AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Model archive summary for turbidity derived suspended-sediment concentration at USGS station 01349527 Mohawk River above State Highway 30A at Fonda, New York

This child item model archive summary documents a surrogate regression model to estimate suspended-sediment concentration (SSC) at the Mohawk River above State Highway 30A at Fonda, New York. (U.S. Geological Survey station number 01349527). The methods used follow USGS guidance in relevant Office of Surface Water/Office of Water Quality Technical Memoranda and USGS Techniques and Methods, book 3, chap. 4 (Rasmussen and others, 2009). Thirty-nine concurrent measurements of SSC and turbidity, collected from June 12, 2015, through May 28, 2020, were used in the model calibration dataset. Samples were collected across 94 percent of the range in observed discharge and 24 percent of the range in observed turbidity during the model calibration period. The greatest sampled discharges and turbidities during the model calibration period were exceeded less than 0.1 percent and 0.2 percent of the time, respectively. Suspended-sediment concentrations were estimated from an ordinary least squares regression between SSC and turbidity developed using the U.S. Geological Survey Surrogate Analysis and Index Developer (SAID) Tool (Domanski and others, 2015).

Tags: datasets, inlandwaters, mathematical-modeling, mohawk-river, montgomery-county, new-york-state, real-time-monitoring-and-reporting, regression-analysis, sediment-transport, suspended-material-water, time-series-datasets, usgs-6398a223d34e0de3a1f0d67a, water-quality, water-sampling
Organization: Department of the Interior
Wind rose plots for the volcano: 284180  Alamagan

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-58d013cde4b0236b68f52d60, volcanic-ash, volcanic-eruption-forecasting, wind
Organization: Department of the Interior
Linear distance as a measure of substrate rugosity of permanent benthic transects at San Nicolas Island, California

The data represent 3 replicate measures of linear distance along 30 fixed transects on permanent subtidal monitoring sites around San Nicolas Island, CA. There were six sites, each of which had five 10-meter by 2-meter band transects on which a suite of kelps and macroinvertebrates was repeatedly counted over almost four decades. Although the transects are each approximately 10 m long, as measured with a meter tape extended between start and end eyebolts set in the sea floor, crevices, boulders, and reef structure provide much more than 20 square meters of surface area. In an effort to quantify the differences in rugosity between the transects, a 13 cm-circumference electronic surveyor’s wheel was used to measure the linear relief of each transect. Three replicate measurements were made per transect: down the lengthwise center and 1m away on each side of the center.

Tags: bathymetry, reef-ecosystems, structure, substrate, usgs-61c25d8cd34e2ca389d9e86b
Organization: Department of the Interior
North American Grid-Based Sampling Frame: Continental United States at a 10x10km resolution

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

Tags: biota, ecosystem-monitoring, location, usgs-5b7c36bce4b0f5d578860346
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data Release: Peat collapse and vegetation shift after storm-driven saltwater surge in a tidal freshwater swamp, Taxodium distichum growth

In 2013 five Taxodium distichum trees along a 125 m long transect of Hickory Point State Forest outside Pocomoke City, Maryland were outfitted with dendrobands. Each year the growth of the T. distichum trees was measured in terms of the ratio of that year's circumference to the previous year's circumference. Tree growth was measured until the year the tree died or the conclusion of the study in 2021.

Tags: biota, chesapeake-bay, climate-change, droughts, forested-wetland, freshwater-ecosystems, freshwater-swamp, global-warming, hickory-point-state-forest, maryland, pocomoke-city, pocomoke-river, regime-shift, relict-forest, relict-tidal-inlet, united-states, usgs-634ec032d34e47431c15448b, wetlands
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2018 Site 0383 land-water classification data

Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring efforts to determine the efficacy of these efforts. The Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) was developed to assist in a multiple-reference approach that uses aspects of hydrogeomorphic functional assessments and probabilistic sampling for monitoring. The CRMS program includes a suite of approximately 398 sites that encompass the range of hydrological and ecological conditions for each stratum. As part of CRMS, land and water classifications are created from Digital Orthophoto Quarter Quadrangles (DOQQs) approximately every three years at all CRMS sites. A DOQQ is a raster image in which displacement in the image caused by sensor orientation and terrain relief has been removed and combines the image characteristics of a photo with geometric qualities of a map. The DOQQs generated for this project consist of 2018 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. Four previous assessments have been conducted (2005, 2008, 2012, and 2015/2016). 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-611d2b62d34e40dd9c012978, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
CoSMoS (Coastal Storm Modeling System) Southern California v3.0 Phase 2 water-level projections: average conditions in Ventura County

