AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge host plant associations of Lepidoptera, 2016-2017

This data release includes metadata and tabular data that documents species of caterpillars collected from different plant species at Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge during 2017-2018. Data sets document (1) numbers of caterpillars collected on each plant species, (2) caterpillar host plant associations, (3) the fate of caterpillars during rearing, (4) types of mandibles possessed by different caterpillar species, and (5) a plant and caterpillar species list.

Tags: biota, caterpillars, hakalau-forest-national-wildlife-refuge, hawaii-island, host-plants, mandible-type, usgs-621ed43ed34ee0c6b389aa0c
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hawaiian Islands bioclimatic variables for baseline and future climate scenarios

We integrated recent climate model projections developed for the State of Hawai’i with current climatological datasets to generate updated regionally defined bioclimatic variables. We derived updated bioclimatic variables from new projections of baseline and future monthly minimum, mean, and maximum temperature (Tmin, Tmean, Tmax) and mean precipitation (Pmean) data at 250 m resolution. We used observation-based data for the baseline bioclimatic variables from the Rainfall Atlas of Hawai’i. We used the most up-to-date dynamically downscaled future projections based on the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model from the International Pacific Research Center (IPRC) and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). We summarized the monthly data from these two projections into a suite of 19 bioclimatic variables that provide detailed information about annual and seasonal mean climatic conditions specifically for the Hawaiian Islands. These bioclimatic variables are available state-wide for three climate scenarios: baseline climate (1990-2009) and future climate (2080-2099) under RCP 4.5 (IPRC projections only) and RCP 8.5 (both IPRC and NCAR projections). As Hawai’i is characterized by two 6-month seasons, we also provide mean seasonal variables for all scenarios based on the dry (May-October) and wet (November-April) seasonality of Hawaiian climate.

Tags: bioclimatic-variables, biota, climate-shifts, future-scenarios, global-circulation-models, hawaii, main-hawaiian-islands, regional-projections, usgs-621ec9a3d34ee0c6b389aa03
Organization: Department of the Interior
Soil Properties of Lake-Margin Wetlands of the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge

This dataset is a single comma-delimited text file (.csv). Data include the name of lakes where samples were obtained, soil pH, electrical conductivity (EC), water content (VWC), and bulk density (BD) of soil core samples within organic soil horizon in lake-margin wetland plant communities.

Tags: alaska, biogeochemical-cycles, biomass, biomass-dynamics, biota, community-ecology, community-structure, environment, lake-drying, landscape-ecology, plants, primary-production, soil-carbon-storage, succession-biological, terrestrial-ecosystems, usgs-621e95a6d34ee0c6b389a9bd, vegetation-cover, wetland-ecosystems, yukon-flats, yukon-flats-national-wildlife-refuge
Organization: Department of the Interior
Burn probability predictions for the state of California, USA using an optimal set of spatio-temporal features.

Burn probability (BP) models the likelihood that a location could burn. However, predicting BP is extremely challenging, because fire behavior varies strongly among landscapes and with changing weather conditions and wildfire spread simulations are computationally intensive and require integration of data with large spatial and temporal variability. In this data release we include the monthly BP estimation for the state of California, USA for the 2015-2019 period produced using a machine learning model and two different sets of input features. For the first case, the baseline, the model used all available input features to predict BP. The second output set corresponds to the BP predictions when the model used only the set of optimal features as determined in the cited paper.

Tags: burn-probability, california, feature-selection, united-states, usgs-621e7e17d34ee0c6b389a977, wildland-fire
Organization: Department of the Interior
Plant Functional Type Percent Cover Estimates from the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge

The file contains ocular percent cover estimates for eight plant functional types occurring in lake-margin wetland plant communities in the Yukon River floodplain within the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge. Observations were collected along up to four 100-meter linear transects oriented perpendicular to the lakeshore. Eight cover classes were used, and the median % cover for each cover class is shown in the dataset. Separate percent cover observations were recorded for each of eight distinct plant community encountered along each transect. Community types were associated with one of three aggregate community types (Grass/Sedge, Shrub, and Forest) for analyses. The dataset also includes a column indicating whether the adjacent lake had shrunk, fluctuated in size, or remained stable over time, as well as columns indicating the age in years of grass/sedge and shrub plant communities at that lake, defined as the number of years since the community type was last inundated by the lake, based on Landsat satellite imagery.

Tags: alaska, biogeochemical-cycles, biomass, biomass-dynamics, biota, community-ecology, community-structure, environment, lake-drying, landscape-ecology, plants, primary-production, soil-carbon-storage, succession-biological, terrestrial-ecosystems, usgs-621e7241d34ee0c6b389a94d, vegetation-cover, wetland-ecosystems, yukon-flats, yukon-flats-national-wildlife-refuge
Organization: Department of the Interior
Carbon and Nitrogen Content of Organic Soils in Lake-Margin Wetlands of the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge

This dataset is a single comma-delimited text file (.csv). Data include the name of lakes where samples were obtained, soil core dimensions, bulk density, and carbon/nitrogen content of soil core samples within the organic soil horizon in lake-margin wetland plant communities.

Tags: alaska, biogeochemical-cycles, biomass, biomass-dynamics, biota, community-ecology, community-structure, environment, lake-drying, landscape-ecology, plants, primary-production, soil-carbon-storage, succession-biological, terrestrial-ecosystems, usgs-621e7110d34ee0c6b389a944, vegetation-cover, wetland-ecosystems, yukon-flats, yukon-flats-national-wildlife-refuge
Organization: Department of the Interior
Enhanced Terrain Imagery of the Hagerstown 30 x 60 Minute Quadrangle from Lidar-Derived Elevation Models at 3-Meter Resolution

This imagery dataset consists of 3-meter resolution, lidar-derived imagery of the Hagerstown 30 x 60 minute quadrangle in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and part of West Virginia. The source data used to construct this imagery consists of  1-meter and 3-meter resolution Lidar-derived digital elevation models (DEMs). The lidar source data were compiled from different acquisitions published between 2014 and 2017 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the US Geological Survey (USGS).  The data were processed using geographic information systems (GIS) software. The data is projected in North America Datum (NAD) UTM Zone 18 North. This representation illustrates the terrain as a hillshade with contrast adjusted to highlight local relief according to a topographic position index (TPI) calculation.

Tags: elevation, imagerybasemapsearthcover, lidar, topography, usgs-621e5b03d34ee0c6b389a8a3
Organization: Department of the Interior
Enhanced Terrain Imagery of the York 30 x 60 Minute Quadrangle from Lidar-Derived Elevation Models at 3-Meter Resolution

This imagery dataset consists of 3-meter resolution, lidar-derived imagery of the York 30 x 60 minute quadrangle in Pennsylvania and  Maryland. It also covers part of the Delaware River Basin. The source data used to construct this imagery consists of  1-meter and 2-meter resolution Lidar-derived digital elevation models (DEMs). The lidar source data were compiled from different acquisitions published between 2014 and 2017 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the US Geological Survey (USGS).  The data were processed using geographic information systems (GIS) software. The data is projected in North America Datum (NAD) UTM Zone 18 North. This representation illustrates the terrain as a hillshade with contrast adjusted to highlight local relief according to a topographic position index (TPI) calculation.

Tags: elevation, imagerybasemapsearthcover, lidar, topography, usgs-621e5a81d34ee0c6b389a899
Organization: Department of the Interior
Enhanced Terrain Imagery of the Wilmington 30 x 60 Minute Quadrangle from Lidar-Derived Elevation Models at 3-Meter Resolution

This imagery dataset consists of 3-meter resolution, lidar-derived imagery of the Wilmington 30 x 60 minute quadrangle in parts of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and New Jersey. It also covers part of the Delaware River Basin. The source data used to construct this imagery consists of  1-meter and 3-meter resolution Lidar-derived digital elevation models (DEMs). The lidar source data were compiled from different acquisitions published between 2013 and 2018 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the US Geological Survey (USGS).  The data were processed using geographic information systems (GIS) software. The data are projected in North America Datum (NAD) UTM Zone 18 North. This representation illustrates the terrain as a hillshade with contrast adjusted to highlight local relief according to a topographic position index (TPI) calculation.

Tags: basin, delaware, delaware-river-basin, elevation, imagerybasemapsearthcover, lidar, topography, usgs-621e59dbd34ee0c6b389a894
Organization: Department of the Interior
Modelled functional group vegetation cover from 2016 to 2020 on the Soda Wildfire

These rasters represent plant cover during each of the first five growing seasons after fire in the area burned in the 2015 Soda wildfire. Specifically included cover layers are annual herbaceous, perennial herbaceous, shrub, exotic annual grass, and bareground. Training data for each year was collected via grid-point intercept monitoring between April and August. Empirical Bayesian Kriging Regression (EBK regression) was then used to interpolate field training data and create continuous maps of cover. Accuracy for rasters was assessed via independent test data sets collected on the same landscape.

Tags: annual-herbaceous, bareground, biota, community-ecology, earth, ecology, ecosystems, environment, exotic-annual-grass, idaho, land, landscape-ecology, long-term-ecological-monitoring, north-america, oregon, perennial-herbaceous, sagebrush-steppe, shrub, shrubland-ecosystems, terrestrial-ecosystems, united-states, usgs-621e4992d34ee0c6b389a840, vegetation
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mercury concentrations, isotopic composition, biomass, and taxonomy of stream and riparian organisms in the vicinity of Yellow Pine, Idaho, 2015-2016 (ver. 2.0, July 2025)

This data release includes sampling location data; field-collected stream attribute data; laboratory-analyzed chemistry concentrations (total mercury, methyl mercury) and isotopic composition (total mercury, carbon, and nitrogen) for stream biota (seston, periphyton, benthic insects, emerging adult insects, riparian spiders, and fish); density, body length, and taxonomic information for benthic insects; and density, biomass, and taxonomic information for emerging adult aquatic insects for biota sampled from stream reaches up and downstream of an historical mercury mine site. Sampling took place during summer low-flow conditions in 2015 and 2016. Stream reaches were located on U.S. Forest Service land near the Cinnabar Mine Site in the vicinity of Yellow Pine, ID, USA. Version 2.0 includes an additional table which describes subsampling of the Hess samples during processing. All data on benthic macroinvertebrates derived from Hess samples should be interpreted using this information about proportion of sample processed.

Tags: aquatic-insects, aquatic-terrestrial-linkages, biomagnification, biota, food-web, idaho, macroinvertebrates, mercury-contamination, mine-drainage, nez-perce-tribe, riparian-ecosystems, riparian-spiders, spiders, sugar-creek, usgs-621e2f68d34ee0c6b389a7de, yellow-pine
Organization: Department of the Interior
Bathymetry and Velocity Data from Surveys at Highway Bridges Crossing the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers near St. Louis, Missouri, August 3–10, 2020

These data are high-resolution bathymetry (riverbed elevation) and depth-averaged velocities in comma-delimited table format, generated from hydrographic and velocimetric surveys near highway bridge structures over the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers near St. Louis, Missouri, August 3–10, 2020.  Hydrographic data were collected using a high-resolution multibeam echosounder mapping system (MBMS), which consists of a multibeam echosounder (MBES) and an inertial navigation system (INS) mounted on a marine survey vessel. Data were collected as the vessel traversed the river along planned survey lines distributed throughout the reach. Data collection software integrated and stored the depth data from the MBES and the horizontal and vertical position and attitude data of the vessel from the INS in real time. Data processing required computer software to extract bathymetry data from the raw data files and to summarize and map the information.
Velocity data for the surveys were collected using an acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) mounted on a survey vessel equipped with a differential global positioning system (DGPS). Data were collected as the vessel traversed the river along seven planned transect lines distributed throughout the reach. Velocity data were processed using the Velocity Mapping Toolbox (Parsons and others, 2013), and smoothed using neighboring nodes.
There are 10 zip files for the 10 surveyed sites available for download containing the bathymetric data and depth-averaged velocities. The files follow the format of "site-##_##River_HWY#_2020-08.zip", where "site-##" is the site number from 22 to 35, "##River" is either the Missouri or Mississippi River (as appropriate), and "HWY#" is the highway type and route number. The zip files contain two comma-delimited text files, one with the bathymetry and uncertainty data and one with the depth-averaged velocity data, as well as associated metadata and thumbnails.
Reference cited:
Parsons, D.R., Jackson, P.R., Czuba, J.A., Engel, F.L., Rhoads, B.L., Oberg, K.A., Best, J.L., Mueller, D.S., Johnson, K.K., and Riley, J.D., 2013, Velocity Mapping Toolbox (VMT) A process and visualization suite for moving-vessel ADCP measurements: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, v. 38, no. 11, p. 1244-1260. [Also available at https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.3367.]

