AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Preliminary estimated annual agricultural pesticide use for counties of the conterminous United States, 2019

This data release provides preliminary estimates of annual agricultural use of pesticide compounds in counties of the conterminous United States, for the year 2019, compiled by means of methods described in Thelin and Stone (2013) and Baker and Stone (2015). For all States except California, U.S. Department of Agriculture county-level data for harvested-crop acreage were used in conjunction with proprietary Crop Reporting District-level pesticide-use data to estimate county-level pesticide use. Where Crop Reporting District data were not available or were incomplete, estimated pesticide-use values were calculated with two different methods, resulting in a low and a high estimate based on different assumptions about missing survey data (Thelin and Stone, 2013).
Pesticide-use data for California were obtained from the California Department of Pesticide Regulation Pesticide Use Reporting (DPR–PUR) database (California Department of Pesticide Regulation, written commun., 2020). The California county data were appended after the estimation process was completed for the rest of the Nation.
Preliminary estimates in this dataset may be revised upon availability of updated crop acreages in the 2022 Agricultural Census, expected to be published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 2024. Estimates of annual agricultural pesticide use are provided as downloadable, tab-delimited files, organized by compound, year, state Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) code, county FIPS code, and amount in kilograms. Tables of annual agricultural pesticide-use estimates beginning in 1992 are available for download on the Pesticide National Synthesis Project webpage: https://doi.org/doi:10.5066/F7NP22KM. Beginning in 2019, estimates are reported for a reduced number of compounds.
References cited:
Baker, N.T., and Stone, W.W., 2015, Estimated annual agricultural pesticide use for counties of the conterminous United States, 2008–12: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 907, 9 p., accessed July 12, 2015, at https://doi.org/10.3133/ds907.
Thelin, G.P., and Stone, W.W., 2013, Estimation of annual agricultural pesticide use for counties of the conterminous United States, 1992–2009: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2013–5009, 54 p., accessed July 12, 2015, at http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2013/5009/.

Tags: agriculture, census-of-agriculture, crop-reporting-district, crops, environment, geoscientificinformation, inlandwaters, national-water-quality-program, nawqa, pesticide, pesticide-use, usgs-6081a924d34e8564d68661a1, water, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital database of the previously published map showing geology, structure, and oil and gas fields in the Sterling 1 degree x 2 degrees quadrangle, Colorado, Nebraska, and Kansas

This release contains geospatial data digitized from the Map Showing Geology, Structure, and Oil and Gas Fields in the Sterling 1x2 Degree Quadrangle, Colorado, Nebraska, and Kansas (Scott, 1978) and was compiled as part of the National Geologic Synthesis project. The geospatial data depicts the geology of this quadrangle, which is dominated by Quaternary alluvial and aeolian deposits overlying Tertiary and Cretaceous sedimentary rock, including the Ogallala formation, the Fox Hills sandstone, and the Pierre shale.
The included database includes spatial data depicting the locations of mapped geologic contacts and faults, polygons denoting the mapped surficial extent of geologic formations, and structural contours denoting the depth to the top of the D sandstone of the Dakota Group.  The database also contains non-spatial tables, including a list of data sources, a description of map units, a glossary of terms, and a data dictionary.

Tags: arikaree-formation, colorado, farming, federal-geographic-data-committee, fox-hills-sandstone, gems, geologic-contacts, geologic-map-schema, geologic-maps, geoscientificinformation, high-plains-aquifer, kansas, laramie-formation, national-cooperative-geologic-map-program, national-geologic-synthesis-program, national-geologic-synthesis-project, ncgmp, nebraska, ngs, ogallala-formation, pierre-shale, platte-river, sterling, us-geoframework-initiative, usgi, usgs-62ec2088d34eacf539724eaf, white-river-group
Organization: Department of the Interior
Capo Verde, Land Use Land Cover 2013

This dataset is the second (2013) of two 500-meter land use land cover (LULC) time-periods datasets (2000, and 2013) aids in monitoring change in West Africa’s land resources. To monitor and map these changes, a 26 general LULC class system was used. The classification system that was developed was primarily inspired by the “Yangambi Classification” (Trochain, 1957). This fairly broad class system for LULC was used because the classes can be readily identified on Landsat satellite imagery. A visual photo-interpretation approach was used to identify and map the LULC classes represented on Landsat images. The Rapid Land Cover Mapper (RLCM) was used to facilitate the photo-interpretation using Esri’s ArcGIS Desktop ArcMap software. Citation: Trochain, J.-L., 1957, Accord interafricain sur la définition des types de végétation de l’Afrique tropicale: Institut d’études centrafricaines.

