AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Great Lakes Restoration Initiative's Terrestrial Habitats &amp; Connectivity Work Group's Pilot Area's Post-Fiscal Year 2021 Forest Habitat Connectivity

This dataset is the second installment of a yearly connectivity update for forested habitat within the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative's (GLRI) Terrestrial Habitats &amp; Connectivity (TH&amp;C) work group's Pilot Area. The Pilot Area is a region of the northern Great Lakes Basin between Ashland, WI and the Keweenaw Peninsula and is bounded by Lake Superior in the north and the basin boundary in the south, including a 70 km buffer. Each year the TH&amp;C selects project proposals for funding within the pilot area. These proposals involve either restoration, research, or land acquisition aimed at improving or increasing forest connectivity in this area. The intended purpose of each year’s update is to understand the effects of funded projects on the ground work and help inform the location and purpose of future projects proposals. These post-fiscal year 2021 forest connectivity maps serve as a second time step for comparison from each future fiscal year through FY25.  
To create the post FY21 installment of GLRI's Terrestrial Habitats &amp; Connectivity work group's pilot area yearly connectivity maps, we identified the geospatial locations where restoration work benefitting forested habitats was completed throughout FY21. Using the GAP/Landfire landcover dataset we identified all forested landcover grid cells. Forests were assigned a low movement resistance; land cover categories were assigned higher movement resistance values the more they deviated from forest characteristics. High intensity development was assigned the highest resistance as it was least similar to forested habitat. We then used the FY21 restoration geospatial locations, all cells within these locations were assigned the lowest resistance value. This analysis produced two connectivity maps: a cumulative current map and a normalized current map. The cumulative current map shows where potential movement pathways between forests are located within the pilot area, while the normalized current map shows where obstructed movement, diffuse movement, and channelized movement occurs within the pilot area. These maps provide important information on how restoration efforts in the pilot area are affecting forest habitat connectivity.

Tags: biota, connectivity, dispersal-organisms, environment, forest-habitat, habitat-fragmentation, imagerybasemapsearthcover, structure, usgs-64ef9f8ed34e4b6d8ab73163
Organization: Department of the Interior
Attributes for NHDPlus Version 2.1 Catchments and Modified Routing of Upstream Watersheds for the Conterminous United States: STATSGO2 Soil Characteristics, Hydrologic Groups

This tabular data set represents the percentages of soils for each STATSGO2 Hydrologic Group compiled for two spatial components of the NHDPlus version 2 data suite (NHDPlusv2) for the conterminous United States; 1) individual reach catchments and 2) reach catchments accumulated upstream through the river network. The source data is found in the component table from the "STATSGOs" soil database produced by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA, 2010). The variables included are hydrologic groups. This dataset can be linked to the NHDPlus version 2 data suite by the unique identifier COMID.  Reach catchment information characterizes data at the local scale. Reach catchments accumulated upstream through the river network characterizes cumulative upstream conditions.  Network-accumulated values are computed using two methods, 1) divergence-routed and 2) total cumulative drainage area. Both approaches use a modified routing database to navigate the NHDPlus reach network to aggregate (accumulate) the metrics derived from the reach catchment scale. (Schwarz and Wieczorek, 2018).

Tags: catchment, hydrologic-group, inlandwaters, nawqa, nhdplus, soil, statsgo2, usgs-5728d93be4b0b13d3918a99f
Organization: Department of the Interior
Streamflow and Water-Quality Data for Selected Streams in the Daniel Boone National Forest, Eastern Kentucky, 2015-17

During 2015-17, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service (USDA FS), carried out a study to characterize the hydrology and water chemistry in the Rock Creek and Cumberland River areas of the Daniel Boone National Forest. The study areas were historically mined for coal and have since been the focus of remediation efforts. The study examined the contributions of tributaries and gains/losses in both areas, and continuous water-quality and base flow estimates at Rock Creek, so the USDA FS can thoroughly evaluate the current conditions and move forward with well-informed remediation efforts.

Tags: basin, daniel-boone-national-forest, daniel-boone-national-forest-london-ranger-district, daniel-boone-national-forest-stearns-ranger-district, groundwater, kentucky, mine-drainage, percolation, runoff, sinkhole, streamflow, surface-water, usgs-5c632e6ee4b0fe48cb350225, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Wind rose plots for the volcano: 273088  Ambalatungan Group

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-58d0130be4b0236b68f52c4f, volcanic-ash, volcanic-eruption-forecasting, wind
Organization: Department of the Interior
Appendix 1.  Water-quality data for surface-water samples collected from October 2013 through September 2015 at the Triangle Area Water Supply Monitoring Project study sites, North Carolina

The dataset contains the environmental data collected for the Triangle Area Water Supply Monitoring Project.  The data are from the samples collected during routine and storm-runoff sampling events during October 2013 through September 2015.  Several study sites contained in this dataset were sampled for other USGS projects during the same time frame.  Unless the samples at these sites were collected in conjunction with the Triangle Area Water Supply Monitoring Project, the data for other projects at these sites are not included in this dataset.

Tags: biological-data, chatham-county, durham-county, major-ions-data, north-carolina, nutrient-data, orange-county, surface-water, total-organic-carbon-data, unfiltered-metals-data, usgs-5925c77ce4b0b7ff9fb3cad0, wake-county, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Magnitude and Frequency of Floods for Rural Streams in Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina, 2017-Data

Reliable estimates of the magnitude and frequency of floods are an important part of the framework for hydraulic-structure design and flood-plain management. Annual peak flows measured at U.S. Geological Survey streamgages are used to compute flood-frequency estimates at those streamgages. However, flood-frequency estimates also are needed at ungaged stream locations. A process known as regionalization was used to develop regression equations to estimate the magnitude and frequency of floods at ungaged locations. This dataset contains the supporting tables and updated hydrologic region boundaries used in the 2017 flood-frequency study for Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina.

Tags: alabama, basin, climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, ecology, flood, flood-frequency, floods, florida, geography, georgia, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, hazard-preparedness, hydrology, inlandwaters, natural-resources, north-carolina, south-carolina, streamflow, streamgage, surface-water, tennessee, united-states, usgs-61859000d34ec04fc9c207e9, virginia
Organization: Department of the Interior
Auditory thresholds for bighead and silver carp after sound exposure determined by the AEP technique: Data

Invasive silver (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) and bighead (H. nobilis) carp, collectively referred to as bigheaded carps, threaten aquatic ecosystems of the Upper Midwestern United States. Due to extensive ecological impacts associated with these species, prevention of their further range expansion is the aim for fisheries management. Recent behavioral studies indicate bigheaded carps are deterred by acoustic barriers and exhibit negative phonotaxis in response to anthropogenic sound sources (≥ 150 dB re 1 μPa SPLrms). However, the impact of long-term exposure to these sounds on the hearing capabilities of bigheaded carps has not been well documented. In this study, the auditory evoked potential (AEP) technique was used to determine auditory thresholds for both sound pressure (SPL) and particle acceleration levels (PAL) among bigheaded carps before and after exposure to high intensity (155.7 +- 4.7 dB re 1 μPa SPLrms; -8.0 +- 4.7 dB re 1 ms-2 PALrms; mean +- SD) broadband sound. Fish were exposed to sound for 30-min or 24-hr and AEP measurements were taken either immediately after exposure, 48-hr, or 96-hr later.

Tags: auditory-evoked-potential, bighead-carp, biota, broadband-sound, invasive-carp, silver-carp, temporary-threshold-shift, usgs-5dab3b10e4b09fd3b0c9d218
Organization: Department of the Interior
California Mule Deer Manache Corridors

The Manache mule deer herd contains both California mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus californicus) and Inyo mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus inyoensis). The herd predominantly covers the east slopes and crest of the Sierra Nevada. Elevation stretches from 3,200 ft on the Owens Valley winter range, to above 11,000 ft on the summer ranges in Sequoia National Park. The Manache herd migrates from winter ranges just west of U.S. Route 395 on the steep slopes and valleys of the Sierra Nevada near Dunmovin and Haiwee east to some of the highest elevations in the continental United States in Inyo and Sequoia National Forests. Deer numbers were very low by 1900, attributed largely to extreme overgrazing by domestic sheep and cattle, and the subsequent denuding of much of the herd’s summer range. Under the U.S. Forest Service’s jurisdiction, livestock allotments decreased and timber harvest improved range conditions with a resulting increase in deer numbers. Herd size peaked at approximately 7,000 animals in 1950. Following that peak, plant succession, more efficient fire suppression, and livestock competition contributed to a decline in herd size. The 1970s witnessed a reversal of this decline, with a dramatic increase to nearly 7,000 deer, but the current population size is unknown.
These mapping layers show the location of the migration corridors for mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) in the Manache population in California. They were developed from 97 migration sequences collected from a sample size of 39 animals comprising GPS locations collected every 2 hours.

Tags: animal-behavior, biota, california, dunmovin, migration-organisms, migration-route, migratory-species, united-states, usgs-63650bdfd34ebe442507ce87
Organization: Department of the Interior
Aeolian and drainage classification data for various archaeological sites in Grand Canyon National Park along the Colorado River from 1973 to 2022

These data were compiled to assess the risk of erosion to archaeological site preservation. The objective of the study is to evaluate changes in archaeological site condition over time as a function of two geomorphology based conceptual models that evaluate the extent to which sites are potentially affected by 1) erosion from gullies, and 2) wind-driven (aeolian) supply of river-sourced sand, respectively. These data represent the results of two classification metrics, based on the two conceptual models, applied to a population of 362 archaeological sites over multiple decades. Both conceptual models numerically rank geomorphic conditions with class values of 1 representing the best potential for archaeological site preservation and larger number class values (e.g. 2, 3, 4...) representing lower potential for archaeological site preservation. These data were collected in Grand Canyon National Park using interpretation of aerial photography acquired between 1973 and 2021, and field investigations conducted between 2000 and 2022. These data were collected by the U.S. Geological Survey and the National Park Service. These data can be used to assess the extent to which sites are affected by erosion from gullies controlled by the base-level of the Colorado River. These data can be used to evaluate how the wind-driven (aeolian) supply of river-sourced sand, essential for covering archaeological sites and protecting them from erosion, has changed over time. These data can be used to assess potential downstream effects of Glen Canyon Dam operations on archaeological site preservation. These data can be used to assess the extent to which dam regulated flows have influenced gully establishment and development as well as availability of the supply of river-sourced sand for wind-driven (aeolian) transport at each of the 362 archaeological sites over the last 5 decades. Observed changes in geomorphic condition can be used to infer potential changes in archaeological site integrity associated with decreased potential for archaeological site preservation.

Tags: aeolian, aerial-photography, archaeological-landscapes, archaeological-site-preservation, archaeological-sites, archaeology, arizona, baseline-data, classification-metrics, climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, colorado-river, conceptual-models, data-release, ecological-processes, environment, erosion, field-inventory-and-monitoring, geomorphic-conditions, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, glen-canyon-dam, grand-canyon-national-park, gully, inlandwaters, modeling, multidecadal, natural-processes, policies-and-regulations, precipitation-atmospheric, rainfall-runoff, regulated-flows, risk, river-regulation, river-sourced-sand, runoff, temporal-resolution, terminologies-and-classifications, usgs-6439a00dd34ee8d4ade21948
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geology of the Danforth Hills study area, Colorado Plateau (dangeolg)

Geology of the Danforth Hills study area at a scale of
1 : 62500.

Tags: coal, colorado-plateau, cplateaucoal, danforth-hills, dhillscoal, economy, environment, geology, geoscientificinformation, nca2000, piceance-basin, surface, usgs-60a802f0d34ea221ce4e5422
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital Terrain Model (DTM) for basin A1

Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) flights were conducted over four stream catchments in Rio Blanco County, Colorado, during the summer of 2016. Two sties had active oil and gas operations within the basin whereas the other two sites did not.  Structure from motion (SfM) was used to align raw images and create a dense point cloud, georectified orthoimage, and Digital Elevation Model (DEM) for each basin.  A Digital Terrain Model (DTM), or bare earth model, for each basin was created by reclassifying the dense point cloud as either bare ground or other (vegetation, oil and gas infrastructure, etc.) and interpolating the land surface between bare ground points.  Ideally, the DTM would always be equal or lower than the DEM; however, the interpolated surface can sometimes be higher than the DEM if bare ground points surround depressions with vegetation or in thick vegetation strands with an undulating surface. Therefore, a final surface model, created by merging the DTM with the DEM for all areas where the DTM was greater than the DEM, was produced for each basin. Lastly, a random forest classification approach was used to classify the orthoimagery on a pixel level into five vegetation/land cover classifications - bare ground, grass, litter, shrub/woody vegetation, and shadow.

Tags: biota, colorado, digital-elevation-models, elevation, remote-sensing, rio-blanco, uas, unmanned-aerial-systems, usgs-6091ca25d34e791692e1695f, vegetation
Organization: Department of the Interior
COW_Q16.TIF - U.S. Pacific West Coast EEZ GLORIA sidescan-sonar data mosaic (16 of 36) (TM, 50 m, NAD27)

In March 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed a proclamation establishing an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the United States extending its territory 200 nautical miles from the coasts of the United States, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. territories and possessions. In 1984, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Office of Marine Geology began a program to map these areas of the EEZ. The U.S. Pacific Coast was the first EEZ region to be mapped and launched GLORIA (Geological LOng-Range Inclined Asdic) mapping program. The area covered by this survey extended from the Mexican to the Canadian borders and from the continental shelf edge, at about the 400-meter bathymetric contour, to 200 nautical miles from the coast. Survey of the U.S. Pacific West Coast EEZ was completed in four consecutive cruises conducted from late April through mid-August 1984. The collected GLORIA data were processed and digitally mosaicked to produce continuous imagery of the seafloor. A total of 36 digital mosaics of an approximate 2 degree by 2 degree (or smaller) area with a 50-meter pixel resolution were completed for the region.

Tags: abyssal-submarine-fan, acoustic-receivers, acoustic-reflectivity, arguello-canyon, arguello-fan, backscatter, baja-seamount-province, blanco-fracture-zone, borderland, california, cascadia-channel, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, continental-island-rise, continental-island-slope, coos-bay, delgada-fan, delgado-fan, distributions, eez, escanaba-trough, exclusive-economic-zone, exclusive-economic-zone-eez, farallon-fan, geological-long-range-inclined-asdic, geoscientificinformation, geotiff-image, gloria, gloria-gt-geological-long-range-inclined-asdic, gorda-basin, gorda-escarpment, gorda-plate, gorda-ridge, grey-scale-image, image-mosaics, imagerybasemapsearthcover, infobank-identifier-f-1-84-sc, infobank-identifier-f-2-84-nc, infobank-identifier-f-3-84-nc, infobank-identifier-f-4-84-wo, juan-de-fuca-plate, juan-de-fuca-ridge, marine-basin-floor, marine-geology, marine-geophysics, marine-oceanic, mendocino-canyon, mendocino-channel, mendocino-fracture-zone, monterey-canyon, monterey-fan, murray-fracture-zone, nitinat-fan, northern-california-ecoregion, ocean-gt-pacific-ocean, ocean-gt-pacific-ocean-gt-north-pacific-ocean, oceans, oceans-gt-ocean-acoustics-gt-acoustic-reflectivity, oregon, oregon-washington-vancouver-coast-and-shelf-ecoregion, pacific-plate, physical-habitats-and-geomorphology, point-arena, point-conception, san-diego-trough, san-lucia-escarpment, san-pedro-trough, santa-monica-trough, sea-floor-acoustic-reflectivity, sea-floor-characteristics, seabed, side-scan-sonar, sidescan-sonar, sidescan-sonar-mosaic, southern-california-bight-ecoregion, taney-seamounts, u-s-geological-survey, u-s-pacific-west-coast, usgs, usgs-ed37e7c7-37a3-4e6a-ad51-64dba2d0156b, washington, wcmg, western-coastal-and-marine-geology
Organization: Department of the Interior
Biocrust cover, vegetation, and climate data from a protected grassland within Canyonlands National Park, Utah (ver. 2.0, Sept. 2023)

These tabular data were compiled for/to monitor vegetation and biocrust cover in a never grazed grassland located in Canyonlands National Park. An objective, or objectives, of our study was to document potential changes in biocrust and vegetation cover and species composition as related to changes in land use and climate change. These data represent a timeseries of long-term vegetation and biocrust monitoring plots, dating from 1996 to 2021. These data were collected at/in Virginia Park, Needles District of Canyonlands National Park, Utah. These data were collected by the U.S. Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Research Center in coordination with the US National Park Service. Data were collected via field observations twice annually, once in the Spring (April-May) and once in fall (Sept.) starting in 1996. A weather station was established in 1998 which recorded hourly temperature and precipitation measurements on a portable data storage module which was switched out and downloaded approximately every 3 months. These data can be used to monitor long term trends and changes in vegetation in a rare, protected and never grazed grassland on the Colorado Plateau, and help with monitoring trends in similar dryland ecosystems.

Tags: air-temperature, atmospheric-and-climatic-processes, biocrust-cover, biogeography, biological-soil-crusts, biota, canyonlands-national-park, climate-change, colorado-plateau, dryland-ecosystems, ecosystem-monitoring, ecosystems, effects-of-climate-change, field-experiments, field-inventory-and-monitoring, field-observations, grassland, land-use-change, long-term-ecological-monitoring, long-term-monitoring-plots, needles-district, never-grazed-grassland, plot-sampling, point-intercept-measurements, precipitation-atmospheric, precipitation-measurement-rainfall-measurement-snowfall-measurement, san-juan-county, species-composition, tabular-data, timeseries, usgs-609bf197d34ea221ce39b029, utah, vegetation, vegetation-cover, virginia-park, weather-monitoring-weather-observations, weather-station
Organization: Department of the Interior
Volatile Organic Compound and Other Analyses Associated with Laboratory Microcosm Experiments to Determine Biodegradation Rates in Fractured Sedimentary Rock at the Former Naval Air Warfare Center in West Trenton, New Jersey, 2016–18

This metadata record presents analytical results for laboratory microcosms conducted during 2016–18 as part of a study to develop a field test and numerical interpretation method to determine the effective diffusion coefficients and sorption coefficients of trichloroethene (TCE) and daughter products in the rock matrix of sedimentary rock, as well as biodegradation rate coefficients in the borehole.  The biodegradation rate coefficients in the borehole are an important component of defining the back-diffusion of TCE from the matrix of sedimentary rock.  Microcosm experiments were conducted with microbial community samples and groundwater collected from boreholes in the field test area to define anaerobic biodegradation rates of TCE and trichlorofluoroethene, a reactive analog for TCE that was used in the field tracer tests.  Included in the dataset are (1) a description of the treatments for 6 sets of microcosm experiments that were conducted, (2) volatile organic compound concentrations measured in water from the 6 sets of microcosm experiments, (3) volatile organic compound concentrations measured in select sediment samples from one microcosm experiment, and (4) dissolved gases and iron concentrations measured in select sets of microcosm experiments.

Tags: back-diffusion, biodegradation, borehole-test, fractured-rock, inlandwaters, tce, trichloroethylene, trichlorofluoroethene, usgs-5f99b808d34e198cb786e771
Organization: Department of the Interior
Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) genomic data of moose (Alces alces) from the contiguous United States, 2009-2017

We analyzed the single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) present in the genomes of moose representing 3 subspecies in the contiguous United States. Blood samples were collected opportunistically from collaborators during field efforts or were supplied to our lab from collaborators' archives, and represented moose sampling occurring between 2009-2017. DNA was extracted, sequenced using next generation sequencing, and SNPs analyzed using the genetics programs Structure and Tess3, and by performing basic population statistics. These analyses were used to determine the population structure of moose at the subspecies level.

Tags: dna-sequencing, genetics, idaho, mammals, minnesota, montana, new-hampshire, united-states, usgs-601864e4d34edf5c66f0b7c8, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior