AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Black Hills Region South Dakota 2017 Legion Lake Fire Burned and Unburned Plot Measurements

U.S Geological Survey (USGS) scientists conducted field data collection efforts during the time periods of September 5 - 14, 2018, November 8 - 13, 2018, June 18 - 27, 2019, July 30 - August 8, 2019, September 13 - 19, 2019, and June 23 - July 1, 2020.  These efforts used a combination of technologies to map twenty burned and twelve unburned forest plots at eleven sites in the Black Hills of South Dakota.  Twelve burned plots at five sites and nine unburned plots at two sites are located within Custer State Park, five burned plots are located on private land adjacent to Custer State Park at two sites, three unburned plots are located at one site near Hazelrodt Picnic Area in the Black Hills National Forest, and three burned plots are located at one site in Wind Cave National Park.  The plots are 15 m in radius and burned plot centers are located at least 100 m apart.  The work was initiated following the 2017 Legion Lake Fire as an effort to gain a better understanding of how much vegetation is actually consumed from tree canopies during wildland fires.   The USGS team collected Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), total station, and ground based lidar (GBL) data, along with collecting some more traditional forestry measurements like tree diameter at breast height (DBH).  This data release contains shapefiles of the processed GNSS and total station data, point clouds in the lidar data exchange (las) file format from the ground lidar data, and spreadsheets in the comma separated values (csv) format for the more traditional measurements.

Tags: biota, black-hills, black-hills-national-forest, burn-severity, custer-county, custer-state-park, differenced-normalized-burn-ratio, dnbr, earth-resources-observation-and-science-center, elevation, eros, fire-science, forest-structure, fuels, gbl, geoscientificinformation, global-navigational-satellite-system, gnss, ground-based-lidar, legion-lake, legion-lake-fire, lidar, light-detection-and-ranging, location, monitoring-trends-in-burn-severity, mtbs, nbr, normalized-burn-ratio, state-of-south-dakota, terrestrial-laser-scanner, tls, total-station, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-620e792fd34e6c7e83baa745, vegetation-structure, wildland-fire, wind-cave-national-park
Organization: Department of the Interior
Potential landward migration of coastal wetlands in response to sea-level rise within estuarine drainage areas and coastal states of the conterminous United States

We quantified the potential area available for landward migration of tidal saline wetlands and freshwater wetlands due to sea-level rise (SLR) at the estuary scale for 166 estuarine drainage areas and at the state scale for 22 coastal states and District of Columbia. We used 2016 Coastal Change Analysis Program (C-CAP) data in combination with the future wetland migration data under the 1.5 m global SLR scenario to evaluate the potential for wetland migration into all the individual C-CAP classes and into the following six land cover categories: (1) freshwater forest (wetland); (2) freshwater marsh (wetland); (3) terrestrial forest (upland); (4) terrestrial grassland (upland); (5) agricultural croplands (upland); and (6) pasture (upland). We also consolidated these categories to quantify potential migration into upland and wetland classes. Finally, we used the current C-CAP cover classes to quantify the current tidal saline wetland area and the current freshwater wetland area that is vulnerable to future tidal saline wetland migration.

Tags: alabama, atlantic-coast, biota, california, coastal, coastal-drainage-area, coastal-wetland, connecticut, conterminous-united-states, contiguous-united-states, delaware, district-of-columbia, east-coast, environment, estuarine-drainage-area, estuary, florida, freshwater-wetland, georgia, gulf-of-mexico-coast, louisiana, maine, maryland, massachusetts, mississippi, new-hampshire, new-jersey, new-york, north-carolina, oregon, pacific-coast, pennsylvania, rhode-island, south-carolina, texas, tidal-saline-wetland, united-states, usgs-620e7306d34e6c7e83baa739, virginia, washington, west-coast, wetland-migration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Stopovers of the Sheldon-Hart Mountain Interstate Pronghorn Herd in Northwestern Nevada and Southeastern Oregon