Model-derived total water levels (in meters) for the given storm condition and sea-level rise (SLR) scenario.
The Coastal Storm Modeling System (CoSMoS) makes detailed predictions (meter-scale) over large geographic scales (100s of kilometers) of storm-induced coastal flooding and erosion for both current and future sea-level rise (SLR) scenarios. CoSMoS v3.0 for Southern California shows projections for future climate scenarios (sea-level rise and storms) to provide emergency responders and coastal planners with critical storm-hazards information that can be used to increase public safety, mitigate physical damages, and more effectively manage and allocate resources within complex coastal settings.
Model details and data sources are outlined in CoSMoS_3.0_Phase_2_Southern_California_Bight:_Summary_of_data_and_methods (available at https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/file/get/57f1d4f3e4b0bc0bebfee139?name=CoSMoS_SoCalv3_Phase2_summary_of_methods.pdf). Phase 2 data for Southern California include flood-hazard information for the coast from the border of Mexico to Pt. Conception. Several changes from Phase 1 projections are reflected in many areas; please read the Summary of methods and inspect output carefully.  Data are complete for the information presented.

Tags: beaches, california, climate-change, climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, coastal-erosion, erosion, extreme-weather, floods, hazards-planning, ocean-waves, ocean-winds, oceans, physical-habitats-and-geomorphology, sea-level-change, sea-level-rise, southern-california, southern-california-bight, storm-surge, storms, usgs-58effab6e4b0eed1ab8e3ed9, ventura-county, water-depth, waves, wind
Organization: Department of the Interior
Adult emergence counts, Experiments 1 through 4

In a series of 4 experiments conducted over 4 years, natural lotic macroinvertebrate communities were colonized by placing baskets of large gravel in a riffle in the upper Cache La Poudre River, Colorado and leaving the baskets in place for 30-40 days.  The communities were then exposed in experimental streams to different combinations of five metals (cadmium (Cd), cobalt (Co), copper (Cu), nickel (Ni), and zinc (Zn). The metals exposures and associated counts of larval insects and other invertebrates remaining in the experimental streams are detailed in Child Items 1-4 of this Data Release. 
In this dataset (child item #5), we report the associated adult insect counts by day that successfully metamorphosed during the exposures, emerged, and were captured from nets covering the streams. Emergent adults were aspirated daily from nets covering each experimental stream. Adults were sexed and identified to genus except for Chironomidae, which were identified to subfamily or tribe.

Tags: bioaccumulation, biota, ecotoxicology, experimental-streams, mesocosm, metals-mixture-toxicity, usgs-5d3f8997e4b01d82ce8d9702
Organization: Department of the Interior
Archive of Datasonics SIS-1000 Chirp Subbottom Data Collected During USGS Cruise DIAN 97011 Long Island, NY Inner Shelf -- Fire Island, NY, 5-26 May, 1997

This CD-ROM contains digital high resolution seismic reflection data collected during the USGS DIAN 97011 cruise. The coverage is the nearshore of Long Island, NY in the vicinity of Fire Island. The seismic-reflection data are stored as SEG-Y standard format that can be read and manipulated by most seismic-processing software. Much of the information specific to the data are contained in the headers of the SEG-Y format files. The file system format is ISO 9660 which can be read with DOS, Unix, and MAC operating systems with the appropriate CD-ROM driver software installed.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, chirp, datasonics-sis-1000, fire-island, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, iso-9660-cd-rom, long-island-inner-shelf, marine-geophysics, new-york, ny, seg-y, seismic-reflection, seismic-reflection-methods, sub-bottom-profiling, usgs-6beb39ba-b2e6-4f44-8a80-69cb751e8f13
Organization: Department of the Interior
LANDFIRE 2023 Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS) CONUS

