AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Revised vegetation classification for Mount Rainier, North Cascades, and Olympic National Parks: Crosswalk from plant associations to mapping associations in Nielsen et al. 2021 vegetation maps

This spreadsheet presents a crosswalk of vegetation associations from  "Revised vegetation classification for Mount Rainier, North Cascades, and Olympic National Parks: Project summary report," (Ramm-Granberg et al. 2021, see cross references) to mapping associations used as the basis for vegetation maps for the same parks (Nielsen et al. 2021).

Tags: ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-vegetation-complex, national-vegetation-classification-system, plant-associations, plant-descriptions, plant-identification, vegetation-classification, vegetation-inventory, vip
Organization: Department of the Interior
Land Cover Summary Statistics Data Package for Antietam National Battlefield

This technical report documents the acquisition of source data, and calculation of land cover summary statistics datasets for Antietam National Battlefield. The source data and land cover calculations are available for use within the National Park Service (NPS) Inventory and Monitoring Program. Land cover summary statistics datasets can be calculated for all geographic regions within the extent of the NPS; this report includes statistics calculated for the conterminous United States. The land cover summary statistics datasets are calculated from multiple sources, including Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium products in the National Land Cover Database (NLCD) and United States Geological Survey’s (USGS) Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center products in the Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection (LCMAP) raster dataset. These summary statistics calculate land cover at up to three classification scales: Level 1, modified Anderson Level 2, and Natural versus Converted land cover. The output land cover summary statistics datasets produced here for Antietam National Battlefield utilize the most recent versions of the source datasets (NLCD and LCMAP). These land cover summary statistics datasets are used in the NPS Inventory and Monitoring Program, including the NPS Environmental Settings Monitoring Protocol and may be used by networks and parks for additional efforts.

Tags: land-cover, land-cover-change, land-use, landscape, landscape-change
Organization: Department of the Interior
Field data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Vicksburg National Military Park - Open Format Data Package

These data were converted from the originally delivered Microsoft Access PLOTs database from the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Vicksburg National Military Park.  These comma-delimited data tables contain(s) vegetation mapping plot classification and accuracy assessment data, as well as summary information about the data itself. If a table is empty, then it was empty in the original database.

Tags: accuracy-assessment, botanical-survey, classification, database, habitat-types, imagery, national-vegetation-classification, nvc, nvcs, plots, releve, remote-sensing, usnvcs, vegetation, vegetation-inventory, vegetation-map, vegetation-mapping, vick, vicksburg-national-military-park
Organization: Department of the Interior
Genetic Characterization of Feral Swine in Great Smoky Mountain National Park

Field Methods:
As a component of feral swine control measures conducted by National Park Service employees within Great Smoky Mountain National Park, I would request that either a small piece of ear tissue be collected or approximately 45 hairs be plucked from euthanized hogs (tissue type to be determined by NPS biologists). Specifically for the collection of ear tissue, standard livestock ear notchers will be provided along with cryovials filled with silica beads. The biologist would use the notches to clip a small piece of ear (~1/4”) from the animal. Tweezers or needle nose pliers can be helpful for transferring the tissue from the notchers to the cryovial. Upon insertion of the tissue into the cryovial, desiccation is used to preserve the tissue until genetic analysis can be completed. Alcohol prep wipes are effective for wiping away residual cells, blood, or hair from the cutting service of the notchers before the notchers are used sample another hog. 
Alternatively, biologists could collect hair from feral swine. Specifically, following euthanasia, pliers can be used to pluck (collection of the hair follicle is essential) approximately 45 hairs from the carcass (generally takes 2 pulls with pliers to get a sufficient number of hairs). The hairs would be transferred to collection cards (small book, approximately the size of a business card with light adhesive to retain hair samples) and the collection card placed in a coin envelop (cards and envelops will be provided). 

Samples in either cryovials or hair cards can be stored at room temperature, in a refrigerator, or frozen; I only ask that collected tissue be removed from field vehicles to avoid the dramatic fluctuations in temperature that can occur. I ask that you record very basic information on the animals collected, specifically sex, age (adult, subadult, juvenile), date of collection, and provide a collection location (I will provide a data sheet). I will provide barcodes stickers that can be placed on either on the hair envelopes or cyrovials as well as the data sheet so that I can match a tissue sample (and subsequent genotype) back to the associated field data.
For details on research methods please see attached proposal.

Tags: aphn, appalachian-highlands-network, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-mammals, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-invasive-species-invasive-exotic-animals, great-smoky-mountains-national-park, grsm, origin-external, pig, pig-feral, ser, southeast-region, studyid-grsm-02009, sus-scrofa, wild-boar
Organization: Department of the Interior
Imagery data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

This reference contains the imagery data used in the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit.  Orthophotos, raw imagery, and scanned aerial photos are common files held here.

A set of 1:12,000-scale CIR aerial photographs was collected on October 20, 2007 (funded by the NPS Vegetation Inventory Program (VIP), and the photo mission was supervised by GLKN staff). This set of photography was the primary imagery used in photointerpretative mapping. In addition to the CIR photos, a set of 1:12,000-scale TC aerial photographs were collected April 22, 2007, providing deciduous leaf-off viewing.

Tags: accuracy-assessment, botanical-survey, classification, geodatabase, habitat-types, imagery, national-vegetation-classification, nvc, nvcs, plots, releve, remote-sensing, usnvcs, vegetation, vegetation-inventory, vegetation-map, vegetation-mapping
Organization: Department of the Interior
Cerro Seco feller buncher compaction study - Data and metadata - 2023

Data set for the study on nematodes and soil compaction from mechanical forest thinning on Cerro Seco Unit 5.

Tags: bulk-density, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-forest-woodland-communit, ecological-framework-geology-and-soils-soil-quality-soil-function-and-dynamics, feller-buncher, forest-management, logging-machinery, nematoda, nps-gov-subject-site-forests-woods-shrublands, penetration-resistance, shear-strength, soil-compaction, soil-disturbance, soil-nematodes, thinning
Organization: Department of the Interior
Klamath Stream Monitoring Data Package 2011-2022

This dataset contains monitoring data for streams at Crater Lake NP, Lassen Volcanic NP, Oregon Caves NMP, Redwood NSP, and Whiskeytown NRA. Streams are significant and productive resources that are influenced by activities both inside and outside parks boundaries. Because healthy streams are vital to park landscapes and ecosystems, we sample physical, biological, and chemical parameters. These varied parameters allow us to measure change over time and across the landscape. Thus, we can detect trends and assess impacts. Since 2011, the Klamath Network has been monitoring streams in five parks. The protocol combines monitoring water quality characteristics of streams, such as the chemical and physical conditions, with monitoring the aquatic communities that the stream supports, such as the fish, plants, and macroinvertebrates. The combined protocol is extremely effective as it can provide both snapshots in time of water quality and habitat properties, as well as long term indications of health from the living assemblages.
Objectives are to:
Determine the status and trends of conditions in wadeable streams.
Assist parks with “impaired quality waters,” also known as “303d” lists as defined by the Clean Water Act.
Assist parks with monitoring of “Outstanding National Resource Waters” or Tier 3 waters as defined by the Clean Water Act.
We measure/collect:
Physical environment including substrate composition, depth, gradient, discharge, stream width, and bank height.
Water anions, cations, and nutrients.
Water quality parameters including dissolved oxygen, temperature, specific conductivity, turbidity, and pH.
Algal samples to determine periphyton biomass.
Benthic macroinvertebrates.
Visual Encounter Surveys for amphibians.
Fish populations.
Photographs to provide visual comparisons over time.

Tags: ecological-data, ecological-monitoring, long-term-monitoring, national-parks, streams, streams-monitoring, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
NCCN Elk Aerial Monitoring Data Package, 2008-2017

This data package contains North Coast and Cascades Network (NCCN) Inventory and Monitoring Program elk survey tabular data collected during 2008-2017 at Mount Rainier National Park (MORA) and Olympic National Park (OLYM).

The protocol, publications, and all other associated links can be found in the project reference NCCN Monitoring Elk in Mount Rainier and Olympic National Parks: https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2193716

Objectives were to use helicopter surveys to monitor trends in elk abundance, distribution, and composition in selected subalpine summer ranges in MORA and OLYM. Data were collected to develop and inform double-observer sightability model. Sightability data included elk fitted with GPS/VHF collars, survey weather conditions, light levels, elk activity, and percent of concealing vegetation.  Aerial survey observations also included double-observer data by recording observer seating positions and which specific observers independently saw each elk group.

In 2008, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) began collaborating with the National Park Service (NPS)-North Coast and Cascades Network (NCCN), the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe (MIT), Puyallup Tribe of Indians (PTOI), and Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) to develop a standard aerial survey protocol for monitoring long-term changes in the abundance, distribution, and population composition of elk on key summer ranges within Mount Rainier National Park (MORA) and Olympic National Park (OLYM). In MORA, surveys were conducted in two trend count areas (TCAs) that correspond with primary summer ranges used by the North Rainier Herd that winters outside the park to the North, and the South Rainier Herd that winters outside the park primarily to the South. Five TCAs were defined in OLYM that encompassed summer ranges at the core of the park around Mount Olympus and four other TCAs that encompassed other primary summer ranges throughout the park. Please refer to NCCN Elk Aerial Monitoring Sample Design Geodatabase for the spatial representation of elk survey polygons: https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2230205

Tags: abundance, aerial-survey, biological-integrity, biology, cervus-elaphus, community-composition, double-observer-model, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-mammals, ecology, elk, focal-species-or-communities, helicopter, mammals, monitoring, mora, mount-rainier-national-park, muckleshoot-indian-tribe, nccn, north-coast-and-cascades-network, olym, olympic-national-park, puyallup-tribe-of-indians, resource-management, roosevelt-elk, sightability-model, species, surveys, ungulate, vertebrates, washington, washington-department-of-wildlife
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data Corresponding to Landbird Monitoring in the Chihuahuan Desert Network: 2010-2017 Synthesis Report

This dataset was used to characterize and report trends of landbird population parameters across the Chihuahuan Desert Network from 2010 to 2014, 2016, and 2017 (Big Bend National Park only) in "Landbird Monitoring in the Chihuahuan Desert Network: 2010-2017 Synthesis Report" by Colbaugh and others (2024). As such, it is most useful for replicating or extending that landbird synthesis analysis. It was part of a larger effort to monitor landbirds in National Parks across the southwest and southern plains conducted in cooperation with the Bird Conservancy of the Rockies (formerly, Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory). The overall goal of the CHDN landbird monitoring program was to detect biologically significant changes in population and community parameters over time, focusing on a set of complementary attributes— species richness and composition, occupancy, and density— that together provide a comprehensive assessment of changes in bird populations and communities. We used point-transect surveys to sample two habitat classes: grassland (upland) and riparian. Sampling locations were selected within park-habitat classes, either randomly or systematically, using a spatially balanced distribution of points. Samples were replicated either spatially (for most parks) or temporally (for three small parks). The general window of breeding and sampling was from April through June, when increased territorial behavior by songbirds results in higher detection rates and greater sampling efficiency. Quality and reliability standards were sustained throughout the data acquisition and preparation process. In addition to the survey data, it includes two tables which can be found in the synthesis report: Table 2-6 - Breeding Habitat Guilds and Appendix B - Bird Species in the Chihuahuan Desert Network. More information about these tables can be found in the synthesis report.

Tags: animals, biodiversity, birds, conservation, deserts, ecology, field-inventory-and-monitoring, field-methods, grasslands, habitats, landbird-monitoring, long-term, long-term-monitoring, monitoring, occupancy, permanent-plots, plot-sampling, point-counts, population-and-community-properties, populations, resource-management, riparian, species, species-abundance, species-composition, species-diversity, species-richness, surveys, terrestrial-ecosystems, transect-sampling, transects, vertebrates, wetlands
Organization: Department of the Interior
Dragonfly Mercury Project parks and acronyms 2009-2024 (ver. 3.0, January 2026)

This Excel spreadsheet contains a list of National Park Service units and their respective acronyms (4-letter codes) as they are used in the Dragonfly Mercury Project data dashboard.

Tags: air, air-monitoring, air-resources-division, appalachian-mountain-club, citizen-science, community-science, dragonfly, dragonfly-larvae, dragonfly-mercury, dragonfly-mercury-project, larvae, mercury, national-park-service, pollution, university-of-maine, us-geological-survey, usgs
Organization: Department of the Interior
Fisheries Inventory, Trout Data, at Rocky Mountain National Park 2021-2022 - Open Format Dataset

The Cameron Peak Fire and East Troublesome Fire of 2020 were the two largest wildfires in Colorado history. They burned approximately 9% of the Rocky Mountain National Park, raising a concern for trout populations that currently support recreational fishing and success of on-going and future efforts to conserve native trout populations. In this study, we surveyed habitat characteristics and biological communities at 19 sites in summer of 2021 and a subset of 11 sites in summer of 2022 to characterize wildfire impacts on aquatic resources. We were primarily interested in trout population structure and abundance, which were compared to available pre-fire data. In addition, we collected information on physical habitat, water quality, algae and benthic macroinvertebrates because wildfire effects are complex and this array of data helps assist identifying ecological mechanisms that affect aquatic top predators (i.e., trout). The greenback cutthroat trout is listed as state and federally threatened and is the Colorado State Fish. The Colorado River cutthroat trout is a state species of concern and two distinct lineages occur in the burned areas of ROMO. Quantifying wildfire effects on stream ecosystems and trout populations is needed for ROMO to decide whether (1) ongoing conservation actions should continue including the Poudre Headwaters Project, (2) recreational fishing should be regulated, and (3) waters should require trout stocking or will naturally recover via trout immigration from connected populations.For more information see the report here: https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2304877

