AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Oregon Mule Deer Warner Stopovers

The Warner mule deer herd uses varying life history strategies corresponding with multiple migratory and nonmigratory tactics. Mule deer wintering near Warner Valley and Oregon Route 140 migrate west in spring to Bald Hills and higher elevations in the Warner Mountains, and nonmigratory deer reside along U.S. Highway 395. One GPS-collared mule deer migrated south from a winter range in Oregon to a summer range northwest of Mosquito Valley in northern Nevada. Habitats in this area vary widely. Winter and annual ranges largely consist of mountain big sagebrush, antelope bitterbrush, A. tridentata wyomingensis (Wyoming sagebrush), low sagebrush, western juniper, and early shrub-tree habitats with patches of nonnative annual grasses. Summer ranges contain mixed-conifer forest or high desert sage-steppe habitats usually including western juniper, ponderosa pine, and quaking aspen with open sections of mixed sagebrush, wetlands, and early shrub-tree habitat. An individual mule deer wintering near Crump Lake in low sagebrush and Wyoming sagebrush-dominated habitats migrated north to a summer range on Hart Mountain characterized by mountain big sagebrush, antelope bitterbrush, and quaking aspen. Other mule deer winter to the north, near Lake Abert, where low sagebrush and Wyoming sagebrush compete with nonnative grasses. These mule deer migrate south to the Warner Mountains in spring, overlapping other Warner mule deer on their summer ranges. One mule deer migrated almost 54 mi (86 km)—the longest migration within the herd— along the ridge of the Warner Mountains, passing through these summer ranges to reach Turpin Ridge.
The Warner mule deer herd faces several threats, including annual grass invasion and western juniper encroachment, as well as changing climate regimes that reduce forage quality and water availability. Predation, diseases such as epizootic hemorrhagic disease, and highways also contribute to mortality. Each year from 2010 to 2022, ODOT recorded on average 78.7 DVCs for a 30-mi (49-km) stretch of U.S. Highway 395, and an additional 10.7 DVCs for a 32-mi (51-km) section of Oregon Route 140 (ODOT, 2023). In 2010, the Mule Deer Initiative included the Warner WMU and since then, ODFW, BLM, and NRCS SGI have removed 49,940 acres (20,210 ha) of western juniper, treated 13,568 acres (5,491 ha) to eliminate invasive plants, and conducted prescribed burns on 13,002 acres (5,262 ha), along with other habitat improvement efforts (ODFW, 2015, 2020). The organizations also improved 7,018 acres (2,840 ha) of aspen stands by removing conifers, constructing fences to prevent livestock grazing, and using controlled burns to remove conifer slash.
These mapping layers show the location of the stopovers for mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) in the Warner population in Oregon. They were developed from 47 migration sequences collected from a sample size of 17 animals comprising GPS locations collected every 5-13 hours.

Tags: animal-behavior, biota, lakeview, migration-organisms, migratory-species, oregon, united-states, usgs-67917a81d34ea6a4002bfb02
Organization: Department of the Interior
Species distribution model (SDM) for Achnatherum hymenoides in the Mojave Desert

Preserving native species diversity is fundamental to ecosystem conservation. Selecting appropriate native species for use in restoration is a critical component of project design and may emphasize species attributes such as life history, functional type, pollinator services, and nutritional value for wildlife. Determining which species are likely to establish and persist in a particular environment is a key consideration. Species distribution models (SDMs) characterize relationships between species occurrences and the physical environment (e.g., climate, soil, topographic relief) and provide a mechanism for assessing which species may successfully propagate at a restoration site. In conjunction with information on species attributes, SDMs facilitate holistic ecosystem restoration by enabling practitioners to identify diverse, resilient assemblages of native species. This project develops SDMs for native species of fundamental ecosystem importance in order to guide restoration of Mojave Desert landscapes. The dataset contained herein provides an SDM for Achnatherum hymenoides within its Mojave Desert range based on known occurrences.

