AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Field spectra from salmon spawning locations on the American River, California, November 5-7, 2018

This child data release includes field spectra obtained as part of a study focused on mapping salmon spawning locations along the American River near Sacramento, California, via remote sensing; the data were collected November 5-7, 2018.  The purpose of this study was to develop and test a spectrally based technique for identifying salmon spawning locations, known as redds, from various types of remotely sensed data.  Traditionally, redds have been mapped by eye while walking the bank or from a boat, or by an observer in an aircraft or an interpreter visually examining aerial images.  The goal of this proof-of-concept investigation was to assess the potential for more efficient, objective, and automated redd mapping from conventional true color (RGB, or red/green/blue) and hyperspectral images. 
The field spectra were recorded from above the water surface at redds mapped in the field using an ASD HandHeld2 Pro spectroradiometer in reflectance mode, with periodic measurements from a Spectralon panel serving as the white reference. For each redd location, spectra were recorded for the pot and tail of each redd and the adjacent undisturbed substrate.  The data consist of reflectance measurements over the wavelength range from 325 to 1075 nm, along with the spatial coordinates and water depth for the redd.  
Field spectra from 20 redds are compiled in a single file, ReddSpectra.csv, and organized by redd, with a pot, tail, and undisturbed spectrum from each redd.  The file also includes colums for the easting and northing spatial coordinates, bed elevations, and water depths.  The reflectance at each wavelength from 325 to 1075 nm is given in a separate column of the file.  No post-processing of the raw spectra measured in the field was performed. 
These data were used to assess the potential for identifying salmon spawning locations from various types of remotely sensed data.

Tags: american-river, california, field-spectra, hyperspectral, nimbus-dam, redd, remote-sensing, salmon, spawning, suas, usgs-5dc48880e4b0695797584d80
Organization: Department of the Interior
An Unvegetated to Vegetated Ratio (UVVR) for coastal wetlands of the Gulf of Mexico Coast - 2018

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 1) developed, 2) vegetated, 3) unvegetated ratios and 4) an unvegetated to vegetated ratio (UVVR)  at 30-meter resolution over the coastal areas of the contiguous United States for the years 2014-2018. 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 based on the National Wetland Inventory delineation.

Tags: alabama, coastal-wetlands, conterminous-united-states, florida, gulf-of-mexico-coast, louisiana, mississippi, texas, usgs-5e4d6452e4b0ff554f6d54d4, wetland-change, wetland-gain, wetland-loss, wetlands
Organization: Department of the Interior
Tracking the growth of Ophidiomyces ophidiicola over time in natural and sterile soils using quantitative PCR

Wildlife diseases pose an ever-growing threat to global biodiversity. Understanding how wildlife pathogens are distributed in the environment and the ability of pathogens to form environmental reservoirs is critical to understanding and predicting disease dynamics within host populations. Snake fungal disease (SFD) is an emerging conservation threat to North American snake populations. The causative agent, Ophidiomyces ophidiicola (Oo), is detectable in environmentally derived soils, however little is known about the distribution of Oo in the environment and the persistence and growth of Oo in soils. Here, we use quantitative PCR to detect Oo in soil samples collected from 5 snake dens. We compare the detection rates between soils collected from within underground snake hibernacula and associated, adjacent topsoil samples. Additionally, we used microcosm growth assays to assess the growth of Oo in soils and investigate if the detection and growth of Oo are related to abiotic parameters and microbial communities of soil samples. We found that Oo is significantly more likely to be detected in hibernacula soils compared to topsoils. We also found that Oo was capable of growth in sterile soil, but no growth occurred in soils with an active microbial community. A number of fungal genera were more abundant in soils that did not permit growth of Oo, versus those that did. Our results suggest that soils may display a high degree of both general and specific suppression of Oo in the environment. Harnessing environmental suppression presents opportunities to mitigate the impacts of SFD in wild snake populations.

Tags: biota, environmental-pathogen-reservoir, microcosm-growth-assays, new-jersey, ophidiomyces-ophidiicola, snake-fungal-disease, united-states-geological-survey-national-wildlife-health-center, usgs-60a6b65fd34ea221ce4ba562
Organization: Department of the Interior
Processed continuous resistivity profile data collected in Manhasset Bay on Long Island, New York on May 17, 2008

An investigation of coastal groundwater systems was performed along the north shore of Long Island, New York during May 2008 to constrain nutrient delivery to Northport Harbor and Manhasset Bay by delineating locations of likely groundwater discharge. The embayments are bounded by steep moraines and are underlain by thick fine-grained sediments deposited in proglacial lakes during the last ice age. Beach sand and gravel overlie the glacial deposits along the coast. The continuous resistivity profiling (CRP) surveys that were conducted indicate the existence of low-salinity groundwater in shore-parallel bands, typically 25 to 50 meters wide, along the shorelines of both bays. Piezometer sampling and seepage meter deployments in intertidal and subtidal areas of the two bays confirmed the presence and discharge of brackish and low-salinity groundwater. The large tidal ranges (up to 3 meters), and the steep onshore topography and hydraulic gradients are important variables controlling coastal groundwater discharge in these areas. For more information on the survey involved in this project, see https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2008-007-FA.

Tags: agi-supersting, bathymetry, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, continuous-resistivity-profiling, crp, elevation, field-activity-number-2008-007-fa, geoscientificinformation, groundwater, image-collections, info-bank-id-t-1-08-li, location, long-island, long-island-sound, lowrance-gps, manhasset-bay, nassau-county, navigation, navigational-data, new-york, north-america, north-atlantic, oceans, processed-data, r-v-terrapin, submarine-groundwater, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-f664a4c8-b19c-4558-bad5-9ef3835d1bca, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Description of core collected during installation of a Wasatch aquifer monitoring well in the Green River Basin, Sublette County, Wyoming

A monitoring well was installed in the Wasatch aquifer in the Green River Basin, Sublette County, Wyoming in August 2015. Core collected during drilling activities was described to a depth of 170 feet. The data release contains a detailed description of the lithology and physical characteristics of the core sections, as well as numerous photographs. The data release was produced in compliance with the new 'open data' requirements as a way to make the scientific products associated with USGS investigations available to the public.

Tags: datasets, drilling-and-coring, geology, grain-size, groundwater, hydrogeology, lithology, usgs-590ba95fe4b0e541a0378d72
Organization: Department of the Interior
Point Shapefile with a Point Every 500 meters Along the Neuse River 2004 Resistivity Survey Tracklines

The Neuse River Estuary in North Carolina is a broad, V-shaped water body located on the southwestern end of Pamlico Sound. This estuary suffers from severe eutrophication for which several water quality models have recently been developed to aid in the management of nutrient loading to the estuary. In an effort to help constrain model estimates of the fraction of nutrients delivered by direct ground-water discharge, continuous resistivity profile (CRP) measurements were made during the spring of 2004 and 2005. CRP is used to measure electrical resistivity of sediments, a property that is sensitive to difference in salinity of submarine ground water. The 2004 and 2005 surveys used floating resistivity streamers of 100 m and 50 m respectively. The depth penetration of the streamers is approximately 20% of the streamer length which translates to approximately 20-25 m with the 100 m streamer and 12-14 m with the 50 m streamer. These data were processed using AGI's EarthImager 2D software. CRP data enables the mapping of the extent and depth of the fresher ground water within the estuary.

Tags: cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, continuous-resistivity-profiling, crp, geospatial-datasets, marine-resistivity, navigation, navigational-data, neuse-river, north-america, of-2005-1306, open-file-report, pamlico-sound, point, shapefile, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-96e783d4-13f9-4cbf-aeb3-57864f5ad9af, woods-hole-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Single-beam bathymetry data collected in the Cache Slough Complex, Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California, during USGS field activities 2017-649-FA and 2018-684-FA

This portion of the USGS data release presents single beam bathymetry data collected during surveys performed in the Cache Slough Complex, Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California in 2017 and 2018 (USGS Field Activity Numbers 2017-649-FA and 2018-684-FA). Bathymetry data were collected using personal watercraft (PWCs) equipped with single-beam sonar systems and global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receivers. The final point data from the PWCs are provided in a comma-separated text file and are projected in cartesian coordinates using the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Zone 10 North, meters coordinate system.

Tags: bathymetry, bathymetry-and-elevation, bathymetry-measurement, cache-slough, cache-slough-complex, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, elevation, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, global-positioning-system-gps-observations, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, sacramento-river, sacramento-river-deep-water-ship-channel, sacramento-san-joaquin-delta, san-joaquin-river, single-beam-echo-sounder, state-of-california, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-5d7192cce4b0c4f70cff9326
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geospatial Data, Tabular Data, and Surface-Water Model Archive for Delineation of Flood-Inundation Areas in Grapevine Canyon Near Scotty's Castle, Death Valley National Park, California

This U.S. Geological Survey data release consists of a polygon geospatial dataset representing estimated flood-inundation areas in Grapevine Canyon near Scotty's Castle, Death Valley National Park, and the data acquired and processed to support the delineation of those areas. Supporting datasets include topographic survey data collected by global navigation satellite system (GNSS) and terrestrial laser scanner (TLS) in Grapevine Canyon from July 12-14, 2016; derivatives of those data; pebble count data collected in Grapevine Canyon; and an archive of the one-dimensional hydraulic model used to generate the flood-inundation area polygons. Specifically:
1)a point dataset of four static reference locations (StaticGNSS_x) collected by single-baseline Online Positioning User Service – Static (OPUS-S) GNSS surveys;
2)a point dataset of 38 TLS survey scan locations (ScanOrigins_x) collected by real-time kinematic (RTK) GNSS surveys;
3)a zip file of 42 point cloud files (GrapevineCanyon_LAZ.zip) collected at 38 scan locations by TLS surveys; 
4)a point dataset of 769 ground control points (GroundControlPts_x) collected by RTK GNSS surveys;
5)a point dataset of filtered ground observations (TLS_FilteredGroundObs_x) from the TLS surveys;
6)a polygon dataset of the areas used to filter the ground observations (TLS_Filter_p);
7)a digital terrain model (GrapevineCanyon_TIN.zip) derived from the filtered ground observations as a triangulated irregular network (TIN) in North American Vertical Datum of 1988; 
8)a comma-separated values (CSV) table of the locations and results of five Wohlman-style pebble counts (Wolman, 1954), collected at five sites within the study area (GrapevineCanyon_PebbleCounts.csv);
9)a zip file containing all relevant files to document and run the Hydrological Engineering Center-River Analysis System (HEC-RAS) one dimensional hydraulic model used to generate the flood-inundation area polygons (SWmodel_Archive.zip);
10)a polygon dataset of the estimated flood-inundation areas (GrapevineCanyonInundationAreas_p).

Tags: california, death-valley, death-valley-national-park, flood, flood-inundation-maps, flooding, grapevine-canyon, inlandwaters, lidar, mathematical-modeling, nevada, scottys-castle, stationary-scanning, streamflow, surface-water-non-marine, t-lidar, terrestrial-laser-scanning, usgs-5d3a1c8ae4b01d82ce8cce59
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data from: Broad-scale occurrence of a subsidized avian predator: reducing impacts of ravens on sage-grouse and other sensitive prey

Raven point counts were related to landscape covariates using Bayesian hierarchical occupancy models and the mean of the predicted posterior distribution for raven occurrence was used to visualize results.

Tags: farming, geographic-information-systems-gis, geospatial-analysis, habitat-alteration, human-impacts, occupancy-model, predator-prey-interactions, sensitive-prey, shrublands, usgs-5b460f31e4b060350a14e3a6, wildlife
Organization: Department of the Interior
Dedicated Dredging on the Barataria Basin Landbridge (BA-36): 2021 land-water classification

The Louisiana State Legislature created the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in order to conserve, restore, create and enhance Louisiana's coastal wetlands. The wetland restoration plans developed pursuant to these acts specifically require an evaluation of the effectiveness of each coastal wetlands restoration project in achieving long-term solutions to arresting coastal wetlands loss. This data set includes mosaicked aerial photographs for the Dedicated Dredging on the Barataria Basin Landbridge (BA-36) project for 2021. This data is used as a basemap land-water classification. It also serves as a visual tool for project managers to help them identify any obvious problems or land loss within their project boundary. To better evaluate the effectiveness of restoration efforts, a land-water classification is performed on specific CWPPRA sites to help assess landscape changes.

Tags: aerial-photography, ba-36, conservation, cwppra, digital-elevation-models, ecosystem-monitoring, farming, geographic-information-systems, gulf-of-mexico, image-collections, image-mosaics, louisiana, louisiana-coastal, remote-sensing, united-states-of-america, usgs-66326edbd34ea70bd5f26d7c, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2018, and 2021 Site 0315 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 six land-water products (2005, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2018, and 2021).  The resulting matrix has 64 possible classes defined by the combination of land and water categories on those six 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-65414fb7d34ee4b6e05bce3e, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Attributes for NHDPlus Version 2.1 Catchments and Modified Routing of Upstream Watersheds for the Conterminous United States: 30 Year (1971 - 2000) Mean Annual Precipitation

This tabular data set represents 30 year (1971 - 2000) mean annual precipitation in millimeters compiled for two spatial components of the NHDPlus version 2 data suite (NHDPlusv2) for the conterminous United States; 1) individual reach catchments and 2) reach catchments accumulated upstream through the river network. This dataset can be linked to the NHDPlus version 2 data suite by the unique identifier COMID.  The source data for 30 year (1971 - 2000) mean annual precipitation data was produced by the PRISM Group at Oregon State University (PRISM, 2008). Units are millimeters. Reach catchment information characterizes data at the local scale. Reach catchments accumulated upstream through the river network characterizes cumulative upstream conditions.  Network-accumulated values are computed using two methods, 1) divergence-routed and 2) total cumulative drainage area. Both approaches use a modified routing database to navigate the NHDPlus reach network to aggregate (accumulate) the metrics derived from the reach catchment scale. (Schwarz and Wieczorek, 2018).

Tags: catchment, climate, inlandwaters, mean-annual-precipitation, nawqa, nhdplus, prism, sparrow, usgs-573b70a7e4b0dae0d5e3ae85
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital Orthorectified Aerial Image of Cottonwood Lake Study Area Wetland P7 from 1984

Orthorectified image from aerial photograph of wetland P7 in the Cottonwood Lake Study Area, Stutsman County, North Dakota. This image is part of a collection of photographs of the study area acquired during July and early August from 1975 to 2015.

Tags: aerial-photography, chase-lake-wetland-management-districtgtstutsman-county-waterfowl-production-areagteddy, chase-lake-wetland-management-districtgtstutsman-county-waterfowl-production-areagtshuler, cottonwood-lake-study-area, earth-sciencegtbiospheregtecosystemsgtaquatic-ecosystemsgtwetlands, earth-sciencegtbiospheregtecosystemsgtterrestrial-ecosystemsgtwetlands, environment, image-collections, imagerybasemapsearthcover, inlandwaters, north-dakota, northern-great-plains, platformgtaerial-photographs, prairie-pothole-region, stutsman-county, surface-water-non-marine, united-states-of-america, usgs-5873c85fe4b0a829a31e31da, wetland-ecosystems
Organization: Department of the Interior
An Unvegetated to Vegetated Ratio (UVVR) for coastal wetlands of the Atlantic Coast - 2016

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 2016. 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-66e1cedbd34ecba8b86777ee, uvvr, vegetation, virginia, wetland-change, wetland-gain, wetland-loss, wetlands
Organization: Department of the Interior
Kilauea 2018 lower East Rift Zone eruption - fissure 11 lava flow

The 2018 lower East Rift Zone eruption of Kilauea Volcano began in the late afternoon of 3 May, with fissure 1 opening and erupting lava onto Mohala Street in the Leilani Estates subdivision, part of the lower Puna District of the Island of Hawai'i. For the first week of the eruption, relatively viscous lava flowed only within a kilometer (0.6 miles) of the fissures within Leilani Estates, before activity shifted downrift (east-northeast) and out of the subdivision during mid-May. Around 18 May, activity along the lower East Rift Zone intensified, and fluid lava erupting at higher effusion rates from the downrift fissures reached the ocean within two days. Near the end of May, this more vigorous activity shifted back uprift into Leilani Estates, where fissure 8 reactivated with lava fountains feeding several 'a'a flows. The southernmost flow lobe developed into a well-defined lava channel and reached the ocean at Kapoho Bay - 11 kilometers (7 miles) away - on 3 June. Fissure 8 continued supplying this lava channel for more than two months, constructing an approximately 3.5-square-kilometer (1.4-square-mile) lava delta along the coastline. Over 4 and 5 August, activity at fissure 8 waned and flow in the lava channel came to a halt, only to be followed by weak activity within the vent in late August and early September. By then, the eruption had covered 35.5 square kilometers (13.7 square miles) of the lower Puna District with lava. In this report, the authors have sought to chronicle this sequence of events using geospatial data in the form of an Esri file geodatabase, Esri shapefiles, and Google Earth KMZs.

Tags: andesite, basalt, basaltic-andesite, east-rift-zone, fissure-11-flow, fissure-11-lava-flow, fissure11flow, geology, green-lake, hawaii, holocene, individual-flow, individual-lava-flow, individualflows, island-of-hawaii, kapoho-bay, kapoho-oe-n-quadrangle, kapoho-quadrangle, kilauea, lava, lava-flow, leilani-estates, lower-east-rift-zone, map, pahoa-north-quadrangle, pahoa-south-quadrangle, puna-district, quaternary, shield-volcano, state-of-hawaii, tholeiitic-basalt, united-states-of-america, usgs-5ebb4e7282ce25b5136182d9, vacationland-hawaii, volcano, waiopae
Organization: Department of the Interior
Wind rose plots for the volcano: 232030  Bazman

This zip folder contains ASCII text files of vectors at the specified volcano at 
12-hour intervals, 
from January 1, 1990 through December 28, 2009.  
The wind vectors are divided into five files, names by their elevation range above 
sea level in the atmosphere: 00-05km.txt; 05-11km.txt; 11-16km.txt; 16-24km.txt; 
and 24-30km.txt. 
The zip folder also contains a subfolder "figures", with Wind rose plots of wind 
direction and speed over 
this time period.  The plots are by season, and by elevation, given a total of 20 
plots (4 seasons, 5 
elevation ranges).  A summary plot is also included which gives the year-round 
wind pattern at the volcano, 
at 0-5 km elevation.  Plots are in both jpg and pdf format.

Tags: meteorology, usgs-58d010f5e4b0236b68f52987, volcanic-ash, volcanic-eruption-forecasting, wind
Organization: Department of the Interior