AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
East Maui, Hawaiʻi list of plants included for planning climate resilient 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. The list of plant species used during this project, and number of planning units required to recover each species, are included.

Tags: biota, climate-resiliency, endangered, hawaiian-islands, maui-county, maui-island, native-plant, optimization, restoration, spatial-conservation-prioritization, usgs-64770943d34e3ac335bebf35
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geospatial database of ground-water altitude and depth-to-ground-water data for Utah, 1971-2000

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the Utah Department of Environmental Quality 
has developed a geographic database of selected ground-water-level altitude contours and surfaces for 
Utah.  The contour data are derived from studies published by the USGS and the State of Utah.  The 
published contours were converted to digital format and attributes documenting information such as the 
water-level altitude, the year the study report was published, the year for which the contours were drawn, 
and a link to the on-line version of the study report were added to the data set.  The contours were input 
to the database as a unique polyline feature class for each study area.  The digital contours were passed 
through an inverse distance weighted algorithm to develop a continuous interpolated water-level altitude 
surface in raster format.   The water-level altitude surface was subtracted from USGS National Elevation 
data to derive a second raster of the estimated depth-to-ground-water surface for each study.
		
Comparison of the derived water-level altitude surface to water-level measurements from the USGS 
National Water Information System (NWIS) database shows calculated values from the water-level 
altitude rasters are generally well correlated with measured values from NWIS.
		
The database is not intended to result in exact predictions of the ground-water altitude or depth to 
ground water for any location but can be used as a general guide to aid the management and 
protection of ground-water resources in Utah.

Tags: depth-to-ground-water, environment, geoscientificinformation, great-basin, ground-water, inlandwaters, pieziometric-surface, potentiometric-surface, united-states, usgs-75622616-e712-4fd7-8782-689ae2916617, utah, water-level-altitude
Organization: Department of the Interior
Frullania nisquallensis Species Confirmation, Attu Island, Alaska, 2018

This dataset contains sampling, molecular methods, and partial tRNA-Leu DNA sequence information for three individual Frullania nisquallensis.

Tags: 37-hill, alaska, aleutian-islands, attu-island, biological-classification, biota, botany, bryophyta, bryophytes, casco-bay, dna-sequencing, environment, frullania, genetics, hepatophyta, kingfisher-creek, liverworts, massacre-bay, morphology-biological, mosses-hornworts-liverworts, plants, polymerase-chain-reaction, sequence-analysis-dna, systematics-and-taxonomy, usgs-asc181, west-mountains
Organization: Department of the Interior
MODFLOW2000 model used to simulate the groundwater flow of the Denver Basin Aquifer System, Colorado

A three-dimensional groundwater flow model (MODFLOW2000) of the Denver Basin bedrock aquifer 
system and overlying alluvial aquifer was developed to provide quantitative estimates of groundwater 
flow conditions and provide a useful tool for managers to analyze temporal changes to the hydrologic 
system in response to changing climatic conditions and future groundwater development. In 2004, the 
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) initiated large-scale regional studies to provide updated assessments 
of groundwater availability in important principal aquifers across the United States, including the Denver 
Basin. The Denver Basin groundwater flow model includes several enhancements over previous modeling 
efforts because of the availability of additional data, improved modeling capabilities, and advanced computer 
technology. Additional data available include updated geologic mapping, additional geophysical logs, 
water-level, streamflow, precipitation, and irrigation data collected since previous studies; and updated 
estimates of pumping from Denver Basin bedrock and alluvial aquifers. Modeling capabilities and computer
 technology also have advanced such that additional features, hydrologic processes, and numerical 
techniques are included in the current model that were not possible in previous models.  The Denver Basin 
groundwater flow model represents regional time-varying (transient) conditions prior to 1880 through 2003. 
The model was calibrated by primarily adjusting hydraulic conductivity and recharge parameters until a 
best fit was obtained between observed and simulated transient hydraulic heads and flows using PEST.  
The calibrated model was used to estimate the hydrologic system response to two pumping scenarios 
for the period 2004 through 2053. This USGS data release contains all of the input and output files for 
the simulation and calibration described in the associated model documentation report 
(https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/pp1770).

Tags: alluvial-aquifer, arapahoe-confining-unit, colorado, dawson-confining-unit, denver-aquifer, denver-basin, denver-lower-confining-unit, denver-upper-confining-unit, environment, geoscientificinformation, groundwater, groundwater-model, inlandwaters, laramie-confining-unit, laramie-fox-hill-aquifer, lower-arapahoe-aquifer, lower-dawson-aquifer, modflow, modflow2000, pest, ucode, upper-arapahoe-aquifer, upper-dawson-aquifer, usgs-20984718-caad-4d37-a19e-7f4d2f5e8881, usgsgroundwatermodel
Organization: Department of the Interior
Shoreline intersects for the islands of Vieques and Culebra, Puerto Rico, calculated using the Digital Shoreline Analysis System version 5.1

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) maintains shoreline positions for the United States coasts from both older sources, such as aerial photographs or topographic surveys, and contemporary sources, such as lidar-point clouds and digital elevation models. These shorelines are compiled and analyzed in the USGS Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS), version 5.1 software to calculate rates of change. Keeping a record of historical shoreline positions is an effective method to monitor change over time, enabling scientists to identify areas most susceptible to erosion or accretion. These data can help coastal managers understand which areas of the coast are vulnerable to change. This data release, and other associated products, represent an expansion of the USGS national-scale shoreline database to include Puerto Rico and its islands, Vieques and Culebra. The USGS, in cooperation with the Coastal Research and Planning Institute of Puerto Rico—part of the Graduate School of Planning at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus—has derived and compiled a database of historical shoreline positions using a variety of methods. These historical shoreline data are then used to measure the rate of shoreline change over time.  Rate calculations are computed within a geographic information system (GIS) using the DSAS version 5.1 software.  Starting from a user defined baseline, measurement transects are created by DSAS that intersect the shoreline vectors. The resulting intersections provide the location and time information necessary to calculate rates of shoreline change. The overall project contains shorelines, baselines, shoreline change rates (long-term and short-term), and shoreline intersects (long-term and short-term), for Puerto Rico, and the adjacent islands of Vieques and Culebra.

Tags: atlantic-coast, caribbean, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, coastal-processes, coastal-research-and-planning-institute-of-puerto-rico, culebra, digital-shoreline-analysis-system, dsas, environment, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, historical-shorelines, oceans, puerto-rico, puerto-rico-shoreline-change, shoreline-intersects, shorelines, transect, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, university-of-puerto-rico, university-of-puerto-rico-graduate-school-of-planning, usgs, usgs-6149fa5dd34e0df5fb96fc29, vieques, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital elevation models of Mount St. Helens crater and upper North Fork Toutle River basin, based on 1987 and 1999 airborne photogrammetry surveys Digital elevation models of Mount St. Helens crater and upper North Fork Toutle River basin, based on 1987 and 1999 airborne photogrammetry surveys Digital elevation models of Mount St. Helens crater and upper North Fork Toutle River basin, based on 1987 and 1999 airborne photogrammetry surveys

The lateral blast, debris avalanche, and lahars of the May 18th, 1980, eruption of Mount St. Helens, Washington, dramatically altered the surrounding landscape. Lava domes were extruded during the subsequent eruptive periods of 1980-1986 and 2004-2008. Nearly four decades after the emplacement of the 1980 debris avalanche, high sediment production persists in the North Fork Toutle River basin, which drains the northern flank of the volcano. This high sediment production poses a risk of flooding to downstream communities along the Toutle and Cowlitz Rivers and of clogging the shipping channel of the Columbia River. Consequently, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), under the direction of Congress, built a sediment retention structure on the North Fork Toutle River in 1989 to maintain an authorized level of flood protection. During 1987 and 1999, WH   Pacific, under contract to USACE, facilitated airborne photogrammetry surveys of Mount St. Helens crater and upper North Fork Toutle River basin. Digital softcopy photogrammetry techniques were used to produce a contour map, breaklines, and masspoints. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) used these data to produce a digital elevation model (DEM) of the survey areas. This USGS data release contains digital elevation data as a 10- and 30-foot resolution raster datasets (dem_1987.tif and dem_1999.tif). These DEMs can be used to develop sediment budgets and models of sediment erosion, transport, and deposition.

Tags: biota, cascade-range, cowlitz-county, dem, digital-elevation-model, elevation-data, geomorphology, hydrology, loowit, mount-st-helens, north-fork-toutle-river, photogrammetry, sediment, topography, toutle-river, usa, usgs-5c6448bae4b0fe48cb372917, volcanic-landforms, volcano, wa, washington
Organization: Department of the Interior
Argos Satellite Tracking Data for Whimbrels (Numenius phaeopus) - Processed Data

This metadata document describes the data contained in the "Argos Processed Data" (Child Item 1) of this data release. This data release contains all data collected by the Argos System from 32 satellite transmitters attached to Whimbrels on their breeding range in arctic and western Alaska, 2006-2010. The raw data were processed to accomplish two goals: flag implausible location estimates and decode raw sensor data. Three Comma Separate Value (CSV) tables are included in the "Argos Processed Data" (Child Item 1) of this data release: 1) the "diag_filteredLocations" table contains one record for every Argos location estimate collected, accompanied by a binary flag that denotes an algorithm's plausibility check (based on distance, turning angle, and rate thresholds). Each record also includes a 'Tracking_Status' variable that denotes whether the location was collected from a live animal, a dead animal, or shed transmitter, 2) the "decodedSensor" table contains decoded sensor data such as the transmitter's temperature, battery voltage, and motion (activity), and 3) the "deploymentAttributes" table contains one record for each transmitter deployment in a CSV formatted table. The deployment attributes file contains information such as when the transmitter was attached to the animal, when tracking of a live animal ended, and a variety of variables describing the animal and transmitter. This table is identical to the "deploymentAttributes" table in the "Argos Raw Data" (Child Item 2) of this data release.

Tags: alaska, animal-tracking, animals-vertebrates, argos, biota, birds, breeding-sites, capture-recapture-studies, coastal-ecosystems, colville-river, environment, kanuti-national-wildlife-refuge, marine-ecosystems, migratory-birds, migratory-rates-routes, migratory-species, national-petroleum-reserve-alaska, npr-a, numenius-phaeopus, ornithology, overwintering, pacific-americas-flyway, platform-transmitter-terminal, ptt, satellite-transmitter, seasonal-distribution, seasonal-movement, seward-peninsula, species-life-history, telemetry, tracking-equipment, usgs-asc182, waders-gulls-auks-and-allies, whimbrel, wildlife
Organization: Department of the Interior
Measures of Oxygen Consumption and Kinematics of Captive Polar Bears (Ursus maritimus) and Captive Grizzly Bears (Ursus arctos) while Resting and Walking in a Metabolic Chamber

This dataset contains measures of oxygen consumption and kinematic measures from 2 captive polar bears and 7 captive grizzly bears resting and walking in a metabolic chamber.

Tags: animals, animals-vertebrates, biota, energetics, kinematics, mammalia, mammalian-physiology, mammals, ursus-arctos, ursus-maritimus, usgs-asc183, vertebrates
Organization: Department of the Interior
Energetic Costs of Locomotion in Bears

This dataset contains measures of tri-axial acceleration, oxygen consumption, and kinematic measures from two captive polar bears and seven captive grizzly bears resting and walking in a metabolic chamber.

Tags: animals-vertebrates, bears, behavior, biota, brown-bear, carnivores, energetics, environment, grizzly-bear, kinematics, mammalian-physiology, mammals, marine-mammals, physical-activity, polar-bear, species-life-history, tri-axial-accelerometer, ursus-arctos, ursus-maritimus, usgs-asc184, wildlife
Organization: Department of the Interior
Pacific (Gavia pacifica), Yellow-billed (G. adamsii), and Red-throated Loon (G. stellata) Nest Monitoring Data; National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, 2011-2014

This data set contains information (in two spreadsheets) from the monitoring of nests of Pacific, Yellow-billed and Red-throated loons at two 64 km2 sites in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A) during the summers of 2011-2014.  We categorized each nest site by the physical aspects of the lake and proximity to other nesting loons. To determine nest fate (incubating, nest successful, nest failed), nests were revisited and inspected at least once a week. During each nest visit, we estimated embryo development (to predict hatch dates) by floating eggs. Nests were considered successful if one or more chicks hatched.

Tags: alaska, animals-vertebrates, aquatic-birds, biota, birds, breeding-success, chipp-river, ecological-dynamics, environment, loons, national-petroleum-reserve-alaska, nest-survival, north-slope, npra, pacific-loon, population-dynamics, population-studies, red-throated-loon, species-life-history, species-population-interaction, tundra-ecosystems, usgs-asc185, yellow-billed-loon
Organization: Department of the Interior
Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Water-Quality and Sonar Measurements alongside Conductivity, Temperature and Depth Measurements in the Delaware River near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2021

These datasets were created in support of the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) Next Generation Water Observing System (NGWOS) for the Delaware River Basin pilot study (Eberts, Wagner, and Woodside, 2019).  The NGWOS utilizes real-time data, improved computational capabilities, and new technologies such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) to provide information on water quality and/or quantity, in more locations, quickly and efficiently (Eberts, Wagner, and Woodside, 2019).  Combined with advanced modeling applications, the NGWOS will be an important tool for water-resource managers and emergency management.  In this study, water-quality and bathymetric data were measured with an AUV during spatial surveys in the study areas near Philadelphia, PA in July 2021.  Water-quality and bathymetric data were measured at various periods during the tide cycle and logged at 0.2-second intervals (5 Hz).  Bathymetric data were measured using an on-board single-beam echosounder in combination with a pressure transducer.  Water-quality data were measured with an EXO1 sonde built into the nose cone of the IVER3 EcoMapper AUV (YSI, 2020).  The sonde was calibrated before, and checked after, each data collection trip per USGS water-quality sampling protocols (YSI, 2020; Wagner and others, 2006; Wilde, variously dated).  During surveys in which the AUV was programmed to execute bank-to-bank transects, it was occasionally pushed off course by the current.  Water-quality parameters measured by the AUV during the survey include: water temperature and specific conductivity (YSI sensor SKU 599870), turbidity (YSI sensor SKU 599101-01), chlorophyll and phycocyanin (YSI sensor SKU 599102-01), fluorescent dissolved organic matter (YSI sensor SKU 599104-01), and dissolved oxygen (YSI sensor SKU 599100-01).  Water-quality parameters computed post survey include: salinity and density which were computed from water temperature, conductivity, vessel depth, and latitude (Jackson, 2013).  Additional water-quality measurements were collected from a boat following the deployed AUV.  These vertical water-quality profiles were collected with a SonTek CastAway Conductivity, Temperature, and Depth (CTD) instrument logging at 0.33-second intervals (3 Hz) (Xylem, 2017).  Vertical profile measurements were made periodically by manually lowering and raising the CTD at a subset of locations while following behind the track of the AUV.  Water-quality parameters measured by the CTD during the survey include water temperature, specific conductivity, and depth below water surface.  The CTD also provides computed salinity, sound velocity, and water density for each measurement.

Tags: delaware, delaware-county, delaware-river, environment, new-castle-county, ngwos, oxygen-content-water, philadelphia, philadelphia-county, river-systems, salinity, usgs-61705512d34ea36449a5f206, water-chemistry, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Blood Parasite Infection Data from Spectacled Eiders (Somateria fischeri), Alaska, 2008-2012

This dataset includes two spreadsheets associated with a study of three genera of blood parasites (Leucocytozoon, Haemoproteus, Plasmodium) in 185 Spectacled Eiders (Somateria fischeri) sampled in Alaska, 2008-2012. The first spreadsheet provides age, sex, location, and blood parasite (hematozoa) infection data for three different genera of blood parasites. Hematozoa DNA, from eider blood samples, was detected by amplifying a 479bp fragment of the Cytochrome-b gene using a nested PCR technique with primers specific for the three target hematozoa genera. Amplicons were sequenced and assigned to genera by the nucleotide BLAST function of the NCBI GenBank database. Infection data are provided as NCBI GenBank accession numbers for DNA sequences obtained from samples that tested positive for infection. The second spreadsheet provides the geographic coordinates of the five sampling sites.

Tags: animals-vertebrates, aquatic-birds, biota, birds, blood-parasites, colville-river-delta, disease, disease-vectors, dna-sequencing, ducks-geese-swans, ecological-dynamics, environment, genetic-diversity, genetic-variance, genetics, health, health-and-disease, hematozoa, leucocytozoon, parasitic-diseases, parasitism, parasitology, pathologic-processes, peard-bay, polymerase-chain-reaction, protists, punoarat-point, simondi, species-population-interactions, state-of-alaska, tutakoke-river, usgs-asc186, utqiagvik, vector-borne-diseases, waterfowl, wildlife-biology, yukon-delta-national-wildlife-refuge, yukon-kuskokwim-river-delta
Organization: Department of the Interior
Sampling and Resistance and Genomic Typing of Cephalosporin-resistant E. coli in Gulls (Larus spp.) and Bald Eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) in Southcentral Alaska, 2016

This data set includes information on collections of fecal or cloacal samples from wild birds at the landfill in Soldotna, Alaska, USA. Samples were screened for Escherichia coli (E. coli) and tested for resistance to multiple antibiotics.

Tags: alaska, animals-vertebrates, bacteria, bacteria-archaea, biological-hazards, biological-science-disciplines, biology, biosphere, biota, birds, birds-of-prey, culturing-specimens, dna-sequencing, drug-resistance-microbial, eagles-falcons-hawks-and-allies, ecological-dynamics, environment, environmental-dna, escherichia-coli, evolutionary-adaptation, health, health-and-disease, laboratory-methods, natural-science-disciplines, pathology, plant-and-animal-testing, raptor, soldotna, species-population-interactions, usgs-asc187, waders-gulls-auks-and-allies, waterfowl
Organization: Department of the Interior
Migration Corridors of Mule Deer in the Kaibab Herd in Arizona

Mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) of the Kaibab Plateau in Arizona had a population estimate of 10,200 individuals in 2019. The herd is relatively isolated; limited in range to the east, south, and west sides by the Grand Canyon. Annually the Kaibab herd migrates an average of 27 mi (43 km) between summer and winter range. Winter range is along the west, east, and northern extents of the plateau; consisting of pinyon-juniper woodlands mixed with sagebrush, cliffrose, bitterbrush, and various grasses. Some of the Kaibab herd winters in Utah, sharing winter range with Utah’s Paunsaugunt Plateau herd. During migration mule deer pass through mid-elevation transitional range containing Gambel oak, pinyon pine, and Utah juniper. Summer range is dominated by a mix of ponderosa pine, spruce, fir, and aspen, interspersed with open meadows. There are currently few impediments to mule deer migration on the Kaibab Plateau.
These data provide the location of migration corridors for Mule Deer from the Kaibab Herd in Arizona. They were developed from Brownian bridge movement models using 123 migration sequences collected from a sample size of 48 adult mule deer comprising GPS locations collected every 0.5-7 hours.

Tags: animal-behavior, arizona, economy, environment, kaibab-plateau, migration, migration-organisms, migratory-species, united-states, usgs-620e4ac0d34e6c7e83baa36a
Organization: Department of the Interior