AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Monarch Butterfly Relevant Land Cover Data Set for the Conterminous United States of America

The USGS Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center developed a Monarch Butterfly Relevant Land Cover data set covering the conterminous United States of America.  This data set was used primarily to assist in forecasting the number of milkweed stems on the landscape.  Milkweed are required by monarch butterflies for reproduction and one possible cause for the decline in monarch butterfly numbers is thought to be the loss of milkweed.  We used the Cropland Data Layer 2015 as well as additional spatially explicit information to develop the monarch relevant land cover data set.  Additional sources of information included 2014 United States Department of Agriculture Conservation Reserve Program enrollment locations; railroad, power line, and road rights of way; marginal versus productive farmland as determined by the 2012 United States Department of Agriculture National Commodity Cropland Productivity Index; and a characterization of urban versus outside urban environs.  Due to the inherent sensitivity of the Conservation Reserve Program and Transmission line data sets, we created this non-sensitive version of the Monarch Butterfly Relevant Land Cover data set for distribution with those two data sets not used in the development.

Tags: butterfly, land-use-and-land-cover, milkweed, monarch, usgs-5cd5c954e4b0e8a309e462a7
Organization: Department of the Interior
2010 Monarch Relevant Land Cover Data Set for Mexico

The USGS Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center developed a Monarch Relevant Land Cover data set covering the area of Mexico.  We used the 2010 land cover data set produced by the tri-national North American Land Change Monitoring System (NALCMS) and supported by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) that depicts year 2010 land cover across North America at 30-meter spatial resolution, and incorporated additional spatially-explicit information to develop this land cover map. Additional sources of information included 2004 railroad data provided by Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía and the CEC, 2011 roads data provided by Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía, 2017 protected areas data provided by the CEC, and 2006 Mexico municipalities data provided by Sistemas de Información Geográfica.

Tags: butterfly, land-use-and-land-cover, monarch, usgs-5cd5c7d4e4b0e8a309e4629f
Organization: Department of the Interior
PNW_core_files_metadata

This metadata file describes four comma separated values (csv) file that are the findings of the Pacific Northwest region. The files list the site identification number, the p-value, percent change, water year, median before the change point, median after the change point, primary attribution, secondary attribution, level of evidence, and attribution notes and citations.

Tags: datasets, flooding, peak-flow, trends, usgs-5cd5be63e4b0e8a309e46234
Organization: Department of the Interior
UP_core_files_metadata

Comma separated values (csv) file that are the findings of the Upper Plains region. The files list the site identification number, the p-value, percent change, water year, median before the change point, median after the change point, primary attribution, secondary attribution, level of evidence, and attribution notes and citations.

Tags: datasets, flooding, peak-flow, trends, usgs-5cd5be55e4b0e8a309e46232
Organization: Department of the Interior
NE_core_files_metadata

A comma separated values (csv) file of data used to support attribution of trends and change points in annual peak streamflows observed at gages in the Northeast region. The file includes USGS gage identification and location information, developed land cover and basin storage data, correlation results between annual peak magnitudes and precipitation and Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI), and trend and change point results for precipitation and PDSI.

Tags: datasets, flooding, peak-flow, trends, usgs-5cd5bdf7e4b0e8a309e46221
Organization: Department of the Interior
2010 Monarch Relevant Land Cover Data Set for Canada

The USGS Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center developed a Monarch Relevant Land Cover data set covering the area of Canada.  We used the 2010 land cover data set produced by the tri-national North American Land Change Monitoring System (NALCMS) and supported by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) that depicts year 2010 land cover across North America at 30-meter spatial resolution, and incorporated additional spatially-explicit information to develop this land cover map. Additional sources of information included 2004 railroad data provided by The Atlas of Canada and the CEC, 2017 roads data provided by Statistics Canada, 2017 protected areas data provided by the CEC, and 2016 Canada provincial/territory boundary file data provided by Statistics Canada.

Tags: butterfly, land-use-and-land-cover, monarch, usgs-5cd5bba6e4b0e8a309e46206
Organization: Department of the Interior
Temperature Records for Empirical Evaluation of the UMRS Floodplain Inundation Model

Hourly ambient temperature data were collected as part of an effort to empirically evaluate the Upper Mississippi River System inundation model. The goal of this sampling effort was to document inundation through space and time at a limited number of sites but across the range of flow conditions experienced throughout the 2017 growing season. We used temperature data loggers (Onset HOBO Pendant Temperature Data Loggers, model #UA-001-08) to record hourly ambient temperatures at the floodplain’s surface for subsequent analysis of hourly and diurnal flux patterns that would indicate likely submergence. Temperature loggers were deployed in two separate sites within six study segments (Pools 4, 8, 13, 26, La Grange, and a section of the Open River); three sites were used in Pool 26 due to the complexity of the segment. Sites were selected to represent areas expected to exhibit contrasting levels of model performance due to model assumptions regarding hydrologic coupling. Temperature loggers were programmed to record hourly observations and were deployed along three parallel transects at each site. Transects were oriented orthogonal to the water’s edge and traversed the site’s local elevation gradient. Five loggers per transect (total of 15 per site) were installed along the ground using spacing designed to capture the full range of elevational change. Two additional loggers were installed as controls at most sites to monitor ambient air and water temperatures. Loggers remained in the field between 87 and 120 days across depending on logistical, weather, and personnel constraints of assisting field crews. Logger temperature records were downloaded upon retrieval from the field.

Tags: biota, connectivity, hydrology, temperature, time-series, upper-mississippi-river-system, upper-mississippi-river-system-la-grange-pool, upper-mississippi-river-system-open-river, upper-mississippi-river-system-pool-13, upper-mississippi-river-system-pool-26, upper-mississippi-river-system-pool-4, upper-mississippi-river-system-pool-8, usgs-5cd5b042e4b0e8a309e4615c
Organization: Department of the Interior
AZ Winter Sparrow Transect Survey Data 1999 to 2005

This dataset provides the winter bird transect survey data collected on seven sites in southeastern Arizona during the winters (January - March) of 1999-2001; and for two of those seven sites during the winters of 2003-2005.

Tags: biota, birds, desert-grasslands, grassland-birds, grassland-ecosystems, usgs-5cd5b01be4b0e8a309e4615a, winter
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hydrogeochemical data for the characterization of stream, groundwater, and beaver-induced floodplain exchange in the East River Science Focus Area, Crested Butte, CO

The U.S. Geological Survey, along with scientists from Rutgers University, collected water chemistry, electromagnetic, redox-potential, dissolved oxygen, water flow rate, and water temperature data along stream and river corridors in multiple sub-watersheds of the East River Science Focus Area (SFA) near Crested Butte, CO. The concept of ‘river corridor’ science recognizes that the quality of flowing surface waters is intrinsically linked to their contributing catchments through hydrologic connectivity, including lower terrestrial hillslopes, floodplains, and riparian zones. Bidirectional river-floodplain exchange in particular can be critical to basin water storage and nutrient transformation dynamics, yet floodplain hydrologic exchange flows are often driven primarily by episodic high-flow events or relatively slow-exchanging, long hyporheic flowpaths. Beaver (Castor canadensis) disrupt these abiotic floodplain exchange drivers by actively diverting large quantities of channel water laterally using an engineered series of dams, impacting both wet and dry season floodplain connection. As beaver ponds and seepage zones accompanying beaver activity often exhibit suboxic to hypoxic conditions, there is the potential to mobilize reduced metals from alluvial sediments to streams and rivers. The data contained in this release can be used to assess beaver-induced physical and chemical river-floodplain exchange.

Tags: colorado, east-river-science-focus-area-sfa, environment, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, groundwater, groundwater-and-surface-water-interaction, gunnison-county, gunnison-national-forest, hydrogeology, hydrology, inlandwaters, seepage, surface-water, surface-water-non-marine, thermal-imaging, usgs-5cd59cbae4b0e8a309e4604a, water-temperature
Organization: Department of the Interior
Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Project 49 Fox River Basin 2016 and 2017 Data

The Fox River transports elevated loads of nitrogen and phosphorus to Lake Michigan. The increased concentration of N and P causes eutrophication of the lake, creating hypoxic zones and damaging the lake ecosystem.To decrease loading, best management practices (BMPs) have been implemented in the uplands of the basin. Little work has been done, however, to reduce nutrient concentrations in the river. Rivers are capable of removing nutrients through biotic uptake and sediment burial and are able to remove N through denitrification. Identifying and managing these locations of increased nutrient cycling known as “hot spots” may be another mechanism for nutrient mitigation.Our objective was to identify hot spots of N and P cycling in the Fox River basin. We measured rates of specific biogeochemical processes (e.g. ambient and potential denitrification, and sediment phosphorus uptake and release) at sites that had varying mixed land use. We also measured variables that are known to affect nitrogen and phosphorus cycling. Models were created to estimate how land use type and BMP coverage can effect the capacity of the Fox River and its tributaries to retain and cycle N and P.

Tags: agriculture, best-management-practices, biota, denitrification, eastern-wisconsin, eutrophication, fox-river-basin, green-bay, lake-michigan, nitrogen, phosphorus, phosphorus-sediment-uptake, usgs-5cd590cce4b0e8a309e46020
Organization: Department of the Interior
Baseflow estimation and hydroclimatic data input details for the Upper Rio Grande, 1980 to 2015

Understanding how changing climatic conditions affect streamflow volume and timing is critical for effective water management. In the Rio Grande Basin of the southwest U.S., decreasing snowpack, increasing minimum temperatures, and decreasing streamflow have been observed in recent decades, but the effects of hydroclimatic changes on baseflow, or groundwater discharge to streams, have not been investigated. The dataset created in this data release was used to help support a study to determine how trends in precipitation, snowpack accumulation, and snowmelt rate relate to streamflow, baseflow, and the hydrologic partitioning of baseflow and runoff at 12 sites in the Upper Rio Grande Basin (URGB) during 1980 to 2015. Streamflow was partitioned into baseflow and runoff components at a daily time step using conductivity mass balance hydrograph separation. Trends in annual streamflow, baseflow, runoff, baseflow index, precipitation, snowmelt rate, and peak snow water equivalent (SWE) were evaluated from 1980 to 2015 using the non-parametric Mann-Kendall trend test.

Tags: abiquiu-reservoir, alamosa, alamosa-county, albuquerque, archuleta-county, bernalillo-county, chama, cochiti-lake, colorado, conejos-county, costilla-county, del-norte, espanola, groundwater, groundwater-and-surface-water-interaction, heron-reservoir, hinsdale-county, hydrographic-datasets, hydrologic-processes, hydrology, los-alamos-county, mckinley-county, mineral-county, monte-vista, mora-county, new-mexico, precipitation, red-river, regressional-analysis, rio-arriba-county, rio-chama, rio-grande, rio-grande-county, rio-puerco, runoff, saguache-county, san-juan-county, sandoval-county, santa-fe, santa-fe-county, snow-and-ice-cover, statistical-analysis, streamflow, surface-water, taos, taos-county, time-series-analysis, time-series-datasets, united-states-of-america, usgs-5cd498ffe4b062989a9e95b6, water-budget, water-cycle, water-properties, water-resources, water-supply-and-demand
Organization: Department of the Interior
Time-series of biogeochemical and flow data from a tidal salt-marsh creek, Sage Lot Pond, Waquoit Bay, Massachusetts, 2012-2016 (ver. 2.0, July 2023)

Extended time-series sensor data were collected between 2012 and 2016 in surface water of a tidal salt-marsh creek on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The objective of this field study was to measure water chemical characteristics and flows, as part of a study to quantify lateral fluxes of dissolved carbon species between the salt marsh and estuary. Data consist of in-situ measurements including salinity, temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen, redox potential, fluorescent dissolved organic matter, turbidity, chlorophyll and dissolved carbon dioxide (pCO2). Surface water flow, water level and water elevation data were also measured. The data provided in this release represent a compiled data set consisting of multiple sensor deployments between 2012 and 2016.

Tags: acoustic-doppler-current-profiling, barnstable-county, biochemistry, cape-cod, carbon-flux, chlorophyll, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, commonwealth-of-massachusetts, dissolved-carbon-dioxide, dissolved-gases, dissolved-organic-matter, falmouth, inlandwaters, low-and-intermediate-salt-marsh, oceans, sage-lot-pond, salinity, salt-marshes, surface-water-level, time-series-datasets, turbidity, usgs-5cd475e6e4b062989a9e94e8, waquoit-bay, water-chemistry, water-properties, water-quality, water-temperature, wetland-ecosystems, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
High Pine and Scrub: Urbanization and Sea Level Rise Scenarios

Understanding how ecological and cultural resources may change in the future is an important component of conservation planning and for the implementation of long-term environmental monitoring. We modeled six future scenarios of urbanization and sea level rise to investigate their potential effects on the Peninsular Florida Landscape Conservation Cooperative's Priority Resources (PFLCC 2016), which were identified as important for conservation through a cooperative multi-partner effort to prioritize conservation efforts on a state-wide scale. These data represent conservation targets for the High Pine and Scrub at present, and under six future scenarios of sea level rise and urbanization.

Tags: biota, cities, ecosystem-management, ecosystem-monitoring, effects-of-climate-change, environment, florida, land-use-change, natural-resource-management, north-america, sea-level-change, southeast-united-states, usgs-5ce445b3e4b0654fe0bce624
Organization: Department of the Interior
Point locations of daily flow rates in the Canadian River watershed derived from hydrologic modeling 1994-2013

The development of a hydrologic foundation, essential for advancing our understanding of flow-ecology relationships, was accomplished using the high-resolution physics-based distributed rainfall-runoff model Vflo. We compared the accuracy and bias associated with flow metrics that were generated using Vflo at both a daily and monthly time step in the Canadian River basin, USA. First, we calibrated and applied bias correction to the Vflo model to simulate streamflow at ungaged catchment locations. Next, flow metrics were calculated using both simulated and observed data from stream gage locations. We found discharge predictions using Vflo were more accurate than using drainage area ratios. General correspondence between predicted discharge and the gage data was apparent; however, flow metrics calculated using the Vflo output did not accurately represent flow variability. 
This work was part of a multidisciplinary project describing water quality, streamflow and runoff, and ecology of the Canadian River Basin from northeastern New Mexico to Lake Eufaula, Oklahoma. This study was done in cooperation with the South Central Climate Adaptation Science Center.

Tags: biota, distributed-modeling, hydro-ecology, hydrology, mathematical-modeling, precipitation-atmospheric, stream-discharge, streamflow, usgs-5cd4491de4b062989a9e92ea, vflo
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mariana common moorhen (Gallinula chloropus guami) blood and tissue sample collection data, 2000-2001

This data set describes blood and tissue samples collected from Mariana common moorhens from 2000-2001 in Guam and Saipan.

Tags: biogeography, biota, dispersal-organisms, dna-sequencing, environment, freshwater-ecosystems, genetic-diversity, genetic-structure, guam, habitat-alteration-and-disturbance, microsatellites, migration-organisms, mitochondrial-dna, northern-mariana-islands, saipan, specimen-collecting, usgs-5cd34e02e4b09b8c0b7a5da4
Organization: Department of the Interior
Minisparker seismic-reflection data of field activity F-02-07-NC collected offshore San Mateo County, California, from 2007-03-22 to 2007-04-06

High-resolution single-channel minisparker seismic-reflection data were collected by the U.S. Geological Survey in March and April 2007 from San Francisco to San Gregorio, offshore San Mateo County, California. Data were collected aboard the R/V Fulmar, during field activity F-02-07-NC. Minisparker data were collected using a SIG 2-mille minisparker sound source combined with a single-channel streamer, and recorded with a Triton SB-Logger.

Tags: bathymetry-and-elevation, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, elevation, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, marine-geophysics, north-pacific-ocean, oceans, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pacific-ocean, pcmsc, san-francisco, san-gregorio, san-mateo-county, seismic-reflection-profiling, state-of-california, sub-bottom-profiling, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-5cd33a36e4b09b8c0b7a5d82
Organization: Department of the Interior
Streamflow Gain and Loss Data Used in the Pecos River Basin Salinity Assessment from Santa Rosa Lake, New Mexico to the Confluence of the Pecos River and the Rio Grande, Texas, 2015

This part of the data release contains historical streamflow data compiled from the literature and evaporation loss estimates used in the streamflow gain loss equation.

Tags: andrews-county, aquifer, avalon-lake, black-river, blue-hole, brantley-lake, brewster-county, chaves-county, crane-county, crockett-county, culberson-county, curry-county, debaca-county, delaware-river, ector-county, eddy-county, el-rito-creek, environment, geochemistry, geoscientificinformation, guadalupe-county, hydrogeology, independence-creek, inlandwaters, jeff-davis-county, lake-amistad, lake-sumner, lea-county, lincoln-county, live-oak-creek, loving-county, mora-county, new-mexico, north-seven-rivers, otero-county, pecos-county, pecos-river, presidio-county, quay-county, reagan-county, red-bluff-reservoir, reeves-county, rio-felix, rio-grande, rio-hondo, rio-penasco, roosevelt-county, salinity, salt-creek-n-mex, salt-creek-tex, san-miguel-county, santa-fe-county, santa-rosa-lake, south-seven-rivers, surface-water, surface-water-quality, taiban-creek, tecolote-creek, terrell-county, texas, torrance-county, upton-county, usgs-5cd339e3e4b09b8c0b7a5d7d, val-verde-county, ward-county, water-quality, water-resources, winkler-county
Organization: Department of the Interior
Forest structure, regeneration, and soil data to support mangrove forest damage assessment on St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands, from Hurricane Irma (2018-2019)

These data support efforts to assess mangrove forest structural response to Hurricane Irma. Data were collected from within Virgin Islands National Park in St John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Datasets include measurements of forest inventory and vitality status, woody debris, regeneration assessment, and organic soil carbon.

Tags: forest-monitoring, hurricane-irma, hurricanes, recovery, st-john-u-s-virgin-islands, tidal-mangrove-forest, usgs-5cd30056e4b09b8c0b7a5c8d, virgin-islands-national-park
Organization: Department of the Interior
Airborne electromagnetic and magnetic survey, western Hualapai Indian Reservation near Grand Canyon West and Peach Springs, Arizona, 2018

Airborne electromagnetic (AEM) and magnetic survey data were collected during March 2018 along 1,637 line line-kilometers over the western Hualapai Indian Reservation and surrounding areas.  The survey was conducted as part of a study of the groundwater resources of the Truxton basin and Hualapai Plateau. The survey was designed to improve the understanding of the geometry of the major hydrostratigraphic contacts of the study area. Data were acquired by SkyTEM ApS with the SkyTEM 312 time-domain helicopter-borne electromagnetic system together with a Geometrics G822A cesium vapor magnetometer. The survey was flown at a nominal flight height of 30 meters (m) above terrain along block-style lines with a nominal spacing of 1 kilometer (km) over the Truxton Basin and 4 km over the Hualapai Plateau. Due to terrain complexity, the mean flight height was about 53 m. The AEM depth of investigation varies with subsurface resistivity, typical maximum depth of investigation occurs between 150 and 600 m.
This data release includes minimally processed (raw) AEM and magnetic data, fully processed AEM data used for resistivity model development, and 32-layer laterally constrained inverted resistivity models.

Tags: aeromagnetic-surveying, arizona, arizona-water-science-center, azwsc, electromagnetic-surveying, environment, geologic-structure, geology-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, gggsc, grand-canyon, grand-canyon-west-airport, groundwater, hualapai-indian-reservation, hualapai-plateau, hurricane-fault, hydrogeology, mohave-county, music-mountains, peach-springs, resistivity, truxton, truxton-basin, usgs-5cd20cf0e4b09b8c0b7a59c9
Organization: Department of the Interior
Datasets for the 2015 potentiometric surface and water-level changes (2011-2013, 2013-2015) in the Sparta-Memphis aquifer, in Arkansas

The groundwater-level change maps for the Sparta-Memphis aquifer are constructed as a point-to-point comparison between wells measured in both 2013 and 2015. Wells not measured in both 2013 and 2015 were not included in the change maps construction. The 2013-2015 change map contains 241 corresponding wells. Groundwater-level differences were calculated by subtracting 2013 groundwater-level measurements, in feet below land surface from the 2015 groundwater-level measurements, in feet below land surface.

Tags: aquifer, arkansas, effects-of-groundwater-extraction, geoscientificinformation, groundwater, groundwater-flow, groundwater-level, hydrogeology, mississippi-embayment-aquifer-system, sparta-memphis-aquifer, usgs-5cddc0b2e4b0292737463847, water-resources
Organization: Department of the Interior