AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Development: Development delineation: Fire Island, NY, 2010–2011

Understanding how sea-level rise will affect coastal landforms and the species and habitats they support is critical for crafting approaches that balance the needs of humans and native species. Given this increasing need to forecast sea-level rise effects on barrier islands in the near and long terms, we are developing Bayesian networks to evaluate and to forecast the cascading effects of sea-level rise on shoreline change, barrier island state, and piping plover habitat availability. We use publicly available data products, such as lidar, orthophotography, and geomorphic feature sets derived from those, to extract metrics of barrier island characteristics at consistent sampling distances. The metrics are then incorporated into predictive models and the training data used to parameterize those models. This data release contains the extracted metrics of barrier island geomorphology and spatial data layers of habitat characteristics that are input to Bayesian networks for piping plover habitat availability and barrier island geomorphology. These datasets and models are being developed for sites along the northeastern coast of the United States. This work is one component of a larger research and management program that seeks to understand and sustain the ecological value, ecosystem services, and habitat suitability of beaches in the face of storm impacts, climate change, and sea-level rise.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, barrier-island, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, coastal-armoring, coastal-habitat, coastal-hazards, environment, fire-island, fire-island-national-seashore, geographic-information-systems, geospatial-datasets, gis, human-development, land-use-and-land-cover, long-island, new-york, north-america, ny, st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usa, usgs, usgs-5d0bc922e4b0941bde4fc602, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Acidification and Increasing CO2 Flux Associated with Five, Springs Coast, Florida Springs (1991-2014)

Scientists from the South West Florida Management District (SWFWMD) acquired and analyzed over 20 years of seasonally-sampled hydrochemical data from five first-order-magnitude (springs that discharge 2.83 m3 s-1 or more) coastal springs located in west-central Florida. These data were subsequently obtained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) for further analyses and interpretation. The spring study sites (Chassahowitzka, Homosassa, Kings Bay, Rainbow, and Weeki Wachee), which are fed by the Floridan Aquifer system and discharge into the Gulf of Mexico were investigated to identify temporal and spatial trends of pH, alkalinity, partial pressure of carbon dioxide (pCO2) and CO2 flux.

Tags: citrus-county, climate-change, co2-flux, environment, environmental-monitoring, estuaries, florida-springs-coast, freshwater-ecosystems, geochemistry, hernando-county, hydrology, inlandwaters, marine-geology, marion-county, ocean-acidification, oceans, springs, usgs-c0872c09-678d-4a33-a5b0-a8a760b6a751, west-central-gulf-coast-florida
Organization: Department of the Interior
Half interpercentile range (half of the difference between the 16th and 84th percentiles) of wave-current bottom shear stress in the Middle Atlantic Bight for May, 2010 - May, 2011 (MAB_hIPR.SHP)

The U.S. Geological Survey has been characterizing the regional variation in shear stress on the sea floor and sediment mobility through statistical descriptors.  The purpose of this project is to identify patterns in stress in order to inform habitat delineation or decisions for anthropogenic use of the continental shelf.  The statistical characterization spans the continental shelf from the coast to approximately 120 m water depth, at approximately 5 km resolution.  Time-series of wave and circulation are created using numerical models, and near-bottom output of steady and oscillatory velocities and an estimate of bottom roughness are used to calculate a time-series of bottom shear stress at 1-hour intervals.  Statistical descriptions such as the median and 95th percentile, which are the output included with this database, are then calculated to create a two-dimensional picture of the regional patterns in shear stress.  In addition, time-series of stress are compared to critical stress values at select points calculated from observed surface sediment texture data to determine estimates of sea floor mobility.

