AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
700kHz Bathymetric Slope of select Rock Outcrops of the St. Croix River, May 2021

This dataset is a digital surface model of the slope for six sites where known rock structures exist in the St. Croix River. Slope is the gradient, or rate of maximum change in elevation, and is derived from the DEM. Slope measures will be used for investigating the use of hydroacoustic technologies for quantifying habitat for imperiled mussels Spectaclecase (Margaritifera monodonta) and Salamander (Simpsonaias ambigua) typically associated with rock structures (e.g., wing dams, revetment) in rivers. Slope is a driver of energy below the water and influences biotic diversity, distribution, and the functional traits of those biota. Slope is expressed in degrees; it calculates the maximum rate of change in value from one cell to its neighbors. The lower the slope value, the flatter the terrain; the higher the slope value, the steeper the terrain. Multibeam sonar data were collected using a Norbit integrated wide band multibeam system compact (iWBMSc) sonar unit. All hydroacoustic data were collected in early May of 2021, and the slope rasters are provided in GeoTiff format.

Tags: acoustic-doppler-current-profiling, bathymetry-measurement, benthic-ecosystems, endangered-species, image-mosaics, minnesota, rivers, rock-outcrop, rock-substrate, sea-floor-acoustic-reflectivity, sidescan-sonar, st-croix-river, usgs-6359ae67d34ebe442503ebcd, usgs-ema-low-sb-smc-freshwater-mussels, wisconsin
Organization: Department of the Interior
Memphis Urban Seismic Hazard Maps, v2008

Memphis has a dense urban population near faults capable of producing major earthquakes. A high probability of a moderate earthquake in the near future (e.g., a 25-40% probability of a magnitude 6.0 or greater in the next 50 years) from the New Madrid seismic zone, and relatively low regional attenuation (in other words, seismic waves do damage over a greater area in this region than for the same magnitude earthquake in the west) necessitates being prepared for earthquake hazards. This dataset provides maps of probabilistic and deterministic earthquake ground motions and liquefaction hazard for the Memphis area.

Tags: earthquake-hazards-program, earthquake-occurences, earthquakes, ehp, geologic-hazards-science-center, geoscientificinformation, ghsc, hazards, maps-and-atlases, usgs, usgs-6359aacad34ebe442503eba7
Organization: Department of the Interior
700kHz Multibeam Backscatter Mosaics of select Rock Outcrops of the St. Croix River, May 2021

This dataset is a digital image mosaic of the backscatter for five (of six) sites where known rock structures exist in the St. Croix River. Backscatter is the strength of the returned signal, or reflectivity, of the riverbed and provides information about bed composition. This data can be used to investigate properties of the riverbed, such as hardness, sediment characteristics and even sediment grain size.  Backscatter information will be used for investigating the use of hydroacoustic technologies for quantifying habitat for imperiled mussels Spectaclecase (Margaritifera monodonta) and Salamander (Simpsonaias ambigua) typically associated with rock structures (e.g., wing dams, revetment) in rivers. MBES bathymetry and backscatter data are collected at the same time; and were collected using a Norbit integrated wide band multibeam system compact (iWBMSc) sonar unit. All hydroacoustic data were collected in early May of 2021, and the backscatter mosaics are provided in GeoTiff format.

Tags: acoustic-doppler-current-profiling, bathymetry-measurement, benthic-ecosystems, endangered-species, image-mosaics, minnesota, rivers, rock-outcrop, rock-substrate, sea-floor-acoustic-reflectivity, sidescan-sonar, usgs-6359a287d34ebe442503eb96, usgs-ema-low-sb-smc-freshwater-mussels, wisconsin
Organization: Department of the Interior
700kHz Multibeam Bathymetry Hillshade of select Rock Outcrops of the St. Croix River, May 2021

These data are digital hillshades of the bathymetry for five (of six) sites where known rock structures exist in the St. Croix River. Hillshades are shaded relief surfaces created by the illumination source angle and shadows, and are being used to investigate the use of hydroacoustic technologies for quantifying habitat for imperiled mussels Spectaclecase (Margaritifera monodonta) and Salamander (Simpsonaias ambigua) typically associated with rock structures (e.g., wing dams, revetment) in rivers. Hillshades are essential for visualizing details of underwater terrain and it represents a shaded relief surface of the topography. Multibeam sonar data were collected using a Norbit integrated wide band multibeam system compact (iWBMSc) sonar unit. Hillshades are derived from bathymetry DEMs.  All hydroacoustic data were collected in early May of 2021, and the hillshades are provided in GeoTiff format.

