AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
The U.S. Inland Creel and Angler Survey Catalog (CreelCat): A Database and Interactive Tool for Inland Fisheries Management and Research

The U.S. Inland Creel and Angler Survey Catalog (CreelCat) contains data compiled from 14,729 creel and angler surveys conducted by state natural resource management agencies (including Washington DC and Puerto Rico) in inland waters across the United States. Data are contained in eight .csv files which contain information about survey characteristics (Survey_Data.csv), angler effort (AngEffort_Data.csv), catch and harvest (FishDataCompiled.csv), angler demographics (Demographic_Data.csv), angler preferences (AngPrefDataCompiled.csv), taxonomic classifications (Taxa_Data.csv), issues with catch and harvest (Fish_Attribution_Issues.csv), and issues with angler preference (AngPref_Attribution_Issues.csv), as well as three shapefiles containing geospatial information for lakes, reservoirs, ponds and tailraces attributed as polygons; rivers and streams attributed as lines; and all types attributed as points. Survey methodology and documentation is highly variable and therefore not all fields will be available for all surveys. The majority of surveys have been georeferenced; however, some data sources did not include adequate information to georeferenced the survey locations. In future releases we hope to update as many additional surveys as possible with geospatial information. Tables can be linked based on the 'Survey_ID' field. Data can be linked to the CreelCat shapefiles (point, line, and polygon) based on the WB_ID field contained in the 'Survey_Data' table as well as the shapefile attribute tables.

Tags: biota, fish, fisheries-management, fisheries-resources, inland-fisheries-resources, recreation, recreational-fisheries-resources, usgs-66183787d34e7eb9eb7d7b1c
Organization: Department of the Interior
Suspended sediment chemistry results from the Colorado River and tributaries in Grand Canyon

This dataset comprises sediment chemistry results from monitoring sites on the Colorado River and major tributaries of the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon region beginning in 2016. Main-stem Colorado River sites include Colorado River near Grand Canyon (USGS site ID 09402500) and Colorado River above Diamond Creek (USGS site ID 09404200).  The tributary sites include Little Colorado River above the mouth near Desert View, Arizona (USGS site ID 09402300); Kanab Creek above the mouth near Supai, Arizona (USGS site ID 09403850); Havasu Creek above the mouth near Supai, Arizona (USGS site ID 09404115); House Rock Wash below Emmett Wash in Rider Canyon, Arizona (USGS site ID 363851111482000); and Paria River at Lees Ferry, Arizona (USGS site ID 09382000). Monitoring of the Little Colorado River, Kanab Creek, and Havasu Creek sites began in 2016, with other sites added later.

Tags: arizona, grand-canyon, lower-colorado-river-basin, sediment-chemistry, uranium-mining, usgs-66181795d34e7eb9eb7d7a16
Organization: Department of the Interior
Efficacy of carbon dioxide for preventing quagga veliger settlement in a raw water system on the Colorado River, AZ

We evaluated the efficacy of carbon dioxide (CO2) for preventing settlement of the biofouling quagga mussel (Dreissena bugensis) in raw water systems. Trials were conducted in a mobile laboratory located at the US Bureau of Reclamation, Davis Dam Hydropower Facility, and supplied with raw water from the Colorado River. Incoming water was split between five chambers where CO2 was dissolved into the water at five concentrations. Chamber outflows were mixed with raw water which  was infested with quagga larvae (veligers) and then delivered to test tanks containing settlement plates. We conducted two 18-d trials; trial 1 tested continuous infusion with (target concentrations) 30, 45, 60, 75, and 100 mg/L dCO2. Trial 2 evaluated intermittent infusion schedules: 24 h on/off with 50, 75, and 100 mg/L dCO2 and 24 h once/week with 100 mg/L dCO2. At the end of each trial, we counted the number of settled quagga on plates in each treatment and modeled predicted settlement, relative to untreated water, by CO2 treatment.

Tags: biofouling, biota, carbon-dioxide, colorado-river, davis-dam-hydropower-facility, environment, invasive-species, surface-water-non-marine, usgs-6617e0dcd34e7eb9eb7d7274, veliger
Organization: Department of the Interior
PIT Tags Encountered by Klamath Falls Field Station Equipment in the Upper Klamath Basin 1993-2024 (ver. 3.0, April 2024)

Data were collected as part of a long-term capture-recapture program to assess the status and dynamics of populations of two long-lived, federally endangered catostomids in Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon and Clear Lake Reservoir, California. Lost River suckers (LRS; Deltistes luxatus) and shortnose suckers (SNS; Chasmistes brevirostris) have been captured and tagged with passive integrated transponder (PIT) tags during their spawning migrations in each year since 1995.PIT tagged species were encountered in netting efforts, remote transceivers, and active scanning on bird colonies across the Upper Klamath River Basin (predominately Upper Klamath Lake and Clear Lake Reservoir). The data includes detections for endangered suckers, but also salmonids and other PIT tagged aquatic species that were encountered. While previous versions are available through ScienceBase, all the records in previous versions can be found in version 3.0.

Tags: animal-tracking, clear-lake-national-wildlife-refuge, ecology, endangered-species, inlandwaters, salmonids, suckers, upper-klamath-lake, usgs-6616f194d34e7eb9eb7d6e97
Organization: Department of the Interior
UMRS Floodplain Inundation Depths - Pool 17

Floodplain inundation is believed to be the dominant physical driver of an array of ecosystem patterns and processes in the Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS). Here, we present a time series of daily surface water inundation depths (in feet) for floodplain surfaces in the UMRS. The time series data are for the months of April through September of every year since 1940. These months were chosen because it approximates the period during which most biophysical processes such as vegetation metabolism and biogeochemical cycling are likely to be strongest across the longitudinal gradient of the UMRS.  Data were derived from a geospatial model of surface water inundation developed for the UMRS and described in Van Appledorn et al. (2021; doi: 10.1002/rra.3628). We excluded areas permanently wetted (aquatic areas), surfaces in agricultural production, roads, and developed areas. The data are intended for use in geospatial analyses of UMRS floodplain ecosystem patterns and processes.

Tags: flood-plain, floods, freshwater-ecosystems, hydrology, river-systems, usgs-6616da3ad34e7eb9eb7d6a90
Organization: Department of the Interior
UMRS Floodplain Inundation Depths (with gage drop) - Pool 17

Floodplain inundation is believed to be the dominant physical driver of an array of ecosystem patterns and processes in the Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS). Here, we present a time series of daily surface water inundation depths (in feet) for floodplain surfaces in the UMRS. The time series data are for the months of April through September for select years since 1940. These months were chosen because it approximates the period during which most biophysical processes such as vegetation metabolism and biogeochemical cycling are likely to be strongest across the longitudinal gradient of the UMRS. Data were generated without water surface elevations from the mid-pool gaging location at Blanchard Island due to missing data. Data were derived from a geospatial model of surface water inundation developed for the UMRS and described in Van Appledorn et al. (2021; doi: 10.1002/rra.3628). We excluded areas permanently wetted (aquatic areas), surfaces in agricultural production, roads, and developed areas. The data are intended for use in geospatial analyses of UMRS floodplain ecosystem patterns and processes.

Tags: flood-plain, floods, freshwater-ecosystems, hydrology, river-systems, usgs-6616d800d34e7eb9eb7d6a88
Organization: Department of the Interior
Bathymetric data and grid of offshore Head of the Meadow Beach, Truro, MA on February 9, 2024

The data in this release re-map the beach and nearshore environment at Head of the Meadow Beach in Truro, MA and provide updated environmental context for the 2020 CoastCam installation that looks out at the coast shared by beachgoers, shorebirds, seals, and sharks. This is a collaboration with the National Park Service at Cape Cod National Seashore to monitor the region that falls within the field of view of CoastCam CACO-01, which are two video cameras aimed at the beach. In February and March 2024, U.S. Geological Survey and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) scientists conducted field surveys to collect topographic and bathymetric data. Images of the beach for use in structure-from-motion were taken with a camera (SONY a6000) attached to a helium powered balloon-kite (Helikite). High-precision GPS targets (AeroPoints) were used as ground control points. Bathymetry was collected in the nearshore using a single-beam echosounder mounted on a surf capable self-righting electric autonomous surface vehicle. Agisoft Metashape (v. 1.8.1) was used to create a digital surface model and orthomosaic with the collected imagery.

Tags: asv, autonomous-surface-vehicle, bathymetry, cape-cod, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, elevation, geoscientificinformation, head-of-the-meadow-beach, location, massachusetts, national-seashore, oceans, remote-sensing, shoreline, single-beam-echo-sounder, truro, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-6616d181d34e7eb9eb7d6a50, whcmsc, whoi, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center, woods-hole-oceanographic-institution
Organization: Department of the Interior
SfM digital surface model and orthomosaic representing Head of the Meadow Beach, Truro, MA on March 20, 2024

The data in this release re-map the beach and nearshore environment at Head of the Meadow Beach in Truro, MA and provide updated environmental context for the 2020 CoastCam installation that looks out at the coast shared by beachgoers, shorebirds, seals, and sharks. This is a collaboration with the National Park Service at Cape Cod National Seashore to monitor the region that falls within the field of view of CoastCam CACO-01, which are two video cameras aimed at the beach. In February and March 2024, U.S. Geological Survey and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) scientists conducted field surveys to collect topographic and bathymetric data. Images of the beach for use in structure-from-motion were taken with a camera (SONY a6000) attached to a helium powered balloon-kite (Helikite). High-precision GPS targets (AeroPoints 2) were used as ground control points. Bathymetry was collected in the nearshore using a single-beam echosounder mounted on a surf capable self-righting electric autonomous surface vehicle. Agisoft Metashape (v. 2.1.0) was used to create a digital surface model and orthomosaic with the collected imagery.

Tags: aerial-and-satellite-photography, agisoft-metashape, cape-cod, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, digital-elevation-models, elevation, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, head-of-the-meadow-beach, helikite, image-mosaics, location, massachusetts, oceans, orthomosaic, remote-sensing, shoreline, structure-from-motion, truro, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-6616ca4bd34e7eb9eb7d698f, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Soil data release of legacy data collected from a soil chronosequence in Northern Michigan during 1992

In July 1992 soils were sampled from six dune fields in the northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan near Wilderness State Park, about 10 miles southwest of Mackinaw City. The dune fields represent a soil chronosequence, where all soil forming factors except time are held constant (climate, organisms, relief, and parent material). These sandy lake terrace soils are Entisols and Spodosols (Podzols), with ages ranging from 3,000 to 11,000 years. The samples were collected to examine podzolization and associated changes in soil properties. Samples collected for this study were assigned categorical profile and layer level descriptions for observable qualities such as soil color, structure, and texture at the time of collection. In addition to these descriptive data, this data release contains major element abundances quantified by x-ray fluorescence, select trace element abundances quantified by instrumental neutron activation analysis, and total carbon concentrations. Scanned field notes and site photographs are also in included this data release. The original samples associated with this dataset are archived in the U.S. Geological Survey Soil Sample Archive (https://doi.org/10.5066/P90KTZW4)

Tags: environment, geoscientificinformation, lower-michigan, lower-peninsula, michigan, podzolization, usgs-6616c0a0d34e7eb9eb7d6720, wilderness-state-park
Organization: Department of the Interior
Debris flow probabilities of ungaged tributaries to the Colorado River in Grand Canyon, AZ

This dataset represents 763 tributary canyons and/or watersheds adjacent to the Colorado River in Grand Canyon with associated debris flow probabilities from 2004. Also, these data include tributary canyon and/or watersheds to Glen Canyon and several smaller watersheds in Grand Canyon where debris flow data is currently unavailable. Historic probabilities of debris flow occurrence were estimated by modeling the known frequency distribution with drainage basin parameters observed to control the process by which debris flows initiate and travel to the river. Observations from 1984 through 2003 provide a 20-year record of all debris flows that reached the Colorado River in Grand Canyon, and repeat photography provides a 100 year record of debris flows from 147 tributaries. Owing to the limitations of the initial datasets and the focus on geomorphic change in the river corridor, debris flow probabilities pertain only to debris flows that reach the Colorado River.

Tags: arizona, boundaries, canyon, colorado-river, data-release, debris-fan, debris-flow, digitization, earth-sciences, geography, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, glen-canyon-dam, grand-canyon, ground-failure, inlandwaters, land-surface-characteristics, landslide-susceptibility-assessment, landslides, rapids, river-systems, slope-failure, slope-processes, tributary, usgs-6616aaadd34e7eb9eb7d6487, watershed
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geomorphic attributes of campsites adjacent to the Colorado River in Grand Canyon, AZ

This dataset represents 505 campsites along the Colorado River in Grand Canyon with associated debris flow probabilities calculated for approximately a 100-year period (Griffiths and others, 2004) and geomorphic attributes mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center (GCMRC) (Hadley and others, 2018). The campsite polygons were developed as part of a master campsite database that was a collaborative effort to maintain between the National Park Service in Grand Canyon National Park and the GCMRC. Debris flow probabilities have been added as an attribute from ungauged tributary watersheds published in 2004 (Griffiths and others, 2004). Area and percentages of campsites on geomorphic units comprising debris fans were calculated based on a pre-existing geomorphic basemap (Hadley and others, 2018). Due to ongoing environmental variability, geomorphic change, and sediment storage fluctuation in the river corridor, campsite boundary and attribute accuracy may change over time.

Tags: arizona, backcountry, boundaries, campsite, cartography, colorado-river, data-release, digitization, earth-sciences, geography, geomorphic-units, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, glen-canyon, glen-canyon-national-recreation-area, grand-canyon, grand-canyon-national-park, inlandwaters, land-surface-characteristics, landslides, marble-canyon, recreation, river-systems, slope-processes, study-areas, usgs-6616a79bd34e7eb9eb7d647a
Organization: Department of the Interior
Ground control points Head of the Meadow Beach, Truro, MA on March 20, 2024

The data in this release re-map the beach and nearshore environment at Head of the Meadow Beach in Truro, MA and provide updated environmental context for the 2020 CoastCam installation that looks out at the coast shared by beachgoers, shorebirds, seals, and sharks. This is a collaboration with the National Park Service at Cape Cod National Seashore to monitor the region that falls within the field of view of CoastCam CACO-01, which are two video cameras aimed at the beach. In February and March 2024, U.S. Geological Survey and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) scientists conducted field surveys to collect topographic and bathymetric data. Images of the beach for use in structure-from-motion were taken with a camera (SONY a6000) attached to a helium powered balloon-kite (Helikite). High-precision GPS targets (AeroPoints 2) were used as ground control points. Bathymetry was collected in the nearshore using a single-beam echosounder mounted on a surf capable self-righting electric autonomous surface vehicle. Agisoft Metashape (v. 2.1.0) was used to create a digital surface model and orthomosaic with the collected imagery.

Tags: aeropoint, cape-cod, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, elevation, geolocation-measurement, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, global-positioning-system-gps-observations, gps-measurement, ground-control-point, head-of-the-meadow-beach, helikite, location, massachusetts, oceans, shoreline, truro, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-66168fc1d34e7eb9eb7d622a, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Microfossil Samples from the East Pisco Basin, southern Peru

The East Pisco Basin is one of several forearc basins situated on the coastal plain of Peru between the Andean Cordillera and Peru-Chile Trench. During the Cenozoic, successive marine transgressions across the East Pisco Basin deposited sequences of Paleogene and Neogene age. Biochronologic studies suggest that a hiatus of approximately 12 million years (~32-20 Ma) separates the youngest Paleogene deposits from the oldest Neogene deposits. A newly recognized lower Miocene sequence, provisionally named the Tunga Formation, shortens that hiatus. The following database provides location and description of samples from the East Pisco Basin, checklists of microfossil assemblages, and taxonomic notes for those assemblages.

Tags: diatoms, east-pisco-basin, foraminiferans, fossils, micropaleontology, peru, south-america, usgs-6615c814d34e7eb9eb7d58be
Organization: Department of the Interior
Laboratory Optical Measurements Collected for Surface Water Samples Collected within Fraser River in the Upper Colorado River Basin from September 2021 through August 2023

Optical spectra reported here are collected from 17 surface water sampling sites within the Fraser River, a headwaters drainage of the Upper Colorado River Basin in the central western United States. The sample collection was conducted as part of the partnership between the United States Geological Survey’s (USGS) Next Generation Water Observation System (NGWOS) and Proxies Project, in coordination with the USGS Colorado Water Science Center and California Water Science Center, and the East Grand Water Quality Board.

Tags: absorbance, aqualog, biota, california, california-water-science-center, colorado, dissolved-organic-matter, fluorescence, fraser, organic-matter-research-laboratory, sacramento, surface-water-quality, usgs-6615bdc5d34e7eb9eb7d5866
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data from mesocosm experiments to assess metal and nutrient stimulation of Lake Erie and Lake Michigan phytoplankton communities, August 2017

To address how phytoplankton in the Great Lakes respond to macro- and micronutrients, we conducted a bottle incubation enrichment experiment using water collected from blooming (Maumee Bay and Fox River) and non-blooming sites (Detroit River and Ford River) in Lakes Erie and Michigan, respectively, during late summer.  Surface water from these locations was collected and taken to Kent State University either via overnight shipping (Lake Michigan sites) or driven directly after collection (Lake Erie sites).  Chlorophyll a (an index of overall biomass), community composition and toxicity were all measured as responses to treatments of labile inorganic nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and a mixture of micronutrients (chemical symbols: Fe, Mn, Mo, Ni, Zn).

Tags: algal-blooms, biota, community-ecology, cyanobacteria-blue-green-algae, cyanophyte-phytoplankton, ecology, great-lakes, green-bay, hazards, lake-erie, lake-michigan, phytoplankton, usgs-66159f17d34e7eb9eb7d555a, western-lake-erie
Organization: Department of the Interior
Tiltmeter data from Mauna Loa summit stations (BLB, MCC, MLO, MOK, SLC) from January 1 to December 31, 2021

TIltmeter data from stations BLB, MCC, MLO, MOK, and SLC from January 1 to December 31, 2021. These data were collected in 2021 by Andria P. Ellis of the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.

Tags: biota, field-inventory-and-monitoring, geodesy, tiltmeter-measurement, usgs-661579f3d34e7eb9eb7d54ce, volcanic-activity
Organization: Department of the Interior
Spectral reflectance data of rock and soil in Prince William Sound, Alaska

An ASD FieldSpec 4 Hi-Res NG Spectroradiometer was used to collect the reflectance properties of soil and rock in Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA. Reflectance is a property of the material being observed, being the ratio of the amount of light leaving a target to the amount of light striking the target. Reflectance is a unitless value from 0 to 1, where a value of 0 indicates that the material absorbs all energy and 1 indicates total reflectance. Samples were collected from the field in the summer and fall of 2023 and later measured using the spectrometer in the laboratory.

Tags: alaska, anchorage, farming, landslides, optical-methods, point-spectroscopy, prince-william-sound, usgs-66144ba6d34e6334665303aa
Organization: Department of the Interior
Occurrences of Pliocene Planktic foraminifers in core samples from SE Florida

Data consist of presence / absence records of planktic foraminifer species from 5 core samples at 3 localities in southeast Florida. Samples are placed in biostratigraphic zones and ages are estimated from calibrated first and last appearances of select taxa.

Tags: biostratigraphy, biota, faunal-and-floral-census-microscopic, pliocene, protists, usgs-66144537d34e63346653037c
Organization: Department of the Interior