AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Brant and Other Waterfowl Response to Aircraft Disturbance and Experimental Overflights at Izembek Lagoon, Alaska, 1985-1988

This data package presents legacy data collected during 1985-1988 at Izembek Lagoon on the western end of the Alaska Peninsula. The data were collected in support of a multi-year study focused on aircraft disturbance of waterfowl, particularly Black Brant, Emperor Geese, and Cackling Geese. The study was conducted at Izembek Lagoon and included several study sites within the lagoon: Halfway Point, Grant Point, Outer Marker, Quarter Point, Applegate Cove, Norma Bay, Round Island, and Banding Island. The primary objectives were to 1) determine the effects of aircraft overflights and other human activities on the behavior, distribution, and habitat use of Brant, Cackling, and Emperor Geese, 2) examine noise levels associated with aircraft overflights and determine whether the behavioral response of geese is influenced by noise, and 3) evaluate the potential impact of disturbance on the energetic requirements of fall-staging Brant.
      The raw data are provided in a .CSV format, however, PDF digital scans of original field data sheets, tables, figures, and maps are also available upon request.

Tags: alaska, alaska-peninsula, animal-behavior, animal-ecology-and-behavior, animals-vertebrates, applegate-cove, banding-island, biological-productivity, biota, black-brant, cackling-goose, coastal-ecosystems, cove-island, disturbance, ducks-geese-swans, ecology, ecosystems, emperor-goose, environment, field-experiments, field-inventory-and-monitoring, grant-point, halfway-point, izembek-lagoon, migration, mitigation-of-coastal-hazards, norma-bay, northern-pintail, outer-marker, public-aircraft, quarter-point, round-island, social-behavior, stellers-eider, usgs-asc499, waterfowl, wildlife
Organization: Department of the Interior
Conservation Planning for the Colorado River in Utah - Bat Feeding Model Output Data for Colorado River in Utah

This is a habitat suitability model for bat feeding in the Colorado River bottomland in Utah. The model incorporates distance to water, stillness of adjacent water, and the variety of dominant cover types within 0.5 ha radius. See Open File Report, Rasmussen and Shafroth, Colorado River Conservation Planning for geoprocessing details.

Tags: arches-national-park, biota, canyonlands-national-park, colorado-river, conservation-planning, environment, grand-county, habitat-suitability, inlandwaters, moab, riparian, san-juan-county, tamarisk, upper-colorado-river, usgs-583f121de4b04fc80e3a9d9a, utah
Organization: Department of the Interior
Fish Communities of the Nearshore Beaufort Sea, Alaska, Across Three Decades, 1988-2019

This dataset contains two tables comprising catch per unit effort (CPUE) data and length measurements from fish surveys conducted in the nearshore Beaufort Sea, Alaska, between 1988 and 2019. Historical data collected by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) includes fish catch and fish length data (measured from a subset of the total catch) from two eras, 1988-1991 and 2003-2005, in the eastern Beaufort Sea (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge). Similar data was collected by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) from a subset of the historical eastern Beaufort Sea sites and some additional central Beaufort Sea (Simpson Lagoon and Stefansson Sound) sites more recently, 2017-2019. Here we have compiled and standardized datasets from the three eras of fish surveys.

Tags: alaska, animals-vertebrates, aquatic-ecosystems, beaufort-lagoon, beaufort-sea, biota, camden-bay, community-ecology, environment, estuarine-ecosystems, fish, jago-lagoon, kaktovik-lagoon, marine-ecosystems, pokok-bay, ray-finned-fishes, simpson-lagoon, stefansson-sound, usgs-asc448
Organization: Department of the Interior
Rangeland Ecosystem Data, Grand Canyon - Parashant National Monument, AZ, USA

These data were compiled for an assessment of rangeland ecosystem conditions of the Grand Canyon - Parashant National Monument.  The approximately one-million-acre Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument (PARA) is located in the northwest corner of Arizona and co-managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and National Park Service (NPS).  This report is focused on the ca. 200,000 acres of NPS administered lands—one of the largest NPS units where livestock grazing is a permitted land-use activity.  Many ecosystems in PARA are characterized by a low degree of resilience to improper grazing due to low and variable precipitation. PARA is marked by an extremely high degree of environmental heterogeneity, including a large elevation gradient, widely differing precipitation patterns, a diversity of geologic substrates, and unique combinations of plant species. Locations for rangeland assessments were selected using a stratified, spatially balanced random sampling method based on allotment, soil type, slope, distance to cattle water locations, and accessibility.  A total of 155 plots were established and sampled between March and November of 2012 and 2013.  Data collection at each plot included soil geomorphic setting descriptions, plant and soil cover, and soil aggregate stability.