Tags: acoustic-doppler-current-profiling, bathymetry-measurement, benthic-ecosystems, endangered-species, image-mosaics, minnesota, rivers, rock-outcrop, rock-substrate, sea-floor-acoustic-reflectivity, sidescan-sonar, st-croix-river, usgs-63598bb7d34ebe442503eb3c, usgs-ema-low-sb-smc-freshwater-mussels, wisconsin
Organization: Department of the Interior
Bathymetry of select Rock Outcrops of the St. Croix River, May 2021

This dataset is a digital elevation model (DEM) of the bathymetry for six sites where known rock structures exist in the St. Croix River. The DEMs have a 10-cm resolution (Boom site is 0.5-m) to provide ultra-high-resolution elevations for investigating the use of hydroacoustic technologies for quantifying habitat for imperiled mussels Spectaclecase (Margaritifera monodonta) and Salamander (Simpsonaias ambigua) typically associated with rock structures (e.g., wing dams, revetment) in rivers. Bathymetry is essential for providing the depths and shapes of underwater terrain and it represents the three-dimensional features (or relief) of underwater terrain. Multibeam sonar data were collected using a Norbit integrated wide band multibeam system compact (iWBMSc) sonar unit. Single-beam sonar data were collected using a SonTek Riversurveyor© M9. All hydroacoustic data were collected in early May of 2021, and the DEMs are provided in GeoTiff format.

Tags: acoustic-doppler-current-profiling, bathymetry-measurement, benthic-ecosystems, endangered-species, image-mosaics, minnesota, rivers, rock-outcrop, rock-substrate, sea-floor-acoustic-reflectivity, sidescan-sonar, st-croix-river, usgs-63598a62d34ebe442503eb30, usgs-ema-low-sb-smc-freshwater-mussels, wisconsin
Organization: Department of the Interior
Depth average velocity of select Rock Outcrops of the St. Croix River, May 2021

This dataset is a digital surface of depth-averaged flow velocities for six sites where known rock structures exist in the St. Croix River. Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCP) are used to measure how fast water is moving across an entire water column. The ADCP measures water currents with sound, and the resulting flow information will be used for investigating the use of hydroacoustic technologies for quantifying habitat for imperiled mussels Spectaclecase (Margaritifera monodonta) and Salamander (Simpsonaias ambigua) typically associated with rock structures (e.g., wing dams, revetment) in rivers. River current velocities were collected using a SonTek RiverSurveyor© M9 for all six sites. All hydroacoustic data, including flow velocities were collected in early May of 2021, and the flow mosaics are provided in GeoTiff format.

Tags: acoustic-doppler-current-profiling, bathymetry-measurement, benthic-ecosystems, endangered-species, image-mosaics, minnesota, rivers, rock-outcrop, rock-substrate, sea-floor-acoustic-reflectivity, sidescan-sonar, st-croix-river, usgs-63598503d34ebe442503eb1c, usgs-ema-low-sb-smc-freshwater-mussels, wisconsin
Organization: Department of the Interior
Selection and survival of greater sage-grouse broods in mesic areas of Long Valley, California (2003 - 2018)

We evaluated brood-rearing habitat selection and brood survival of greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus; hereafter, sage-grouse) in Long Valley, California, an area where the water rights are primarily owned by the city of Los Angeles and water is used locally to irrigate for livestock. This area thus represents a unique balance between the needs of wildlife and people that could increasingly define future water management. In this study, sage-grouse broods moved closer to the edge of mesic areas and used more interior areas during the late brood-rearing period, selecting for greener areas after 1 July. Mesic areas were particularly important during dry years, with broods using areas farther interior than in wet years. Brood survival was also positively influenced by the availability and condition of mesic resources, as indicated by variation in values of normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), with survival peaking at moderate values of NDVI and just outside the edge but decreasing inside the mesic areas. Our results highlight the importance of quality edge habitat of large mesic areas for sage-grouse to balance habitat selection and survival, particularly during drier years and during the late brood-rearing period, which is a critical period because chick survival has been shown to influence population growth. This study also highlights the implications of large-scale anthropogenic water manipulation, and the balance between local irrigation and water distribution to benefit other regions, from the context of a species of high conservation concern in North American sagebrush ecosystems.

