AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
[PILOT] Herpetological Monitoring Surveys for the Southeast Coast Network: 2009-2010 - Data Package

The Southeast Coast Network (SECN) initiated a pilot program using Visual Encounter Surveys (VES) and Automated Recording Devices (ARDs) to monitor amphibians and reptiles (collectively “herps”) in the network parks, with emphasis on amphibians. Amphibians were chosen for monitoring because of their global importance as ecological indicators, documented population declines and extinctions, and their high level of diversity in the Southeast. The overall goals of the pilot herpetological program were to determine trends in species occupancy, distribution, diversity, and community composition in SECN parks. VES monitoring efforts consisted of single time-constrained manual surveys conducted in the summer and early fall to visually identify herps at each sample site. Survey duration at each site was determined by four factors, 1) area to be surveyed, 2) vegetation density, 3) amount of downed woody debris (DWD), and 4) presence of freshwater aquatic features. ARD monitoring was conducted in the spring and summer with automated recording devices being deployed for a 10-day period. Park boundaries were used as the sampling frames and a suite of spatially-balanced random sampling locations were drawn from a 0.5-ha grid. Recordings were first machine processed to match vocalization hits using species-detecting algorithms, before being manually processed by researchers for QA/QC purposes. Over 9,000 individual observations covering approximately 70 species were made at 13 NPS park units in 2009-2010.

Tags: acoustic-monitoring, anuran, ard, audio-recording, automated-recording-device, caha, calo, cana, canaveral-national-seashore, cape-hatteras-national-seashore, cape-lookout-national-seashore, chat, chattahoochee-river-national-recreation-area, cong, congaree-national-park, cuis, cumberland-island-national-seashore, fofr, foma, fopu, fort-caroline-national-memorial, fort-frederica-national-monument, fort-matanzas-national-monument, fort-pulaski-national-monument, fort-sumter-national-monument, fosu, frog, herp, hobe, horseshoe-bend-national-military-park, kemo, kennesaw-mountain-national-battlefield-park, long-term-monitoring, mocr, moores-creek-national-battlefield, national-park-service, ocmu, ocmulgee-national-monument, reptile, snake, timu, timucuan-ecological-and-historic-preserve, toad, treefrog, turtle, vocal-anuran
Organization: Department of the Interior
Gulf Island National Seashore Breeding Bird Monitoring Data FY 2013

Data are part of the GULN Inventory and Monitoring Program Land bird monitoring project for GUIS. Data were collected by Mark Woodry through a cooperative agreement with GULN in 20132. Data were entered into the USGS Breeding Bird Point Count database and export to Excel 2007 format by GULN data manager, Whitney Granger. A separate reference is available for the Field Sheets that accompanies this data set.

Tags: ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-birds
Organization: Department of the Interior
Inventory of amphibians and reptiles at Mojave National Preserve 2004-2005 - Data Package (PUBLIC)

An inventory of amphibians and reptiles was conducted at Mojave National Preserve (MOJA) in 2004-2005 as part of the National Park Service Inventory and Monitoring Program in the Mojave Desert Network. Objectives for this inventory were to use fieldwork, museum collections, and literature review to document the occurrence of reptile and amphibian species occurring at MOJA. The goals were to document at least 90 percent of the species present, provide one voucher specimen for each species identified, provide GIS-referenced distribution information for sensitive species, and provide all deliverables, including NPSpecies entries, as outlined in the Mojave Network Biological Inventory Study Plan. Methods included daytime and nighttime visual encounter surveys and nighttime road driving. Survey effort was concentrated in predetermined priority sampling areas, as well as in areas with a high potential for detecting undocumented species. 31 species were recorded during the surveys. During literature review and museum specimen database searches, records were found for seven additional species from MOJA, elevating the documented species list to 38 (two amphibians and 36 reptiles). Based on field surveys, literature, and museum specimen review, the overall inventory completeness is estimated at 95 percent for Mojave National Preserve herpetofauna; 67 percent for amphibians and 97 percent for reptiles.