Tags: alteration-of-benthic-habitats, atlantic-ocean, bottom-shear-stress, chesapeake-bay, cmgp, cmhrp, cmsp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, coastal-and-marine-spatial-planning, continental-island-shelf, current, delaware-bay, geoscientificinformation, grant-madsen, habitat-alteration-and-disturbance, hudson-shelf-valley, long-island, long-island-sound, marine-nearshore-subtidal, marine-offshore-subtidal, mathematical-modeling, middle-atlantic-bight, nantucket-shoals, new-york-bight, north-america, numerical-modeling, ocean-processes, oceans, pamlico-sound, predictions, rhode-island-sound, roms, sea-floor, sea-floor-characteristics, sea-floor-habitat, seabed, seafloor, sediment-mobility, sediment-transport, substrate, swan, u-s-east-coast, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-97bbceac-a95e-4c88-ad58-838a026cbf1d, virginian-ecoregion, wave, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Magnetotelluric data from Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Upper Michigan, 2015-2019, station wup515

This dataset consists of 176 wideband magnetotelluric (MT) stations collected from 2015-2019 across parts of Minnesota, Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) acquired these data as part of regional investigations into the geologic and tectonic framework of the area and to support mineral resource investigations. These data have been used to generate a 3D regional conductivity model of the area. Files included in this publication include measured electric- and magnetic-field time series as well as estimated impedance and vertical-magnetic field transfer functions. The data included here are for MT station wup515 in the Western Upper Peninsula survey region. A shapefile with station information for all stations in this dataset is available at https://doi.org/10.5066/P9G2Y71H.

Tags: animikie-basin, apparent-resistivity, archean, ashland-syncline, bayfield-peninsula, conductivity, duluth-complex, electromagnetic-surveying, exploration, geologic-structure, geology-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, gggsc, impedance, keweenaw-peninsula, lake-superior, magnetic-field-earth, magnetotelluric-surveying, magnetotellurics, mesoproterozoic, michigan, midcontinent-rift, mineral-resources, mineral-resources-program, minnesota, mrp, mt, paleoproterozoic, penokean-orogen, phanerozoic, phase, quaternary, tectonics, time-series, tipper, upper-peninsula, usgs-5f6ae97782ce38aaa2449b47, wisconsin, wisconsin-magmatic-terranes
Organization: Department of the Interior
Composite estimates of land-health indicators of sagebrush in Wyoming sage-grouse Core and NonCore on Bureau of Land Management lands

Data are composite estimates (and standard errors) of the percentage of sagebrush area in desired conditions for 13 vegetation and soil indicators of land health on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands in Wyoming.  Composite estimates were obtained using composite estimation to combine estimates from two overlapping BLM terrestrial, field-based monitoring surveys: the Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring terrestrial survey and the Landscape Monitoring Framework survey.  Both are probability sample surveys.  The case study area was sagebrush communities in Wyoming Greater Sage-Grouse (sage-grouse) Core and NonCore conservation areas on BLM lands in Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Greater Sage-Grouse Management Zone II (WAFWA MZ II) for the 2015-18 time period.  Wyoming state-wide Core and NonCore areas were established to balance sage-grouse population and habitat protection with resource extraction such as oil and gas development.  Core areas bound large sage-grouse populations and have stringent stipulations for protecting habitat and populations.  NonCore are sage-grouse areas with less stringent protection.  Sage-grouse management zones across the western U.S. were delineated based on similarity in floristics to aid in conservation management of the species.  Data were used in a demonstration case study to compare the improvement in accuracy and precision of composite (combined) estimates over using estimates of the separate monitoring surveys.  Each monitoring survey provided an estimate and variance of the percentage of sagebrush area in desired conditions for each indicator in each conservation area (Core, NonCore).  Separately by conservation area and indicator, a variance weighting method was used to combine the two survey estimates, where the estimate with the lowest variance was more heavily weighted in obtaining the composite (combined) estimate.  The data set consists of 13 composited indicator estimates and their standard errors in Core and in NonCore for the 2015-18 time period.

Tags: bureau-of-land-management, composite-estimation, field-inventory-and-monitoring, greater-sage-grouse-conservation-areas, greater-sage-grouse-core-areas, land-health-indicators, usgs-65ce507ad34ec3e1801b9823
Organization: Department of the Interior
USGS Land Treatment Digital Library Data Release: A centralized archive for land treatment tabular and spatial data (ver. 5.0, July 2022)

