AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Uptake and toxicity of clothianidin to monarch butterflies from milkweed consumption (ver. 2.0, January 2020)

Recent concern for the adverse effects from neonicotinoid insecticides has centered on risk for insect pollinators in general and bees specifically.  However, natural resource managers are also concerned about the risk of neonicotinoids to conservation efforts for the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) and need additional data to help estimate risk for wild monarch butterflies exposed to those insecticides.  In the present study, monarch butterfly larvae were exposed in the laboratory to clothianidin via contaminated milkweed plants from hatch until pupation, and the effects upon larval survival, larval growth, pupation success, and adult size were measured.  Soils dosed with a granular insecticide product led to mean clothianidin concentrations of 10.8 – 2193 ng/g in milkweed leaves and 5.8 – 58.0 ng/g in larvae.  Treatment of soils also led to clothianidin concentrations of 2.6 – 5.1 ng/g in adult butterflies indicating potential for transfer of systemic insecticides from the soil through plants and larvae to adult butterflies.  Estimated LC50s for total mortality (combined mortality of larvae and pupae) and EC50 for larval growth were variable but higher than the majority of concentrations reported in the literature for clothianidin contamination of leaves.

Tags: alachua-county, clothianidin, florida, monarch-butterfly, toxicity, usgs-5ce2922be4b0f7ebfdfb8a90
Organization: Department of the Interior
Bigheaded carp ichthyoplankton qPCR screening tool: data

This dataset includes information from ichthyoplankton sampling for silver carp and bighead carp collected from three main reaches in the Upper Mississippi River Basin, including the La Grange, Peoria, Starved Rock, and Marseilles reaches of the Illinois River, Pool 20 of Mississippi River, and the St. Croix River. Data include the number of bigheaded carp eggs and larvae identified using traditional manual sorting techniques, and genetic data derived from quantitative PCR (qPCR) and 4 bigheaded carp markers (SCTM4/5 and BHTM1/2) that were used to identify the amount of DNA in ichthyoplankton tow samples. These data provide information for natural resource agencies and managers who could use this qPCR screening tool to enhance traditional ichthyoplankton monitoring techniques and use the technique to quickly prioritize samples that have the highest likelihood of containing bigheaded carp eggs or larvae. Two worksheets are included in this file, including a meta-data sheet that describes the dataset, provides variable names, and associated units of measure.

Tags: bighead-carp, biota, eggs, genetic-screening, hypophthalmichthys, illinois, illinois-river-usa, iowa, larvae, midwest-region-usa, minnesota, mississippi-river-usa, silver-carp, st-croix-river-usa, usgs-5ce16fc0e4b0170a8bca95cf, wisconsin
Organization: Department of the Interior
Element concentrations in nestling tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor) from the U.S. and Binational Great Lakes’ Areas of Concern: Data

Tree swallow, Tachycineta bicolor, nestlings were collected from 76 sites in the Great Lakes which included multiple sites at 27 Areas of Concern (AOCs) and 12 sites not listed as AOCs from 2010 to 2015.  Livers were harvested and analyzed for 21 elements.  Mercury concentrations differed among AOCs; however, all livers analyzed had concentrations well within background and generally comparable or lower than most sites outside of the Great Lakes.  Mercury, the only element specifically identified in the designation of AOCs, does not seem to pose a threat to birds at any of the AOCs monitored.  In contrast, selenium (Se) concentrations were elevated at sites on the southwest shore of Lake Michigan to levels that could be harmful to reproduction.  Other toxic elements were elevated at selected AOCs, but the concentrations were not at toxic levels.  Multivariate analysis identified concentration pattern differences among 8 AOCs that had 3 or more sites sampled.  Of 29 possible AOC comparisons, 11 were significant and clear differences in patterns were evident.  Concentration patterns of sites within AOCs appeared closely associated with one another.  Additionally, Se was the primary contributor to the differences among the 8 AOCs for 9 of the 11 comparisons.

Tags: biota, cadmium, elements, greatllakes, mercury, selenium, tree-swallows, usgs-5ce16e0be4b0170a8bca95ca
Organization: Department of the Interior
Land-use and water demand projections (2012 to 2065) under different scenarios of environmental change for North Carolina, South Carolina, and coastal Georgia

Urban growth and climate change together complicate planning efforts meant to adapt to increasingly scarce water supplies. Several studies have shown the impacts of urban planning and climate change separately, but little attention has been given to their combined impact on long-term urban water demand forecasting. Here we coupled land and climate change projections with empirically-derived coefficient estimates of urban water use (sum of public supply, industrial, and domestic use) to forecast water demand under scenarios of future population densities and climate warming. We simulated two scenarios of urban growth from 2012 to 2065 using the FUTure Urban-Regional Environment Simulation (FUTURES) framework. FUTURES is an open-source probabilistic land change model designed to address the regional-scale environmental and ecological impacts of urbanization. We simulated an urbanization scenario that continues the historic trend of growth referred to as “Status Quo” and a scenario that simulates patterns of clustered higher density development, referred to as “Urban Infill". We initialized land change projections in 2011 and run forward on an annual time step to 2065. We captured the uncertainty associated with future climate conditions by integrating three Global Climate Models (GCMs), representative of dry, wet, and median future conditions. GCMs follow a continuously increasing greenhouse gas emissions scenario (Representative Concentration Pathway; RCP 8.5). This data release includes: a) land change projections for both urbanization scenarios in a spatial resolution consistent with the National Land Cover Database; b) development-related water demand projections for scenarios of environmental change at the census tract spatial unit summarized by 2030 and 2065; and c) the spatial boundaries of census tracts presented as a shapefile.

Tags: coastal-georgia, land-use-change, north-carolina, projection, scenario, south-carolina, spatial-analysis, urbanization, usgs-5cdf1c32e4b038687e296c69, water-use
Organization: Department of the Interior
GIS shapefiles for the June 27th lava flow at Kīlauea volcano, Hawaiʻi, June 2014–June 2016

This dataset contains shapefiles and associated metadata showing evolution of the "June 27th" lava flow (Puʻu ʻŌʻō eruptive episode 61e) that was active at Kīlauea volcano from June 27, 2014, to June 8, 2016. The dataset contains (1) an attributed polyline shapefile and (2) an attributed polygon shapefile with features that represent the outline and extent of the flow on 35 different dates. The dataset also contains (3) an attributed polyline shapefile with features that represent the eruptive fissures associated with this episode of the eruption and the principle ground cracks that were occupied by lava during lava flow emplacement, and (4) an attributed polyline shapefile with features representing the mapped extent of the active lava tube on six different dates. In total, this dataset contains four shapefiles, each with an associated metadata files in .txt and .xml formats. The geologic lines (lava flow contacts, the eruptive fissures, the ground cracks, and the lava tubes) were mapped on the ground or during helicopter reconnaissance flights using a handheld GPS, were digitized from satellite imagery or orthorectified aerial imagery (orthomosaics), were provided by the U.S. Geological Survey's Advanced Systems Center, or were (in a few instances) inferred. The relevant sources for each feature are assigned in the metadata attribute tables, but a lookup table for the data sources (DataSource.txt) is also included for convenience.

Tags: 2014, 20140627, 20140718, 20140729, 20140812, 20140822, 20140903, 20140912, 20140924, 20141003, 20141013, 20141022, 20141031, 20141112, 20141124, 20141204, 20141216, 20141230, 2015, 20150113, 20150129, 20150210, 20150227, 20150313, 20150423, 20150521, 20150619, 20150723, 20150821, 20150930, 20151030, 20151203, 2016, 20160109, 20160212, 20160325, 20160510, 20160608, east-rift-zone, episode-61e, eruption, field-inventory-and-monitoring, flow-map, geologic-maps, geology, geoscientificinformation, hawaii, island-of-hawaii, june-27th-lava-flow, kalalua, klauea, lava-flow, maps-and-atlases, pahoa-north, pahoa-south, phoa, puu, usgs-5cdd9871e4b029273746360f, volcanic-activity
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data report for line 8 of the 2011 USGS seismic imaging survey at San Andreas Lake, San Mateo County, California

