AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
U-Pb Isotopic Data and Ages of Zircon and Titanite from Rocks from the Yukon-Tanana Upland, Alaska

This data set contains 3 tables containing uranium-lead (U-Pb) isotopic data and crystallization ages of zircon and titanite from igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks collected from the Yukon-Tanana upland of eastern interior Alaska between 2013 and 2019. Bulk samples of igneous and metamorphic rocks were processed into concentrated mineral separates of zircon and (or) titanite in USGS laboratories in Denver, Colorado, or by Apatite to Zircon, Inc. (A2Z) and analyzed by USGS research scientists at the Stanford-USGS Sensitive High Resolution Ion Microprobe with Reverse-Geometry (SHRIMP-RG) at Stanford University. Bulk samples of sedimentary and metasedimentary rocks were processed into concentrated mineral separates of detrital zircon and analyzed by Apatite to Zircon, Inc. and GeoSep Services (GSS) using laser-ablation-inductively-coupled-plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) techniques. The 2 data tables (geology_detritalZircon_easternAK_Jones.csv; geology_SHRIMPRGData_easternAK_Jones.csv) accompanying this data release report the isotopic composition of uranium (U) and thorium (Th) measured in each grain, ratios of two isotopes of lead (207Pb and 206Pb) and two isotopes of uranium (235U and 238U), and the age of each grain. A third table (geology_sampleSummary_easternAK_Jones.csv) reports sample locations, rock characteristics, and interpreted ages. The SHRIMP-RG data table (geology_SHRIMPRGData_easternAK_Jones.csv) also reports concentrations of selected trace elements measured in each grain.

Tags: alaska, chatanika-river, chicken, detrital-zircon, divide-mountain, eagle, earth-science, fairbanks, fortymile-river, geochemistry, geochronology, geology, geoscientificinformation, igneous-rocks, isotopic-analysis, la-icp-ms, ladue-river, laser-ablation-inductively-coupled-plasma-mass-spectrometry, metamorphic-rocks, sedimentary-rocks, sensitive-high-resolution-ion-microprobe-with-reverse-geometry, shrimp-rg, sixty-mile-river, taylor-mountain, titanite, tok, trace-elements, u-pb-geochronology, uranium-lead-analysis, usgs-asc307, white-mountains, yukon-tanana-upland
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data for herpetofaunal inventories of the national parks of South Florida and the Caribbean: Volume IV, Biscayne National Park

The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) requires the use of ecological indicators to measure the success of restoration efforts.  The Everglades amphibian community is ideal because amphibians are present in all habitats and under all hydrologic regimes.  During Everglades restoration, hydrologic patterns will change and the response of ecological indicators will determine success. Fourteen amphibian species were detected through visual encounter surveys, vocalization surveys and trapping methods throughout the study and the occurrence information collected in this project database.

Tags: amphibians, armi, ecological-indicators, reptiles, restoration, usgs-53bc1211e4b084059e8bff8a
Organization: Department of the Interior
Wind rose plots for the volcano: 283131  Hiuchigatake

This zip folder contains ASCII text files of vectors at the specified volcano at 
12-hour intervals, 
from January 1, 1990 through December 28, 2009.  
The wind vectors are divided into five files, names by their elevation range above 
sea level in the atmosphere: 00-05km.txt; 05-11km.txt; 11-16km.txt; 16-24km.txt; 
and 24-30km.txt. 
The zip folder also contains a subfolder "figures", with Wind rose plots of wind 
direction and speed over 
this time period.  The plots are by season, and by elevation, given a total of 20 
plots (4 seasons, 5 
elevation ranges).  A summary plot is also included which gives the year-round 
wind pattern at the volcano, 
at 0-5 km elevation.  Plots are in both jpg and pdf format.