Tags: arizona, biota, blm, bureau-of-land-management, cattle, cattle-grazing, colorado-plateau, ecological-sites, ecological-states, environmental-heterogeneity, grand-canyon, grand-canyon-parashant-national-monument, grazing, livestock, mojave, national-park-service, natural-resource-assessment, nps, parashant-national-monument, plant-cover, plot-sampling, rangeland-ecosystem-conditions, rangeland-ecosystems, rangeland-health, rangelands, soil-aggregate-stability, soil-cover, soil-geomorphic-setting-descriptions, soil-resources, usgs-5c912c4ce4b093882454802f, vital-signs
Organization: Department of the Interior
Provisional Initial Assessment Thematic Burn Severity Mosaic for CONUS in 2023

This product is published on a provisional basis to provide necessary information to individuals assessing burn severity impacts on a time sensitive basis. This product was produced using the methods of the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) Program; however, this fire may not meet the criteria for an MTBS initial assessment. The MTBS Program assesses the frequency, extent, and magnitude (size and severity) of all large wildland fires (wildfires and prescribed fires) in the conterminous United States (CONUS), Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico for the period 1984 and beyond. MTBS typically maps fires using an initial assessment (immediately after the fire) or an extended assessment (peak of green the season after the fire) for low-biomass and high-biomass fires respectively. Refer to MTBS.gov for more information on MTBS methods and criteria. Fires reported as greater than 40,000 acres in burned area are mapped on a provisional basis, using an initial assessment strategy regardless of vegetation type or density, provided suitable imagery is available. Once imagery for an extended assessment is available, this fire will be assessed under the MTBS program and an official MTBS initial or extended assessment product will be published under that program. This map layer is a thematic raster image of burn severity classes for all currently inventoried Provisional Initial Assessment fires occurring in CONUS during calendar year 2023.

Tags: ak, alaska, burn-severity, continental-u-s, conus, differenced-normalized-burn-ratio, fire-location, fire-occurrence, hawaii, hi, imagerybasemapsearthcover, landsat, location, normalized-burn-ratio, pr, prescribed-fire, puerto-rico, raster, sentinel, united-states, us, usgs-65b10617d34ef34c35076283, wildfire, wildland-fire
Organization: Department of the Interior
Highway-Runoff Database (HRDB) Version 1.1.0

The Highway-Runoff Database (HRDB) was developed by the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to provide planning-level information for decision makers, planners, and highway engineers to assess and mitigate possible adverse effects of highway runoff on the Nation’s receiving waters. The HRDB was assembled by using a Microsoft Access database application to facilitate use of the data and to calculate runoff-quality statistics with methods that properly handle censored-concentration data. This data release provides highway-runoff data, including information about monitoring sites, precipitation, runoff, and event-mean concentrations of water-quality constituents. The dataset was compiled from 37 studies as documented in 113 scientific or technical reports. The dataset includes data from 242 highway sites across the country. It includes data from 6,837 storm events with dates ranging from April 1975 to November 2017.  Therefore, these data span more than 40 years; vehicle emissions and background sources of highway-runoff constituents have changed markedly during this time. For example, some of the early data is affected by use of leaded gasoline, phosphorus-based detergents, and industrial atmospheric deposition. The dataset includes 106,441 concentration values with data for 414 different water-quality constituents. This dataset was assembled from various sources and the original data was collected and analyzed by using various protocols. Where possible the USGS worked with State departments of transportation and the original researchers to obtain, document, and verify the data that was included in the HRDB. This new version (1.1.0) of the database contains software updates to provide data-quality information within the Graphical User Interface (GUI), calculate statistics for multiple sites in batch mode, and output additional statistics. However, inclusion in this dataset does not constitute endorsement by the USGS or the FHWA. People who use this data are responsible for ensuring that the data are complete and correct and that it is suitable for their intended purposes.

Tags: database, highway-runoff, runoff, stochastic-empirical-loading-and-dilution-model, stormwater, usgs-5c9f64b8e4b0b8a7f63129ef
Organization: Department of the Interior
Intersects for the Northern California coastal region generated to calculate shoreline change rates using the Digital Shoreline Analysis System version 5.0

Sandy ocean beaches are a popular recreational destination, often surrounded by communities containing valuable real estate.  Development is on the rise despite the fact that coastal infrastructure is subjected to flooding and erosion.  As a result, there is an increased demand for accurate information regarding past and present shoreline changes.  To meet these national needs, the Coastal and Marine Geology Program of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is compiling existing reliable historical shoreline data along open-ocean sandy shores of the conterminous United States and parts of Alaska and Hawaii as part of the Coastal Change Hazards programmatic focus, formerly the National Assessment of Shoreline Change project.  
There is no widely accepted standard for analyzing shoreline change.  Existing shoreline data measurements and rate calculation methods vary from study to study and prevent combining results into state-wide or regional assessments.  The impetus behind this national scale project was to develop a standardized method of measuring changes in shoreline position that is consistent from coast to coast.  The goal was to facilitate the process of periodically and systematically updating the results in an internally consistent manner.
In this release, three new tidal datum-based mean high water (MHW) shorelines extracted from 2009/2010/2011, 2015, and 2016 lidar elevation data are included in the analysis (coverage not necessarily continuous statewide).  The full range of shoreline data is 1852 to 2016.  The proxy-datum bias correction has been applied on a transect-by-transect basis to reconcile offsets between the MHW shorelines and proxy-based HWL shorelines for the entire California coastal region which is divided into three subregions:  Northern California (NorCal), Central California (CenCal), and Southern California (SoCal).  In the previous report (Hapke et al., 2006), the proxy-datum bias correction was only applied to regional shoreline averages.
This shoreline change update for California reports proxy-datum bias corrected rates when that information was computed while extracting shoreline positions from lidar data.  In areas where the methods for delineating shorelines did not include computing bias correction values, the rates are reported without that correction. The proxy-datum bias concept is explained further in Ruggiero and List (2009) and in the process steps of the metadata file associated with the transect rates.

Tags: california, cencal, central-california, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, coastal-processes, digital-shoreline-analysis-system, dsas, environment, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, intersect-points, intersects, norcal, north-america, northern-california, oceans, pacific-coast, shoreline, shoreline-change, socal, southern-california, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-64add904d34e70357a29326e, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Wind rose plots for the volcano: 300271  Piip

This zip folder contains ASCII text files of vectors at the specified volcano at 
12-hour intervals, 
from January 1, 1990 through December 28, 2009.  
The wind vectors are divided into five files, names by their elevation range above 
sea level in the atmosphere: 00-05km.txt; 05-11km.txt; 11-16km.txt; 16-24km.txt; 
and 24-30km.txt. 
The zip folder also contains a subfolder "figures", with Wind rose plots of wind 
direction and speed over 
this time period.  The plots are by season, and by elevation, given a total of 20 
plots (4 seasons, 5 
elevation ranges).  A summary plot is also included which gives the year-round 
wind pattern at the volcano, 
at 0-5 km elevation.  Plots are in both jpg and pdf format.

Tags: meteorology, usgs-58d014b4e4b0236b68f52e7d, volcanic-ash, volcanic-eruption-forecasting, wind
Organization: Department of the Interior
Alaska Science Center Data Sheets from Intracoelomic Transmitter Implant and Liver Biopsy Surgeries in Birds, 1993-2012

These are surgery data sheets filled out during operations on many bird species by the USGS Alaska Science Center, 1993-2012. The majority of surgeries were to implant intracoelomic tracking transmitters, but a subset were to collect liver biopsy samples. The data sheets provide information about individual surgeries, including: data about each bird, the timing of steps during each operation, administration of the anesthesia (Propofol or Isoflurane), and conditions during surgery. Data were collected from waterfowl, seabirds and shorebird species from regions across Alaska, as well as parts of Mexico, Canada, New Zealand, and The Netherlands. 
      The data are provided in PDF format of digitally scanned original field data. Because the data are in original form and were not digitized at the time of collection, not all data has undergone formal Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC). These are scanned originals and some text may be illegible. A comprehensive list of available data sheets is provided with this data release, 'intracoelomicTransmitters_eventIndex_mulcahy_1993-2012.csv'.

