AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
DS926 Digital surfaces and thicknesses of selected hydrogeologic units of the Floridan aquifer system in Florida and parts of Georgia, Alabama, and South Carolina -- Major groundwater divides of the Floridan aquifer system

Digital surfaces and thicknesses of selected hydrogeologic units of the Floridan aquifer system 
were developed to define an updated hydrogeologic framework as part of the U.S. Geological 
Survey Groundwater Resources Program. This feature class contains lines representing the 
major groundwater divides in the Floridan aquifer system. The position of the divides was 
modified from Bush and Johnson, 1988, using the average Upper Floridan aquifer potentiometric 
surface and the May 2010 potentiometric surface.

Tags: 1988, 2010, alabama, altitude, average, base-elevations, bush, environment, florida, floridan-aquifer-system, geology, georgia, geoscientificinformation, gridded-surface, historical-complied-data, hydrogeology, inlandwaters, johnson, major-groundwater-divides, major-streams, may, points, potentiometric-surface, raster, regional-groundwater-availability-study, south-carolina, stratigraphy, surface-difference, surface-water, surficial-aquifer, uf, united-states-geological-survey, upper-floridan, usgs, usgs-8aaff7d6-e427-485b-91c4-600ea7107a99
Organization: Department of the Interior
Chimney Bluffs point cloud from low-altitude aerial imagery from unmanned aerial systems (UAS) flights over of the Lake Ontario shoreline in the vicinity of Chimney Bluffs, New York in July 2017

Low-altitude (80-100 meters above ground level) digital images were obtained from a camera mounted on a 3DR Solo quadcopter, a small unmanned aerial system (UAS), in three locations along the Lake Ontario shoreline in New York during July 2017. These data were collected to document and monitor effects of high lake levels, including shoreline erosion, inundation, and property damage in the vicinity of Chimney Bluffs State Park, New York. This data release includes images tagged with locations determined from the UAS GPS; tables with updated estimates of camera positions and attitudes based on the photogrammetric reconstruction; tables listing locations of the base stations, ground control points, and transect points; geolocated, RGB-colored point clouds; orthomosaic images; and digital elevation models for each of the survey regions. Collection of these data was supported by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the State of New York Departments of State and Environmental Conservation, and the USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program and was conducted under USGS field activity number 2017-042-FA.
      

Tags: 3dr-solo-quadcopter, aerial-imagery, aerial-photography, chimney-bluffs, chimney-bluffs-state-park, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, elevation, federal-emergency-management-agency, fema, field-activity-number-2017-042-fa, geoscientificinformation, great-lakes, huron-ny, inlandwaters, lake-level, lake-ontario, lakeshore, las, laz, location, low-altitude-aerial-imagery, new-york, new-york-state-department-of-environmental-conservation, photographs, photos, point-clouds, points, remote-sensing, ricoh-grii, shoreline, shoreline-photographs, state-of-new-york-department-of-state, topography, u-s-geological-survey, uas, unmanned-aerial-system, usa, usgs, usgs-5b285dfee4b0592076260e4f, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
PCQ Shrub Data AZ GRSP Random 2009 to 2013

These data provide information about the point-centered quarter measurements taken to calculate distance to the nearest shrub and shrub density for random vegetation transects.

Tags: ammodramus-savannarum-ammolegus, arizona, arizona-grasshopper-sparrow, biota, birds, grassland-ecosystems, habitats, nest-site-habitat, santa-cruz-county, territory-habitat, united-states, usgs-59c02867e4b091459a5e0af4, vegetation
Organization: Department of the Interior
Potential Land-use Intensity, Aridification Trends, Overlap, and Impact Scenarios, Geospatial Data, Colorado Plateau, USA

These geospatial data characterize the potential for geographic overlap among land-use practices and between land-use and climate change on the Colorado Plateau—a dryland region experiencing rapid changes in land-use and facing aridification. They were used to characterize spatial patterns and temporal trends in aridification, land-use, and recreation at the county and 10-km2 grid scales. Increasing trends and overlapping areas of high intensity for use, including oil and gas development and recreation, and climate drying, suggest areas with high potential to experience detrimental effects to the recreation economy, water availability, vegetation and wildlife habitat, and spiritual and cultural resources. Patterns of overlap in high-intensity land-use and climate drying differ from the past, indicating the potential for novel impacts and suggesting that land managers and planners may require new strategies to adapt to changing conditions. This analytical framework for assessing the potential impacts of overlapping land-use and climate change could be applied with other drivers of change or to other regions to create scenarios at various spatial scales in support of natural resource planning efforts.

Tags: arizona, climate-change, colorado, colorado-headwaters-plateau, inlandwaters, land-use-and-land-cover, land-use-change, maps-and-atlases, nevada, new-mexico, usgs-5a0b5e46e4b09af898cb76cd, utah
Organization: Department of the Interior
Piacenzian (Pliocene) foraminiferal faunal census data from Sites DSDP 594, ODP 642, ODP 846, ODP 882, ODP 982, ODP 1073, ODP 1088, and ODP 1146

Planktic foraminiferal species distributions in the modern ocean track environmental features like latitudinal temperature gradients. Species shift their distributions as the marine environment changes, providing an analog for past behavior. Stationarity of species’ ecological tolerances is a first-order assumption of all paleoenvironmental reconstructions based upon modern analog methods. We are testing the hypothesis that planktic foraminifer species temperature preferences did not change between the Late Pliocene and present by comparing relative abundance of selected species to independent Pliocene sea surface temperature estimates. In this data release we provide faunal census data from 72 Piacenzian age samples.

Tags: arctic-ocean, atlantic-ocean, biota, foraminifera, indian-ocean, neogene, pacific-ocean, paleoclimate, paleontology, piacenzian, plankton, pliocene, sea-surface-temperature, sedimentology, southern-ocean, stratigraphy, uniforitarianism, usgs-670eb00dd34edd26920957a3
Organization: Department of the Interior
Summary of the characteristics of commercial tows passing through the Electrical Dispersal Barrier System on the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal at Romeoville, Illinois, October 1, 2017, to September 30, 2018

A motion-activated video camera documented the passage of commercial tows through the Electric Dispersal Barrier System (EDBS) on the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal at Romeoville, Illinois, over the period October 1, 2017, to September 30, 2018. Videos were manually screened and analyzed to extract tow characteristics including: date and time of video recording, number and configuration of barges, loading of barges (loaded, unloaded, or mixed), direction of travel, and bow type (rake or box). Only commercial vessels were logged and no identifying data about the tow vessels were maintained. All videos triggered by recreational vessels or other objects were permanently removed from the database during analysis. Any periods of missing data due to instrument malfunction are documented in the metadata.

Tags: chicago-sanitary-and-ship-canal, commercial-barges, hydrodynamics, illinois, romeoville, usgs-5ce478cfe4b0654fe0bce73a, will-county
Organization: Department of the Interior
Repeat microgravity data from Santa Cruz River, Tucson, Arizona, 2020-2021

Relative-gravity surveys were carried out using a ZLS Burris relative-gravity meter. The effect of solid Earth tides and ocean loading were removed from the data. Instrument drift was removed by evaluating gravity change during repeated measurements at one or more base stations. Absolute-gravity surveys were carried out using a Micro-g LaCoste, Inc. A-10 absolute-gravity meter. Vertical gradients between the different measuring heights of the absolute- and relative-gravity meters were measured using a relative-gravity meter and fully-adjustable tripod, and used to correlate the measurements between the two instruments. Relative-gravity differences and absolute-gravity data were combined using a least-squares network adjustment, as implemented in the software GSadjust (https://doi.org/10.5066/P9YEIOU8). Information about the network adjustment is provided under Data Quality in the metadata.

Tags: arizona, arizona-water-science-center, artificial-recharge, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, gravimeter-measurement, gravitational-field-earth, groundwater, heritage, southwest-gravity-program, time-series-datasets, tucson, usgs-608867b5d34e5611588f95e5
Organization: Department of the Interior
Cottonwood Lake Study Area-Wetland Vegetation Zones-2004

Spatial polygons of vegetation zones in 2004 for wetlands; P1, P2, P3, P4, P6, P7, P8, P11, T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6, T7, T8, and T9 within the Cottonwood Lake Study Area, Stutsman County, North Dakota. Created from a collection of digital orthorectified images from aerial photographs of the study area acquired during 2004 using Stewart and Kantrud classification system.

Tags: aquatic-vegetation, biota, chase-lake-wetland-management-districtgtstutsman-county-waterfowl-production-areagteddy, chase-lake-wetland-management-districtgtstutsman-county-waterfowl-production-areagtshuler, cottonwood-lake-study-area, earth-sciencegtbiospheregtaquatic-ecosystemsgtwetlandsgtlacustrine-wetlands, earth-sciencegtbiospheregtaquatic-ecosystemsgtwetlandsgtpalustrine-wetlands, earth-sciencegtbiospheregtterrestrial-ecosystemsgtwetlandsgtlacustrine-wetlands, earth-sciencegtbiospheregtterrestrial-ecosystemsgtwetlandsgtpalustrine-wetlands, earth-sciencegtbiospheregtvegetationgtvegetation-cover, environment, inlandwaters, north-dakota, northern-great-plains, prairie-pothole-region, stutsman-county, surface-water-non-marine, united-states-of-america, usgs-58c833c3e4b0849ce9796139, vegetation-changes, wetland-ecosystems, wetlands
Organization: Department of the Interior
Trial data for Field Effectiveness of florfenicol and oxytetracycline dihydrate in Controlling Mortality in Walleye (Sander vitreus) due to Motile Aeromonad Infections

This is the mortality and water quality data for 2 efficacy trials of medicated feed for controlling mortality in Walleye (Sander vitreus) due to motile aeromonad infections. Top-coated feed with florfenicol or oxytetracycline or control feed were administered in both trials to fingerling walleye. Daily mortality counts and water quality measurements for dissolved oxygen, pH, temperature are included as csv files.

Tags: biota, coolwater-finfish, florfenicol, mas, oxytetracycline, usgs-652feb95d34edd15305a9d53, walleye
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2018 Site 0514 land-water matrix

Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring to determine the efficacy of these projects. The Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) was developed to assist in a multiple-reference approach that uses aspects of hydrogeomorphic functional assessments and probabilistic sampling for monitoring. The CRMS program includes a suite of approximately 390 sites that encompass the range of hydrological and ecological conditions for each stratum. As part of CRMS, land and water classifications are created from Digital Orthophoto Quarter Quadrangles (DOQQs) approximately every three years at all CRMS sites. This dataset consists of a matrix of five land-water products (2005, 2008, 2012, YYYY and 2018).  The resulting matrix has 32 possible classes defined by the combination of land and water categories on those five dates.

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-611f1363d34e40dd9c01d1ef, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Microsatellite Genetic Data for Sea Sandwort (Honckenya peploides) and Merckia (Wilhelmsia physodes), Alaska, 2009-2016

This dataset contains sampling information and genetic data of 12 novel microsatellite loci developed and polymorphic in the Sea Sandwort (Honckenya peploides) and screened in Merckia (Wilhelmsia physodes) from Alaska. The allele sizes for the 12 microsatellite loci developed in this study are included for two populations of Sea Sandwort (Fossil Beach, Kodiak and Egg Bay, Atka) and one population of Merckia (upper Coleen River, Brooks Range).

Tags: alaska, aleutian-islands, angiosperms-flowering-plants, biogeography, biota, coastal-ecosystems, dicots, environment, gene-flow, genetic-diversity, genetic-variance, genetics, high-throughput-nucleotide-sequencing, indigenous-vegetation, microsatellite-repeats, plants, polymerase-chain-reaction, population-dynamics, population-genetics, ruderal-environments, seed-dispersal, terrestrial-ecosystems, terrestrial-environments, usgs-asc180
Organization: Department of the Interior
Bioelectrical Impedance, Deuterium Dilution, Body Mass, and Morphological Measures of Southern Beaufort Sea Female Polar Bears, Spring 2014-2016

This dataset contains data from the use of bioelectrical impedance analysis and deuterium injection as methods to estimate the body composition of female polar bears in the southern Beaufort Sea subpopulation. Data are provided on bioelectrical impedance resistance measures, the enrichment level of deuterium oxide that was injected and measured in blood samples, and morphological measures.

Tags: alaska, animals-vertebrates, bears, beaufort-sea, bioelectrical-impedance-analysis-resistance-measures, biota, body-composition, carnivores, coastal-ecosystems, deuterium-oxide-analysis, environment, isotopic-analysis, mammals, marine-ecosystems, polar-bear, species-life-history, ursus-maritimus, usgs-asc160, wildlife
Organization: Department of the Interior
Brown Bear Phenotypic Plasticity, Alaska, 2013-2016

These data are the data for age, skull size, body length, and lean mass for Gates of the Arctic, Lake Clark, Kodiak, and Katmai, Alaska, 2013-2016.

