AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
USDA White Mountain National Forest Volume 1 (2014 - 2024)

This volume's release consists of 325099 media files captured by autonomous wildlife monitoring devices under the project, USDA White Mountain National Forest.  The attached files listed below include several CSV files that provide information about the data release.   The file, "media.csv" provides the metadata about the media, such as filename and date/time of capture.   The actual media files are housed within folders under the volume's "child items" as compressed files.   A critical CSV file is "dictionary.csv", which describes  each  CSV file, including field names, data types, descriptions, and the relationship of each field to fields in other CSV files.    Some of the media files may have been "tagged" or "annotated" by either humans or by machine learning models,  identifying wildlife targets within the media.  If so, this information is stored in  "annotations.csv" and "modeloutputs.csv", respectively.   To protect privacy, all personally identifiable information (PII) have been removed, locations have been "blurred" by bounding boxes, and media featuring sensitive taxa or humans have been omitted.   To enhance data reuse, the sbRehydrate() function in the AMMonitor R package will download files and re-create the original AMMonitor project (database + media files).  See source code at https://code.usgs.gov/vtcfwru/ammonitor.

Tags: alces-americanus-americanus, animal-tracking, biota, bonasa-umbellus, camera-trap, canis-latrans, canis-lupus, castor-canadensis, cathartes-aura, colaptes-auratus, conservation, corvus-brachyrhynchos, cyanocitta-cristata, dryocopus-pileatus, ecosystem-monitoring, environment, erethizon-dorsatus, field-inventory-and-monitoring, forest, lepus-americanus, lynx-canadensis, lynx-rufus, maine, management, martes-americana, meleagris-gallopavo, mephitis-mephitis, mustela-frenata, mustela-vison, new-hampshire, odocoileus-virginianus, ondatra-zibethicus, pekania-pennanti, poecile-atricapillus, procyon-lotor, sciurus-carolinensis, sylvilagus-floridanus, tamias-striatus, tamiasciurus-hudsonicus, time-series-datasets, turdus-migratorius, urocyon-cinereoargenteus, ursus-americanus, usgs-66520b7dd34e702fe87490d4, vertebrates, vulpes-vulpes, white-mountain-national-forest, wildlife, wildlife-biology
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data and Model Archive Summaries to Support Use of Continuous Water-Quality Time-Series Data to Compute Total Phosphorus Concentrations and Loads for the Missouri River at St. Joseph and Hermann, Missouri, 2007–22

This data release contains the R source code, inputs, and selected outputs associated with the turbidity-based regression models used to estimate total phosphorus concentrations and loads for the Missouri River at St. Joseph and Hermann, Missouri, for water years 2008–22. Additionally, the R source code, inputs, and selected outputs for LOADEST models used to estimate daily total phosphorus loads for the study period are included, as these loads were used for days when turbidity data was unavailable.

Tags: missouri, missouri-river, nutrient-content-water, surface-water-quality, total-phosphorus-transport, usgs-6650d61fd34e702fe8748a13
Organization: Department of the Interior
Database for the Assessment of natural reference materials for U-Pb geochronology of grossular-andradite garnet

Geochemical and isotopic data from the manuscript "Assessment of natural reference materials for U-Pb geochronology of grossular-andradite garnet" published in Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research. Table 1 is a summary of major and trace element geochemical characteristics of the three reference materials investigated in this study. Table 2 and Table 3 show the results of ID-TIMS analyses performed on each of the reference materials.

Tags: adirondack-mountains-new-york, biota, geochronology, id-tims, mcgee-mountain-california, prince-of-wales-island-alaska, usgs-6650cb8bd34e702fe8748985
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mid-Holocene-to-present Modeled (ca., 7,000 to 100 cal. BP) and Reconstructed (ca., 5,900 to 5,436 cal. BP) Temperature for the High-Elevations of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem: Derived from a Transient Climate Model and Whitebark Pine Tree-rings

In the Rocky Mountains of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (United States), recent melting at a high-elevation (3,091 m asl) ice patch exposed a mature stand of whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) trees located ~180 m above modern treeline dating to the mid-Holocene (c. 5,900-5,436 cal y BP +- 51 y). From this subfossil wood record, we contextualize the recent magnitude of warming relative to mid-Holocene conditions and reconstruct changes in climate that resulted in regional ice patch growth and reductions in treeline elevation. Specifically, we developed tree-ring based temperature estimates for subalpine treeline and compare and contextualize this record against a mid-Holocene-to-present (ca., 7,000 to 100 cal. BP) transient climate model.