In June of 2011, the U.S. Geological Survey acquired high-resolution P- and S-wave seismic data across the mapped (Schussler, 1906) trace of the San Andreas Fault zone at San Andreas Lake in unincorporated San Mateo County, California. Our seismic survey consisted of seismic reflection, refraction, and guided-wave data along a 60-m-long profile. To acquire the reflection and refraction data we co-located shots and geophones, spaced every meter along the profile. We used 59 SercelTM L40A, P-wave (40-Hz vertical-component) geophones (sensitivity of 22.34 volts/meter/second) to record 59 P-wave shots and 59 SercelTM L28-LBH, S-wave (4.5-Hz horizontal-component) geophones (sensitivity of 31.3 volts/meter/second)to record 59 S-wave shots. We generated P-wave data using a charge from a Betsy SeisgunTM, with the charge placed approximately 0.4 meters (16 inches) beneath the ground surface. The charge consisted of an 8-gauge, 400-grain, blank shotgun shell. S-wave sources were generated by horizontally striking an aluminum block with a 3.5-kg sledgehammer. We acquired fault-zone-guided-wave data using approximately one pound of explosives within a mapped trace of the San Andreas Fault, approximately 1.74 km NNW of the recording arrays. The explosives were placed in a 5-cm (2 inch) diameter borehole approximately 3-meter (10 feet) deep.  All data were recorded using a 60-channel Geometrics Stratavisor NX-60TM seismograph with a 24-bit analog-to-digital converter and a roll-along descaling factor, and the output data are in SEG-Y format (Barry et al, 1975). Each in-line shot was recorded for two seconds, with data recording starting 100 ms before the actual time of the shot. Data were recorded at a sampling rate of 0.5 ms, or 2000 samples per second. This report provides the metadata needed to analyze the seismic data. 
References 
Barry, K.M., Cavers, D.A. and Kneale, C.W., 1975, Recommended standards for digital tape formats: Geophysics, vol. 40, no. 2, p. 344-352. 
Schussler, H., 1906, The Water Supply of San Francisco, California, Before, During, and After the Earthquake of April 18, 1906 and the Subsequent Conflagration: Martin B. Brown Press, New York, 103 pp.

Tags: earthquakes, faulting-geologic, hazards, seismic-methods, seismic-reflection-methods, seismic-refraction-methods, seismology, usgs-5cdcb516e4b0f324a7cf0779
Organization: Department of the Interior
Environmental covariates at Mule deer locations within the Desert National Wildlife Refuge, Nevada, 2012-2014

This data describes the environmental covariates that are associated with nineteen Mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) locations taken from 2012-2014 within the Desert National Wildlife Refuge of Nevada.

Tags: biota, image-analysis, land-surface-characteristics, mammals, predator-prey-interactions, telemetry, usgs-5cdc8ca1e4b0f324a7cf0408
Organization: Department of the Interior
Diets and Stable Isotopes of Fishes in Rodeo Lagoon, California, 2016-2017

This dataset includes lab data for fish, fish diets, and stable isotopes for fish tissue, vegetation, and invertebrates collected during daylight hours in the Rodeo Lagoon and Lake in Golden Gate National Recreation Area at the Pacific Coast, USA during 2016 and 2017. This data release includes all animal taxa, and isotope values included in the analysis.

Tags: aquatic-biology, aquatic-vegetation, biological-taxonomy, biota, california, central-california-coastal, coastal-ecosystems, endangered-species, environment, eutrophication, fish, golden-gate, invertebrates, light-stable-isotope-analysis, marin, oxygen-content-water, united-states, usgs-5cdc82dce4b0f324a7cf03d2, vegetation
Organization: Department of the Interior
Spatial and temporal variability of peaks and seasonal maximum flows in the Conterminous U.S. from cluster analysis of standardized streamflow obtained from the USGS National Water Information System

This dataset contains annual peak and seasonal maximum streamflow data from the USGS National Water Information System (NWIS) and the results of an analysis of spatial and temporal patterns for those data for the conterminous U.S. An interpretation of the analysis of these data will be published in a journal article. The streamflow data were compiled for the years 1966 to 2015 for 415 streamgages that are part of the USGS HCDN-2009 network. The HCDN-2009 network contains streamgages in watersheds with minimal anthropogenic change. The dataset contains the annual peak and the maximum daily streamflow for the months of October through December (OND), January through March (JFM), April through June (AMJ), and July through September (JAS). The maximum daily streamflow for OND, JFM, AMJ, and JAS was determined as the largest daily streamflow over those months. This dataset contains the following files for the annual peaks and maximum daily streamflow. The files labeled "raw" contain the water year and the raw annual peaks from NWIS and the selected maximum daily streamflow from NWIS. The files labeled "SPI" contain the water year and the standardized peaks and maximum daily streamflow by using the Standardized Precipitation Index method. The files labeled "cluster_assignments" contain (in columns) the gage name (two letter abbreviation of the state in which the gage is located and the USGS site number), the latitude and longitude (NAD 83) of the gage, an integer that is an identifier of the cluster that the gage was assigned, and the Pearson correlation coefficient between the standardized streamflow and the average standardized streamflow of all gages in its cluster. The annual peaks were clustered into 4 groups, the OND maximum flows were clustered into 7 groups, the JFM maximum flows were clustered into 9 groups, and the both the AMJ and JAS maximum flows were clustered into 5 groups. The files with the term "cluster_means" in the file name contain the water year and the mean of the standardized streamflow of all gages in the clusters of peaks and maximum daily streamflow for OND, JFM, AMJ, and JAS.

Tags: floods, statistical-analysis, streamflow, usgs-5cdb3440e4b0ab16db3a843a
Organization: Department of the Interior
Records of mule deer found dead or live captured on the northern Yellowstone winter range, 1993-1997

The data detail the live captures and radio-collaring of female mule deer on the northern Yellowstone winter range - 60 in 1993 and 25 in 1995 - and details of the known deaths of these deer.  It also includes records of mule deer of both sexes found dead in the course of field work between 1993 and 1997.

Tags: biota, live-capture, mortality, mule-deer, northern-yellowstone-winter-range, usgs-5ce44bd6e4b0654fe0bce638, yellowstone-national-park-north
Organization: Department of the Interior
Historical and 21st century soil temperature and moisture data for drylands of western U.S. and Canada

These data represent simulated soil temperature and moisture conditions for current climate, and for future climate represented by all available climate models at two time periods during the 21st century.  These data were used to: 1) quantify the direction and magnitude of expected changes in several measures of soil temperature and soil moisture, including the key variables used to distinguish the regimes used in the R and R categories; 2) assess how these changes will impact the geographic distribution of soil temperature and moisture regimes; and 3) explore the implications for using R and R categories for estimating future ecosystem resilience and resistance.

Tags: alberta, aridification, aridity, arizona, big-sagebrush-ecosystems, biota, british-columbia, california, canada, cheatgrass, clay-loam, climate, climate-change, climate-models, colorado, concentration-pathways, drought-resistance, droughts, ecological-model, ecological-transformation, ecosystem-resilience, future-time-periods, historical-conditions, idaho, kansas, manitoba, minnesota, montana, nebraska, nevada, new-mexico, north-dakota, oklahoma, oregon, resilience, sandy-loam, saskatchewan, silt-loam, soil-temperature, soil-types, south-dakota, texas, united-states, usgs-5cdb058fe4b0ab16db3a83b4, utah, vulnerability, washington, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Surface Water and Porewater Chemistry and Nitrogen Biogeochemistry of Cell 3A, Prado Wetlands, Riverside, CA, USA (2018) (ver. 2.0, April 2025)

Shallow, unit process open water (UPOW) constructed wetlands effectively remove a range of emerging and traditional water contaminants.  Yet, much remains to be learned about internal carbon and nitrogen cycling within these systems and their diel functionality.  The current study was conducted at Prado Wetlands in Riverside County, CA, USA in June-September 2018 and focused on light/dark fluctuations in water column and biomat geochemistry. Physical water column parameters were collected using a multiprobe sonde at 15-minute intervals and water samples using an autosampler at 3-hour intervals at the inlet and outlet spillways of the experimental wetland.  Porewater samples were collected using an array of Henry samplers.  Water samples were analyzed for inorganic anions, cations, metals, total dissolved N, and N and O stable isotopes in nitrate and ammonium.  Laboratory microcosm experiments were conducted with slurried wetland biomat to quantify denitrification activity using the acetylene block procedure.  In situ column incubations were conducted in light and dark conditions using 15N-sodium nitrite as tracer and analyzed for 15N and 15N content in nitrate, nitrite, ammonium and nitrogen gas to determine rates of N cycling processes within the wetland.

Tags: diel-cycling, dissolved-metals, engineered-wetlands, environment, nitrogen, prado-wetlands, riverside-county, southern-california, usgs-5cdaf823e4b0ab16db3a82f9, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Occupancy data for spatiotemporal distribution assessments of bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus) and rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in the Bruneau and Jarbidge River Basins, Idaho and Nevada, USA, in water year 2016

eDNA-based spatiotemporal distribution data (occupancy model format) for rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus) within the Bruneau-Jarbidge Rivers Wilderness in southern Idaho and northern Nevada, USA. Data also include stream discharge and stream temperature data for each site. All data were collected between October 2015 and September 2016.

Tags: biological-monitoring, biota, bruneau-river, ecosystem-monitoring, environment, environmental-dna, field-monitoring-stations, great-basin, idaho, jarbidge-river, nevada, north-america, stream-gage-measurement, streamgage-network, usgs-5cdaf739e4b0ab16db3a82e8
Organization: Department of the Interior
Concentrations of Pharmaceutical Contaminants and Their Predicted Effects from a Multi-Regional Assessment of Wadeable USA Streams, 2014-2017

Human-use pharmaceutical compounds were analyzed at the U.S. Geological Survey, National Water Quality Laboratory, Denver, Colorado, in wadeable streams in 4 Regional Stream Quality Assessments: Northeast (NESQA), Southeast (SESQA), Pacific Northwest (PNSQA) and California (CSQA). Multiple (with few exceptions) samplings occurred at each site, during base flow, between 2014 and 2017. Sites were located in the headwaters of perennial, wadeable streams in urban and agricultural watersheds. Site selection and methodology for each assessment can be found in Van Meter and others (2015), Sheibley and others (2015), Van Meter and others (2017), Coles and others (2016), Van Meter and others (2016), Journey and others (2015), and Van Meter and others (2014).

Tags: aquatic-health, biota, california, computational-toxicology, connecticut, georgia, massachusetts, new-hampshire, new-jersey, new-york, north-carolina, oregon, pennsylvania, pharmaceutical-contaminants, rhode-island, south-carolina, surface-water, target-analysis, usgs-5cdae93ae4b0ab16db3a822b, vermont, virginia, wadeable-streams, washington
Organization: Department of the Interior
EAARL Submarine Topography-Northern Florida Keys Reef Tract

Lidar is a remote sensing technique that uses laser light to detect, range, or identify remote objects based on light reflected by the object or emitted through its subsequent fluorescence. Airborne ranging lidar is now being applied in coastal environments to produce accurate, cost-efficient elevation datasets with high spatial density.  The USGS, in cooperation with NASA and NPS, is using airborne lidar to measure the submerged topography of the Northern Florida Keys Reef Tract (NFKRT); secondarily, the data will be assessed for its potential in terms of benthic characterization.  Elevation measurements were collected over the NFKRT using the NASA Experimental Advanced Airborne Research Lidar (EAARL), a pulsed laser ranging system mounted onboard an aircraft to measure subaerial and submarine topography. The system uses a high frequency laser beam directed at the earth's surface through an opening in the bottom of the aircraft's fuselage. The laser system records the time difference between emission of the laser beam and the reception of the reflected laser signal in the aircraft. The EAARL system, developed by the NASA Wallops Flight Facility (WFF) in Virginia, measures ground elevation with a vertical resolution of roughly 15 centimeters.  A sampling rate of up to 3 kHz results in an extremely dense spatial elevation data set. The EAARL system is typically flown at 300 m altitude AGL, resulting in a 240 m swath for each flightline. Data collection occurred with approximately 50% overlap between flightlines, resulting in about one laser sounding per square meter. The data were processed by the USGS, Florida Integrated Science Center (FISC] St. Petersburg office to produce 1 meter resolution raster images that can be easily ingested into a Geographic Information System (GIS).  The data were organized as 2 km by 2 km data tiles in 32 bit floating-point integer GeoTIFF format.
For more information on Lidar science and the Experimental Advanced Airborne Research Lidar (EAARL) system and surveys, see http://ngom.usgs.gov/dsp/overview/index.php and http://ngom.usgs.gov/dsp/tech/eaarl/index.php .

Tags: altimetry, bathymetry-and-elevation, digital-elevation-models, distributions, elevation, florida, florida-keys, lidar, lidar-experimental-advanced-airborne-research-lidar-digital-elevation-model-elevation-change-la, northern-florida-keys-reef-tract, topographic-mapping, topography, united-states-east-coast, usgs-5cd6fc67-9f04-4037-80e8-11568dd98df1
Organization: Department of the Interior