AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Annual California Sea Otter Census—2017 Spring Census Summary

The spring 2017 mainland sea otter count began on April 30, and although the shore-based counts were completed by May 12, 2017, the aerial counts were not completed until July 12, 2017. Overall viewing conditions this year were good, although not as good as conditions experienced during the 2016 spring census (View Score 2.4 versus 3.1, where 0=poor, 1=fair, 2=good, 3=very good, and 4=excellent). The surface canopies of kelp (Macrocystis sp.) were considered by most participants to be considerably below normal for this time of year in most areas of the mainland range. Sea otters along the mainland coast were surveyed from Pillar Point in San Mateo County in the north to Rincon Point in the south at the Santa Barbara/Ventura County line. A separate ground-based survey of the sea otter population at San Nicolas Island was completed earlier in the spring (April 21–25) under good survey viewing conditions (View Score = 2.0). Surface kelp canopies at San Nicolas were also estimated to be considerably below the seasonal norm at the time of the survey.
These data support the following U.S. Geological Survey Data Series: Tinker, M.T., and Hatfield, B.B., 2017, California sea otter (Enhydra lutris nereis) census results, spring 2017: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 1067, 9 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ds1067.

Tags: aerial-counts, biota, california, central-california-coastal, coast, distribution, environment, ocean, range, sea-otter-census, sea-otters, shore-counts, southern-california-coastal, usgs-59b9c1d3e4b091459a54db7a
Organization: Department of the Interior
High-resolution bathymetry data collected in 2010 in Skagit Bay, Washington

These metadata describe the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center (PCMSC) 2010 bathymetry data collected in Skagit Bay Washington that is provided as a 1-m resolution TIFF image, as well as a 1-m resolution shaded-relief TIFF image. In 2004, 2005, 2007, and 2010 the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center (PCMSC) collected bathymetry and acoustic backscatter data in Skagit Bay, Washington using an interferometric bathymetric sidescan sonar system mounded to the USGS R/V Parke Snavely and the USGS R/V Karluk. The research was conducted in coordination with the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, Skagit River System Cooperative, Skagit Watershed Council, Puget Sound Nearshore Ecosystem Restoration Project, and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to characterize estuarine habitats and processes, including the sediment budget of the Skagit River and the influence of river-delta channelization on sediment transport. Information quantifying the distribution of habitats and extent that sediment transport influences habitats and the morphology of the delta is useful for planning for salmon recovery, agricultural resilience, flood risk protection, and coastal change associated with sea-level rise.

Tags: bathymetry, bathymetry-and-elevation, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, environment, geology, geoscientificinformation, imagerybasemapsearthcover, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, puget-sound, sea-floor-acoustic-reflectivity, seabed, seafloor-topography, skagit-bay, state-of-washington, strait-of-juan-de-fuca, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-59b8711ee4b08b1644df60ae
Organization: Department of the Interior
Merged 2005, 2007, and 2010 high-resolution bathymetry data collected in Skagit Bay, Washington

These metadata describe the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center (PCMSC) merged bathymetry digital terrain model comprised of the 2005, 2007, and 2010 bathymetry data collected in Skagit Bay Washington that is provided as a 1-m resolution TIFF image, as well as a 1-m resolution shaded-relief TIFF image. In 2004, 2005, 2007, and 2010 the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center (PCMSC) collected bathymetry and acoustic backscatter data in Skagit Bay, Washington using an interferometric bathymetric sidescan sonar system mounded to the USGS R/V Parke Snavely and the USGS R/V Karluk. The research was conducted in coordination with the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, Skagit River System Cooperative, Skagit Watershed Council, Puget Sound Nearshore Ecosystem Restoration Project, and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to characterize estuarine habitats and processes, including the sediment budget of the Skagit River and the influence of river-delta channelization on sediment transport. Information quantifying the distribution of habitats and extent that sediment transport influences habitats and the morphology of the delta is useful for planning for salmon recovery, agricultural resilience, flood risk protection, and coastal change associated with sea-level rise.

Tags: bathymetry, bathymetry-and-elevation, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, environment, geology, geoscientificinformation, imagerybasemapsearthcover, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, puget-sound, sea-floor-acoustic-reflectivity, seabed, seafloor-topography, skagit-bay, state-of-washington, strait-of-juan-de-fuca, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-59b8490be4b08b1644df5fda
Organization: Department of the Interior
SiteID-034 Saddle River at NJ17 at Ridgewood, NJ

These geospatial data were collected during the May 24, 2017 topographic and hydrographic survey of Saddle River in the vicinity of New Jersey State Route 17 at Ridgewood, NJ.

Tags: acoustic, acoustic-doppler-current-profiling, adcp, ascii, bathymetry, doppler, elevation, geology, geoscientificinformation, imagerybasemapsearthcover, inland-waters, inlandwaters, lidar, location, multibeam, new-jersey, nj, oceans, ridgewood, saddle-river, structure, u-s-geological-survey, usa, usgs, usgs-59b83365e4b08b1644df5f3d, water-depth, xyz
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data release for Using social-context matching to improve value-transfer performance for cultural ecosystem service models

Recreational and aesthetic enjoyment of public lands is increasing across a wide range of
activities, highlighting the need to assess and adapt management to accommodate these uses.
Despite a growing number of studies on mapping cultural ecosystem services, most are local-
scale assessments that rely on costly and time-consuming primary data collection. As a result, the
availability of spatial information on non-market values associated with cultural ecosystem
services (social values) remains limited. Spatial function transfer, if it could be justified for
social-value models, would expedite the development of social-value information and promote
its more regular inclusion in ecosystem service assessments. We used survey data from six
national forests in Colorado and Wyoming to explore the potential for transferring cultural
ecosystem service models between forests and specifically to test the hypothesis that transfer
performance increases with social-context similarity between transferring and receiving areas.
Results confirm this relationship but fall just short of being able to predict with certainty when
transferred models will meet the minimum performance criterion needed for defensible use by
managers. Social values are highly variable and can be difficult to predict, but our results suggest
that with the right combination of indicators that spatial function transfer can become a
defensible means of generating social-value information when primary data collection is not
feasible.

Tags: colorado, ecosystem-services, model-transfer, social-context-matching, socioeconomic, solves, united-states, usgs-59b7f063e4b08b1644df5d77, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Concentrations of tetrachloroethylene in passive soil-gas samples at the Vienna Wells site, Vienna, Missouri, 2015-2016.

Concentrations of tetrachloroethylene in passive soil-gas samples at the Vienna Wells site, Vienna,  deployed from August 9, 2015 to June 27, 2016. Also contains information on the depth below ground surface of the passive sampler.

Tags: contamination-and-pollution, environment, soil-chemistry, soil-resources, soil-sciences, superfund-site, usgs-59937ce4e4b02da3062a17c3
Organization: Department of the Interior
SiteID-033 Yellow Brook at NJ34 at Colts Neck Township, NJ

These geospatial data were collected during the May 9, 2017 topographic and hydrographic survey of Yellow Brook in the vicinity of New Jersey State Route 34 near Colts Neck Township, NJ.

Tags: acoustic, acoustic-doppler-current-profiling, adcp, ascii, bathymetry, colts-neck-township, doppler, elevation, geology, geoscientificinformation, imagerybasemapsearthcover, inland-waters, inlandwaters, lidar, location, multibeam, new-jersey, nj, oceans, structure, u-s-geological-survey, usa, usgs, usgs-59c13268e4b091459a5fae07, water-depth, xyz, yellow-brook
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital Dataset for the Geomorphology of the Lower Mississippi River Valley in Missouri, Kentucky, Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Mississippi

A digital dataset of the geomorphology of the Lower Mississippi River Valley in Missouri, Kentucky, Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Mississippi was developed from Roger T. Saucier’s “Geomorphology and Quaternary Geologic History of the Lower Mississippi Valley, Volumes I and II” (1994) as part of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain (MAP) Regional Water Availability Study. The maps included in the 1994 reports provide a comprehensive overview of the previously misunderstood alluvial valley geology and characterize twenty-nine Pleistocene and Holocene alluvial deposits, such as point bars, abandoned channels, backswamps, and natural levees. Each map was georeferenced to North American Datum 1983 and projected to USA Contiguous Albers Equal Conic (U.S. Geological Survey version) projection (standard parallels 29.5 and 45.5 degrees, central meridian -96 degrees, and latitude of origin 23 degrees). Once georeferenced (using ArcMap v 10.4.1), individual geomorphological features were digitized manually. Each polygon was validated using a geodatabase topology and the Topology Editor tools in ArcMap; this step was completed to create individual polygons without gaps or overlap. Efforts were made to match colors in the original map legend to the digital product, with the exception of a few features listed in the original key (for example, feature “Pve” does not match the exact color in the plates). Updated colors were selected to ease the distinction between similarly colored features. Saucier envisioned his work to be utilized by engineering geologists conducting studies that were focused at both the local and regional scale in the Lower Mississippi River Valley (Saucier, 1994). Creating a digital dataset of Saucier’s seminal geomorphological work increases the usability of the map layers for current and future scientific investigations focused on regional groundwater availability in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain. 
References
Saucier, R.T., 1994, Geomorphology and Quaternary Geologic History of the Lower Mississippi Valley: U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, MS, Vols. I and II, 398 p. and 28 plates

Tags: abandoned-channel, abandoned-courses, abandoned-deltaic-distributaries, alluvial-fan, alluvial-system, apron, arkansas, arkansas-river, backswamp-deposit, chenier, delineation, deweyville-complex, early-wisconsin-stage, floodbasin-deposit, geologic-history, geomorphology, holocene, illinois, inland-swamp-deposit, interdistributary-deposits, intermediate-complex, kentucky, lacustrine, lacustrine-deltaic-deposit, late-wisconsin-stage, louisiana, meander-scroll, mississippi, mississippi-alluvial-plain, mississippi-river, mississippi-river-delta, mississippi-valley, missouri, natural-levee, pleistocene, point-bar, prairie-complex, quaternary, relict-beach-ridges, relict-channel, sand-dune-field, tennessee, undifferentiated-alluvium, undifferentiated-fluvial-deposit, undifferentiated-paludal-deposit, usgs-59b7ddd6e4b08b1644df5cf6, valley-train
Organization: Department of the Interior
Multi-century reconstructions of temperature, precipitation, and runoff efficiency for the Upper Colorado River Basin

With increasing concerns about the impact of warming temperatures on water resources, more attention is being paid the relationship between runoff and precipitation, or runoff efficiency. Temperature is a key influence on Colorado River runoff efficiency, and warming temperatures are projected to reduce runoff efficiency. Here, we investigate the nature of runoff efficiency in the upper Colorado River (UCRB) basin over the past 400 years, with a specific focus on major droughts and pluvials, and to contextualize the instrumental period. We first verify the feasibility of reconstructing runoff efficiency from tree-ring data. The reconstruction is then used to evaluate variability in runoff efficiency over periods of high and low flow, and its correspondence to a reconstruction of late runoff season UCRB temperature variability.  Results indicate that runoff efficiency has played a consistent role in modulating the relationship between precipitation and streamflow over past centuries, and that temperature has likely been the key control.  While negative runoff efficiency is most common during dry periods, and positive runoff efficiency during wet years, there are some instances of positive runoff efficiency moderating the impact of precipitation deficits on streamflow.  Compared to past centuries, the 20th century has experienced twice as many high flow years with negative runoff efficiency, likely due to warm temperatures. These results suggest warming temperatures will continue to impact runoff efficiency in wet or dry years, and that future flows will be less than anticipated from precipitation due to warming temperatures.

Tags: climatology, climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, colorado-river, environment, hydrology, inlandwaters, precipitation-reconstruction, runoff-efficiency, temperature-reconstruction, tree-rings, usgs-59b70011e4b08b1644ddf9a6
Organization: Department of the Interior
Site bathymetry, water temperature, and site rating curves data for three sites in the Delaware River (2005).

This is the data used to create bathymetric maps, rating curve relationships, and river temperature relationships for 3 sites in the Delaware River known to contain Alasmidonta heterodon.

Tags: aquatic-habitats, streamflow, usgs-59b6ef9ae4b08b1644ddf979, water-temperature
Organization: Department of the Interior
Depth to pre-Cenozoic bedrock in northern Nevada

This digital raster dataset represents depth to pre-Cenozoic bedrock in northern Nevada as published in Chapter 6: Geophysical Methods and Application in U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2218, Assessment of Metallic and Mineral Resources in the Humboldt River Basin, Northern Nevada by D.A. Ponce. The data are represented on figure 6-9 in this publication and were later provided as raster format geospatial digital data via written communication from D.A. Ponce in 2007. The data have been reprojected but are otherwise as provided. A thorough explanation of the production methods is available in the larger work.

Tags: basement, depth-to-bedrock, elevation, geology, geoscientificinformation, humboldt-river-basin, hydrogeology, hydrology, inlandwaters, northern-nevada, pre-cenozoic-basement, usgs-59b6d705e4b08b1644ddf8dc
Organization: Department of the Interior
Sea lamprey quantitative environmental DNA surveillance - Data Release

The data set is six separate csv files. Four of which contain the quantity of DNA copy numbers and fluor used to analyze the DNA quantities collected from water samples from four separate portions of the study (adult SL field, adult SL lab, larval SL field, larval SL lab) and need to be in their own csv file.  Also included is a csv with adult SL trapping data, a csv for larval SL shocking data, and a csv with the volume that was filtered for our DNA extractions.

Tags: black-river-mi, canada, environmental-dna, great-lakes, hammond-bay-biological-station, la-crosse, little-thessalon-river-on, manistique-river-mi, michigan, millersburg, molecular-surveillance, ontario, pestigo-river-wi, rock-river-mi, root-river-on, sea-lamprey, united-states, usgs-59b6cc06e4b08b1644ddf8b3, usgs-upper-midwest-environmental-sciences-center-edna-lab, wisconsin
Organization: Department of the Interior
Using Pharyngeal Teeth and Chewing Pads to Predict Juvenile Silver Carp Total Length in the La Grange Reach, Illinois River: Data

Silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) are an invasive species in the Mississippi River Basin; understanding their vulnerability to predation as juveniles may inform control by native predators and predator stocking. Digestion of silver carp recovered from diets makes it difficult to determine the size classes most vulnerable to predation by native fishes.  The objective of this study was to determine if total length of silver carp can be predicted from the size of their chewing pad, pharyngeal teeth, and pharyngeal arch, the structures most often found intact in diets. Juvenile silver carp (n=136: &lt;180 mm) were collected using 60 hz pulsed- DC electrofishing and mini fyke nets in 2014 and 2015 from the La Grange Reach of the Illinois River. We dissected silver carp chewing pads (n= 136 fish) and pharyngeal teeth (n=127 fish) and measured chewing pad length and width, eight reproducible pharyngeal teeth landmarks, and four reproducible pharyngeal arch landmarks to the nearest 0.01 mm.  Using simple linear regression we found that there is a strong predictive relationship between chewing pad, pharyngeal teeth, pharyngeal arch measurements and total length of silver carp. Chewing pad length and width were stronger predictors of silver carp length (r2= 0.94) than pharyngeal teeth (r2= 0.87), but both structures can be used to estimate silver carp total length.

Tags: chewing-pads, illinois-river, juvenile, la-grange-reach, macomb-il, pharyngeal-teeth, silver-carp, usgs-59b6c7dae4b08b1644ddf897
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mercury and Methylmercury Concentrations and Litterfall Mass in Monthly Litterfall Samples Collected at National Atmospheric Deposition Program Site at El Verde, Puerto Rico in 2014-2016

Mercury (Hg) is a persistent environmental contaminant and can accumulate and concentrate in food webs as methylmercury (MeHg), presenting a health risk to humans and wildlife. Multiyear monitoring and modeling studies have shown that atmospheric Hg in litterfall is an important form of Hg deposition to forests. Litterfall consists primarily of leaves with some amounts of twigs, bark, flowers, seeds, fruits, and nuts. Atmospheric Hg accumulates in the forest canopy material and transfers to the forest floor in litterfall. This data set is derived from monthly litterfall collected at the National Atmospheric Deposition Program (NADP) Mercury Deposition Network (MDN) site at El Verde, Puerto Rico, identification number PR20, during 2014-2016. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) provided passive litterfall collectors to the PR20 MDN site operator who systematically deployed them in a forest plot near the MDN equipment. Each collector was a 0.25 square meter box made of plastic lattice with a 20-micrometer mesh, polyester, netting liner. The operator retrieved the litterfall in the collectors on a monthly schedule and shipped the subsamples to the USGS Mercury Research Laboratory where concentrations of Hg and MeHg and litterfall dry mass and sample moisture were determined using published methods. More information about the litterfall Hg monitoring field and laboratory methods and quality assurance is available from the NADP at http://nadp.sws.uiuc.edu/newissues/litterfall/

Tags: mercury-atmospheric-deposition, usgs-595fb789e4b0d1f9f058660e
Organization: Department of the Interior
Vessel-mounted acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) data from the mouth of the Columbia River, Oregon and Washington, 2013

Spatial surveys of water column currents were performed between June 14 and 16, 2013, in the mouth of the Columbia River, Oregon and Washington. These data were collected using an acoustic-doppler current profiler (ADCP).

Tags: acoustic-doppler-current-profiling, clatsop-county, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, columbia-river, currents, geoscientificinformation, oceans, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pacific-county, pcmsc, physical-oceanography, state-of-oregon, state-of-washington, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-5907952de4b0fc4e448eb00d, water-column-features
Organization: Department of the Interior
SiteID-015 Bitterroot River at Bell Crossing, near Victor, MT

These geospatial data were collected during the June 30, 2016 topographic and hydrographic survey of the Bitterroot River at Bell Crossing near Victor, MT.

Tags: acoustic, acoustic-doppler-current-profiling, adcp, ascii, bathymetry, bitterroot-river, doppler, elevation, geology, geoscientificinformation, imagerybasemapsearthcover, inland-waters, inlandwaters, lidar, location, montana, mt, multibeam, oceans, structure, u-s-geological-survey, usa, usgs, usgs-590c9a3de4b0e541a038e37a, victor, water-depth, xyz
Organization: Department of the Interior
SiteID-016 Blackfoot River at I-90, at Bonner, MT

These geospatial data were collected during the June 30, 2016 topographic and hydrographic survey of the Blackfoot River at I-90 near Bonner, MT.

Tags: acoustic, acoustic-doppler-current-profiling, adcp, ascii, bathymetry, blackfoot-river, bonner, doppler, elevation, geology, geoscientificinformation, imagerybasemapsearthcover, inland-waters, inlandwaters, lidar, location, montana, mt, multibeam, oceans, structure, u-s-geological-survey, usa, usgs, usgs-590c9a5be4b0e541a038e37c, water-depth, xyz
Organization: Department of the Interior
SiteID-021 Madison River at I-90, near Three Forks, MT

These geospatial data were collected during the July 14-26, 2016 topographic and hydrographic survey of the Madison River at I-90, near Three Forks, MT.

Tags: acoustic, acoustic-doppler-current-profiling, adcp, ascii, bathymetry, doppler, elevation, geology, geoscientificinformation, imagerybasemapsearthcover, inland-waters, inlandwaters, jefferson-river, lidar, location, montana, mt, multibeam, oceans, structure, three-forks, u-s-geological-survey, usa, usgs, usgs-590c9aafe4b0e541a038e382, water-depth, xyz
Organization: Department of the Interior
SiteID-027 Yellowstone River at Hwy 312 at Huntley, MT

These geospatial data were collected during the 2004 (Lidar), 2013 (GNSS, multibeam), 2016 (S6, Scan) topographic and hydrographic surveys of the Yellowstone River at Highway 312 at Huntley, MT.

Tags: acoustic, acoustic-doppler-current-profiling, adcp, ascii, bathymetry, doppler, elevation, geology, geoscientificinformation, huntley, imagerybasemapsearthcover, inland-waters, inlandwaters, lidar, location, montana, mt, multibeam, oceans, structure, u-s-geological-survey, usa, usgs, usgs-590c9acfe4b0e541a038e384, water-depth, xyz, yellowstone-river
Organization: Department of the Interior
SiteID-029 Black River at US-52, at Kingstree, SC

These geospatial data were collected during the September 20-21, 2016, topographic and hydrographic survey of Black River in the vicinity of U.S. Highway 52 at Kingstree, SC.

Tags: acoustic, acoustic-doppler-current-profiling, adcp, ascii, bathymetry, black-river, doppler, elevation, geology, geoscientificinformation, imagerybasemapsearthcover, inland-waters, inlandwaters, kingstree, lidar, location, multibeam, oceans, sc, south-carolina, structure, u-s-geological-survey, usa, usgs, usgs-590c9afee4b0e541a038e38a, water-depth, xyz
Organization: Department of the Interior