AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Early life stage data for Lake Ontario fishes, 2018-2021

This data release includes early life stage data for Lake Ontario fishes including egg deposition, larval fish emergence from varied substrates and depths, and horizontal larval fish tow surveys conducted across various habitats. Tables include data from multiple field surveys and lab studies from 2018, 2019, and 2021. Larval tow observations from 2018 are from lake wide sampling in Lake Ontario while egg and larval emergence data are from embayments in U.S. waters of Lake Ontario in 2019 and 2021. Laboratory experiments on egg collection gear were conducted in 2019. Details about the vessel and gear descriptions, sampling protocols, and catch processing protocols are provided in the associated metadata.

Tags: biota, cisco, egg, field-sampling, fish, freshwater-ecosystems, inlandwaters, lake-ontario, lake-whitefish, larvae, larval-emergence, new-york, ontario, population-dynamics, spawning-habitat, substrate, usgs-64513dbfd34eefd5da80a369
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital subsurface data from previously published contoured maps of interval thicknesses in the Southern Midcontinent region

This digital data release contains previously published contours of thickness values of 23 named geological horizons, ranging in age from Cambrian to Tertiary. In alphabetical order, these horizons are the Atokan, Chesterian, Cretaceous, Desmoinesian, Guadalupian, Jurassic, Kinderhookian, Leonardian, Lower Hunton, Meramecian, Missourian, Morrowan, Ochoan, Osagean, Simpson-Viola, Sylvan-Cason, Tertiary, Timbered Hills-Arbuckle, Triassic, Upper Hunton, Virgillian, Wolfcampian, and Woodford-Chatanooga. The thicknesses were published in plates in the back matter of the Sedimentary Cover – North American Craton: U.S. volume of the larger Geological Society of America’s Decade of North American Geology effort. This volume, edited by L.L. Sloss, contains efforts from many geologists. In particular, the Southern Midcontinent plates were generated by K.S. Johnson, T.W. Amsden, R.E. Denison, S.P. Dutton, A.G. Goldstein, B. Rascoe, Jr., P.K Sutherland, and D.M. Thompson. In these thickness contours, spanning almost the entirety of the Phanerozoic, changes in basin configuration, uplift of source terranes, and resultant continental-scale depositional patterns can be witnessed.

Tags: arkansas, atokan, chesterian, cretaceous, desmoinesian, farming, geoscientificinformation, guadalupian, hunton, jurassic, kansas, leonardian, meramecian, missouri, missourian, morrowan, ochoan, oklahoma, osagean, pennsylvanianpermian, simpson-viola, sylvan-cason, tertiary, texas, timbered-hills-arbuckle, triassic, usgs-645135a5d34eefd5da80a348, virgillian, wolfcampian, woodford-chattanooga
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data-Driven Drought Prediction Project Spatial Processing Units: Select U.S. Geological Stream Gage Basins

This dataset represents 9,097 basin boundaries (rdews_gages.shp) of select U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) active and historical stream gages derived from the published datasets of stream gage basins (Wieczorek, 2006), GAGESII (Falcone, 2011), and delineated from digital elevation models found in the NHDPlus version 1 data suite (NHDPlus, 2006).  These basins were created to assist in spatial processing of model inputs for the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) Data-Driven Drought Prediction Project of the Drought Science Program within the Water Resources Mission Area's Water Resource Availability Program.

Tags: basins, gagesii, inlandwaters, nhdplus, streamgage, usgs-64510406d34eefd5da80a2c7, watersheds
Organization: Department of the Interior
Colorado River milage system and ancillary attribute data for connecting to hydrodynamic model output in Glen Canyon, AZ

These data were compiled to support stranding risk modeling of young-of-year rainbow trout in Glen Canyon resulting from fluctuating flows from Glen Canyon Dam, called Trout Management Flows (TMFs). The objective of our study was to evaluate the stranding risk associated with different TMFs. We used the results of a 2-dimensional hydrodynamic model (Wright and others, 2024) as input to a rainbow trout stranding model and described in the associated Larger Work Citation. This data table was developed to link the data output tables of Wright and others (2024) and the trout stranding model to a commonly used and standardized measure of distance along the Colorado River between Glen Canyon Dam and Lees Ferry, AZ (Gushue 2019). The data are organized based on the spatial coordinates of the center point of cells in the hydrodynamic model (Wright and others 2024). The data table represents spatial grid coordinates and locations to the nearest hundredth mile for each row and column of a bathymetry grid that are closest to the Colorado River centerline. The data table includes additional data values that represent bed elevations and distances of the center point for each selected bathymetry grid cell to the nearest Colorado River mile point location. Distances in miles follow a standard referencing system where miles are measured as negative values upstream from Lees Ferry (river mile 0) to Glen Canyon Dam (river mile -15.85). The 2-dimensional hydrodynamic model and trout stranding model described in the associated Larger Work Citation extend from river mile -0.02 to river mile -15.71. This data table provides a way to assign a Colorado River mile to each computational grid cell of Wright and others (2024) and the trout stranding risk model in the associated Larger Work Citation that we used to evaluate how flow influences depth, velocity, and stranding risk of Trout Management Flows. This table can be used by other studies to link the hydrodynamic model to the standard Colorado River reference system on the Colorado River in Glen Canyon.

Tags: arizona, bathymetry, bathymetry-measurement, data-release, elevation, freshwater-ecosystems, geolocation-measurement, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, glen-canyon, glen-canyon-dam, hydrodynamics, hydrographic-datasets, inlandwaters, lees-ferry, mathematical-modeling, river-reaches, river-systems, stream-discharge, streamflow, surface-water-level, topography, usgs-64504179d34eefd5da8070a1
Organization: Department of the Interior
Abiotic sorption of glucose, glutamic acid, hydroxybenzoic acid, and oxalic acid onto amorphous aluminum hydroxide, feldspar, ferrihydrite, and kaolinite

Abiotic sorption experiments were conducted with four carbon substrates (glucose, glutamic acid, oxalic acid, para-hydroxybenzoic acid) on four clay minerals (kaolinite, feldspar, ferrihydrite, amorphous aluminum hydroxide) after sterilization by gamma irradiation. The adsorption isotherms were carried across a range of substrate carbon concentrations (0, 20, 100, and 500 mg carbon per L) and pH conditions (approximately 5 – 9) in a background of 10 mM NaCl for 48 hours. The data release contains measured pH values and carbon concentrations before and after the sorption experiments. The release provides derived values of carbon sorption (e.g., carbon sorbed per mineral surface area) as well as characterization of the minerals (e.g., surface area, x-ray diffraction patterns). Users can calculate the derived values independently with ancillary data in the release (e.g., masses, volumes, surface areas). The file "data_dictionary" provides descriptions, valid ranges, and units for all fields in the data files.

Tags: environment, mineral, soil, usgs-645034bdd34e45f6ddcf1b95
Organization: Department of the Interior
Cladophora biomass and supporting data collected in the Great Lakes, 2022

This dataset records Cladophora and associated benthic algae, collectively Cladophora community or submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV), biomass collected during the growing season of 2022 at stations located along the U.S. shoreline of Lakes Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario. It also records a variety of supporting data collected at Cladophora measurement stations. These supporting data include: 
- seasonal time series of light, currents, wave action, temperature, specific conductivity, turbidity, pH, phycocyanin, chlorophyll, and dissolved oxygen from moored sensors at a subset of stations; 
- measurements of Secchi disk depth and water chemistry; 
- water column profiles of PAR, temperature, specific conductivity, turbidity, pH, phycocyanin, chlorophyll, and dissolved oxygen; 
- diver observations of SAV, dreissenid mussels, round goby abundance, and substrate properties; 
- measurements of dreissenid mussel abundance and size class distribution coincident with SAV biomass; 
- nutrient content of SAV, dreissenid mussels, and sediments; 
- and information about sampling locations and operations.
Similar data were collected at several of the same transects within four Great Lakes in 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021 are available at (2018) https://doi.org/10.5066/P9E570JS, (2019) https://doi.org/10.5066/P99O4QXB, (2020) https://doi.org/10.5066/P9O9FSTT, and (2021) https://doi.org/10.5066/P9449EUF.

Tags: algae, algal-blooms, aquatic-biology, aquatic-vegetation, benthos, biota, ctd-measurement, environment, eutrophication, field-sampling, freshwater-ecosystems, great-lakes-region, habitat-alteration-and-disturbance, inlandwaters, invasive-species, lake-erie, lake-huron, lake-michigan, lake-ontario, mollusks, nuisance-species, nutrient-content-water, optical-methods, oxygen-content-water, phosphorus, submerged-aquatic-vegetation, surface-water-quality, suspended-material-water, turbidity, usgs-64502cd7d34e45f6ddcf0467, water-ph, water-sampling, water-temperature
Organization: Department of the Interior
Guam, USGS Closed Population (NWFN) data relating to brown treesnake and prey interactions processed into monthly intervals from 10/2016 - 2/2023

These data represent brown treesnake (Boiga irregularis) captures from a population in a 5 ha natural snake enclosure on Guam from 2016 - 2023. During the period of study we artificially reduced the number of snakes present in the population through a variety of control tools that included toxic baits, as mice and chicks, live trapping, and hand capture. We censused the population intensively during the entire period of study during nocturnal visual surveys. During those surveys we also counted the number of lizards, rodents, and birds that were seen. Thus, we have absolute numbers of snakes based on mark-recapture methods and capture-per-unit-effort based on sightings of all taxonomic groups. These data are specifically processed to provide monthly estimates of numbers of brown treesnakes relative to the average sightings per unit effort of rodents, lizards, and birds. Brown treesnakes are an invasive species that has had detrimental impacts on almost all native vertebrate on Guam. Raw data used to generate estimates are available in an affiliated data release.

Tags: biota, capture-per-unit-effort, farming, predator-prey, usgs-64502688d34e45f6ddcf0456, usgs-closed-population
Organization: Department of the Interior
East Maui, Hawaiʻi optimization of climate resilient habitat for native plant species recovery, 2021

Multi-species recovery planning can be a challenging natural resource management task. In collaboration with state and federal agencies, and botanical and technical experts, we developed and tested a multi-step optimization process to assist in identifying the minimum climate resilient habitat for the recovery of multiple threatened, endangered, and at-risk plant species across east Maui. Data include the underlying land-use configuration file, predictive climate models, list of plant species and number of populations to recover/protect, habitat and forest bird distribution information, presence of fencing, land management status, and naming protocol file.
We identified a suite of potential conservation footprints that are constrained by ecological and resource management selection criteria based input and co-production with botanical experts and resource managers. These solutions include recovery habitat for all species of interest. The optimization process also identified priority recovery planning units, equal to the number of populations required for recovery, to inform find-scale recovery efforts.
Data include: 1) underlying land-use configuration and input metrics used for optimization, input_metrics.gpkg; 2) species list, species_list.csv; 3) and output metrics from an example solution, pu_solution_example.gpkg.

Tags: biota, climate-resiliency, hawaiian-islands, maui-county, maui-island, native-plant, optimization, restoration, spatial-conservation-prioritization, usgs-645016afd34e45f6ddcf042b
Organization: Department of the Interior
Water withdrawal data of selected public water systems in West Virginia, 2014 - 2020

These data were collected to support a drought-vulnerability assessment and near real-time drought awareness web tool for public water systems (PWS) on surface water supply in West Virginia. PWS withdrawal rates were evaluated against USGS low-flow stream statistics, modeled streamflow from the National Water Model, and thresholds from state drought response guidelines and ecological-flow literature. Other PWS information relevant to water management, including flow regulation and water storage is included.
Description of  Data:
These data are available in Excel (.xlsx) files and comma-separated text files (.csv) for access in nonproprietary formats. The "sites" file contains attribute information for each PWS intake, including flow regulation and reservoirs. The "wd" file contains the monthly withdrawal information used to generate summary statistics. 
Data Sources:
These data were not collected by the USGS. 
Monthly water withdrawal data for public water systems (PWS) was provided by West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection's Large Quantity User (LQU)  reporting program. These data were used to calculate monthly withdrawal rates for selected PWS using surface water supply. The LQU dataset is self-reported. Basic quality control checks, including summary statistics, box plots, and time series plots were performed and data-entry errors were corrected when identified. PWS with redundant intakes on the same waterbody (primary and secondary) had withdrawals from the secondary intake (ID007, ID073, ID084, ID098, and ID101) reassigned to the primary intake and the secondary intake was removed from further analysis. 
Streamflow regulation and minimum flows were determined by a GIS tool developed by the Technical Applications and GIS Unit of the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP). The presence and storage capacity of reservoirs was determined by review of information from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' National Inventory of Dams. The presence of smaller dams and weirs was determined by aerial or satellite imagery and noted, but no further effort was made to estimate storage capacity or impact on streamflow. 
Note: 
Disclosing specific location information for PWS intakes conflicts with West Virginia state law and USGS policy.  For this publicly-accessible USGS Data Release and the near real-time drought awareness web tool, PWS locations are aggregated to the county or 10-digit hydrologic unit code (HUC10) watershed. 
Further discussion of data, methods, analysis, and limitations are included in the associated USGS Open File Report 2023-XXXX.

Tags: usgs-6450030ad34e45f6ddcf03b5, utilitiescommunication
Organization: Department of the Interior
North American duck populations and the Central U.S. hunters who hunt them

This data file is in long format, comprising time series of hunter abundance and behavior and duck abundance. Hunter information varies by administrative flyway (Mississippi and Central), whereas duck population abundance is summarized for both the Prairie Pothole Region and the continent. Duck information for the Prairie Pothole Region is for the U.S. portion only (Strata 41-49 of the May waterfowl survey) and for 12 duck species, mallard, American wigeon, blue-winged teal, canvasback, gadwall, lesser and greater scaup, green-winged teal, northern pintail, northern shoveler, redhead, ring-necked duck, and ruddy duck.

Tags: biota, duck, hunter-behavior, hunter-harvest, north-america, prairie-pothole-region, usgs-644fcfc4d34e45f6ddcf0087
Organization: Department of the Interior
The Sedimentological Characteristics and Radiochemistry Data for the Marshes on Dauphin Island, Alabama (U.S. Geological Survey Field Activity Number 2015-322-FA)

This project is a collaborative effort between the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), and the state of Alabama funded by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) to investigate viable, sustainable restoration options that protect and restore the natural resources of Dauphin Island, Alabama. Scientists from the USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center collected push cores and water quality data from the marshes of Dauphin Island, Little Dauphin Island, and Cedar Key, Alabama in August, 2015 (U.S. Geological Survey Field Activity Number (FAN) 2015-322-FA; referred to as 15BIM09) as well as in April, 2013 (13BIM01). Sample sites varied between high marshes, low salt marshes, and sand flats. This report serves as an archive for the sedimentological and geochemical data derived from the marsh cores and select surface data from the corresponding marsh core sites collected in August, 2015 (15BIM09). Downloadable data are available and include Excel spreadsheets, JPEG files, and formal Federal Geographic Data Committee metadata. For further information regarding data collection and/or processing methods refer to USGS OFR Ellis and others 2017–1165 (https://doi.org/10.3133/OFR20171165), and Data Series Ellis and others 2017–1046 (https://doi.org/10.3133/DS20171046).

Tags: 13bim01, 15bim09, alabama, alpha-spectroscopy, biota, bulk-density, cedar-island, dauphin-island, dauphin-island-bay, elevation, environment, geology, geoscientific-information, gradistat, grain-size, graveline-bay, gulf-of-mexico, linear-sedimentation-rate, lithology, little-dauphin-island, location, loi, loss-on-ignition, marsh-core, mass-accumulation-rate, push-core, radiochemistry, rocks-and-deposits, sediment, u-s-geological-survey, unconsolidated-deposits, usgs, usgs-644f30d0-873a-49df-b6c2-62f4fc84b83f
Organization: Department of the Interior
Sediments of Narragansett Bay acquired in 1960 (MCMASTER60 shapefile)

Gravel, sand, silt, and clay contents were determined for samples from Narragansett Bay and the adjacent Rhode Island Shelf. In the Narragansett Bay system, clayey silt and sand-silt-clay are the most abundant sediments. Sand is abundant locally and on the inner shelf. In general, toward the lower passages of the Bay the sediments show a progressive change to coarser textures.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, clay, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, geographic-information-system, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, gis, grain-size-analysis, gravel, greenwich-bay, location, marine-geology, mount-hope-bay, narragansett-bay, national-assessment-of-marine-sand-and-gravel-resources, navigational-data, new-england, oceans, open-file-report-03-001, point-shapefile, points, providence-ri, rhode-island, sand, sea-floor-characteristics, sediment, sediment-classification, silt, surficial-classification, texture, u-s-east-coast, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-644d04d3-07c5-4fd2-8f42-6dd9271f6d84, whsc, woods-hole-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Student Network for Amphibian Pathogen Surveillance Data

Data in this dataset were collected as a part of the Student Network for Amphibian Pathogen Surveilance (SNAPs) program throughout the United States by undergraduate students in biology or ecology courses as a part of their curriculum throughout 2022. This data was collected in the field by students and sent to the USGS National Wildlife Health Center (NWHC) for testing of two amphibian fungal pathogens, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) and Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bs). The dataset includes both the field records of the individual amphibians tested and the results for individuals for Bd and Bs.

Tags: alabama, amphibians, batrachochytirum-dendrobatidis, batrachochytirum-salamandrivorans, biota, california, estado-de-mexico, idaho, illinois, massachusetts, mexico, minnesota, new-york, north-carolina, oregon, pennsylvania, texas, united-states, usgs-644bf323d34e45f6ddcd47b0, vermont, virginia, washington, wildlife-disease
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data Release for the 2023 U.S. 50-State National Seismic Hazard Model - Overview

The U.S. National Seismic Hazard Model (NSHM) was updated in 2023 for all 50 states using the best available science related to earthquake seismicity, fault ruptures, ground motions, and hazard estimation techniques to produce a standard of practice for public policy applications. Best available or applicable science is defined here as well-vetted and published hazard input component models and information that are accepted through a comprehensive review process, consistent with open and timely science principles, and encompass a scientifically reasonable range of earthquake characteristics and ground motion effects that improve the basis of the 2023 NSHM. This time-independent probabilistic seismic hazard model benefited from several dozens of co-authors, more than 50 reviewers, and hundreds of end-users, and hazard scientists that attended the public workshops and provided technical inputs and reviews of the inputs and their integration in the hazard assessment. The hazard assessment applies new earthquake catalogs, declustering algorithms, gridded seismicity models, magnitude-scaling equations, fault-based structural and deformation models, multi-fault earthquake rupture forecast models, semi-empirical and simulation-based ground motion models, and site amplification models conditioned on velocities of the upper 30 m of soil and deeper sedimentary structure. Resulting seismic hazard calculations yield hazard curves, maps, uniform hazard response spectra, and disaggregations which are developed for spectral accelerations at 21 oscillator periods, two peak parameters, and eight site classes that are now required by the 2020 NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions and applied in multiple other public policy products. A system-level test is performed to ensure the resulting ground motions are consistent with historical intensity information. Several impact products including building seismic design criteria, intensity maps (Modified Mercalli Intensity), ground motion scenarios, and engineering risk assessments that show the potential physical and social impacts and provide a basis for assessing, planning, and mitigating the effects of future earthquakes across the U.S.

Tags: alaska, conterminous-united-states, conus, earthquakes, hawaii, hazards, seismology, usa, usgs-644af897d34e45f6ddcd13b3
Organization: Department of the Interior