AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Spot temperature measurements collected along the Quashnet River, Mashpee/Falmouth MA

Heat is used as a tracer for a variety of physical hydrogeological process. For ongoing studies related to groundwater/surface water exchange, temperatures of streambed sediment along the bank, in drainage ditches, and in the river were measured using handheld thermal infrared (FLIR Systems, Inc) cameras and thermocouple (Digi-Sense, Inc) probes. Thermal surveys of the Quashnet river were completed from August 14 to August 25, 2017. Zones of spatially-preferential groundwater discharge were identified as cold anomalies in summer, reflecting the influence from groundwater temperatures of approximately 11 degrees Celsius.

Tags: environment, falmouth-mashpee, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, groundwater, hydrogeology, hydrology, inlandwaters, massachusetts, measurement, quashnet-river, seepage, surface-water, temperature, thermal, usgs-5e601d29e4b01d5092536dd5
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital Orthorectified Aerial Image of Cottonwood Lake Study Area Wetland P6 from 1995

Orthorectified image from aerial photograph of wetland P6 in the Cottonwood Lake Study Area, Stutsman County, North Dakota. This image is part of a collection of photographs of the study area acquired during July and early August from 1975 to 2015.

Tags: aerial-photography, chase-lake-wetland-management-districtgtstutsman-county-waterfowl-production-areagteddy, chase-lake-wetland-management-districtgtstutsman-county-waterfowl-production-areagtshuler, cottonwood-lake-study-area, earth-sciencegtbiospheregtecosystemsgtaquatic-ecosystemsgtwetlands, earth-sciencegtbiospheregtecosystemsgtterrestrial-ecosystemsgtwetlands, environment, image-collections, imagerybasemapsearthcover, inlandwaters, north-dakota, northern-great-plains, platformgtaerial-photographs, prairie-pothole-region, stutsman-county, surface-water-non-marine, united-states-of-america, usgs-5880d2bce4b0eeea75d27641, wetland-ecosystems
Organization: Department of the Interior
Astrogeology Science Center Monthly Report, February 1973

Monthly report to show updates on highlights and noteworthy results, publications, talks or papers presented, visitors, and mapping progress tables. Includes unpublished works and works in progress.

Tags: astrogeology, astrogeology-branch-history, branch-history, geoscientificinformation, planetary-sciences, usgs-6312c06ed34e36012efa1826
Organization: Department of the Interior
Tracklines of a multibeam survey of the Hudson Shelf Valley carried out in 2000 (polyline shapefile, geographic, WGS 84)

The Hudson Shelf Valley is the submerged seaward extension of the ancestral Hudson River drainage system and is the largest physiographic feature on the Middle Atlantic continental shelf. The valley begins offshore of New York and New Jersey at about 30-meter (m) water depth, runs southerly and then southeasterly across the Continental Shelf, and terminates on the outer shelf at about 85-m water depth landward of the head of the Hudson Canyon. Portions of the 150-kilometer-long valley were surveyed in 1996, 1998, and 2000 using a Simrad EM1000 multibeam echosounder mounted on the Canadian Coast Guard ship Frederick G. Creed. The purpose of the multibeam echosounder surveys was to map the bathymetry and backscatter intensity of the sea floor of the valley, providing a framework for geologic, oceanographic, and geochemical studies. The data from the three surveys are combined to produce grids of bathymetry and backscatter intensity at 12-m resolution that cover the entire valley and the head of the Hudson Canyon. The mapping was done by the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers with support from the Canadian Hydrographic Service and the University of New Brunswick.

Tags: canadian-coast-guard-ship-frederick-g-creed, canadian-hydrographic-service-chs, coastal-and-marine-geology-program-cmgp, geospatial-datasets, hudson-canyon, hudson-shelf-valley, location, marine-geophysics, middle-atlantic-bight, multibeam, navigational-data, new-jersey, new-york, new-york-bight, north-atlantic-ocean, oceans, polyline-shapefile, simrad-em1000, tracklines, u-s-geological-survey-usgs, university-of-new-brunswick-unb, usgs-589a1fdce4b0efcedb71a599, usgs-open-file-report-03-372, whcmsc-field-activity-2000-015-fa, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center-whcmsc
Organization: Department of the Interior
X-ray diffraction data and estimates of mineral abundances based on Rietveld refinement for mine wastes collected through the USGS Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (ver. 2.0, March 2025)

Powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) data and estimates of mineral abundances determined using Rietveld refinement included in this data release were generated as part of the Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI; https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/earth-mri). Earth MRI is a partnership between the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and state geological surveys and was developed by the USGS to evaluate critical mineral resources in the USA in response to Federal directives to address the shortfall in critical mineral supply for national defense and economic security.  Earth MRI involves generating data to support a national critical mineral assessment of subsurface resources, such as mineralized rock, and above ground resources including mine wastes. The mine waste component of Earth MRI involves generating an inventory of mine waste features and the geochemical and mineralogical characterization of mine wastes collected by state geological surveys. The results of the mineralogical characterization of mine waste samples are provided in this data release and include XRD data for each mine waste sample, and the interpretation of those XRD data to estimate mineral abundances using the Rietveld method (Albinati and Willis, 2006).  The results of the geochemical characterization of mine wastes are published in the following data release which contains additional sample attribute data: Geochemical data generated by projects funded by the USGS Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (https://doi.org/10.5066/P9WHRLXH).  These data are being released in support of the ongoing Earth MRI mine waste characterization effort; additional mineralogical data will be released periodically as they are generated.
Albinati, A., Willis, B.T.M., 2006, The Rietveld method. In: Prince, E. (eds) International Tables for Crystallography Volume C: Mathematical, physical and chemical tables. International Tables for Crystallography, v. C. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1107/97809553602060000614, accessed July 24, 2024.
U.S. Geological Survey, 2021, Geochemical data generated by projects funded by the USGS Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (ver. 10.0, June 2024): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9WHRLXH, accessed July 24, 2024.

Tags: biota, mine-waste, usgs-66d70235d34eef5af66ca5c8, x-ray-diffraction
Organization: Department of the Interior
Wind rose plots for the volcano: 312053  Stepovak Bay 4

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-58d01573e4b0236b68f52f78, volcanic-ash, volcanic-eruption-forecasting, wind
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hourly Vehicle Traffic Data Associated with Industrial Activity on the North Slope of Alaska During Summers 2019–2020

This dataset contains hourly vehicle traffic counts in the Kuparuk and Milne Point oil fields on the North Slope of Alaska during summers 2019 and 2020. The oil field roads were generally closed to the public during the study period, so traffic was primarily associated with industrial activities. Data were collected using TRAFx vehicle traffic counters (TRAFx Research Ltd, Canmore, Alberta, Canada) that were placed at random locations throughout the Kuparuk and Milne Point road systems representing varying traffic conditions. We deployed 25 counters from 12–13 June to 11 August in 2019, and 24 counters from 8–9 June to 19 August in 2020. The locations of the counters were changed between 2019 and 2020 to increase the spatial coverage of data collection across the road system (Severson et al 2023). The counters were programmed to record the number of vehicles each hour based on changes in the nearby electro-magnetic field. We provide the hourly traffic counts, along with information about the counter settings, locations, deployment and collection dates, and additional comments.

Tags: alaska, anthropogenic-effects, arctic-coastal-plain, effects-of-human-activities-on-ecosystems, energy-development, environment, environmental-effects, environmental-impact, human-activity, human-impacts, human-wildlife-interactions, infrastructure, kuparuk, landscape-ecology, milne-point, north-slope, oil-production, terrestrial-ecosystems, transportation, tundra-ecosystems, usgs-asc560
Organization: Department of the Interior
An Unvegetated to Vegetated Ratio (UVVR) for coastal wetlands of the Atlantic Coast - 2016

Prior research has shown that sediment budgets, and therefore stability, of microtidal marsh complexes scale with areal unvegetated to vegetated marsh ratios (UVVR) suggesting these metrics are broadly applicable indicators of microtidal marsh vulnerability. This effort has developed the UVVR metric using readily available satellite imagery for the coastal areas of the contiguous United States (CONUS). These datasets provide annual averages of 1) developed, 2) vegetated, 3) unvegetated ratios and 4) an unvegetated to vegetated ratio (UVVR)  at 30-meter resolution over the coastal areas of the contiguous United States for the years 2014-2018. Additionally, multi-year average values of vegetated ratio, its standard deviation and a UVVR based on the annually-averaged vegetated ratio are provided for the coastal wetlands of the contiguous United States based on the National Wetland Inventory delineation.

Tags: atlantic-coast, coastal-wetlands, conterminous-united-states, delaware, florida, georgia, maine, maryland, new-jersey, new-york, north-carolina, south-carolina, usgs-5e4d63eee4b0ff554f6d5003, virginia, wetland-change, wetland-gain, wetland-loss, wetlands
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2018, and 2021 Site 6303 land-water matrix

Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring to determine the efficacy of these projects. The Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) was developed to assist in a multiple-reference approach that uses aspects of hydrogeomorphic functional assessments and probabilistic sampling for monitoring. The CRMS program includes a suite of approximately 390 sites that encompass the range of hydrological and ecological conditions for each stratum. As part of CRMS, land and water classifications are created from Digital Orthophoto Quarter Quadrangles (DOQQs) approximately every three years at all CRMS sites. This dataset consists of a matrix of six land-water products (2005, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2018, and 2021).  The resulting matrix has 64 possible classes defined by the combination of land and water categories on those six dates.

Tags: alteration-of-wetland-habitats, cartography, coastal, coastal-louisiana, crms, doqq, emergent-wetland, forested-wetland, geographic-information-system, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-water, louisiana, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, scrub-shrub-wetland, state-of-louisiana, usgs-654150e5d34ee4b6e05bceea, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Argos and GPS Satellite Tracking Data for Buff-breasted Sandpipers (Calidris subruficollis) - Raw Data

This metadata document describes the data contained in the "Argos GPS Raw Data" (Child Item 2) of this data release. This data release contains all data collected from 130 Argos and Argos-linked GPS satellite transmitters attached to Buff-breasted Sandpipers at breeding sites in Alaska, migratory stopovers in Texas, and wintering areas in Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay, 2016-2018. The 130 deployed tags were comprised of 22 Argos Doppler PTTs (2 gram PTTs built by Microwave Telemetry) and 108 Argos-linked GPS PTTs (2 gram PinPoint tags built by Lotek). However, 14 Pinpoints never reported data, so they only appear in the deployment data records and not the location data files. One of the 94 functional PinPoint tags never reported GPS data, and 15 of the Pinpoint tags never obtained an Argos Doppler-derived location estimate. A majority of the transmitters carried GPS receivers, so GPS tracking data represent the backbone of this data release; the remaining tags were traditional Argos transmitters. Please note that GPS data are only distributed in the "Argos GPS Processed Data" (Child Item 1) of this data release. All data from both types of tags were communicated through the Argos System so all tags were Argos-certified Platform Transmitting Terminals (PTTs) and all have a time series of Argos (Doppler) locations. The Argos-linked GPS tags additionally have a times series of GPS locations that were communicated through the Argos System as data collections. Five data files are included in the "Argos GPS 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 GPS Processed Data" (Child Item 1) of this data release.