Tags: albatrosses-petrels-and-allies, aleutian-islands, anchor-river, anchorage, anesthesia, animal-behavior, animals-vertebrates, baja-california-mexico, bar-tailed-godwit, barrows-goldeneye, bethel, biota, birds, black-oystercatcher, black-tailed-godwit, brant, bristle-thighed-curlew, british-columbia, canada, canada-goose, cape-espenberg, chagulik-island, cold-bay, colville-river-delta, common-eider, common-loon, common-merganser, common-murre, copper-river-delta, deep-bay, ducks-geese-swans, dutch-harbor, east-coast-united-states, emperor-goose, environment, field-activity-logs, glaucous-winged-gull, grebes, harlequin-duck, helmricks-homestead, juneau, kaktovik, kanuti-national-wildlife-refuge, kenai-peninsula, kenai-river, king-salmon, long-tailed-duck, loons, middleton-island, migratory-birds, national-petroleum-reserve-alaska, nelson-lagoon, new-zealand, nome, north-slope, northern-fulmar, northwest-territories, old-chevak, ornithology, peard-bay, pelagic-cormorant, pigeon-guillemot, point-thomson, prince-william-sound, prudhoe-bay, radio-tagging, red-faced-cormorant, red-necked-phalarope, red-throated-loon, saint-george, san-quintin-mexico, sandpipers, selewik-national-wildlife-refuge, seward-peninsula, seward-sealife-center, simpson-lagoon, southeast-alaska, spectacled-eider, st-marys, stellers-eider, stump-island, surf-scoter, surgery, telemetry, the-netherlands, tracking, tundra-swan, usgs-asc470, waders-gulls-auks-and-allies, whimbrel, yellow-billed-loon, yukon-kuskokwim-river-delta
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital Elevation Models (DEM) Data

These topographic/bathymetric digital elevation models (DEMs) were collected and compiled to characterize erosion and deposition in the Colorado River and in an adjacent zone of laterally recirculating flow (eddy) during both average flow conditions and during a controlled flood that occurred in March 2008. The objectives of the study were to measure changes sandbar morphology that occurred during changes in discharge associated with the controlled flood. These data were collected between February 6 and March 31, 2008 in a 1-mile study reach on the Colorado River within Grand Canyon National Park beginning 44.5 miles downstream from Lees Ferry, Arizona. These data were collected by the USGS Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center with cooperators from Northern Arizona University and funding provided by the Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program. All bathymetric data were collected with a multibeam sonar system (Reson Seabat 8124 sonar with TSS MAHRSS reference system for heave, pitch, roll, and heading). Topographic data were collected by conventional total station. These data can be used to study changes in channel morphology associated with changes in streamflow conditions.

Tags: arizona, bathymetry, bathymetry-measurement, channel-morphology, colorado-river, controlled-flooding, deposition, digital-elevation-models, eddies, eminence-break, eminence-break-field-site, erosion, field-experiments, freshwater-ecosystems, glen-canyon-dam, glen-canyon-dam-adaptive-management-program, grand-canyon-national-park, high-flow-experiment, hydrology, inlandwaters, lateral-flow-separation-zones, lees-ferry, marble-canyon, multibeam-sonar, predictive-models, recirculating-flow, reson-seabat-8124-sonar-with-tss-mahrss-reference-system, river-mile-44-5, river-mile-45, sandbar-morphology, sandbars, sediment-depostion, sediment-erosion, sediment-transport, sedimentation, stream-channel, stream-discharge, streamflow, streamflow-condtions, streamflow-models, streamflow-velocity, streamflow-velocity-profile-measurements, topographic-data, topography, total-station, usgs-60f9e4c1d34e3ccd82fee7f6, usgs-grand-canyon-monitoring-and-research-center, willie-taylor-field-site
Organization: Department of the Interior
Argos Satellite Tracking Data for Long-tailed Ducks (Clangula hyemalis) - Raw Data

