AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
FWS ACJV NAWCA_all_w_coords_Aug2020

The North American Wetlands Conservation Act (NAWCA) is a U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) grant program that provides matching funds to organized partnerships to protect, restore, and enhance lands that benefit wetland-associated migratory birds and other wildlife. By protecting and restoring wetlands and uplands, NAWCA supports intact, functioning ecosystems, which provide many services to society such as clean drinking water and flood protection. These direct economic benefits support multi-billion dollar industries, including tourism, commercial fisheries, forestry, and agriculture. Also, many NAWCA projects provide public access and support important traditions such as hunting, fishing, birdwatching, family farming, and cattle ranching https://acjv.org/funding/the-north-american-wetlands-conservation-act/ The NAWCA program funds projects in the United States, Canada, and Mexico through competitive grants. Grant requests must be matched by partner contributions at least a 1-to-1 ratio. In the past two decades, NAWCA has provided $1.4 billion in grants to fund 2,644 projects in the United States. More than 5,600 partners have contributed another $3 billion in matching funds to conserve 33.4 million acres of habitat. In the ACJV, partners have a demonstrated success in receiving NAWCA funding. Since 1991, ACJV staff have worked with over 500 partners to protect, restore, or enhance over 2 million acres of priority habitats. Partners have received over $228 million dollars in grants which have been matched by $1.3 billion in matching funds. These grants represent almost 1/3 of the grants awarded in the United States!
NE_ABDU_DST_data

THIS IS ABOUT TO BE REPLACED BY NEW DATA These data show the priority deficit and surplus HUC12 watersheds for wetland restoration/enhancement or protection as calculated by the American Black Duck (ABDU) decision support tool ( https://acjv.org/ABDU/abdu_cbt_finalreport_15dec2016_v5.pdf) for the Northeast. These data show the priority deficit and surplus HUC12 watersheds for wetland restoration/enhancement or protection as calculated by the American Black Duck (ABDU) decision support tool ( https://acjv.org/ABDU/abdu_cbt_finalreport_15dec2016_v5.pdf) for the Northeast. THIS IS ABOUT TO BE REPLACED BY NEW DATA These data show the priority deficit and surplus HUC12 watersheds for wetland restoration/enhancement or protection as calculated by the American Black Duck (ABDU) decision support tool ( https://acjv.org/ABDU/abdu_cbt_finalreport_15dec2016_v5.pdf) for the Northeast. These data show the priority deficit and surplus HUC12 watersheds for wetland restoration/enhancement or protection as calculated by the American Black Duck (ABDU) decision support tool ( https://acjv.org/ABDU/abdu_cbt_finalreport_15dec2016_v5.pdf) for the Northeast.
FWS_R7_Realty_Arctic_Coastal_Plain_feature_layer

This layer depicts the [Arctic NWR Coastal Plain (1002 Area) as it is defined in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act]. The Coastal Plain is bounded to the west by the mean high water line of the extreme left (west) banks of the Canning and Staines rivers, bounded to the south by the northern boundary of the Mollie Beattie Wilderness Area, bounded to the east by the mean high water line of the left (west) bank of the Aichilik River, and bounded to the north by the line of extreme low water of the Arctic Ocean, on the seaward (northern) side of the mainland and all offshore bars, reefs, islands, and spits. Excluded from the Coastal Plain is a portion of Kaktovik Inupiat, Inc. conveyed/patented land.
FWS_R7_Realty_Regional_Corporation_feature_layer

The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 eliminated aboriginal land title within Alaska and instead established twelve distinct regions, with each region having one private, for-profit Alaska Native regional corporation. The purpose of this system was to enable Alaska Natives to become shareholders in their regional and village corporations, and to receive dividends generated by those coporations. This feature service shows the boundaries of the twelve ANCSA Regional Corporations within the State of Alaska. More information about the ANCSA Regional Corprations is at [https://ancsaregional.com/about-ancsa/]
FWS ACJV NLCD2019 Crops and Hay in Marsh Mig Space

This is NLCD 2019 crops and hay within unprotected above average or far above average marsh migration space from the TNC 3 and 6 ft SLR scenarios. The purpose of this dataset is to show the estimated migration space for tidal complexes in the project area for the 6.5-foot sea level rise scenario. To delineate migration space for the full project area, we requested the latest SLR Viewer marsh migration data, with no accretion rate, for all the NOAA geographic units within the project area, from NOAA (N. Herold, pers. comm., 2018). The NOAA SLR Viewer data uses a modified bathtub approach that considers local and regional tidal variability for SLR...
Boundaries_NWR

This feature service displays refuge and wilderness boundaries for the National Wildlife Refuges in the state of Alaska. These boundaries were established by Sections 302 and 303 of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (December 2,1980). The boundaries depicted in this feature service were compiled and are maintained by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Alaska Region, Division of Realty, Anchorage, Alaska and are the most current, definitive boundaries for the Alaska national wildlife refuges. Boundaries were digitized from multiple sources, listed below: * USGS 1:63,360 topographic maps (produced mainly in the 1950s and early 1960s) * Federal Register legal descriptions (Vol. 48, No. 38; pp. 7890-8029; February 24, 1983) * Satellite imagery (various dates)
Dissolve_GRH_Vegetation

Feature layer generated from running the Dissolve Boundaries solution. This layer is part of a map that shows vegetation in Grays Harbor National Wildlife Refuge. Bowerman Basin, where Grays Harbor is located, is home to unique habitat types that provide sustenance for a diversity of birds that occupy and come through the Refuge. Grays Harbor provides a unique set of diverse ecosystem that attracts different kinds of birds. This map is part of the storymap, [An Incredible Journey]. Every year in early May, a tranquil little dot on the Washington coastline transforms into a high-traffic north-south shorebird highway known as the Pacific Flyway. From long-distance fliers to birds that prefer a more scenic route, they all stop there because it has all the amenities that a hungry and tired bird could want. So, where is this place? It’s Grays Harbor National Wildlife Refuge, and it’s nature’s version of Grand Central Station.
Great Plains Fish Habitat Partnership Fish Modeling Restoration and Prioritization

Each layer listed in this hosted feature layer has links to it's related file-based data for download. Fishery and aquatic scientists often assess habitats to understand the distribution, status, stressors, and relative abundance of aquatic resources. Due to the spatial nature of aquatic habitats and the increasing scope of management concerns, using traditional analytical methods for assessment is often difficult. However, advancements in the geographic information systems (GIS) field and related technologies have enabled scientists and managers to more effectively collate, archive, display, analyze, and model spatial and temporal data. For example, spatially explicit habitat assessment models allow for a more robust interpretation of many terrestrial and aquatic datasets, including physical and biological monitoring data,habitat diversity, watershed characteristics, and socioeconomic parameters.For this project, Downstream Strategies (DS) was contracted by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service(USFWS) to create a spatially explicit data analysis and modeling system for assessing fish habitat condition across the northern Great Plains based on a range of metrics. The data and tools developed as part of the project will be applicable to watersheds, streams, rivers, and lakes within the boundaries of the USFWS’s Great Plains Fish Habitat Partnership (FHP) and scalable to the national level.Generally, the models, analyses, and data produced as a result of this project are intended to enable a unique, broad, and spatially explicit understanding of the links between natural habitat conditions, human influences on aquatic habitats, and aquatic health. Specifically, the outcomes will be utilized to conduct fish habitat condition assessments based on a range of stakeholder‐specified metrics and modeling end points that will help determine the natural drivers of aquatic conditions as well as the major stressors at various spatial scales in specific FHP regions. Additionally, a geospatial decision support tool will be developed to give users the ability to understand habitat conditions and stressors based on the status and severity of threats at specified locations. The ultimate goal is to improve understanding of how local and regional processes influence stream conditions in the region and to provide FHPs with additional knowledge, data, and tools to help prioritize and drive conservation action in the northern Great Plains.
FWS R2 NWRS Texas Coastal Bend LCD boundary