Tags: alaska, animal-tracking, animals-vertebrates, argentina, argos, biota, birds, brazil, breeding-sites, buff-breasted-sandpiper, calidris-subruficollis, capture-recapture-studies, central-americas-flyway, coastal-ecosystems, environment, gps, migratory-birds, migratory-rates-routes, migratory-species, ornithology, overwintering, platform-transmitter-terminal, ptt, satellite-transmitter, seasonal-distribution, seasonal-movement, species-life-history, tagging-devices, telemetry, texas, tracking-equipment, uruguay, usgs-asc563, waders-gulls-auks-and-allies, wildlife
Organization: Department of the Interior
Argos and GPS Satellite Tracking Data for Buff-breasted Sandpipers (Calidris subruficollis) - Processed Data

This metadata document describes the data contained in the "Argos GPS Processed Data" (Child Item 1) of this data release. This data release contains all data collected from 130 Argos and Argos-linked GPS satellite transmitters attached to Buff-breasted Sandpipers at breeding sites in Alaska, migratory stopovers in Texas, and wintering areas in Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay, 2016-2018. The 130 deployed tags were comprised of 22 Argos Doppler PTTs (2 gram PTTs built by Microwave Telemetry) and 108 Argos-linked GPS PTTs (2 gram PinPoint tags built by Lotek). However, 14 Pinpoints never reported data, so they only appear in the deployment data records and not the location data files. One of the 94 functional PinPoint tags never reported GPS data, and 15 of the Pinpoint tags never obtained an Argos Doppler-derived location estimate. The raw (original) data from these tags were processed to accomplish three goals: 1) extract encoded GPS locations; 2) flag implausible locations; and 3) decode raw sensor data. Results of this data processing are presented in three Comma Separate Value (CSV) tables found in the "Argos Processed Data" (Child Item 1) of this data release: 1) the "GPS_filteredLocations" table contains one record for every GPS location which passed a manual plausibility assessment based on considerations of movement rate, seasonal range, and habitat; 2) 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 in both the GPS and Argos filtered-location tables also includes a 'Tracking_Status' variable that denotes whether the location was collected from a live animal, a dead animal, or shed transmitter, 3) the "decodedSensor" table contains decoded sensor data (for only the Argos Doppler tags) of the transmitter's temperature and battery voltage. A fourth CSV table named "deploymentAttributes" is also included. It contains one record for each transmitter deployment, and 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 GPS Raw Data" (Child Item 2) of this data release.

Tags: alaska, animal-tracking, animals-vertebrates, argentina, argos, biota, birds, brazil, breeding-sites, buff-breasted-sandpiper, calidris-subruficollis, capture-recapture-studies, central-americas-flyway, coastal-ecosystems, environment, gps, migratory-birds, migratory-rates-routes, migratory-species, ornithology, overwintering, platform-transmitter-terminal, ptt, satellite-transmitter, seasonal-distribution, seasonal-movement, species-life-history, tagging-devices, telemetry, texas, tracking-equipment, uruguay, usgs-asc564, waders-gulls-auks-and-allies, wildlife
Organization: Department of the Interior
u171gm.m77t - MGD77 data file for Geophysical data from field activity UGEOLEG_1 (U-1-71-GM) in Bay of Campeche, Gulf of Mexico from 05/27/1971 to 06/21/1971

Single-beam bathymetry, gravity, and magnetic data along with transit satellite navigation data was collected as part of field activity UGEOLEG_1 (U-1-71-GM) in Bay of Campeche, Gulf of Mexico from 05/27/1971 to 06/21/1971, http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/u/u171gm/html/u-1-71-gm.meta.html
These data are reformatted from space-delimited ASCII text files located in the Coastal and Marine Geology Program (CMGP) InfoBank field activity catalog at http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/u/u171gm/html/u-1-71-gm.bath.html http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/u/u171gm/html/u-1-71-gm.grav.html  and http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/u/u171gm/html/u-1-71-gm.mag.html into MGD77T format provided by the NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center(NGDC). The MGD77T format includes a header (documentation) file (.h77t) and a data file (.m77t). More information regarding this format can be found in the publication listed in the Cross_reference section of this metadata file.

Tags: bathymetry, bathymetry-and-elevation, bathymetry-measurement, bay-of-campeche, distributions, geoscientificinformation, gravimeter-measurement, gravimetry, gulf-of-mexico, magnetic-field-observations, magnetometer-measurement, marine-geology, marine-geophysics, marine-gravity, marine-magnetics, marine-seismic, oceans, seafloor-topography, single-beam-bathymetry, single-beam-echo-sounder, usa, usgs-f7b483b3-227b-400e-9ca1-5ff2fc3ec0d7, water-depth
Organization: Department of the Interior
Length, Weight, Energy Density, and Isotopic Values of Fish from Rivers in Northwest Alaska, 2015-2019

This dataset contains length, weight, energy density, and isotope values of fish collected in northwest Alaskan rivers during summer and fall 2015-2019.

Tags: alaska, animal-morphology, animals-vertebrates, aquatic-ecosystems, arctic, arctic-grayling, biota, carbon-isotopes, coho-salmon, dolly-varden, environment, fish, fisheries, freshwater-ecosystems, isotopic-analysis, landscape-ecology, landscape-processes, nitrogen-isotopes, northern-pike, pink-salmon, rivers-stream-habitat, slimy-sculpin, sockeye-salmon, stable-isotopes, sulphur-isotopes, usgs-asc561, wildlife
Organization: Department of the Interior
Harlequin Duck Genetic Data, North America, Greenland, and Iceland, 1945-2006

This data package is comprised of three tables with data from wintering Harlequin Ducks (Histrionicus histrionicus) from Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Maine, Greenland, and Iceland. The first table contains available allele sizes for 7 microsatellite loci (Sfiµ1, Sfiµ4, Sfiµ9, Sfiµ10, Bcaµ10, Hhiµ2, Hhiµ5) and mtDNA control region haplotypes. The second table contains the mtDNA control region sequences used to assign haplotypes. The third table provides the geographic locations of sampling sites.

Tags: alaska, alleles, animals-vertebrates, biota, birds, british-columbia, canada, coastal-ecosystems, dna-mitochondrial, dna-primers, dna-sequencing, ducks-geese-swans, environment, gene-flow, genetic-diversity, genetic-markers, genetics, genotype, greenland, harlequin-duck, histrionicus-histrionicus, iceland, magadan, maine, marine-ecosystems, microsatellite-repeats, migratory-birds, overwintering, polymerase-chain-reaction, population-genetics, russia, usgs-asc566, washington, waterfowl, wetland-ecosystems, wildlife
Organization: Department of the Interior
Pathogen Exposure Data for Chukchi Sea Polar Bears 1988-1994 and 2008-2017

This dataset is one table with results of tests to determine exposure of Chukchi Sea polar bears to a suite of pathogens. Results are serological tests for antibodies and tests of fecal samples for presence of parasites. Serologic assays were conducted for Toxoplasma gondii, Neospora caninum, Francisella tularensis, Coxiella burnetii, Leptospira spp., Brucella canis, Brucella abortus/suis, and canine distemper virus. Parasitology analyses were conducted for presence of Giardia cysts and Cryptospiridium oocysts in fecal samples. Polar bears were sampled on sea ice in the Chukchi Sea between mid-March and early May 1987-1994 and 2008-2017. The dataset includes relevant information about the bears that were captured including the latitude and longitude of their capture location, capture date, age and sex,and the age and number of cubs accompanying an adult female.

Tags: age-composition, alaska, animals-vertebrates, bacterial-diseases, bears, beaufort-sea, biota, brucella, brucella-abortus, brucella-canis, carnivores, chukchi-sea, coastal-ecosystems, coxiella, coxiella-burnetii, cryptosporidium, disease-detection, environment, francisella, francisella-tularensis, giardia, health-and-disease, immunology, mammals, marine-ecosystems, marine-mammals, neospora, neospora-caninum, parasitic-diseases, parasitism, pathology, polar-bear, serology, toxoplasma, toxoplasma-gondii, ursus-maritimus, usgs-asc567, viruses, wildlife, wildlife-disease
Organization: Department of the Interior