AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Metabolic Rate, Body Composition, and Blood Biochemistry Data from Polar Bears (Ursus maritimus) on Land, Western Hudson Bay, Canada, 2019-2022

This dataset is one table with specific activity measures of deuterium oxide and oxygen-18, body mass, breath oxygen consumption and carbon dioxide emission, and blood biochemistry (blood urea nitrogen and creatinine and serum progesterone) data for 20 polar bears on land near Churchill, Manitoba, Canada in 2019, 2021, and 2022.

Tags: animal-behavior, animals-vertebrates, bears, bioenergetics, biogeography, biota, canada, carnivores, coastal-ecosystems, environment, hudson-bay, mammals, marine-ecosystems, marine-mammals, metabolism, polar-bear, species-life-history, ursus-maritimus, use-feeding-habitat, usgs-asc576, wildlife
Organization: Department of the Interior
Seismicity catalogs and seismicity zones for the 2021 update of the National Seismic Hazard Models for Hawaii.

The 2021 National Seismic Hazard Model for Hawaii considers the full catalog and several declustered catalogs in calculating earthquake rates and seismic hazard.  Events associated with a caldera collapse are treated differently within the model and were separated from the full catalogs.  The catalogs are separated into two time periods, pre- and post-1959.  The pre-1959 catalog was declustered using both the Reasenberg and nearest neighbor declustering methods.  The post-1959 full catalog was split into summit (volcanic) and non-summit events, and those catalogs being separated into shallow (h ≤ 20 km) and deep (h &gt; 20 km).  These catalogs were declustered using the Reasenberg and nearest neighbor methods.  The declustered, shallow events were further separated into events near the island of Hawai`I (south) and events associated with the islands to the northwest (north).  All of these catgalogs are included here and are described in more detail in the paper by Petersen and others (2021).  The coordinates that define the summit, caldera, and north/south seismicity zones are also included here.

Tags: earthquakes, hawaii, hazards, seismology, united-states, usa, usgs-60be1c22d34e86b9389104ac
Organization: Department of the Interior
Tri-axial Accelerometer and Temperature Data from Polar Bears (Ursus maritimus) Instrumented on Land, Western Hudson Bay, Canada, 2019-2022

This dataset is one table with archival logger data containing measures of tri-axial acceleration and ambient temperature measured at 16 Hz in collars (Vertex Plus collar with camera option, Vectronic Aerospace GmbH, Berlin, Germany) attached to 20 polar bears that were instrumented on land near Churchill, Manitoba, Canada for 19 - 23 days in 2019, 2021, and 2022.

Tags: animal-behavior, animals-vertebrates, bears, bioenergetics, biogeography, biota, canada, carnivores, coastal-ecosystems, environment, hudson-bay, mammals, marine-ecosystems, marine-mammals, metabolism, polar-bear, species-life-history, ursus-maritimus, use-feeding-habitat, usgs-asc577, wildlife
Organization: Department of the Interior
Urbanization Impacts on Evapotranspiration Across Various Spatio-temporal Scales

The data in this release describe various aspects of the impacts of urbanization on evapotranspiration at local to global spatial scales. This data release is associated with the publication of these results in a concurrent journal article. Analyses in the journal article included comparisons between urban and non-urban ET in a variety of climate settings and spatial scales.  
Urbanization has been shown to locally increase the nighttime temperatures creating urban heat islands, which partly arise due to evapotranspiration (ET) reduction. It is unclear how the direction and magnitude of the change in local ET due to urbanization varies globally across different climatic regimes. This knowledge gap is critical, both for the key role of ET in the water cycle accounting for the majority of local precipitation, and for the high socioeconomic value of urban landscapes, where water resources are often in high demand. We explore and assess the impacts of urbanization on ET across a range of landscapes from local to global spatial scales, and monthly to mean annual timescales. Remotely sensed land cover and ET available at 1 km resolution are used to quantify the differences in ET between urban and surrounding non-urban areas across the globe. The observed patterns show the difference between urban and nonurban ET can be estimated to first order as a function of local hydroclimate with arid (humid) regions seeing increased (decreased) ET due to urbanization. Cities under cold climates also evaporate more than their non-urban surroundings during the winter as the urban micro-climate has increased energy availability resulting from human activity. Increased ET in arid cities clearly arises from municipal water withdrawals and increased irrigation during drought conditions further increases the ET from arid urban cities compared to non-urban ET. This information can help to inform planners for improved environmental conditions in designing urban landscapes.  
This data set will be updated with the full journal article citation when available. See also the metadata file for additional information, or contact the authors with questions.

Tags: evapotranspiration, urbanization, usgs-5e418536e4b0edb47be639dd
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mauna Loa 2022 summit and Northeast Rift Zone eruption — November 28, 2022 thermal map

In the late evening of November 27, 2022, an effusive eruption began inside Moku'aweoweo caldera at the summit of Mauna Loa volcano. Within a few hours, lava had covered most of the caldera floor, and several fissures just outside caldera sent short lava flows up to 3 kilometers (2 miles) to the southwest. Later in the morning of November 28, summit effusion ceased and the eruption moved into the volcano's Northeast Rift Zone. Several rift zone fissures were initially active, but by November 30 effusion had focused at a vent known as fissure 3. For another 10 days, fissure 3 fountained and fed lava flows that eventually stretched 18 kilometers (11 miles) to the north, threatening but not reaching the Daniel K. Inouye Highway across the island's interior. Effusion from fissure 3 began declining overnight December 7–8 and ceased on December 10, by which time the eruption had covered approximately 36 square kilometers (14 square miles) of Mauna Loa with new lava. In this report, the authors have sought to chronicle this sequence of events using geospatial data in the form of an Esri file geodatabase, Esri shapefiles, and Google Earth KMZs, as well as rapid-response orthomosaic and thermal map rasters.

Tags: basalt, hawaii, holocene, lava-flow, mafic-volcanic-rock, mauna-loa, mlo_2022, mokuweoweo, northeast-rift-zone, pacific, pacific-islands, quaternary, united-states, usgs-669f0104d34eef99d5abbbba, volcanic-activity, volcanic-rock, volcanic-rocks
Organization: Department of the Interior
Reported and inventoried crop and irrigated acreage in Lee County, Florida, 1978-2018

A detailed table summarizing the irrigated acreage by crop type and irrigation system was developed for the 2018 growing season (November 2017 and September 2018) for Lee County, Florida. The acreage totals presented are derived from the results of a cooperative project that mapped and field-verified irrigated fields in Lee County, Florida. In addition, the table provides acreage totals by crop type published by the U.S. Department of Commerce for 1978 and 1982 and the U.S. Department of Agriculture for years between 1987 and 2012.

Tags: crop-type, environment, farming, florida, florida-department-of-agriculture-and-consumer-service, groundwater, inlandwaters, irrigation-type, landuse, landuse-classification-codes, lee-county, orthoimagery, south-florida-water-management-district, surface-water, usgs-5ae1c9c2e4b0e2c2dd30288c
Organization: Department of the Interior
14: LOADEST estimation dataset used to estimate streamwater loads for 12 constituents in 13 watersheds in Gwinnett County, Georgia for water years 2003-2020

This dataset contains the estimation data that was used in combination with the regression models to estimate streamwater constituent loads for 12 water-quality constituents for 13 watersheds in Gwinnett County, Georgia for the water years 2003 to 2020. Load were estimated using the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) LOADEST load estimation software. Variables in the estimation dataset include a storm condition indicator variable, streamflow, streamflow during base-flow conditions, base flow, turbidity, and turbidity during stormflow conditions. Variants of the streamflow variable were used depending on whether the regression models were fit with turbidity explanatory variables. The time-step of the estimation datasets varied by watershed and ranged between four to twelve hours, which represented the typical length of the storm composite samples for the particular watershed.

Tags: gwinnett-county, inlandwaters, mathematical-modeling, state-of-georgia, streamflow, surface-water-quality, usgs-6350427ad34e47431c15c5cd
Organization: Department of the Interior
Morphology data for Ciscoes (Coregonus, subgenus Leucichthys) collected in the Great Lakes Cisco Project

This dataset contains morphological information for Ciscoes (Coregonus, subgenus Leucichthys) collected from the Great Lakes as part of the "Great Lakes Cisco Project". The project was initiated in 1950 by Stanford H. Smith, who was a Fishery Research Biologist in the then U.S. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries. The dataset includes 16 morphometrics (linear measurements) and one meristic (count of gill rakers) for Ciscoes, together with biological data (i.e., length, weight, sex, and maturity), sampling location, and date of collection. Consult Koelz (1929) and the "Morphology of Ciscoes" section in Eshenroder et al. (2016) for descriptions of how measurements and counts were made in the then "Ann Arbor Laboratory" of U.S. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries.
References
Eshenroder, R. L., P. Vecsei, N. E. Mandrak, D. L. Yule, O. T. Gorman, T. C. Pratt, D. B. Bunnell, and A. M. Muir. 2016. Ciscoes (Coregonus, subgenus Leucichthys) of the Laurentian Great Lakes and Lake Nipigon. Great Lakes Fishery Commission Miscellaneous Publication 2016-1, Ann Arbor, Michigan. 
Koelz, W. N. 1929. Coregonid fishes of the Great Lakes. Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Fisheries, 43(2), 297&amp;ndash;643.

Tags: ciscoes, coregonines, fish-morphology, freshwater-ecosystems, great-lakes, inland-fishery-resources, inlandwaters, lake-erie, lake-huron, lake-michigan, lake-ontario, lake-superior, lakes, stanford-h-smith, thomas-n-todd, usgs-5f5a314182cefd9f20863b48
Organization: Department of the Interior
Aquaculture and Irrigation Water-Use Model (AIWUM) Version 1.0 Estimates and Related Datasets for the Mississippi Alluvial Plain, 1999-2017

This data release contains monthly and annual water-use estimates from the Aquaculture and Irrigation Water-Use Model version 1.0 for the Mississippi Alluvial Plain, April 1999 to October 2017. Aquaculture and irrigation estimates contained in this data release are representative of groundwater withdrawal for six different categories: aquaculture, cotton, corn, rice, soybeans, and all other crops. Contained in this data release are monthly and annual estimates by water-use category and monthly and annual total estimates. Monthly and annual totals are a summation of water use for aquaculture, cotton, corn, rice, soybeans, and all other crops, by month and by year. Also contained in this data release are lands permitted to withdraw groundwater from the Mississippi River Valley Alluvial Aquifer as well as flowmeter data from the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality. Aquaculture and irrigation water-use estimates are included in this data release in two different formats: georeferenced TIFFs (GeoTIFFs) for simple viewing and geospatial operations and a network common data form (NetCDF) for use in modeling applications.  Estimates are provided here in multiple forms: monthly estimates by use (GeoTIFF), monthly total estimates (GeoTIFF and NetCDF), annual estimates by use (GeoTIFF), annual total estimates (GeoTIFF and NetCDF), and total estimates by water year (NetCDF). All estimates are in units of in cubic meters per square mile.

Tags: alabama, aquaculture-water-use, arkansas, illinois, kentucky, louisiana, mississippi, missouri, remote-sensing, tennessee, texas, usgs-5dde856de4b04a30051ae8f9, water-supply-and-demand, water-use
Organization: Department of the Interior
Point cloud data of Big Pine Ledge, Florida, 2022

A three-dimensional point cloud (LAZ format) was developed from underwater images collected at Big Pine Ledge (BPL), Florida, in July 2022 using the SfM (Structure-from-Motion) Quantitative Underwater Imaging Device with 5 cameras (SQUID-5) system and processed using Structure-from-Motion (SfM) photogrammetry techniques. Point cloud data include x,y,z positions, and RGB colors derived from the color-corrected imagery. LIDAR Aerial Survey files (LAS) – and its compressed form, LAZ – is an open format developed for the efficient use of point cloud data.

Tags: big-pine-ledge, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, coral-reefs, elevation, geospatial-datasets, oceans, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, physical-habitats-and-geomorphology, reef-ecosystems, remote-sensing, seabed, spcmsc, st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, state-of-florida, structure-from-motion, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-917fc185-1940-4fe8-b9a6-817d02af8c4d, visible-light-imaging
Organization: Department of the Interior
o100sc.m77t and o100sc.h77t: MGD77T data and header file for single-beam bathymetry for field activity O-1-00-SC in San Pedro Bay, Santa Monica, California from 04/09/2000 to 04/14/2000

Single-beam bathymetry data along with GPS navigation data was collected as part of the U.S. Geological Survey cruise O-1-00-SC. The cruise was conducted in San Pedro Bay, Santa Monica, California from April 9 to April 14, 2000. The chief scientists were Brian Edwards and Homa Lee from the USGS Coastal and Marine Geology office in Menlo Park, CA.
The purpose of this cruise was to study pollution transport and accumulation in Santa Monica Bay. The geophysical source is unknown.
These data are reformatted from space-delimited ASCII text files located in the Coastal and Marine Geology Program (CMGP) InfoBank field activity catalog at http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/o/o100sc/html/o-1-00-sc.meta.html into MGD77T format provided by the NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center(NGDC). The MGD77T format includes a header (documentation) file (.h77t) and a data file (.m77t). More information regarding this format can be found in the publication listed in the Cross_reference section of this metadata file.

Tags: bathymetry, bathymetry-and-elevation, bathymetry-measurement, distributions, geoscientificinformation, marine-geology, marine-geophysics, north-pacific-ocean, oceans, pacific-ocean, san-pedro-bay, santa-monica-bay, seafloor-topography, single-beam-bathymetry, single-beam-echo-sounder, southern-california, state-of-california, usgs-acd35008-d19c-4ed6-98a2-6927c11c26ad, water-depth
Organization: Department of the Interior
Firn Density and Stratigraphy Observations from USGS Benchmark Glaciers

This dataset contains observations of snow and firn density and stratigraphy from Site EC on Wolverine Glacier. Site EC is located in the accumulation zone on the northwest flank of the upper glacier at 1350m. Cores were recovered using a FELICS corer to approximately 25m depth at the end of the accumulation season and the end of ablation season starting in 2016. Additional cores were drilled throughout the ablation seasons of 2016 and 2017. The cores were processed in the field. The dataset includes depth-density profiles, ice-lens stratigraphy, and annual-layer depths. Density was calculated by measuring the mass and length of each core section (the corer retrieves cores with uniform diameter, which was measured on randomly selected core sections). Ice lenses were identified by visual inspection. Annual layer depths were determined by identifying dark layers in the core, which are interpreted to be the end-of-melt-season surfaces.

Tags: ablation-zones-accumulation-zones, alaska, cryosphere, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, glaciation, glacier-mass-balance-ice-sheet-mass-balance, glaciers, glaciers-ice-sheets, glaciology, snow-and-ice-cover, usgs-asc545, wolverine-glacier
Organization: Department of the Interior
Composite sidescan-sonar mosaic collected by the U.S. Geological Survey offshore of the Chandeleur Islands, LA, 2006 (MOSAIC_06015, UTM Zone 16N GeoTIFF)

In 2006 and 2007, the U.S. Geological Survey, in partnership with Louisiana Department of Natural Resources and the University of New Orleans, conducted geologic mapping to characterize the sea floor and shallow subsurface stratigraphy offshore of the Chandeleur Islands in Eastern Louisiana. The mapping was carried out during two cruises on the R/V Acadiana. Data were acquired with the following equipment: an SEA Ltd SwathPlus interferometric sonar (234 kHz), Klein 3000 dual frequency sidescan sonar, and an Edgetech 512i chirp subbottom profiling system. The long-term goal of this mapping effort is to produce high-quality geologic maps and geophysical interpretations that can be utilized to investigate the impact of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and to identify sand resources within the region.

Tags: backscatter, breton-island, chandeleur-islands, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, composite-image, curlew-island, distributions, geoscientificinformation, geotiff-image, gosier-island, grey-scale, gulf-of-mexico, image-mosaics, imagerybasemapsearthcover, louisiana, marine-geophysics, mississippi-river-gulf-outlet, mosaic, mrgo, new-harbor-islands, north-central-gulf-coast, north-islands, oceans, physical-habitats-and-geomorphology, sea-floor-acoustic-reflectivity, sea-floor-characteristics, seabed, side-scan-sonar, sidescan, sidescan-sonar, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-ba565ad3-1767-4d50-92d3-cd56918cffb8, whsc, whsc-field-activity-report-number-06015, woods-hole-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2021 Site 0218 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 2021 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. Five previous assessments have been conducted (2005, 2008, 2012, 2015/2016, and 2018). 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-653c1dcad34ee4b6e05bc3d0, wetland, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
1998 East Coast NASA/NOAA/USGS Winter ATM Lidar-Derived Dune Crest, Toe and Shoreline

The Storm-Induced Coastal Change Hazards component of the National Assessment of Coastal Change Hazards project focuses on understanding the magnitude and variability of extreme storm impacts on sandy beaches. Lidar-derived beach morphologic features such as dune crest, toe and shoreline help define the vulnerability of the beach to storm impacts. This dataset defines the elevation and position of the seaward-most dune crest and toe and the mean high water shoreline derived from the 1998 Atlantic Coast National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)NASA/NOAA/USGS Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM) lidar survey. Beach width is included and is defined as the distance between the dune toe and shoreline along a cross-shore profile. The beach slope is calculated using this beach width and the elevation of the shoreline and dune toe.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, coastal-processes, delaware, elevation, environment, geoscientificinformation, hazards, marine-geology, maryland, ocean-sciences, oceans, spcmsc, st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, u-s-geological-survey, united-states-of-america, usgs, usgs-09ac772f-71e1-464a-87d9-18b29db1931a, virginia
Organization: Department of the Interior
Bivalve Shell Growth Indices, Chukchi Sea, Alaska, 1867-2015

This dataset contains the growth index from annual growth bands in the shells of two bivalve clam species (Astarte borealis and Liocyma fluctuosa) captured in the Chukchi Sea, Alaska. The growth index is based on a measurement of the annual growth increment width that has been detrended for age-related differences in growth.

Tags: alaska, animals-invertebrates, benthic-habitat, benthos, bioenergetics, biomass-dynamics, biota, bivalves, chukchi-sea, environment, macroinvertebrates, marine-ecosystems, molluscs, mollusks, shellfish, usgs-asc480
Organization: Department of the Interior