AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Fish communities in streams of the Maryland-Washington, DC-Virginia developed Piedmont, 2024

From May 27 to June 21, 2024, a Virginia Tech team of 5 sampled the fish community in 30 streams spanning a gradient of the developed landscape, including Potomac River, Rappahannock River, and upper Chesapeake Bay tributaries of Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Virginia, USA. These fish surveys were part of a larger stream-health study including other teams who surveyed geomorphology, water quality, flow, temperature, and macroinvertebrates at the same 30 streams. Upstream drainage area of these 30 streams ranged from approximately 7 to 32 sq. km, and width from 2 to 10 m. At each stream, we sampled fish from two reaches using two-pass backpack electrofishing and seining. Reach A was the main reach surveyed by all the interdisciplinary teams; Reach B was surveyed for fish communities only. Reach length was 20 wetted channel widths, capped at 150 meters. Fish were identified to species, assigned to a length class, inspected for anomalies, and released. Other measurements included water temperature, electrical conductivity, and clarity.

Tags: arlington-county-va, baltimore-county-md, biota, community-ecology, environment, fairfax-county-va, fauquier-county-va, field-sampling, fish, frederick-county-md, freshwater-ecosystems, howard-county-md, inlandwaters, maryland, montgomery-county-md, potomac-hydrologic-unit, prince-william-county-va, river-systems, spotsylvania-county-va, stafford-county-va, united-states, upper-chesapeake-hydrologic-unit, usgs-6786872ed34e60ddd4de1f97, virginia, washington-d-c
Organization: Department of the Interior
North American Bird Banding Program Dataset 1960-2024 retrieved 2024-07-11

The North American Bird Banding Program is administered by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Bird Banding Laboratory (BBL), Eastern Ecological Science Center at the Patuxent Research Refuge (EESC) and in Canada by the Bird Banding Office (BBO), Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC). This long-term dataset (1960-2024) consists of over 84 million bird banding, encounter and recapture records of over 1,000 bird species covered under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA).

Tags: africa, antarctica, asia, aves, bird-banding, capturing-animals, europe, migratory-species, natural-resource-management, north-america, oceania, south-america, tagging, usgs-67851ebbd34ec3ce63796940
Organization: Department of the Interior
Airborne geophysical survey: Mt. Rainier, Washington

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

Tags: aeromagnetic-data, aeromagnetic-surveying, airborne-surveys, f53053-pierce, field-monitoring-stations, geophysical-surveys, geophysics, geospatial-datasets, magnetic, magnetic-field-earth, magnetic-surveys, mount-rainier, mt-rainier, residual-magnetic-field, total-field, united-states, usgs-678256e6-f528-4c8e-b937-bdaf4c5261b1, wa, washington
Organization: Department of the Interior
j281nc.m77t and j281nc.h77t: MGD77T data and header files for single-beam bathymetry data for field activity J-2-81-NC in Carmel Bay, Monterey Bay, Northern California from 06/23/1981 to 06/30/1981

Single-beam bathymetry data along with miniranger navigation data was collected as part of the U.S. Geological Survey cruise J-2-81-NC. The cruise was conducted in Carmel Bay, Monterey Bay, Northern California from June 23 to June 30, 1981. The chief scientist was John Dingler from the USGS Coastal and Marine Geology office in Menlo Park, CA. The geophysical source was a 12 kilohertz (kHz) system.
These data are reformatted from space-delimited ASCII text files located in the Coastal and Marine Geology Program (CMGP) InfoBank field activity catalog at http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/j/j281nc/html/j-2-81-nc.meta.html into MGD77T format provided by the NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center(NGDC). The MGD77T format includes a header (documentation) file (.h77t) and a data file (.m77t). More information regarding this format can be found in the publication listed in the Cross_reference section of this metadata file.

Tags: bathymetry, bathymetry-and-elevation, bathymetry-measurement, carmel-bay, distributions, geoscientificinformation, marine-geology, marine-geophysics, monterey-bay, northern-california, oceans, seafloor-topography, single-beam-bathymetry, single-beam-echo-sounder, state-of-california, usgs-6781d40f-3aa6-44fc-83d0-a528888a6bd4, water-depth
Organization: Department of the Interior
LANDFIRE Remap Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS) Palau

The LANDFIRE 2016 Remap (LF Remap) Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS) calculates fuelbed characteristics and their potential fire behavior and effects. LF defines fuelbed as: the inherent physical characteristics of fuel that contribute to fire behavior and effects (Riccardi et al. 2007). FCCS represents the composition of fuels, and features six horizontal fuel layers called stratums (canopy, shrubs, herbs, downed wood, litter and duff). FCCS can be used for predicting surface fire behavior, crown fire potential, and fuel availability. FCCS fuelbeds are included preloaded in the US Forest Service (USFS) Fuel and Fire Tools (FFT) application. 
LF collaborated with the Fire and Environmental Research Applications (FERA) team of the USFS Pacific Northwest Research Station for creation of the FCCS product. Rule-based methods for crosswalks and mapping FCCS fuelbeds are constructed from the LF Remap Existing Vegetation Type (EVT) product. The EVT-to-fuelbed crosswalk rules often allow for several possibilities for fuelbeds; expert opinion is used to assign the most representative fuelbed and to determine where additional fuelbed development is necessary. FCCS fuelbed mapping should be considered a starting point and customized to represent sampled fuels within a project area. FCCS is a capable fuels product, capable fuels calculate TSD assignments for disturbed areas using an effective year. For example, year 2020 fuels may be calculated for the year 2020. the new process considers all the existing disturbances included in LF Remap and adjusts the TSD for these to the effective year (2020 in the example), making the products "2020 capable fuels." More information about capable fuels can be found at https://www.landfire.gov/lf_remap.php. See the FCCS product page on the LF website for additional details https://www.landfire.gov/fccs.php.

Tags: biota, fccs, fires, fuel-characteristic-classification-system, geographic-information-systems, geospatial-datasets, hazard-preparedness, ia, image-collections, imagerybasemapsearthcover, insular-areas, landfire-2016-remap, lf-2016-remap, oconus, palau, raster-digital-data, remote-sensing, u-s-forest-service-usfs, u-s-geological-survey-usgs, united-states, us, usgs-67819ca8-4cc8-4a38-b74d-a5b1c99e1c12
Organization: Department of the Interior
Trends in Nutrient and Other Water Quality Constituent Loads to the Gulf of America from the Mississippi and Atchafalaya Rivers, 1968-2024

The National Water Quality Network (NWQN) for Rivers and Streams includes 105 surface-water river and stream sites monitored by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Water Quality Program. This data release provides streamflow, nutrient, and sediment data collected and analyzed by USGS for sites on the one Mississippi River site and one Atchafalaya River site used to represent contributions to the Gulf of America for water years 1968 through 2024. This dataset includes daily, monthly, and annual summaries of streamflow conditions, discrete water-quality concentrations, annual water-quality loads, and information on water-quality trends. Water quality data was collected at USGS sites 07373420 Mississippi River near St. Francisville, LA and 07381495 (COE) Atchafalaya River at Melville, LA. Streamflow data was collected at U.S. Army Corps of Engineers sites 01100Q Mississippi River at Tarbert Landing and 03045Q Atchafalaya River at Simmesport.

Tags: atchafalaya-river, louisiana, mississippi-river, nutrient-content, river-systems, sediment-transport, streamflow, united-states, usgs-67780a00d34edab7af6e283f, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
KauaiW_shorelines - Shorelines of the western coastal region of Kauai, Hawaii, from Oomano to Polihale, used in shoreline change analysis.

Sandy ocean beaches are a popular recreational destination, often surrounded by communities containing valuable real estate.  Development is on the rise despite the fact that coastal infrastructure is subjected to flooding and erosion.  As a result, there is an increased demand for accurate information regarding past and present shoreline changes.  To meet these national needs, the Coastal and Marine Geology Program of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is compiling existing reliable historical shoreline data along open-ocean sandy shores of the conterminous United States and parts of Alaska and Hawaii under the National Assessment of Shoreline Change project.  Shoreline vectors derived from historic and modern sources represent the low water mark (beach toe).
There is no widely accepted standard for analyzing shoreline change.  Existing shoreline data measurements and rate calculation methods vary from study to study and prevent combining results into state-wide or regional assessments.  The impetus behind the National Assessment project was to develop a standardized method of measuring changes in shoreline position that is consistent from coast to coast.  The goal was to facilitate the process of periodically and systematically updating the results in an internally consistent manner.

Tags: cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, coastal-processes, continental-island-shore-complex, digital-shoreline-analysis-system, dsas, effects-of-coastal-change, environment, erosion, geoscientificinformation, hawaii-coast, hawaii-ecoregion, kauai, linear-regression-rate, national-assessment-of-shoreline-change-project, national-oceanic-and-atmospheric-administration, noaa, oceans, oomano-hawaii, polihale-hawaii, shoreline-accretion, shoreline-change-rate, shoreline-erosion, u-s-army-corps-of-engineers, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, university-of-hawaii, usace, usgs, usgs-6777ad65-28b4-4816-8029-83f75e9ed04f, west-kauai-coast, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
LANDFIRE 2023 Forest Canopy Bulk Density (CBD) Puerto Rico US Virgin Islands

LANDFIRE's 2023 Update (LF 2023) Forest Canopy Bulk Density (CBD) describes the mass of available canopy fuel per unit canopy volume that would burn in a crown fire. A spatially explicit map of CBD supplies information used in fire behavior models to determine the spread characteristics of active crown fires across the landscape. CBD for disturbed and non-disturbed areas is determined via a general linear model (GLM) relating LF’s Forest Canopy Height (CH) and Cover (CC) to CBD (Reeves et al 2009). 
To designate disturbed areas where CBD is modified, the aggregated Annual Disturbance products from 2014 to 2023 in the LF Fuel Disturbance (FDist) product are used. All existing disturbances between 2014-2023 are represented in LF 2023, and the products are intended to be used in 2024 (the year of release).  
When using any product from the LF 2023 fuel product suite, users should consider adjusting fuel layers for disturbances that occurred after the end of the 2023 fiscal year (after October 1st, 2023). Disturbances that occurred after the end of the 2023 fiscal year are not accounted for within LF 2023 fuel products. Learn more about LF 2023 at https://landfire.gov/data/lf2023.

Tags: biota, canopy-bulk-density, cbd, fires, geographic-information-systems, geospatial-datasets, hazard-preparedness, ia, image-collections, imagerybasemapsearthcover, insular-areas, landfire-2023, lf-2023, oconus, puerto-rico, raster-digital-data, remote-sensing, u-s-forest-service-usfs, u-s-geological-survey-usgs, united-states, us, us-virgin-islands, usgs-673f5c21d34e565ca5dd09f5
Organization: Department of the Interior
Dissolved methane and CO2 concentrations and stable carbon isotopes from the coastal Arctic landscape of the Greiner Lake watershed, Nunavut, Canada in June 2022 and June-July 2023

A watershed in the coastal Canadian Arctic was sampled for dissolved carbon dioxide and methane concentration and stable carbon (carbon-13) isotopes to trace the transport, production, and consumption of carbon dioxide and methane during the spring thaw across a lake to bay transect. Two field campaigns were conducted in June 2022 and June-July 2023 out of the Canadian High Arctic Research Station (CHARS) in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Canada. Gas samples were collected via headspace extraction and transported back to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center (WHCMSC), where they were analyzed utilizing the USGS Automated Sample Introduction Module (AutoSIM) interfaced to a Picarro G2201-i CRDS (Cavity Ring-Down Spectrometer) to measure concentrations and stable carbon isotope ratios of methane and carbon dioxide. Field sampling was carried out by researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Tags: aquatic-ecosystems, biogeochemical-cycling, cambridge-bay, canada, carbon-cycling, carbon-dioxide, carbon-isotope-analysis, carbon-isotopes, coastal-ecosystems, coastal-environment, dissolved-gases, environment, estuarine-ecosystems, freshwater-ecosystems, geochemical-data, geochemistry, greiner-lake-watershed, inlandwaters, methane, nunavut, oceans, permafrost, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-671be425d34efed56210dfb1, victoria-island
Organization: Department of the Interior
Adair 438NW - Harriman 123NE: groundwater well locations from 7.5-minute quadrangle maps

The state of Tennessee is divided into 805 individual 7.5-minute topographic quadrangle maps. The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) maintains an archive of paper maps that were utilized for estimating groundwater well locations. Each well location was plotted by hand and marked with corresponding water well data. These hand-plotted locations represent the most accurate spatial information for each well but exist solely in paper format.
To create the shapefile of the well location data for this data release, individual paper maps were scanned and georeferenced. From these georeferenced map images (GRI), the hand-plotted well locations were digitized into a shapefile of point data using ArcGIS Pro. The shapefile is contained in "TN_waterwell.zip," which contains locations for 8,826 points from the first 200 7.5-minute quadrangles in Tennessee (sorted alphabetically) from Adair 438NW through Harriman 123NE. While some spring locations are included in this dataset, it does not provide a comprehensive collection of spring data. Attribute data includes quad name, drawing number, and hand-written identification data that was transcribed from the topographic maps. Latitude and longitude coordinates (decimal degrees) were populated. Data projection is USA Contiguous Albers Equal Area Conic USGS (meters). A table of attribute data is included in this data release as "TN_waterwells_table.xlsx." Detailed descriptions of the attributes can be found in the accompanying metadata file named "TN_waterwells_metadata.xml."

Tags: data-preservation, geographic-information-systems, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, groundwater, improvement-of-scientific-data-usability, inlandwaters, location, usgs-67745418d34eea454343c51e
Organization: Department of the Interior
Model Archive Summary for acoustic derived suspended fines concentration at 14246900 Columbia River at Port Westward NR Quincy, OR

This model archive summary documents the suspended fines (grain sizes &lt; 0.0625mm) concentration model developed to compute 5-minute suspended fines concentration data of the Columbia River at Port Westward, near Quincy, OR, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) site number 14246900. The methods used follow USGS guidance as referenced in USGS Techniques and Methods, Book 3, Chap. C2 (Edwards and others, 1999); Office of Surface Water Technical Memorandum (TM) 2016.07 (USGS, 2016); Office of Water Quality TM 2016.10; USGS Techniques and Methods, book 3, chap. C5 (Landers and others, 2016); and USGS Techniques and Methods, book 3, chap. C4 (Rasmussen and others, 2009).  The time series suspended sediment data will help determine the suspended sediment concentration at the site in real-time enabling science entities, managers, and others, track the movement of sediment in the Columbia River.

Tags: geomorphology, hydrology, sedimentology, usgs-6772f071d34e3ce2f608615b, water-quality, water-resources
Organization: Department of the Interior
Model Archive Summary for Acoustic Derived Suspended Sand Concentration at 14246900 Columbia River at Port Westward NR Quincy, OR

This model archive summary documents the suspended sand (grain sizes &gt; 0.0625mm) concentration model developed to compute 5-minute suspended sand concentration data of the Columbia River at Port Westward, near Quincy, OR, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) site number 14246900. The methods used follow USGS guidance as referenced in USGS Techniques and Methods, Book 3, Chap. C2 (Edwards and others, 1999); Office of Surface Water Technical Memorandum (TM) 2016.07 (USGS, 2016); Office of Water Quality TM 2016.10; USGS Techniques and Methods, book 3, chap. C5 (Landers and others, 2016); and USGS Techniques and Methods, book 3, chap. C4 (Rasmussen and others, 2009).  The time series suspended sediment data will help determine the suspended sediment concentration at the site in real-time enabling science entities, managers, and others, track the movement of sediment in the Columbia River.

Tags: geomorphology, hydrology, sedimentology, usgs-6772ef4dd34e3ce2f6086152, water-quality, water-resources
Organization: Department of the Interior
LANDFIRE 2023 Fuel Vegetation Height (FVH) CONUS

LANDFIRE’s 2023 Update (LF 2023) Fuel Vegetation Height (FVH) product represents the LF Existing Vegetation Height (EVH) product, modified to represent pre-disturbance EVH in areas where disturbances have occurred over the past 10 years. In LF 2023, vegetation products are created through an image-based process (within the Conterminous United States (CONUS)) that assesses canopy structure (Forest Canopy Height (CH) and Cover (CC)). EVH is mapped as continuous estimates of canopy height for tree, shrub, and herbaceous lifeforms with a potential range of 0-100m. Continuous EVH values are binned to align with fuel model assignments when creating FVH. FVH is an input for fuel transitions related to disturbance and fuel products in LF 2023 were created with LF 2016 Remap vegetation in non-disturbed areas. 
To designate disturbed areas where FVH is modified, the aggregated Annual Disturbance products from 2014 to 2023 in the LF Fuel Disturbance (FDist) product are used. All existing disturbances between 2014-2023 are represented in LF 2023, and the products are intended to be used in 2024 (the year of release).  
When using any product from the LF 2023 fuel product suite, users should consider adjusting fuel layers for disturbances that occurred after the end of the 2023 fiscal year (after October 1st, 2023). Disturbances that occurred after the end of the 2023 fiscal year are not accounted for within LF 2023 fuel products. Learn more about LF 2023 at https://www.landfire.gov/data/lf2023.

Tags: biota, conterminous-united-states, continental-u-s, conus, evh, existing-vegetation-height, fires, fuel-vegetation-height, fvh, geographic-information-systems, geospatial-datasets, hazard-preparedness, image-collections, imagerybasemapsearthcover, landfire-2023, lf-2023, raster-digital-data, remote-sensing, u-s-forest-service-usfs, u-s-geological-survey-usgs, united-states, us, usgs-6749ce96d34e9698b1b3e84f
Organization: Department of the Interior
Multilevel Monitoring System (MLMS) datasets for wells in the U.S. Geological Survey - Idaho National Laboratory groundwater monitoring network

A collection of analysis-ready Multilevel Monitoring System (MLMS) datasets for wells in the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) aquifer-monitoring network, Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho. Administered by the USGS INL Project Office in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Energy.

Tags: boundaries, butte, contamination-and-pollution, data-release, dissolved-metals, geoscientific-information, geospatial-datasets, groundwater-quality, idaho, idaho-national-laboratory, snake-river-plain-basaltic-rock-aquifers, study-areas, time-series-datasets, toxic-radionuclide-contamination, usgs-671bfa13d34efed56210efdd, waste-treatment-and-disposal, water-quality, water-quality-data, water-sampling
Organization: Department of the Interior
Tracking Data for Black Brant (Branta bernicla nigricans)

This data release includes 2 child items with tracking data for Black Brant, a goose species that breeds in coastal areas of Alaska, northwestern Canada, and northeastern Russia and winters along coastal areas of North America from western Alaska to Mexico.
      Child Item 1: "Light-Level Geolocator Tracking Data for Black Brant (Branta bernicla nigricans)" -- Tracking data collected from light-level geolocator attached Black Brant at breeding areas in Alaska, 2003-2007.
      Child Item 2: "VHF Triangulation Tracking Data for Black Brant (Branta bernicla nigricans) in Waters Adjacent to Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska" -- Tracking data collected from triangulation tracking of VHF transmitters at Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, during fall 1987-1990.

Tags: alaska, animal-tracking, animals-vertebrates, annual-cycle, baja-california, biota, birds, black-brant, branta-bernicla-nigricans, breeding-sites, capture-recapture-studies, coastal-ecosystems, ducks-geese-swans, environment, izembek-national-wildlife-refuge, light-level-geolocator, mexico, migratory-birds, migratory-rates-routes, migratory-species, national-petroleum-reserve-alaska, non-breeding-range, npr-a, ornithology, overwintering, seasonal-distribution, seasonal-movement, species-life-history, tagging-devices, telemetry, tracking-equipment, tundra-ecosystems, usgs-676b3a1ad34e3ce2f6084839, vhf-radio-transmitter, waterfowl, wildlife, yukon-delta, yukon-delta-national-wildlife-refuge, yukon-kuskokwim-river-delta
Organization: Department of the Interior
Surveys and Monitoring of Coastal Cactus Wren in San Diego County, 2024

Data presented are results of surveys and monitoring for San Diego Cactus Wren (Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus) in southern San Diego County in 2024. These data were collected to assess Cactus Wren population status to determine the relationships between specific elements of habitat quality and Cactus Wren presence. Surveys were conducted periodically at 507 plots throughout San Diego County. Birds that had been banded in prior years with unique color combinations were identified to individual on subsequent visits to provide data on survival and movement and between years.

Tags: animal-and-plant-census, biota, birds, california, drought, field-inventory-and-monitoring, habitats, productivity, san-diego, survey, survival, usgs-674f6a0ed34e09a37b888a43, vocalization-methods
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data on Exposure of Wild Mammals Inhabiting Alaska to H5N1 Influenza A Viruses

This data set describes serological data collected from mammals in Alaska and seropositivity to influenza A, clade 2.3.4.4b H5 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), North American lineage H5 low pathogenic avian influenza (LPAI), and N1 antigens.

Tags: american-black-bear, american-mink, animals-vertebrates, avian-influenza, bearded-seal, biota, brown-bear, canadian-lynx, coyote, disease-detection, disease-reservoirs, disease-spread, environment, gray-wolf, health-and-disease, influenza-a-virus-h5n1-subtype, mammals, migratory-birds, red-fox, spotted-seal, usgs-6769c4a7d34e8399fbb80311, virus-diseases, viruses, wildlife, wildlife-disease, wolverine
Organization: Department of the Interior