Tags: acoustic, adcp, bathymetry, doppler, elevation, geology, geoscientificinformation, imagerybasemapsearthcover, inland-waters, inlandwaters, location, louisiana, mississippi-river, missouri, missouri-river, multibeam, oceans, point-cloud, st-louis, structure, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-621d5511d34ee0c6b3891314, washington, water-depth, xyz
Organization: Department of the Interior
Biological tissue data used to evaluate selenium hazards in the Salton Sea ecosystem (1984-2020)

In response to the rapidly evolving conditions at the Salton Sea, with the emergence of both newly formed wetland habitat and increasing hazards to wildlife, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and U.S. Geological Survey  have funded a re-evaluation of data gaps regarding selenium concentrations in biota the region. As part of this work, selenium concentrations in biological tissue samples were compiled from published reports, public databases, and unpublished archives into a tabulated spreadsheet. Since the California Department of Water Resources summarized selenium biological data in 2005, our compilation efforts focused on the 2005 through 2020 range. The resulting dataset encompasses all records available to us from 1984 to 2020, although we did not find any selenium records after 2017.

Tags: bioaccumulation, california, chemical-analysis, environment, food-web, geoscientificinformation, salton-sea, usgs-621d3fc3d34ee0c6b3891281, wetland-ecosystems
Organization: Department of the Interior
Neosho Madtom (Noturus placidus) short read archive and whole genome sequence data

Whole genome sequence data from ten Neosho madtom originating from three geographically separated populations.   A Neosho madtom genome was de novo assembled and genome size and content were assessed. Genomic DNA was used to construct one small insert paired-end library per fish with an approximate insert size of 300 bp. The library was constructed following the manufacturer’s protocol with reagents supplied in Illumina’s TruSeq DNA PCR-Free sample preparation kit (#FC-121-3001).

Tags: aquatic-biology, biota, cottonwood-river, genetics, genome-assembly, kansas, madtom, missouri, neosho-river, oklahoma, usgs-621cdcfed34ec739b2de39cc
Organization: Department of the Interior
Estimated crop irrigation water use withdrawals in Hualapai Valley Groundwater Basin, Arizona for 2020

Observations of irrigated agricultural land within the Hualapai Valley Groundwater Basin in Arizona. Crops were verified in situ once in 2020 on July 16th; based on digitized field boundaries. Field boundaries were digitized from U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Imagery Program images dated 2019 and supplemented with Landsat and Sentinel2 imagery collections accessed via the U.S. Geological Survey LandLook Viewer (https://landlook.usgs.gov/) and Sentinel Hub, Sentinel Playground (https://apps.sentinel-hub.com/sentinel-playground). Satellite images were also used to identify the length of the growing season and crop condition. Water withdrawals were calculated using the modified Blaney-Criddle model of calculating consumptive use (U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1992 appendix A) using crop coefficients from Doorenbos and Pruitt (1975), the number of acres with active crops, crop condition, and irrigation system efficiency. The withdrawal equation was modified from "Water withdrawals for irrigation, municipal, mining, thermoelectric-power, and drainage uses in Arizona outside of active management areas, 1991-2000" (Tadayon, 2005) to account for variations in water application.

Tags: agricultural-sites, arizona, groundwater, hualapai-valley-groundwater-basin, irrigation, mohave, usgs-621b9d94d34ec739b2de371a, water-use
Organization: Department of the Interior
Assessing spatial variability of nutrients, phytoplankton, and related water-quality constituents in the San Francisco Bay, California: 2021-2022 High-resolution mapping surveys

The dataset documents the spatial and temporal variability of nutrients and related water quality parameters at high spatial resolution in the San Francisco Bay of California, USA in 2021 and 2022. The dataset includes nitrate, temperature, conductivity, dissolved oxygen, and chlorophyll as well as information about phytoplankton community composition. Data-collection cruises were conducted under different environmental/flow conditions.
Version history:
On 3/15/24, the provisional data files hosted on this webpage were removed, and replaced with updated finalized files.

Tags: bay, biogeochemistry, biota, california, drinking-water-use, environment, high-frequency, high-resolution, hydrogeology, inlandwaters, nutrient-content-water, nutrients, phytoplankton, public-supply-water-use, real-time, san-francisco-bay, san-pablo-bay, statistical-analysis, suisun-bay, united-states, usgs-62183869d34ec739b2dd292f, visualization-methods, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Absorbance and fluorescence measurements and concentrations of disinfection by-products in source water and finished water in the McKenzie River Basin, Oregon: 2012-2014

This data release contains the results from a study that characterized the concentration and quality of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in the McKenzie River, a relatively pristine watershed in western Oregon, and its link to forming disinfection by-products (DBPs) in treated drinking water. The study aimed to identify the primary source(s) of DOC in source water for the Eugene Water and Electric Board’s (EWEB) conventional treatment plant on the McKenzie River near river mile 11, upstream of Hayden Bridge. The two classes of regulated compounds examined—trihalomethanes (THMs) and haloacetic acids (HAAs)—form when organic carbon in raw source water reacts with chlorine and (or) bromine during water treatment. The data release includes six  general types of data: 1) the concentration of dissolved organic carbon in filtered water samples; 2) the concentration of disinfection by-products (DBPs) in finished (treated) drinking water; 3) raw absorbance data for filtered water samples; 4) fluorescence excitation-emission matrices in vectorized format; 5) Parallel factor analysis (PARAFAC) component loadings for the fluorescence excitation-emission matrices; and 6) the percentages of different land cover for the watersheds draining to the sampled sites.

Tags: disinfection-by-products, dissolved-organic-carbon, environment, inlandwaters, mckenzie-river, optical-properties-of-water, oregon, raw-absorbance, river-systems, surface-water-quality, usgs-62182529d34ec739b2dd2909
Organization: Department of the Interior
Output vulnerability and vulnerability difference data from logistic mapping at the conceptual well locations for a study of groundwater vulnerability to elevated nitrates in the Puget Sound Basin, Washington, 2000–19

This archive contains the logistic mapping output data at the conceptual well locations. Data are provided in spreadsheets containing the estimated probabilities of nitrate concentrations greater than 2 milligrams per liter at hypothetical 150 feet and 300 feet deep wells for each of the five-year categories from 2000 to 2019 and vulnerability differences between five-year categories when one or both of the predicted probabilities was equal to or greater than 50 percent.

Tags: drinking-water, environment, groundwater, health, puget-sound, usgs-621687b4d34e4465d409153c, washington, wells
Organization: Department of the Interior
Output vulnerability difference rasters from logistic mapping at the conceptual well locations for a study of groundwater vulnerability to elevated nitrates in the Puget Sound Basin, Washington, 2000–19

This archive contains the logistic mapping output vulnerability difference rasters at the conceptual well locations. Data are provided in rasters containing the differences between estimated probabilities of nitrate concentrations greater than 2 milligrams per liter at hypothetical 150 feet and 300 feet deep wells for sequential five-year categories when one or both of the predicted probabilities was equal to or greater than 50 percent.

Tags: drinking-water, environment, groundwater, health, puget-sound, usgs-621686ffd34e4465d4091538, washington, wells
Organization: Department of the Interior