Tags: biota, bistate, california, ecology, human-impacts, land-use-change, long-valley, native-species, united-states-of-america, usgs-635975c0d34ebe442503eab2, water-resource-management, water-supply-and-demand
Organization: Department of the Interior
Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park Orangeblack Hawaiian damselfly survey data, 2016-2017

This data release includes metadata and tabular data that document counts of male and female Orangeblack Hawaiian damselflies (Megalagrion xanthomelas) at Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park during 2016-2017.

Tags: abundance, anchialine-pool, biota, damselfly, endangered-species, hawaii, hawaii-island, koloko-honokohau-national-historical-park, usgs-635b03d1d34ebe4425047344
Organization: Department of the Interior
Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument 4-Band Aerial Imagery Mosaics - Valley Unit - West

Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument was established on August 24, 2016. The monument spans mountains and forest lands in north central Maine.
High-resolution aerial imagery was collected on October 5, 2019 with a Phase One iXU-R 180 RGB camera co-mounted with a Phase One iXU-RS 160 Achromatic camera. Images from the two cameras are merged to create 4-band imagery that can be displayed as either true-color (RGB) or color-infrared (CIR). The imagery has a resolution of approximately 0.15 meter/pixel (6 inches).

Tags: imagerybasemapsearthcover, katahdin-woods-and-waters-national-monument, maine, usgs-635807e7d34ebe4425032007
Organization: Department of the Interior
Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument 4-Band Aerial Imagery Mosaics - Valley Unit - East

Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument was established on August 24, 2016. The monument spans mountains and forest lands in north central Maine.
High-resolution aerial imagery was collected on October 5, 2019 with a Phase One iXU-R 180 RGB camera co-mounted with a Phase One iXU-RS 160 Achromatic camera. Images from the two cameras are merged to create 4-band imagery that can be displayed as either true-color (RGB) or color-infrared (CIR). The imagery has a resolution of approximately 0.15 meter/pixel (6 inches).

Tags: imagerybasemapsearthcover, katahdin-woods-and-waters-national-monument, maine, usgs-6358079ed34ebe4425032005
Organization: Department of the Interior
Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument 4-Band Aerial Imagery Mosaics - Three Rivers and Lunksoos Camps Units

Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument was established on August 24, 2016. The monument spans mountains and forest lands in north central Maine.
High-resolution aerial imagery was collected on October 5, 2019 with a Phase One iXU-R 180 RGB camera co-mounted with a Phase One iXU-RS 160 Achromatic camera. Images from the two cameras are merged to create 4-band imagery that can be displayed as either true-color (RGB) or color-infrared (CIR). The imagery has a resolution of approximately 0.15 meter/pixel (6 inches).

Tags: imagerybasemapsearthcover, katahdin-woods-and-waters-national-monument, maine, usgs-63580731d34ebe4425032002
Organization: Department of the Interior
Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument 4-Band Aerial Imagery Mosaics - Sandy Stream Unit - East

Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument was established on August 24, 2016. The monument spans mountains and forest lands in north central Maine.
High-resolution aerial imagery was collected on October 5, 2019 with a Phase One iXU-R 180 RGB camera co-mounted with a Phase One iXU-RS 160 Achromatic camera. Images from the two cameras are merged to create 4-band imagery that can be displayed as either true-color (RGB) or color-infrared (CIR). The imagery has a resolution of approximately 0.15 meter/pixel (6 inches).

Tags: imagerybasemapsearthcover, katahdin-woods-and-waters-national-monument, maine, usgs-63580541d34ebe4425031ff8
Organization: Department of the Interior
Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument 4-Band Aerial Imagery Mosaics - Lunksoos Unit

Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument was established on August 24, 2016. The monument spans mountains and forest lands in north central Maine.
High-resolution aerial imagery was collected on October 5, 2019 with a Phase One iXU-R 180 RGB camera co-mounted with a Phase One iXU-RS 160 Achromatic camera. Images from the two cameras are merged to create 4-band imagery that can be displayed as either true-color (RGB) or color-infrared (CIR). The imagery has a resolution of approximately 0.15 meter/pixel (6 inches).