LANDFIRE (LF) 2023 Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS) provides a fuelbed classification ID (FCCSID) which when cross walked with tables containing more extensive fuelbed data can be used for predicting surface fire behavior, crown fire potential, and fuel availability. LF defines fuelbed as: the inherent physical characteristics of fuel that contribute to fire behavior and effects (Riccardi et al. 2007). FCCS represents the composition of fuels, and features six horizontal fuel layers called stratums (canopy, shrubs, herbs, downed wood, litter and duff).  
LF collaborated with the Fire and Environmental Research Applications (FERA) team of the USFS Pacific Northwest Research Station for creation of the FCCS product. Rule-based methods for crosswalks and mapping FCCS fuelbeds are constructed from the LF 2023 Existing Vegetation Type (EVT) product. The EVT-to-fuelbed crosswalk rules often allow for several possibilities for fuelbeds; expert opinion is used to assign the most representative fuelbed and to determine where additional fuelbed development is necessary. FCCS fuelbeds are included preloaded in the US Forest Service (USFS) Fuel and Fire Tools (FFT) application. FCCS fuelbed mapping should be considered a starting point and customized to represent sampled fuels within a project area.

Tags: biota, conterminous-united-states, continental-u-s, conus, fccs, fires, fuel-characteristic-classification-system, geographic-information-systems, geospatial-datasets, hazard-preparedness, image-collections, imagerybasemapsearthcover, landfire-2023, lf-2023, raster-digital-data, remote-sensing, u-s-geological-survey-usgs, united-states, us, usgs-673fb3aed34e565ca5dd0bdc
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2018 Site 0608 land-water classification data

Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring efforts to determine the efficacy of these efforts. The Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) was developed to assist in a multiple-reference approach that uses aspects of hydrogeomorphic functional assessments and probabilistic sampling for monitoring. The CRMS program includes a suite of approximately 398 sites that encompass the range of hydrological and ecological conditions for each stratum. As part of CRMS, land and water classifications are created from Digital Orthophoto Quarter Quadrangles (DOQQs) approximately every three years at all CRMS sites. A DOQQ is a raster image in which displacement in the image caused by sensor orientation and terrain relief has been removed and combines the image characteristics of a photo with geometric qualities of a map. The DOQQs generated for this project consist of 2018 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. Four previous assessments have been conducted (2005, 2008, 2012, and 2015/2016). 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-611d2c93d34e40dd9c012a44, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mosquito Larval Habitat Along Five Altitudinal Transects in South Kona, Island of Hawai'i, 1995

This data release provides information on mosquito larval habitat associated with tree ferns (Cibotium spp) that have been damaged by feral ungulates, ground pools, and tree holes on the SW slopes of Mauna Loa volcano. It also provides assessments of ground cover and habitat degradation by feral ungulates.  Data was collected from five transects that fall within or immediately adjacent to the current boundaries of the Kona Unit of Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge. Transects were sampled once between August 8 - August 10, 1995 with 10 m diameter circular plots spaced at 150 m intervals along each transect. Measurements included numbers of standing live and dead tree ferns (Cibotium spp.), numbers of fallen and animal damaged tree ferns, numbers of fallen feral pig damaged tree ferns with and without standing water, numbers of fallen tree ferns with standing water and mosquito larvae, abundance of tree holes and surface water, feral ungulate activity, and general vegetation characteristics of each plot. This XML describes two tabular CSV files: (i) Mosquito Larval Habitat - Habitat Characteristics.CSV, and (ii) Mosquito Larval Habitat - Transect Locations.CSV.

Tags: alala, avipoxvirus, biota, cattle, cibotium, corvus-hawaiiensis, culex-quinquefasciatus, feral-ungulate, island-of-hawaii, kona-unit-hakalau-forest-national-wildlife-refuge, pig, plasmodium-relictum, south-kona, southern-house-mosquito, tree-fern, usgs-6725a01bd34e4f57573f88d3
Organization: Department of the Interior
Benthic Community and Bivalve Metrics Data in the Sacramento - San Joaquin Delta from 2015 to 2018.

Declining phytoplankton biomass and the resulting stress on the food web has been suggested as one contributor to the decline of Delta Smelt and other fish species in the San Francisco Bay (SFB) and the Sacramento San Joaquin River Delta. Filter feeding by two species of bivalves, Corbicula fluminea and Potamocorbula amurensis, has been shown to control phytoplankton growth rate in the SFB and Delta and both are thought to be partially responsible for the reduction in food for pelagic species.
Phytoplankton growth rate is dependent on spatially and temporally varying nutrient concentrations, light availability, transport time, and pelagic and benthic grazing losses. Bivalve grazing has the potential to limit primary production at phytoplankton source locations and to limit effective connectivity of habitats by grazing in the conduits that connect different habitats. It is important to determine the factors that control the success of each species of bivalve if we are to understand when and where the pelagic food web is most affected by bivalve grazing. Therefore, we need to protect, build, or restore habitat that is likely to produce phytoplankton for local consumption and export. 
Benthic communities are a good monitor of acutely and chronically stressful environments because they are stationary, accumulate contaminants, and respond to low and high phytoplankton biomass. Changes in the benthic community structure occur normally, and benthic species distributions are dependent on the physical habitat (substrate and depth), physiological limits, and predators. Therefore, seasonal and interannual differences in freshwater flow result in both seasonal and episodic changes in species abundance and community composition.
The Sacramento Watershed has experienced below normal rainfall and dry conditions with sporadic wet years for the past decade. However, heavy rainfall in water year 2017 (October 2016 to September 2017) ended a five-year drought and set the record for California’s wettest year since 1983. The severity and duration of a potential change in the benthic community as a result of this increase in freshwater is still unknown, yet it is unlikely for such a drastic change in salinity as this to go unnoticed. This dataset includes data from 2015 to 2018, encompassing a period of drought before Water Year 2017, as well as the year following Water Year 2017.

Tags: benthic-ecology, benthic-ecosystems, bivalve, bivalves, cache-lindsey-slough-complex, california, community, sacramento-delta, usgs-5e9e225b82cefae35a106f5e
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mercury Source Identification in the Mobile and Tombigbee Rivers

This dataset details mercury concentrations and mercury stable isotope values collected as part of an environmental mercury assessment encompassing the Mobile and Tombigbee Rivers as well as two U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Superfund sites. The Tensaw River was also sampled as part of this study as a reference site, absent of mercury contamination. As a part of this survey, sediments, waters, and biota (largemouth bass) were measured to assess mercury transport and bioaccumulation of mercury within the Mobile River Basin. High mercury concentrations and isotope values indicative of industrial contamination were found in sediments and fish of Superfund sites. Lower concentrations and isotope values indicative of deposition were found within the Tensaw River and main branches of the Mobile and Tombigbee Rivers.

Tags: alabama, bioaccumulation, industrial-pollution, isotopic-analysis, mercury, mobile-river, tensaw-river, tombigbee-river, usgs-60bfb0ebd34e86b938916ac2
Organization: Department of the Interior
Sediment Texture of the Sea Floor offshore of western and southern Martha's Vineyard and north of Nantucket, Massachusetts

Geologic, sediment texture, and physiographic zone maps characterize the sea floor south and west of Martha's Vineyard and north of Nantucket, Massachusetts. These maps were derived from interpretations of seismic-reflection profiles, high-resolution bathymetry, acoustic-backscatter intensity, bottom photographs, and surficial sediment samples. The interpretation of the seismic stratigraphy and mapping of glacial and Holocene marine units provided a foundation on which the surficial maps were created. This mapping is a result of a collaborative effort between the U.S. Geological Survey and the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management to characterize the surface and subsurface geologic framework offshore of Massachusetts.

Tags: aquinnah, atlantic-ocean, backscatter, bathymetry, bottom-photographs, bottom-type, cape-cod, chappaquiddick-island, childrens-beach, chilmark, clay-deposits, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, coatue, czm, dionis-beach, eel-point, esri-shapefile, gay-head, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, grain-size-analysis, gravel-deposits, great-point, interpretation, katama-beach, long-point-wildlife-refuge, lucy-vincent-beach, maps-and-atlases, marine-geology, marthas-vineyard, massachusetts, massachusetts-office-of-coastal-zone-management, muskeget-channel, muskeget-island, nantucket, nantucket-harbor, nantucket-sound, nomans-land, oceans, rocks-and-deposits, sand-deposits, scientific-interpretation, sea-floor, sea-floor-characteristics, sediment-cover, sediment-distribution, sediment-samples, sediment-texture, sedimentology, seismic-reflection-profiles, shovelful-shoal, slope, south-beach, squibnocket-beach, squibnocket-point, surficial-geologic-units, tisbury, tisbury-great-pond-beach, topography, tuckernuck-bank, tuckernuck-island, tuckernuck-shoal, u-s-geological-survey, u-s-geological-survey-open-file-report-2008-1288, u-s-geological-survey-open-file-report-2012-1006, u-s-geological-survey-open-file-report-2016-1168, unconsolidated-deposits, usgs, usgs-5bfd6064e4b0815414ca39e1, vineyard-sound, wasque-point, wasque-shoal, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior