AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Inventory and Biological Monitoring of Fishes

This report summarizes a three-year (2002-2004) inventory of fishes in six parks of the National Capital Region: Antietam National Battlefield, Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historic Park, George Washington Memorial Parkway, Harpera??s Ferry National Historic Park, Monocacy National Battlefield, and Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts. Qualitative collections of fishes were conducted at 98 locations that were selected to provide thorough geographic coverage of each of the parks and to encompass the diversity of aquatic habitats within and immediately adjacent to the parks. Quantitative collections of fishes were conducted at 55 randomly-selected sites to allow for unbiased estimation of fish populations and biotic integrity of streams within the parks. Qualitative sampling resulted in the capture and identification of 19,310 fishes representing 11 families and 63 species. We captured and identified 12,085 individual fishes representing 10 families and 43 species during quantitative sampling. Hybrid taxa were also recorded in the genera Esox and Lepomis. Parks in the National Capital Region harbor much of the fish diversity currently documented in the Potomac River drainage. Some Coastal Plain species were absent due to the small number of park watersheds in this physiographic province. Only one native species, the mummichog (Fundulus heteroclitus), occurs within smaller streams of the geographic region surveyed in this study that was not collected in the targeted parks. Larger riverine species (e.g., Carpiodes cyprinus) may also occasionally move into streams within park boundaries. Index of biotic integrity (IBI) scores calculated from fish assemblage data at quantitative sites indicate a range of ecological conditions within the parks. Sixty-seven percent of sites were rated in poor or very poor condition relative to regional reference streams. These data will form the basis of a monitoring program for water resources within the National Capital Region.

Tags: anti, antietam-national-battlefield, biota, chesapeake-and-ohio-canal-national-historical-park, choh, fish, george-washington-memorial-parkway, gwmp, hafe, harpers-ferry-national-historical-park, inventory, mono, monocacy-national-battlefield, national-capital-region, national-capital-region-network, ncrn, wildlife, wolf-trap-national-park-for-the-performing-arts, wotr
Organization: Department of the Interior
NCRN_Fish_Inv_Sites

This layer represents locational data for fish surveys of streams and ponds of six parks within the National Park Service National Capital Region. Point locations represent sampling sites for both qualitative and quantitative sampling using electrofishing as indicated in the attribute information for each site. National Parks sampled were Antietam National Battlefield, Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historic Park, George Washington Memorial Parkway, Harper's Ferry National Historic Park, Monocacy National Battlefield, and Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts.

Tags: 2002-2004, anti, antietam-national-battlefield, biology, biota, chesapeake-and-ohio-canal-national-historic-park, chesapeake-and-ohio-canal-national-historical-park, choh, environment, fish, george-washington-memorial-parkway, gwmp, hafe, harpers-ferry-national-historic-park, harpers-ferry-national-historical-park, hydrography, inlandwaters, mid-atlantic, mono, monocacy-national-battlefield, national-capital-region, national-capital-region-network, national-capital-region-network-network, national-parks, ncrn, wolf-trap-national-park-for-the-performing-arts, wotr
Organization: Department of the Interior
Trails of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks

This is a vector line dataset representing the Trail features in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. This dataset is utilizing the updated Trail Spatial Data Standard dated 10/21/2016.

Tags: ecological-framework-human-use-visitor-and-recreation-use-visitor-use, national-park-service, nps, seki, sequoia-and-kings-canyon-national-parks, trails
Organization: Department of the Interior
Cross-Island Topographic Profiles of Assateague Island National Seashore, 1995-2018

Cross-island profile monitoring began in 1995. Elevations are collected every 10m and at all significant elevation changes along transects that run at a 291/111 degree azimuth. Between 1995-2003, elevations were collected using a NIKON total station and referenced to the NAVD88 datum. Between 2004-2009, a Trimble 5700 RTK system was used. From 2010-2014, a Trimble R8 RTK system was used. In 2015 and 2016, both Trimble R10 and Trimble R8 RTK systems were used, and elevations were referenced to NAVD88 datum. Starting in 2017 data were collected using a Trimble R10 using streaming from the new MDAI GNSS CORS.  These data are used to monitor and understand the dynamics of barrier islands and their associated dune complexes.

Tags: asis, assateague-island-national-seashore, coastal-dynamics, elevation, elevation-bathymetry, erosion, geomorphology, maryland, monitoring, north-america, physical, sand-dunes, shoreline-change, storms, survey-points, topographic-profiles, topography, worcester-county
Organization: Department of the Interior
NCCN Landbird Monitoring Sample Design Geodatabase

The geodatabase represents the sampling design used to meet the project's purpose.  The sampling design relies upon systematic sampling for smaller parks (LEWI and SAJH) and spatially balanced, GRTS sampling for larger parks (MORA, NOCA, OLYM). The objectives of the landbird monitoring program are to 1) detect trends in the density of as many landbird species (including passerines, near-passerines, and galliformes) as possible throughout accessible areas of five NCCN parks during the breeding season and 2) track changes in the breeding season distribution of landbird species throughout accessible areas of the large wilderness parks.

