AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Fisheries Inventory, Invert Data, at Rocky Mountain National Park 2021-2022 - Open Format Dataset

The Cameron Peak Fire and East Troublesome Fire of 2020 were the two largest wildfires in Colorado history. They burned approximately 9% of the Rocky Mountain National Park, raising a concern for trout populations that currently support recreational fishing and success of on-going and future efforts to conserve native trout populations. In this study, we surveyed habitat characteristics and biological communities at 19 sites in summer of 2021 and a subset of 11 sites in summer of 2022 to characterize wildfire impacts on aquatic resources. We were primarily interested in trout population structure and abundance, which were compared to available pre-fire data. In addition, we collected information on physical habitat, water quality, algae and benthic macroinvertebrates because wildfire effects are complex and this array of data helps assist identifying ecological mechanisms that affect aquatic top predators (i.e., trout). The greenback cutthroat trout is listed as state and federally threatened and is the Colorado State Fish. The Colorado River cutthroat trout is a state species of concern and two distinct lineages occur in the burned areas of ROMO. Quantifying wildfire effects on stream ecosystems and trout populations is needed for ROMO to decide whether (1) ongoing conservation actions should continue including the Poudre Headwaters Project, (2) recreational fishing should be regulated, and (3) waters should require trout stocking or will naturally recover via trout immigration from connected populations. For more information see the report here: https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2304877

Tags: darwin-core-archive-dwc-a, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-freshwater-communities, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-freshwater-invertebrates, imd, macroinvertebrate, national-park-service, nps, nps-inventory-and-monitoring-division, nps-species-inventory-program, post-fire, poudre-headwaters-project, rocky-mountain-national-park, romo, wildfire
Organization: Department of the Interior
Imagery data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Hovenweep National Monument

This reference contains the imagery data used in the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit.  Orthophotos, raw imagery, and scanned aerial photos are common files held here.

Vegetation and land use were interpreted to the most detailed level possible using high-resolution, 1:12,000-scale color aerial photography that had been digitally scanned and orthorectified. Most of the interpretation was based on site visit information, because virtually every part of the Monument is accessible on foot. Polygons representing vegetation or land use map classes were delineated on the stereo photographs and transferred to a spatial database. Because the individual Monument parcels are so small, the standard minimum mapping unit of 0.5 ha was discarded and polygons were delineated to approximately 0.1 ha (0.3 acres).

Tags: accuracy-assessment, botanical-survey, classification, geodatabase, habitat-types, imagery, national-vegetation-classification, nvc, nvcs, plots, releve, remote-sensing, usnvcs, vegetation, vegetation-inventory, vegetation-map, vegetation-mapping
Organization: Department of the Interior
Fisheries Inventory, Invertebrate Data, at Rocky Mountain National Park 2021-2022 - Dataset As Delivered - NPS Inventory Program

Inventory project as-delivered dataset

Tags: ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-freshwater-communities, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-freshwater-invertebrates, imd, macroinvertebrate, national-park-service, nps, nps-inventory-and-monitoring-division, nps-species-inventory-program, post-fire, poudre-headwaters-project, wildfire
Organization: Department of the Interior
Fish Inventory at Fort Matanzas National Monument in 2004 - Data Package

Fort Matanzas National Monument (FOMA) was surveyed in 2004 as park of a larger initiative to inventory fish at Southeast Coast Network parks. The purpose of the study was to sample fishes in 12 parks to supplement existing data or to provide preliminary records of fishes where no records existed. For its size (121 ha) FOMA contains a remarkable diversity of aquatic habitats, from temporary freshwater ponds, marsh ponds, marsh, riverine, jetty, grass bed, surf (beach) and sandy bay. The Matanzas inlet is one of the last remaining undredged inlets on the Florida coast, and the area is part of an estuarine reserve. This survey documented 55 species at 11 sites.

Tags: ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-fishes, fish, florida, foma, fort-matanzas, inventory
Organization: Department of the Interior
Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks White Pine Blister Rust Project Dataset (1993-2017)

This dataset stores white pine blister rust field data collected as part of a project to inventory and monitor white pine blister rust (Cronartium ribicola) in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. It is related to the Sierra Nevada Network (SIEN) White Pine (Pinus albicaulis, P.balfouriana, P. flexilis) Community Dynamics Monitoring Protocol. The project is entitled: Assessing the severity and rate of spread of an invasive forest pathogen: a foundation for management response in the Sierra Nevada national parks (2015-2017). It focuses on White pine blister rust (WPBR) – an exotic fungal pathogen first introduced into western North America in 1910 – which has contributed to dramatic population declines in several species of Western five-needled pines (the “white pines”). The current project results from a collaboration between SIEN, U.S. Geological Survey, Sequoia and Kings Canyon Field Station (N. Stephenson, A. Das), and academic partners at the University of California Berkeley (J. Battles, J. Dudley). Full contact information is below.

This dataset is an Excel spreadsheet created to store and manipulate data associated with specific publications related to the White Pine Blister Rust project. This dataset compiles data from several sources: (1) surveys performed in late 1990’s by Duriscoe and Duriscoe (2002), which established Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks' (SEKI) first formal baseline assessment of the extent and severity of WPBR infection; (2) 2013 re-measure surveys - performed by Matt Cahill (Univ. of Vermont; unpublished data) -- that focused on 29% of the Duriscoe plots; and (3) 2015-2017 re-measure surveys -- performed as part of the current collaboration -- which focuses on the remaining 71% of the plots that were not surveyed by Cahill. Data underwent additional quality assurance and quality control procedures in 2018 and 2019. The spreadsheet also includes comparison between the two survey periods (1993-1995 and 2013-2017).

Tags: blister-rust, ca, california, cronartium-ribicola, dendroctonus-ponderosae, fips, fire-effects, five-needle-pine, forest-insects-and-pathogens, forest-management, foxtail-pine, fungal-pathogens, geological-survey, global-change, high-elevation-forests, incidence, invasive-species, kica, kings-canyon, limber-pine, long-term-study, national-park-service, nps, park-service, pathogens, pests, pinus-albicaulis, pinus-balfouriana, pinus-flexilis, pinus-lambertiana, pinus-monticola, plant-pathogens, seki, sequ, sequoia, sequoia-and-kings-canyon, sierra-nevada, sugar-pine, tree-mortality, tree-pathogens, usgs, western-white-pine, white-pine, white-pine-blister-rust, whitebark-pine, wpbr
Organization: Department of the Interior
Imagery data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Jewel Cave National Monument

This reference contains the imagery data used in the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit.  Orthophotos, raw imagery, and scanned aerial photos are common files held here.

The vegetation map was developed by photographic interpretation of 1993, 1:16,000 scale color infrared photography. Two separate classification systems were used to develop the mapping units. Cultural, disturbed, or unsampled vegetation types used the Anderson Level II classification system. All other vegetation within the mapping boundary used map units derived from the NVCS. A total of 7 Anderson Level II classes and 12 NVCS classes were used. The NVCS classes were combined to form 5 vegetation mapping classes.

Tags: accuracy-assessment, botanical-survey, classification, geodatabase, habitat-types, imagery, national-vegetation-classification, nvc, nvcs, plots, releve, remote-sensing, usnvcs, vegetation, vegetation-inventory, vegetation-map, vegetation-mapping
Organization: Department of the Interior
Imagery data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Rocky Mountain National Park

This reference contains the imagery data used in the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit.  Orthophotos, raw imagery, and scanned aerial photos are common files held here.

The project area is covered by 28 flight lines flown south to north for the 1:12,000 scale photography and 10 flight lines for the 1:40,000 scale photography. Some of the flight lines overlap with repeat flights due to elevation and scale considerations. A total of 1,412 color photographs were taken at 1:12,000 (1"=1,000') scale and 366 color photographs for the 1:40,000 (1" = 3,333') all printed on 9"x 9" paper stock. Overlap for all photographs was approximately 50-60% and sidelap between flight lines was approximately 20-30%. All photography was acquired between September 25 and October 3, 2001. Repeat dates were required due to the large area being acquired in addition to the challenging terrain. Airborne GPS was collected with a base station at the Fort Collins, Colorado Airport (Latitude: 40 26 58.07884; Longitude:-105 00 24.66076; Height:1509.710 m; Antenna ht:0.203 m). GPS points provided for a flight line point shape file and aided with the ortho-rectification process

Tags: accuracy-assessment, botanical-survey, classification, geodatabase, habitat-types, imagery, national-vegetation-classification, nvc, nvcs, plots, releve, remote-sensing, usnvcs, vegetation, vegetation-inventory, vegetation-map, vegetation-mapping
Organization: Department of the Interior
Imagery data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument

This reference contains the imagery data used in the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit.  Orthophotos, raw imagery, and scanned aerial photos are common files held here.\

Natural color aerial photographs were acquired from three different photo missions between 1995 and 1997. A total of 13 photos along three flight lines were used. The photo missions cover the entire project area, which includes the entire park and environs.

Skytech Aero, Inc. (North Little Rock, AR) took aerial photographs for the western portion of the project on August 27, 1995. The photos were taken at a flight height of approximately 13,000 feet with a Jena MRB 15/2323 camera using color negative film. The scale of the 9 x 9-inch paper prints was approximately 1:26,500.

Skytech Aero, Inc. (North Little Rock, AR) took aerial photographs for the central portion of the project on September 5, 1996. The photos were taken at a flight height of approximately 12,000 feet with a Jena MRB 15/2323 camera using color negative film. The scale of the 9 x 9-inch paper prints was approximately 1:23,700.

Skytech Aero, Inc. (North Little Rock, AR) took aerial photographs for the eastern portion of the project on September 28, 1997. The photos were taken at a flight height of approximately 11,000 feet with a Jena MRB 15/2323 camera using color negative film. The scale of the 9 x 9-inch paper prints was approximately 1:22,000.

Two sets of ancillary aerial photography were used as collateral information. The first was a set of CIR paper prints. Intrasearch (12424 E Weaver Place, Ste 100, Englewood, CO 80111) took aerial photographs on August 9, 1983. The photos were taken at a flight height of 12,000 feet above mean ground level with a RC8 camera using Kodak 2443 Infrared film. The scale of the 9 x 9-inch paper prints was approximately 1:24,000.

The second ancillary photography was a set of black-and-white paper prints. Rocky Mountain Aerial Surveys, Inc (14 Inverness Drive East, Building G-136, Englewood, CO 80111-6406) took aerial photographs on October 18,1997. The photos were taken at a flight height of 6000 feet above mean ground level with a Zeiss RMKA/15/23 camera using Kodak 2405 XX Black and White film. The scale of the 9 x 9-inch paper prints was approximately 1:12,000.

Other source information supplied by the NPS includes (all digital): the park boundary, surficial geology, soils, and noxious weeds.

The USGS supplied Digital Raster Graphic data (DRG), Digital Elevation Model data (DEM), and Digital Orthophoto data (DOQ). Slope and aspect data was derived from the DEM.

Tags: accuracy-assessment, botanical-survey, classification, geodatabase, habitat-types, imagery, national-vegetation-classification, nvc, nvcs, plots, releve, remote-sensing, usnvcs, vegetation, vegetation-inventory, vegetation-map, vegetation-mapping
Organization: Department of the Interior
Imagery data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Zion National Park

This reference contains the imagery data used in the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit.  Orthophotos, raw imagery, and scanned aerial photos are common files held here.

Horizons, Inc. (Rapid City, SD) flew true-color aerial photography for ZION at scales of 1:12,000 and 1:40,000 on June 22 and 23, 1999. We chose true-color film because of its ability to penetrate shadows allowing shapes of vegetation to be discerned through dim light. At the 1:40,000 scale, Horizon’s exposed approximately 135 frames along 16 flightlines to cover the project area. The digital mosaic was then magnified to 1:12,000 and rectified or corrected through a mathematical process that warps and stretches the image between known control points.

Tags: accuracy-assessment, botanical-survey, classification, geodatabase, habitat-types, imagery, national-vegetation-classification, nvc, nvcs, plots, releve, remote-sensing, usnvcs, vegetation, vegetation-inventory, vegetation-map, vegetation-mapping
Organization: Department of the Interior
Imagery data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Fire Island National Seashore

This reference contains the imagery data used in the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit.  Orthophotos, raw imagery, and scanned aerial photos are common files held here.

Aerial photographs were already available for the FIIS and it was decided to use these rather than conduct a new photo acquisition project. The Army Corps of Engineers lent a set of color-infrared (CIR) imagery taken in July 1997. This photoset was scanned at a resolution of 600 dpi to be used as a reference for vegetation mapping work (Figure 3a). Because we were not able to maintain possession of the CIR photoset, we obtained print copies of an additional photoset for use in the FIIS project. This set of photos was obtained from Aerographics, Inc1 – the same vendor who supplied the CIR photoset to the Army Corps of Engineers. This set was captured in true-color in April of 1997 for Fire Island, and in 1996 for the islands in the Great South Bay and the William Floyd Estate at a scale of 1:1,200. Two copies of each photo were acquired. One was sent to the FIIS headquarters in Patchogue and the other was kept at CMI.
The true-color photographs were used to delineate and interpret vegetation polygons at Fire Island. Aerographics scanned a subset of these same photographs at 600 dpi to serve as a backdrop for head-up digitizing (Figure 3b). Only about half of the photoset was scanned, as there was considerable overlap area within the photos. These photos were georeferenced by collecting 10-20 control points from available USGS digital orthoquarterquads (DOQQs) for the area. Photos were georeferenced to a spatial accuracy of 5 m on the ground, determined from the root mean square error term provided by the software during georeferencing.

Tags: accuracy-assessment, botanical-survey, classification, geodatabase, habitat-types, imagery, national-vegetation-classification, nvc, nvcs, plots, releve, remote-sensing, usnvcs, vegetation, vegetation-inventory, vegetation-map, vegetation-mapping
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mojave Desert Network (MOJN) Desert Springs (DS) Data Package (2016-2025)

This data package contains discrete data collected for the Mojave Desert Network Inventory and Monitoring Program Desert Springs protocol. This protocol is designed to monitor hydrological and ecological condition at 250 springs in Death Valley National Park (DEVA), Joshua Tree National Park (JOTR), Lake Mead National Recreation Area (LAKE), Mojave National Preserve (MOJA), and Parashant National Monument (PARA). Collected data include water quantity and water quality measurements as well as site condition information about dominant vegetation, invasive plants, disturbance, and wildlife evidence.

Tags: desert-springs, hydrology, mojn, springs, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Early successional changes in coniferous forest small mammal communities following a high-severity summer wildfire

Data files of small mammals and herbaceous vegetation used in analyzing small mammal community responses following the 2011 Las Conchas Fire on Valles Caldera National Preserve.

Tags: aberts-squirrel, brush-deermouse, brush-mouse, bushy-tailed-woodrat, callospermophilus-lateralis, colorado-chipmunk, coronation-island-vole, deer-mouse, dispersal, disturbance, dusky-shrew, dwarf-shrew, forest-fire, golden-mantled-ground-squirrel, habitat-selection, long-tailed-vole, malheur-shrew, mexican-woodrat, microtus-longicaudus, microtus-montanus, montane-shrew, montane-vole, mountain-cottontail, neotamias-minimus, neotamias-quadrivittatus-quadrivittatus, neotoma-cinerea, neotoma-mexicana, north-american-deermouse, nuttalls-cottontail, peromyscus-boylii, peromyscus-maniculatus, prebles-shrew, red-squirrel, rocky-mountain-dwarf-shrew, sciurus-aberti, sorex-monticolus, sorex-nanus, sorex-preblei, species-turnover, succession, sylvilagus-nuttallii, tamiasciurus-hudsonicus
Organization: Department of the Interior
[PILOT] Herpetological Monitoring Surveys for the Southeast Coast Network: 2011-2012 and 2014 - Data Package

The Southeast Coast Network (SECN) initiated a pilot program using Automated Recording Devices (ARDs) to monitor vocal anurans in the network parks, with a particular focus emphasis on amphibians. Anurans were chosen for monitoring because of their global importance as ecological indicators, documented population declines and extinctions, and their high level of diversity in the Southeast. The overall goal of the pilot program was to determine trends in species occupancy, distribution, diversity, and community composition in SECN parks. Monitoring was conducted in the spring and summer with ARDs being deployed for 77-day periods. Park boundaries were used as sampling frames and a suite of spatially-balanced random sampling locations were drawn from 0.5-ha grids. Recordings were first machine processed to match vocalization hits using species-detecting algorithms, before being manually processed by researchers for QA/QC purposes. Over 192,000 signal detections determined to represent (in part) approximately 23 species were observed at 10 NPS park units in 2011, 2012, and 2014.

Tags: acoustic-monitoring, anuran, ard, audio-recording, automated-recording-device, calo, cape-lookout-national-seashore, chat, chattahoochee-river-national-recreation-area, cong, congaree-national-park, cuis, cumberland-island-national-seashore, fofr, fort-frederica-national-monument, fort-sumter-national-monument, fosu, frog, herp, hobe, horseshoe-bend-national-military-park, kemo, kennesaw-mountain-national-battlefield-park, long-term-monitoring, mocr, monitoring, moores-creek-national-battlefield, ocmu, ocmulgee-national-monument, toad, treefrog, vocal-anuran
Organization: Department of the Interior
Imagery data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Fort Laramie National Historic Site

This reference contains the imagery data used in the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit.  Orthophotos, raw imagery, and scanned aerial photos are common files held here.

Tags: accuracy-assessment, botanical-survey, classification, geodatabase, habitat-types, imagery, national-vegetation-classification, nvc, nvcs, plots, releve, remote-sensing, usnvcs, vegetation, vegetation-inventory, vegetation-map, vegetation-mapping
Organization: Department of the Interior
Imagery data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Voyageurs National Park

This reference contains the imagery data used in the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit.  Orthophotos, raw imagery, and scanned aerial photos are common files held here.

Throughout the entire interpretation process, October 1988 CIR photographs were also viewed to better determine vegetation types. The 1988 photos, because they effectively captured fall colors in leaf canopies, were very helpful in revealing various distinctions not apparent on the 1995 and 1996 photographs. The primary characteristic that differed was that of color. Where changes in the vegetation occurred between the two sets of photographs, only characteristics on the recent set were used to determine the types.

Tags: accuracy-assessment, botanical-survey, classification, geodatabase, habitat-types, imagery, national-vegetation-classification, nvc, nvcs, plots, releve, remote-sensing, usnvcs, vegetation, vegetation-inventory, vegetation-map, vegetation-mapping
Organization: Department of the Interior
Imagery data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Navajo National Monument

This reference contains the imagery data used in the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit.  Orthophotos, raw imagery, and scanned aerial photos are common files held here.

All aerial photography was collected for Keet Seel on June 6, 2004, and for Inscription House and Betatakin on June 17, 2004, at a scale of 1:12,000, in natural color. The aerial photography collected for NAVA was part of a regionwide USDA–NPS contract for a number of other SCPN park units. Six photographs cover Inscription House and there are eight each for Keet Seel and Betatakin.

Tags: accuracy-assessment, botanical-survey, classification, geodatabase, habitat-types, imagery, national-vegetation-classification, nvc, nvcs, plots, releve, remote-sensing, usnvcs, vegetation, vegetation-inventory, vegetation-map, vegetation-mapping
Organization: Department of the Interior
GRSM Dictyostelium Survey

Field Methods:
Collection of 10-20 samples of about 20 g of soil from just under the leaf litter of assorted forest locations. Soil is scraped only from the surface of patches about 10 cm square and stored in small sterile plastic collection bags. No digging is necessary because the organisms are only on the surface. The soil will be cultured in the laboratory to produce spores and then cloned and stored for future research. Dictyostelium is a common model organism and we are developing a library of wild strains to compare.

Tags: amoeba, amoeboid, aphn, appalachian-highlands-network, dictyostelium-discoideum, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-amphibians-and-reptiles, great-smoky-mountains-national-park, grsm, grsm-permitted-study-id-grsm-02014, protist, protista, ser, southeast-region
Organization: Department of the Interior