Across the country, public land managers make hundreds of decisions each year that influence landscapes and ecosystems within the lands they manage. Many of these decisions involve vegetation manipulations known as land treatments. Land treatments include activities such as removal or alteration of plant biomass, seeding burned areas, and herbicide applications. Data on these land treatments historically have been stored at local offices and gathering information across large spatial areas was difficult. These valuable data needed to be centralized and stored for Federal agencies involved in land treatments because these data are useful to land managers for policy and management and to scientists for developing sampling designs and studies.
In 2008, the Land Treatment Digital Library (LTDL) was created by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to catalog information about land treatments on federal lands in the western United States. The flexible framework of the library allows for the storage of a wide variety of data in different formats. The library contains data in text, tabular, spatial, and image formats. Specific examples include project plans and implementation reports, monitoring data, spatial data files from geographic information systems, digitized paper maps, and digital images of land treatments. The data are entered by USGS employees and are accessible through a searchable website. The LTDL can be used to respond to information requests, conduct analyses and other forms of information syntheses, produce maps, and generate reports for federal managers, scientists, and other authorized users.
This data release includes the most up to date data available in the LTDL at the time of release. However, most field offices were last visited to collect their comprehensive treatment data between 2011-2014. Users should be aware that while treatments may exist in some field offices past the date of last collection, it is not a comprehensive representation of land treatments that have occurred on BLM lands during the most recent time span. Offices in southern Idaho and eastern Oregon were revisited in the winter of 2019 and the data collected during those visits are available in this release. Post wildfire emergency stabilization and rehabilitation treatments are included for fires up to 2021.

Tags: arizona, biota, california, colorado, data-management, data-preservation, database-administration, digitization, environment, idaho, information-technology-methods, interagency-programs, montana, nevada, new-mexico, north-america, north-dakota, oregon, south-dakota, texas, united-states, usgs-5ebdc59a82ce476925e44796, usgs-62c72350d34eeb1417bb1251, utah, washington, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Sagebrush ages and presence/absence locations in Rio Grande del Norte National Monument, New Mexico

The data include ages and locations of presence/absence surveys for sagebrush (Artemesia tridentata) on the Bureau of Land Management Rio Grande del Norte National Monument, New Mexico. We sampled cross-sections of sagebrush along 11 General Land Office section survey lines and conducted growth ring analysis to produce inner-ring dates for 93 sagebrush plants. The presence/absence surveys were conducted along the same section lines as the growth ring samples and were compared to the original surveys from 1881 to assess vegetation change on the landscape.

Tags: artemisia-tridentata, biota, dendrochronology, new-mexico, rio-grande-del-norte-national-monument, sagebrush, taos, tree-ring-analysis, usgs-6464e971d34ec179a83daa34, vegetation
Organization: Department of the Interior
Shasta Salamanders Surveys for the Shasta-Trinity National Forest (ver. 2.0, July 2020)

The Shasta salamander (Hydromantes shastae) has been petitioned for listing under the Endangered Species Act. The greatest threat to the species is likely habitat loss that will be caused by the increase in elevation of Shasta Lake that will occur with proposed increases in the height of Shasta Dam to increase water storage capacity and maintain cold water for Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha). Another potential threat is the fungus Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans, which has not yet been detected in North America but is lethal to related salamanders (Hydromantes strinatii) in Europe (Martel et al. 2014). In addition to these threats, recent genetic evidence suggests that the species as originally petitioned consists of three distinct species: H. shastae, H. samweli, and H. wintu (Bingham et al. 2018). Herein, we treat the species complex as a single entity because of difficulty distinguishing among the different species in the field. Recent work has increased knowledge about the habitat types within which Shasta salamanders can be found to include volcanic rock outcrops and areas of mature forest with scattered rocks, but no outcrops (Nauman and Olson 2004). To our knowledge, however, surveys to date have not accounted for the possibility of false absences, though Nauman and Olson (2004) used reference sites to ensure that Shasta salamanders were available on the surface to be detected. Systematic surveys that quantify and account for detection probabilities are needed to distinguish between true and false absences and their results would contribute information about habitat suitability and the distribution of the species. This information is vital to estimate what portion of the species complex would be lost to inundation when the elevation of Shasta Lake is raised and to identify potential refugia or recipient sites for translocations.
As the Shasta Salamander is under review for listing under the Endangered Species Act, sensitive location information can be made available upon request by contacting the dataset point of contact.

Tags: amphibians, biota, california, distribution, field-inventory-and-monitoring, herpetology, plot-sampling, salamanders, shasta-national-forest, shasta-trinity-national-forest, trinity-national-forest, usgs-5db8b9b1e4b0b0c58b5a5223
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2018 Site 0272 land-water classification data

Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring efforts to determine the efficacy of these efforts. 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 398 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. A DOQQ is a raster image in which displacement in the image caused by sensor orientation and terrain relief has been removed and combines the image characteristics of a photo with geometric qualities of a map. The DOQQs generated for this project consist of 2018 Color Infrared (CIR) Digital Imagery. These images were classified into land and water categories using a threshold of the near infrared (NIR) band, followed by supervised and unsupervised classification.  Initial classification results are then reviewed by multiple image analysts to identify and manually recode errors. The final land-water classifications are intended to serve as both geographic and quantitative assessments of landscape composition on the date of acquisition. Four previous assessments have been conducted (2005, 2008, 2012, and 2015/2016). Once the program creates enough data points for statistical analyses, these data will be used for land area change rate calculation.

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-611d2a9ed34e40dd9c012917, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Guam, Andersen Air Force Base housing area visual surveys for brown treesnakes (Boiga irregularis) and associated tree data, December 2019–November 2022.

This data was collected as part of a larger project to examine predator-prey interactions between invasive Brown Treesnakes (Boiga irregularis, predator) and native prey species at a study site located in a peri-urban area of Andersen Air Force base in Guam, USA. This dataset includes two datasets. One dataset contains 22 columns and includes data collected on Brown Treesnakes captured between 23 December 2019 and 03 October 2022 during nocturnal surveys. The second dataset that contains 10 columns that describe 1240 individual trees at the study site that served as our sampling unit for the surveys.

Tags: biota, brown-treesnake, guam, usgs-66394e66d34e7789083967e6, visual-survey
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, 2015, 2018, and 2021 Site 0557 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, 2015, 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-6569fef1d34e6dde1a4ae29d, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Seepage-run discharge measurements, August 12, 2021, Hāhālawe Stream, Maui, Hawai'i

This data release contains a comma-delimited ascii file of three same-day, discrete discharge measurements made at sites along selected reaches of Hāhālawe Stream, Maui, Hawai'i on August 12, 2021. These discrete discharge measurements form what is commonly referred to as a “seepage run.” The intent of the seepage run is to quantify the spatial distribution of streamflow along the reach during fair-weather, low-flow conditions, generally characterized by negligible direct runoff within the reach. The measurements can be used to characterize the net seepage of water into (water gain) or out of (water loss) the stream channel between measurement sites provided that the measurements were made during stable, nonchanging flow conditions (or, in some cases, were made simultaneously during transient flow conditions) and external surface inflows (for example, a tributary) or outflows (for example, a diversion) of water to the reach are quantified and accounted for in the computation of net seepage.

Tags: hhlawe-stream, hydrologic-datasets, hydrology, inlandwaters, maui, river-reaches, state-of-hawaii, stream-gage-measurement, streamflow, surface-water-non-marine, usgs-632b7ed0d34e900e86c50ae0, water-resources
Organization: Department of the Interior
Oregon Spotted Frog Monitoring at Jack Creek 2015-2018 (final)

This dataset contains information from mark-recapture and egg mass surveys conducted 2015-2018 by USGS as part of an ongoing Oregon spotted frog (Rana pretiosa) monitoring effort at Jack Creek, Klamath County, Oregon. Data consist of spotted frog counts (handled by surveyors) aggregated by date, location, life stage, and sex, as well as data on environmental conditions at the time each survey. Note that due to updates in access permissions, surveyed area within each site varies over time. Thus, counts are not comparable among year, as surveyed area was not held constant.

Tags: aquatic, aquatic-ecology, day, fall, jack-creek, klamath-county, land-surface, modern, native-species, oregon, population-dynamics, riparian, spring, summer, usgs-5c5e0fdce4b0fe48cb32e81f
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2018, and 2021 Site 0273 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-64dfbb7cd34e5f6cd553c0ba, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior