AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
LANDFIRE Annual Disturbance Puerto Rico US Virgin Islands 2022

LANDFIRE’s (LF) Annual Disturbance products provide temporal and spatial information related to landscape change. Annual Disturbance depicts areas of 4.5 hectares (11 acres) or larger that have experienced a natural or anthropogenic landscape change (or treatment) within a given year. For the creation of the Annual Disturbance product, information sources include national fire mapping programs such as Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS), Burned Area Reflectance Classification (BARC) and Rapid Assessment of Vegetation Condition after Wildfire (RAVG), 18 types of agency-contributed “event” perimeters (see LF Public Events Geodatabase), and remotely sensed Landsat imagery.  
To create the LF Annual Disturbance products, individual Landsat scenes are stacked and made into composites representing the 50th percentile of all stacked pixels (band-by-band) to reduce data gaps caused by clouds or other anomalies. Composite imagery from the specified mapping year, the two prior years, and the following year serve as the base data from which change products such as the Normalized Differenced Vegetation Index (dNDVI), the Normalized Burn Ratio (dNBR), and the Multi-Index Integrated Change Algorithm (MIICA) (Jin et al. 2013) are derived. Image analysts collectively use these datasets (separately or in combination) to isolate the true change from false change (commission errors). False changes can be attributed to many anomalies but are mostly caused by differences in annual or seasonal phenology, and/or artifacts in the image composites. 
Fire-caused disturbances sourced from MTBS may contain data gaps where clouds obscure the full burn scar from being mapped. Models trained from pre-fire and post-fire Landsat data are used to fill these gaps. The result is gap-free continuous severity and extent information for all MTBS fire disturbances. MTBS pixels derived from gap filling techniques, such as modeling, are noted as such in the Annual Disturbance attribute table. Smaller fires that do not meet the size criteria set forth by MTBS may be attributed using Burned Area (BA), informed from Landsat Level-3 science products and only available in the lower 48 states. Causality and severity information assigned to a disturbance are prioritized by source, with the highest priorities reserved for fire mapping programs (MTBS, BARC, and RAVG) followed by user-contributed events contained in the LF Events Geodatabase, and lastly, Landsat image-based change.

Tags: annual-disturbance, annual-disturbance-2022, biota, fires, geographic-information-systems, geospatial-datasets, hazard-preparedness, ia, image-collections, imagerybasemapsearthcover, insular-areas, landfire-2022, lf-2022, oconus, puerto-rico, raster-digital-data, remote-sensing, u-s-forest-service-usfs, u-s-geological-survey-usgs, united-states, us, us-virgin-islands, usgs-655540aad34ee4b6e05c461f, yearly-disturbance
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data release for toxicity of Antimycin A incorporated management bait for grass carp

The goal of this study was to develop and examine whether a management bait that can be used for selective control of grass carp. Our objectives were to 1) quantify the water-based 24-h LC50 of Antimycin-A for grass carp and rainbow trout, 2) quantify the 96-h LD50 of orally administered Antimycin-A laden bait for grass carp and rainbow trout, 3) quantify the leaching rate of Antimycin-A from the bait in water, and 4) determine if a management bait laden with Antimycin-A will be consumed by grass carp and cause lethality in the laboratory. To meet our objectives, Antimycin-A was encapsulated in a wax microparticle similar to Poole et al. (2018) and incorporated into a rapeseed bait for oral gavage feeding and consumption trials to demonstrate if Antimycin-A can be orally delivered, protected from degradation, and readily consumed by grass carp. The dataset includes raw files of toxicity survival information, water quality, bait leaching, and Antimycin-A analytical measurements.

Tags: biota, invasive-species, usgs-655240a5d34ee4b6e05c3611
Organization: Department of the Interior
Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Volume 1 (2022 - 2023)

This volume's release consists of 64642 media files captured by autonomous wildlife monitoring devices under the project, Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.  The attached files listed below include several CSV files that provide information about the data release.   The file, "media.csv" provides the metadata about the media, such as filename and date/time of capture.   The actual media files are housed within folders under the volume's "child items" as compressed files.   A critical CSV file is "dictionary.csv", which describes  each  CSV file, including field names, data types, descriptions, and the relationship of each field to fields other CSV files.    Some of the media files may have been "tagged" or "annotated" by either humans or by machine learning models,  identifying wildlife targets within the media.  If so, this information is stored in  "annotations.csv" and "modeloutputs.csv", respectively.   To protect privacy, all personally identifiable information (PII) have been removed, locations have been "blurred" by bounding boxes, and media featuring sensitive taxa or humans have been omitted.   To enhance data reuse, the sbRehydrate() function in the AMMonitor R package will download files and re-create the original AMMonitor project (database + media files).  See source code at https://code.usgs.gov/vtcfwru/ammonitor.

Tags: amber, american-marten, american-mink, ammonitor, animal-tracking, biota, bobcat, canada-lynx, coyote, ecosystem-monitoring, environment, ermine, field-inventory-and-monitoring, fisher, long-tailed-weasel, moose, raccoon, red-fox, red-squirrel, snowshoe-hare, time-series-datasets, trail-camera-wildlife-monitoring, usgs-654e4ae5d34ee4b6e05c315a, vertebrates, white-tailed-deer, wildlife, wildlife-biology
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geochemical data for post-fire surface water, streambed sediment, and soils from areas affected by the 2018 Camp Fire, Butte County, California

During November 2018, the Camp Fire burned more than 150,000 acres in Butte County, California. The fire was the deadliest and most destructive in California history, destroying more than 18,000 structures and causing at least 85 fatalities. The U.S. Geological Survey sampled surface water in areas affected by the Camp Fire, plus an unburned control site, during two post-fire sampling events, January 21-23, 2019 and February 28 - March 1, 2019. During each of those two sampling events, surface-water samples were collected at 8 stream locations. These 16 water samples were filtered using filters with multiple pore sizes (1.2 µm, 0.8 µm, 0.45 µm, and 0.22 µm) to evaluate colloid transport of trace elements. The filtrates were analyzed for 50 major and trace elements by Inductively Coupled Plasma methods. The 0.45 µm filtrates from the January 2019 sampling event were analyzed for 87Sr/86Sr. Field measurements are reported of water temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen, and turbidity. Data are also reported for the concentration of suspended sediment and the percent of suspended sediment less than 0.0625 mm in diameter in each water sample. During January 21-23, 2019 the USGS team collected streambed sediment at the same 8 locations where water samples were collected. Eleven other samples of fire-affected soils or streambed sediments were collected by USGS during December 2018, January 2019, and March 2019; these sites included soils in close proximity to burned vehicles and structures. Collaborators at California State University, Chico collected water samples at selected stream sites between November 30, 2018 and January 17, 2019 and provided unfiltered split samples to USGS. The USGS recovered suspended particulate solids from these water samples; sufficient particulate material for chemical analysis was recovered from eight of these water samples. The streambed sediments, suspended sediments, and soils were analyzed for 51 major and trace elements by Inductively Coupled Plasma methods and for 87Sr/86Sr.

Tags: boundaries, butte-county, california, fires, runoff, soil-chemistry, surface-water-quality, suspended-material-water, usgs-654e2e64d34ee4b6e05c314a
Organization: Department of the Interior
Laboratory estimates of eDNA degradation rates for Actinionais ligamentina eDNA

Data describe a designed environmental DNA (eDNA) experiment for the estimation of eDNA degradation rates for the mucket (Actinonias ligamentina) from water samples collected in the laboratory. Samples were collected from experiments performed from November 01, 2019 to November 15, 2019 at the USGS Columbia Environmental Research Center, Missouri

Tags: biota, edna-degradation, environmental-dna, mollusks, usgs-654d4164d34ee4b6e05c2f38
Organization: Department of the Interior
Habitat and Biological Characterization of Mississippi Alluvial Plain Streams in Mississippi, USA.

Highly altered agricultural watersheds like the Mississippi Alluvial Plain (MAP) in Mississippi, USA pose significant challenges for developing biological stressor-response relationships to monitor ecological improvements from best management practices (BMPs). Previous research (Taylor et al., 2023, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2023.110377) has indicated that MAP streams have elevated nutrient and ion concentrations as well as reduces biological diversity relative to other regions of MS. These data, collected for the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), are part of a joint effort to overcome these challenges and establish biological monitoring and assessment tools for MAP streams based on multiple biological assemblages including macroinvertebrates, diatoms, and bacteria (see DeVilbiss et al., 2023, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16905). This data release contains macroinvertebrate, diatom, and stream habitat data collected in July-Sept 2021. Corresponding bacterial DNA sequencing data can be accessed at the National Center for Biotechnology Information's Sequence Read Archive (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sra) under accession number PRJNA909314. Stream water quality data can be accessed from the National Water Information System. Sediment texture and nutrient data analyzed at the USDA-ARS National Sedimentation Laboratory (Oxford, MS) can be accessed in the supplemental information of DeVilbiss et al., 2023 (https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16905).

Tags: diatoms, invertebrates, streams, usgs-654d40dcd34ee4b6e05c2f30
Organization: Department of the Interior
U-Pb zircon data for volcanic and sedimentary units within the Kittitas Valley, central Washington State

This data release includes laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICPMS) U-Pb zircon geochronology data from four samples collected from syn- and post-Columbia River Basalt Group strata. Samples were collected from within alluvial fan strata and gravel-mantled hillslopes. Sample 16MANC2-01 was collected from an excavation into rounded fluvial gravel deposits along the Manastash Ridge. The unit collected includes Cascadian derived volcanic clasts and is interpreted as an inset terrace of fluvial strata deposited on the Manastash Ridge. Sample 16MANC1-06 is a rhyodacitic boulder collected on a nearby exposure of gravel mantled hillslopes along Manastash Ridge. Sample 16MRF01 was collected from a tephra deposited within alluvial fan strata along the Manastash Ridge range front. Sample 16MRF03 was collected from cross-bedded strata exposed along irrigation canals along he Manastash Ridge range front.

Tags: detrital-zircon, geochronology, geology-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center, gggsc, kittitas-valley, la-icpms, laser-ablation-inductively-coupled-plasma-mass-spectrometry, manastash-ridge, microbeam-laboratory, mineral-resources-program, mrp, radiometric-dating, sedimentary-rocks, sem-cathodoluminescence, thorium, u-pb, u-s-geological-survey, uranium, uranium-lead-analysis, usgs, usgs-6552899dd34ee4b6e05c392b, washington, yakima-river
Organization: Department of the Interior
Environmental DNA shedding rates in laboratory conditions for Cumberlandia monodonta, Actinonaias ligamentina, and Lampsilis siliquoidea - Food availability experiments with Actinonaias ligamentina and Lampsilis siliquoidea

Data describe designed environmental DNA (eDNA) experiments for the estimation of eDNA shedding rates for mucket (Actinonaias ligamentina) and fatmucket (Lampsilis siliquoidea) from water samples collected in the laboratory under differing food avilability scenarios. Parameters described include descriptions of laboratory collected water samples that were tested to estimate concentration of spectaclecase, mucket or fatmucket DNA qPCR results, and associated quality assurance measurements.

Tags: climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, edna, edna-shedding-rates, environmental-dna, mollusks, usgs-654d1faad34ee4b6e05c2eb0
Organization: Department of the Interior
Environmental DNA shedding rates in laboratory conditions for Cumberlandia monodonta, Actinonaias ligamentina, and Lampsilis siliquoidea - Temperature experiments with Actinonaias ligamentina and Cumberlandia monodonta

Data describe designed environmental DNA (eDNA) experiments for the estimation of eDNA shedding rates for the spectaclecase (Cumberlandia monodonta) and mucket (Actinonaias ligamentina) from water samples collected in the laboratory at different water temperatures. Parameters described include descriptions of laboratory collected water samples that were tested to estimate concentration of spectaclecase, mucket or fatmucket DNA qPCR results, and associated quality assurance measurements.

Tags: climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, edna, edna-shedding-rates, environmental-dna, mollusks, usgs-654d1e26d34ee4b6e05c2eaa
Organization: Department of the Interior
Sediment sample analysis data from ponds to the beach on North Core Banks, NC in October 2022

These data map in high detail surficial cross-sections of North Core Banks, a barrier island in Cape Lookout National Seashore, NC, in October 2022. U.S. Geological Survey field efforts are part of an interagency agreement with the National Park Service to monitor the recovery of the island from Hurricanes Florence (2018) and Dorian (2019). Three sites of outwash, overwash, and pond formation were targeted for extensive vegetation ground-truthing, sediment samples, bathymetric mapping with a remote-controlled surface vehicle, and uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) flights to collect multispectral imagery. Five semi-permanent ground control points were also installed and surveyed to act as control for additional aerial imagery collected via plane. UAS imagery were processed in Agisoft Metashape (v. 1.8.1) with surveyed temporary ground control points to produce calibrated multispectral (red, blue, green, red edge, near infrared, and panchromatic) orthoimages and digital surface models.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, beach, cape-lookout, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, geoscientificinformation, grab-sampling, grain-size, grain-size-analysis, hurricane-dorian, hurricane-florence, loss-on-ignition, national-park-service, north-core-banks, oceans, physical-habitats-and-geomorphology, remote-sensing-coastal-change, sediment, sediment-analysis, sediment-sample, sediment-transport, state-of-north-carolina, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-654d13f6d34ee4b6e05c2e55, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Environmental DNA shedding rates in laboratory conditions for Cumberlandia monodonta, Actinonaias ligamentina, and Lampsilis siliquoidea.

Data describe designed environmental DNA (eDNA) experiments for the estimation of eDNA shedding rates for the spectaclecase (Cumberlandia monodonta), mucket (Actinonaias ligamentina), and fatmucket (Lampsilis siliquoidea) from water samples collected in the laboratory under differing laboratory conditions. Shedding rates were tested under variable  mussel biomass, diet, and temperature. Parameters described include descriptions of laboratory collected water samples that were tested to estimate concentration of spectaclecase, mucket or fatmucket DNA qPCR results, and associated quality assurance measurements.

Tags: climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, edna, edna-shedding-rates, environmental-dna, mollusks, usgs-654d13abd34ee4b6e05c2e4d
Organization: Department of the Interior
Streambank topographic lidar survey of the French Broad River near the Interstate 26 bridge located south of Asheville, NC – December 2020, Mid-Construction #1

In January 2020, the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) began work on the Interstate 26 (I 26) highway widening project that involves a bridge crossing over the French Broad River (FBR) near Asheville, North Carolina. The U.S Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the NCDOT conducted a pre-construction light detection and ranging (lidar) survey of the streambanks within a one-kilometer reach of the FBR at the bridge construction site in November 2019 (Whaling and others, 2023). In December 2020, a canoe-based repeat streambank lidar survey was collected approximately 11 months after construction began, with the purpose to monitor geomorphological changes to the streambank and inform the NCDOT of potential impacts from construction activities. The survey extended from 300 meters (m) upstream to 700 m downstream from the bridge. Two georeferenced lidar scans were collected; one of the right-descending bank and one of the left-descending bank.  Three-dimensional points of the streambanks were collected with a canoe-mounted Velodyne VLP-16 laser scanner integrated with an SBG Systems Ellipse2-D inertial navigation systems (INS), which consists of dual Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) receivers and an inertial motion unit. The lidar scanner creates a “point cloud” of lidar returns and the INS computes the position and orientation of the points in three-dimensional space. The navigation solution from the INS was further improved in post processing. Ground points were identified in each point cloud with a Cloth Simulation Filter (Zhang and others, 2016) implemented in CloudCompare software (CloudCompare, 2023) and classified with code 2 (ground) according to the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) standard lidar point classes (ASPRS, 2011).  Water-surface reflections were identified and classified as code 7 (low noise; ASPRS, 2011).  All other points in each point cloud were classified as code 1 (unclassified; ASPRS, 2011). The left and right streambank point clouds are provided as separate LAS files, an industry-standard binary format for storing large point cloud datasets.  Each LAS file is provided with position and elevation data in three dimensions in units of meters, 8-bit scaled intensity, and the classification code. The data are projected in Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinate system, zone 17 north, horizontally referenced to the North American Datum of 1983 (NGS, 2018a), 2011 realization (NAD83 2011), and vertically referenced to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88; NGS, 2018b).

Tags: asheville, elevation, french-broad-river, geomorphology, inlandwaters, lidar, north-carolina, usgs-654cf25dd34ee4b6e05c2d89, xyz
Organization: Department of the Interior
Qualitative surveys of mussel communities at sites in the Tri-State Mining District, 2016 - 2018

The Tri-State Mining District (TSMD) is an area encompassing portions of Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma in which lead and zinc mining historically occurred. To further investigate the relationship between metal contamination and unionid communities, goals of this study were as follows; 1) Conduct a reconnaissance survey of the North Fork Spring River, Spring River, Center Creek, Shoal Creek, Tar Creek, Lost Creek, and Neosho River for areas containing live unionids and/or suitable unionid habitat with the goal of identifying approximately 25 sites that warrant further quantitative assessment, 2) Conduct quantitative unionid and habitat surveys at selected sites, and 3) Compare quantitative mussel data and preliminary sediment metal concentrations among sites. This data set is comprised of the results of qualitative and quantitative sampling of freshwater mussel communities in the TMSD including sampling locations, count of each species during surveys, and associated size, age, and life stage data.

Tags: aquatic-biology, biota, contamination-and-pollution, mining-and-quarrying, neosho-river, spring-river, tri-state-mining-district, usgs-654b984ad34ee4b6e05c295a
Organization: Department of the Interior
Airborne geophysical survey: Virgin Valley Northwest, Nevada

Aeromagnetic data were collected along flight lines by instruments in an
aircraft that recorded magnetic-field values and locations.  This dataset
presents latitude, longitude, altitude, and magnetic-field values.

Tags: aeromagnetic-data, aeromagnetic-surveying, airborne-surveys, f32017-lincoln, field-monitoring-stations, geophysical-surveys, geophysics, geospatial-datasets, magnetic, magnetic-field-earth, magnetic-surveys, meadow-valley-wash, nevada, nv, residual-magnetic-field, total-field, tule-desert, united-states, usgs-654b326c-9e04-4689-bb54-c5c6cb16dd48, virgin-valley-northwest
Organization: Department of the Interior
Snag fall data from long term forest dynamics plots in the Sierra Nevada of California through 2021

These snag (dead tree) fall data were collected as part of long term forest dynamics data. Tree fall data were collected non-systematically as text comments until 2013, after which explicit snag fall data were collected on an annual basis. This particular dataset includes data from 23 plots in old-growth mixed conifer and montane conifer forests in Sequoia-Kings Canyon and Yosemite National Parks. The plots range in size from 0.9 ha to 2.5 ha and were established from 1982 to 2001. We used demography plot data through 2021 (collected before the extensive KNP Complex wildfire burned many of the plots). Before 2021, four of the 23 plots had experienced relatively recent prescribed burns or wildfires. When established, all live trees taller than 1.37 m in height in the plots were mapped, tagged, identified to species, and measured for diameter. Crews survey plots annually to document tree mortality, to note the status of snags, and to tag and measure new (ingrowth) trees. Prior to 2013, crews did not explicitly document when snags fell. However, they noted when snags were not found or were found fallen onto the ground. In 2013, researchers combed through the annual plot notes to document the year snags fell. Beginning in 2013, field crews explicitly recorded the year when snags fell. Snags were considered fallen if their main stem, or bole, broke at a height less than or equal to 1.37 m off the ground or if they were leaning at more than a 45-degree angle. This dataset is limited to snags greater than 12.7 cm in diameter.

Tags: biota, california, droughts, forest-dynamics, forest-ecosystems, mixed-conifer, sequoia-national-park, sierra-nevada, snag, tree-fall, tree-mortality, usgs-654aab4ad34ee4b6e05c2825, vegetation, yosemite-national-park
Organization: Department of the Interior