AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Winter Ranges of Elk in the North of Interstate 40 Herd in Arizona

The North of Interstate 40 (I-40) elk (Cervus canadensis) herd makes an annual migration throughout some of Arizona’s high elevation landscapes west of Flagstaff. The bulk of the herd resides in Arizona’s Game Management Unit (GMU) 7W during the summer and during the winter many migrate to GMU 10. The GMU 7W population had an estimate of 4,300 individuals in 2019, while the GMU 10 population had an estimate of 3,200. Like many elk in Arizona, only a portion of the herd is migratory. Summer range contains ponderosa pine forests and open prairies near Government Prairie and Sitgreaves Mountain. In the winter, the elk transition to gradually lower elevations and habitats dominated by pinyon-juniper woodlands. I-40 and State Route 64 are primary threats to this migration corridor. Successful elk crossings of I-40 are rare, and research has shown that there are more than 65 elk-vehicle collisions/year along this stretch (Gagnon et al. 2012a,b).
These data provide the location of winter ranges for elk from the North of Interstate 40 Herd in Arizona. They were developed using 28 sequences collected from a sample size of 18 adult elk comprising GPS locations collected every 2 hours.

Tags: animal-behavior, arizona, economy, environment, flagstaff, migration, migration-organisms, migratory-species, united-states, usgs-620e4a6fd34e6c7e83baa336
Organization: Department of the Interior
Migration Routes of Elk in the North of Interstate 40 Herd in Arizona

The North of Interstate 40 (I-40) elk (Cervus canadensis) herd makes an annual migration throughout some of Arizona’s high elevation landscapes west of Flagstaff. The bulk of the herd resides in Arizona’s Game Management Unit (GMU) 7W during the summer and during the winter many migrate to GMU 10. The GMU 7W population had an estimate of 4,300 individuals in 2019, while the GMU 10 population had an estimate of 3,200. Like many elk in Arizona, only a portion of the herd is migratory. Summer range contains ponderosa pine forests and open prairies near Government Prairie and Sitgreaves Mountain. In the winter, the elk transition to gradually lower elevations and habitats dominated by pinyon-juniper woodlands. I-40 and State Route 64 are primary threats to this migration corridor. Successful elk crossings of I-40 are rare, and research has shown that there are more than 65 elk-vehicle collisions/year along this stretch (Gagnon et al. 2012a,b).
These data provide the location of migration routes for elk from the North of Interstate 40 Herd in Arizona. They were developed using 49 migration sequences collected from a sample size of 18 adult elk comprising GPS locations collected every 2 hours.

Tags: animal-behavior, arizona, economy, environment, flagstaff, migration, migration-organisms, migratory-species, united-states, usgs-620e4a6bd34e6c7e83baa334
Organization: Department of the Interior
Migration Corridors of Elk in the North of Interstate 40 Herd in Arizona

The North of Interstate 40 (I-40) elk (Cervus canadensis) herd makes an annual migration throughout some of Arizona’s high elevation landscapes west of Flagstaff. The bulk of the herd resides in Arizona’s Game Management Unit (GMU) 7W during the summer and during the winter many migrate to GMU 10. The GMU 7W population had an estimate of 4,300 individuals in 2019, while the GMU 10 population had an estimate of 3,200. Like many elk in Arizona, only a portion of the herd is migratory. Summer range contains ponderosa pine forests and open prairies near Government Prairie and Sitgreaves Mountain. In the winter, the elk transition to gradually lower elevations and habitats dominated by pinyon-juniper woodlands. I-40 and State Route 64 are primary threats to this migration corridor. Successful elk crossings of I-40 are rare, and research has shown that there are more than 65 elk-vehicle collisions/year along this stretch (Gagnon et al. 2012a,b).
These data provide the location of migration corridors for elk from the North of Interstate 40 Herd in Arizona. They were developed using 49 migration sequences collected from a sample size of 18 adult elk comprising GPS locations collected every 2 hours.

Tags: animal-behavior, arizona, economy, environment, flagstaff, migration, migration-organisms, migratory-species, united-states, usgs-620e4a67d34e6c7e83baa332
Organization: Department of the Interior
Demographic model inputs and code, catchment area population estimates, and counterfactual (CIU) estimates for population growth for 23 focal bird species.

Renewable energy production can kill birds, but little is known about how it affects avian populations. We assessed vulnerability of populations for 23 priority bird species killed at wind and solar facilities in California, USA.

Tags: anthropogenic-effects, biota, bird-populations, birds, california, canada, coastal-california, ecosystem-management, environment, mojave-and-sonoran-desert, renewable-energy, solar, united-states, usgs-620d7b5ad34e6c7e83ba9b3a, wildlife-biology, wildlife-mortality, wind, wind-energy
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data release for Holocene paleohydrology from alpine lake sediment, Emerald Lake, Wasatch Plateau of central Utah, USA

Holocene sediments at Emerald Lake in central Utah (3090 m a.s.l), document the paleohydroclimatic history of the western Upper Colorado River headwater region. Multi-proxy analyses of sediment composition, mineralogy, and stable isotopes of carbonate (d18O and d13C) show changes in effective moisture for the past ca. 10,000 years at millennial to decadal timescales. Emerald Lake originated as a shallow closed-basin cirque pond during the early Holocene. By ca. 7000 cal yr BP, higher lake levels and carbonate d18O values indicate rising effective moisture and higher proportions of summer precipitation continued at least until ca. 5500 cal yr BP when a landslide entered the lake margin. Between ca. 4500 and 2400 cal yr BP dry conditions at Emerald Lake envelop the timing of the 'Late Holocene Dry Period' identified at lower elevations. For the past ca. 2500 years, Emerald Lake d18O values were relatively low, indicating wetter conditions and higher snow input (compared to rain) except for dry periods at ca. 2000 cal yr BP and during the Medieval Climate Anomaly at ca. 1000 and ca. 500 cal yr BP. Results provide a long-term perspective on precipitation extremes that influence regional water supplies from a snow-dominated catchment typical of the predominant source region for the Upper Colorado River.

Tags: great-basin, high-elevation-lake, holocene, lake-level, late-holocene-dry-period, oxygen-isotopes, paleoclimatology, paleohydrology, upper-colorado, usgs-620d7871d34e6c7e83ba9b34, utah, wasatch-plateau
Organization: Department of the Interior
Acquisition and observation logs for seabed video and sediment samples from Stellwagen Bank during six surveys by the U.S. Geological Survey aboard the R/V Auk, May 2016 to April 2019

These data are a part of the effort to map geologic substrates of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary region off Boston, Massachusetts. The overall goal is to develop high-resolution (1:25,000) interpretive maps, based on multibeam sonar data and seabed sampling, showing surficial geology and seabed sediment dynamics. The work was conducted in collaboration with the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, and the data collected will aid research on the ecology of fish and invertebrate species that inhabit the region. The Sanctuary's research vessel, R/V Auk, visited a total of 233 locations on Stellwagen Bank during six separate surveys from May 2016 to April 2019. During these surveys a customized Van Veen grab sampler (SEABOSS) equipped with a video camera and a CTD was deployed in drift mode to collect sediment for grain-size analysis, video imagery of the seabed, and measurements of water column properties including temperature, salinity, density, and fluorescence.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, field-activity-logs, field-monitoring-stations, geoscientificinformation, ground-truth, location, log-book, marine-biology, marine-geology, massachusetts, massachusetts-bay, national-oceanic-and-atmospheric-administration, navigational-data, noaa, north-america, oceans, sbnms, sea-floor-samples, seabed-observation-and-sampling-system, seaboss, sediment-samples, stations, stellwagen-bank, stellwagen-bank-national-marine-sanctuary, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-620d4fd8d34e6c7e83ba9ad0, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Navigation data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey on Stellwagen Bank during six surveys aboard the R/V Auk, May 2016 to April 2019

These data are a part of the effort to map geologic substrates of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary region off Boston, Massachusetts. The overall goal is to develop high-resolution (1:25,000) interpretive maps, based on multibeam sonar data and seabed sampling, showing surficial geology and seabed sediment dynamics. The work was conducted in collaboration with the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, and the data collected will aid research on the ecology of fish and invertebrate species that inhabit the region. The Sanctuary's research vessel, R/V Auk, visited a total of 233 locations on Stellwagen Bank during six separate surveys from May 2016 to April 2019. During these surveys a customized Van Veen grab sampler (SEABOSS) equipped with a video camera and a CTD was deployed in drift mode to collect sediment for grain-size analysis, video imagery of the seabed, and measurements of water column properties including temperature, salinity, density, and fluorescence.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, geolocation-measurement, gps-measurement, location, marine-geology, massachusetts, massachusetts-bay, national-oceanic-and-atmospheric-administration, navigation, navigational-data, noaa, north-america, oceans, sbnms, stellwagen-bank, stellwagen-bank-national-marine-sanctuary, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-620d4fcad34e6c7e83ba9ace, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Still images in JPEG format of the sediment surface in the grab sampler, collected by the U.S. Geological Survey on Stellwagen Bank during six surveys aboard the R/V Auk, May 2016 to April 2019

These data are a part of the effort to map geologic substrates of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary region off Boston, Massachusetts. The overall goal is to develop high-resolution (1:25,000) interpretive maps, based on multibeam sonar data and seabed sampling, showing surficial geology and seabed sediment dynamics. The work was conducted in collaboration with the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, and the data collected will aid research on the ecology of fish and invertebrate species that inhabit the region. The Sanctuary's research vessel, R/V Auk, visited a total of 233 locations on Stellwagen Bank during six separate surveys from May 2016 to April 2019. During these surveys a customized Van Veen grab sampler (SEABOSS) equipped with a video camera and a CTD was deployed in drift mode to collect sediment for grain-size analysis, video imagery of the seabed, and measurements of water column properties including temperature, salinity, density, and fluorescence.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, field-monitoring-stations, geoscientificinformation, grab-sample-images, ground-truth, image-collections, jpeg, marine-geology, massachusetts, massachusetts-bay, national-oceanic-and-atmospheric-administration, noaa, north-america, oceans, photographic-sampling, sample-photographs, sbnms, sea-floor-characteristics, seabed-observation-and-sampling-system, seaboss, sediment, sediment-sample-images, stellwagen-bank, stellwagen-bank-national-marine-sanctuary, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-620d4fb4d34e6c7e83ba9acc, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Station and data summary for data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey on Stellwagen Bank during six surveys aboard the R/V Auk, May 2016 to April 2019

These data are a part of the effort to map geologic substrates of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary region off Boston, Massachusetts. The overall goal is to develop high-resolution (1:25,000) interpretive maps, based on multibeam sonar data and seabed sampling, showing surficial geology and seabed sediment dynamics. The work was conducted in collaboration with the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, and the data collected will aid research on the ecology of fish and invertebrate species that inhabit the region. The Sanctuary's research vessel, R/V Auk, visited a total of 233 locations on Stellwagen Bank during six separate surveys from May 2016 to April 2019. During these surveys a customized Van Veen grab sampler (SEABOSS) equipped with a video camera and a CTD was deployed in drift mode to collect sediment for grain-size analysis, video imagery of the seabed, and measurements of water column properties including temperature, salinity, density, and fluorescence.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, ctd-measurement, field-activity-logs, field-monitoring-stations, location, marine-geology, massachusetts, massachusetts-bay, national-oceanic-and-atmospheric-administration, navigation, noaa, north-america, oceanographic-observations, oceans, sampling, sbnms, seabed-observation-and-sampling-system, seaboss, stations, stellwagen-bank, stellwagen-bank-national-marine-sanctuary, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-620d4f23d34e6c7e83ba9ac6, video-observation, videos, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
CTD (conductivity-temperature-depth) data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey on Stellwagen Bank during six surveys aboard the R/V Auk, May 2016 to April 2019

These data are a part of the effort to map geologic substrates of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary region off Boston, Massachusetts. The overall goal is to develop high-resolution (1:25,000) interpretive maps, based on multibeam sonar data and seabed sampling, showing surficial geology and seabed sediment dynamics. The work was conducted in collaboration with the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, and the data collected will aid research on the ecology of fish and invertebrate species that inhabit the region. The Sanctuary's research vessel, R/V Auk, visited a total of 233 locations on Stellwagen Bank during six separate surveys from May 2016 to April 2019. During these surveys a customized Van Veen grab sampler (SEABOSS) equipped with a video camera and a CTD was deployed in drift mode to collect sediment for grain-size analysis, video imagery of the seabed, and measurements of water column properties including temperature, salinity, density, and fluorescence.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, chemical-oceanography, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, conductivity, ctd, ctd-measurement, depth, environmental-chemistry, fluorescence, geoscientificinformation, marine-chemistry, massachusetts, massachusetts-bay, national-oceanic-and-atmospheric-administration, noaa, north-america, ocean-salinity, ocean-sciences, ocean-temperature, oceanographic-observations, oceans, salinity, sbnms, seabed-observation-and-sampling-system, seaboss, stellwagen-bank, stellwagen-bank-national-marine-sanctuary, temperature, turbidity, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-620d4f0cd34e6c7e83ba9ac3, water-density, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geochronological data for the Airport East trench site, West Valley fault zone, Salt Lake County, Utah

This data release includes geochronological data for the Airport East trench site (40.795359°, -111.950438°) on the Taylorsville fault of the West Valley fault zone (WVFZ). The WVFZ comprises intrabasin faults in the hanging wall of the Wasatch fault zone in the northern part of Salt Lake Valley, Utah. Samples for radiocarbon and luminescence dating were collected from two paleoseismic trenches in August–September 2015. Laboratory data include four optically stimulated luminescence ages and 14 radiocarbon ages for charcoal extracted from bulk sediment samples.

Tags: age-estimation-methods, carbon-14-analysis, geochronology, luminescence-dating, salt-lake-city, salt-lake-valley, usgs-620d2766d34e6c7e83ba9a0f, utah
Organization: Department of the Interior
High Resolution Current and Future Climate SnowModel Simulations in the Upper Colorado River Basin

This data release contains SnowModel snow evolution simulation output on a 100-meter (m) geospatial grid for a 311 kilometer (km) × 300 km model domain in Colorado, United States, encompassing the Colorado and Gunnison River Basin headwaters in the Upper Colorado River Basin. Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model convection-permitting and orography-resolving (4-km grid spacing) regional climate simulations provided the atmospheric forcing conditions to drive SnowModel in both a current and future climate scenario. A pair of continuous 13-water-year (2001-13) WRF model simulations was utilized: (1) a current climate control (CTL) simulation forced using ERA-Interim reanalysis, and (2) a future climate simulation using the pseudo-global-warming (PGW) method that uses the ERA-Interim reanalysis for the same period as (1) and adds an ensemble mean climate delta from 100 years in the future for the most extreme Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) 8.5 scenario. The six SnowModel simulated outputs provided separately as child items in this data release include (1) air temperature (tair), (2) precipitation (prec), (3) precipitation amount falling as snow (spre), (4) snow water equivalent (swed), (5) liquid water supplied to the soil-snow interface from snowmelt (smlt), and (6) liquid water supplied to the soil-snow or soil-air interface either from snowmelt or rainfall (roff). The simulations used to produce these outputs were conducted on a 100-m geospatial grid. Land cover information (file vege.asc) for the simulation was provided by the 2010 North American Land Change Monitoring System and elevation information (file topo.asc) was provided by the U.S. Geological Survey National Elevation Dataset.

Tags: climatology, climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, colorado, hydrology, rocky-mountains, runoff, snow, snowmelt, snowpack, upper-colorado-river-basin, usgs-620be002d34ec05caca6142e, water-budget, water-resources
Organization: Department of the Interior
Chemical and biological data from a study on sensitivity of a unionid mussel (Lampsilis siliquoidea) to a permitted effluent and elevated potassium

The data release includes data from four studies: (1)  toxicity of a permitted effluent, which entered the Deep Fork River (DFR), Oklahoma, USA, to a unionid mussel (Lampsilis siliquoidea) and to 2 standard test species (cladoceran Ceriodaphnia dubia; and fathead minnow Pimephales promelas) in short-term 7-d effluent tests; (2) relative sensitivities of the 3 species to potassium (K), an elevated major ion in the effluent, using 7-d toxicity tests with KCl spiked into a DFR upstream reference water; (3) potential influences of background water characteristics on the acute K toxicity to the mussel (96-h exposures) and cladoceran (48-h exposure) in 4 reconstituted waters that mimicked the hardness and ionic composition ranges of the DFR; and (4) potential influence of temperature on acute K toxicity to the mussel.  Water quality, survival, growth, and reproduction endpoints are reported.

Tags: acute-toxicity, biota, cladoceran, contamination-and-pollution, ecotoxicology, effluent-toxicity, effluents, fathead-minnow, fatmucket, freshwater-mussels, industrial-effluents, major-ions, toxicity-testing, usgs-620bd6c5d34ec05caca6140b, water-chemistry, water-properties, water-quality, water-quality-criteria, water-quality-standards
Organization: Department of the Interior
Pre and post treatment (2016-2021) vegetation cover for three southwest Idaho sites treated with pre-emergent herbicides after fire

Selective herbicide application is a common restoration strategy to control exotic invaders that interfere with native plant recovery after wildfire. Whether spraying with preemergent or bioherbicides releases native plants from competition with exotics (“spray-and-release” strategy) and can make communities resistant to re-invasion by exotic annual grasses (e.g., cheatgrass, medusahead), without risks to non-target native plants or secondary invasion, is a major question for land managers of semiarid plant communities.
We applied chemical herbicides (imazapic, rimsulfuron) and weed-suppressive bacteria (Pseudomonas fluorescens strains MB906 and D7) to three different SW Idaho sagebrush-steppe communities after fire.  We measured plant cover prior to burning and for four years after treatments.

Tags: bioremediation, biota, cheatgrass, d7, ecosystem-resilience, environment, fires, imazapic, invasive-species, mb906, native-species, natural-resource-management, pseudomonas-fluorescens, resistance-and-resilience, restoration, rimsulfuron, sagebrush-steppe, shrubland-ecosystems, usgs-620adc28d34ec05caca60eb1, vegetation, weed-suppressive-bacteria
Organization: Department of the Interior
Regional Water Table (2020) in the Mojave River and Morongo Areas, Southwestern Mojave Desert, California

Data for groundwater-levels measured in 616 wells during water year 2020 (November 2019-June 2020) by the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the Mojave Water Agency (MWA), and other local water districts were compiled to construct a regional water-table shapefile for 2020. The regional water-table shapefile shows the elevation of the water table in and around the Mojave River and Morongo areas, in San Bernardino County, California.

Tags: barstow, california, coyote-lake, environment, groundwater, groundwater-level, hydrology, joshua-tree-north, joshua-tree-south, mojave, morongo-valley, southern-mojave, twentynine-palms, usgs-620ad3d7d34ec05caca60e79, yucca-valley-north
Organization: Department of the Interior
Thickness and characteristics of overbank sediment deposited during an extreme flood in May 1978 along Powder River, Montana, USA

This data release consists of tables with the thickness and particle-size characteristics of overbank sediment deposited in May 1978 along the valley of Powder River in southeastern Montana.  About 900 sediment samples were collected at regularly-spaced distances from 20 valley transects along a 90-kilometer reach of Powder River between Moorhead and Broadus, Montana.  The decrease in sediment thickness and particle size with distance from the main channel showed weak trends, which were caused by the variability introduced by vegetation sediment traps and subsidiary channels.

Tags: channel, deposition, erosion, flood, geomorphology, high-plains, hydrology, particle-size, powder-river, powder-river-basin, powder-river-county, sediment, southeastern-montana, usgs-620ad0eed34ec05caca60e6a, vegetation
Organization: Department of the Interior