Tags: biota, cape-verde, capo-verde, cenozoic, holocene, land-cover, land-use, land-use-classes, landcover, landuse, phanerozoic, usgs-5edff5c182ce7e579c70894d
Organization: Department of the Interior
Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park, insect biomass data 2014

We examined habitat use and foraging activity of the endangered Hawaiian hoary bat (Lasiurus cinereus semotus), as well as nocturnal aerial insect abundance at Kaloko-Honōkohau National Historical Park located in the coastal region of Kailua-Kona, Hawai‘i Island. The study area covers approximately 486 ha of marine waters and terrestrial coastal plains. Nocturnal aerial insect collection occurred in January and April (2 or 3 nights each) and in July and November (1 or 2 nights each) in 2014. Insects were collected at three stations (KAHO1, KAHO3, KAHO4) between 1 and 10 m above sea level. Nocturnal aerial insects were collected using a 22 W UV light placed above a funnel and bucket trap (Model #2851M, Bioquip Products Inc., Rancho Dominguez, CA) and powered by a 12 V marine deep cycle battery. Insect traps were placed near (~10 m) KAHO1 and KAHO3 (wooded shorelines) and KAHO4 (xeric, vegetated lava field). Timers turned the lights on at approximately one hour before local sunset and off at approximately one hour after local sunrise. Insects were removed from the traps at approximately 00:00 and 06:00, and preserved in ethyl alcohol (EtOH). Insect samples were counted and identified to taxonomic order under a dissecting microscope (Leica MS5, Leica Microsystems Inc., Wetzlar, DE). Samples were dried in a drying oven for approximately 48 hours at 65 C and weighed on an analytical scale.

Tags: biota, coleoptera, diptera, hawaiian-hoary-bat, insects, isoptera, lepidoptera, prey-base, usgs-5cf7093de4b0d63728b9b804
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, 2015 and 2018 Site 0694 land-water matrix

Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring to determine the efficacy of these projects. The Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) was developed to assist in a multiple-reference approach that uses aspects of hydrogeomorphic functional assessments and probabilistic sampling for monitoring. The CRMS program includes a suite of approximately 390 sites that encompass the range of hydrological and ecological conditions for each stratum. As part of CRMS, land and water classifications are created from Digital Orthophoto Quarter Quadrangles (DOQQs) approximately every three years at all CRMS sites. This dataset consists of a matrix of five land-water products (2005, 2008, 2012, YYYY and 2018).  The resulting matrix has 32 possible classes defined by the combination of land and water categories on those five dates.

Tags: alteration-of-wetland-habitats, cartography, coastal, coastal-louisiana, crms, doqq, emergent-wetland, forested-wetland, geographic-information-system, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-water, louisiana, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, scrub-shrub-wetland, state-of-louisiana, usgs-611f142bd34e40dd9c01d2b3, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Magnetotelluric data from Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Illinois, and Kentucky, 2016-2019, station rfr321

This dataset consists of 127 wideband and 21 long-period magnetotelluric (MT) stations collected from 2016-2019 across parts of Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Illinois, and Kentucky. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) acquired these data as part of regional investigations into the geologic and tectonic framework of the area and to support mineral resource and geologic hazard investigations. These data have been used to generate a 3D regional conductivity model of the area. Files included in this publication include measured electric- and magnetic-field time series as well as estimated impedance and vertical-magnetic field transfer functions. The data included here are for MT station rfr321 in the Reelfoot Rift survey region. A shapefile with station information for all stations in this dataset is available at https://doi.org/10.5066/P9F7HFH7.

Tags: apparent-resistivity, arkansas, conductivity, electromagnetic-surveying, exploration, geologic-structure, geology-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, gggsc, illinois, impedance, kentucky, magnetic-field-earth, magnetotelluric-surveying, magnetotellurics, mineral-resources, mineral-resources-program, mississippi-embayment, missouri, mrp, mt, ozark-plateau, phanerozoic, phase, precambrian, quaternary, reelfoot-rift, saint-francois-mountains, tectonics, tennessee, time-series, tipper, usgs-5f8dd2f182ce3241879213c0
Organization: Department of the Interior
Thermokarst lake water temperature and salinity data collected in 2011 in the vicinity of Arey Lagoon and Barter Island, Alaska

Thermokarst lake water temperature and salinity data were collected in 2011 in the vicinity of Arey Lagoon and Barter Island, Alaska. Pond temperatures and salinity (conductivity) were measured along two transects traversing across a wet sedge area. A hand-held YSI 556 MPS (plus or minus 0.5 percent accuracy) with a cable-attached instrument probe was placed in 10-15 cm of water within 1 m of each of the pond edges and allowed to equilibrate, and readings were recorded manually. In all, 35 ponds were sampled over a distance of approximately 1.5 km.

Tags: arctic-national-wildlife-refuge, arctic-ocean, arey-island, arey-lagoon, barter-island, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, flooding, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, north-slope, numerical-modeling, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, predictions, salinity, state-of-alaska, temperature, thermokarst-lakes, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-5ee2b52582ce3bd58d7e1720
Organization: Department of the Interior
Survival and viral load of chinook salmon, sockeye salmon, and steelhead trout exposed to 4 genogroups of infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHNV)

Theory of the evolution of pathogen specialization suggests that a specialist pathogen gains high fitness in one host, but this comes with fitness loss in other hosts. By contrast, a generalist pathogen does not achieve high fitness in any host, but gains ecological fitness by exploiting different hosts, and has higher fitness than specialists in non-specialized hosts. As a result, specialist pathogens are predicted to have greater variation in fitness across hosts, and generalists would have lower fitness variation across hosts. We test these hypotheses by measuring pathogen replicative fitness as within-host viral loads from the onset of infection to the beginning of virus clearance, using the rhabdovirus infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHNV) in salmonid fish. Based on field prevalence and virulence studies, IHNV subgroups UP, MD, and L are specialists, causing infection and mortality in sockeye salmon, steelhead, and Chinook salmon juveniles, respectively. The UC subgroup evolved naturally from a UP ancestor and is a generalist infecting all three host species but without causing severe disease. We show that specialist subgroups had highest peak and mean viral loads in the hosts in which they are specialized, and they had low viral loads in non-specialized hosts, resulting in large variation in viral load across hosts. Viral kinetics show that the mechanisms of specialization involve both the ability to maximize early virus replication and to avoid clearance at later times, with different mechanisms of specialization evident in different host-virus combinations. Additional nuances in the data included different fitness levels for non-specialist interactions, reflecting different trade-offs for specialist viruses in other hosts. The generalist UC subgroup reached intermediate viral loads in all hosts and showed the smallest variation in fitness across hosts. Evolution of the UC generalist from an ancestral UP sockeye specialist was associated with fitness increases in steelhead and Chinook salmon, but only slight decrease in fitness in sockeye salmon, consistent with low- or no-cost generalism. Our results support major elements of specialist-generalist theory, providing evidence of a specialist-generalist continuum in a vertebrate pathogen. These results also quantify within-host replicative fitness tradeoffs resulting from the natural evolution of specialist and generalist virus lineages in multi-host ecosystems.