The Texas Coastal Bend LCD includes at least parts of four of the seven major estuary systems of the Texas Gulf Coast stretching from Corpus Christie to Galveston Bay. Matagorda, Aransas, Corpus Christi, and Upper Laguna Madre are shallow and biologically productive estuaries. Although connected, the estuaries are biogeographically distinct and increase in salinity from north to south. The Laguna Madre is unusual in being only one of five hypersaline lagoon systems in the world and the only such system in North America. The Coastal Bend is bounded on its eastern edge by a series of barrier islands, including the world's longest - Padre Island. The area included in the Texas Coastal Bend LCD includes parts of 12 counties: Matagorda, Aransas, Wharton, Jackson, Victoria, Calhoun, Refugio, San Patricio, Nueces, Goliad, and Bee. Predominant estuarine and island habitats within the Texas Coastal Bend LCD area include: Open Bay, Hard Substrates (jetties, groins, etc.), Oyster Reefs, Seagrass Meadows, Coastal Marshes, Tidal Flats, Barrier Islands, and Gulf Beaches. The Open Bay and Seagrass Meadow habitats have the largest number of species. Oyster Reefs also have many associated species. The LCD area is at the crossroads of species from east and west, as well as from north and south. Rappole and Blacklock (1985) note this area of Texas has the richest bird diversity in North America north of the tropics. The great diversity of species encountered in the area is also due to the wide array of land and aquatic habitat types: arid chaparral, lush riparian forests, oak savannas, oxbow lakes and swales, river deltas, coastal marshes and ponds, oyster reefs, open bay bottoms, barrier islands, jetties and other hard substrates, and sandy beaches. For more information on this project, please visit: [https://ecos.fws.gov/ServCat/Reference/Profile/130943]
FWS ACJV ME_sparrow_counts_2011_2020

https://www.tidalmarshbirds.org/ SHARP - With partners in governmental agencies, conservation non-profits, academic organizations, and private citizens, we support the science behind tidal marsh bird conservation. We answer the questions needed to prevent tidal marsh birds and their wetland habitats from vanishing. We ask that you please acknowledge SHARP in all uses of these data, and if your use represents a substantial portion of a particular publication, please consider reaching out to the [SHARP Principal Investigators] for our greater involvement and potential authorship. 1994 – 2012 Tidal marsh bird survey database (max counts) [SHARP Bird Surveys (1994-2012) - Public Release: 22Oct2015 (417 downloads)] (data, metadata, and database contact information) This database contains compiled data from 11 contributing organizations (see metadata) that conducted avian point counts between 1994 – 2012 within wetlands designated as E2EM (Estuarine Emergent Wetland – i.e., tidal salt marsh) by the National Wetland Inventory. Each row indicates the maximum count of individuals of each species detected at a point for a particular year. Detections for our five focal species (Saltmarsh Sparrow, Seaside Sparrow, Nelson’s Sparrow, Willet, and Clapper Rail) are included in this database. Requested citation for field and analytical methods: Correll, MD, WA Wiest, TP Hodgman, WG Shriver, CS Elphick, BJ McGill, KM O’Brien, BJ Olsen. 2017. Predictors of specialist avifaunal decline in coastal marshes. Conservation Biology 31(1):172-182. [https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.12797]. Requested citation for full database: SHARP 2015. “Specialist-bird survey database: 1994-2012”. Saltmarsh Habitat and Avian Research Program. https://www.tidalmarshbirds.org.
UVVR_merged_12032020