Tags: meteorology, usgs-58d01375e4b0236b68f52cda, volcanic-ash, volcanic-eruption-forecasting, wind
Organization: Department of the Interior
Georeferenced scans of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) topographic sheets (T-Sheets) Collected Along the Fire Island and Great South Bay, New York, Coastline from 1834-1875

Topographic sheets (t-sheets) produced by the National Ocean Service (NOS) during the 1800s provide the position of past shorelines. The shoreline data can be vectorized into a geographic information system (GIS) and compared to modern shoreline data to calculate estimates of long-term shoreline rates of change. Many t-sheets were scanned and digitized by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and are available on the NOAA Shoreline web site (https://shoreline.noaa.gov/data/datasheets/t-sheets.html). However, some t-sheets were not scanned by NOAA and are only available via the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The data included within this data release were previously unavailable or not published in digital format. These data were produced to provide a more comprehensive record of shoreline position for Fire Island and Great South Bay, New York, to aid geologic and coastal hazards studies. This data release includes previously unavailable georeferenced t-sheets and digital vector shorelines for the Fire Island and Great South Bay, New York, coastline from 1834, 1838, and 1874/1875. The original t-sheets were scanned by the NARA-authorized vendor and sent to the Unites States Geological Survey St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center (USGS SPCMSC) as non-georeferenced digital raster files. Upon arrival at the SPCMSC, USGS staff performed the following procedures: rasters were georeferenced, projected to a modern datum, and shorelines were digitized to create a vector polyline depicting the historical shoreline position. The t-sheets included in this data release are: 1) T-479a, T-479b, T-1 (Parts 2 and 3) (1834); 2) T-58 (Parts 1 and 2) (1838); 3) T-1374a, T-1374b, T-1375a, T-1375b (1874); and 4) T-1402 (1875). All shorelines, including the ocean-facing barrier island shoreline, back-barrier island shoreline, mainland and islands were digitized. Please read the full metadata for details on data collection, dataset variables, and data quality.

Tags: atlantic, boundaries, coastal, coastal-processes, digitization, east-bay, east-islip, environment, fire-island, geographic-information-systems, geomorphology, georeferenced, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, great-south-bay, inlandwaters, moriches, moriches-bay, narrow-bay, new-york, nicolls-bay, oceans, patchogue, patchogue-bay, quantuck-bay, quogue, shinnecock-bay, shoreline-data, shoreline-map, t-sheet, topographic-maps, topographic-sheet, topography, united-states, usgs-0fc546b8-93d1-45cc-9e5c-be8dade98731
Organization: Department of the Interior
Migration Routes of Mule Deer in the Verdi-Truckee Herd in California and Nevada

The Verdi-Truckee mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) herd winters south of I-80 in the Carson Range along the California-Nevada border, although a portion of this herd winters northeast of Verdi, Nevada on Peavine Mountain. Migration routes to summer range follow I-80 southwest, along both sides of the Truckee River, toward Martis Valley and Truckee, California. The summer range for this small herd (approximately 500 animals in 2019) is located east of Truckee and includes portions of Juniper Flat, Martis Creek, and the area south of the Truckee River to the confluence of Gray Creek. Migration behavior and timing of migration is dependent on seasonal weather conditions and snow depth during early winter. Significant challenges to this deer herd include barriers to movement, such as I-80, vehicle collisions, and increased housing development on winter range in Verdi neighborhoods.
These data provide the location of migration routes for mule deer in the Verdi-Truckee population in California and Nevada. They were developed from 91 migration sequences collected from a sample size of 31 animals comprising GPS locations collected every 1-11 hours.

Tags: animal-behavior, california, economy, environment, migration, migration-organisms, migratory-species, nevada, united-states, usgs-620e4b29d34e6c7e83baa3a8
Organization: Department of the Interior
Estimates of nitrogen-fertilizer sales for the conterminous United States in 1985

This coverage contains estimates of nitrogen-fertilizer sales for the
conterminous United States in 1985 as reported by the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (1990) and by Jerald Fletcher (West Virginia University,
written commun., 1992). Nitrogen-fertilizer sales estimates in this
coverage are reported for each county polygon in tons of actual nutrient
sold (inorganic nitrogen, phosphate, and potash) as distinct from total
tons of fertilizer product.
		
The data are summarized for fertilizer years (i.e. the 1987 fertilizer
year runs from July 1, 1986 to June 30, 1987).
		
The polygons representing county boundaries in the conterminous United
States, as well as lakes, estuaries, and other nonland-area features were
derived from the Digital Line Graph (DLG) file representing the
1:2,000,000-scale map in the National Atlas of the United States (1970).
		
Nitrogen-fertilizer
Commercial fertilizer
Fertilizer use
Counties
United States

Tags: environment, geoscientificinformation, inlandwaters, nitrogen-fertilizer-sales-in-counties-in-the-united-states-1985, usgs-4e2a3dbf-ae18-48fb-8daf-c0453f65db5f
Organization: Department of the Interior
Wind rose plots for the volcano: 245020  Koro

This zip folder contains ASCII text files of vectors at the specified volcano at 
12-hour intervals, 
from January 1, 1990 through December 28, 2009.  
The wind vectors are divided into five files, names by their elevation range above 
sea level in the atmosphere: 00-05km.txt; 05-11km.txt; 11-16km.txt; 16-24km.txt; 
and 24-30km.txt. 
The zip folder also contains a subfolder "figures", with Wind rose plots of wind 
direction and speed over 
this time period.  The plots are by season, and by elevation, given a total of 20 
plots (4 seasons, 5 
elevation ranges).  A summary plot is also included which gives the year-round 
wind pattern at the volcano, 
at 0-5 km elevation.  Plots are in both jpg and pdf format.

Tags: meteorology, usgs-58d01179e4b0236b68f52a2f, volcanic-ash, volcanic-eruption-forecasting, wind
Organization: Department of the Interior
Stable Isotope Data from Tundra Swan (Cygnus columbianus) Feathers, Alaska, 2008 and 2010

These data are in a single table that provides date and location information of Tundra Swans (Cygnus columbianus) that were sampled in Alaska for feathers that were subsequently used in a stable isotope analysis. Results of deuterium, nitrogen, and carbon stable isotope analysis of feathers are provided.

Tags: alaska, animal-behavior, animals-vertebrates, biota, birds, breeding-sites, capturing-animals, carbon-isotopes, coastal-ecosystems, colville-river, cygnus-columbianus, deuterium-isotopes, ducks-geese-swans, environment, isotopic-analysis, king-salmon, kotzebue, migration-organisms, migratory-birds, nitrogen-isotopes, plumage, seasonal-distribution, seasonal-movement, species-life-history, stable-isotopes, terrestrial-ecosystems, tundra-ecosystems, tundra-swan, usgs-asc330, waterfowl, wetland-ecosystems, wildlife, yukon-delta
Organization: Department of the Interior
Tufted Puffin Chick Diets, North Pacific and Bering Sea, 2012-2014

This dataset describes Tufted Puffin chick diets in August 2012-14 in the North Pacific and Bering Sea. Data on puffin chick-meals were collected to characterize forage communities and determine meal energy density. This dataset contains chick diet data and consist of: date, location, species, mass, total length, fork length and comments.  

Tags: alaska, alaska-peninsula, aleutian-islands, aquatic-birds, bering-sea, biota, birds, burrow, chick-diet, ecology, energy-density, environment, fish, forage-fish, gulf-of-alaska, marine-ecosystems, north-pacific, oceans, prey, usgs-asc331
Organization: Department of the Interior
Arrowweed (Pluchea sericea) morphological and physiological response data from a greenhouse inundation experiment

These data were collected to evaluate if arrowweed (Pluchea sericea) individuals and genotypes collected from across a 5.3 degree Celsius temperature gradient and grown in a common greenhouse environment had different physiological and morphological responses to inundation. The objectives of the study were to assess if 1) individuals from climatically different provenances differ in their morphological and physiological  phenotypes, 2) individuals from climatically different provenances differ in their response to inundation, and 3) phenotypes and inundation responses are partially controlled by genotype. These data represent measurements made on 248 plants that were grown in a greenhouse and, also in a greenhouse subjected to different inundation depths for three months. These data were collected at Northern Arizona University in the Research Greenhouse complex, a laboratory in the Biology Building, or the Genetics Core Facility in Flagstaff, AZ. Greenhouse measurements were made in June-September 2019. Laboratory and genetics data were collected between Sept 2019 and April 2021. These data were collected by the USGS Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center and Northern Arizona University and represent a combination of direct plant measurements and simple sequence repeat (SSR, microsatellite) genetic data. These data can be used to compare the individual plant growth and phenotypes, examine response to inundation in Pluchea sericea, get trait estimates for P. sericea in a well-watered environment, and estimate the contribution of genotype to plant phenotype and environmental response.

Tags: arizona, arrowweed, biota, colorado-river, data-release, dna-sequencing, flagstaff, gene-by-environment-interactions, genetic-data, genotype, grand-canyon, greenhouse-complex-nau, greenhouse-environment, greenhouse-measurements, inundation, laboratory-data, laboratory-experiments, laboratory-methods, northern-arizona-university, plant-growth, plant-measurements, plant-morphology, plant-physiology, plant-traits, plants-organisms, pluchea-sericea, usgs-628bcb22d34e4fef2ec3d530, usgs-grand-canyon-monitoring-and-research-center, vascular-plants
Organization: Department of the Interior
Conservation Planning for the Colorado River in Utah - Distance to Water for Bat Feeding Model

This maps shows the distances away from the channel boundary of the Colorado River mainstem between the Utah Colorado border and the upper pool of Lake Powell, Utah (146 miles).  The channel boundary was mapped from public available NAIP imagery flown on June 28, 2011, when the river flow was 886 m3/s at the Cisco gage.  The channel is subdivided into channel types: main channel, secondary channel, backwater, isolated pool and tributary channel.

Tags: arches-national-park, biota, canyonlands-national-park, colorado-river, conservation-planning, environment, grand-county, habitat-suitability, inlandwaters, moab, riparian, san-juan-county, tamarisk, upper-colorado-river, usgs-583f140de4b04fc80e3ab79d, utah
Organization: Department of the Interior
Genetic Data for Merlin (Falco columbarius) and Cross-Species Microsatellite Amplification in Select Falco Species, North America

This data set contains allele sizes for 8 previously published and 16 novel microsatellite loci, and one microsatellite redesigned for amplification in Merlins (Falco columarius) associated with circadian clock control and polymorphism that has been associated with juvenile dispersal and migratory behavior in some avian species for Merlin (Falco columbarius) from North America (n=21). Allele sizes for the 16 microsatellite loci developed in this study are included for 12 Gyrfalcons (F. rusticolus) and 13 Peregrine Falcons (F. peregrinus). Additional population level data for Merlins and mtDNA will be added to this data release in the future.

Tags: alaska, alleles, animals-vertebrates, biota, birds, birds-of-prey, cedar-grove-hawk-research-station, dna, dna-sequencing, eagles-falcons-hawks-and-allies, environment, falco-columbarius, falco-peregrinus, falco-rusticolus, falconiformes, genetic-diversity, genetic-markers, genetics, hawk-ridge-bird-observatory, microsatellite-repeats, migratory-birds, minnesota, north-slope, polymerase-chain-reaction, polymorphism-genetic, population-dynamics, population-genetics, site-fidelity, southcentral-alaska, usgs-asc333, wildlife, wisconsin, yukon-delta, yukon-kuskokwim-delta
Organization: Department of the Interior
Genetic Data from Cooper's Hawks (Accipiter cooperii), North America

This data set describes nuclear microsatellite genotypes derived from six autosomal loci (AgCA222, Age7.1JT, BV13, BV20, NVH206, NVH195-2) in Cooper's Hawks. Samples originated from blood samples collected from live trapped birds.

Tags: accipiter-cooperii, agca222, age7-1jt, alleles, animals-vertebrates, biota, birds, birds-of-prey, british-columbia, bv13, bv20, coopers-hawk, dna, eagles-falcons-hawks-and-allies, environment, gene-flow, genetic-markers, genetics, genotype, microsatellite-repeats, north-dakota, nvh195-2, nvh206, polymerase-chain-reaction, population-genetics, raptors, site-fidelity, terrestrial-ecosystems, usgs-asc334, wildlife, wisconsin
Organization: Department of the Interior
Sex and Age Composition of Walrus Groups Hauled Out on Ice Floes in the Bering and Chukchi Seas, 2013-2015

These data are in one table with age and sex composition counts of groups of walruses on ice floes in the northern Bering and Chukchi Seas. Counts were collected by visual observations from boats.

Tags: age-composition, alaska, animals-vertebrates, bering-sea, biota, carnivores, chukchi-sea, demography, environment, mammals, marine-ecosystems, marine-mammals, odobenus-rosmarus-divergens, pacific-walrus, pinniped, population-dynamics, seals-sea-lions-walruses, sex-ratio, usgs-asc335, wildlife
Organization: Department of the Interior
Water-level change, High Plains aquifer, 2005 to 2009

This raster data set represents water-level change in the High Plains aquifer of the 
United States from 2005 to 2009, in feet. The High Plains aquifer underlies 112.6 
million acres (176,000 square miles) in parts of eight States: Colorado, Kansas, 
Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming. The 
aquifer's saturated thickness ranges from near zero to about 1,200 feet (Weeks 
and Gutentag, 1981). Water-level declines occurred in parts of the High Plains 
aquifer soon after the onset of substantial increases in irrigation with groundwater 
(about 1950) (Luckey and others, 1981; Gutentag and others, 1984). This data set 
was generated in ESRI ArcInfo Workstation Version 9.3, which is a geographic 
information system (GIS), using water-level-change data from wells measured in 
2005 and 2009 and from some additional wells in New Mexico, which were 
measured in 2006, 2007, and 2008. For this data set, areas of no substantial 
change were designated as areas where water-level change was between a 
rise of 1 foot and a decline of 1 foot; the raster was set to zero in the areas of 
no substantial change.
REFERENCES CITED -- 
Gutentag, E.D., Heimes, F.J., Krothe, N.C., Luckey, R.R., and Weeks, J.B., 1984, 
Geohydrology of the High Plains aquifer in parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming: 
U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1400-B, 63 p.
Luckey, R.R., Gutentag, E.D., and Weeks, J.B., 1981, 
Water-level and saturated-thickness changes, predevelopment to 1980, in the High Plains aquifer in parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming: 
U.S. Geological Survey Hydrologic Investigations Atlas HA-652, 2 sheets, scale 1:2,500,000.
Weeks, J.B., and Gutentag, E.D., 1981, 
Bedrock geology, altitude of base, and 1980 saturated thickness of the High Plains aquifer in parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming: 
U.S. Geological Survey Hydrologic Investigations Atlas HA-648, 2 sheets, scale 1:2,500,000.

Tags: aquifers, colorado, geoscientificinformation, great-plains, ground-water, groundwater, high-plains, high-plains-aquifer, inlandwaters, kansas, nebraska, new-mexico, ogallala-aquifer, oklahoma, south-dakota, texas, usgs-f6a487d6-e488-42cd-83ec-01aa1279c889, water-level-change, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Streamgage Attributes, Basin Characteristics, and Seasonal Flow Regimes, Selected Streamgages in Alaska, 1914-2017

This dataset contains selected information about U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) streamgages in Alaska that had at least 5 years of daily streamflow record through September 30, 2017. The goals for developing this dataset were to identify USGS streamgages that had at least 5 years of daily streamflow that responded mostly to seasonal meteorological inputs, that had a definable drainage basin above a minimum size from which basin characteristics could be determined, and that provided streamflow data not similar to another streamgage record in the dataset. Streamgages meeting these criteria for at least part of their records constituted the dataset for a study investigating seasonal flow regimes and streamflow drivers for Alaska. For 253 streamgages meeting selection criteria, data include period of record characteristics, basin characteristics, and flow regime cluster analysis results. The basin characteristics are provided in their original U.S. customary units and as values transformed to metric units. For an additional 78 streamgages, data include the special conditions affecting streamflow that disqualified the streamgage from the study, including recurring outburst floods, regulation, urbanization, hydrologic redundancy with another streamgage, drainage basin below minimum size, or an indeterminate drainage basin.

Tags: discharge-flow, floods, hydrographic-datasets, hydrology, inlandwaters, rivers-streams, terrestrial-hydrosphere, time-series-datasets, usgs-asc336
Organization: Department of the Interior
An Unvegetated to Vegetated Ratio (UVVR) for coastal wetlands of the Gulf of Mexico Coast - 1985

Prior research has shown that sediment budgets, and therefore stability, of microtidal marsh complexes scale with areal unvegetated to vegetated marsh ratios (UVVR) suggesting these metrics are broadly applicable indicators of microtidal marsh vulnerability. This effort has developed the UVVR metric using readily available satellite imagery for the coastal areas of the contiguous United States (CONUS). These datasets provide annual averages of the 1) unvegetated fraction, 2) vegetated fraction, 3) water fraction and 4) an unvegetated to vegetated ratio (UVVR) at 30-meter resolution over the coastal areas of the contiguous United States for the year 1985. Additionally, multi-year average values of vegetated ratio, its standard deviation and a UVVR based on the annually-averaged vegetated ratio are provided for the coastal wetlands of the contiguous United States.

Tags: alabama, coastal-wetlands, conterminous-united-states, florida, fractional-cover, gulf-of-mexico-coast, louisiana, mississippi, texas, unvegetated, unvegetated-to-vegetated-ratio, usgs-66e1cf19d34ecba8b86777fe, uvvr, vegetation, wetland-change, wetland-gain, wetland-loss, wetlands
Organization: Department of the Interior