AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Attributes for NHDPlus Version 2.1 Catchments and Modified Routing of Upstream Watersheds for the Conterminous United States: National Land Cover Database 2016 Versions for the Years 2001, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2011, 2013, and 2016

This tabular data set represents the percent of land cover classes from the new generation of the 2016 National Land Cover Datasets for the years 2001, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2011, 2013, and 2016 compiled for two spatial components of the NHDPlus version 2.1 data suite (NHDPlusv2) for the conterminous United States; 1) individual reach catchments and 2) reach catchments accumulated upstream through the river network. This dataset can be linked to the NHDPlus version 2 data suite by the unique identifier COMID.  The source data is the "NLCD 2016 Land Cover Conterminous United States" datasets for the years 2001, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2011, 2013, and 2016 produced by the United States Geological Survey (Yang and others, 2018). Units are percent. The "NLCD 2016 Land Cover Conterminous United States" datasets (NLCD 2016) are a 16-class (additional four classes in Alaska only) land cover classification scheme that has been applied consistently across all 50 United States and Puerto Rico at a spatial resolution of 30 meters. Reach catchment information characterizes data at the local scale. Reach catchments accumulated upstream through the river network characterizes cumulative upstream conditions.  Network-accumulated values are computed using two methods, 1) divergence-routed and 2) total cumulative drainage area. Both approaches use a modified routing database to navigate the NHDPlus reach network to aggregate (accumulate) the metrics derived from the reach catchment scale. (Schwarz and Wieczorek, 2018).
First posted: January 20, 2020.
Revised: January 25, 2021.

Tags: catchment, inlandwaters, land-cover, national-land-cover-data-set, nawqa, nhdplus, nlcd-2001, nlcd-2004, nlcd-2006, nlcd-2008, nlcd-2011, nlcd-2013, nlcd-2016, sparrow, usgs-5d66b3b6e4b0c4f70cefb11d
Organization: Department of the Interior
Yellowstone Lake Telemetry Lake Trout Detections 2011-2015

We initiated a project in 2011 to identify lake-wide movement patterns and spawning areas of invasive lake trout in Yellowstone Lake, WY. We implanted acoustic transmitters in lake trout and established a network of stationary telemetry receivers in Yellowstone Lake. Lake Trout tagged with acoustic transmitters (Vemco V - series) were tracked with stationary acoustic receivers (Vemco VR2W - 69 kHz) from 2011 to 2015. The number of active receivers ranged from 17 - 65 as short term goals of the project changed. Coordinates for each detection represent the location of the receiver reading the transmitter. Additionally, detection ranges can vary from apporximately 500 - 1200 meters (but see Vemco.com for more details). In total, the dataset consists of more than 24 million detections from 470 Lake Trout and 21 Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout that were tagged over the course of the study.  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, ecology, fish, life-sciences, usgs-5d66e98ae4b0c4f70cf0c9cd, wyoming, yellowstone-national-park
Organization: Department of the Interior
Yellowstone Lake Telemetry Fish Tagging 2011-2016

We tracked Lake Trout and a small number Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout using acoustic telemetry (Vemco VR2W - 69 kHz) receivers and transmitters (Vemco V- series) in Yellowstone Lake from 2011 to 2016. This data set consists of the fish taqgging and recapture information. In total, 470 Lake Trout and 21 Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout were tagged with transmitters. Transmitters were surgically implanted into fish greater 405 mm total length. Fish were captured via line sampleing, anesthetized with Aqui-S, and tagged within a few minutes of capture. After recovering in freshwater for no more than 10 minutes, all tagged fish were released into Yellowstone Lake. While limited, recaptured fish information was reported to us by commercial gill netters working on the lake.  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, ecology, fish, life-sciences, usgs-5d66a730e4b0c4f70cef782b, wyoming, yellowstone-national-park
Organization: Department of the Interior
Lake Trout Gonadosomatic Index and Histology Yellowstone Lake 2014

The data set includes fish weight, gonad weight; and for a subset of individuals, histological stage of gonad development for Lake Trout caught in Yellowstone Lake, WY. Data were collected throughout the ice-free season of 2014.

Tags: biota, ecology, fish, fishery-management, life-sciences, usgs-5d66a4a3e4b0c4f70cef6c8f, wyoming, yellowstone-national-park
Organization: Department of the Interior
Lake Trout Fecundity Yellowstone Lake 2015

We collected eggs from female Lake Trout during the fall of 2015 to assess the relationship between female Lake Trout size and the number of eggs produced by individual fish. All data were collected between 7 September and 8 October, 2015. We collected 325 Lake Trout, however, only 44 were females that had eggs held together in a skein. We found a positive correlation between female Lake trout size (length and weight) and the number of eggs produced per female.

Tags: biota, ecology, life-sciences, usgs-5d66a1e6e4b0c4f70cef675f, wyoming, yellowstone-national-park
Organization: Department of the Interior
Water quality results from spring and stream sites in Grand Canyon that were sampled by U.S. National Park Service personnel during 2016 and 2017

This dataset comprises water quality results from spring and stream sites in Grand Canyon that were sampled through a cooperative effort by U.S. National Park Service (NPS) personnel during 2016 and 2017.  NPS personnel collected water samples from spring and stream sites in Grand Canyon and the samples were analyzed by the USGS Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center Laboratory.

Tags: arizona, grand-canyon, lower-colorado-river-basin, uranium-mining, usgs-5d65af6ce4b0c4f70ceeb329, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Arsenic Speciation method performance data, species hold times data and supporting information

This dataset includes data collected to validate a method of analysis for arsenic species As(III), As(V), dimethylarsinate (DMA), and monomethylarsonate (MMA) in surface water and groundwater samples. It also  includes site information and water chemistry for samples used in the validation and used for other studies of arsenic species in groundwater. It includes speciation data measured at multiple time points to establish or verify hold times and stability of As species in surface water and groundwater samples.

Tags: analytical-method, arsenic, dimethylarsinate, environmental-analysis, groundwater, laboratory-method, liquid-chromatography, monomethylarsonate, surface-water, tandem-mass-spectrometry, usgs-5d65a915e4b0c4f70ceeb319
Organization: Department of the Interior
Colorado River Delta project: a compilation of vegetation indices, phenology assessment metrics, estimates of evapotranspiration and change maps for seven reaches of the delta's 150 km region, for nearly the last two decades

These data were compiled for monitoring riparian zone trends and changes in the Lower Colorado Delta as part of the Minute 139 of the 1944 Water Treaty between the United States and Mexico. The quality and quantity of the Delta’s riparian and aquatic ecosystems have been dramatically reduced over the past century, due largely to significant alterations to natural hydrologic and sediment regimes. The Minute 319 Agreement states that 130 million cubic meters of water was to be released during the spring of 2014. Water was released from Morelos Dam at the Northern International Border (NIB) near Yuma, Arizona, to the river’s delta in Mexico, allowing water to reach the Gulf of California for the first time in 13 years since 2000. Our study evaluated the short and long-term effects of environmental flows to hydrological processes in this borderland delta region. Because of the landscape changes and the anticipated impacts of added water in 2014 from Minute 319 water release, we explored remote sensing-based change analysis techniques and data to develop time series data of the Colorado River delta riparian corridor vegetation greenness and water use since the year 2000. We divided the river into 7 Reaches (R1..R7) to separate between the different land covers, management conditions, and general geospatial and hydrological conditions. We generated a variety of vegetation index, ET, anomalies, and trends using time series for all reaches combined then separately. Our data shows Landsat and MODIS derived EVI and EVI2 as well as time-series data of ETLandsat-EVI (mm/day), using a modified (EVI mod) equation, and ETMODIS-EVI  with both EVI and then EVI 2 as the input variable to the ET algorithm were extremely consistent across sensors and methods and covaried well with vegetation, climate, and hydrological conditions of each reach and the whole region.

Tags: arizona, deltas, ecosystem-monitoring, ecosystem-sustainability, enhanced-vegeation-index, estuarine-ecosystems, et, evapotranspiration, evi, field-inventory-and-monitoring, gulf-of-california, landsat-images, mexico, minute-319-agreement, morelos-dam, northern-international-boundary, remote-sensing, riparian-ecosystem, riparian-habitats, san-luis, southern-international-boundary, terrestrial-ecosystems, united-states-international-boundary, usgs-5d655b2fe4b0c4f70ceeafa2, vegetation, vegetation-change, wetland-ecosystems, yuma
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hawaiian Islands datasets quantifying the effects of invasive animals and plants on native forests across the, archipelago 2019 (ver. 2.0 April 2020)

Dataset includes publicly available geologic and rainfall data, and environmental and ecological data derived or collected for this project. Specifically, water infiltration measurements, interepreted field-saturated hydraulic conductivity values, ungulate activity, vegetation cover, general soil and weather conditions data are included. Soil samples were collected, lab analyzed, and are included in the dataset. Field-collected data are associated with plots that encompassed approximately a 3 x 3 m area; site data represent approximately 20 x 20 m.
First posted: 4 March 2020 (available from author)
Revised: 2 April 2020 (version 2.0)
The revision is provided due to minor refinement of the dataset and updated analysis. Additional model variables are presented in this version (2.0).

Tags: canopy-cover, ecohydrology, ecology, field-saturated-hydraulic-conductivity, hawaii, hedychium-gardnerianum, infiltration, invasive-plant, kauai, mesic-forest, metrosideros-polymorpha, ungulate, usgs-5d670411e4b0c4f70cf10244, watershed, wet-forest
Organization: Department of the Interior
Field spectra from an experiment conducted at the USGS Columbia Environmental Research Center, Columbia, MO, on April 2, 2019

This child data release includes field spectra and in situ measurements of turbidity and Rhodamine WT dye concentration acquired during an experiment performed at the USGS Columbia Environmental Research Center, near Columbia, Missouri, on April 2, 2019.  The purpose of the experiment was to assess the feasibility of inferring concentrations of a visible dye (Rhodamine WT) tracer from various types of remotely sensed data in water with varying levels of  turbidity.  Whereas previous research on remote sensing of tracer dye concentrations has focused on clear-flowing streams, the Missouri River is much more turbid and the reflectance signal associated with the sediment-laden water could obscure that related to the presence and amount of dye.  This experiment thus provided an initial test of the potential to map dye concentrations from remotely sensed data in more turbid rivers like the Missouri, where tracer studies involving the release of a visible dye can provide insight regarding the dispersal of endangered sturgeon larvae. 
The experiment involved manipulating the turbidity and Rhodamine WT dye concentration in two water tanks and using field spectra to quantify the reflectance characteristics of the water as the turbidity and dye concentration varied over the course of the experiment.  The field spectra were recorded from above the water surface using an ASD HandHeld2 Pro spectroradiometer in reflectance mode, with periodic measurements from a Spectralon panel serving as the white reference.  Each set of field spectra consisted of a total of 40 measurements from a given tank, made every 15 seconds; the turbidity and dye concentration was assumed to be fairly constant during this 10-minute time period.  The individual spectra were subjected to a third-order Savitzky-Golay smoothing filter applied twice over a 15 nm window and then subset to the wavelength range from 400-900 nm.   
The field spectra from throughout the experiment are compiled in a single file, TankSpectra.csv, and organized by the nominal levels of turbidity and dye concentration and field spectra set number.  The file also includes columns for the actual measured turbidity and dye concentration, averaged over the 10-minute time period during which each set of spectra was recorded.  The reflectance at each wavelength from 400-900 nm is given in a separate column of the file.

Tags: columbia, concentration, field-spectra, missouri, reflectance, remote-sensing, rhodamine-dye, tracer-tests, turbidity, usgs-5d655789e4b0c4f70ceeaf65
Organization: Department of the Interior
Corticosterone release rates, water quality, microbiome, and mucosome data for analysis of Pseudacris ornata sites

We measured environmental variables at multiple spatial scales and their effect on three physiological health metrics of ornate chorus frog (Pseudacris ornata) tadpoles to identify potential correlates of population declines. To accomplish this, we measured corticosterone (glucocorticoid hormone associated with the stress response in amphibians) release rates, as well as the skin mucosal immune function (combined function of skin secretions and skin microbial community) and microbial communities of tadpoles from multiple ponds. We found that water quality and land cover characteristics associated with environmental degradation, including increased water temperature, conductivity, TDS, pH, land cover, and development, as well as spatial variebles associated with longitude and latitiude, were associated with increased corticosterone release rates and changes in skin bacterial diversity. However, mucosal immune function, although highly variable, did not differ across these environmental factors.

Tags: apalachicola-national-forest, conservation-physiology, corticosterone, eglin-air-force-base, james-webb-wildlife-center, joseph-jones-ecological-research-center-at-ichauway, lafayette-forest-wildlife-management-area, microbial-genetics, mucosome, orianne-society-preserve, pseudacris-ornata, st-marks-national-wildlife-refuge, stress, usgs-5d65374de4b09b198a26c215, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Subset of 8-digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC) watershed shapefile for the greater Central Valley, California  - Data

This subset of the USGS Water Boundary Dataset contains the polygons of the 50 8-digit Hydrologic Units that comprise the greater Central Valley study site.  The Watershed Boundary Dataset is a comprehensive set of digital spatial data that represents the surface drainages areas of the United States. The information included with the features includes a feature date, a unique common identifier, name, the feature length or area, and other characteristics. Names and their identifiers are assigned from the Geographic Names Information System. The data also contains relations that encode metadata. The names and definitions of all these feature attributes are in the Federal Standards and Procedures for the National Watershed Boundary Dataset (WBD). The document is available online at https://pubs.usgs.gov/tm/11/a3/

Tags: boundary, california, california-mountain, california-valley, central-california-valley, hydrologic-unit, hydrology, maps-and-atlases, national-watershed-boundary-dataset-wbd, sierra-nevada-mountains, usgs-5d646a48e4b09b198a26bc3c
Organization: Department of the Interior
Monthly summaries of pixel counts in Joint Research Centre Monthly Water History v1.0 dataset in level-8 HUC in the greater Central Valley, California from 1984 to 2015

The dataset comprises a Landsat-derived assessment of monthly surface water area within the study area (California's greater Central Valley).  The surface water estimates are supplied by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) Monthly Water History, v1.0.  The level of spatial aggregation is by level-8 hydrologic unit code (HUC).

Tags: california, california-mountain, california-valley, central-california-valley, image-collections, landsat, multispectral-imaging, sierra-nevada-mountains, surface-water-mapping, surface-water-non-marine, time-series, usgs-5d646666e4b09b198a26bc33
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data collected about behavioral responses to high temperatures in desert grassland bird in 2007, 2001-2013

These data include information about the year, date, time, and shrub identifying number where the following data were collected - the number of Grasshopper Sparrows that were flushed from the shrub, the air temperature (not in direct sun), relative humidity (not in direct sun), ground temperature in sun, ground temperature beneath shrub, air temperature in the shrub, and relative humidity within the shrub.

Tags: air-temperature, animal-behavior, biota, birds, grassland-ecosystems, soil-temperature, usgs-5d6446ede4b09b198a26badb
Organization: Department of the Interior
Airborne electromagnetic and magnetic survey data, southeastern San Joaquin Valley near Cawelo, California, 2016: Resistivity models

Airborne electromagnetic (AEM) and magnetic survey data were collected during October 2016 over a total distance of 262 line kilometers in the southeastern San Joaquin Valley near Cawelo, California. These data were collected in support of groundwater salinity mapping and hydrogeologic framework development as part of the U.S. Geological Survey California Oil, Gas, and Groundwater program and the California State Water Resources Control Board’s Oil and Gas Regional Monitoring Program. 
Deterministic spatially constrained inversions of the processed AEM data were conducted using the AarhusINV code (Auken and others, 2015) implemented in Aarhus Workbench software (Aarhus Geosoftware, Aarhus, Denmark). Inversion parameters were selected by running a series of test models with varying starting model resistivity values, layer discretization, horizontal/lateral constraints, and other inversion parameters. A 30-layer fixed-depth smooth inversion model was developed with layer top depths ranging between 4 and 400 meters and layer thickness increasing with depth. Inversions were run with vertical and lateral constraints of values of 2.0 and 1.6, respectively, and a 30 ohm-meter homogeneous half-space starting model.  Sensor altitude was treated as a free parameter after the 5th iteration. Depth of investigation was calculated with a minimum and maximum depth of 5 and 500 meters. 
The data provided include inverted resistivity models along all flight lines.  Digital data are described in the data dictionary, additional details regarding data inversion are described in the metadata processing steps.

Tags: aeromagnetic-surveying, california, california-water-science-center, cawelo, cawsc, electromagnetic-surveying, environment, geology-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, gggsc, groundwater, groundwater-quality, hydrogeology, kern-county, poso-creek, poso-creek-oil-field, resistivity, salinity, san-joaquin-valley, usgs-5d64316fe4b01d82ce987191
Organization: Department of the Interior
Airborne electromagnetic and magnetic survey data, southeastern San Joaquin Valley near Cawelo, California, 2016: Processed AEM data

Airborne electromagnetic (AEM) and magnetic survey data were collected during October 2016 over a total distance of 262 line kilometers in the southeastern San Joaquin Valley near Cawelo, California. These data were collected in support of groundwater salinity mapping and hydrogeologic framework development as part of the U.S. Geological Survey California Oil, Gas, and Groundwater program and the California State Water Resources Control Board’s Oil and Gas Regional Monitoring Program. 
Minimally processed binary AEM data received from SkyTEM ApS were imported into the Aarhus Workbench software (Aarhus Geosoftware, Aarhus, Denmark) and processed. Filters were applied to inclinometer and spatial positioning data to smooth raw data and remove sensor dropouts. Altimeter data were filtered, smoothed, and manually edited to correct false altitudes associated with trees and other obstacles, resulting in processed altitude representative of the distance between the AEM sensor airframe and bare earth. Ground surface elevations were imported from the 1 arc-second USGS National Elevation Dataset. Raw electromagnetic data were visually examined for couplings and noise associated with infrastructure and considered in the context of the locations of known or suspected infrastructure (powerlines, pipelines, etc...) and magnetic anomalies; impacted data were manually removed. Culled electromagnetic data were spatially averaged using a sounding distance of 1.5 seconds and trapezoidal filter widths of 4 and 6 seconds applied after gate time 1e-5 and 1e-4 seconds (low moment data) and 4 and 6 seconds applied after 1e-4 and 1e-3 seconds (high moment data). Low-signal data were removed from the averaged data through a combination of filters and manual culling. 
The data provided include fully processed electromagnetic data produced from minimally processed contractor-delivered data, also provided with this data release. The digital data are described in the data dictionary, additional details regarding processing steps are described in the metadata.

Tags: aeromagnetic-surveying, california, california-water-science-center, cawelo, cawsc, electromagnetic-surveying, environment, geology-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, gggsc, groundwater, groundwater-quality, hydrogeology, kern-county, poso-creek, poso-creek-oil-field, resistivity, salinity, san-joaquin-valley, usgs-5d643159e4b01d82ce98718f
Organization: Department of the Interior