Aboout the Estuarine Processes, Hazards, and Ecosystems Team At the U.S. Geological Survey's Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center we undertake interdisciplinary projects that aim to quantify and understand estuarine processes through observations and numerical modeling. Both the spatial and temporal scales of these mechanisms are important, and therefore require modern instrumentation and state-of-the-art hydrodynamic models. These are mostly collaborative projects that include participation from other U.S. Geological Survey offices, other federal and state agencies, and academic institutions. Estuaries are dynamic environments where complex interactions between the atmosphere, ocean, watershed, ecosystems, and human infrastructure take place. They serve as valuable ecological habitat and provide numerous ecosystem services and recreational opportunities. However, they are modified by physical processes such as storms and sea-level rise, while anthropogenic impacts such as nutrient loading threaten ecosystem function within estuaries. This project collects basic observational data on these processes, develops numerical models of the processes, and applies the models to understand the past, present, and future states of estuaries. Measuring parameters such as water velocity, salinity, sediment concentration, dissolved oxygen and other constituents in watersheds, tidal wetlands, estuaries, and coasts is critical for evaluating the socioeconomic and ecological function of those regions. Technological advances have made it possible to autonomously measure these parameters over timescales of weeks to months. These measurements are necessary to evaluate three-dimensional numerical models that can represent the spatial and temporal complexity of these parameters. Once the models adequately represent relevant aspects of the physical system, they can be used to evaluate possible future scenarios including sea-level rise, streamflow changes, land-use modifications, and geomorphic evolution.
Conservation Efforts Database Website Startup Statistics

This CED spatial web service (ESRI ArcGIS Online Hosted Feature Layer) is a optimized quick visualization and unique value source for optimized CED web startup. The CED provides Sagebrush biome spatial representations and attribute information of conservation efforts entered into the Conservation Efforts Database (https://conservationefforts.org) by various data providers. This spatial web service is made of point and polygon layers and non-spatial tables. Feature records are group with their respective spatial feature type layers (point, polygon). The two spatial layers have identical attribute fields. Read only access to this data is ONLY available via an interactive web map on the Conservation Efforts Database website or authorized websites. Users who are interested in more access can directly contact the data providers by using the contact information available through the CED interactive map's pop-up/identify feature. The spatially explicit, web-based Conservation Efforts Database is capable of (1) allowing multiple-users to enter data from different locations, (2) uploading and storing documents, (3) linking conservation actions to one or more threats (one-to-many relationships), (4) reporting functions that would allow summaries of the conservation actions at multiple scales (e.g., management zones, populations, or priority areas for conservation), and (5) accounting for actions at multiple scales from small easements to statewide planning efforts.The sagebrush ecosystem is the largest ecosystem type in the continental U.S., providing habitat for more than 350 associated fish and wildlife species. In recognition of the need to conserve a healthy sagebrush ecosystem to provide for the long-term conservation of its inhabitants, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) and United States Geological Survey (USGS) developed the Conservation Efforts Database version 2.0.0 (CED). The purpose of the CED is to efficiently capture the unprecedented level of conservation plans and actions being implemented throughout the sagebrush ecosystem and designed to capture actions not only for its most famous resident, the greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus; hereafter, sage-grouse) but for the other species that rely on sagebrush habitats. Understanding the distribution and type of conservation actions happening across the landscape will allow visualization and quantification of the extent to which threats are being addressed. The purpose of this CED spatial web service (ESRI ArcGIS Online Hosted Feature Layer) is to provide CED data for authorized web sites or authorized users.
MOTUS Receiver Deployments

The Motus Wildlife Tracking System is an international collaborative research network of automated radio-telemetry receiving stations. Motus, which is Latin for movement, tracks insects, birds, bats, and other animals over the landscape, using radio technology. Motus is but one of several technologies used to track birds. Another system, Argos, is based on sending signals to receiving stations on orbiting satellites, which then transmit them back to earth. Birds wearing these transmitters bounce highly accurate locations of their whereabouts off of receivers on satellites and down to researchers for decoding. However, these Argos transmitters require larger batteries, and are heavier than Motus transmitters. About 4500 birds are tracked every month with Argos. It's just one of the tools that biologists, conservationists, and others use to monitor wildlife. This story map shares the past and potential of motus through maps, video, audio, pictures, and graphics.
TRB Project Counts per HUC10 Watershed

Across the Tennessee River Basin is a collaboration within the Appalachian LCC bringing together multiple agencies and stakeholders in a joint effort to plan and deliver landscape conservation actions to protect one of the most diverse areas for aquatic species in North America. This layer displays the number of Tennessee River Basin Network's conservation projects in each watershed within the Tennessee River Basin. It shows how many conservation projects occur in each watershed within the Tennessee River Basin (TRB). The layer includes the number of projects, as well as the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset's watershed hydrologic unit code (HUC10), HUC10 watershed name, and state(s) where the projects occur.
FWS_R7_Realty_ANCSA 17b_ Easements _GPSed

This feature service displays all of the ANCSA 17(b) easements that have been ground-truthed with GPS by the USFWS, Alaska Region, Division of Realty. These easements provide public access across privately-owned Alaska native corporation land to public lands and waters. Easement users must stay within the bounds of the easements to avoid trespassing on private land. The easement locations presented here were obtained by USFWS Alaska Region Division of Realty personnel, using GPS on the ground while either walking or using ATVs or snowmobiles. A Trimble GeoXH with an accuracy of around 1 meter was used to collect the easement positions. As of March 2022, the easement positions presented here are considered preliminary, as they have not yet been officially vetted by the Bureau of Land Management, Alaska Region.
GRH_Vegetation

This map shows vegetation in Grays Harbor National Wildlife Refuge. Bowerman Basin, where Grays Harbor is located, is home to unique habitat types that provide sustenance for a diversity of birds that occupy and come through the Refuge. Grays Harbor provides a unique set of diverse ecosystem that attracts different kinds of birds. This map is part of the storymap, An Incredible Journey. Every year in early May, a tranquil little dot on the Washington coastline transforms into a high-traffic north-south shorebird highway known as the Pacific Flyway. From long-distance fliers to birds that prefer a more scenic route, they all stop there because it has all the amenities that a hungry and tired bird could want. So, where is this place? It’s Grays Harbor National Wildlife Refuge, and it’s nature’s version of Grand Central Station.
SHARP regional survey locations

This layer shows survey locations selected following methods in Wiest et al. 2016 (Condor: Ornithological Applications) to survey for tidal marsh birds including the Saltmarsh Sparrow. These locations were visited 2-3 times a season (between May and July annually) between sunrise and 1030 AM in 2011 and 2012, and are slated for resurvey (2 times a season ) in 2021 and 2022. Surveys are led and coordinated by the Saltmarsh Habitat and Avian Research Program (SHARP). The end goal from the resurvey of these points is to update population and trend estimates for tidal marsh specialist species, specifically the Saltmarsh Sparrow.
Current and Future MOTUS Projects in the West

This is part of the storymap, ["MOTUS: Revolutionizing Data Collection, One Bird at a Time."] Some migratory shorebirds fly long distances. But how do we know the paths that birds fly? How do we know where they stop, what they eat, and who their predators may be? We track them. The Motus Wildlife Tracking System is an international collaborative research network of automated radio-telemetry receiving stations. Motus, which is Latin for movement, tracks insects, birds, bats, and other animals over the landscape, using radio technology. It's just one of the tools that biologists, conservationists, and others use to monitor wildlife. Motus is but one of several technologies used to track birds. Another system, Argos, is based on sending signals to receiving stations on orbiting satellites, which then transmit them back to earth. Birds wearing these transmitters bounce highly accurate locations of their whereabouts off of receivers on satellites and down to researchers for decoding. However, these Argos transmitters require larger batteries, and are heavier than Motus transmitters. About 4500 birds are tracked every month with Argos.
sp_nit_TPRa

"This is a contour feature set depicting a surface of predicted migration intensity (Target Passage Rate, TPR) in units of targets per hour. Predictions are based on data collected from 25 Spring and 22 Fall locations throughout the Great Lakes by the US Fish and Wildlife Service Avian Radar Team. Predictions were generated by interpolating overall TPR from field sites during this time period and season, with landscape variables (% water cover, % forest cover, night light illumination, latitude, longitude, and proximity to a Great Lake) as spatial predictors of TPR. Fields Value_Min and Value_Max contain the minimum and maximum predicted TPR values for each of 20 passage rate categories. Fields SE and CoV contain the standard error and covariance of the predicted TPR for each cell. See Supplementary Information for details. The purpose of this dataset is to provide a broad view of differences in aerial migration intensity across the Upper Midwest Great Lakes region. This dataset may be used to identify general areas of greater and lesser airspace use by birds and bats. These estimates may also reflect differences in potential stopover intensity or use of terrestrial resources."