The Sheldon-Hart Mountain pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) herd is part of a large interstate metapopulation distributed across northwest Nevada, southeast Oregon, and portions of northeast California. Some animals travel up to 100 miles between summer and winter ranges and traverse multiple federal land jurisdictions, including the Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge, Hart Mountain National Wildlife Refuge, and surrounding Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands.  The herd can be characterized as conditionally or partially migratory with approximately 65% of collared animals exhibiting migratory tendencies. Major summer ranges include portions of the Hart Mountain Wildlife Refuge, Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge, and northern Black Rock Range in Nevada. Winter ranges are distributed across Hart Mountain and east to Catlow Valley, Sage Hen Flats in Oregon and portions of the Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge including Catnip Mountain, Gooch Table, Rock Springs Table, Summit Lake Indian Reservation, northern Calico Mountains.  Challenges to this herd include invasive annual grasses and loss of native shrubs and grasslands, depletion of limited water resources due to severe droughts, and livestock fencing that prohibits efficient movements across the landscape. 
These data provide the location of  stopover sites for female Pronghorn in the Sheldon-Hart Mountain herd in Nevada and Oregon. They were developed from 79 sequences collected from a sample size of 30 animals comprising GPS locations collected every 5-6 hours.

Tags: animal-behavior, lakeview, migration-organisms, migratory-species, oregon, stopovers, united-states, usgs-620e4b88d34e6c7e83baa3e4
Organization: Department of the Interior
Human Factors of Water Availability in the Delaware River Basin - Agricultural Sector

Human factors that influence water availability in the Basin were discovered by reviewing hundreds of published literature items and articles from the literature following an extensive keyword search. The different factors were drawn from reviewing the literature and datasets to support the factor were researched across open data catalogs and the world wide web.

Tags: agricultural-water-use, datasets, delaware, delaware-river-basin, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, inlandwaters, irrigation, new-jersey, new-york, pennsylvania, public-supply-water-sources, usgs-62212085d34ee0c6b38b61f2, water-supply-and-demand, water-use
Organization: Department of the Interior
Migration corridors of the Sheldon-Hart Mountain Interstate Pronghorn Herd in Northwestern Nevada and Southeastern Oregon

The Sheldon-Hart Mountain pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) herd is part of a large interstate metapopulation distributed across northwest Nevada, southeast Oregon, and portions of northeast California. Some animals travel up to 100 miles between summer and winter ranges and traverse multiple federal land jurisdictions, including the Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge, Hart Mountain National Wildlife Refuge, and surrounding Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands.  The herd can be characterized as conditionally or partially migratory with approximately 65% of collared animals exhibiting migratory tendencies. Major summer ranges include portions of the Hart Mountain Wildlife Refuge, Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge, and northern Black Rock Range in Nevada. Winter ranges are distributed across Hart Mountain and east to Catlow Valley, Sage Hen Flats in Oregon and portions of the Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge including Catnip Mountain, Gooch Table, Rock Springs Table, Summit Lake Indian Reservation, northern Calico Mountains.  Challenges to this herd include invasive annual grasses and loss of native shrubs and grasslands, depletion of limited water resources due to severe droughts, and livestock fencing that prohibits efficient movements across the landscape. 
These data provide the location of Migration corridors for female Pronghorn in the Sheldon-Hart Mountain herd in Nevada and Oregon. They were developed from 79 migration sequences collected from a sample size of 30 animals comprising GPS locations collected every 5-6 hours.

Tags: animal-behavior, corridors, lakeview, migration-organisms, migratory-species, oregon, united-states, usgs-620e4b81d34e6c7e83baa3e0
Organization: Department of the Interior
Annual Ranges of Pronghorn in the South of Interstate 40 Herd in Arizona

