AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Data from an investigation of snake fungal disease at Palmetto Island State Park, Vermilion Parish, Louisiana from 2015-2019

This dataset contains the results from 80 visual encounter surveys at two wetlands in Palmetto Island State Park, Vermillion Parish, Louisiana from August 2015 to April 2019. These surveys mainly targeted snakes but small turtles and anoles were also opportunistically captured. Captured animals were swabbed to determine the prevalence of Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola, the causative agent of Snake Fungal Disease. Physical measurements were taken on all captured individuals. This dataset also includes environmental data such as temperature, water level, and humidity at the study site.

Tags: freshwater-ecosystems, louisiana, north-america, reptiles, united-states, usgs-5f6e30f282ce38aaa249ab37, vermilion-parish, wildlife-disease
Organization: Department of the Interior
Grand Falls, Arizona: Dune Field Sand Transport 2013 - 2016

As part of a NASA-funded study of sediment flux rates at a Mars analog site, we installed a suite of instruments in a 
small dune field near Grand Falls, Arizona. Data released in this report were collected from 10/28/2013 to 11/04/2016. The Grand 
Falls (GF) dune field is located on the Navajo Nation. It lies ~70 km NE of Flagstaff, AZ, 2 km east of Grand Falls, and just 
north of the Little Colorado River (LCR). The dune field consists of barchans, smaller dunes, ripples, and bare, indurated 
interdune surfaces; all features commonly found on the Martian surface. We measured sediment flux using a Sensit saltation sensor 
and a set of three Big Spring Number Eight (BSNE) passive sediment samplers, at 20, 50, and 100 cm above ground level (AGL). The 
samplers are weighing BSNEs (wBSNE) that automatically weigh and log accumulated sediment weight. The Sensit and wBSNE data were 
taken once per second, then averaged and logged at one-minute intervals. The experimental BSNE (xBSNE), designed and built by the 
maker of the wBSNEs, passively collects sediment at ~50 cm AGL and records data as time-lapse photos of the collection chamber 
taken at 15-minute intervals. Wind data was collected from a set of three anemometers (installed at the same heights as the wBSNEs) 
that sampled and recorded one-second intervals once per minute. Our instruments were positioned ~120 m downwind from an active 
barchan that migrates ~30 m/year. This research is funded by the NASA Moon and Mars Analog Missions Activities (MMAMA) program, 
project #NNH13AV781. Research was conducted with the permission of the Navajo Nation and the Leupp Chapter. Any persons wishing to 
conduct geological investigations on the Navajo Nation must first apply for and receive a permit from the Navajo Nation Minerals 
Department, P.O. Box 1910, Window Rock, Arizona 86515, telephone # 928-871-6588.

Tags: dunes, grain-size-analysis, leupp, navajo-reservation, planetary-sciences, sand-deposits, sediment-flux, sediment-transport, usgs-5f6e51b482ce38aaa24a71f5
Organization: Department of the Interior
Aquaculture and Irrigation Water-Use Model (AIWUM) Version 1.1 Estimates and Related Datasets for the Mississippi Alluvial Plain

This dataset contains 21 annual aquaculture and irrigation water-use rasters output by AIWUM 1.1.  Pixel value units are in cubic meters per square kilometer.

Tags: agriculture-water-use, arkansas, illinois, irrigated-lands, irrigation, kentucky, louisiana, mississippi, mississippi-alluvial-plain, mississippi-delta, missouri, tennessee, texas, usgs-5f6e58e282ce38aaa24aad2f, water-use
Organization: Department of the Interior
Aquaculture and Irrigation Water-Use Model (AIWUM) Version 1.1 Estimates and Related Datasets for the Mississippi Alluvial Plain

This dataset contains 147 monthly aquaculture and irrigation water-use rasters output by AIWUM 1.1 for each month of the growing season (April-October) for each year in the model period (1999-2019). Pixel value units are in cubic meters per square kilometer.  Aquaculture and irrigation water-use estimates are included in this data release in two different formats: georeferenced TIFFs (GeoTIFFs) for simple viewing and geospatial operations (Monthly_total.zip) and a network common data form (NetCDF) for use in modeling applications and with each month as a separate raster array table (irr_wu_1km_1999_to_2019.zip).

