AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Molecular and distributional data used to investigate misidentifications, population genetic diversity, and spatiotemporal trends in distribution for Pleurobema riddellii to help guide ESA listing decisions

We provide genetic and distribution data for the Louisiana Pigtoe, Pleurobema riddellii, to guide decisions related to federal protection for the species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Our final dataset includes 125 COI sequences generated as part of our study representing P. riddellii from eight North American river basins. This includes the COI sequence we generated from a museum specimen collected from the Trinity River in the late 1900s, which is the first genetic confirmation of P. riddellii in the Trinity River basin. Also included are sequences from specimens initially identified as Fusconaia cerina (n=3) Fusconaia flava (n=1), Fusconaia sp. (n=5), Pleurobema sintoxia (n=10), and Pustulosa pustulosa (n=1) that were genetically confirmed to be P. riddellii.   Additionally, we provide distribution data from freshwater mussel surveys, museum records, and field notes representing 467 records of P. riddellii collected from pre-1900 - 2022. The occurrence data includes records from 9 river basins (Amite, Calcasieu, Neches, Ouachita, Pearl, Red, Sabine, San Jacinto, Trinity), 54 HUC-10 watersheds, and 5 states (Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Texas).

Tags: amite-river, arkansas, biota, calcasieu-river, conservation, endangered-species, freshwater-mussels, genetics, lake-pontchartrain, little-river, louisiana, mississippi, neches-river, oklahoma, ouachita-river, pearl-river, range-extension, sabine-river, saline-river, san-jacinto-river, species-status-assessment, texas, trinity-river, usgs-640b29f0d34e254fd352d266
Organization: Department of the Interior
Radiocarbon ages, whole-rock geochemical data, and pumice density measurements for the Sacarosa tephra-fall deposit, Misti volcano, southern Peru

These data are derived from the Pleistocene Sacarosa tephra-fall deposit (TFD) which erupted from Misti volcano, Arequipa, southern Peru.  The deposit represents a major eruption of Misti and these data are used to characterize the deposit.  The radiocarbon ages are from units bracketing the Sacarosa TFD and constrain its eruption age.  Whole-rock major and trace element concentrations for Sacarosa pumice were determined by X-ray flourescence and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry.  Density was measured for 89 pumice from six bulk samples of the Sacarosa TFD.  These data are provided as part of an effort to characterize the Sacarosa TFD and determine its eruption age.

Tags: arequipa, biota, major-element-composition, misti-volcano, peru, plinian-eruption, pumice, pumice-density, sacarosa-tephra-fall-deposit, tephra-fall-deposit, trace-element-composition, usgs-6413bc06d34eb496d1ce8ba2, volcanology, whole-rock-geochemistry
Organization: Department of the Interior
Rangewide Occupancy and Post-Fire Recovery of California Gnatcatchers in Southern California (ver. 3.0, October 2024)

This project has two goals:
Goal 1: The goal of this project is to conduct a statistically rigorous study of occupancy to determine the post-fire recovery of California Gnatcatchers and coastal sage scrub vegetation with the goal of informing management before, during, and after fire.
Goal 2: The goal of this project is to conduct rangewide surveys to determine California Gnatcatcher occupancy at a regional scale. Because gnatcatchers will be managed through management of coastal sage scrub rather than through species-specific actions, it is necessary to determine their current status on protected lands in southern California to understand how gnatcatcher occupancy is related to coastal sage scrub plant composition, cover, and structure. This in turn will provide information on where and how coastal sage scrub could be managed and restored to benefit California Gnatcatchers and other inhabitants.

Tags: biogeography, biota, coastal-sage-scrub, endangered-species, los-angeles-county, occupancy, plant-and-animal-tagging, post-fire-recovery, san-bernardino-county, san-diego-county, southern-california, survey, usgs-640a619cd34e254fd352bd58, ventura-county, western-riverside-county
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data Supporting Automated Cropland Fallow Algorithm (ACFA) for the Northern Great Plains of USA

This data release documents the steps performed to create classified cropland fallow maps for the Northern Great Plains region of the United States from the years 2010 to 2019. The data release consists of the following: (i) an XML metadata file, (ii) a table of reference data (iii) two decision tree models, and (iv) 10 single band GeoTIFFs. The XML file named ‘Metadata.xml’ describes steps that were used to create this dataset. The table of reference data named ‘RefrenceSamples.csv’ list the training and validation point values used to train the decision tree classifiers and preform accuracy assessments. The two decision trees named ‘decisionTree_0.005.txt’ and ‘decisionTree_0.007.txt’ were used to classify remote sensing imagery to produce the classified cropland fallow maps. Ten GeoTIFFs named ‘nPlains_ACFAv1_2010.tif’ to ‘nPlains_ACFAv1_2019.tif’ contains the classified maps for each year with the first image for year 2010 and the last image for 2019. The classification for each image follows: 0 is non-cropland; 1 is cropland; 2 is cropland fallow.

Tags: agriculture, biota, colorado, fallow, grassland-ecosystems, minnesota, montana, nebraska, north-dakota, south-dakota, usgs-640a3724d34e254fd352bc95, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Response of natural phytoplankton communities from Green Bay (Lake Michigan) and Maumee Bay (Lake Erie) to laboratory manipulations of nutrient and trace metal availability during late summer 2018

Microcystins (MC) are a class of cyanotoxins produced by many cyanobacteria taxa.  Although toxic to metazoans, the evolution of microcystin pre-dates the appearance of metazoans, and so MC did not originate as a toxin to potential metazoan grazers.  One hypothesized functional role of microcystin is the management and acquisition of metals, several of which form complexes with MC intracellularly.  Metals are often used to build enzymes within the cell that allow cyanobacteria to use non-preferred nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) sources, such as nitrate, urea and organic P.  If trace metals are in low supply, primary producers may become limited because of their inability to access these non-preferred N and P forms.  Furthermore, if MC are used for metal acquisition and management, we would expect that as demand for these trace metals varies, so will the production of MC.  We performed 7 mesocosm experiments in triplicate on naturally occurring phytoplankton communities from two nearshore habitats that experience annual cyanobacterial blooms (Green Bay, Lake Michigan and Maumee Bay, Lake Erie).  In these experiments, we provided natural communities with amendments of labile nutrients (NH4+ and/or PO43-) and trace metals (Fe, Zn, Ni and Mo) and measured growth (as chlorophyll a), the relative abundance of MC-producing genes (mcyE gene copies), the relative abundance of MC-producing RNA and the MC concentration.  Experiments were performed by James H Larson and Sean W Bailey at the Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center (UMESC).  Genetic measurements were performed by Erin A. Stelzer (Ohio-Indiana-Kentucky Water Science Center) on samples collected at UMESC.  Cyanotoxin measurements were performed by Keith A. Loftin (Kansas Water Science) on samples collected at UMESC.

Tags: cyanobacteria-blue-green-algae, environment, great-lakes, green-bay, harmful-algal-blooms-microcystin-trace-metal-nutrient-limitation-ecological-stoichiometry, northwestern-lake-michigan, usgs-640a1ab9d34e0e602b90ff4f, western-lake-erie
Organization: Department of the Interior
Missouri River juvenile sturgeon and adult chub fish weight and behavior

The study was designed to assess the strength of the innate linkage of substrate and food in foraging by early juvenile Pallid and Shovelnose Sturgeon and their hybrids and adult Sicklefin and Shoal Chub. The data include information on the fish weights throughout the duration of the experiment as well as observed fish behavior data. Wet weights from fish were recorded to monitor feeding consumption and the behavior data was generated in response to watching the fish during feeding. Information found in the fish weights data table includes the fish name, the tank number, the food treatment given, the light treatment given, the week of the trial, the date when the weight was taken, the substrate material, where food was delivered, and lastly the fish weight in grams. Information found in the fish behavior data table includes the observed behavior of the fish, a numerical identifier given to the observation, the fish name, the week of the experiment, the food treatment given, the light treatment given, the substrate material, where food was delivered, the time in seconds an observed behavior started, the date of the observed behavior, the time the observation period started, and lastly the tank number.

Tags: animal-behavior, biota, columbia-environmental-research-center, endangered-species, fish, food-availability, habitat-choice, kansas-river, mississippi-river, missouri-river, pallid-sturgeon, scaphirhynchus-albus, scaphirhynchus-platorynchus, shoal-chub, shovelnose-sturgeon, sicklefin-chub, substrate-selection, usgs-6409ec69d34e0e602b90fdfc
Organization: Department of the Interior
Single-beam bathymetric survey of the French Broad River near the Interstate 26 bridge located south of Asheville, NC – June 2022, Mid-Construction #4

In January 2020, the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) began work on the Interstate 26 (I 26) highway widening project that involves a bridge crossing over the French Broad River (FBR) near Asheville, North Carolina. The U.S Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the NCDOT conducted a pre-construction bathymetric survey of the streambed in June 2019 (Whaling and Wagner, 2021) within a one-kilometer reach of the FBR at the bridge construction site. A canoe-based repeat bathymetric survey was collected with a single-beam echosounder approximately 30 months after construction began, with the purpose to monitor geomorphological changes to the streambed and inform the NCDOT of potential impacts from construction activities. The survey extended from 300 meters (m) upstream to 700 m downstream from the bridge. Depth data were collected using a canoe-mounted CEESCOPE single-beam echosounder manufactured by CEE Hydrosystems. Position and elevation data were collected using an SBG Ellipse-D, a dual antenna Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) Inertial Navigation System (INS). The final dataset provides position data in three dimensions with units of meters supplied in a “XYZ” file.  The data are projected in Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinate system, zone 17 north, horizontally referenced to the North American Datum of 1983 (NGS, 2018a), 2011 realization (NAD83 2011), and vertically referenced to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88; NGS, 2018b).

Tags: asheville, bathymetry, buncombe-county, elevation, geomorphology, inlandwaters, north-carolina, single-beam-echosounder, usgs-6408f25bd34e76f5f75e51a0, xyz
Organization: Department of the Interior
Single-beam bathymetric survey of the French Broad River near the Interstate 26 bridge south of Asheville, NC – December 2021, Mid-Construction #3

In January 2020, the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) began work on the Interstate 26 (I 26) highway widening project that involves a bridge crossing over the French Broad River (FBR) near Asheville, North Carolina. The U.S Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the NCDOT conducted a pre-construction bathymetric survey of the streambed in June 2019 (Whaling and Wagner, 2021) within a one-kilometer reach of the FBR at the bridge construction site. A canoe-based repeat bathymetric survey was collected with a single-beam echosounder approximately 23 months after construction began, with the purpose to monitor geomorphological changes to the streambed and inform the NCDOT of potential impacts from construction activities. The survey extended from 300 meters (m) upstream to 700 m downstream of the bridge. Depth data were collected using a canoe-mounted CEESCOPE single-beam echosounder manufactured by CEE Hydrosystems. Position and elevation data were collected using an SBG Ellipse-D, a dual antenna Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) Inertial Navigation System (INS). The final dataset provides position data in three dimensions with units of meters supplied in a “XYZ” file.  The data are projected in Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinate system, zone 17 north, horizontally referenced to the North American Datum of 1983 (NGS, 2018a), 2011 realization (NAD83 2011), and vertically referenced to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88; NGS, 2018b).

Tags: asheville, bathymetry, buncombe-county, elevation, geomorphology, inlandwaters, north-carolina, single-beam-echosounder, usgs-6408f20bd34e76f5f75e515e, xyz
Organization: Department of the Interior
Single-beam bathymetric survey of the French Broad River near the Interstate 26 bridge located south of Asheville, NC – June 2021, Mid-Construction #2

In January 2020, the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) began work on the Interstate 26 (I 26) highway widening project that involves a bridge crossing over the French Broad River (FBR) near Asheville, North Carolina. The U.S Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the NCDOT conducted a pre-construction bathymetric survey of the streambed in June 2019 (Whaling and Wagner, 2021) within a one-kilometer reach of the FBR at the bridge construction site. A canoe-based repeat bathymetric survey was collected with a single-beam echosounder approximately 18 months after construction began, with the purpose to monitor geomorphological changes to the streambed and inform the NCDOT of potential impacts from construction activities. The survey extended from 300 meters (m) upstream to 700 m downstream from the bridge. Depth data were collected using a canoe-mounted CEESCOPE single-beam echosounder manufactured by CEE Hydrosystems. Position and elevation data were collected using an SBG Ellipse-D, a dual antenna Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) Inertial Navigation System (INS). The final dataset provides position data in three dimensions with units of meters supplied in a “XYZ” file.  The data are projected in Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinate system, zone 17 north, horizontally referenced to the North American Datum of 1983 (NGS, 2018a), 2011 realization (NAD83 2011), and vertically referenced to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88; NGS, 2018b).

Tags: asheville, bathymetry, buncombe-county, elevation, geomorphology, inlandwaters, north-carolina, single-beam-echosounder, usgs-6408f1a3d34e76f5f75e50fe
Organization: Department of the Interior
Single-beam bathymetric survey of the French Broad River near the Interstate 26 located bridge south of Asheville, NC – December 2020, Mid-Construction #1

In January 2020, the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) began work on the Interstate 26 (I 26) highway widening project that involves a bridge crossing over the French Broad River (FBR) near Asheville, North Carolina. The U.S Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the NCDOT conducted a pre-construction bathymetric survey of the streambed in June 2019 (Whaling and Wagner, 2021) within a one-kilometer reach of the FBR at the bridge construction site. A canoe-based repeat bathymetric survey was collected with a single-beam echosounder approximately 11 months after construction began, with the purpose to monitor geomorphological changes to the streambed and inform the NCDOT of potential impacts from construction activities. The survey extended from 300 meters (m) upstream to 700 m downstream from the bridge. Depth data were collected using a canoe-mounted CEESCOPE single-beam echosounder manufactured by CEE Hydrosystems. Position and elevation data were collected using an SBG Ellipse-D, a dual antenna Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) Inertial Navigation System (INS). The final dataset provides position data in three dimensions with units of meters supplied in a “XYZ” file.  The data are projected in Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinate system, zone 17 north, horizontally referenced to the North American Datum of 1983 (NGS, 2018a), 2011 realization (NAD83 2011), and vertically referenced to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88; NGS, 2018b).

Tags: asheville, bathymetry, buncombe-county, elevation, geomorphology, inlandwaters, north-carolina, single-beam-echosounder, usgs-6408f0c7d34e76f5f75e5065, xyz
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geospatially derived environmental characteristics to prioritize watersheds for research and monitoring needs within 18 hydrologic regions across the United States

Water availability for human and ecosystem needs is a function of both water quantity and water quality, as described in the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Water Science Strategy (Evenson and others, 2013). Recently, a quantitative approach to prioritize candidate watersheds for monitoring investment was developed to understand changes in water availability and advance the objectives of new USGS programs (Van Metre and others, 2020). In this study design, the contiguous United States (CONUS) was divided into 18 regions (referred to here as “hydrologic regions” or “HRs”) with relatively homogeneous hydrologic drivers and processes to represent the wide diversity in conditions that exist across the CONUS.
The gap analysis focused on prioritizing new capabilities beyond the current USGS science in discharge and constituent concentration trends to develop integrated capabilities for assessing and modeling of the water-quality drivers of aquatic ecosystem health.
Water availability can be limited by various water-quality parameters such as temperature, salinity, excess nutrients, suspended sediment, geogenic constituents, and other contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) depending on water sources and human or ecosystem needs (Stanton and others, 2017). This data release contains more than 100 geospatial variables summarized for each watershed at the Hydrologic Unit level 4 (HUC4) that were used to prioritize watersheds targeted for USGS research. Additionally, the data release includes the polygon layers of the modified HUC4 watersheds and the hydrologic regions used for the analyses.

Tags: contaminants-of-emerging-concern, geogenics, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, hydrologic-region, inlandwaters, nutrient-content-water, salinity, sediment-transport, usgs-6408e679d34e76f5f75e4f35, water-temperature
Organization: Department of the Interior
Table 2. Estimated public-supply water withdrawals by water source and PRASA public water system in Puerto Rico, 2020

Public-supply water withdrawals in Puerto Rico have been compiled annually since 2014 as part of an ongoing effort between the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority and the U.S Geological Survey. In 2020, the total amount of public-supply water withdrawn in Puerto Rico was estimated at 602 million gallons per day (Mgal/d) from freshwater sources. Surface-water withdrawals accounted for 537 Mgal/d (89 percent) and groundwater withdrawals accounted for 65 Mgal/d (11 percent). Population served by public-supply water systems accounted for 3.3 million people, almost 100 percent of the total population. Public-supply water withdrawals were tabulated by municipality and by public water system.

Tags: domestic-water-use, environment, inlandwaters, public-supply, usgs-6408d28dd34e76f5f75e4a7c, water-use, water-withdrawals, withdrawals
Organization: Department of the Interior
Table 1. Estimated public-supply water withdrawals by water source and municipality in Puerto Rico, 2020

Public-supply water withdrawals in Puerto Rico have been compiled annually since 2014 as part of an ongoing effort between the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority and the U.S Geological Survey. In 2020, the total amount of public-supply water withdrawn in Puerto Rico was estimated at 602 million gallons per day (Mgal/d) from freshwater sources. Surface-water withdrawals accounted for 537 Mgal/d (89 percent) and groundwater withdrawals accounted for 65 Mgal/d (11 percent). Population served by public-supply water systems accounted for 3.3 million people, almost 100 percent of the total population. Public-supply water withdrawals were tabulated by municipality and by public water system.

Tags: domestic-water-use, environment, inlandwaters, public-supply, usgs-6408d25ed34e76f5f75e4a79, water-use, water-withdrawals, withdrawals
Organization: Department of the Interior
Table 2. Estimated public-supply water withdrawals by water source and PRASA public water system in Puerto Rico, 2019

Public-supply water withdrawals in Puerto Rico have been compiled annually since 2014 as part of an ongoing effort between the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority and the U.S Geological Survey. In 2019, the total amount of public-supply water withdrawn in Puerto Rico was estimated at 590 million gallons per day (Mgal/d) from freshwater sources. Surface-water withdrawals accounted for 527 Mgal/d (89 percent) and groundwater withdrawals accounted for 63 Mgal/d (11 percent). Population served by public-supply water systems accounted for 3.3 million people, almost 100 percent of the total population. Public-supply water withdrawals were tabulated by municipality and by public water system.

Tags: domestic-water-use, environment, inlandwaters, public-supply, usgs-6408d20cd34e76f5f75e4a73, water-use, water-withdrawals, withdrawals
Organization: Department of the Interior
Table 1. Estimated public-supply water withdrawals by water source and municipality in Puerto Rico, 2019

Public-supply water withdrawals in Puerto Rico have been compiled annually since 2014 as part of an ongoing effort between the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority and the U.S Geological Survey. In 2019, the total amount of public-supply water withdrawn in Puerto Rico was estimated at 590 million gallons per day (Mgal/d) from freshwater sources. Surface-water withdrawals accounted for 527 Mgal/d (89 percent) and groundwater withdrawals accounted for 63 Mgal/d (11 percent). Population served by public-supply water systems accounted for 3.3 million people, almost 100 percent of the total population. Public-supply water withdrawals were tabulated by municipality and by public water system.

Tags: domestic-water-use, environment, inlandwaters, public-supply, usgs-6408d1cfd34e76f5f75e4a65, water-use, water-withdrawals, withdrawals
Organization: Department of the Interior