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Data release for Piloting Urban Ecosystem Accounting for the United States In this study, we develop urban ecosystem accounts in the U.S., using the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting Experimental Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EEA) framework. Most ecosystem accounts focus on regional and national scales, which are appropriate for many ecosystem services. However, ecosystems provide substantial services in cities, improving quality of life and contributing to resiliency for substantial parts of the population. Our models estimate energy savings for indoor cooling resulting from heat mitigated by trees and rainfall intercepted by trees. Both models cover major cities in the contiguous U.S. and report the results through physical supply and use tables for multiple accounting periods... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Environmental Health, Experimental Ecosystem Accounting, Forestry, Hydrology, Land Use Change, All tags... Rainfall interception, System of Environmental-Economic Accounting, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Urban ecosystem services, Urban heat mitigation, Urban trees, Water Resources, Fewer tags Onshore Industrial Wind Turbine Locations for the United States to March 2014 This data set provides industrial-scale onshore wind turbine locations, corresponding facility information, and turbine technical specifications, in the United States to March 2014. The database has nearly 49,000 wind turbine records that have been collected, digitized, locationally verified, and internally quality assured and quality controlled. Turbines from the Federal Aviation Administration Digital Obstacle File, product date March 2, 2014, were used as the primary source of turbine data points. Verification of the position of turbines was done by visual interpretation using high-resolution aerial imagery in ESRI ArcGIS Desktop. Turbines without Federal Aviation Administration Obstacle Repository System (FAA... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, Citation, Map Service; Tags: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, All tags... Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, GIS, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, data set, dataset, energy, geospatial datasets, renewable, shapefile, structure, turbine, utilitiesCommunications, wind, wind facility, wind farm, wind turbine, windfarm, Fewer tags Data release for Integrating physical and economic data into experimental water accounts for the United States: lessons and opportunities Water provides society with economic benefits that increasingly involve tradeoffs, making accounting for water quality, quantity, and their corresponding economic productivity more relevant in our interconnected world. In the past, physical and economic data about water have been fragmented, but integration is becoming more widely adopted internationally through application of the System of Environmental-Economic Accounts for Water (SEEA-Water), which enables the tracking of linkages between water and the economy over time and across scales. In this paper, we present the first national and subnational SEEA-Water accounts for the United States. We compile accounts for: (1) physical supply and use of water, (2) water... Categories: Data; Tags: Alaska, Hawaii, Land Use Change, Remote Sensing, SEEA-Water, All tags... System of Environmental-Economic Accounts, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Water Quality, Water Resources, Water productivity, Water quality, Water use, Fewer tags Spatial social value distributions for multiple user groups in a coastal national park Public participation geographic information systems (PPGIS) is increasingly used in coastal settings to inform natural resource management and spatial planning. Social Values for Ecosystem Services (SolVES), a PPGIS tool that systematizes the mapping and modeling of social values and cultural ecosystem services, is promising for use in coastal settings but has seen relatively limited applications relative to other PPGIS approaches; it has also to our knowledge not yet been applied in a barrier island setting. In this study, we surveyed two visitor groups and residents living near Cape Lookout National Seashore (North Carolina, USA) to understand social values they hold for the area in the context of the park’s management... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Cape Lookout National Seashore, Climatology, Ecology, Environmental Health, Land Use Change, All tags... North Carolina, Protected area management, Publid Participation GIS (PPGIS), Social Values for Ecosystem Services (SolVES), USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Fewer tags Data release for Monarch Habitat as a Component of Multifunctional Landscape Restoration Using Continuous Riparian Buffers Stabilizing the eastern, migratory population of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) is expected to require substantial habitat restoration on agricultural land in the core breeding area of the Upper Midwestern U.S. Previous research has considered the potential to utilize marginal land for this purpose because of its low productivity, erodible soils, and high nutrient input requirements. This strategy has strong potential for restoring milkweed (Asclepias spp.), but may be limited in terms of its ability to generate additional biophysical and socioeconomic benefits for local communities. Here we explore the possibility of restoring milkweed via the creation of continuous riparian buffer strips around perennial... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Environmental Health, Hydrology, Land Use Change, Remote Sensing, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... United States, Upper Midwestern U.S., Water Quality, Water Resources, Wildlife Biology, ecosystem services, geospatial analysis, pollination, water quality, wild pollinators, Fewer tags In Support of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 3-Bat Species Status Assessment: Predicted Wind Take Allocated To Hibernacula Each Year Under Current and Future Scenarios Through the North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat), United States Geological Survey (USGS) provided technical and science support to assist in U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services’ (USFWS) Species Status Assessment (“SSA”) for the northern long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis), little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus), and tri-colored bat (Perimyotis subflavus). USGS facilitated the SSA data call, provided data archival for repeatable and transparent analyses, provided statistical support to assess the historical, current, and future population status for each of the three species, and developed a demographic projection tool to evaluate future viability of each species under multiple threat scenarios. These data... Categories: Data; Tags: Ecology, Southern Canada, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), USGS-EMA-LOW-SB T&E: Bats, United States, All tags... wind energy, Fewer tags United States Large-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Database (ver. 1.0, November 2023) Over 4,400 large scale commercial solar facilities are in operation in the United States as of December, 2021, representing over 60 gigawatts of electric power capacity; of these, over 3,900 are ground-mounted with capacities of 1MW or more, specified as large scale solar photovoltaic (LSPV) facilities. LSPV ground-mounted installations continue to grow, with over 400 projects coming online in 2021 alone. Currently, a comprehensive, publicly available georectified data describing the locations and spatial footprints of these facilities does not exist. Analysts from the US Geological Survey and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory collaborated to develop and release the United States Large Scale Solar Photovoltaic... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Energy Resources, Land Use Change, Photovoltaic, Solar, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... United States, ground-mounted large scale solar, Fewer tags Digital Data for Land and climate change in Mexico and Texas reveals small effects on migratory habitat of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus). The decline of the iconic monarch butterfly in North America has motivated research on the impacts of land use and land cover (LULC) change and climate variability on monarch habitat and population dynamics. We investigated spring and fall trends in LULC, milkweed and nectar resources over a 20-year period, and ~30 years of climate variables in Mexico and Texas, a key region supporting spring and fall migration during monarchs annual life cycle. We estimated a 2.9% decline in milkweed in Texas, but little to no change in Mexico. Fall and spring nectar resources declined <1% in both countries. Vegetation greenness increased in both the fall and spring in Mexico while the other climate variables, for both countries,... Categories: Data; Tags: Energy Resources, Forestry, Land Use Change, Mexico, Remote Sensing, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, climate change, land cover change, migratory species, milkweed resources, monarch butterfly, nectar resources, Fewer tags Data release for Using social-context matching to improve transfer performance for cultural ecosystem service models Spatial planning is becoming an increasingly important component of managing natural resources in the face of growing demands upon and threats to our public lands. Efforts to model and map the goods and services derived from ecosystems provide important information to planning efforts, permitting the analysis of tradeoffs or costs and benefits associated with management alternatives. Much progress has been made in the development of spatially explicit models and tools for assessing biophysically derived ecosystem service endpoints, but the capacity to account for social values, including cultural ecosystem services, remains limited. The Social Values for Ecosystem Services (SolVES) tool was designed to help fill... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: SolVES, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), cultural ecosystem services, ecosystem services, model transfer, All tags... social context matching, social value, Fewer tags Wind turbine wakes can impact down-wind vegetation greenness Global wind energy has expanded 5-fold since 2010 and is predicted to expand another 8–10-fold over the next 30 years. Wakes generated by wind turbines can alter downwind microclimates and potentially downwind vegetation. However, the design of past studies has made it difficult to isolate the impact of wake effects on vegetation from land cover change. We used hourly wind data to model wake and non-wake zones around 17 wind facilities across the U.S. and compared remotely-sensed vegetation greenness in wake and non-wake zones before and after construction. We located sampling sites only in the dominant vegetation type and in areas that were not disturbed before or after construction. We found evidence for wake... Categories: Data; Tags: Ecology, Energy Resources, Land Use Change, NDVI, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... United States, Wind Wakes, land cover change, vegetation condition, Fewer tags Urban landcover differentially drives day and nighttime air temperature across a semi-arid city Semi-arid urban environments are undergoing an increase in air temperatures, both in average temperatures and in the frequency and intensity of extreme heat events. Within cities, different varieties of urban landcovers (ULC) and their densities influence local air temperatures, either mitigating or increasing heat. Currently, understanding how various combinations of ULCs influence air temperature at the block to neighborhood scale is limited due to the complexities of urban energy balances at small scales. We quantified how ULC influences air temperature at 60 m resolution for day and nighttime climate normals and heatwaves, by integrating data from microclimate temperature sensor networks and high-resolution... Categories: Data; Tags: Air temperature, Denver, Environmental Health, Forestry, Land Use Change, All tags... Landcover, Remote Sensing, Tree Canopy, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Urban Heat, Urban energy balance, Fewer tags