Tags: aurora-trout, brook-trout, brown-trout, catostomus-catostomus, charr, coaster-brook-trout, cottus-bairdii, cutthroat-trout, data-package-type, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-at-risk-biota-te-species-and-communities, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-fishes, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-freshwater-communities, fish, imd, longnose-sucker, macroinvertebrate, mottled-sculpin, national-park-service, nps, nps-inventory-and-monitoring-division, nps-species-inventory-program, oncorhynchus-clarkii, oncorhynchus-mykiss, post-fire, poudre-headwaters-project, rainbow-trout, recreational-fishing, redband-trout, rocky-mountain-national-park, romo, salmo-trutta, salter, salvelinus-fontinalis, sea-trout, steelhead, trout, wildfire
Organization: Department of the Interior
NPS Mid-Atlantic Network’s (MIDN) Benthic Macroinvertebrate Monitoring Data (2016-2025)

This data package contains a series of datasets collected by the Mid-Atlantic Network’s (MIDN) Benthic Macroinvertebrate Monitoring Program in accordance with published monitoring protocols (Dammeyer 2018; https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2256449). These datasets include benthic macroinvertebrate, stream habitat, and water quality information from 2016 through 2025 for select stream sites in Appomattox Court House National Historical Park (APCO), Booker T Washington National Monument (BOWA), Eisenhower National Historic Site (EISE), Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park (FRSP), Gettysburg National Military Park (GETT), Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site (HOFU), Petersburg National Battlefield (PETE), Richmond National Battlefield Park (RICH), and Valley Forge National Historical Park (VAFO). Methods are described in Dammeyer, 2018 but we also include a brief summary of methods herein. Data from earlier versions of the benthic macroinvertebrate protocol can be found on the NPS Data Store (https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2294848).

If more information is required, please contact the monitoring lead and/or data manager for the Mid-Atlantic Inventory and Monitoring Network (https://www.nps.gov/im/midn).

Dammeyer NT. 2018. Protocol implementation plan for benthic macroinvertebrate monitoring in the Mid-Atlantic Network.. Natural Resource Report. NPS/MIDN/NRR—2018 1740. National Park Service. Fort Collins, Colorado

Tags: apco, appomattox-court-house-national-historical-park, booker-t-washington-national-monument, bowa, eise, eisenhower-national-historic-site, fredericksburg-spotsylvania-national-military-park, frsp, gett, gettysburg-national-military-park, hofu, hopewell-furnace-national-historic-site, macroinvertebrates, mid-atlantic-network, midn-benthic-macro-data-package, monitoring, national-park-service, pete, petersburg-national-battlefield, rich, richmond-national-battlefield-park, stream-ecology, vafo, valley-forge-national-historical-park
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mojave Desert Network (MOJN) Benthic Macroinvertebrate (BMI) Data Package (2009-2025)

Benthic macroinvertebrates are an abundant, diverse, and ecologically important component of aquatic ecosystems. They are also widely used to infer water quality and overall ecosystem health because their assemblages are sensitive to changing physical, chemical, and biological conditions over multiple spatial and temporal scales.

Benthic macroinvertebrate taxa and metrics data from two monitoring protocols are included in this publication: Streams and Lakes and Selected Large Springs. For the Streams and Lakes monitoring protocol, samples are collected at nine perennial springs in Great Basin National Park. For the Selected Large Springs protocol, samples are collected at five springs in Death Valley National Park, three springs in Great Basin National Park, two springs in Joshua Tree National Park, one spring in Lake Mead National Recreation Area, and two springs in Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument.

These data are intended to address the following monitoring objectives: status and trends in the overall ecosystem health of streams and springs, status and trends in benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages in streams, and presence of “stressed or impaired” water quality using regional bioassessment criteria.

Additional data collected for the monitoring protocols, such as water quality and chemistry parameters, are published in separate data packages.

Tags: macroinvertebrates, mojn, selected-large-springs, springs, streams, streams-and-lakes, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Field data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Yosemite National Park, Devils Postpile National Monument - Open Format Data Package

These data were converted from the originally delivered Microsoft Access PLOTs database from the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Yosemite National Park, Devils Postpile National Monument.  These comma-delimited data tables contain(s) vegetation mapping plot classification and accuracy assessment data, as well as summary information about the data itself. If a table is empty, then it was empty in the original database.

Tags: accuracy-assessment, botanical-survey, classification, database, depo, devils-postpile-national-monument, habitat-types, imagery, national-vegetation-classification, nvc, nvcs, plots, releve, remote-sensing, usnvcs, vegetation, vegetation-inventory, vegetation-map, vegetation-mapping, yose, yosemite-national-park
Organization: Department of the Interior