Tags: imagerybasemapsearthcover, katahdin-woods-and-waters-national-monument, maine, usgs-635804bbd34ebe4425031fea
Organization: Department of the Interior
Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument 4-Band Aerial Imagery Mosaics - East Branch Unit

Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument was established on August 24, 2016. The monument spans mountains and forest lands in north central Maine.
High-resolution aerial imagery was collected on October 5, 2019 with a Phase One iXU-R 180 RGB camera co-mounted with a Phase One iXU-RS 160 Achromatic camera. Images from the two cameras are merged to create 4-band imagery that can be displayed as either true-color (RGB) or color-infrared (CIR). The imagery has a resolution of approximately 0.15 meter/pixel (6 inches).

Tags: imagerybasemapsearthcover, katahdin-woods-and-waters-national-monument, maine, usgs-63580067d34ebe4425031fc5
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hawaiian hoary bat tissue collection from Hawai‘i, Maui, O‘ahu, and Kaua‘i islands 1988 to 2020

Genetic diversity levels, population structure, and effective population size estimates of the endangered Hawaiian hoary bat (Lasiurus semotus, also known as Aeorestes semotus) were examined across the islands of Hawai‘i, Maui, O‘ahu, and Kaua‘i using eighteen nuclear microsatellite loci and one mitochondrial gene from 339 individuals collected between 1988 and 2020.  The study extracted DNA for population genetic analyses from tissue samples, collected from live bats captured as part of ongoing field studies or under rehabilitation care, from bat carcasses collected by local federal and state wildlife agencies and wind energy facilities, and from dried skin specimens at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum. A region of the mitochondrial CO1 gene was sequenced in 321 individuals and eighteen nuclear microsatellite loci were amplified from 298 individuals. This dataset contains tissue collection site information and genetic testing groupings for the 339 individual bat samples used in the study.

Tags: biota, co1, hawaii, hawaii-usa, hawaiian-hoary-bat, island-bat-conservation, kauai, maui, microsatellite, oahu, population-genetics, usgs-635793f0d34ebe4425031f26
Organization: Department of the Interior
Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park Orangeblack Hawaiian damselfly anchialine pool characteristics, 2016-2017

This data release includes metadata and tabular data that describes physical and chemical characteristics of anchialine pools where Orangeblack Hawaiian damselfies (Megalagrion xanthomelas) were found at Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park during 2016-2017.

Tags: anchialine-pool, biota, damselfly, endangered-species, habitat-characteristics, hawaii-island, koloko-honokohau-national-historical-park, usgs-635b030cd34ebe4425047330, water-conditions
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hawaiian hoary bat microsatellite allele size data

Genetic diversity levels, effective population size estimates, and population structure of the endangered Hawaiian hoary bat (Lasiurus semotus, also known as Aeorestes semotus) were examined across the islands of Hawai‘i, Maui, O‘ahu, and Kaua‘i using eighteen nuclear microsatellite loci and one mitochondrial gene from 339 individuals collected between 1988 and 2020. The study extracted DNA for population genetic analyses from tissue samples, collected from live bats captured as part of ongoing field studies or under rehabilitation care, from bat carcasses collected by local federal and state wildlife agencies and wind energy facilities, and from dried skin specimens at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum. Eighteen nuclear microsatellite loci were amplified from 298 individuals. This dataset contains the microsatellite allele fragment sizes generated from 298 individual bat samples.

Tags: biota, hawaii, hawaii-usa, hawaiian-hoary-bat, island-bat-conservation, kauai, maui, microsatellites, oahu, population-genetics, usgs-63579244d34ebe4425031f1f
Organization: Department of the Interior
Invertebrates enumerated from the diets of larval pallid sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus albus) and shovelnose sturgeon (S. platorynchus) in the Upper Missouri River, Montana and North Dakota in 2019

An inventory (enumeration and taxonomic identification) of diet items consumed by wild-caught larval pallid sturgeon and larval shovelnose sturgeon, based on the examination of gut contents from fish that were collected in the Upper Missouri River drainage of the U.S.