Tags: agriculture-water-use, arkansas, illinois, irrigated-lands, irrigation, kentucky, louisiana, mississippi, mississippi-alluvial-plain, mississippi-delta, missouri, tennessee, texas, usgs-5f6e5a3982ce38aaa24ab67d, water-use
Organization: Department of the Interior
Maquoketa River Floodplain-River Connectivity 2014-2016 Data

The Maquoketa River carries some of the highest sediment and nutrient loads in the Upper Mississippi River, contributing to eutrophication and hypoxic conditions in the Mississippi River and Gulf of Mexico. Floodplains provide the ability to remove and sequester, sediments, nitrogen, phosphorus, and carbon; however effectiveness of floodplains is limited by the extent and connection of the floodplain to the river. The confluence of the Maquoketa and Mississippi Rivers presents a unique study location because the delta at the confluence is heavily managed by a State-Federal-NGO partnership that has already taken action focusing on evaluating the impact of increased connectivity on numerous ecosystem services, including water quality improvement, flood control, and fish and wildlife productivity. Our objective was to quantify the effects of increased river-floodplain connectivity on ecosystem services, namely potential water quality improvement, in a 93-ha parcel of the floodplain that was reconnected to the Maquoketa River due to levee breaches at Green Island, Iowa. We quantified ecosystem services that include retention of flood transported sediment, C, N, and P on the Maquoketa floodplain; floodplain sediment denitrification and its relation to nitrate (NO3- -N) removal on the floodplain post flood and during dry, inter-flood periods; and factors affecting sediment P retention or release and P soil saturation during inter-flood periods as an indication of whether the floodplain soils act as a source or sink of P.

Tags: biota, connectivity, denitrification, floodplain, green-island, iowa, maquoketa-river, nitrogen, phosphorus, phosphorus-sediment-uptake, upper-mississippi-river, usgs-5f6f5d3a82ce38aaa24c1783
Organization: Department of the Interior
Evaluation of a Trace Plant  Density Score in Long Term Resource Monitoring (LTRM) Vegetation Monitoring Data

The Long Term Resource Monitoring (LTRM) program  employs a destructive harvest method for sampling aquatic vegetation whereby a rake is dragged ~1.5 m over the substrate and plant materials are retrieved.  The density of each species of submersed aquatic vegetation (SAV), and of all species combined, are scored based on the amount of plant material collected on the teeth of each rake. Plant density (PD) scores are ordered and vary from 0 (no plants captured) to 5 (80-100% of rake teeth covered). The PD score of 1 has represented the vast majority of all non-zero values since 1998 and is associated with a wide range of biomass (e.g. &lt;1g to 694g fresh weight in Pools 4 and 8 during the 2017 field season). However, small plant fragments account for a large proportion of individual species and combined species samples within this density score. This study evaluated a potential new “trace” PD score in the field in 2018 in Pools 4, 8 and 13 whereby trace was defined as any visible plant material up to 1/13th of a traditional PD score of 1.

Tags: biomass, biota, plant-density, pool-13, pool-4, pool-8, submersed-aquatic-vegetation, upper-mississippi-river, usgs-5f6f60a382ce38aaa24c1793
Organization: Department of the Interior
Cenozoic Calcareous Nannofossil Occurrences from Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain Cores, Wells, and Outcrops

In this data release, Cenozoic calcareous nannofossil occurrence charts are provided as Microsoft Excel spreadsheets for 57 cores, wells, or outcrops from the Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain (Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and New Jersey) and one core from offshore New Jersey.  Samples have been assigned a USGS sample number and are organized by depth below (cores and wells) or height above (outcrops) the land surface.  Based on their known stratigraphic position, lithology, and specific calcareous nannofossil species content, each sample, where possible, was assigned to a geologic formation, age, and standard Martini (1971) calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphic zone. 
Five additional reference files are provided: (1) location information for each core, well, or outcrop, (2) a list of calcareous nannofossil species found in the Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plains, (3) a summary showing in which calcareous nannofossil zones calcareous nannofossil species have been found in the Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plains, (4) a selected list of relevant scientific publications, and (5) a data dictionary that provides a line-by-line and column-by-column listing of what is found in each Excel spreadsheet.
All the calcareous nannofossil species names have been updated to be consistent with current nomenclature.  As an aid to understanding how biostratigraphic zone assignments were determined, specific species that were used to determine a calcareous nannofossil zone are highlighted, as are anomalous species occurrences resulting from natural physical or biological processes such as sediment reworking or burrowing.

Tags: biostratigraphy, biota, calcareous-nannoplankton, cenozoic, coastal-zones, continental-margins, core-analysis, eocene, faunal-and-floral-census-microscopic, fossils, fus10-delaware, fus24-maryland, fus34-new-jersey, fus51-virginia, micropaleontology, mid-atlantic-coastal-plain, miocene, neogene, north-atlantic, oligocene, paleocene, paleogene, pliocene, stratigraphic-sections, tertiary, usgs-5f70f5bc82cef8d18396e941
Organization: Department of the Interior
Cenozoic Calcareous Nannofossil Occurrences from Gulf Coastal Plain Cores and Outcrops

In this data release, Cenozoic calcareous nannofossil occurrence charts are provided as Microsoft Excel spreadsheets for 15 cores or outcrops from the Gulf Coastal Plain (Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia).  Samples have been assigned a USGS sample number and are organized by depth below (cores and wells) or height above (outcrops) the land surface.  Based on their known stratigraphic position, lithology, and specific calcareous nannofossil species content, each sample, where possible, was assigned to a geologic formation, age, and standard Martini (1971) calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphic zone. 
Five additional reference files are provided: (1) location information for each core or outcrop, (2) a list of calcareous nannofossil species found in the Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plains, (3) a summary showing in which calcareous nannofossil zones calcareous nannofossil species have been found in the Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plains, (4) a selected list of relevant scientific publications, and (5) a data dictionary that provides a line-by-line and column-by-column listing of what is found in each Excel spreadsheet.
All the calcareous nannofossil species names have been updated to be consistent with current nomenclature.  As an aid to understanding how biostratigraphic zone assignments were determined, specific species that were used to determine a calcareous nannofossil zone are highlighted, as are anomalous species occurrences resulting from natural physical or biological processes such as sediment reworking or burrowing.

Tags: biostratigraphy, biota, calcareous-nannoplankton, cenozoic, continental-margins, core-analysis, eocene, faunal-and-floral-census-microscopic, fossils, fus01-alabama, fus13-georgia, fus28-mississippi, gulf-coastal-plain, micropaleontology, miocene, neogene, oligocene, paleocene, paleogene, pliocene, stratigraphic-sections, tertiary, usgs-5f70f63d82cef8d18396e946
Organization: Department of the Interior
North Coast and Cascades Network consolidated amphibian database (1984-2005)

This data set is an amalgamation of twenty-nine original data sets, which represent amphibian surveys in the seven national parks comprising the North Coast and Cascades Network (NCCN) of the National Park Service. The data were collected from 1984-2005, and include the localities of 19 species of amphibians at various life stages, 18 native to the Pacific Northwest and one invasive species.

Tags: amphibians, biota, ebeys-landing-national-historic-reserve, environment, fort-vancouver-national-historic-site, herpetology, inlandwaters, lewis-amp-clark-national-and-state-historical-parks, long-term-ecological-monitoring, mount-rainier-national-park, national-park-service, north-cascades-national-park, north-coast-and-cascades-network, olympic-national-park, oregon, pacific-northwest, san-juan-island-national-historic-park, usgs-5f72600682cef8d183971a34, washington
Organization: Department of the Interior
Watershed characteristics of upstream drainage areas and geomorphometry of stream reaches in the Chesapeake Bay and Delaware River watersheds

Input data on watershed drainage area characteristics and stream reach geomorphometry for statistical modeling of floodplains, streambanks, and streambeds in the Chesapeake Bay and Delaware River watersheds of the U.S. Mid-Atlantic.  Characteristics include selected upstream accumulated attributes (with divergence routing) describing geology, topography, soils, hydrology, and land use for each NHDPlusV2 stream reach from Wieczorek et al. (2018), and the geomorphometry of the local stream reach summarized from Hopkins et al. (2020).  These potential predictors were tested for incorporation into Random Forest statistical models to explain and predict spatial variation in floodplain and streambank flux of sediment, fine sediment, sediment-C, sediment-N, and sediment-P and rates of geomorphic change, and streambed sediment characteristics (d50, cover by fine sediment, cover by fine and sand sediment).

Tags: banks-hydrographic, channels, chesapeake-bay, delaware, district-of-columbia, drainage-basins, floodplains, maryland, new-jersey, new-york, pennsylvania, sediment, sediment-deposition, sediment-erosion, sediment-geochemistry, sediment-sinks, sediment-sources, usgs-5f71ea4982cef8d183971680, virginia, west-virginia
Organization: Department of the Interior
Predictions of floodplain and streambank geomorphic change and flux, streambed characteristics, and catchment inputs and exports of sediment and nutrients for stream reaches in the Chesapeake Bay and Delaware River watersheds

Predictions from statistical modeling of floodplains, streambanks, and streambeds in the Chesapeake Bay and Delaware River watersheds of the U.S. Mid-Atlantic.  Random Forest statistical models using either 1) characteristics of upstream drainage area, or 2) characteristics of upstream drainage area (Wieczorek et al. 2018, https://doi.org/10.5066/f7765d7v) and reach geomorphometry (Hopkins et al. 2020, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9RQJPT1), were used to explain and predict spatial variation in measured floodplain and streambank flux of sediment, fine sediment, sediment-C, sediment-N, and sediment-P and rates of geomorphic change, and streambed sediment characteristics (d50, cover by fine sediment, cover by fine and sand sediment) (Noe et al. 2020, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9QLJYPX).  These predictions were compared to published estimates of upland erosion and delivery of upland erosion to streams (Chesapeake Bay Program, https://cast.chesapeakebay.net/Documentation/ModelDocumentation), and catchment export (Ator 2019, https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20195118).

Tags: banks-hydrographic, channels, chesapeake-bay, delaware, district-of-columbia, drainage-basins, floodplains, maryland, new-jersey, new-york, pennsylvania, sediment, sediment-deposition, sediment-erosion, sediment-geochemistry, sediment-sinks, sediment-sources, usgs-5f71eb0082cef8d183971684, virginia, west-virginia
Organization: Department of the Interior
Original Dataset of wells with water-level records in Chicot aquifer system from Louisiana Department of Natural Resource's Strategic Online Natural Resources Information System (SONRIS)

The Louisiana Department of Natural Resources' (LaDNR) Strategic Online Natural Resources Information System (SONRIS) is a repository for well information that includes date of completion, well construction, geology, and water levels. Well information provided by the water well drillers during the permitting process is updated periodically by LaDNR. Well information is available in SONRIS as early as 1930 to the present. This data set consist of 20,759 well records extracted from SONRIS that were likely drilled in the Chicot aquifer system in southwestern Louisiana.

Tags: biota, drillers-log, groundwater, groundwater-level, louisiana, southwest-louisiana, usgs-5f721d4982cef8d183971767
Organization: Department of the Interior
Final Dataset of wells with water-level records in Chicot aquifer system from Louisiana Department of Natural Resources' Strategic Online Natural Resources Information System (SONRIS)

This dataset contain the final 6,298 water-level records that met all threshold criteria and had absolute residuals (ABS_PSEUDO_LEVRES) not exceeding 20 feet and exceeding the 99th percentile. This final dataset is considered a best representation of the true water levels in the aquifer.

Tags: biota, chicot-aquifer-system, groundwater, southwestern-louisiana, usgs-5f721e8e82cef8d183971773, water-levels
Organization: Department of the Interior
Wells with water-level records in Chicot aquifer system from Louisiana Department of Natural Resource's Strategic Online Natural Resources Information System (SONRIS) for statistical analysis

This data set consists of the remaining 6,701 water-level records formatted in the "infoGW" object format that met specific criteria for the visGWDB groundwater-level informatics software framework. This criteria ensures that the water-level records were representative of true groundwater conditions in the Chicot aquifer system and associated aquifer units in southwestern Louisiana.

Tags: biota, chicot-aquifer-system, groundwater, southwestern-louisiana, usgs-5f721eac82cef8d183971776, water-levels
Organization: Department of the Interior
USGS North American Packrat Midden Database, Version 5.0

This data release contains the data tables for the USGS North American Packrat Midden Database (version 5.0).  This version of the Midden Database contains data for 3,331 packrat midden samples obtained from published sources (journal articles, book chapters, theses, dissertations, government and private industry reports, conference proceedings) as well as unpublished data contributed by researchers.  Compared to the previous version of the Midden Database (i.e., ver. 4), this version of the database (ver. 5.0) has been expanded to include more precise midden-sample site location data, calibrated midden-sample age data, and plant functional type (PFT) assignments for the taxa in each midden sample.  In addition, World Wildlife Fund ecoregion and major habitat type (MHT) assignments (Ricketts and others, 1999, Terrestrial ecoregions of North America—A conservation assessment) and modern climate and bioclimate data (New and others, 2002; Davis and others, 2017) are provided for each midden-sample site location.

Tags: canada, mexico, midden, neotoma, north-america, packrat, paleobotany, united-states-of-america, usgs-5f723cbb82cef8d183971808
Organization: Department of the Interior
BFS Model Parameters (ver. 3.0, December 2025)

Site-specific parameters for a non-linear baseflow separation model determined by automated calibration to maximize baseflow. The file "bf_param.csv" has parameter values for 11,985 sites with streamflow gages where daily streamflow values are available for at least 300 days from water year 1981 to 2020.

Tags: baseflow, hydrograph-separation, mathematical-modeling, streamflow, usgs-5f733b3382cef8d18399596b
Organization: Department of the Interior
Simulated CONUS-wide 1-km resolution 1971-2015 ecosystem carbon variables from the IBIS model

This simulated ecosystem carbon dataset is used to report terrestrial carbon budget of the conterminous U.S. in the Golobal Change Biology paper "Critical land change information enhances understanding of carbon balance in the U.S."  
The data is derived from simulations of the parallel Integrated Biosphere simulator (pIBIS). Annual carbon variables cover 1971-2015 at 1-km (960m) spatial resolution with 3052 rows and 4823 columns. Carbon stock and flux units are in kgC/m2 and kgC/m2/yr, respectively. Data are in NetCDF format and Albers equal area projection. Overall data creation steps:  
1. The pIBIS model was used to run simulations using climate, vegetation, soil and disturbance input data; 
2. Model outputs were converted to NetCDF format; 
3. 1971-2015 subsets were clipped from original 1901-2015 simulation outputs. 
Variable List: 
aynbp – net biome productivity; 
ayneetot – net ecosystem productivity; 
aynpptot – net primary productivity; 
totceco – total ecosystem carbon. 
NoData Value: -3.40282346639e+038

Tags: carbon, land-cover-change, model, usgs-5f73405182cef8d183995987
Organization: Department of the Interior
Videos taken in support of Image Velocimetry at the Arkansas River at Parkdale, CO March 20–21, 2018

Videos and imagery collected of the Arkansas River at Parkdale, CO on March 20–21, 2018 as part of the US Geological Survey (USGS) "2018 Airshow". These videos capture ground conditions of river flow at three locations in the vicinity of the USGS 07094500 Arkansas River at Parkdale, CO streamgage. The videos were captured by either a tripod-mounted digital camera, smartphone, or unmanned aerial system. All videos are named according to the date, time, and location of acquisition. Included with each video is an image with annotation indicating ground control points. The absolute distances between each ground control points are described in the included "Sensor_Cameras.csv" table on which this metadata is based.
The videos and a copy of the “Sensor_Cameras.csv” file are included in a nine-part multi-part zip archive. The use of multi-part zip archives enables downloads of very large files. To view the videos in the multi-part zip archive, download all nine files to a local directory:
- Sensor_Cameras.zip.001
- Sensor_Cameras.zip.002
- Sensor_Cameras.zip.003
- Sensor_Cameras.zip.004
- Sensor_Cameras.zip.005
- Sensor_Cameras.zip.006
- Sensor_Cameras.zip.007
- Sensor_Cameras.zip.008
- Sensor_Cameras.zip.009 
Then, extract the multi-part zip archive using appropriate software that has support for multi-part files (7-zip or WinRAR for example). Also included in this data release are the message-digest (md5) file hashes which can be used to verify the checksums of the individual multi-part zip files. To make use of the md5 hashes, download the multipart zip archives, then use a md5 hash generator (Get-FileHash in Windows Powershell, md5 in MacOS, or md5sum in Linux) to compare the hash of the downloaded file to the hash contained in the respective *.md5 file included in this data release. If the file was properly downloaded and there are no issues with file integrity the hash values will match.

Tags: aerial-video, drone, hydrographic-datasets, remote-sensing, stream-discharge, stream-gage-measurement, streamflow, suas, unmanned-aircraft-system, unoccupied-aircraft-system, usgs-5f73454982cef8d183995993, videography
Organization: Department of the Interior