Tags: age-composition, age-structure, alaska, animals-vertebrates, bears, biota, brown-bear, carnivores, environment, gates-of-the-arctic-national-park, grizzly-bear, growth, katmai-national-park, kodiak-national-wildlife-refuge, lake-clark-national-park, mammals, phenology, population-and-community-ecology, population-structure, ursus-arctos, usgs-asc161
Organization: Department of the Interior
Linear Deconvolution Results For Sites DS-6 and DS-7 (3-component-model-2)

These geotiffs represent the raster GIS outputs of Linear Deconvolution (Linear Spectral Unmixing) analysis of ASTER image pixels covering various sand dune and sand sheet fields throughout the Western United States and Alaska.  These particular dune fields (DS-6 and DS-7) are within the Sunset Crater area of the San Francisco Volcanic Field of basaltic scoria cones and re-worked tephra deposits in Arizona. The accompanying zip file contains linear deconvolution-derived mineral fractional abundance maps for a three-component mixture model of Basaltic Glass, Opaline Silica and Plagioclase Feldspars, as well as RMS and residual errors. Each geotiff layer has an associated metadata file with further details.

Tags: climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, elevation, environment, geoscientificinformation, health, usgs-5a67ad4fe4b06e28e9c57174
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data for Evaluating Efficacy of 1- versus 2-prong Radio Transmitter Attachment for Scoters in Alaska and Washington, 2008-2010

A major challenge of wildlife telemetry is choosing an attachment technique that maximizes transmitter retention while minimizing negative side effects. For waterbirds, attachment of transmitters with subcutaneous anchors has been an effective and well-established technique, having been used on &gt;40 species. This method was recently modified to include a second subcutaneous anchor, presumably increasing transmitter retention beyond that of single-anchor attachments. This putative benefit may be offset, however, by increased health risks related to additional incisions and subcutaneous protrusions. To test this potential trade-off, we attached radio transmitters to surf scoters (Melanitta perspicillata) and white-winged scoters (M. fusca) during the flightless remigial molt and winter using single- (121 scoters) and double-anchor (128 scoters) attachment techniques. The data described here are generated by this research project. Results of this work are published in the journal Wildlife Society Bulletin.

Tags: alaska, animal-tracking, animals-vertebrates, biota, birds, capture-recapture-studies, coastal-ecosystems, ducks-geese-swans, environment, marine-ecosystems, melanitta-fusca, melanitta-perspicillata, migratory-birds, migratory-rates-routes, migratory-species, ornithology, radio-transmitter, salish-sea, seasonal-distribution, seasonal-movement, southeast-alaska, species-life-history, surf-scoter, tagging-devices, telemetry, tracking-equipment, usgs-asc162, washington, white-winged-scoter, wildlife
Organization: Department of the Interior
Arctic Coastal Plain Seasonal Lake Drainage, Water Temperature, and Solute and Nutrient Concentrations, 2011-2014

This data release includes remotely sensed lake and lake chemistry and water temperature data collected from 2011 to 2014) from a series of lakes on the Arctic Coastal Plain of Alaska. Most of the data is from two sites within the Chipp River Basin.

Tags: alaska, biogeochemical-cycling, chipp-river, environment, freshwater-ecosystems, hydrology, ikpikpuk-river, inlandwaters, lake-pond, north-slope, surface-water-chemistry, terrestrial-hydrosphere, usgs-asc163, water-quality-water-chemistry, water-temperature, watershed-characteristics
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mineral Commodity Summaries 2023 - ASBESTOS Data Release

This data release contains the U.S. salient statistics and world production data extracted from the ASBESTOS data sheet of the USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2023.

Tags: asbestos, chrysotile, nonmetallic-mineral-resources, usgs-63d1a2c5d34e06fef1500642
Organization: Department of the Interior
Boreal toad metamorph capture, recapture and covariates data, Colorado 2017-2018

This  dataset includes two files, 1) site -specific covariates including the presence of predators (fish), disease (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis [Bd] - amphibian chytrid fungus), and permanence (ephemeral or permanent) of sites in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. The dataset was analyzed for planned publication of a manuscript in Population Ecology, Crockett, J., E. Muths and L.L. Bailey authors. and 2) site-specific covariates for additional sites in Colorado (including those in file 1) noting the presence of toad breeding, snowpack values, Bd, permanence and elevation that are analyzed for a second planned publication by Crockett et al.

Tags: biota, boreal-toad, colorado, life-history, rocky-mountain-national-park, survival, usgs-5df3c55ee4b02caea0fa6590
Organization: Department of the Interior
PCQ Shrub Data AZ GRSP Territories 2009 to 2013

These data provide information about the point-centered quarter measurements taken to calculate distance to the nearest shrub and shrub density for Arizona Grasshopper Sparrow territories.

Tags: ammodramus-savannarum-ammolegus, arizona, arizona-grasshopper-sparrow, biota, birds, grassland-ecosystems, habitats, nest-site-habitat, santa-cruz-county, territory-habitat, united-states, usgs-59c02867e4b091459a5e0af8, vegetation
Organization: Department of the Interior
Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, Biomass, and Nitrogen Content of Goose Forage, Northern Alaska, 2011-2018

This data set contains four tables of information regarding the sampling of plant biomass, nitrogen, cumulative thaw degree days, precipitation, and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) for the Colville River Delta and Point Lonely area of northern Alaska.

Tags: alaska, arctic-coastal-plain, biomass-dynamics, biota, carex-subspathacea, colville-river-delta, environment, forage, grazing, grazing-dynamics-plant-herbivory, landscape-ecology, lonely-air-station, migratory-birds, ndvi, normalized-difference-vegetation-index, north-slope-borough, phenology, plant-phenology, plants, smith-river, terrestrial-ecosystems, usgs-asc164, wetland-ecosystems, wildlife-food-habits, wildlife-nutrition
Organization: Department of the Interior
Oceanographic Conditions (Temperature and Salinity), North Pacific and Bering Sea 2012-2014

This dataset contains sea surface temperature and salinity data in August 2012–2014 in the North Pacific and Bering Sea. Data were measured continuously during at-sea surveys using a hull-mounted thermosalinograph (SeaBird Electronics Inc® SBE 21). Data are output in a CNV file format to be processed by Seabird Electronics Inc® Software version Seasave V 7.23.2. 

Tags: alaska, alaska-peninsula, aleutian-islands, bering-sea, biota, environment, gulf-of-alaska, north-pacific, oceans, profilers-sounders, salinity, sea-surface-temperature, sensors, temperature, thermosalinographs, transect-sampling, usgs-asc165
Organization: Department of the Interior
Attributes for NHDPlus Version 2.1 Catchments and Modified Routing of Upstream Watersheds for the Conterminous United States: 30 Year Average (1961-1990) of Minimum Monthly Number of Days of Measurable Precipitation

This tabular data set represents 30 year average (1961-1990) of minimum monthly number of days of measurable precipitation per month compiled for two spatial components of the NHDPlus version 2 data suite (NHDPlusv2) for the conterminous United States; 1) individual reach catchments and 2) reach catchments accumulated upstream through the river network. This dataset can be linked to the NHDPlus version 2 data suite by the unique identifier COMID.  The source data for 30 year average (1961-1990) of minimummonthly number of days of measurable precipitation was originally PRISM-based data, with some further enhancements by ClimateSource.com and then provided to the USGS by the Environmental Protection Agency (Ryan Hill, EPA, written commun., 2011). Units are percent of days/month. It should also be noted that Climatesource.com no longer exists, however the data is free to distribute and the USGS assumes no liability with its use. It is included with this data set. Reach catchment information characterizes data at the local scale. Reach catchments accumulated upstream through the river network characterizes cumulative upstream conditions.  Network-accumulated values are computed using two methods, 1) divergence-routed and 2) total cumulative drainage area. Both approaches use a modified routing database to navigate the NHDPlus reach network to aggregate (accumulate) the metrics derived from the reach catchment scale. (Schwarz and Wieczorek, 2018).

Tags: 30-year-average-1961-1990-of-minimummonthly-number-of-days-of-measurable-precipitation, catchment, inlandwaters, nawqa, nhdplus, sparrow, usgs-57040be3e4b0328dcb82850a
Organization: Department of the Interior