The South of Interstate 40 (I-40) pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) herd make one of Arizona’s most remarkable migrations. This herd resides primarily in GMU 8, which had a population estimate of 450 individuals in 2019. Unlike traditional summer-winter range dynamics, this pronghorn herd relies on a complex of several important seasonal ranges connected by narrow corridors. Migration between ranges appear to be driven by winter conditions, thus, the timing of the movements is highly variable. The herd has high fidelity to these corridors, which elevates the importance of research and management efforts to conserve them. During the summer, these pronghorn inhabit large grasslands in and around Garland Prairie. During migration, animals move westward, parallel to I-40 passing through densely forested habitat before stopping on grasslands in Putney Flat. After some time there, many individuals move even lower in elevation, traveling south to winter range on Wagon Tire Flat and open meadows north of the Verde River. Some individuals cross the Verde River, traveling through the Juniper Mountains as far south as US-Highway 69. High-volume roads including I-40 and State Route 89 present the largest threats to movement for this herd. These roads also appear to influence the herd’s movement patterns along this corridor, as pronghorn rarely cross them. 
These data provide the location of annual ranges for American pronghorn from the South of Interstate 40 Herd in Arizona. They were developed from 43 annual sequences collected from a sample size of 24 animals comprising GPS locations collected every 2 hours.

Tags: animal-behavior, arizona, economy, environment, flagstaff, migration, migration-organisms, migratory-species, united-states, usgs-620e4b7ad34e6c7e83baa3dc
Organization: Department of the Interior
Winter Ranges of Pronghorn in the North of Interstate 40 Herd in Arizona

The North of Interstate 40 Pronghorn herd primarily resides in Arizona’s Game Management Unit (GMU) 7. GMU 7 had an estimated population of 550 pronghorn in 2019. The Pronghorn North of Interstate 40 summer in high elevation open meadows and ponderosa pine habitat near Government Prairie. When winter conditions set in the pronghorn Antilocapra americana) seek lower elevations, migrating through mixed pinyon-juniper woodlands to open grassland and shrub habitats north of Sitgreaves Mountain, often crossing US Highway 180 (US-180) towards Antelope Flat. US-180 is an increasing threat to this migration corridor as traffic volumes rise. However, right-of-way fence improvements and relatively low traffic volumes on US-180 currently allow some degree of permeability across this highway. Additionally, encroaching pinyon-juniper woodlands are a threat to open grassland habitat within both summer and winter range.
These data provide the location of winter ranges for American pronghorn (from the North of Interstate 40 Herd in Arizona. They were developed from 27 winter range sequences collected from a sample size of 14 animals comprising GPS locations collected every 2 hours.

Tags: animal-behavior, arizona, economy, environment, flagstaff, migration, migration-organisms, migratory-species, united-states, usgs-620e4b78d34e6c7e83baa3da
Organization: Department of the Interior
Migration Corridors of Pronghorn in the North of Interstate 40 Herd in Arizona

The North of Interstate 40 Pronghorn herd primarily resides in Arizona’s Game Management Unit (GMU) 7. GMU 7 had an estimated population of 550 pronghorn in 2019. The Pronghorn North of Interstate 40 summer in high elevation open meadows and ponderosa pine habitat near Government Prairie. When winter conditions set in the pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) seek lower elevations, migrating through mixed pinyon-juniper woodlands to open grassland and shrub habitats north of Sitgreaves Mountain, often crossing US Highway 180 (US-180) towards Antelope Flat. US-180 is an increasing threat to this migration corridor as traffic volumes rise. However, right-of-way fence improvements and relatively low traffic volumes on US-180 currently allow some degree of permeability across this highway. Additionally, encroaching pinyon-juniper woodlands are a threat to open grassland habitat within both summer and winter range.
These data provide the location of migration corridors for American pronghorn from the North of Interstate 40 Herd in Arizona. They were developed from Brownian bridge movement models using 65 migration sequences collected from a sample size of 16 adult pronghorn comprising GPS locations collected every 2 hours.