Tags: arizona, biogeography, biota, california, habitats, maps-and-atlases, mojave, native-plant-materials-development, native-species, nevada, species-distribution-model, usgs-61ef290dd34e8b818adb7b81, utah
Organization: Department of the Interior
California Mule Deer Downieville-Nevada City Routes

The Downieville-Nevada City mule deer herd winters in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada range. The winter range includes dense conifer and oak woodland that is shared with a resident portion of the herd on a mix of public and private lands. In the spring, the herd migrates north and east of Nevada City on both sides of the middle fork of the Yuba River, staying north of Interstate 80, to high-elevation summer range along the crest of the Sierra Nevada. The summer range is primarily mixed conifer habitat opening up to high alpine granite near the crest of the Sierra Nevada. The population size is unknown due to limited survey capacity, but the population is considered stable to declining, affected primarily by dense overstory, environmental stressors, and habitat loss. This GPS collaring project was designed as part of a region-wide effort to obtain abundance estimates for deer using fecal DNA and home range analyses, with pinpointing migration routes and identifying winter ranges a secondary priority. Due to the small sample size, additional migration routes and winter ranges probably exist beyond the extent of our model output.
These mapping layers show the location of the migration routes for mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) in the Downieville-Nevada City population in California. They were developed from 19 migration sequences collected from a sample size of 8 animals comprising GPS locations collected every 1-13 hours.

Tags: animal-behavior, biota, california, migration-organisms, migration-route, migratory-species, nevada-city, united-states, usgs-63650b9dd34ebe442507ce69
Organization: Department of the Interior
Seabed component and feature data for the continental margin of the U.S. Pacific Coast (California, Oregon, Washington) from usSEABED (pac_cmp.txt)

This data layer (PAC_CMP.txt) is one of five point coverages of known sediment samples, inspections, and probes from the usSEABED data collection for the U.S. Pacific continental margin integrated using the software system dbSEABED.  This data file gives numeric data about selected components (for example, minerals, rock type, microfossils, and benthic biota) and sea floor features (for example, bioturbation, structure, and ripples) at a given site. Values in the attribute fields represent the membership to that attribute's fuzzy set. For components such as minerals, rocks, micro-biota and plants, and (or) epifauna and infauna, corals and other geologic and biologic information, the value depends on sentence structure and other components in description. For features (denoted by an '_F') such as ripples, ophiuroids, sponges, shrimp, worm tubes, lamination, lumps, grading, and (or) bioturbation, the value of the fuzzy set depends on the development of the attribute. Only the relative fuzzy presence of components and features can be determined; the absence of information does not indicate a lack of the attribute, only lack of information about that attribute.  Table 5 (https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/2006/182/table5.html) in the Larger_Work_Citation gives more information about the words or phrases that trigger each component and feature.

Tags: analyses, benthic-habitats-pacific-project, biogenic-sediments, borderland, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, components, continental-island-shelf, continental-island-slope, dbseabed, descriptions, distributions, estuarine-coastal, features, genesis, geology, geoscientificinformation, gravel-deposits, grays-harbor, instaar, institute-of-arctic-and-alpine-research, location, marine-aggregates-resources-and-processes-project, marine-nearshore, marine-offshore, marine-sediments, monterey-bay, national-marine-fisheries-service, national-oceanic-and-atmospheric-administration, nmfs, noaa, nonmetallic-mineral-resources, oceans, pacific-coast, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pacific-ocean, pcmsc, puget-sound, rock-substrate, san-francisco-bay, san-pedro-bay, sand-deposit, sand-deposits, sand-resources, santa-monica-bay, sea-floor, sea-floor-characteristics, seabed, sediment, sediment-chemistry, sediment-composition, sediment-resources, sediment-textures, state-of-california, state-of-oregon, state-of-washington, stratigraphic-sequence, substrate, terrigenous-sediments, u-s-geological-survey, uc, unconsolidated-deposits, unconsolidated-mineral-substrate, united-states-of-america, university-of-colorado, usgs, usgs-fe54517b-c140-4700-8dda-d327befaecf6, usseabed, west-coast, whsc, willapa-bay, woods-hole-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, 2015 and 2018 Site 0574 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-611f13b5d34e40dd9c01d235, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital elevation models of the SR530 landslide near Oso, Washington, July 2014 to July 2015

Digital elevation models of the SR530 Landslide, created using structure from motion photogrammetry. These surveys were performed at irregular intervals between July 1, 2014 and July 7, 2015.

Tags: digital-elevation-model, landslide, north-fork-stillaguamish-river-washington, oso, oso-washington, photogrammetry, snohomish-county-washington, sr530, structure-from-motion, usgs-5702a5a3e4b0328dcb817435
Organization: Department of the Interior
Adirondack New York soil chemistry data, 1997-2014

This dataset contains measurements of chemical concentrations of forest soil samples and associated site measurements collected in the Adirondack Ecoregion of New York State.  Data are presented in four groups (tabs) in an Microsoft EXCEL 2013 spreadsheet (and comma-delimited CSV files):  (1) Adirondack Sugar Maple Project (ASM), (2) Buck Creek North Watershed, (3) Buck Creek South Watershed, and (4) Western Adirondack Stream Survey (WASS) soil sampling.  The ASM data were all collected in 2009 and the WASS data were all collected in 2004.  The Buck Creek North Tributary Watershed was sampled in 1997 and repeated at the same plot locations in 2009/10.  The Buck Creek South Tributary Watershed was sampled in 1998 and repeated at the same plot locations in 2014. Site locations (latitude, longitude) are provided in a downloadable file and dynamic ArcGIS REST service at USGS Sciencebase DOI link.

Tags: base-saturation, calcium-chloride-extractable-ph, cation-exchange-capacity-cec, exchangeable-acidity, exchangeable-aluminum, exchangeable-calcium, exchangeable-hydrogen, exchangeable-magnesium, exchangeable-potasium, exchangeable-sodium, soil-chemistry, soil-horizon-thickness, soil-horizons, soil-science, soils-data, total-carbon, total-nitrogen, usgs-58ac60fbe4b0ce4410e7d6c6, water-extractable-ph, weight-loss-on-ignition
Organization: Department of the Interior
BathymetryA Hillshade [USGS]--Offshore Aptos, California

This part of DS 781 presents data for the shaded-relief map of Offshore of Aptos map area, California. Shaded-relief data are provided as two separate grids depending on mapping agency and processing method. This metadata file refers to the data included in "BathymetryAHS_USGS_OffshoreAptos.zip," which is accessible from https://doi.org/10.5066/F7K35RQB. These data accompany the pamphlet and map sheets of Cochrane, G.R., Johnson, S.Y., Dartnell, P., Greene, H.G., Erdey, M.D, Dieter, B.E., Golden, N.E., Hartwell, S.R., Ritchie, A.C., Kvitek, r.G., Maier, K.L., Endris, C.A., Davenport, C.W., Watt, J.T., Sliter, R.W., Finlayson, D.P., and Krigsman, L.M., (G.R. Cochrane and S.A. Cochran, eds.), 2016, California State Waters Map Series—Offshore of Aptos, California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2016–1025, 43 p., 10 sheets, scale 1:24,000, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20161025.
The bathymetry and shaded-relief maps of Offshore of Aptos, California, were generated from bathymetry data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and by California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB). Mapping was completed between 2006 and 2009 using a combination of a 244-kHz Reson 8101 multibeam echosounder and a 234-kHz SEA SWATHplus bathymetric sidescan-sonar system. The mapping missions collected bathymetry data from about the 10-m isobath to beyond the 3-nautical-mile limit of California's State Waters.

Tags: aptos, bathymetry, bathymetry-and-elevation, bathymetry-measurement, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, continental-island-shelf, distributions, environment, geoscientificinformation, imagerybasemapsearthcover, marine-geophysics, marine-nearshore-subtidal, marine-offshore-subtidal, northern-california-ecoregion, oceans, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pacific-ocean, pcmsc, rock-substrate, santa-cruz-county, seabed, sidescan-sonar, sonar-methods, state-of-california, transform-continental-margin, u-s-geological-survey, unconsolidated-mineral-substrate, usgs, usgs-556f79dfe4b0d9246a9fd086
Organization: Department of the Interior
Projected Seafloor Elevation Along the Florida Reef Tract From Port St. Lucie to Marquesas Key, Florida-75 Years From 2001 Based on Historical Rates of Mean Elevation Change

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center conducted research to quantify the combined effect of all constructive and destructive processes on modern coral reef ecosystems by projecting future regional-scale changes in seafloor elevation along the Florida Reef Tract, Florida (FL). USGS staff used historical bathymetric point data from the 1930's (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Office of Coast Survey, see Yates and others, 2017) and light detection and ranging (lidar)-derived data acquired in 2002 (Brock and others, 2006, 2007) to calculate historical seafloor elevation changes in the Upper Florida Keys (UFK) (Yates and others, 2017). Using those changes in seafloor elevation, annual rates of elevation change were calculated for 13 habitat types found in the UFK reef tract. The annual rate of mean elevation change for each habitat type was applied to a digital elevation model (DEM) extending from Port St. Lucie to Marquesas Key, FL that was modified from the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) U.S. Coastal Relief Model coastal DEM (NOAA, 2001) to project future seafloor elevation (from 2001) along the Florida Reef Tract. Grid resolution for the DEM is 3-arc seconds (approximately 90 meters).

Tags: altimetry, coelenterates, digital-elevation-models, doi-usgs-cmg-gt-coastal-and-marine-geology-u-s-geological-survey-u-s-department-of-interior, elevation, elevation-change, florida, florida-keys, florida-reef-tract, geoscientificinformation, lidar, lidar-gt-light-detection-and-ranging, marine-geology, marquesas-keys, miami, ocean-gt-bathymetry-seafloor-topography-gt-water-depth, ocean-gt-coastal-processes-gt-coastal-elevation, ocean-gt-coastal-processes-gt-coral-reefs, ocean-gt-coastal-processes-gt-erosion, ocean-gt-coastal-processes-gt-sea-level-rise, oceans, port-saint-lucie, reef-ecosystems, sea-floor-characteristics, sea-level-change, sea-level-rise, seafloor, seafloor-accretion, seafloor-elevation, seafloor-erosion, submerged, submerged-topography, usgs-a25afa95-a85e-4008-8f91-887544e44419
Organization: Department of the Interior
Observed Prescribed Burn Windows for the Southeast United States 1980-2017

Prescribed burning is a critical tool for managing wildfire risks and meeting ecological objectives, but its safe and effective application requires that specific meteorological criteria are met. This dataset contains results from a study examining the potential impacts of projected climatic change on prescribed burning in the southeastern United States. A set of burn window criteria (suitable weather conditions within which burning may occur based on maximum daily temperature, daily average relative humidity, and daily average wind speed), were applied to projections from an ensemble of Global Climate Models (GCM) under two greenhouse gas emission scenarios, as well as past observations for comparison. Data are provided as decadal output for observed conditions, and for individual GCM results for the historical climate scenario and the two future climate scenarios are provided. In addition, summary statistics (e.g., multi-model mean, and for selected quantiles) are provided for the GCM ensemble as a whole by decade.

Tags: alabama, arkansas, farming, fires, florida, georgia, geoscientificinformation, kentucky, louisiana, managed-fire-regimes, mississippi, missouri, north-carolina, oklahoma, south-carolina, southeast-united-states, statistical-downscaling, tennessee, texas, usgs-606775e8d34edc0435c09d67, virginia, west-virginia, wildfires
Organization: Department of the Interior
13CCT04_IFS_01_ITRF05.tif

In August of 2013, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) conducted geophysical surveys offshore of Petit Bois Island, Mississippi. These efforts are a continued part of the U.S. Geological Survey Gulf of Mexico Science Coordination partnership with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to assist the Mississippi Coastal Improvements Program (MsCIP) and the Northern Gulf of Mexico (NGOM) Ecosystem Change and Hazards Susceptibility Project, by mapping the shallow geologic stratigraphic framework of the Mississippi Barrier Island Complex.
These geophysical surveys will provide the data necessary for scientists to define, interpret, and provide baseline bathymetry and seafloor habitat for this area to aid scientists in predicting future geomorphological changes to the islands with respect to climate change, storm impacts, and sea level rise. Furthermore, these data combined with the geomorphological results will provide the properties and extent of local offshore sand sediment resources available for planning and execution of the Gulf Islands National Seashore barrier island restoration.
The geophysical data were collected during one cruise (USGS Field Activity Numbers 13CCT04) aboard the University of Southern Mississippi Research Vessel Tommy Munro offshore along the gulf side of Petit Bois Island, Gulf Islands National Seashore, Mississippi. Data were acquired with the following equipment: a Systems Engineering and Assessment, Ltd., SWATHplus interferometric sonar (468 kilohertz (kHz)), an EdgeTech 424 (4-24 kHz), an EdgeTech 525i chirp sub-bottom profiling system, and a Klein 3900 sidescan sonar system.
This report serves as an archive of the processed interferometric swath bathymetry and sidescan sonar data. Geographic information system data products include an interpolated digital elevation model, an acoustic backscatter mosaic, a trackline map, and point data files. Additional files include error analysis maps, Field Activity Collection System logs, and formal Federal Geographic Data Committee metadata.
NOTE: These data are scientific in nature and are not to be used for navigation. Any use of trade names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.

Tags: 13cct04, bathymetry, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, coastal-change-and-transport, elevation, geophysical, geoscientificinformation, gulf-islands-nationa-seashore, hydrography, imagerybasemapsearthcover, interferometry, interferometry-backscatter, marine-geology, mississippi, mississippi-sound, oceans, petit-bois-island, spcmsc, st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, swath, sxp-tools, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-63fe45fa-cfbf-40cd-8ca0-7b173ad17a56
Organization: Department of the Interior
Regional and Teleseismic Observations for Finite-Fault Product

This data release complements the following publication:
Goldberg, D. E., P. Koch, D. Melgar, S. Riquelme, and W. L. Yeck (2022). Beyond the Teleseism: Introducing Regional Seismic and Geodetic Data into Routine USGS Finite-Fault Modeling, Seismol. Res. Lett. XX, 1–16, doi: 10.1785/0220220047.
Rapid finite-fault models are published by the US Geological Survey (USGS) National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC) routinely following large (M7+) earthquakes. Finite-fault models estimate the spatiotemporal evolution of heterogeneous slip across a fault. The type of data used as input to a finite-fault inversion affects the overall resolution of the model and the slip pattern itself. In the associated manuscript, we demonstrate the performance of joint regional and teleseismic finite-fault models in comparison to teleseismic-only models.
This data release pertains to the July 29, 2021, Mw8.2 Chignik, Alaska, United States, the August 14, 2021, Mw7.2 Nippes, Haiti, the July 8, 2021, Mw6.0 Antelope Valley, California, United States, and the September 16, 2015, Mw8.3 Illapel, Chile, earthquakes. Data is provided in the input formats required for the Wavelet and simulated Annealing SliP (WASP) finite-fault inversion code (https://github.com/slipinversion/WASP). The release inludes preferred solutions for teleseismic-only inversions as well as preferred solutions for joint teleseismic and regional inversions.
The broadband seismic data in this data release is from globally distributed seismometers from networks AI, AK, AT, AV, BK, C, C1, CC, CH, CI, CN, CX, CZ, DK, G, GE, GR, GS, GT, II, IM, IU, IV, IW, KO, LX, MN, MX, OE, PL, PM, RO, SC, SJ, SS, US, UW, and WM. Strong-motion accelerometer data is from networks AK, AY, C1, CC, NC, and NN. Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) data is from the Network of the Americas, the Mobile Array of GPS for Nevada Transtension network, and the Centro Sismológica Nacional GNSS network. Sentinel-1 Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar observations are from the European Space Agency.

Tags: alaska, biota, california, chile, earthquake, finite-fault, ghsc, golden, haiti, united-states, usgs, usgs-61d61586d34ed79293ffa568
Organization: Department of the Interior