Tags: absence, abundance, amphibians, biodiversity, biological-inventory, california, distribution, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-amphibians-and-reptiles, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-desert-communities, field-work, herpetofauna, inventories, literature-review, mojave-desert, mojave-national-preserve, npspecies, presence, reptiles, san-bernardino-county, surveys
Organization: Department of the Interior
Glacier Bay oceanography 2021 data quality evaluations (OC_M)

At the end of each survey year, a review is done to determine if post-season calibration data (OC_G) indicate that sensor drift over the cruise year is significant. The original log sheet images (OC_H) are also reviewed for annotations regarding data exceptions. The raw and processed vertical profile data plots are reviewed both separately and jointly for irregular instrument readings.

The Project Leader flags questionable and unusable casts for the year using the data quality report spreadsheets. Inoperable individual sensors encountered during a cast are also noted on the sheets. The Data Manager, after validating the spreadsheet forms, publishes the forms to the Data Store and then updates appropriate columns in the cumulative database (OC_D) to reflect quality levels of all observations.

Tags: alaska, chlorophyll-a, ctd, ecological-framework-water-hydrology-marine-hydrology, field-log, fluorometer, glacier-bay, glacier-bay-national-park, glba, icy-strait, 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
Water Quality Assessment for Agana Springs

This data package was created 2025-12-03 08:37:42 by NPSTORET and includes selected project, location, and result data.  Data are from a 1981 completion report (Technical Report #22) by Stephen J. Winter and William J. Zolan from the University of Guam's Water and Energy Research Institute entitled "Water Quality Assessment for Agana Springs".  The project extended from 10/1/1979-3/31/1981.

Data contained in WAPA_NPSTORET_BE.ACCDB (NPSTORET back-end file) were filtered to include:

Organization:
- WAPA: War in the Pacific National Historical Park
Project:
- WAPA0011: Water Quality Assessment for Agana Springs
Station:
- Include Trip QC And All Station Visit Results
Value Status:
- Accepted or Certified (exported as Final) or Final

The data package is organized into five data tables:
- Projects.csv - describes the purpose and background of the monitoring efforts
- Locations.csv - documents the attributes of the monitoring locations/stations
- Results.csv - contains the field measurements, observations, and/or lab analyses for each sample/event/data grouping
- HUC.csv - enumerates the domain of allowed values for 8-digit and 12-digit hydrologic unit codes utilized by the Locations data table
- Characteristics.csv - enumerates the domain of characteristics available in NPSTORET to identify what was sampled, measured or observed in Results

Period of record for filtered data is 1979-10-24 to 1980-08-27.  This data package is a snapshot in time of one National Park Service project. The most current data for this project, which may be more or less extensive than that in this data package, can be found on the Water Quality Portal at:

https://www.waterqualitydata.us/data/Result/search?project=WAPA0011&mimeType=csv&zip=yes&dataProfile=biological&providers=STORET

Tags: alkalinity, ammonia, bacteria, chemical-properties, chloride, nitrate, nitrite, nitrogen, npstoret, ph, phosphate, phosphorus, silica, specific-conductivity, sulfate, suspended-solids, turbidity, water-properties, water-quality, water-temperature
Organization: Department of the Interior
San Antonio Missions National Historical Park Breeding Bird Monitoring Data for FY 2013

Data are part of the GULN Inventory and Monitoring Program Land bird monitoring project. Data were collected by Mike Scully through a contract with GULN in 2013. Data were entered into the USGS Breeding Bird Point Count database and export to Excel 2007 format by GULN data manager, Whitney Granger. A separate reference is available for the field sheets that accompany this data set.

Tags: ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-birds
Organization: Department of the Interior
A binomial N-mixture model for estimating arrival and departure timing: supporting information

Appendix S2: Data generation and JAGS code for simulations of the cue production formulation.
Appendix S3: Data generation and JAGS code for simulations of the retention function formulation.
Appendix S4: JAGS code for the case study.
Data S4: Case study data from surveys of passerines in Denali National Park, Alaska (1995-2017). 
Data S5: Elevation covariate data from Denali National Park used for the passerine case study data.

Tags: and, arrival, binomial, departure, estimating, information, model, n-mixture, supporting, timing
Organization: Department of the Interior
Inventory of amphibians and reptiles at Death Valley National Park in 2002-2004 - Data Package (PUBLIC)

An inventory of amphibians and reptiles was conducted at Death Valley National Park (DEVA) in 2002- 2004 as part of the National Park Service Inventory and Monitoring Program in the Mojave Desert Network. Objectives for this inventory were to: 1) Inventory and document the occurrence of reptile and amphibian species occurring at DEVA, primarily within priority sampling areas, with the goal of documenting at least 90% of the species present; 2) document (through collection or museum specimen and literature review) one voucher specimen for each species identified; 3) provide a GIS-referenced list of sensitive species that are federally or state listed, rare, or worthy of special consideration that occur within priority sampling locations; 4) describe park-wide distribution of federally- or state-listed, rare, or special concern species; 5) enter all species data into the National Park Service NPSpecies database; and 6) provide all deliverables as outlined in the Mojave Inventory and Monitoring Network Biological Inventory Study Plan. Methods included daytime and nighttime visual encounter surveys, road driving, and pitfall trapping. Survey effort was concentrated in predetermined priority sampling areas, as well as in areas with a high potential for detecting undocumented species. 37 species were recorded during surveys, including two species new to the park. During literature review and museum specimen database searches, study authors recorded three additional species from DEVA, elevating the documented species list to 40 (four amphibians and 36 reptiles). Based on these surveys, as well as literature and museum specimen review, this study estimates an overall inventory completeness of 92% for Death Valley and an inventory completeness of 73% for amphibians and 95% for reptiles.

Tags: absence, abundance, animal-studies, biodiversity, biological-inventory-report, california, deva, distribution, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-amphibians-and-reptiles, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-desert-communities, esmeralda-county, great-basin-desert, inyo-county, line-transect, mojave-desert, mojn, nevada, nye-county, pitfall-traps, presence, san-bernardino-county, transects, vouchers
Organization: Department of the Interior
2023 Three-Pass Depletion Fish Census Surveys

These data represent fish census surveys in Great Smoky Mountains National Park conducted using the Delury Method of Three-Pass Depletion electrofishing. In 2023, fish were collected, sorted by species, and weighed at 34 unique sites from a total of 21 streams ranging in size from first to third-order waterways. These streams are surveyed on an annual basis to monitor population trends over time.

Tags: 3-pass-depletion, electrofishing, fish-census, fish-surveys, fisheries, three-pass
Organization: Department of the Interior
ROMN Uplands Vegetation Composition, Structure, and Soils Monitoring in FLFO, GRKO, and LIBI: 2009-2024 - Data Package

This data package contains the data collected for the Rocky Mountain Network’s (ROMN) Vegetation Composition Structure and Soils (VCSS) protocol. These data were collected in the field at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument (FLFO), Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site (GRKO), and Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument (LIBI) in Colorado and Montana beginning in 2009 and continuing to the present. Vegetation composition, structure, and soils are important habitat elements in all Rocky Mountain Network parks. Vegetation structure and composition are fundamental determinants of wildlife habitat characteristics and quality, visitor experiences, cultural/historic landscape quality (in the cases of LIBI and GRKO), and basic ecosystem functioning (e.g., via primary production; cycling of carbon, nitrogen, and other nutrients; and micro-climate controls). The files in this package include information regarding the trees, seedlings, other plant species, soil stability, and disturbance at the upland sampling locations in each park.

Tags: ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-forest-woodland-communit, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-grassland-herbaceous-com, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-shrubland-communities, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-terrestrial-complex, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-vegetation-complex, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-invasive-species-invasive-exotic-plants, ecological-framework-geology-and-soils-soil-quality-soil-function-and-dynamics, flfo, grko, libi, litter, phenology, plants, rocky-mountain-inventory-and-monitoring-network, romn, soil, transects, trees, vegetation
Organization: Department of the Interior
Predicting biomass and carbon stocks of tall shrub species in a degraded wetland site

Quantification of the carbon stocks contained in non-tree vegetation that has invaded a degraded salt marsh because of severe constraints on the marsh’s natural tidal flows.

Tags: blue-carbon, coastal-wetland-restoration, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-estuarine-communities, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-shrubland-communities, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-vegetation-complex, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-wetland-communities, vegetation-survey, woody-biomass
Organization: Department of the Interior
Sub-hourly stream temperature measurements throughout Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area and New River Gorge National Park and Preserve (2022-2024) Data Package

Continuous water temperature measurements were recorded at 59 locations in wadeable streams (watershed size = 2 - 100 km2) throughout Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area and New River Gorge National Park and Preserve from April 2022 to November 2024. Data loggers were deployed at probabilistically selected sites where benthic macroinvertebrate, fish, and streamside bird communities have been monitored by the Eastern Rivers and Mountains Network (National Park Service) since 2014.

Tags: delaware-water-gap-national-recreation-area, dewa, eastern-rivers-and-mountains-network, ermn, imd, inventory-and-monitoring-division, national-park-service, neri, new-river-gorge-national-park-and-preserve, nps, stream-temperature-monitoring, thermal-regime, water-temperature
Organization: Department of the Interior
Field data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Apostle Islands National Lakeshore - Open Format Data Package

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

Tags: accuracy-assessment, apis, apostle-islands-national-lakeshore, botanical-survey, classification, database, 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
Field data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Arkansas Post National Memorial - Open Format Data Package

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

Tags: accuracy-assessment, arkansas-post-national-memorial, arpo, botanical-survey, classification, database, 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
Field data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Appalachian National Scenic Trail - Open Format Data Package

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

Tags: accuracy-assessment, appa, appalachian-national-scenic-trail, botanical-survey, classification, database, 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
Field data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Arches National Park - Open Format Data Package

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

Tags: accuracy-assessment, arch, arches-national-park, botanical-survey, classification, database, 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
Grand Teton National Park Escherichia coli (E. coli) Sampling and Monitoring Data from 2012-2024 as of 2024-11-13

This data package was created 2024-11-13 11:54:19 by NPSTORET and includes selected project, location, and result data.

Data contained in the Grand Teton National Park NPSTORET back-end file (GRTE_E-COLI_NPSTORET_BE_20241112.ACCDB) were filtered to include:
Station:
- Include Trip QC And All Station Visit Results
Value Status:
- Accepted or Certified (exported as Final) or Final

The data package is organized into five data tables:
- Projects.csv - describes the purpose and background of the monitoring efforts
- Locations.csv - documents the attributes of the monitoring locations/stations
- Results.csv - contains the field measurements, observations, and/or lab analyses for each sample/event/data grouping
- HUC.csv - enumerates the domain of allowed values for 8-digit and 12-digit hydrologic unit codes utilized by the Locations datatable
- Characteristics.csv - enumerates the domain of characteristics available in NPSTORET to identify what was sampled, measured or observed in Results

Period of record for filtered data is 2012-07-23 to 2024-09-12.  This data package is a snapshot in time of one National Park Service project. The most current data for this project, which may be more or less extensive than that in this data package, can be found on the Water Quality Portal at:
https://www.waterqualitydata.us/data/Result/search?project=GRTE_ECOLI

Tags: bacteria, dissolved-oxygen, e-coli, escherichia-coli, npstoret, ph, specific-conductivity, water-quality, water-temperature
Organization: Department of the Interior
Landbird Monitoring for the Northern Colorado Plateau Network, 2005-2023 - Raw Data

The landbird monitoring protocol established by the Northern Colorado Plateau Network (NCPN) keeps track of landbird populations in its park units to monitor ecosystem/habitat integrity, population declines of certain species of landbirds, and to contribute to regional bird monitoring efforts. Both a point-count and a transect count are done throughout the course of a survey. Observers stop at a designated point-count station for five minutes to record any birds seen within that interval. After the five minute interval, observers walk along the transect to the next point-count station, recording any birds they encounter along the way. The observed bird's species, the approximate distance and heading from the observer to the bird, and environmental conditions during the survey are recorded. This package contains datasets from surveys conducted in 11 park units within the NCPN from 2005-2023, and a separate dataset for monitoring at Pipe Spring National Monument (PISP) from 2009-2019.

Tags: animal-studies, arizona, bird-conservancy-of-the-rockies, birds, colorado, data-cleaning, data-wrangling, imd, imd-monitoring-cleanup, land-birds, landbirds, long-term-monitoring, monitoring, ncpn, npsdataverse, point-count, r-programming-language, r_, transect, utah, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Field data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve - Open Format Data Package

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

Tags: accuracy-assessment, botanical-survey, classification, database, habitat-types, imagery, jean-lafitte-national-historical-park-and-preserve, jela, national-vegetation-classification, nvc, nvcs, plots, releve, remote-sensing, usnvcs, vegetation, vegetation-inventory, vegetation-map, vegetation-mapping
Organization: Department of the Interior