AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
2024 AmeriCorps MES: AmeriCorps Member Exit Survey

Upon exiting service, AmeriCorps members are invited to complete the AmeriCorps Member Exit Survey (AmeriCorps MES) to provide information on their service experiences. By collecting data on member experiences, AmeriCorps and its partners can better understand how to support its members, while individuals interested in becoming a member can see the benefits of serving. Members that leave service after completing their full term and members that depart from service early both complete the exit survey. The data includes information on members’ civic-mindedness, community involvement, cultural competency, and developed life and career skills (based on the AmeriCorps Member Theory of Change) as well as measures of members’ experience and training, motivations to serve, and post-service plans. 

Responses from members who began serving before they turned 18 years of age are excluded from this data. Since the start of the MES in 2015, there have been over 400,000 responses. In 2024, 43,120 surveys were completed out of 55,359, for a completion rate of 77.89%.

The dataset displays the decimal percentages of members in each program that answered with the two most positive selections of each question’s available options. For example, the available answers for Question 12 are: ‘Much less likely, Somewhat less likely, No effect, Somewhat more likely, and Much more likely’. The data selected for Question 12 thus displays the percentage of members that responded with ‘Somewhat more likely or Much more likely’, therein providing the percentage of individuals who responded favorably to the question. Please access the AmeriCorps MES Data Dictionary file in the Attachments section under About This Dataset for more information.

Note: Some members begin the survey but do not complete it. Responses from these partially complete surveys are included in the results reported here, which is why the number of responses varies question to question. The total number of finished surveys, partially completed surveys, and surveys that were never started can be found in the attachments section under "MES 2024 Total Counts."

To view a full copy of the AmeriCorps Member Exit Survey, please see the attachments section. Responses to open-ended questions are omitted from these results.

Tags: americorps, member, members, mes, volunteer, volunteering, volunteering-in-america, volunteers
Organization: AmeriCorps
Wyoming Pronghorn Baggs Migration Routes

The Baggs pronghorn herd inhabits south-central Wyoming, to the southwest of Rawlins, Wyoming, bounded by Interstate 80 to the north and the Wyoming–Colorado border to the south (fig. 32). This herd unit includes the Atlantic Rim and the eastern part of the Red Desert Basin, which is an arid to semiarid Wyoming big sagebrush-steppe habitat marked by severe winters. Although the landscape is generally remote, human development, including oil and natural gas infrastructure and cattle and sheep ranching, affects the habitat the herd uses. Therefore, a GPS-collaring study (2013–16) was initiated to evaluate the effects of human-caused and environmental change on pronghorn in the Red Desert Basin (Reinking and others, 2018, 2019).
Pronghorn in this herd are semimigratory to nomadic and migrate around the Sierra Madre. In general, pronghorn winter to the west of the Sierra Madre range and near Wyoming Highway 789, and spring migrations expand to the southeast, the east, or the north. However, migration routes are not always consistent, and pronghorn can backtrack across their migration route or remain on winter range year round. Some individuals in this herd seasonally overlap with the Elk Mountain herd (refer to the “Elk Mountain Pronghorn” section in this report). Property boundary or legacy livestock ranching fences remain prevalent in the area, restrict pronghorn movement, and pose a direct mortality risk. Interstate 80, the biggest barrier that Baggs pronghorn encounter, is rarely crossed by pronghorn because the interstate has a high traffic volume, net-wired right-of-way fencing, and part of the Union Pacific Railroad parallels the interstate. Wyoming Highway 789, which runs to the north and to the south and divides this herd, is another barrier. However, pronghorn can cross Wyoming Highway 789 more easily than Interstate 80 (Robb and others, 2022). Beginning in 2009, a series of underpasses were constructed on Wyoming Highway 789, to the north of Baggs, Wyoming, but they are used mostly by mule deer. Baggs pronghorn also share habitat and compete for resources with feral horses in the Adobe Town HMA and potentially the Salt Wells Creek HMA, to the west of Wyoming Highway 789 in the southern Red Desert Basin (Hennig, 2021; Hennig and others, 2021, 2022, 2024). Furthermore, feral horses, pronghorn, and cattle have a high degree of overlap at water sources in the Red Desert Basin (Hennig and others, 2021).
These mapping layers show the location of the migration routes for pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) in the Baggs population in Wyoming. They were developed from 90 migration sequences collected from a sample size of 32 animals comprising GPS locations collected every ~2 hours.

Tags: animal-behavior, baggs, biota, migration-organisms, migratory-species, united-states, usgs-679277bfd34e88f5864c49ad, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Structure-from-Motion derived point clouds and orthomosaic images of deformed Foreknobs Formation within the Snyder Run syncline near Bergton, VA

This dataset consists of Structure-from-Motion (SfM) - derived point clouds and a highly detailed orthomosaic image of a roadcut exposure documenting the structural style of the middle part of the Late Devonian Foreknobs Formation within the Synder Run syncline near Bergton, Virginia. For the roadcut exposure, two datasets are published: an orthomosaic raster image and a point cloud. The orthomosaic raster image is a vertical outcrop orthomosaic constructed from multiple orthophotos to create a geometrically rectified image. This facilitates a detailed visual inspection of the stratigraphic succession outside of a GIS environment, unlike georeferenced orthomosaics derived from aerial imagery.

Tags: fbgc, florence-bascom-geoscience-center, foreknobs-formation, geoscientificinformation, national-cooperative-geologic-mapping-program, ncgmp, stratigraphy, structural-geology, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-6793e5ead34e72688d6b7214
Organization: Department of the Interior
Chemistry data for assessment of the containment pond at Pinyon Plain Mine, 2023-2024

These data are comprised of measurements of elements (e.g., uranium, cobalt, nickel, copper, zinc, cadmium, lead, etc.), major anions (chloride, nitrite+nitrate as nitrogen, sulfate, etc.), organic carbon, and general water quality parameters measured in Pinyon Plain Mine containment pond water, sediment, vegetation, and aquatic invertebrate samples collected in calendar years 2023 and 2024.

Tags: aquatic-ecosystems, aquatic-vegetation, arizona, biota, breccia-pipe, chemical-analysis, coconino, contamination-and-pollution, critical-minerals, dissolved-organic-carbon, environment, geochemistry, grand-canyon, industrial-pollution, invertebrates, metallic-mineral-resources, metals, mine-sites, mineral-deposits, mineral-resources, mining, mining-and-mineral-extraction, mining-hazards, pinyon-plain-mine, sediment-analysis, toxic-trace-element-contamination, toxicity, u-s-geological-survey-columbia-environmental-research-center, uranium, usgs-6793f92ad34e72688d6b72aa, water-chemistry
Organization: Department of the Interior
Excel Spreadsheet of the Descriptive Logs of Cores Collected in the Nauset Marsh area in August, 2006

In order to test hypotheses about groundwater flow under and into estuaries and the Atlantic Ocean, geophysical surveys, geophysical probing, submarine groundwater sampling, and sediment coring were conducted by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists at Cape Cod National Seashore (CCNS) from 2004 through 2006. Coastal resource managers at CCNS and elsewhere are concerned about nutrients that are entering coastal waters via submarine groundwater discharge, which are contributing to eutrophication and harmful algal blooms. The research carried out as part of the study described here was designed, in part, to help refine assumptions required by earlier versions of models about the nature of submarine groundwater flow and discharge at CCNS. This study was conducted in four phases, with a variety of field techniques and equipment employed in each phase. Phase 1 consisted of continuous resistivity profiling (CRP) surveys of the entire study area conducted in 2004. Phase 2 consisted of CRP ground-truthing via resistivity probe measurements and submarine groundwater sampling from hydraulically-drive piezometers using a barge in the Salt Pond/Nauset Marsh area in 2005. Phase 3 consisted of supplemental detailed CRP surveys in the Salt Pond/Nauset Marsh area in 2006. Finally, Phase 4 consisted of sediment coring and porewater extraction in the Salt Pond/Nauset Marsh area later in 2006 to supplement the 2005 sampling.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, cape-cod, cape-cod-national-seashore, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, core, core-description, drilling-and-coring, environment, field-activity-logs, geology, geoscientificinformation, ground-water, inlandwaters, log-book, massachusetts, nauset-marsh, north-america, oceans, of-2006-1169, open-file-report, salt-pond, sediment, spreadsheet, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-67946a21-b14f-46e9-8991-e80632f76aff, vibracore, whsc-field-activity-serial-number-06027, woods-hole-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mineral Commodity Summaries 2025 - ABRASIVES (MANUFACTURED) Data Release

This data release contains the U.S. salient statistics and world production data extracted from the ABRASIVES (MANUFACTURED) data sheet of the USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2025.

Tags: abrasives, economy, fused-aluminum-oxide, geoscientificinformation, metallic-abrasives, metallic-mineral-resources, silicon-carbide, usgs-6797f951d34ea8c18376e115
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mineral Commodity Summaries 2025 - BAUXITE AND ALUMINA Data Release

This data release contains the U.S. salient statistics and world production data extracted from the BAUXITE AND ALUMINA data sheet of the USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2025.

Tags: alumina, bauxite, metallic-mineral-resources, usgs-6797fa1ad34ea8c18376e129
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mineral Commodity Summaries 2024 - CEMENT Data Release

This data release contains the U.S. salient statistics and world production data extracted from the CEMENT data sheet of the USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2025.

Tags: cement, clinker, hydraulic-cement, nonmetallic-mineral-resources, portland-cement, usgs-6797fab8d34ea8c18376e148
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mineral Commodity Summaries 2025 - CHROMIUM Data Release

This data release contains the U.S. salient statistics and world production data extracted from the CHROMIUM data sheet of the USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2025.

Tags: chromite-ore, chromium, ferrochromium, metallic-mineral-resources, usgs-6797fad1d34ea8c18376e14e
Organization: Department of the Interior
Rapid Assessment of Vegetation Condition after Wildfire (RAVG) Thematic Burn Severity Mosaic for CONUS in 2024

The RAVG (Rapid Assessment of Vegetation Condition after Wildfire) program provides assessments of vegetation conditions following large fires on forested lands. Fire effects are represented by three metrics: percent change in live basal area (BA), percent change in canopy cover (CC), and the standardized Composite Burn Index (CBI). These data are derived from moderate resolution multi-spectral imagery (e.g., Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager or Sentinel-2 Multispectral Instrument). The Relative Differenced Normalized Burn Ratio (RdNBR), which is correlated to the variation of burn severity within a fire, is calculated from a pair of images (pre- and postfire), judiciously selected to capture fire effects. The three-severity metrics are in turn calculated from RdNBR using regression equations developed from and calibrated with historical field data. This map layer is a thematic raster image of MTBS burn severity classes for all inventoried fires occurring in CONUS during calendar year 2024. Fires omitted from this mapped inventory are those where suitable satellite imagery was not available, or fires were not discernable from available imagery.

Tags: ak, alaska, burn-severity, burned-area, continental-u-s, conus, differenced-normalized-burn-ratio, fire-location, fire-occurrence, imagerybasemapsearthcover, landsat, location, normalized-burn-ratio, prescribed-fire, ravg, sentinel, united-states, us, usgs-6799008dd34ea8c18376e908, wildfire, wildland-fire
Organization: Department of the Interior
Undersized Fire Mapping Program Thematic Burn Severity Mosaic for CONUS in 2022

This map layer is a thematic raster image of MTBS burn severity classes for all inventoried fires occurring in CONUS during calendar year 2022 that do not meet standard MTBS size criteria. These data are published to augment the data that are available from the MTBS program. This product was produced using the methods of the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity Program (MTBS), however these fires do not meet the size criteria for a standard MTBS assessment. The MTBS Program assesses the frequency, extent, and magnitude (size and severity) of all large wildland fires (wildfires and prescribed fires) in the conterminous United States (CONUS), Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico for the period 1984 and beyond. MTBS typically maps fires using an initial assessment (immediately after the fire) or an extended assessment (peak of green the season after the fire) for low-biomass and high-biomass fires respectively. Refer to MTBS.gov for more information on MTBS methods and criteria. Standard MTBS mappings must meet the size criteria of at least 500 acres for the eastern states and territories and 1,000 acres for the western states and territories to be eligible for mapping. Undersized MTBS fires are those fires that do not meet the standard MTBS size criteria but are otherwise mapped using standard MTBS methodologies.

Tags: ak, alaska, burn-severity, burned-area, continental-u-s, conus, differenced-normalized-burn-ratio, fire-location, fire-occurrence, hawaii, hi, imagerybasemapsearthcover, landsat, location, normalized-burn-ratio, pr, prescribed-fire, puerto-rico, sentinel, united-states, us, usgs-6799049ad34ea8c18376e936, wildfire, wildland-fire
Organization: Department of the Interior
Potential structural barriers to ground-water flow, Death Valley regional ground-water flow system, Nevada and California

This digital dataset defines the surface traces of regional geologic structures designated as potential 
ground-water flow barriers in an approximately 45,000 square-kilometer area of the Death Valley 
regional ground-water flow system (DVRFS) in southern Nevada and California. Most geologic 
structures representing potential flow barriers were faults that were identified on the basis of length, 
offset, type of slip, orientation with respect to predominate ground-water flow directions, the location 
of springs, abrupt water level offsets, and hydraulic characteristics (Sweetkind and others, 2004). A 
subset of the potential ground-water flow barriers was incorporated into a transient ground-water flow 
model of the DVRFS (Faunt and others, 2004). This model is the most recent in a number of regional-
scale models developed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) for the U.S. Department of Energy 
(DOE) to support investigations at the Nevada Test Site (NTS) and at Yucca Mountain, Nevada (see 
"Larger Work Citation", Chapter A, page 8).

Tags: amargosa-desert, ash-meadows, california, california-valley, chicago-valley, china-ranch, clark-county, clayton-valley, coal-valley, death-valley, death-valley-regional-ground-water-flow-system, environment, esmeralda-county, eureka-valley, flow-model, franklin-lake, franklin-well, garden-valley, geoscientificinformation, ground-water, ground-water-flow-barrier, horizontal-flow-barrier, hydrogeologic-framework-model, hydrogeology, hydrology, inlandwaters, inyo-county, kern-county, las-vegas-valley, lincoln-county, mesquite-valley, mineral-county, mono-county, nevada, nevada-test-site, nye-county, oasis-valley, owlshead-mountains, pahranagat-range, pahrump-valley, panamint-range, penoyer-valley, railroad-valley, resting-spring, saline-valley, san-bernadino-county, sarcobatus-flat, sheep-range, shoshone, silurian-valley, southern-nevada, spring-mountains, stewart-valley, stone-cabin-valley, tecopa, transient-ground-water-model, usgs-6799499f-f84a-4727-9b4b-2525f9433f6c, yucca-mountain
Organization: Department of the Interior
Little Saint Francis River chat pile orthoimagery and elevation products, Missouri, July 2019.xml

The products presented here document conditions at the Little Saint Francis River chat pile restoration site near Fredericktown, Missouri in July 2019. Imagery was collected shortly after the initiation of restoration actions. Images were collected using low-altitude flights of unoccupied aerial systems (UAS, or “drones”) and processed using structure-from-motion techniques to generate three dimensional products including the point cloud, digital elevation model, and orthoimage in this data set. The photographed area includes an area being restored to bottomland hardwood forest on the site of a remediated chat pile, as well as adjacent uplands. Images and derived elevation products provide baseline information about current terrestrial communities against which to compare changes following restoration of terrestrial areas.

Tags: biota, digital-elevation-models, environment, fredericktown, geoscientificinformation, intelligencemilitary, little-saint-francis-river, mining-and-quarrying, missouri, remediation, saint-francois-county, united-states, usgs-679ba539d34ea8c1837736d3
Organization: Department of the Interior
Wyoming Pronghorn Elk Mountain Migration Routes

The Elk Mountain pronghorn herd inhabits south-central Wyoming to the south of Interstate 80, southeast of Rawlins, Wyoming, and north of the Sierra Madre range and Medicine Bow Mountains (fig. 34). This herd unit is dominated by arid to semiarid Wyoming big sagebrush-steppe and characterized by harsh winters. This GPS-collaring project (2010–12) was initiated to serve as a control herd for a wind energy and pronghorn study in the Shirley Basin of Central Wyoming (Taylor, 2014). Pronghorn in this herd are partially migratory and use habitat on the eastern and western sides of Wyoming Highway 130. They generally winter in a valley to the north of Saratoga, Wyoming, along Wyoming Highway 130 and the North Platte River. During the spring, pronghorn either migrate to the south toward the foothills of the Sierra Madre or to the east toward Elk Mountain. Pronghorn that summer to the east of the Elk Mountain migrate either to the south or to the north around the mountain; pronghorn face moderately narrow bottlenecks on each route that are created by Pennock Mountain to the south of Elk Mountain or Interstate 80 to the north of Elk Mountain. Some individual pronghorn in this herd seasonally overlap with the Baggs herd (refer to the “Baggs Pronghorn” section in this report).
The Elk Mountain pronghorn herd faces many threats from human development. Interstate 80 is the most prominent barrier to pronghorn movement (Robb and others, 2022). Pronghorn rarely cross the interstate because of the road’s high traffic volume and associated net-wired right-of-way fencing; additionally, part of the Union Pacific railroad parallels the interstate. Wyoming Highway 130 and associated fencing also limit pronghorn movement, but pronghorn can cross this highway and fencing more easily than Interstate 80 (Robb and others, 2022). Pronghorn also encounter some exurban development near Saratoga and Elk Mountain, Wyoming, as well as cattle ranching and agricultural land, primarily pastures and meadows for hay production.
These mapping layers show the location of the migration routes for pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) in the Elk Mountain population in Wyoming. They were developed from 73 migration sequences collected from a sample size of 24 animals comprising GPS locations collected every 7-11 hours.

Tags: animal-behavior, biota, elk-mountain, migration-organisms, migratory-species, united-states, usgs-67a1066cd34e5b4a4f9e4d0a, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Streamgage Attributes, Basin Characteristics, Subsidies from Glacier Mass Loss, and Streamflow Statistics, Selected Streamgages in Alaska, 2000-2019

This data package contains 3 tables presenting site selection information, basin characteristics, subsidy to streamflow from glacier mass loss data, and other streamflow statistics for selected streamgages in Alaska that were used to evaluate the influence of glacier mass loss on streamflow in Alaska and conterminous basins in Canada. The first ("site_selection_outcomes.csv") contains streamgage identification and site selection or omission details for 728 streamgages. The second ("streamflow_statistics_eligible_gages.csv") includes observed mean annual streamflow for the period of record through September 30, 2022, observed or estimated mean annual streamflow for the period 2000-2019, and associated period of record information for 294 streamgages that met streamflow-related site selection criteria. The third ("basin_glacier_and_flow_data_2000_2019.csv") provides site, basin, streamflow, and streamflow component data for 116 streamgages that had glaciers in their basins, including seasonal flow regime identification from Curran and Biles (2020, 2021); glacier-related and other basin characteristics; observed streamflow period of record and values used; computed unsubsidized streamflow for 2000-2019; the subsidy to streamflow from glacier mass loss for 2000-2019, and other data. The final table also includes selected data ratios that were used for analysis, including specific streamflow values, the percent subsidy to streamflow from glacier mass loss, and the ratio of percent subsidy from glacier mass loss to percent glacier cover. For the purposes of this analysis, water years for streamflow data were equated with mass-balance years for glacier data.

Tags: alaska, canada, cryosphere, discharge-flow, glaciers, glaciers-ice-sheets, glaciology, hydrographic-datasets, hydrology, inlandwaters, rivers-streams, terrestrial-hydrosphere, usgs-67a2b9e4d34e91a4ffc72e86
Organization: Department of the Interior