from the model is grouped into 1-minute increments for easier visualization. The times in the attribute table represent the estimated time to travel on foot to the nearest safe zone at the speed designated in the map title. The file name indicates whether the map is of the recreated tsunami inundation zone for the 2009 Mw 8.1 Samoa earthquake or a probable maximum tsunami (PMT) inundation zone for American Samoa and which travel speed was used in the modelling (slow walk, fast walk, slow run, or fast run). These data, in polygon shapefile format, are intended for use in GIS software applications.
These data support the following publication: Wood, N.J., Jones, J.M., Yamazaki, Y., Cheung, K-F., Brown, J., Jones, J.L., and Abdollahian, N., 2018, Population vulnerability to tsunami hazards informed by previous and projected disasters—a case study of American Samoa: Natural Hazards, 24 p., https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-018-3493-7.

Tags: evacuation, hazards, modeling, pedestrian, tsunamis, usgs-5b7dec21e4b045b1dc7bee7e
Organization: Department of the Interior
Chance of potentially moderate-damage ground shaking in 2018 based on the average of horizontal spectral response acceleration for 1.0-second period and peak ground acceleration for the Central and Eastern United States

A one-year seismic hazard forecast for the Central and Eastern United States, based on induced and natural  earthquakes, has been produced by the U.S. Geological Survey.  The model assumes that earthquake rates calculated from several different time windows will remain relatively stationary and can be used to forecast earthquake hazard and damage intensity for the year 2018. This assessment is the first step in developing an operational earthquake forecast for the CEUS, and the analysis could be revised with updated seismicity and model parameters. Consensus input models consider alternative earthquake catalog durations, smoothing parameters, maximum magnitudes, and ground motion estimates, and represent uncertainties in earthquake occurrence and diversity of opinion in the science community.  Near some areas of active induced earthquakes, hazard is higher than in the 2014 USGS National Seismic Hazard Model (NSHM) by more than a factor of 3; the 2014 NSHM did not consider induced earthquakes. In some areas, previously observed induced earthquakes have stopped, so the seismic hazard reverts back to the 2014 NSHM.
This data sets represents the results of calculations of hazard curves for a grid of points with a spacing of 0.05 degrees in latitude and longitude. They represent the chance of experiencing potentially damaging ground shaking for fixed ground shaking levels that corresponds with MMI = VII. The values are obtained by averaging the probability of experiencing MMI = VII based on a peak ground acceleration value of 0.2152 g for site class D, and the probability of experiencing MMI = VII based on 1.0-second spectral acceleration value of 0.2256 g for site class D.  The data are for the Central and Eastern United States and are based on the one-year model described above.

Tags: alabama, arizona, arkansas, colorado, connecticut, delaware, district-of-columbia, earthquake, florida, georgia, hazard, illinois, indiana, induced, iowa, kansas, kentucky, louisiana, maine, maryland, massachusetts, michigan, minnesota, mississippi, missouri, montana, natural, nebraska, new-hampshire, new-jersey, new-mexico, new-york, north-carolina, north-dakota, ohio, oklahoma, pennsylvania, rhode-island, seismic, south-carolina, south-dakota, tennessee, texas, united-states, usa, usgs-5a8c995de4b069906054df91, utah, vermont, virginia, west-virginia, wisconsin, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Oceanographic temperature profiling device sampling location for joint cruise U.S. Geological Survey 02051 - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration RB0208 in the Puerto Rico Trench region in Sept. 2002 (xbt_2002.shp, point shapefile, geographic, WGS84)

In 2002 and 2003, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center (WHCMSC), in cooperation with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), conducted three exploration cruises (USGS Cruise 02051, NOAA RB0208, September 24 to 30, 2002; USGS Cruise 03008, NOAA RB0303, February 18 to March 7, 2003 and USGS Cruise 03032, NOAA RB0305, August 28 to September 4, 2003). These cruises mapped for the first time the morphology of this entire tectonic plate boundary stretching from the Dominican Republic in the west to the Lesser Antilles in the east, a distance of approximately 700 kilometers (430 miles). Observations from these three exploration cruises, coupled with computer modeling and published Global Positioning System (GPS) results and earthquake focal mechanisms have provided new information that is changing the evaluation of the seismic and tsunami hazard from this plate boundary. The observations collected during these cruises also contributed to the basic understanding of the mechanisms that govern plate tectonics, in this case, the creation of the island of Puerto Rico and the deep trench north of it. Results of the sea floor mapping have been an important component of the study of tsunami and earthquake hazards to the northeastern Caribbean and the U.S. Atlantic coast off the United States. For additional information on the cruises see:
http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/ia/public_ds_info.php?fa=2002-051-FA
http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/ia/public_ds_info.php?fa=2002-051-FA
http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/ia/public_ds_info.php?fa=2002-051-FA

Tags: atlantic-ocean, caribbean-sea, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, expendable-bathythermograph, field-activity-2002-051-fa, geospatial-datasets, infobank-id-b-1-02-pr, locations, marine-chemistry, national-oceanic-and-atmospheric-administration, navigational-data, noaa, noaa-cruise-rb0208, noaa-hydrographic-survey-atlantic-branch, noaa-office-of-ocean-exploration, north-america, north-atlantic-ocean, ocean-temperature, oceans, ofr-2006-1210, open-file-report-2006-1210, point-shapefile, puerto-rico, puerto-rico-trench, ronald-h-brown, sea-floor-mapping, sippican-mk-12-xbt, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-fc333236-b7d2-44b6-9ef5-ae105333f79c, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center, xbt
Organization: Department of the Interior
Basal stem area of fruiting understory data for Hakalau Forest, Hawaii, 2015-2016

This data release includes data and metadata on 1) avian diet  2) seed rain 3) understory plant composition 4) seedling abundance and 5) sampling locations for these sites. In addition it includes data on seedling abundance, grass cover and light levels for a grass removal/seed addition experiment . All sites were within Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge on Hawaii Island. This study looked at  multiple biotic interactions that potentially lead to self-reinforcing feedbacks within intact forest and degraded forest sites. This data, in particular, focuses on the basal area of different species of fruiting plants within 20m of all of the seedrain traps.

Tags: avian-diet, botany, ecology, exotic-grass, forest-resources, forest-restoration, hakalau-forest-national-wildlife-refuge, hawaii, land-use-change, plant-competition, plant-ecology, seed-limitation, seedling-recruitment, tropical-forest-dynamics, usgs-5fa0f4b7d34e198cb793caa7
Organization: Department of the Interior
Local and landscape-scale data describing patterns of coastal wetland loss in the Texas Chenier Plain, U.S.A., 2017-2018

We characterized coastal wetland responses to flooding stress by measuring vegetation cover, wetland elevation and water elevation in healthy and degrading wetlands dominated by Spartina patens. Wetland elevation was measured using real-time kinematic survey methods. Vegetation cover was determined by visual estimation methods, and water elevation was measured using in situ continuous recorders. In addition to these local-scale responses, we also measured landscape-scale patterns of land and water aggregation or fragmentation using remotely sensed data (Jones et al., 2018).
Associated products:
Jones, W.R., Hartley, S.B., Stagg, C.L., and Osland, M.J. 2018. Land-water classification for selected sites in McFaddin NWR and J.D. Murphree WMA: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7736Q51.

Tags: aggregation, ecological-threshold, flooding, grand-chenier, habitat-fragmentation, hydrologic-characteristics-of-habitats, texas, usgs-5cb77021e4b0c3b0065d7cee, wetlands
Organization: Department of the Interior