AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Giving-up density experiments for two species of mammals in Florida, 2022

Invasive predators pose a substantial threat to global biodiversity. Native prey species frequently exhibit naïveté to the cues of invasive predators, and this phenomenon may contribute to the disproportionate impact of invasive predators on prey populations. However, not all species exhibit naïveté, which has led to the generation of many hypotheses to explain patterns in prey responses. These hypotheses primarily fall into two categories: system-centric hypotheses that relate to biogeographic isolation (BIH) and species-centric hypotheses, like the Archetype Similarity Hypothesis (ASH). We tested the predictions of these hypotheses by assessing the response of the common raccoon (Procyon lotor) and hispid cotton rat (Sigmodon hispidus), two native mammal species with divergent snake predation histories, to the cues of the invasive Burmese python (Python bivittatus) in Florida. Using giving-up densities (GUDs), we assessed the responses of both cotton rats and raccoons to life-size replicas of Burmese pythons and two North American predators (coyotes, Canis latrans, and eastern diamondback rattlesnake, Crotalus adamanteus). 
This Relative.GUD.Racoon dataset presents the results of giving-up density experiments conducted to assess raccoon responses to the visual cues of invasive Burmese pythons. Experiments were conducted in Paynes Prairie State Preserve Park (Alachua County, Florida, USA) in 2022. To quantify raccoon giving-up densities, we mixed 100 pieces of cat food with 1 liter of pine pellets. To minimize the influence of environmental variables on the treatments, we employed a blocked design, ensuring that each of the four predator treatments was represented in each cluster.
This Relative.GUD.Rat dataset presents the results of giving-up density experiments conducted to assess hispid cotton rat responses to the visual cues of invasive Burmese pythons. Experiments were conducted in Paynes Prairie State Preserve Park (Alachua County, Florida, USA) in 2022. To quantify cotton rat giving-up densities, we mixed 25 ml of hulled millet with 1.5 liters of sifted sand. To minimize the influence of environmental variables on the treatments, we employed a blocked design, ensuring that each of the four predator treatments was represented in each cluster. We repeated treatments for three nights.

Tags: biota, cotton-rat, coyote, everglades, experiment, florida, food, foraging, paynes-prairie, prey, python, racoon, rattlesnake, risk, snake, usgs-66fd7198d34edc655a85f050
Organization: Department of the Interior
Monthly ensemble outputs from the National Hydrologic Model Precipitation-Runoff Modeling System and the Weather Research and Forecasting model hydrologic modeling system for the conterminous United States, Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico for water years 2010–2020

The Integrated Water Availability Assessment uses an ensemble of outputs from two hydrologic models to assess water supply conditions. Results from the two models, the National Hydrologic Model Precipitation-Runoff Modeling System (NHM-PRMS) and Weather Research and Forecasting model hydrologic modeling system (WRF-Hydro) were averaged to create a single model ensemble. A unique instance of each model was developed specifically for this application. Each model was run at its native spatiotemporal resolution and converted to the subwatershed (12-digit hydrologic unit code; HUC12) spatial resolution and year-month temporal resolution for ensembling and assessment purposes. For NHM, the native spatiotemporal resolution is hydrologic response units (HRU), which have an average area of about 75 m2 at a daily time step. For WRF-Hydro, the native spatiotemporal resolution is a 250-m grid at an hourly timestep. The data in this release represent the mean between the results from of each model, by variable (hydrologic state or flux), at the HUC12, year-month resolution.

Tags: alaska, conterminous-united-states, environment, hawaii, hydrographic-datasets, hydrology, puerto-rico, surface-water-non-marine, usgs-66fd7083d34edc655a85f049, water-budget, water-resources, water-supply-and-demand
Organization: Department of the Interior
Scanned logs of down-hole lithologic and radiologic information from Arizona, Colorado, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming

This data release contains digitized well logs from a historic uranium exploration program conducted by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) between 1948 and 1956. The well logs document down-hole lithologic and radiologic information from drilling activities primarily in the Colorado Plateau (Colorado, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico), Wyoming, and South Dakota. These logs, originally archived in paper and Mylar formats, were digitized by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and are provided in .pdf format, and associated header information describing file is also compiled.
These scans of well logs, provide a significant, though incomplete, record of the drilling activities conducted during this period. The logs were transferred through various governmental bodies before being housed at the USGS in Denver. While well headers often do not contain sufficient information for georeferencing, related AEC and USGS reports often include maps with drill hole locations. This data release offers a valuable historical resource for research and public access, with the scanned logs available for download by state.

Tags: atomic-energy-commission, geoscientificinformation, state-of-arizona, state-of-colorado, state-of-new-mexico, state-of-south-dakota, state-of-utah, state-of-wyoming, uranium, usgs-66fd6fbcd34edc655a85f03c, well-logs
Organization: Department of the Interior
Legacy Oil Shale Well Logs in Uinta Piceance

This document describes a legacy collection of 2,263 scanned well logs from 621 distinct wells in the Piceance Basin of western Colorado, now made publicly available for long-term preservation. The dataset includes various log types—gamma ray, sonic, neutron, caliper, and lithologic descriptions—with a primary focus on intervals within the Green River Formation, a region notable for its significant oil shale deposits. The logs are provided in PDF and TIFF formats, with file sizes ranging up to 560 megabytes and an average size of 33 megabytes. Image quality varies considerably, reflecting the condition of the original source materials.
Due to the departure of key project staff, limited quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) measures have been performed on this collection. Consequently, several data attributes remain uncertain, including projection details (presumed to be NAD27) and the accuracy of depth measurements and geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude). These uncertainties may pose challenges for some users in applications requiring high precision.
Despite these limitations, this collection serves as a valuable resource for geological and petroleum engineering research, offering insights into the subsurface characteristics of the oil shale-rich Green River Formation. Users are encouraged to apply caution and verify data accuracy where critical. The availability of this dataset supports ongoing and future exploration and development activities in the Piceance Basin, providing a foundation for further analysis and preservation of geological information.on of tabular, geospatial and textual information from 3 CD-ROMs published in 1995 and 1996 from the USGS in support of the 1995 National Oil and Gas Assessment Project. This includes USGS DDS Series 30, 35 and 36. This collection was available online through various web platforms hosted by USGS Central Energy Resources Science Center / Central Energy Team since initial recovery from the CD's in early 2000's. This contains the data collection from the original data archives.  Over 11,000 files are part of this collection, with 1,524 shapefiles, 648 PDFs and 189 Tab-delimited data files. Limited qa/qc was performed on this due to time constraints and acknowledging  that this is a representation of a product over 20 years old.

Tags: caliper-logs, data-accessibility, data-archival, data-preservation, environmental-assessment, exploration-and-development, gamma-ray-logs, geological-data, geological-information-systems-gis, geological-research, green-river-formation, historical-geological-data, hydrocarbon-reservoirs, legacy-well-logs, lithologic-descriptions, neutron-logs, oil-shale, petroleum-engineering, piceance-basin, resource-evaluation, sonic-logs, subsurface-characterization, usgs-66fc3f04d34e3d9dd5de0222, well-log-scanning, western-colorado
Organization: Department of the Interior
Sediment and nutrient retention in floodplain forest soils related to flood frequency and presence/absence of invasive reed canary grass (Phalaris arundinacea) in the upper Mississippi River Navigation Pool 8 in 2019

The dataset represents the results of floodplain soil samples collected in Navigation Pool 8 of the upper Mississippi River. The objective of the research was to assess the changes in soil chemistry and nutrient transformation at floodplain forest sites in the presence or absence of invasive reed canarygrass (RCG- Phalaris arundinacea) and determine if the RCG effect was modified by the frequency of inundation of the flood plain soils. The data are structured in a 2x4 factorial experimental design, Factor 1, the presence or absence of RCG in floodplain forest landcover and Factor 2, four levels of flood inundation frequency (0.25-0.32, 0.32-1.35, 1.35-2.35, and 2.35-4 events per year).  Soil core samples were collected at 6 locations (n=6) by 2 landcovers and 4 inundation frequencies for a total of 48 sites in the June post flood period and again in August of 2019.  Rates of biogeochemical transformation of nitrogen was determined for each site.  Soil characteristics, Mehlich-3 metals (Al, Ca, Cu, Fe, K, Mn, Mg, Na, P, and Zn), Phosphorus (P), MgCl2 extracted P, carbon, nitrogen, nitrate-nitrite, exchangeable ammonium, and particle-size of the soil were also measured.  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, carbon, denitrification, flood-inundation, floodplain-forest, mississippi-river, nitrification, nitrogen, phalaris-arundinacea, phosphorus, soil, usgs-66fbffc4d34e3d9dd5ddffa8
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital Representation of Isopach Maps for Selected Geologic Periods from an Atlas Published by Sloss and Others (1960)

Information of hydrogeologic and geologic importance from the book, "Lithofacies Maps: An Atlas of the United States and Southern Canada" (Sloss and others, 1960) detailing geologic periods, including the Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, and Devonian were digitized from scanned maps. Isopach contours were captured and, along with Geologic Map of North America (GMNA) information (Garrity and Soller, 2009), were used to interpolate thickness rasters for each period. Additionally, the lithofacies information on each map was also digitized.   
Data available in this data release include 4 compressed (.zip) geodatabases (.gdb) of geologic period feature classes, including isopach contours, lithofacies, raster interpolation masks, control points, and thickness rasters. A layer file for symbolizing the lithofacies feature classes and the metadata document are also included.
Citations:
Sloss, L.L., Dapples, E.C., and Krumbein, W.C., 1960, Lithofacies Maps: An Atlas of the United States and Southern Canada, John Wiley &amp; Sons, Inc., 108 pages.
Garrity, C.P., and Soller, D.R., 2009, Database of the Geologic Map of North America; adapted from the map by J.C. Reed, Jr. and others (2005): U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 424, http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/424/.

Tags: bedrock-geologic-units, cambrian, devonian, geologic-structure, geoscientificinformation, maps-and-atlases, ordovician, silurian, stratigraphic-sections, structural-geology, tectonic-processes, usgs-66fbdadcd34e3d9dd5ddff35
Organization: Department of the Interior
Tracking Data for Long-billed Curlews (Numenius americanus)

This data release includes 2 child items with tracking data for Long-billed Curlews, a shorebird species that nests in deserts and grasslands of central and western North America and spends the nonbreeding season in agriculture fields and pastures or along coastlines in California, Texas, and Mexico.
      Child Item 1: "Argos Satellite Tracking Data for Long-billed Curlews (Numenius americanus) - Processed Data" -- Quality-controlled data collected from Argos satellite transmitters.
      Child Item 2: "Argos Satellite Tracking Data for Long-billed Curlews (Numenius americanus) - Raw Data" -- All raw data collected from Argos satellite transmitters, provided for completeness of the archive. The quality-controlled, "Argos Processed Data" (Child Item 1) are better suited for most analytical purposes.

Tags: animal-tracking, animals-vertebrates, argos, biota, birds, breeding-sites, capture-recapture-studies, environment, long-billed-curlew, migratory-birds, migratory-rates-routes, migratory-species, montana, nevada, numenius-americanus, oregon, ornithology, overwintering, platform-transmitter-terminal, ptt, satellite-transmitter, seasonal-distribution, seasonal-movement, species-life-history, tagging-devices, telemetry, tracking-equipment, usgs-66fb3cb4d34e6d68f515c401, waders-gulls-auks-and-allies, wildlife
Organization: Department of the Interior
Reported and inventoried crop type and irrigated acreage for Glades, Highlands, Martin, Okeechobee, and St. Lucie Counties in Florida, 1992-2024

Individual county tables summarizing the inventoried acreage by crop type and irrigation system were compiled for five counties: Glades, Highlands, Okeechobee, Martin and St. Lucie. The irrigated acreage totals were derived from analyses of satellite and aerial imagery.  Crop types and irrigation system types were verified during field trips that started in November 2023 and concluded in July 2024. In addition, the tables provide acreage totals by crop type reported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture from 1992 through 2022, and Florida Statewide Agricultural Irrigation Demand for 2020-21.

Tags: crop-type, environment, farming, florida, florida-department-of-agriculture-and-consumer-services, glades-county, groundwater, highlands-county, image-collections-aerial-photography, inlandwaters, irrigation-type, land-use, land-use-classification-codes, martin-county, okeechobee-county, south-florida-water-management-district, southwest-florida-water-management-district, st-johns-river-water-management-district, st-lucie-county, surface-water, usgs-66faf7fdd34e6d68f514c643
Organization: Department of the Interior
Beach foreshore slope for the U.S. Gulf of Mexico

This data release contains foreshore slopes for primarily open-ocean sandy beaches along the United States portion of the Gulf of Mexico (Texas through Florida). The slopes were calculated while extracting shoreline position from lidar point cloud data collected between 2001 and 2018. The shoreline positions have been previously published, but the slopes have not. An alongshore reference baseline was defined, and then 20-meter spaced cross-shore beach transects were created perpendicular to the baseline. All data points within 1 meter (alongshore) of each transect were associated with that transect. For each transect, the points on the foreshore were identified, and a linear regression was fit through the foreshore points. Beach slope was defined as the slope of the regression. The regression was evaluated at the elevation of mean high water (MHW) to yield the cross-shore location of the shoreline. In areas where more than one lidar survey is available, the slopes from each survey are provided. Most of the slopes are for sandy beaches, but some transects cross seawalls or other structures that cause steeper slopes. The slope data files (slopeData_GulfCoast.csv and slopeData_GulfCoast.shp) contain beach slope, the location at which the beach slope data were calculated (the shoreline position), and the estimated uncertainty of the shoreline position. The reference line data files (referenceLine_GulfCoast.csv and referenceLine_GulfCoast.shp) contain information about the reference baseline, the cross-shore transects, and the MHW values used to estimate the shoreline location. Both file types *.csv (ascii files containing comma separated values) and *.shp (binary files supported by Esri known as shapefiles) contain the same information.  Both file types are provided as a convenience to the user.

Tags: alabama, beach-slope, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, coastal-processes, environment, florida, foreshore, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, gulf-coast, gulf-of-mexico-coast, louisiana, mean-high-water, mhw, mississippi, oceans, shoreline, texas, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-66fae79fd34e6d68f514c592, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain foraminifera: Digitized and updated taxonomy of Thomas G Gibson’s census data

This foraminiferal census data was originally produced by USGS research Geologist Thomas G. Gibson in the 1960s through the early 2000s. The census data  here documenst evidence of  foraminifer populations found in sediment samples extracted from four cores from the Atlantic Coastal Plain and the Gulf Coastal Plain. These samples represent Pliocene, Middle Miocene and Paleocene-Eocene time intervals. Additionally in 2024 the taxonomy was updated to modern usage for convenient comparison to data produced in recent and ongoing research

Tags: atlantic-coastal-plain, benthic-foraminifera, biota, calvert-formation, choptank-formation, foraminifera, gulf-coastal-plain, holocene, miocene, paleoclimate, paleontology, planktic-foraminifera, plum-point-marl-member, popes-creek-sand-member, st-marys-formation, stratigraphy, usgs-66f8449ed34e98f05fb38d28
Organization: Department of the Interior
Winter Tick Host Competency Data from Elk and Moose in the Southern Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem 2020-2023

Three tabular datasets providing tick counts from various transects and reproduction sites around Jackson, Wyoming. One table with data from total number of winter ticks collected running a transect along either an elk or moose hide, another table with winter tick counts collected and counted in a 250 m drag transect, and then the last table is the count of larvae that come from one fed female tick.

Tags: apparent-competition, arachnids, biota, ecological-competition, elk, greater-yellowstone-ecosystem, host-competency, jackson, moose, parasite-sharing, parasites, usgs-66f71078d34e98f05fb38049, winter-tick, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Flood frequency for three streamgages operated by the U.S. Geological Survey in the Black River basin in southeastern Missouri and northeastern Arkansas

Flood-frequency analyses were conducted for three streamgages operated by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in the Black River basin of southeastern Missouri (MO) and northeastern Arkansas (AR): 07064000, Black River near Corning, AR; 07068000, Current River at Doniphan, MO; and 07069000, Black River at Pocahontas, AR.  Results from the analyses will be used for design purposes by the Arkansas Department of Transportation in the future Interstate 57 alignment from Walnut Ridge, AR to the MO state line.  Annual peak-flow data through the 2023 water year (a water year is defined as the period October 1 - September 30, named for the year in which it ends) were downloaded from the USGS National Water Information System (NWIS) website at https://nwis.waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/peak.  Flood-frequency analyses using the Expected Moments Algorithm (EMA) were conducted in version 7.5.1 of USGS PeakFQ software (Veilleux and others, 2014; Flynn and others, 2006) following federal guidelines (England and others, 2019) and the techniques outlined in the most recent USGS flood-frequency report for Arkansas (Wagner and others, 2016). Peak-flow (.pkf), specification (.psf), output (.PRT) and export (.EXP) files from PeakFQ are provided, in addition to a plot of the frequency curve for each streamgage in .PNG format.  Results from the flood-frequency analyses, including estimates of the magnitudes of floods corresponding to the 0.5, 0.2, 0.1, 0.04, 0.02, 0.01, 0.005, and 0.002 annual exceedance probabilities (AEPs; the equivalent of the 2-, 5-, 10-, 25-, 50-, 100-, 200-, and 500-year recurrence intervals, respectively) and their associated variances and confidence intervals were retrieved from the .PRT file and are provided in .csv format.

Tags: annual-exceedance-probability, arkansas, black-river, current-river, flood-estimates, flood-frequency, hydrology, missouri, peak-flows, usgs-66f5d9ddd34e791ae5dfd42c
Organization: Department of the Interior
Tracking Data for Common Murres (Uria aalge)

This data release includes 2 child items with tracking data for Common Murres, a seabird species that is found in regions of the North Pacific and Atlantic oceans, often in dense breeding colonies on cliffs and in large flocks on the water.
      Child Item 1: "Argos Satellite Tracking Data for Common Murres (Uria aalge) - Processed Data" -- Quality-controlled data collected from Argos satellite transmitters.
      Child Item 2: "Argos Satellite Tracking Data for Common Murres (Uria aalge) - Raw Data" -- All raw data collected from Argos satellite transmitters, provided for completeness of the archive. The quality-controlled, "Argos Processed Data" (Child Item 1) are better suited for most analytical purposes.

Tags: alaska, animal-tracking, animals-vertebrates, argos, barren-islands, bering-sea, biota, birds, breeding-area, breeding-sites, cape-lisburne, cape-thompson, capture-recapture-studies, chukchi-sea, coastal-ecosystems, common-murre, environment, gulf-of-alaska, marine-ecosystems, middleton-island, migratory-birds, migratory-rates-routes, migratory-species, ornithology, overwintering, platform-transmitter-terminal, ptt, satellite-transmitter, seasonal-distribution, seasonal-movement, species-life-history, telemetry, tracking-equipment, uria-aalge, usgs-67000b13d34e80be174ae8d9, waders-gulls-auks-and-allies, wildlife, wintering-area
Organization: Department of the Interior
Tracking Data for Northern Fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis)

This data release includes 2 child items with tracking data for Northern Fulmars, a seabird species that breeds throughout northern ocean regions and spends the winter at-sea in the northern hemisphere.
      Child Item 1: "Argos Satellite Tracking Data for Northern Fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis) - Processed Data" -- Quality-controlled data collected from Argos satellite transmitters.
      Child Item 2: "Argos Satellite Tracking Data for Northern Fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis) - Raw Data" -- All raw data collected from Argos satellite transmitters, provided for completeness of the archive. The quality-controlled, "Argos Processed Data" (Child Item 1) are better suited for most analytical purposes.

Tags: alaska, albatrosses-petrels-and-allies, animal-tracking, animals-vertebrates, argos, bering-sea, biota, birds, breeding-sites, capture-recapture-studies, coastal-ecosystems, environment, fulmarus-glacialis, gulf-of-alaska, marine-ecosystems, migratory-birds, migratory-rates-routes, migratory-species, northern-fulmar, ornithology, overwintering, pacific-ocean, platform-transmitter-terminal, ptt, satellite-transmitter, seabirds, seasonal-distribution, seasonal-movement, species-life-history, tagging-devices, telemetry, tracking-equipment, usgs-66f5b943d34e791ae5dfd32b, wildlife
Organization: Department of the Interior