Tags: biological-and-physical-processes, biota, carbon-14-analysis, climate-change, climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, environment, holocene, montana, north-america, snow-and-ice-cover, time-series-datasets, tree-ring-analysis, united-states, upper-yellowstone, usgs-6650b9fcd34e702fe874889f, wyoming, yellowstone
Organization: Department of the Interior
Complete female and male mitogenomes of the mucket mussel (Ortmanniana ligamentina)

Data include fasta files of full mitochondrial sequence data for the male and female mitotypes  of the mucket (Ortamannia ligamentina). These have been deposited in the NCBI database under BioSample Accession number SAMN39271813, SRA Accession  number  SRR27608898, and GenBank Accession numbers : PP103562 and PP103563.

Tags: biota, dna-sequencing, mollusks, usgs-66c4a7cfd34e03388288d5e6
Organization: Department of the Interior
Map data for a landslide inventory of the northwestern part of Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi

Vicksburg National Military Park (VICK) is in western Mississippi, situated on the loess bluffs flanking the Mississippi River. These bluffs are comprised of an accumulation of windblown silt-rich sediments, known as loess, which overlays the Oligocene Vicksburg Group. The loess deposits are thick (up to 30 meters) and easily eroded, creating deep ravines and steeply sloped elongated ridges that often have streams or wetlands within the ravines. This unique terrain played an integral part in the Siege of Vicksburg during the American Civil War in 1863. VICK was established by Congress in 1899 to commemorate the Siege and its associated battles, and to preserve the cultural heritage of the site.
In the present, VICK’s cultural resources and park infrastructure are severely at risk from erosion and landslide events. This dataset documents the extent and characteristics of the landslides that occurred prior to 2020 – when a significant precipitation-induced landslide event occurred. These ‘pre-existing’ landslides were mapped from lidar data collected between February 2009 and August 2010. Included in this data release are 6 separate shapefiles, 1 per map unit or landform: 2 landslide deposit map units (QMSF1_DEP and QMSF2_DEP), 2 other map units showing the extent of the upslope area affected by landslide movement (QMSF1_LAA and QMSF2_LAA), a map unit showing alluvial fans (QAF) that may be the result of rapid flows of silt-rich earth, and landslide scarps (SCARPS).
Any use of trade, firm, or product names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.

Tags: geospatial-datasets, landslide, slope-processes, usgs-66509e29d34e702fe8748861
Organization: Department of the Interior
NetMap Stream Reaches, Confluence to Confluence Streamlines, Reach Contributing Areas, and Reach Contributing Area Valley Bottoms for Major River Regions in the Yukon and Kuskokwim River Basins, Alaska

These collections of NetMap stream reaches, confluence-to-confluence streamlines, reach contributing areas, and reach contributing area valley bottoms within the YK basin are organized by major river region, and by HUC8 hydrologic units within those river regions. These files form the basis of the main data release items covering the entire YK basin, and were included as a separate zip files here for users with a specific area of interest who do not wish to download the entire YK dataset.
Attribute fields are identical to the YK dataset, and include uRCA fields for all HUC8-level features. The field representing the uRCA ID in the shapefile facilitates join operations between tables of various stream attribute data and habitat potential model results. These attributes can be used for further analysis and/or visualization in a GIS. Users who download spatial data for an individual region should therefore also download the tabular data for the full YK dataset to join model results. 
For detailed metadata for the files in each major river region zip, please reference metadata for analogous data items in the full YK dataset. Attributes, processing steps, and and other information will be identical, since the full YK dataset is simply the combination of all the individual files found in the major river region zips.

Tags: alaska, biota, boundaries, environment, inlandwaters, interior-alaska, kuskokwim-river, reach-contributing-area, synthetic-stream-network, usgs-66508f5ad34e702fe874881a, yukon-river
Organization: Department of the Interior
Urban tree cover provides consistent mitigation of extreme heat in arid but not humid cities - data release

Urban land cover types influence the urban microclimates. However, recent work indicates the magnitude of land cover’s microclimate influence is affected by aridity. Moreover, this variation in cooling and warming potentials of urban land cover types can substantially alter the exposure of urban areas to extreme heat. Our goal is to understand both the relative influences of urban land cover on local air temperature, as well as how these influences vary during periods of extreme heat. To do so we apply predictive machine learning models to an extensive in-situ microclimate and 1 m land cover dataset across eight U.S. cities spanning a wide aridity gradient during typical and extreme heat conditions. We demonstrate how the cooling influence of tree canopy and the warming influence of buildings on microclimate linearly scales with regional aridity, while the influence of turf and impervious surfaces does not. These interactions lead tree canopy to consistently mitigate to air temperature increases during periods extreme heat in arid cities, while the influence of urban tree canopy on extreme heat in humid regions is varied, suggesting that mitigation is possible, but tree canopy can also aggravate extreme heat or have no significant effect.

Tags: air-temperature, baltimore, denver, landcover, las-vegas, los-angeles, miami, multi-city, phoenix, portland, tree-canopy, tucson, united-states, urban-energy-balance, urban-heat, usgs-664fb9c9d34e702fe8748151
Organization: Department of the Interior
Tree growth at Redwood National Park from 1970 to 2015

This dataset describes tree growth and site characteristics for 26 monitoring plots in 3 sites in Redwood National Park in California, USA. One site (A972) was established and sampled in 2007, 2008, and 2013 (Dagley and others, 2023). Two sites (Holter Ridge and Whiskey 40) were established and sampled in 2009 (van Mantgem and Das, 2014). Six existing plots in the Holter Ridge and Whiskey 40 sites were resampled for this study in summer of 2014 and winter of 2015. Tree growth data represent basal area increments at core height. Site characteristics include treatment histories and harvest year. Plot characteristics for the resampled sites are also presented, including location, stand age since harvest, stand age at thinning (if applicable), elevation, slope, plot area, stem density (trees per hectare), and basal area (summed cross-sectional area of live stems per hectare).
References Cited
Dagley, C.M., Fisher, J., Teraoka, J., Powell, S., and Berrill, J.P., 2023. Heavy crown thinning in redwood/Douglas-fir gave superior forest restoration outcomes after 10 years. Can. J. For. Res. 53, 579–590. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2022-0214
van Mantgem, P., and Das, A., 2014. An individual-based growth and competition model for coastal redwood forest restoration. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 44(9), pp.1051-1057.

Tags: biota, tree-ring-analysis, usgs-664fa712d34e702fe8748117
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geomorphon landforms in the Bad River (Mashkiiziibii) Estuary, derived from 2019 lidar data

Landforms in the Bad River (Mashkiiziibii) Estuary were mapped with geomorphons, an automated terrain analysis method that classifies digital elevation model (DEM) cells into ten fundamental 3-dimensional geometric forms – summit, ridge, shoulder, spur, slope, hollow, footslope, valley, depression, and flat – based on the topography within the visibility neighborhood of each cell. The geomorphons were developed from a (DEM) comprising topographic and bathymetric data for the estuary, developed from elevation data collected by airborne topographic and bathymetric lidar and single-beam sonar. Resulting landform features were attributed with a variety of characteristics, including an array of morphometrics quantifying the detailed three-dimensional shape of each feature, and the hydrologic setting as characterized by the distance and orientation relative to the nearest National Hydrologic Dataset (NHD) river channel, and by the frequency and maximum depth of flooding according to an inundation mapping analysis. We used a subset of these attributes in a K-means multivariate statistical clustering analysis, identifying five groupings or process zones within the landform features, including river channels, leveed and un-leveed channel margins, estuary flats, and distal, convex-up features.

Tags: ashland-county, bad-river, chequamegon-bay, coastal-wetlands, elevation, environment, estuary, floods, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, kakagon-river, lake-superior, mashkiiziibii-river, sedimentation, usgs-664f5ec1d34e702fe8747eba, wisconsin
Organization: Department of the Interior
BEWARE2 database: A meta-process model to assess wave-driven flooding hazards on morphologically diverse, coral reef-lined coasts

This dataset contains the reef profiles and resulting hydrodynamic outputs of the "Broad-range Estimator of Wave Attack in Reef Environments" (BEWARE-2) meta-process modeling system. A process-based, wave-resolving hydrodynamic model (XBeach Non-Hydrostatic+, "XBNH+") was used to create a large synthetic database for use in BEWARE-2, relating incident hydrodynamics and coral reef geomorphology to coastal flooding hazards on reef-lined coasts. Building on previous work, BEWARE-2 improves system understanding of reef hydrodynamics by examining the intrinsic reef and extrinsic forcing factors controlling runup and flooding on reef-lined coasts. We developed this meta-process model using a training dataset of hydrodynamics and wave runup computed by XBNH+ for 440 combinations of water level, wave height, and wave period on 195 morphologically diverse representative reef profiles. In validation, the BEWARE-2 modeling system produced runup results that had a root-mean square error of 0.63 m and bias of 0.26 m, relative to runup of 0.17 to 20.9 m simulated by XBNH+ for a large range of oceanographic forcing conditions and for a diverse reef morphologies. This relatively accurate solution is provided by the BEWARE-2 modeling system 4 to 5 orders of magnitude faster than the full, process-based hydrodynamic model and could therefore be integrated in large-scale early-warning systems for tropical, reef-lined coasts, as well as used for large-scale flood risk assessments.
These data accompany the following publication: McCall, R.T., Storlazzi, C.D., Roelvink, F.E., Pearson, S.G., de Goede, R., Antolinez, J., 2024, Rapid simulation of wave runup on morphologically-diverse, reef-lined coasts with the BEWARE-2 meta-process model: Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-2024-28.

Tags: cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, coastal-processes, coral-reefs, flooding, geoscientificinformation, hazards, numerical-modeling, oceans, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, reef, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-66c4c1fcd34e03388288f885, water-column-features, water-level, waves
Organization: Department of the Interior
Survey of sites for the presence of the nonindigenous benthic foraminifera Trochammina hadai along the west coast of North America from 1930 to 2024 (ver. 2.0, May 2025)

Results of a survey of samples collected from 1930 to 2024 along the west coast of the United States from Alaska to San Diego, California as well as Honolulu, Hawaii for the presence of the Asian nonindigenous benthic foraminifera Trochammina hadai.

Tags: animals, benthic-foraminifera, british-columbia, canada, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, environment, foraminifera, fragile-ecosystems, geoscientificinformation, habitat, oceans, organisms, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pacific-ocean, pcmsc, protists, state-of-alaska, state-of-california, state-of-hawaii, state-of-oregon, state-of-washington, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-664e545dd34e702fe87458f7
Organization: Department of the Interior
Particle-size distributions for streambed sediment in two Maumee River tributaries, July 2019

The Maumee River network contributes a significant amount of total phosphorus (P), including both sediment-bound P (sed-P) and dissolved P, to the Western Lake Erie Basin. Most Maumee River headwater streams are agricultural, with conservation management focused on limiting sediment and nutrient transport from cropland to the stream network. However, several studies have shown streambank erosion to be another source of suspended sediment in these streams. This data release is comprised of four tables with data related to particle-size distribution and resultant estimate of sed-P mass based on streambed-sediment stored in the Black Creek, IN (U.S. Geological Survey number 04183038) and Little Flatrock Creek, OH (04191444) stream networks in July 2019. Data included provided for extrapolation from described reaches to the entire network upstream of the gage.

Tags: allen-county, auglaize-river, black-creek, earth-material-properties, environment, field-sampling, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, hydrology, indiana, land-use-and-land-cover, little-flatrock-creek, ohio, paulding-county, sediment-transport, sedimentology, soil-sciences, streambed-material, upper-maumee-river, usgs-664e3f2ad34e702fe874589d, western-lake-erie
Organization: Department of the Interior
Peak Streamflow, Peak Stage, and Annual Exceedance Probability Data of the July 2023 Flood in Vermont

A major rain event caused catastrophic flooding from July 9 through 12, 2023 in various portions of the State of Vermont, resulting in millions of dollars of damage.  This is one of 3 datasets in a data release that documents the flood data and analyses.  This part of the data release contains the peak streamflow and lake level data resulting from the July 9 through 12, 2023 flooding as well as the flood-frequency analysis that was completed implementing the Bulletin 17C guidelines (https://doi.org/10.3133/tm4B5). 
Flood flows were estimated for the 50-, 20-, 10-, 4-, 2-, 1-, 0.5-, and 0.2-percent annual exceedance probabilities (AEPs) for all streamgages operated in Vermont by the USGS where data was collected. This data release presents frequency analyses for 80 streamgages and 2 lake gages in Vermont and an additional 6 sites where peak streamflows were determined using indirect measurement techniques. The data release contains the input and output files for the version 7.5.1 PeakFQ software (https://water.usgs.gov/software/PeakFQ/; Veilleux and others, 2014) used to conduct flood-frequency analyses using the expected moments algorithm (England and others, 2018). The peak-flow files used as input to PeakFQ were obtained from the USGS National Water Information System (NWIS) database (https://nwis.waterdata.usgs.gov/usa/nwis/peak) and incorporate annual peak flows through water year 2023. Results of the flood-frequency analyses at streamgages that had unregulated peak streamflows were weighted with regional flood-frequency regression equation results (Olson, 2014). The flood frequency for the two lake gages was estimated using HEC-SSP version 2.2 (https://www.hec.usace.army.mil/software/hec-ssp/) because the software allows flood frequency analysis without logarithmic transformation of the data.
In addition to the input and output for the PeakFQ software, this data release has four Excel tables summarizing the flood data, the flood frequency results, and a summary table of information describing the data and analysis for each streamgage.

Tags: flood, flood-frequency, peak-flows, usgs-664e23efd34e702fe8744b3c
Organization: Department of the Interior
Annual National Land Cover Database (NLCD) Collection 1 Impervious Descriptor

The USGS Land Cover program has combined the tried-and-true methodologies from premier land cover projects, National Land Cover Database (NLCD) and Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection (LCMAP), together with modern innovations in geospatial deep learning technologies to create the next generation of land cover and land change information. The product suite is called, “Annual NLCD” and includes six annual products that represent land cover and surface change characteristics of the U.S.:
1) Land Cover,
2) Land Cover Change,
3) Land Cover Confidence,
4) Fractional Impervious Surface,
5) Impervious Descriptor, and
6) Spectral Change Day of Year.
These land cover science product algorithms harness the remotely sensed Landsat data record to provide state-of-the-art land surface change information needed by scientists, resource managers, and decision-makers. Annual NLCD uses a modernized, integrated approach to map, monitor, synthesize, and understand the complexities of land use, cover, and condition change. With this first release, Annual NLCD, Collection 1.0, the six products are available for the Conterminous U.S. for 1985 – 2023. 
Questions about the Annual NLCD product suite can be directed to the Annual NLCD mapping team at USGS EROS, Sioux Falls, SD (605) 594-6151 or custserv@usgs.gov. See included spatial metadata for more details.

Tags: analysis-ready-data-ard, change-detection, conus, digital-spatial-data, earth-observations, environment, geographic-information-science-gis, image-processing, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-cover, landsat, time-series, u-s-geological-survey-usgs, united-states, usa, usgs-664e0db2d34e702fe874457d
Organization: Department of the Interior