The geodatabase represents the sampling design used to meet the project's objectives. The sampling design relies upon systematic sampling for smaller parks (Lewis and Clark National Historical Park [LEWI] and San Juan Island National Historical park [SAJH]) and spatially balanced, Generalized Random Tesselation Stratified (GRTS) sampling for larger parks (Mount Rainier National Park [MORA], North Cascades National Park [NOCA], Olympic National Park [OLYM]). The GRTS sample design was created using stratified equal probability survey design. Potential transect starting locations were defined based on road and trail networks. The sample design formed the basis for office and field evaluation of selected locations and the subsequent establishment of long-term monitoring transects.

Tags: biology, biota, birds, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-birds, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-terrestrial-complex, ecology, equal-probability-survey-design, generalized-random-tesselation-stratified, geodatabase, grts, im, inventory-and-monitoring, landbirds, lewi, lewis-and-clark-national-historical-park, monitoring, mora, mount-rainier-national-park, nccn, noca, north-cascades-national-park-service-complex, north-coast-and-cascades-network, olym, olympic-national-park, oregon-state, r_, resource-management, sajh, sampling, san-juan-island-national-historical-park, spatial-data, stratification, systematic, temperate-coniferous-forest, vegetation, washington-state
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geospatial data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of White Sands National Monument

The files linked to this reference are the geospatial data created as part of the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit. Current format is ArcGIS file geodatabase but older formats may exist as shapefiles.

The WHSA vegetation map was developed using a combined strategy of automated digital image classification and direct analog image interpretation of aerial photography and satellite imagery.  Initially, the aerial photography and satellite imagery were processed and entered into a GIS along with ancillary spatial layers.  A working map legend of ecologically based vegetation map units was developed using the vegetation classification described in the report as the foundation.  The intent was to develop map units that targeted the plant-association level wherever possible within the constraints of image quality, information content, and resolution.  With the provisional legend and ground-control points provided by the field-plot data (the same data used to develop the vegetation classification), a combination of heads-up screen digitizing of polygons based on image interpretation and supervised image classifications were conducted.  The outcome was a vegetation map composed of a suite of map units defined by plant associations and represented by sets of mapped polygons with similar spectral and site characteristics.

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
Trends in Spatial Patterns of Heavy Metal Deposition on National Park Service Lands along the Red Dog Mine Haul Road, Alaska, 2001–2006.

This archive contains the model inputs and outputs for the NPS study: “Trends in Spatial Patterns of Heavy Metal Deposition on National Park Service Lands along the Red Dog Mine Haul Road, Alaska, 2001–2006.”  The archive is divided into 5 areas:

1. Model_Input_Files. This folder contains the input files used in the posterior predictions model described in the paper above. ESRI-ArcGIS shapefiles for the posterior prediction grid are provided in a subfolder. Metadata is included.

2. BLSM_Output_Archive.  This folder contains all the posterior predictions output, and is divided into Coarse Grid and Strata-Based predictions.  Coarse Grid output covers all strata as a single output, while Strata-Based output are model runs based on strata run individually. Metadata is included.

3. Coarse_Grid_Summaries.  This folder contains the summarization of Coarse Grid model output in 2 above.  Metadata is included.

4. Strata_Based_Summaries. This folder contains the summarization of the Strata-Based model output contained in number 2 above. Metadata is included.

Tags: biomonitoring, cadmium, cape-krusenstern-national-monument, cd, contaminants, lead, moss, nps, pb, red-dog, red-dog-mine, zinc, zn
Organization: Department of the Interior
Assateague Island SLOSH Category 1-4 Storm Surge Points

This layer was developed as part of the project "Assessing Inundation Risk from Sea Level Rise and Storm Surge for the Northeast Coastal National Parks" The Parks included in this study are Acadia NP, Assateague Island Nat. Seashore, Boston Harbor Island National Rec. Area, Cape Cod Nat. Seashore, Colonial Nat. Historical Park, Fire Island Nat. Seashore, Gateway National Rec. Area, and George Washington Birthplace Nat. Historical Park.

Tags: ecological-framework-air-and-climate-weather-and-climate-weather-and-climate, hurricanes, slosh, storm-surge
Organization: Department of the Interior
NCRN Avian Inventory

Biological Inventories to identify bird species in six National Capital Region Network parks (Antietam National Battlefield, Catoctin Mountain Park, Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, Manassas National Battlefield, Prince William Forest Park, and Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts) were initiated in 2001. The goals of the inventories were to identify 90% of the bird species occurring in each park and to determine their breeding status and spatial distribution. Surveys were concluded in 2003, and a total of 175 species were identified in the Network parks; species richness ranged from 76 species at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts to 151 species at Manassas National Battlefield. Two methods were used to assess the completeness of the inventories (i.e., 90% species documentation): a direct comparison to an expected species list and species accumulation curves. Based on the results of the two methods of analysis it was concluded that 90% of the species had been documented in the six network parks. Additional inventories, utilizing a different survey methodology, may be beneficial to document the occurrence of the remaining species.

Tags: anti, antietam-national-battlefield, biota, birds, cato, catoctin-mountain-park, hafe, harpers-ferry-national-historical-park, inventory, mana, manassas-national-battlefield-park, national-capital-region, national-capital-region-network-network, ncrn, prince-william-forest-park, prwi, wildlife, wolf-trap-national-park-for-the-performing-arts, wotr
Organization: Department of the Interior
Glacier Bay oceanography CON calibration files for CTD#5 s/n 6353

"CON" files define the sensor configuration and calibration parameters of Sea-Bird oceanographic CTD profilers. Until recently they followed a proprietary format set by  Sea-Bird Electronics, Inc. Proprietary files are not interpretable by common applications. To view or edit these data, one must invoke  SBEDataProc.EXE software from Sea-Bird. (Calibration files are in XML form beginning in December 2011.) CON files, combined with raw HEX data, are used to generate the CNV processed data files required for performing analyses. 

A new CON file is generated for a particular CTD each time any instrument on the CTD is calibrated. A revised file may also be created between formal calibrations to reflect a new, removed, or repaired sensor on the unit. The appropriate CON file to use for generating particular CNV files is the first file that is equal to or earlier than the month and year the cast was made. It is possible, though rare, for a CTD to have more than one CON file in a particular month and year. In such cases the second file name is appended with (A), a third with (B), and so on. The actual dates of each calibration in a file may be seen inside the file by using Sea-Bird's proprietary tools.

This is referenced in the protocol as deliverable OC_A.

Tags: alaska, chlorophyll-a, ctd, ecological-framework-water-hydrology-marine-hydrology, fluorometer, glacier-bay, glacier-bay-national-park, glba, icy-strait, instrument-calibration, instrument-configuration, monitoring, obs, oceanography, oceans, par, photic-depth, photosynthetically-available-radiation, physical-oceanography, salinity, sean, sigma-t, southeast-alaska-network, temperature, turbidity
Organization: Department of the Interior
Glacier Bay oceanography CON calibration files for CTD#1 s/n 0436

"CON" files define the sensor configuration and calibration parameters of Sea-Bird oceanographic CTD profilers. Until recently they followed a proprietary format set by  Sea-Bird Electronics, Inc. Proprietary files are not interpretable by common applications. To view or edit these data, one must invoke  SBEDataProc.EXE software from Sea-Bird. (Calibration files are in XML form beginning in December 2011.) CON files, combined with raw HEX data, are used to generate the CNV processed data files required for performing analyses. 

A new CON file is generated for a particular CTD each time any instrument on the CTD is calibrated. A revised file may also be created between formal calibrations to reflect a new, removed, or repaired sensor on the unit. The appropriate CON file to use for generating particular CNV files is the first file that is equal to or earlier than the month and year the cast was made. It is possible, though rare, for a CTD to have more than one CON file in a particular month and year. In such cases the second file name is appended with (A), a third with (B), and so on. The actual dates of each calibration in a file may be seen inside the file by using Sea-Bird's proprietary tools.

This is referenced in the protocol as deliverable OC_A.

Tags: alaska, chlorophyll-a, ctd, ecological-framework-water-hydrology-marine-hydrology, fluorometer, glacier-bay, glacier-bay-national-park, glba, icy-strait, instrument-calibration, instrument-configuration, monitoring, obs, oceanography, oceans, par, photic-depth, photosynthetically-available-radiation, physical-oceanography, salinity, sean, sigma-t, southeast-alaska-network, temperature, turbidity
Organization: Department of the Interior
Aerial Photograph 2021 (1-ft), Prince William Forest Park

This 12-inch resolution aerial imagery for the area in and around Prince William Forest Park (PRWI) in Triangle, Virginia was collected on March 8, 2021 as part of the Virginia Base Mapping Program (VBMP) managed by the Virginia Geographic Information Network Division (VGIN) of the Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA).  The individual raster tiles provided by VGIN were combined into a single raster file and projected into coordinate systems commonly-used by the NPS. The areas adjacent to the park under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Marine Corps have been removed for the security reasons.

Tags: aerial-photography, commonwealth-of-virginia, imagery, imagerybasemapsearthcover, orthophotography, raster, usa, virginia
Organization: Department of the Interior
SFCN Corridors of Invasiveness Shapefiles - Biscayne National Park (2021)

Shapefiles from the 2021 surveys

Tags: bisc, biscayne-national-park, corridors-of-invasiveness, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-invasive-species-invasive-exotic-plants, exotic-plants, invasive-plant-monitoring-dataset, invasive-plants, invasive-species, national-park-service, south-florida, south-florida-caribbean-network
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital shorelines for Bering Land Bridge National Preserve and Cape Krusenstern National Monument

Geospatial data for the Arctic Inventory and Monitoring Network (ARCN) Coastal Erosion Vital Sign monitoring program, updated in 2019. Shorelines digitized from four different imagery sources: (1) c. 1950, (2) c. 1980, and (3) 2003 aerial photographs, and (4) 2013-14 high-resolution satellite images. Stored as 1) ESRI Personal Geodatabases (*.mdb) in the format required to analyze using the US Geological Survey Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS), and 2) shapefile exports of all layers in the geodatabases. These layers include water lines (wl), erosion lines (el), and vegetation lines (vl) from each of the four sampling episodes listed above, plus the baselines and transects used in DSAS to make shoreline rate of change measurements. The outer shore line DSAS databases were created by Manley and Lestak and water lines digitized for the first 3 sampling episodes (https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2184176). L. Farquharson digitized the water line for the 4th sampling episode, added the new erosion line feature, and digitized the erosion line for all for sampling episodes. D. Swanson added new baselines and transects to sample the "inner shoreline" (lagoons) and digitized the vegetation line (vl) for all sampling episodes, and made minor edits to the erosion line data.

Tags: coastal, erosion, monitoring
Organization: Department of the Interior
LECL Lewis and Clark Expedition Historic Observation Locations

This layer represents locations of observations taken on the outbound journey of the Lewis and Clark Expedition as noted in the Lewis and Clark Journals. These locations were determined by James D. Harlan of the University of Missouri.

The Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail is approximately 4,900 miles long, extending from the Ohio River in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to the mouth of the Columbia River in Oregon, following both the outbound and inbound routes of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The trail connects 16 states (Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington, and Oregon) and was established by Congress in 1978 as part of the national trails system (NTS) as one of four original national historic trails. This trail commemorates the 1803-1806 expedition of Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery, which explored the Louisiana Territory and beyond. This epic journey contributed to significant scientific knowledge and profound political, social, economic, cultural, and environmental changes to the lands and the peoples of the North American continent.

Tags: corps-of-discovery, expedition, harlan, historic, history, james-d-harlan, lecl, lewis-and-clark, lewis-and-clark-national-historic-trail, lewis-and-clark-trail, louisiana-purchase, missouri-river, national-historic-trail, national-park-service, national-trails-system, nps, observations, park-atlas, waypoints
Organization: Department of the Interior
LECL Lewis and Clark Expedition Historic Channel of the Missouri River in 1804

This dataset represents the historic locations documented by Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery along the Missouri River during the 1804-1805 outbound journey of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. These locations were determined by James D. Harlan of the University of Missouri-Columbia.

The Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail is approximately 4,900 miles long, extending from the Ohio River in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to the mouth of the Columbia River in Oregon, following both the outbound and inbound routes of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The trail connects 16 states (Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington, and Oregon) and was established by Congress in 1978 as part of the national trails system (NTS) as one of four original national historic trails. This trail commemorates the 1803-1806 expedition of Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery, which explored the Louisiana Territory and beyond. This epic journey contributed to significant scientific knowledge and profound political, social, economic, cultural, and environmental changes to the lands and the peoples of the North American continent.

Tags: campsites, corps-of-discovery, expedition, harlan, historic, history, james-d-harlan, lecl, lewis-and-clark, lewis-and-clark-national-historic-trail, lewis-and-clark-trail, louisiana-purchase, missouri-river, national-historic-trail, national-park-service, national-trails-system, nps, park-atlas
Organization: Department of the Interior
Streamside bird monitoring in the Eastern Rivers and Mountains Network: 2007–2019 - Data and R code

Data and R code for the report https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2287583

Tags: allegheny-portage-railroad-national-historic-site, alpo, avian-conservation, bird-monitoring, blue, breeding-birds, eastern-rivers-and-mountains-network, ermn, long-term-population-trends, point-count-survey, streamside-bird
Organization: Department of the Interior