Tags: animal-behavior, arizona, economy, environment, flagstaff, migration, migration-organisms, migratory-species, united-states, usgs-620e4b72d34e6c7e83baa3d6
Organization: Department of the Interior
Migration Stopovers of Mule Deer in the Rosa Herd in New Mexico

The Rosa mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) migrate an average of 45 miles from northwest New Mexico to southwest Colorado. Their winter range is located in the upper San Juan Basin, east of the Navajo Reservoir, and is dominated by pinyon juniper woodlands and sagebrush grasslands. The Rosa herd utilize three distinct areas as summer range: the lower elevation Valle Seco, consisting primarily of ponderosa pine woodland and big sagebrush shrubland, and the higher elevation North and South San Juan Mountains, consisting of ponderosa pine and aspen-mixed woodlands. The herd collectively migrate northeast from their winter range for around 12 miles before a second route branches off the main corridor, with these individuals travelling to summer ranges in the Valle Seco and South San Juan Mountains. The main corridor continues for another 7 miles before splitting into three separate corridors that lead into the North and South San Juan Mountains. Challenges to migration include crossing US Highways 160 and 84 and increasing residential development around the town of Pagosa Springs. Ongoing and future energy development projects, including the drilling of well pads and use of maintenance roads, in the upper San Juan Basin may also cause disturbances to mule deer migration and their winter range. 
These data provide the location of migration stopovers for Mule Deer from the Rosa Herd in New Mexico. They were developed from Brownian bridge movement models using 402 migration sequences collected from a sample size of 68 adult mule deer comprising GPS locations collected every 2 hours.

Tags: animal-behavior, economy, environment, migration, migration-organisms, migratory-species, new-mexico, san-juan-basin, san-juan-mountains, united-states, usgs-620e4b6cd34e6c7e83baa3d2
Organization: Department of the Interior
Migration Corridors of Mule Deer in the Rosa Herd in New Mexico

The Rosa mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) migrate an average of 45 miles from northwest New Mexico to southwest Colorado. Their winter range is located in the upper San Juan Basin, east of the Navajo Reservoir, and is dominated by pinyon juniper woodlands and sagebrush grasslands. The Rosa herd utilize three distinct areas as summer range: the lower elevation Valle Seco, consisting primarily of ponderosa pine woodland and big sagebrush shrubland, and the higher elevation North and South San Juan Mountains, consisting of ponderosa pine and aspen-mixed woodlands. The herd collectively migrate northeast from their winter range for around 12 miles before a second route branches off the main corridor, with these individuals travelling to summer ranges in the Valle Seco and South San Juan Mountains. The main corridor continues for another 7 miles before splitting into three separate corridors that lead into the North and South San Juan Mountains. Challenges to migration include crossing US Highways 160 and 84 and increasing residential development around the town of Pagosa Springs. Ongoing and future energy development projects, including the drilling of well pads and use of maintenance roads, in the upper San Juan Basin may also cause disturbances to mule deer migration and their winter range. 
These data provide the location of migration corridors for Mule Deer from the Rosa Herd in New Mexico. They were developed from Brownian bridge movement models using 402 migration sequences collected from a sample size of 68 adult mule deer comprising GPS locations collected every 2 hours.

Tags: animal-behavior, economy, environment, migration, migration-organisms, migratory-species, new-mexico, san-juan-basin, san-juan-mountains, united-states, usgs-620e4b65d34e6c7e83baa3d0
Organization: Department of the Interior
Migration Routes of Mule Deer in Sheep Mountain Herd in Wyoming

Mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) within the Sheep Mountain herd winter in the East and Northeast foothills of the snowy range mountains in Southeastern Wyoming. The sheep mountain herd is mainly migratory with very few individuals staying on winter range year around. Winter ranges are a mix of grassland and sagebrush hills, often free of snow from wind. During migration, animals that have been tracked with GPS collars (n = 56 females) travel an average one-way distance of nearly 20 miles (32 km), with some animals migrating over 50 miles (80 km). The herd, which numbers around 7,600 has a variety of summer destinations. Some individuals migrate across the snowy range to the west. Others migrate into Colorado, summering in the Rawah mountains. Others migrate short distances into higher elevation foothills of the Snowy Range. Many individuals traverse the eastern front of the snowy range, particularly West of Sheep Mountain and West and Southwest of Jelm Mountain. Summer ranges generally consist of lodgepole pine forests inter-mixed with aspen and riparian habitats.  The forests of these summer ranges have been severely impacted by bark beetle over the last decades. More recently, large forest fires have burned some of the summer ranges of this herd. Fawn recruitment most years meets the bare minimum needed for the population to remain stable. The majority of the herd residing north of highway 130 crosses Interstate 80 to access winter range.  Successfully crossing Interstate 80 is essential to the persistence of these segments of the herd.  Some crossing locations have been successfully mitigated, but most have not. Besides Interstate 80, urban development of private lands on winter range is a concern. Much of this herd’s summer range is on USFS and BLM lands, but most of their winter range is on private lands. In the southern portion of this herd there has been an expansion of housing development built in critical winter range habitats, which removes critical forage, adds stress, as well as increases disease transmission due to homeowners feeding wildlife.
These data provide the location of migration routes for mule deer in the Sheep Mountain population in Wyoming. They were developed from 166 migration sequences collected from a sample size of 56 animals comprising GPS locations collected every 2 hours.

Tags: animal-behavior, migration-organisms, migration-route, migratory-species, platte-river-wilderness, united-states, usgs-620e4b5fd34e6c7e83baa3cc, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Migration Routes of Mule Deer in Owl Creek Mountains Herd in Wyoming

Mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) along the Owl Creek Mountains display both a longitudinal and altitudinal migration as they depart the northern section of the Wind River Indian Reservation (fig. 28). Deer in this trans-boundary migration corridor move from areas under the jurisdiction and sovereignty of the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho, to lands where the Wyoming Game and Fish Department manages wildlife. West of the Reservation, deer migrate to summer ranges in the Absaroka Range, the Mount Leidy Highlands, and the Gros Ventre River watershed, all within the Bridger-Teton and Shoshone National Forests. The herd numbers around 3,000. Arid winter ranges are a mix of shrubs, herbaceous grasslands and riparian ecosystems, within Tribal land as well as private land along the Wind River. Animals migrate an average one-way distance of 63 mi (101 km), ranging from as little as 14 mi (23 km) to as far as 141 mi (227 km). Summer ranges are predominantly lodgepole pine forests with smaller areas of open herbaceous grasslands. The population size of the herd has remained relatively steady over the last decade. There is minimal concern for these animals on winter range because Tribal Trust Land is under low risk of development, and the Shoshone and Arapaho manage deer hunting for sustainable harvest under a game code established in 1984. However, some of their winter range along Wind River is in close proximity to US Highway 26/287, putting deer at heightened risk of vehicle collisions. Critically, the migration routes extend through residential areas such as Dubois and the Hoback Basin with heightened risk of negative human-wildlife interactions (i.e. vehicle collisions, fences and barriers). Summer ranges within National Forests are of less concern. 
These data provide the location of migration routes for mule deer in the Owl Creek Mountains population in the Wind River Reservation. They were developed from 73 migration sequences collected from a sample size of 20 animals comprising GPS locations collected every 2 hours.

Tags: animal-behavior, migration-organisms, migration-route, migratory-species, owl-creek-mountains, united-states, usgs-620e4b5cd34e6c7e83baa3ca, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Topo-bathymetric survey at Gandys Beach, New Jersey, 2018

This Data Release contains field topo-bathymetric survey data in a selected saltmarsh shoreline along Gandys Beach, New Jersey, where constructed oyster reefs (CORs, aka oyster castles) were installed to protect the shoreline and enhance habitat for oyster and other species.  Oyster castles were constructed as a part of a living shoreline project along Gandys Beach in 2016 in response to the damage by Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Wave, current and sediment data were collected, and field topographic and bathymetric surveys were conducted from January 2018 to April 2018.  Fine resolution topographic and bathymetric data is needed to assess shoreline structure effectiveness in terms of wave and current energy reduction, sediment deposition, and erosion. Data can be used for sediment transport and shoreline morphology model development to predict the effects of living shoreline structures under future climate change, coastal storms and other research projects.

Tags: coastal-ecosystems, gandys-beach, new-jersey, united-states, usgs-6220a85ed34ee0c6b38b5255
Organization: Department of the Interior