Tags: biota, columbia-environmental-research-center, diet, endangered-species, fish-larvae, fishery-management, fishery-resources, fishes, missouri-river, montana, north-dakota, pallid-sturgeon, scaphirhynchus-albus, scaphirhynchus-platorynchus, shovelnose-sturgeon, usgs-6356ea1cd34ebe442502d93e
Organization: Department of the Interior
High Resolution Daily Global Alfalfa-Reference Potential Evapotranspiration Climatology

Global alfalfa-reference potential evapotranspiration (ETr) is a key model parameter in actual evapotranspiration (ETa) modeling for worldwide applications. This dataset was constructed for use with the Operational Simplified Surface Energy Balance (SSEBop) model as a key driver of the final ETa magnitude. SSEBop is a parametric energy balance-based model that determines actual ET as the product of two independent estimates: 1) the SSEBop modeled ET fraction (ETf), an index nominally varying between 0 and 1 and derived from observed Landsat surface temperature using satellite psychrometry, and 2) the potential ET (maximum) under environmental conditions for an alfalfa crop (in millimeters). As SSEBop ETf can now be modeled for any Landsat scene across the globe, a suitable global ETr climatology dataset needed to be created. This global ETr data is a fusion of several different remote sensing and modeling products: 1981-2010 climatological normal (daily mean) ETr from Gridmet over the continental United States and 1981-2010 climatological normal MERRA-2 Fine Resolution ETr for all areas outside of the continental United States that has been scaled and corrected via terrestrial ecoregions from OneEarth and scaled using Worldclim Version 3 ETo (Abatzoglou 2013; Dinerstein et al., 2017; Hobbins et al., 2022; Zomer et al., 2022). The final mosaic has been smoothed and resampled to 1-km spatial resolution. The final dataset is a daily dataset of 366 GeoTIFF raster files for each day of the year including the leap day and representing a climatological normal (1981-2010) alfalfa-reference potential ET (ETr) for the entire global extent.

Tags: boundaries, elevation, environment, et-modeling, evaporation, input-parameter-for-ssebop-model, potential-evapotranspiration, reference-evapotranspiration, transpiration, usgs-6356d760d34ebe442502d912
Organization: Department of the Interior
Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument Seboeis Unit Vegetation Mapping Project: Accuracy Assessment Sites and Vegetation Plots Field Data Species List

During summer 2019, botanists with the Maine Natural Areas Program collected data from 94 vegetation plots for plant community characterization. The sampling data were entered into the National Park Service PLOTS version 4.0 (National Park Service 2015) for analyses to characterize vegetation associations in the U.S. National Vegetation Classification.
An accuracy assessment was performed on the draft version of the vegetation map layer. During the summer of 2020, field crews collected data from 107 stratified and randomly selected sites for evaluating the accuracy of the vegetation map layer for those map classes representing U.S. National Vegetation Classification associations. The accuracy assessment field data were then compared to the vegetation map data. Results from the accuracy assessment study show an overall accuracy of 87.6% (kappa index of 87.0%) based on an analysis of data from 105 of the 107 accuracy assessment sites.

Tags: accuracy-assessment, biota, data-collection, environment, katahdin-woods-and-waters-national-monument, maine, map, national-park-service, national-vegetation-classification-standard, natural-resources-preservation-program, nvcs, observation, u-s-national-vegetation-classification, united-states, usgs-6356cf50d34ebe442502d143, usnvc, vegetation-plot
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hawaiian hoary bat mitochondrial DNA CO1 sequences

Genetic diversity levels, effective population size estimates, and population structure of the endangered Hawaiian hoary bat (Lasiurus semotus, also known as Aeorestes semotus) were examined across the islands of Hawai‘i, Maui, O‘ahu, and Kaua‘i using eighteen nuclear microsatellite loci and one mitochondrial gene from 339 individuals collected between 1988 and 2020. The study extracted DNA for population genetic analyses from tissue samples, collected from live bats captured as part of ongoing field studies or under rehabilitation care, from bat carcasses collected by local federal and state wildlife agencies and wind energy facilities, and from dried skin specimens at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum. A region of the mitochondrial CO1 gene was sequenced in 321 individuals. This dataset contains the mitochondrial gene region cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 (CO1) DNA sequences generated from 321 individual bat samples.

Tags: biota, co1, hawaii, hawaii-usa, hawaiian-hoary-bat, island-bat-conservation, kauai, maui, oahu, population-genetics, usgs-63579377d34ebe4425031f23
Organization: Department of the Interior