AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Plant seedling composition, abundance and substrate data

This data release includes data and metadata on seedling abundance, composition, and rooting substrate within Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge on Hawaii Island. This study aims to evaluate the role of bryophytes in seedling recruitment and thus forest regeneration in different forest types. We compared bryophyte composition and coverage between tree species (Acacia koa and Metrosideros polymorpha) and forest types (intact forest and restoration forest) and then sampled native woody seedling recruitment in the bryophytes as well as other ground covers, such as leaf litter, bare soil, and exotic grass.

Tags: botany, bryophyte, ecology, forest-restoration, forestry, hakalau-forest-national-wildlife-refuge, hawaii, land-use-change, plant-ecology, seedling-recruitment, tropical-forest-dynamics, usgs-5d1fc7afe4b0941bde64de27
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data and code release—Comparative toxicity of emulsifiable concentrate and suspension concentrate formulations of 2′,5-dichloro-4′-nitrosalicylanilide ethanolamine salt

Data and Code release to accompany a USGS publication.
Bayluscide, the 2-aminoethanol salt of niclosamide (2′, 5-dichloro-4′-nitrosalicylanilide), is a pesticide that is used in conjunction with TFM (4-Nitro-3-(trifluoromethyl)phenol) to treat streams tributary to the Great Lakes that are infested with invasive parasitic sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus). The application TFM with 0.5 to 2.0 percent (%) Bayluscide can significantly reduce the amount of TFM required to achieve effective control. The current formulation of Bayluscide used in combination TFM during stream treatments conducted the Great Lakes Fishery Commission binational Sea Lamprey Control Program is an emulsifiable concentrate (EC). The Bayluscide EC formulation is highly effective; however, it degrades application tubing, causes difficulty for application equipment cleaning, and, more recently, raises concerns for worker safety because of the carrier solvent. 
We collaborated with a contract formulation company to develop a Bayluscide 20% Suspension Concentrate (SC) formulation as a potential replacement for the Bayluscide 20% EC formulation. The Bayluscide 20% SC formulation was specifically developed using inert ingredients known to and approved for use by the United States Environmental Protection Agency and Health Canada Pest Management Regulatory Agency. However, inclusion of a small quantity of an antimicrobial in the formulation warranted evaluating the toxicological profile to sea lamprey and select nontarget fish species. We evaluated and compared the toxicity of the Bayluscide 20% SC formulation to the Bayluscide 20% EC using a continuous flow diluter system and larval sea lamprey and select cold, cool, and warmwater fish as test animals. Our results demonstrate comparable toxicological profiles between the two formulations with the Bayluscide 20% SC formulation being slightly less toxic to nontarget fish. Any use of trade, firm, or product names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.

Tags: biota, lampricide-aquatic-toxicology-bayluscide-niclosamide-sea-lamprey, usgs-65982b03d34e3265ab15a61e
Organization: Department of the Interior
The Vigil Network: Norwalk Creek, Ohio

Long-term monitoring data of geomorphic, hydrological, and biological characteristics of landscapes. This information provides an effective means of relating observed change to possible causes of the change. Identification of changes in basin characteristics, especially in arid areas where the response to altered climate or land use is generally rapid and readily apparent, might provide the initial direct indications that factors such as global warming and cultural impacts have affected the environment. The Vigil Network provides an opportunity for earth and life scientists to participate in a systematic monitoring effort to detect landscape changes over time, and to relate such changes to possible causes. This data release includes 70 sites and basins used to monitor landscape features. This data release includes information for Vigil Network sites monitored in the United States. The data and information in this data release are historical and were obtained from original documents.

Tags: geomorphology, land-surveying, sedimentation, sedimentology, streamflow, usgs-5fe9fe57d34ea5387ded6a8a, vegetation
Organization: Department of the Interior
SC_core_files_metadata

Comma separated values (csv) file that are the findings of the South Central region. The files list the site identification number, the p-value, percent change, water year, median before the change point, median after the change point, primary attribution, secondary attribution, level of evidence, and attribution notes and citations.

Tags: datasets, flooding, peak-flow, trends, usgs-5cd5be46e4b0e8a309e4622e
Organization: Department of the Interior
Area of Occupied Habitat within the Mississippi Alluvial Valley Bird Conservation Region

Values for area of all occupied habitat were only obtained for species whose occupancy models predicted a marked proportion of the species' population was likely present in non-forest habitats.

Tags: arkansas, biota, birds, forest-ecosystems, forest-resources, illinois, kentucky, louisiana, mississippi, mississippi-alluvial-valley, missouri, tennessee, usgs-5e418406e4b0edb47be639d3
Organization: Department of the Interior
An Unvegetated to Vegetated Ratio (UVVR) for coastal wetlands of the United States - 2014

Prior research has shown that sediment budgets, and therefore stability, of microtidal marsh complexes scale with areal unvegetated to vegetated marsh ratios (UVVR) suggesting these metrics are broadly applicable indicators of microtidal marsh vulnerability. This effort has developed the UVVR metric using readily available satellite imagery for the coastal areas of the contiguous United States (CONUS). These datasets provide annual averages of 1) developed, 2) vegetated, 3) unvegetated ratios and 4) an unvegetated to vegetated ratio (UVVR)  at 30-meter resolution over the coastal areas of the contiguous United States for the years 2014-2018. Additionally, multi-year average values of vegetated ratio, its standard deviation and a UVVR based on the annually-averaged vegetated ratio are provided for the coastal wetlands of the contiguous United States based on the National Wetland Inventory delineation.

Tags: alabama, atlantic-coast, california, coastal-wetlands, conterminous-united-states, delaware, florida, georgia, gulf-of-mexico-coast, louisiana, maine, maryland, mississippi, new-jersey, new-york, north-carolina, oregon, pacific-coast, south-carolina, texas, usgs-5e4d5e43e4b0ff554f6d1274, virginia, washington, wetland-change, wetland-gain, wetland-loss, wetlands
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2018 Site 5536 land-water classification data

Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring efforts to determine the efficacy of these efforts. The Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) was developed to assist in a multiple-reference approach that uses aspects of hydrogeomorphic functional assessments and probabilistic sampling for monitoring. The CRMS program includes a suite of approximately 398 sites that encompass the range of hydrological and ecological conditions for each stratum. As part of CRMS, land and water classifications are created from Digital Orthophoto Quarter Quadrangles (DOQQs) approximately every three years at all CRMS sites. A DOQQ is a raster image in which displacement in the image caused by sensor orientation and terrain relief has been removed and combines the image characteristics of a photo with geometric qualities of a map. The DOQQs generated for this project consist of 2018 Color Infrared (CIR) Digital Imagery. These images were classified into land and water categories using a threshold of the near infrared (NIR) band, followed by supervised and unsupervised classification.  Initial classification results are then reviewed by multiple image analysts to identify and manually recode errors. The final land-water classifications are intended to serve as both geographic and quantitative assessments of landscape composition on the date of acquisition. Four previous assessments have been conducted (2005, 2008, 2012, and 2015/2016). Once the program creates enough data points for statistical analyses, these data will be used for land area change rate calculation.

Tags: alteration-of-wetland-habitats, cartography, coastal, coastal-louisiana, crms, doqq, emergent-wetland, forested-wetland, geographic-information-system, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-water, louisiana, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, scrub-shrub-wetland, state-of-louisiana, usgs-611d2e57d34e40dd9c012b85, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Spatially averaged coherencies (krSPAC) and Rayleigh effective-mode modeling of microtremor data from asymmetric arrays

The datasets for this investigation consist of microtremor array data collected at sites in San Jose, California, Pleasanton, California, and synthetic microtremor array data created as part of a blind shear-wave velocity modeling study as part of the Third International Symposium on the Effects of Surface Geology on Seismic Motion (ESG2006), Grenoble, France, 30 August - 1 September 2006. The data from site STGA in San Jose, consisting of seven sensors used in the paper, are available from the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) through a request form at http://ds.iris.edu/ds/nodes/dmc/forms/assembled-data/?dataset_report_number=04-016. An associated report for these data available at http://ds.iris.edu/data/reports/2004/04-016/04-016.pdf. The data from the Pleasanton array are also available from the IRIS data management center through the website http://ds.iris.edu/mda/GS. The data accessible from this link that were used in the manuscript can be obtained through the subdirectories for stations PN1, PN2, PO1, PO2, PO3, PP22, and PP3 used in our investigation. The synthetic data created for the ESG2006 conference are presented and described in Cornou and others (2006).  
Reference: Cornou, C., Ohrnberger, M., Boore, D.M., Kudu, K., and Bard, P-Y., 2006, in P-Y Bard, E. Chaljub, C. Cornou, F. Cotton and P. Gueguen, eds, Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on the Effects of Surface Geology on Seismic Motion (ESG2006), Grenoble, France, 30 August - 1 September 2006, vol. 2, LCPC, Paris, p. 1127-1217.

Tags: asymmetric-arrays, earth-science, earthquake-hazard, earthquake-hazards-program, ehp, geologic-hazards-science-center, ghsc, krspac-microtremor-array-method, pleasanton-california, rayleigh-effective-mode-modeling, san-jose-california, usgs, usgs-5c520b14e4b0708288fb4319
Organization: Department of the Interior
Restoration and Conservation Opportunity Maps for the conterminous U.S. (CONUS)

Nature-based solutions is a leading policy option for mitigating climate change. We mapped areas of potential restoration and conservation opportunities in the conterminous U.S. (CONUS). The potential for five scenarios were examined: increasing forest cover in urban centers, restoring historically forested areas that have been converted to grasslands, conserving pristine grasslands, rewetting peatlands, and conserving vulnerable tidal wetlands.

Tags: conservation, environment, grassland, grassland-ecosystems, natural-resource-management, peatland, reforestation, remediation, restoration, usgs-6418a417d34eb496d1d1d664, wetland, wetland-restoration, wetlands
Organization: Department of the Interior
South Carolina Coastal Erosion Study Data Report for Observations : October 2003 - April 2004

Oceanographic observations have been made at nine locations in Long Bay, South Carolina from October 2003 through April 2004. These sites are centered around a shore-oblique sand feature that is approximately 10 km long, 2 km wide, and in excess of 3 m thick. The observations were collected through a collaborative effort with the U.S. Geological Survey, the University of South Carolina, and Georgia Institute of Technology Savannah Campus as part of a larger study to understand the physical processes that control the transport of sediments in Long Bay.

Tags: cape-fear, cape-romain, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, current, geoscientificinformation, long-bay, myrtle-beach-south-carolina, ocean-sciences, oceanographic-observations, oceans, pressure, salinity, sea-floor-characteristics, sediment-transport, south-atlantic-bight, suspended-material-water, temperature, turbidity, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-808bd930-4879-4611-81cd-736d2f1c2484, whsc, woods-hole-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Low-altitude aerial imagery collected from a Helikite at Head of the Meadow Beach, Truro on March 10, 2022

These data map the beach and nearshore environment at Head of the Meadow Beach in Truro, MA, providing updated regional context for the 2019 CoastCam installation. CoastCam CACO-01 are two video cameras aimed at the beach that view the coast shared by beachgoers, shorebirds, seals, and sharks. These data were collected as part of field activity 2022-015-FA and a collaboration with the National Park Service at Cape Cod National Seashore to monitor the region. In March 2022, U.S. Geological Survey and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) scientists conducted field surveys to re-map the field of view of the CoastCam. Aerial images of the beach for use in structure from motion were taken with a camera (Sony a6000) and a post-processed kinematic (PPK) system attached to a helium filled balloon-kite (Helikite). High-precision GPS targets (AeroPoints) and numbered black and white tarps 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 with the collected imagery, which was merged with the bathymetry in MATLAB (v. 2020b) to create a continuous topobathy product.

Tags: 3-band-imagery, aerial-and-satellite-photography, aerial-imagery, aerial-photography, cape-cod, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, geoscientificinformation, geotagged-photos, image-collections, jpeg, location, low-altitude-aerial-imagery, massachusetts, oceans, photographs, remote-sensing, shoreline, shoreline-photographs, truro, u-s-geological-survey, uas, united-states, unmanned-aerial-system, usgs, usgs-62dfef6ad34e952be90980bb, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Magnetotelluric data from Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Upper Michigan, 2015-2019, station wup113

This dataset consists of 176 wideband magnetotelluric (MT) stations collected from 2015-2019 across parts of Minnesota, Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) acquired these data as part of regional investigations into the geologic and tectonic framework of the area and to support mineral resource investigations. These data have been used to generate a 3D regional conductivity model of the area. Files included in this publication include measured electric- and magnetic-field time series as well as estimated impedance and vertical-magnetic field transfer functions. The data included here are for MT station wup113 in the Western Upper Peninsula survey region. A shapefile with station information for all stations in this dataset is available at https://doi.org/10.5066/P9G2Y71H.

Tags: animikie-basin, apparent-resistivity, archean, ashland-syncline, bayfield-peninsula, conductivity, duluth-complex, electromagnetic-surveying, exploration, geologic-structure, geology-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, gggsc, impedance, keweenaw-peninsula, lake-superior, magnetic-field-earth, magnetotelluric-surveying, magnetotellurics, mesoproterozoic, michigan, midcontinent-rift, mineral-resources, mineral-resources-program, minnesota, mrp, mt, paleoproterozoic, penokean-orogen, phanerozoic, phase, quaternary, tectonics, time-series, tipper, upper-peninsula, usgs-5f73b8db82cef8d183996066, wisconsin, wisconsin-magmatic-terranes
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2015 Site 0661 Land-Water Classification Data

Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection, and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring efforts to determine the efficacy of these efforts. The Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) was developed to assist in a multiple-reference approach that uses aspects of hydrogeomorphic functional assessments and probabilistic sampling for monitoring. The CRMS program includes a suite of approximately 390 sites that encompass the range of hydrological and ecological conditions for each stratum.  As part of CRMS, land and water classifications are created from Digital Orthophoto Quarter Quadrangles (DOQQs) approximately every three years at all CRMS sites.  A DOQQ is a raster image in which displacement in the image caused by sensor orientation and terrain relief has been removed and combines the image characteristics of a photo with geometric qualities of a map. The DOQQs generated for this project consist of 2015 Color Infrared (CIR) Digital Imagery.  These images were classified into land and water categories using a threshold of the near infrared (NIR) band, followed by supervised and unsupervised classification.  Initial classification results are then reviewed by multiple image analysts to identify and manually recode errors.  The final land-water classifications are intended to serve as both geographic and quantitative assessments of landscape composition on the date of acquisition.  Three previous assessments have been conducted (2005, 2008, and 2012).  Once the program creates enough data points for statistical analyses, these data will be used for land area change rate calculation.

Tags: cartography, coastal, crms, doqq, geographic-information-system, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-water, louisiana, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, state-of-louisiana, usgs-59387603e4b0764e6c5d6c10, wetland
Organization: Department of the Interior
An Unvegetated to Vegetated Ratio (UVVR) for coastal wetlands of the Atlantic Coast - 2003

Prior research has shown that sediment budgets, and therefore stability, of microtidal marsh complexes scale with areal unvegetated to vegetated marsh ratios (UVVR) suggesting these metrics are broadly applicable indicators of microtidal marsh vulnerability. This effort has developed the UVVR metric using readily available satellite imagery for the coastal areas of the contiguous United States (CONUS). These datasets provide annual averages of the 1) unvegetated fraction, 2) vegetated fraction, 3) water fraction and 4) an unvegetated to vegetated ratio (UVVR) at 30-meter resolution over the coastal areas of the contiguous United States for the year 2003. Additionally, multi-year average values of vegetated ratio, its standard deviation and a UVVR based on the annually-averaged vegetated ratio are provided for the coastal wetlands of the contiguous United States.

Tags: atlantic-coast, coastal-wetlands, connecticut, conterminous-united-states, delaware, florida, fractional-cover, georgia, maine, maryland, massachusetts, new-hampshire, new-jersey, new-york, north-carolina, rhode-island, south-carolina, unvegetated, unvegetated-to-vegetated-ratio, usgs-66e1ce91d34ecba8b86777d2, uvvr, vegetation, virginia, wetland-change, wetland-gain, wetland-loss, wetlands
Organization: Department of the Interior
Interpretation of depositional units on the SeaMARC 1A image of the Mississippi Fan, USGS Gulf of Mexico Cruise 90001 (INTERP.SHP)

Since 1982 the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has collected a large amount of surficial and shallow subsurface geologic information in the deep parts of the Gulf of Mexico.  These data include digital sidescan sonar imagery, digital seismic-reflection data, and descriptions and analyses of piston and gravity cores.  The data were collected during several different projects that addressed surficial and shallow subsurface geologic processes.  Some of these data sets have already been published, but the growing interest in the occurrence and distribution of gas hydrates in the Gulf of Mexico warrants integrating these existing data and associated interpretations into a GIS to provide regional background information for ongoing and future gas hydrate research.

Tags: arcview, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, depositional-lobe, eez, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, gulf-of-mexico, gulf-of-mexico-gis-database, information-archives-field-activity-90001, interpretation, marine-geology, mississippi-fan, north-america, oceans, polygon, scientific-interpretation, sea-floor-characteristics, shapefile, u-s-exclusive-economic-zone, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-792faf0c-84ae-4b1d-95ca-ef119baf37fb, whsc, woods-hole-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Water quality and toxicity data to assess the potential effect of nitrogen on juvenile freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionidae) in the Buffalo National River, Arkansas from September 16 2019 to November 20, 2020

The Buffalo National River in Arkansas was established as the first national river in 1972 and later designated as an Extraordinary Resource Water with a Wild and Scenic section in the upper portion. The Buffalo National River's water quality database indicates nitrogen compounds have increased since the 1980s. This study aimed to investigate the potential threat of elevated nutrients and its association with freshwater mussel declines in the Buffalo National River through laboratory and in situ exposures. We evaluated (1) the toxicity of receiving water and sediment samples containing elevated ammonia and nitrate to native juvenile Lampsilis reeveiana (Arkansas Brokenray) and three common aquatic test species (Ceriodaphnia dubia, Pimephales promelas, and Hyallela azteca) and (2) in situ bioassays with juvenile L. reeveiana to investigate the effects of nitrogen contaminants and other water quality factors on survival and growth.

Tags: aquatic-habitat, biological-assessment, biota, contamination-and-pollution, freshwater-mussels, mollusks, pollution-load, usgs-66a24757d34ec831f2c2cd72, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior