AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Estuarine drainage area boundaries for the conterminous United States

To quantify the potential for landward migration at the estuary level, we developed a geospatial dataset for the conterminous United States (CONUS) that identifies the boundaries for estuarine drainage areas. Nine estuarine drainage areas in south Florida were delineated using data developed by the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD 2018). For the rest of CONUS, we used information contained within the National Fish Habitat Action Plan (NFHAP) - Coastal Spatial Framework (CSF) (National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science 2021). The original NFHAP-CSF data included 612 drainage areas, which were too many for our purposes. Therefore, we merged smaller drainage areas with larger, adjacent drainage areas to reduce the number to 166, which includes 62, 39, and 65 estuarine drainage areas along the Pacific, Gulf of Mexico, and Atlantic coasts, respectively. To ensure that all coastal ecosystems were included, the near-coast estuarine drainage area boundaries were expanded oceanward with a 25-km buffer.

Tags: alabama, atlantic-coast, biota, boundaries, california, coastal, coastal-drainage-area, connecticut, conterminous-united-states, contiguous-united-states, delaware, district-of-columbia, east-coast, environment, estuarine-drainage-area, estuary, florida, georgia, gulf-of-mexico-coast, louisiana, maine, maryland, massachusetts, mississippi, new-hampshire, new-jersey, new-york, north-carolina, oregon, pacific-coast, pennsylvania, rhode-island, south-carolina, texas, united-states, usgs-61df0e7fd34ed79294021ebe, virginia, washington, west-coast
Organization: Department of the Interior
Airborne magnetic and radiometric survey, northwestern Minnesota, 2021

This data release provides digital flight line data for a high-resolution airborne magnetic and radiometric survey over parts of northwestern Minnesota near the town of Mentor. The airborne survey was funded by the Earth Mapping Resources Initiative and was designed to meet complementary needs related to geologic mapping and characterization of mineral resource potential. A total of 40,139-line km of magnetic and radiometric data were acquired over an irregular-shaped area of 9140 km2. Data were collected from a fixed-wing aircraft flown at mean terrain clearance of 120 meters (m) above topography along N-S flight lines spaced at 250 m intervals. Tie lines were flown in an E-W direction every 2500 m. Data were collected by EDCON-PRJ and NV5 Geospatial, Inc. under contract with the USGS using a fixed wing aircraft with a magnetometer mounted in the tail stinger and a fully calibrated gamma-ray spectrometer. The survey operated out of the Crookston, Minnesota airport from May of 2021 to July of 2021. Files that are available in this publication include flight line data for the magnetic survey, flight line data for the radiometric survey and a report describing the survey parameters, field operations, quality control and data reduction procedures. A zip file is provided that contains the contractor's deliverable products that includes Geosoft databases and grids for the magnetic and radiometric survey and the report describing the survey and data reduction.

Tags: aeromagnetic-surveying, aeroradiometric-surveying, airborne-geophysical-survey, becker-county, clay-county, clearwater-river, earth-mapping-resources-initiative, earthmri, economy, geology-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, gggsc, horizontal-magnetic-gradiometry, magnetic-field-earth, marsh-river, marshall-county, mentor-complex, mineral-resources-program, minnesota, mrp, norman-county, northwestern-minnesota, pennington-county, polk-county, potassium, red-lake-county, red-lake-river, silver-river, thief-river, thief-river-falls, thorium, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, united-states-of-america, uranium, usa, usgs, usgs-61de2764d34ed79294021b26, vertical-magnetic-gradient, wild-rice-river
Organization: Department of the Interior
In-vitro Propagation and Fish Assessments to Inform Restoration of Dwarf Wedgemussel (Alasmidonta Heterodon)

The dwarf wedgemussel (Alasmidonta heterodon) is a federally endangered freshwater mussel that once ranged from New Brunswick to North Carolina, but now only exists in isolated populations throughout its diminished range. Laboratory propagation in conjunction with augmentation or reintroduction is considered a critical component of dwarf wedgemussel restoration. The presented data aimed to I) develop in-vitro propagation techniques including methods to minimize microbial contamination for two Alasmidonta species and II) compile and assess critical fish assemblage information at existing dwarf wedgemussel presence and absence locations to inform future restoration activities. Results from this project will be used in conjunction with habitat and genetic information to inform future restoration plans in the northeast and add to the growing body of literature on in-vitro propagation of freshwater mussels.

Tags: amphotericin-b, biota, cell-culture, connecticut, culture-contamination, dwarf-wedgemussel, environment, field-sampling, fish, fish-surveys, in-vitro-propagation, massachusetts, new-england, new-hampshire, new-jersey, new-york, tesselated-darter, triangle-floater, unionid, usgs-61ddc982d34ed79294021a22, usgs-ema-low-fwd-species-identification-disease-investigation-and-pathogen-discovery, usgs-ema-low-sb-smc-freshwater-mussels
Organization: Department of the Interior
Ecological property data and experimental lab incubation results from a long-term nitrogen deposition simulation experiment in three semi-arid grasslands, Arches National Park, Utah, USA, 2013-2019

These data were compiled to understand the responses of dryland ecosystem properties to long-term simulated atmospheric nitrogen deposition. Objective(s) of our study were to uncover any changes in soil biogeochemistry and ecosystem properties to long-term nitrogen amendments. These data represent ecosystem property data compiled over the nine-year history of a nitrogen deposition simulation experiment. These data were collected from three sites representing a gradient of soil texture in Arches National Park. Data collection began in 2013 and continued through 2019, though metrics were collected at a range of intervals within that timeframe. These data were collected by U.S. Geological Survey field technicians using a wide range of field and laboratory techniques. These data can be used to track the consequences of atmospheric nitrogen deposition on rural dryland ecosystems through time.

Tags: arches-national-park, arid-ecosystems, atmospheric-nitrogen-deposition, biochemistry, biogeochemical-cycling, carbon-dioxide, colorado-plateau, data-release, drylands, ecosystem-property-data, effects-of-climate-change, fertilization-experiment, field-experiments, geoscientificinformation, global-change, incubation-microbial-biomass, incubation-respiration, laboratory-experiments, long-term, multiple-resource-limitation, nitrogen, nitrogen-cycling, resin, short-term, soil-biogeochemistry, soil-chemistry, soil-moisture, soil-texture, stoichiometry, terrestrial-ecosystems, usgs-61ddae3fd34ed79294021967, utah
Organization: Department of the Interior
Shapefiles of faults for the United States, Canada, and Australia

Data presented here include a shapefile that combines fault data for the United States and Canada (Chorlton, 2007; Reed and others, 2005; Styron and Pagani, 2020) and a shapefile of faults for Australia (Chorlton, 2007; Raymond and others, 2012; Styron and Pagani, 2020). These two shapefiles were used as an evidential layer to evaluate the mineral prospectivity for sediment-hosted Pb-Zn deposits (Lawley and others, 2022).
References
Chorlton, L.B., 2007, Generalized geology of the world: Bedrock domains and major faults in GIS format: a small-scale world geology map with an extended geological attribute database: Geological Survey of Canada Open File 5529, https://doi.org/10.4095/223767.
Lawley, C.J.M., McCafferty, A.E., Graham, G.E., Huston, D.L., Kelley, K.D., Czarnota, K., Paradis, S., Peter, J.M., Hayward, N., Barlow, M., Emsbo, P., Coyan, J., San Juan, C.A., and Gadd, M.G., 2022, Data-driven prospectivity modelling of sediment-hosted Zn-Pb mineral systems and their critical raw materials: Ore Geology Reviews, v. 141, no. 104635, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2021.104635.
Raymond, O.L., Liu, S., Gallagher, R., Zhang, W., and Highet, L.M., 2012, Surface Geology of Australia 1:1 million scale dataset 2012 edition: Geoscience Australia, http://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/74619.
Reed, J.C., Jr., Wheeler, J.O., Tucholke, B.E., Stettner, W.R., and Soller, D.R., 2005, Decade of North American Geology Geologic Map of North America - Perspectives and explanation: Geological Society of America, v. 1, https://doi.org/10.1130/DNAG-CSMS-v1.
Styron, R., and Pagani, M., 2020, The GEM global active faults database: Earthquake Spectra, v. 36, p. 160-180, https://doi.org/10.1177/8755293020944182.

Tags: australia, canada, cmmi, critical-minerals, critical-minerals-mapping-initiative, exploring-for-the-future-program, faults, ga, geologic-faults, geologic-structures, geological-survey-of-canada, geology, geology-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center, geoscience-australia, geoscientificinformation, gggsc, gsc, lead, maps-and-atlases, metallic-mineral-resources, mineral-resources, mineral-resources-program, mrp, surface-faults, targeted-geoscience-initiative, tgi, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-61e06729d34e8911d9fe9da9, zinc
Organization: Department of the Interior
Dissolved oxygen, temperature, and light measured along the water-depth profile of wetlands in North Dakota, USA, 2019

This data release presents data that were collected as part of a larger effort to assess factors that regulate ecosystem metabolism in small ponds. This work was part of an international collaborative effort with the Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network (GLEON). From May to October 2019, dissolved oxygen, temperature, and light were measured throughout the water-depth profile of two natural wetlands and four artificial ponds located near Jamestown, North Dakota. Meteorological and bathymetric data also were collected. The natural wetlands are representative of semipermanent wetlands of the Prairie Pothole Region of North America. The artificial ponds, while smaller than the natural ponds, were managed to represent small inland wetlands of the Prairie Pothole Region. The Artificial ponds are managed by the U.S. Geological Survey Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center. Data from this collaborative study will be used to understand how small inland ponds differ from large lakes and coastal systems, specifically with regard to nutrient recycling, primary production, greenhouse gas emissions, and oxygen dynamics.

Tags: chase-lake-wetland-management-districtgtstutsman-county-waterfowl-production-areagteddy-chase-l, cottonwood-lake-study-area, inlandwaters, north-dakota, northern-great-plains, northern-prairie-wildlife-research-center, prairie-pothole-region, united-states-of-america, usgs-61dca417d34ed7929400c019, wetland-ecosystems
Organization: Department of the Interior
Water temperature and salinity at restoration and reference sites in Willapa Bay, Washington (2014-2015)

This dataset includes water temperature and water salinity data from continuous hydrology loggers and spot checks from a handheld water quality meter at restoration and reference sites at Willapa National Wildlife Refuge, from March 2014 to August 2015.

Tags: biota, estuarine-ecosystems, salinity, usgs-61dc9dcdd34ed7929400c00c, water-temperature
Organization: Department of the Interior
Morphological measurements of Antillean manatees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

The data were collected by U.S.G.S. biologists and their partners during several field trips from March 2013 to April 2014 in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Data were collected during the manatee health assessments.
The U.S. Geological Survey’s Sirenia Project is a federal research effort focusing on manatee biology and ecology with a long history of studies in the U.S., Puerto Rico, and the international arena. The status of the Antillean manatee in Cuba is not well known. Manatee population census techniques are mostly prohibited due to regulation of the airspace, but it is speculated that the population of manatee in Cuba is not very large. Manatee captures will enable health assessments and radio tagging to determine movement patterns.

Tags: biota, usgs-61dc4bbed34ed7929400bee3
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data on flea control using lufenuron and nitenpyram baits with black-tailed prairie dogs, South Dakota, 2021

We collected fleas from a colony of black-tailed prairie dogs on Buffalo Gap National Grassland, South Dakota, 2021. We collected flea data by combing prairie dogs and swabbing their burrows for fleas. Regarding combing, we anesthetized trapped prairie dogs (and their fleas) with isoflurane in induction chambers for processing. We combed each individual with a fine-tooth comb for 30 seconds to remove and count fleas. We released all animals, after they were recovered from anesthesia, at the location where they were captured. Regarding burrow swabbing, we used a plumber’s cable to insert a 20- by 20-centimeter flannel-cloth as deep as possible into burrow tunnels. We then shook the cable for 30 seconds to imitate movement by a host. We removed the cloth from the burrow and counted detected fleas. Total flea counts from individual prairie dogs or burrows were considered an index of flea abundance. 
Data were collected on four plots treated with lufenuron and nitenpyram "LN-Bit" bait pellets for systemic flea control with prairie dogs. Each LN-Bit contained 75 milligrams lufenuron and 6 milligrams nitenpyram. The LN-Bits were applied at 50 baits/acre on two plots (single treatments) and 100 baits/acre on two plots (two treatments separated by four weeks). The initial treatments were completed on 23 August 2021. The second application (on the latter two plots) was completed on 22 September 2021. Combing flea data were collected 2-21 August 2021 (before treatments) and 27 August–10 September 2021 (after initial treatments). Swabbing flea data were collected 15-17 August 2021 (before treatments) and 15-17 November 2021 (after initial treatments).
The first data set (LNBit Combing Data.csv) includes data from captures and combings of individual prairie dogs and lists treatment (TREATMENT = LN50 [50 baits/acre once] or LN100 [100 baits/acre twice]), period of experiment (PERIOD = BEFORE [before treatments] or AFTER [after initial treatments]), and flea abundance (FLEAS).
The second data set (LNBit Swabbing Data.csv) includes data from swabbing of individual burrrows and lists treatment (TREATMENT = LN50 [50 baits/acre once] or LN100 [100 baits/acre twice]), period of experiment (PERIOD = BEFORE [before treatments] or AFTER [after initial treatments]), and flea abundance (FLEAS).

Tags: biota, buffalo-gap-national-grassland, cynomys-ludovicianus, ecology, fipronil, flea, plague, south-dakota, usgs-61db45a0d34ed7929400ba0c
Organization: Department of the Interior
Depth to Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary GeoTIFF grids for the United States, Canada, and Australia

The lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary (LAB), calculated from calibrated surface wave tomography models, is marked by an abrupt change in seismic velocity between the earth's cooler lithosphere (higher seismic velocities) and the warmer and more ductile asthenosphere (lower seismic velocities). GeoTIFF grids that were extracted from global compilations (Hoggard and others, 2020) that map depth to the LAB for the United States and Canada, and for Australia are provided in this report. Previous studies have identified locations of sediment-hosted Pb-Zn deposits occur along a gradient in the depth of the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary. The LAB gradient is interpreted to represent a change from thicker to thinner lithosphere which has localized the development of basins prospective for Pb-Zn mineralization (Hoggard and others, 2020). The GeoTIFF grids were used as evidential layers in developing prospectivity models for basin-hosted Pb-Zn mineralization (Lawley and others, 2022).
References
Hoggard, M.J., Czarnota, K., Richards, F.D., Huston, D.L., Jaques, A.L., and Ghelichkhan, S., 2020, Global distribution of sediment–hosted metals controlled by craton edge stability: Nature Geoscience, v. 13, no. 7, p. 504-510, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-020-0593-2.
Lawley, C.J.M., McCafferty, A.E, Graham, G.E., Huston, D.L., Kelley, K.D., Czarnota, K., Paradis, S., Peter, J.M., Hayward, N., Barlow, M., Emsbo, P., Coyan, J., San Juan, C.A., and Gadd, M.G., 2022, Data-driven prospectivity modelling of sediment-hosted Zn-Pb mineral systems and their critical raw materials: Ore Geology Reviews, v. 141, no. 104635, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2021.104635.

Tags: asthenosphere, australia, canada, cmmi, critical-minerals, critical-minerals-mapping-initiative, depth-to-lithosphere-asthenosphere-boundary, exploring-for-the-future-program, ga, geological-survey-of-canada, geology-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center, geoscience-australia, geoscientificinformation, gggsc, gsc, lab, lab-depth, lead, lithosphere, lithosphere-asthenosphere-boundary, metallic-mineral-resources, mineral-resources, mineral-resources-program, mrp, targeted-geoscience-initiative, tgi, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-61da068cd34ed7929400b5a2, zinc
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data on flea control using FipBit fipronil bait pellets with black-tailed prairie dogs, South Dakota, 2020-2021

We live-trapped black-tailed prairie dogs on Buffalo Gap National Grassland, South Dakota, 2020-2021. We anesthetized trapped animals (and their fleas) with isoflurane in induction chambers for processing. We combed each individual with a fine-tooth comb for 30 seconds to remove and count fleas. The total flea count from an individual prairie dog was considered an index of flea abundance. We released all animals, after they were recovered from anesthesia, at the location where they were captured. 
Data were collected on sites treated with fipronil "FipBit" bait pellets for systemic flea control with prairie dogs. Sites were treated with FipBits containing 0.68, 0.71, or 0.83 milligrams of fipronil per FipBit. The FipBits were applied along transects at a rate of 125/hectare. Data were collected 12 July–2 September 2020 (assessing flea abundance before treatments), 9-23 September 2020 (evaluating flea control over ~1 month) and June–July 2021 (evaluating flea control over 9-10 months). 
The data set (South Dakota FipBits Fleas 2020-2021.csv) includes data from captures of individual prairie dogs and lists treatment (TREATMENT = 0.68, 0.71, or 0.83 milligrams of fipronil per FipBit), flea abundance (FLEAS), and period of experiment (PERIOD = BEFORE [before treatments], AFTER1 [~1 month post-treatment], and AFTER910 [~9-10 months post-treatment).
Funding and logistical support were provided by the US Geological Survey; Prairie Wildlife Research; National Park Service; US Forest Service; and US Fish and Wildlife Service.

Tags: biota, buffalo-gap-national-grassland, cynomys-ludovicianus, ecology, fipronil, flea, plague, south-dakota, usgs-61d9d72ed34ed7929400b590
Organization: Department of the Interior
Locations of Pacific Flyway ducks in and near commercial livestock facilities of the western USA (2015-2021)

Zoonotic diseases are of considerable concern to the human population and viruses such as avian influenza (AIV) threaten food security, wildlife conservation and human health. Wild waterfowl and the natural wetlands they use, are known AIV reservoirs, with birds capable of virus transmission to domestic poultry populations. While infection risk models have linked migration routes and AIV outbreaks, there is a limited understanding of wild waterfowl presence on commercial livestock facilities, and movement patterns linked to natural wetlands.
In this dataset, records (rows) represent all analyzed locations of individual waterfowl relative to locations of commercial livestock facilities and habitats. Each row has data columns detailing: species, sex, individual ID, date, day or night, within 10 kilometers of a commercial livestock facility (y or n), inside facilties (y or n), inside National Wildlife Refuge (NWR; y or n) and inside Conservation Easement (y or n). Data were collected between 2015 and 2021 as part of a larger study.
We documented 11 wild waterfowl (three Anatidae species) in or near 8 commercial livestock facilities in Washington and California with GPS telemetry data. Wild ducks used dairy and beef cattle feed lots and facility retention ponds during both day and night suggesting use for roosting and foraging. Two individuals (single locations) were observed inside poultry facility boundaries while using nearby wetlands. Ducks demonstrated high site fidelity, returning to the same areas of habitats (at livestock facilities and nearby wetlands), across months or years, showed strong connectivity with surrounding wetlands, and arrived from wetlands up to 1,251 kilometers away in the week prior. Telemetry data provides substantial advantages over observational data, allowing assessment of individual movement behavior and wetland connectivity that has significant implications for outbreak management. Telemetry improves our understanding of risk factors for waterfowl-livestock virus transmission and helps identify factors associated with coincident space use at the wild waterfowl-domestic livestock interface. Our research suggests that even relatively small or isolated natural and artificial water or food sources in or near facilities, increases the likelihood of attracting waterfowl, which has important consequences for managers attempting to minimize or prevent AIV outbreaks. Use and interpretation of telemetry data, especially when in near-real time, could provide key information for reducing virus transmission risk between waterfowl and livestock, improving protective barriers between wild and domestic species, and abating outbreaks.

Tags: animal-tracking, avian-influenza, biota, birds, california, grizzly-bay, grizzly-island, habitats, suisun-bay, telemetry, usgs-61d887b7d34ed79294009f7e, washington, zoonotic-diseases
Organization: Department of the Interior