This metadata document describes the data contained in the "Argos Raw Data" (Child Item 2) of this data release. This data release contains all data collected by the Argos System from 85 satellite transmitters attached to Long-tailed Ducks on their breeding range in arctic and western Alaska, 1998-2005. Five data files are included in the "Argos Raw Data" (Child Item 2) of this data release. Two data files (with identical content) contain the raw Argos DIAG (Diagnostic) data, one in the legacy verbose ASCII format and one in a tabular Comma Separate Value (CSV) format. Two other data files (with identical content) contain the raw Argos DS (Dispose) data, one in the legacy verbose ASCII format and one in a tabular CSV format. The fifth file, "deploymentAttributes", contains one record for each transmitter deployment in a CSV formatted table. The deployment attributes file contains information such as when the transmitter was attached to the animal, when tracking of a live animal ended, and a variety of variables describing the animal and transmitter. This table is identical to the "deploymentAttributes" table in the "Argos Processed Data" (Child Item 1) of this data release.

Tags: alaska, animal-tracking, animals-vertebrates, argos, beaufort-sea, bering-sea, biota, birds, breeding-area, breeding-sites, capture-recapture-studies, chukchi-sea, clangula-hyemalis, coastal-ecosystems, ducks-geese-swans, environment, hokkaido, japan, long-tailed-duck, marine-ecosystems, microwave-telemetry-inc, migratory-birds, migratory-rates-routes, migratory-species, non-breeding-area, north-slope, ornithology, overwintering, platform-transmitter-terminal, ptt, russia, satellite-transmitter, seasonal-distribution, seasonal-movement, species-life-history, tagging-devices, telemetry, tracking-equipment, usgs-asc471, wildlife, yukon-delta, yukon-delta-national-wildlife-refuge, yukon-kuskokwim-river-delta
Organization: Department of the Interior
Argos Satellite Tracking Data for Long-tailed Ducks (Clangula hyemalis) - Processed Data

This metadata document describes the data contained in the "Argos Processed Data" (Child Item 1) of this data release. This data release contains all data collected by the Argos System from 85 satellite transmitters attached to Long-tailed Ducks on their breeding range in arctic and western Alaska, 1998-2005. The raw data were processed to accomplish two goals: flag implausible location estimates and decode raw sensor data. Three Comma Separate Value (CSV) tables are included in the "Argos Processed Data" (Child Item 1) of this data release: 1) the "diag_filteredLocations" table contains one record for every Argos location estimate collected, accompanied by a binary flag that denotes an algorithm's plausibility check (based on distance, turning angle, and rate thresholds). Each record also includes a 'Tracking_Status' variable that denotes whether the location was collected from a live animal, a dead animal, or shed transmitter, 2) the "decodedSensor" table contains decoded sensor data such as the transmitter's temperature, battery voltage, and motion (activity), and 3) the "deploymentAttributes" table contains one record for each transmitter deployment in a CSV formatted table. The deployment attributes file contains information such as when the transmitter was attached to the animal, when tracking of a live animal ended, and a variety of variables describing the animal and transmitter. This table is identical to the "deploymentAttributes" table in the "Argos Raw Data" (Child Item 2) of this data release.

Tags: alaska, animal-tracking, animals-vertebrates, argos, beaufort-sea, bering-sea, biota, birds, breeding-area, breeding-sites, capture-recapture-studies, chukchi-sea, clangula-hyemalis, coastal-ecosystems, ducks-geese-swans, environment, hokkaido, japan, long-tailed-duck, marine-ecosystems, microwave-telemetry-inc, migratory-birds, migratory-rates-routes, migratory-species, non-breeding-area, north-slope, ornithology, overwintering, platform-transmitter-terminal, ptt, russia, satellite-transmitter, seasonal-distribution, seasonal-movement, species-life-history, tagging-devices, telemetry, tracking-equipment, usgs-asc472, wildlife, yukon-delta, yukon-delta-national-wildlife-refuge, yukon-kuskokwim-river-delta
Organization: Department of the Interior