AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Fish Species Composition and Diet Information in Lakes of the Arctic Coastal Plain, Alaska, 2011-2013

This dataset provides information on fish species composition and their diet information for 16 lakes and 16 ponds at two locations on the central Arctic Coastal Plain, Alaska. In one table, we provide the presence of fish species and the total species count for each lake or pond sampled. This table also includes metrics of surface water connectivity to the stream network. In a second table, stomach content information is provided for fish collected during summer sampling periods (late June to mid-August) over three years (2011–2013). The third table includes stable carbon isotope and stable nitrogen isotope signature data for fish species and snails (the baseline organism) from 16 water bodies at one study location in 2013.

Tags: alaska, animals-vertebrates, aquatic-ecosystems, arctic, arctic-coastal-plain, biota, carbon-isotopes, diets, ecosystem-monitoring, environment, fish, fisheries, freshwater-ecosystems, indicator-species, isotopic-analysis, nitrogen-isotopes, north-slope-borough, species-composition, species-richness, stable-isotopes, use-feeding-habitat, usgs-asc158, wildlife-food-habits
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, and 2016 Site 6090 land-water matrix

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 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. This dataset consists of a matrix of four land-water products (2005, 2008, 2012, and 2016).  The resulting matrix has 16 possible classes defined by the combination of land and water categories on those four dates.

Tags: alteration-of-wetland-habitats, cartography, coastal, crms, doqq, emergent-wetland, forested-wetland, geographic-information-system, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-water, louisiana, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, scrub-shrub-wetland, state-of-louisiana, usgs-5b631b7ae4b006a11f7178ca, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetlands
Organization: Department of the Interior
Baseline for the Cape Cod Bay coastal region in Massachusetts, generated to calculate shoreline change rates (without the proxy-datum bias) using the Digital Shoreline Analysis System version 5.0

The Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management launched the Shoreline Change Project in 1989 to identify erosion-prone areas of the coast. The shoreline position and change rate are used to inform management decisions regarding the erosion of coastal resources. In 2001, a shoreline from 1994 was added to calculate both long- and short-term shoreline change rates along ocean-facing sections of the Massachusetts coast. In 2013, two oceanfront shorelines for Massachusetts were added using 2008-9 color aerial orthoimagery and 2007 topographic lidar datasets obtained from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Ocean Service, Coastal Services Center. This 2018 data release includes rates that incorporate two new mean high water (MHW) shorelines for the Massachusetts coast extracted from lidar data collected between 2010 and 2014. The first new shoreline for the State includes data from 2010 along the North Shore and South Coast from lidar data collected by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Technical Center of Expertise. Shorelines along the South Shore and Outer Cape are from 2011 lidar data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) National Geospatial Program Office. Shorelines along Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard are from a 2012 USACE Post Sandy Topographic lidar survey. The second new shoreline for the North Shore, Boston, South Shore, Cape Cod Bay, Outer Cape, South Cape, Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard, and the South Coast (around Buzzards Bay to the Rhode Island Border) is from 2013-14 lidar data collected by the (USGS) Coastal and Marine Geology Program. This 2018 update of the rate of shoreline change in Massachusetts includes two types of rates.  Some of rates include a proxy-datum bias correction, this is indicated in the filename with “PDB”. The rates that do not account for this correction have “NB” in their file names.  The proxy-datum bias is applied because in some areas a proxy shoreline (like a High Water Line shoreline) has a bias when compared to a datum shoreline (like a Mean High Water shoreline). In areas where it exists, this bias should be accounted for when calculating rates using a mix of proxy and datum shorelines. This issue is explained further in Ruggiero and List (2009) and in the process steps of the metadata associated with the rates.

Tags: atlantic-coast, baseline, cape-cod, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, coastal-processes, digital-shoreline-analysis-system, dsas, environment, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, massachusetts, new-england, north-america, oceans, shoreline, shoreline-change, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-5c657ed9e4b0fe48cb38fcb2, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Bayesian network model that predicts the probability of habitat availability (days) per winter month for age-0 Gulf Sturgeon at a 30-m pixel scale in Apalachicola Bay, FL

The Gulf Sturgeon is a federally listed, anadromous species, inhabiting Gulf Coast rivers, estuaries, and coastal waters from Louisiana to Florida. The U.S. Geological Survey partnered with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, University of Georgia, and their conservation partners to support adaptive management of Gulf Sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus desotoi) by developing a quantitative, spatial model. The model is a Bayesian network that predicts the probability of habitat availability (days) per winter month for age-0 Gulf Sturgeon at a 30-m pixel scale in estuarine critical habitat. The model predicts habitat availability (days) for 75 alternative physiological and habitat scenarios, which were the unique combination of river discharge, winter month, and month of arrival to the estuary. The probability of habitat availability (days) is predicted from habitat characteristics that could be influenced by management actions. The model's structure was defined by empirical data, expert elicitation, and simplifying assumptions.

Tags: adaptive-management, apalachicola-bay, bayesian-network, decision-support-tools, environment, estuaries, farming, gulf-coast, habitat-objectives, landscape-conservation, recovery-objectives, spatial-models, strategic-habitat-conservation, sturgeons-paddlefishes, usgs-5ab94893e4b081f61ab9ca2a, water-condition
Organization: Department of the Interior
MODFLOW-NWT model used to evaluate the groundwater availability of the Columbia Plateau Regional Aquifer System, Washington, Oregon, and Idaho

A three-dimensional groundwater flow model (MODFLOW-NWT) of the Columbia Plateau Regional aquifer (CPRAS) in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho was developed to provide an integrated understanding of the hydrologic system to implement effective water-resource management strategies. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Groundwater Resources Program assessed the groundwater availability as part of a national study of regional systems (https://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/1323/). The CPRAS assessment includes the status of groundwater resources, how these resources have changed over time, and development and application of tools to estimate system responses to stresses from future uses and climate variability and change. A major product of this assessment is a numerical groundwater-flow model of the system. Two models were constructed to simulate groundwater flow in the CPRAS: a steady-state predevelopment model representing conditions before large-scale pumping and irrigation altered the system, and a transient model representing the period 1900–2007. Construction of the model, development and calibration of the steady-state and transient simulations, as well as, a commingling scenario, is documented in the Scientific Investigations Report 2014-5127 (https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20145127). Two additional scenarios were completed and documented in the U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1817 (https://doi.org/10.3133/pp1817). One scenario represents long-term equilibrium under 2007 conditions and the other modified the equilibrium conditions to account for potential increased pumpage under projected temperature increases with climate change. The model is a useful tool for investigating water supply, water demand, management strategies, groundwater-surface water exchanges, and potential effects of changing climate on the hydrologic system. This USGS data release contains all of the input and output files for the simulations described in the associated model documentation reports: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1817 (https://doi.org/10.3133/pp1817) and the modeling report that documents the construction and calibration of the model, Scientific Investigations Report 2014-5127 (https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20145127).

Tags: blue-mountains, clearwater-embayment, climate-change, columbia-plateau, columbia-river-basalt-group, environment, geoscientificinformation, grande-ronde-basalt, groundwater, groundwater-model, idaho, imnaha-basalt, inlandwaters, mabton-interbed-unit, modflow-nwt, oregon, palouse-slope, picture-gorge-basalt, prineville-basalt, saddle-mountains-basalt, usgs-64270324d34e370832ff65d3, usgsgroundwatermodel, vantage-interbed-unit, wanapum-basalt, washington, yakima-fold-belt
Organization: Department of the Interior
Excel spreadsheet used for calculating hydrograph recession parameter statistics used in the Stochastic Empirical Loading Dilution Model created for U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2019-5053, 116 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/sir5053

Spreadsheet used to calculated hydrograph recession statistical parameters (Minimum, Most Probable Value, and Maximum) for the Stochastic Empirical Loading Dilution Model (SELDM) . The spreadsheet was used in conjunction with the SELDM simulations used in the publication: Stonewall, A.J., and Granato, G.E., 2018, Assessing potential effects of highway and urban runoff on receiving streams in total maximum daily load watersheds in Oregon using the Stochastic Empirical Loading and Dilution Model: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2019-5053, 116 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20195053, and after using the Hydrograph.xlsx spreadsheet.

Tags: bear-creek, biota, copper, mill-creek, oregon, phosphorus, sediment-transport, suspended-material-water, usgs-5d03d681e4b0e3d3115805d1
Organization: Department of the Interior
Nitrogen biogeochemistry in a boreal headwater stream network in Interior Alaska, 2008 to 2011

High latitude, boreal watersheds are nitrogen-limited ecosystems that export large amounts of organic carbon.  Key controls on carbon cycling in these environments are the biogeochemical processes affecting the nitrogen cycle.  This data release presents results of a 3-year field study from 2008-2011 to document the relation between seasonal and transport-associated changes in carbon and nitrogen pools within Nome Creek, an upland headwater tributary of the Yukon River, Alaska, and two first order tributaries to Nome Creek, West Twin Creek and East Twin Creek.  Stream-water geochemistry was characterized using: a) biweekly sampling at fixed sampling stations to assess changes through the course of a summer season; b) synoptic sampling along kilometer-long stream reaches to assess changes with down-gradient transport; and c) diel sampling at fixed station locations to assess day-night changes.  The study also included in-stream tracer tests using chloride or bromide as conservative tracers and nitrate, to document the short-term uptake and (or) degradation of inorganic nitrogen, and urea, as a proxy to document the fate of readily-degradable organic nitrogen.  Presented here are the field data and water quality analyses from the biweekly, synoptic, diel, and tracer test components of the study.

Tags: alaska, biota, boreal-stream-nitrogen-biogeochemistry-dissolved-organic-nitrogen-denitrification-nitrification, usgs-5eb97c1482ce25b5135d25f3
Organization: Department of the Interior
Water Quality Data from the Yukon River Basin in Alaska and Canada Data Quality Assurance Field Blanks

This dataset contains data collected from field blanks.  Field blanks are deionized water processed in the field by community technicians using processing methods identical to those for surface water samples.  Field blanks are then analyzed in the laboratory following procedures identical to those for surface water samples.

Tags: usgs-577d8a11e4b0ef4d2f43b494, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Model Input and Output for Hydrologic Simulations of the Upper Chattahoochee River Basin that Demonstrate Enhancements to the Precipitation Runoff Modeling System

This data release contains inputs for and outputs from hydrologic simulations of the upper Chattahoochee River Basin in northeast Georgia using the Precipitation Runoff Modeling System (PRMS). These simulations were developed to provide example applications of enhancements to the PRMS for the following topics: two new time-series input options (dynamic parameter module and water-use module), two new output options (Hydrologic Response Unit (HRU) summary output module and basin variables summary output module), and three updates of existing capabilities (stream and lake flow routing module, surface-depression storage and flow simulation, and the initial-conditions specification). These PRMS model input and output data are intended to accompany a U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods report (Regan and LaFontaine, 2017); they include three types of data: 1) PRMS input parameter and data files, 2) PRMS output data files, and 3) GIS files of the model hydrologic response units and stream segments. This data release contains the following example simulations associated with the enhancements: 1) baseline (HRU summary and basin variables output modules, updates to depression storage), 2) dynamic parameter module, 3) initial conditions output, 4) use of initial conditions file, 5) stream and lake flow routing with the flow replacement option, 6) stream and lake flow routing with the flow through lake option, and 7) water-use module.

Tags: model, streamflow, streamflow-modeling, usgs-587faf40e4b085de6c11f36d
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2018 Site 0581 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-611d2c70d34e40dd9c012a26, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastal Multibeam Bathymetry Data Collected in August 2017 from the Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana

An Ellipsoidally Referenced Survey (ERS) using two Teledyne Reson SeaBat T50-P multibeam echosounders, in dual-head configuration, was conducted by the U.S Geological Survey (USGS) St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center (SPCMSC) offshore of the Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana, August 9-12, 2017. This dataset, Chandeleur_Islands_2017_MBB_xyz.zip, includes the processed elevation point data (x,y,z), as derived from a 1-meter (m) bathymetric grid.

Tags: applanix-pos-mv-wavemaster-ii, bathymetry, chandeleur-islands, chandeleur-sound, elevation, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, gulf-of-mexico, hewes-point, hydrography, imagerybasemapsearthcover, location, louisiana, marine-geology, multibeam-sonar, ocean-characteristics, ocean-processes, oceans, seafloor-mapping, spcmsc, st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, teledyne-reson-t50-p, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-904710f0-bcec-45e9-8d2c-605c0f252f2f
Organization: Department of the Interior
Elevation of marsh units in Eastern Shore of Virginia salt marshes

This data release contains coastal wetland synthesis products for the Atlantic-facing Eastern Shore of Virginia (the data release for the Chesapeake Bay-facing portion of the Eastern Shore of Virginia is found here: https://doi.org/10.5066/P997EJYB). Metrics for resiliency, including unvegetated to vegetated ratio (UVVR), marsh elevation, and tidal range are calculated for smaller units delineated from a digital elevation model, providing the spatial variability of physical factors that influence wetland health. The U.S. Geological Survey has been expanding national assessment of coastal change hazards and forecast products to coastal wetlands with the intent of providing federal, state, and local managers with tools to estimate the vulnerability and ecosystem service potential of these wetlands. For this purpose, the response and resilience of coastal wetlands to physical factors need to be assessed in terms of the ensuing change to their vulnerability and ecosystem services.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, cedar-island, chincoteague-national-wildlife-refuge, coastal-ecosystems, coastal-processes, eastern-shore-national-wildlife-refuge, elevation, environment, estuary, fisherman-island-national-wildlife-refuge, geospatial-datasets, hog-island, inlandwaters, marsh-health, metompkin-island, mockhorn-island, oceans, parramore-island, salt-marsh, smith-island, united-states, usgs-63e53993d34efa0476ade042, vegetation, virginia, virginia-coast-reserve, wallops-island, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-functions
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital Orthorectified Aerial Image of Cottonwood Lake Study Area Wetland P8 from 1982

Orthorectified image from aerial photograph of wetland P8 in the Cottonwood Lake Study Area, Stutsman County, North Dakota. This image is part of a collection of photographs of the study area acquired during July and early August from 1975 to 2015.

Tags: aerial-photography, chase-lake-wetland-management-districtgtstutsman-county-waterfowl-production-areagteddy, chase-lake-wetland-management-districtgtstutsman-county-waterfowl-production-areagtshuler, cottonwood-lake-study-area, earth-sciencegtbiospheregtecosystemsgtaquatic-ecosystemsgtwetlands, earth-sciencegtbiospheregtecosystemsgtterrestrial-ecosystemsgtwetlands, environment, image-collections, imagerybasemapsearthcover, inlandwaters, north-dakota, northern-great-plains, platformgtaerial-photographs, prairie-pothole-region, stutsman-county, surface-water-non-marine, united-states-of-america, usgs-586fb8f4e4b01a71ba0bc9a0, wetland-ecosystems
Organization: Department of the Interior
Raw MinION FASTQ datafiles corresponding to the paper “A comparison of avian influenza virus whole genome sequencing approaches using nanopore technology”

Raw sequencing data as generated by the five different methods used are provided for each of the three samples used in the comparison. The files are in FASTQ format as exported from the Oxford Nanopore’s MK1C using MinION flowcells. Files are labeled according to the method (as described in the paper) and the Sample ID). The MK1C exports data in blocks of 6000 reads per FASTQ file and all the FASTQ files from each method and sample are grouped in a common folder.

Tags: avian-influenza, biota, emerging-infectious-disease, highly-pathogenic-avian-influenza-virus, methods-comparison, methods-development, minion, nanopore-sequencing, next-generation-sequencing, pathogen-discovery, usgs-638a4df0d34ed907bf7907ea
Organization: Department of the Interior
Denning Phenology, Den Substrate, and Reproductive Success of Female Polar Bears (Ursus maritimus) in the Southern Beaufort Sea 1986-2013 and the Chukchi Sea 1987-1994

These data represent estimates of den entrance and exit dates for female polar bears in the southern Beaufort and Chukchi Seas based on temperature sensor data obtained from satellite collars. An algorithm described in Olson et al. (2017) was used to determine whether the female entered a den and further analyses using temperature data as described in Olson et al. (2017) were used to assess den entry and emergence dates. The algorithm used identified the denning period as that during which collar temperature remained consistently above a temperature threshold. As such, users of these data should be aware that bear behavior can affect den entrance and exit date. If a bear moves in and out of a den frequently, the algorithm identifies that bear as not denning. Den substrate was determined by examining satellite locations from collars during the identified denning period and classify dens as occurring on landfast ice, pack ice, or land. This data set also includes direct observations of females post-den emergence to ascertain whether or not she was accompanied by cubs as an indicator of reproductive success. The den IDs provided in this data set correspond with those identified in the USGS den catalog (Durner 2010, Durner et al 2020) additional information about the dens in this data set may be found in the catalog.

Tags: alaska, animals-vertebrates, bears, beaufort-sea, behavior, biota, carnivores, chukchi-sea, coastal-ecosystems, dens, environment, mammals, marine-ecosystems, marine-mammals, phenology, polar-bear, species-life-history, threatened-species, ursus-maritimus, usgs-asc159, wildlife
Organization: Department of the Interior