Tags: farming, generalism, pathogen, replication, rna-viruses, salmonids, specialization, tradeoffs, usgs-631237e1d34e36012efa159f, viral-load
Organization: Department of the Interior
Audiomagnetotelluric sounding data in the Silverton Caldera complex, Colorado, 2019; Station AMTAG02

This dataset includes audiomagnetotelluric (AMT) sounding data collected in July 2019 in the Silverton Caldera complex, Colorado, in the Southern Rocky Mountain Volcanic Field, by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Along with geologic mapping, airborne magnetics, airborne electromagnetics, and magnetotellurics, the USGS collected AMT data at 26 sites along five profiles ranging from 2 to 5 kilometers in length: across Red Mountain of the Silverton caldera, within the caldera in Eureka Graben, across the south-eastern margin of the caldera along Arrastra Gulch, across the southern margin of the caldera along the western margin of Kendall Mountain, and across the south-western margin of the caldera along South Fork Mineral Creek. The data included here are for AMT station AMTAG02 located along Arrastra Gulch.

Tags: a-shallow-to-deep-view-inside-the-hydrothermally-altered-and-mineralized-silverton-caldera-comp, abandoned-mine-lands-cleanup, abandoned-mines-and-quarries, amt, animas-river, apparent-resistivity, arrastra-gulch, audiomagnetotelluric, colorado, department-of-the-interior, doi, economy, electric-field-earth, eureka-graben, geology-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, gggsc, gps-measurement, hydrothermal-processes, impedance, impedance-phase, impedance-strike, kendall-mountain, magnetic-field-earth, magnetotelluric, magnetotelluric-surveying, mineral-deposits, mineral-resources, mineral-resources-program, mrp, mt, ouray-county, red-mountain, san-juan-county, san-juan-silverton-caldera-complex, silverton, sounding, south-fork-mineral-creek, southern-rocky-mountains, southern-rocky-mountains-volcanic-field, tipper, u-s-forest-service, u-s-geological-survey, usfs, usgs, usgs-5ee0d3c782ce7e579c708e2e, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Sprague River Oregon Centerline South Fork 1968

The Sprague River drains 4090 square kilometers in south-central Oregon before flowing into the Williamson 
River and upper Klamath Lake. In cooperation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the USGS and University 
of Oregon conducted a study to evaluate channel and floodplain processes for the 131 km of the Sprague River 
and its major tributaries, including the lower 20 km of the South Fork Sprague River, the lower 16 km of the North 
Fork Sprague River, and the lower 62 km of the Sycan River. The study involved multiple analyses, including 
assessments of historical channel change, riparian and floodplain vegetation, and surficial geology. To support 
these analyses, digital floodplain and channel maps were prepared from historic notes, maps, and aerial photos 
to depict channel and floodplain conditions at different times between 1866 and 2005. The geospatial database 
of current and historic channel and floodplain conditions will also enable evaluation of long-term trends pertaining 
to aquatic and riparian habitat conditions.

Tags: channel-analysis, floodplain-analysis, geomorphology, inlandwaters, klamath-basin, sprague-river-oregon, usgs-823df450-ff92-448d-b9ec-38c8130ef465
Organization: Department of the Interior
An Unvegetated to Vegetated Ratio (UVVR) for coastal wetlands of the Atlantic Coast - 2017

Prior research has shown that sediment budgets, and therefore stability, of microtidal marsh complexes scale with areal unvegetated to vegetated marsh ratios (UVVR) suggesting these metrics are broadly applicable indicators of microtidal marsh vulnerability. This effort has developed the UVVR metric using readily available satellite imagery for the coastal areas of the contiguous United States (CONUS). These datasets provide annual averages of the 1) unvegetated fraction, 2) vegetated fraction, 3) water fraction and 4) an unvegetated to vegetated ratio (UVVR) at 30-meter resolution over the coastal areas of the contiguous United States for the year 2017. Additionally, multi-year average values of vegetated ratio, its standard deviation and a UVVR based on the annually-averaged vegetated ratio are provided for the coastal wetlands of the contiguous United States.

Tags: atlantic-coast, coastal-wetlands, connecticut, conterminous-united-states, delaware, florida, fractional-cover, georgia, maine, maryland, massachusetts, new-hampshire, new-jersey, new-york, north-carolina, rhode-island, south-carolina, unvegetated, unvegetated-to-vegetated-ratio, usgs-66e1cee1d34ecba8b86777f0, uvvr, vegetation, virginia, wetland-change, wetland-gain, wetland-loss, wetlands
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2016 Site 3054 land-water classification data

Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring efforts to determine the efficacy of these efforts. The Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) was developed to assist in a multiple-reference approach that uses aspects of hydrogeomorphic functional assessments and probabilistic sampling for monitoring. The CRMS program includes a suite of approximately 390 sites that encompass the range of hydrological and ecological conditions for each stratum. As part of CRMS, land and water classifications are created from Digital Orthophoto Quarter Quadrangles (DOQQs) approximately every three years at all CRMS sites. A DOQQ is a raster image in which displacement in the image caused by sensor orientation and terrain relief has been removed and combines the image characteristics of a photo with geometric qualities of a map. The DOQQs generated for this project consist of 2016 Color Infrared (CIR) Digital Imagery. These images were classified into land and water categories using a threshold of the near infrared (NIR) band, followed by supervised and unsupervised classification.  Initial classification results are then reviewed by multiple image analysts to identify and manually recode errors. The final land-water classifications are intended to serve as both geographic and quantitative assessments of landscape composition on the date of acquisition. Three previous assessments have been conducted (2005, 2008, and 2012). Once the program creates enough data points for statistical analyses, these data will be used for land area change rate calculation.

Tags: alteration-of-wetland-habitats, cartography, coastal, coastal-louisiana, crms, doqq, emergent-wetland, forested-wetland, geographic-information-system, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-water, louisiana, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, scrub-shrub-wetland, state-of-louisiana, usgs-5b5f537ce4b006a11f66eb12, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Cameron Reservoir Number 3 near Cameron, Missouri, 2022

Water supply lakes are the primary source of water for many communities in northern and western Missouri.  Therefore, accurate and up-to-date estimates of lake capacity are important for managing and predicting adequate water supply. Many of the water supply lakes in Missouri were previously surveyed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in the early 2000s (Richards, 2013) and in 2013 (Huizinga, 2014); however, years of potential sedimentation may have resulted in reduced water storage capacity. Periodic bathymetric surveys are useful to update the area/capacity table and to determine changes in the bathymetric surface.
Cameron Reservoir Number 3 is a water supply lake used by the city of Cameron in northwestern Missouri. The surface area of Cameron Reservoir Number 3 is about 90 acres at the full pool level of the primary spillway (911.1 feet above the North American Vertical Datum of 1988).  A previous bathymetric survey was completed in 2013 (Huizinga, 2014) with a multibeam echosounder.  In April 2022, the USGS, in cooperation with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (MoDNR) and in collaboration with the City of Cameron, completed a bathymetric survey of Cameron Reservoir Number 3 using a multibeam echosounder.  The water-surface elevation during the survey was about 911.1 feet. The echosounder data can be combined with light detection and ranging (lidar) data to prepare a bathymetric map and a surface area and capacity table for the lake.
The gridded bathymetric point data (CameronRes3-2022_bathy_pts.zip) were computed on a 0.82-foot (0.25-meter) grid using the Combined Uncertainty and Bathymetry Estimator (CUBE) method, which is used as the source of points to create the bathymetric surface.
Bathymetric quality-assurance data (CameronRes3-2022_QA_raw.zip) were collected to evaluate the vertical accuracy of the gridded bathymetric point data.
Each of these two zip files contains a shapefile with an attribute table. Attribute/column labels of each table are described in the "Entity and attribute" section of the metadata file.
References Cited:
Huizinga, R.J., 2014, Bathymetric surveys and area/capacity tables of water-supply reservoirs for the city of Cameron, Missouri, July 2013: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2014–1005, 15 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20141005.
Richards, J.M., 2013, Bathymetric surveys of selected lakes in Missouri—2000–2008: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013–1101, 9 p. with appendix, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131101.

Tags: bathymetry, bathymetry-and-elevation, cameron, cameron-reservoir-number-3, dekalb-county, missouri, multibeam, multibeam-sonar, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-64b0367ad34e70357a297519
Organization: Department of the Interior