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Range-wide habitat suitability maps for at-risk species in the longleaf system The data contained in child items of this page were developed to support the Species Status Assessments conducted by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and conservation planning for State, Federal, and non-government researchers, managers, landowners, and other partners for five focal herpetofauna species: gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus), southern hognose snake (Heterodon simus), Florida pine snake (Pituophis melanoleucus mugitus), gopher frog (Lithobates capito), and striped newt (Notophthalmus perstriatus). These data were developed by the USGS Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit at the University of Georgia in collaboration with other partners. The three child items contain the following data: (1)... Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alabama (AL), Florida (FL), Florida Pine Snake, Georgia (GA), Gopher Frog, All tags... Gopher Tortoise, Gopherus polyphemus, Heterodon simus, Lithobates capito, Louisiana (LA), Mississippi (MS), North Carolina (NC), Notophthalmus perstriatus, Pituophis melanoleucus mugitus, South Carolina (SC), Southeast, Southern Hognose Snake, Striped Newt, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), amphibians, at-risk species, habitat suitability models, longleaf pine, reptiles, Fewer tags Captures and Trapping Effort for Deer Mice (Peromyscus sonoriensis) at Point Reyes National Seashore, California, USA from 2021 to 2022 These data represent trapping effort and captures of deer mice at Point Reyes National Seashore, Marin County, California. Deer mice were captured and marked with ear tags to allow identification of individuals. The location of captures can be used in a spatially explicit capture recapture model to estimate density of mice and how mouse density varies by site and habitat type. Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service, Shapefile; Tags: California, Ecology, Marin County, Point Reyes National Seashore, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... Wildlife Biology, biota, ecology, mammals, modeling, population and community ecology, restoration, Fewer tags Condition of Surgical Acoustic Tag Incisions in Recaptured Lake Erie Walleye (2011-2016) Intracoelomic implantation of electronic tags has become a common method in fishery research, but rarely are fish examined by scientists after release to understand the extent that surgical incisions have healed. Walleye (Sander vitreus) are a valuable, highly-exploited fishery resource in the Laurentian Great Lakes. Here, fishery capture of walleye with internal acoustic transmitters combined with a high reward program provided multiple opportunities to examine photographs and quantify the status of surgical incisions. Walleye (n=926) from reef and river spawning populations in Lake Erie and Lake Huron were implanted with acoustic transmitters during spring spawning events from 2011 to 2016. Incisions were closed... Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Detroit, Lake Huron, Lower Maumee, Plant and animal tagging, Sandusky, All tags... Tittabawassee, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Western Lake Erie, biota, capturing (animals), fish, Fewer tags Data supporting Landsat time series assessment of invasive annual grasses following energy development To determine if invasive annual grasses increased around energy developments after the construction phase, we calculated an invasives index using Landsat TM and ETM+ imagery for a 34-year time period (1985-2018) and assessed trends for 1,755 wind turbines (from the U.S. Wind Turbine Database) installed between 1988 and 2013 in the southern California desert. The index uses the maximum normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) for early season greenness (January-June), and mean NDVI (July-October) for the later dry season. We estimated the relative cover of invasive annuals each year at turbine locations and control sites and tested for changes before and after each turbine was installed. These data were used... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service, Shapefile; Tags: California, California South, Google Earth Engine, Landsat, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), desert ecosystems, ecology, energy development, energy resources, grassland ecosystems, grasslands, invasive species, nonindigenous species, time series, vegetation, wind energy, Fewer tags Geochemical, grain size, lithological, bathymetric, reconstructed integrated vapor transport, and age model data for Leonard Lake, Mendocino County The data herein are geochemical (from X-Ray fluorescence spectrometry), grain size (percent clay, silt, sand), lithological (loss on ignition data), bathymetric, reconstructed IVT, and radioactive isotopes (14-C, 210-Pb, 226-Ra, and 137-Cs). These data were collected from sediments from Leonard Lake, Mendocino County, California, USA starting in 2014. Together, these data provide evidence for a record of extreme precipitation going back three millennia, showing regional pluvial and drought cycles. Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: California, Climatology, Geography, Hydrology, Limnology, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, ecology, flooding, Fewer tags Pine Creek freshwater mussel qualitative survey data 1995 through 2009 Data are included for field surveys conducted for freshwater mussels within the Pine Creek watershed in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Timed search (qualitative) surveys were conducted in ~200 meter sections of river between 1995 and 2009; The number of mussels of each species and associated search time were recorded for each survey section to determine a catch per unit effort (CPUE; number of individuals found per person hour). Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Aquatic Biology, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC) Chemistry data from leachates of hydraulic fracturing proppants collected from southeastern New Mexico, 2018-2019 Proppants used during hydraulic fracturing of oil and gas wells are manufactured to maximize petroleum yield by controlling the size, shape, density, and strength of the proppant material. The most common types of proppants are mined silica sand and manufactured ceramics, some of which are further modified with organic resin coatings to improve performance. Much of the work on the environmental and human health effects of proppant releases into the environment has focused on occupational silicosis, with little attention given to the potential effects from the organic coatings on these materials. This oversight is especially relevant in the context of dumping of unwanted proppant on the land surface, which has been... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Energy Resources, Environmental Health, Geochemistry, New Mexico, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... chemical analysis, environment, geochemistry, geoscientificInformation, hydraulic fracturing, petroleum, Fewer tags Southern hognose snake Species Status Assessment data products The three datasets were used in a model estimating the current and future persistence of 222 populations of southern hognose snakes, as estimated as part of the USFWS Species Status Assessment. Because these datasets contain information about sensitive species at risk of overcollection and harassment, they do not contain any spatial identifying information. The "HESIM_locs" dataset contains a list of southern hognose snake occurrence records with associated year of observation and population ID. The "SEsnakes_locs" dataset contains a list of non-target snake species occurrence records with associated year of observation and population ID. The "HESIM_pops_all" dataset contains a list of southern hognose snake populations... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 3 Rs, Alabama (AL), Florida (FL), Georgia (GA), Heterodon simus, All tags... Mississippi (MS), North Carolina (NC), South Carolina (SC), Southeast, Southern Hognose Snake, Species Status Assessment (SSA), USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), at-risk species, longleaf pine, population persistence, Fewer tags Chesapeake Bay Watershed 1:24k 10, 30 and 90-meter Riparian Buffer Zones This data release contains three 10-meter resolution GeoTIFFs representing 10-meter (35-foot), 30-meter (100-foot) and 90-meter (300-foot) riparian buffer zones along shorelines, rivers, streams, and other lotic (flowing) water features. The layers are binary, where the value of each cell represents the presence or absence of the buffer zone. In addition, the data release contains shapefile layers that document the extent of corrections that were made to the data to address errors in the stream network (see processing steps section for more details). The methodology combines various fine-scale input layers, including a 1:24k stream network and Chesapeake Bay 1-meter resolution Land Use/Land Cover to approximate... Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Chesapeake, Delaware, District of Columbia, Ecology, Forestry, All tags... Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Virginia, Water Quality, West Virginia, aquatic ecosystems, environment, land cover, land use, land use and land cover, riparian, riparian zone, river systems, terrestrial ecosystems, Fewer tags Chesapeake Bay River Input Monitoring Network 1985-2017: Annual loads Nitrogen, phosphorus, and suspended-sediment loads, and changes in loads, in major rivers across the Chesapeake Bay watershed have been calculated using monitoring data from the Chesapeake Bay River Input Monitoring Network (RIM) stations for the period 1985 through 2017. Nutrient and suspended-sediment loads and changes in loads were determined by applying a weighted regression approach called WRTDS (Weighted Regression on Time, Discharge, and Season). The load results represent the total mass of nitrogen, phosphorus, and suspended sediment that was exported from each of the RIM watersheds. Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Chesapeake Bay Watershed, Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, All tags... United States, Virginia, WRTDS, Washington DC, West Virginia, load analysis, nitrogen, nutrients, phosphorus, rivers, suspended sediment, trends, water quality, weighted regression, Fewer tags Determination of the effect of temperature (Q10) on denitrification rates in sediments collected from a groundwater discharge site in Ashumet Pond on Cape Cod, MA This data release presents results from a laboratory study designed to measure the effect of temperature on denitrification rates in sediments collected from 5- to 30-cm depth below the lake bottom, at a location where groundwater discharges to the lake. Sediment cores were collected June 25, 2014 from the West site (Fishermans Cove) in Ashumet Pond, Cape Cod, MA then shipped to Boulder, CO for laboratory experiments. Groundwater used for these experiments was collected from a well just upgradient of the sediment collection site. Denitrification rates were determined on sediment plus groundwater slurries maintained under anaerobic conditions and employing the acetylene block method. Nitrous oxide concentrations... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC) Projections of 5 coupled scenarios of land-use change and groundwater sustainability for California's Central Coast (2001-2061) - LUCAS-W model LUCAS-W is a scenario-based simulation model of coupled land use change and associated water demand for California's Central Coast region from 2001-2061. The model is a verison of the LUCAS model, which uses the SyncroSim software framework (Software documentation available at http://doc.syncrosim.com/index.php?title=Reference_Guide), that contains a new coupling with statistical software R (https://www.r-project.org/) to enable dynamic feedbacks between land-use change, resulting water demand, and water availability. The model was parameterized with land-use change and water use empirically estimated from county-scale historic data, as well as results from dozens of local agencies’ groundwater modeling efforts.... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Central California Coast, Ecology, LUCAS Model, Land Use Change, Monterey County, All tags... San Benito County, San Luis Obispo County, Santa Barbara County, Santa Cruz County, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Resources, groundwater, land change, land cover/land use, modeling, water demand, water level, water level, urban groundwater, groundwater altitude, Fewer tags Seasonal Atmospheric Nitrate and Ammonium Deposition along an Elevation Gradient in the Colorado Front Range using Ion Exchange Resin Columns (2018-2019) Atmospheric deposition of reactive nitrogen (Nr) due to human activities can have measurable effects on ecosystem processing and export of nutrients, groundwater and surface-water quality. Rates of Nr deposition to lower-elevation forests immediately adjacent to the Denver/Boulder urban area, however, have only recently been measured. The focus of this study was to determine the extent of urban and agricultural N pollution transport to the Colorado Front Range. In conjunction with the Network for Urban Atmospheric Nitrogen Chemistry (NUANC) and the National Atmospheric Deposition Program (NADP), we measured wet-plus-dry Nr deposition and evaluated spatial and seasonal variations in N deposition along an elevational... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Colorado, Ecology, Environmental Health, Geochemistry, Land Use Change, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Resources, atmospheric deposition (chemical & particulate), environment, nitrogen, Fewer tags Chesapeake Bay River Input Monitoring Network 1985-2017: Short- and long-term trends Nitrogen, phosphorus, and suspended-sediment loads, and changes in loads, in major rivers across the Chesapeake Bay watershed have been calculated using monitoring data from the Chesapeake Bay River Input Monitoring Network (RIM) stations for the period 1985 through 2017. Nutrient and suspended-sediment loads and changes in loads were determined by applying a weighted regression approach called WRTDS (Weighted Regression on Time, Discharge, and Season). The load results represent the total mass of nitrogen, phosphorus, and suspended sediment that was exported from each of the RIM watersheds. To determine the trend in loads, the annual load results are flow normalized to integrate out the year-to-year variability... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Chesapeake Bay Watershed, Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, All tags... United States, Virginia, WRTDS, Washington DC, West Virginia, load analysis, nitrogen, nutrients, phosphorus, rivers, suspended sediment, trends, water quality, weighted regression, Fewer tags Maps of the USGS Climate Adaptation Science Centers (May 2024) The Climate Adaptation Science Centers (CASCs) partner with natural and cultural resource managers, tribes and indigenous communities, and university researchers to provide science that helps fish, wildlife, ecosystems, and the communities they support adapt to climate change. The CASCs provide managers and stakeholders with information and decision-making tools to respond to the effects of climate change. While each CASC works to address specific research priorities within their respective region, CASCs also collaborate across boundaries to address issues within shared ecosystems, watersheds, and landscapes. These shapefiles represent the 9 CASC regions and the national CASC that comprise the CASC network, highlighting... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service, Shapefile; Tags: USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, boundaries, climate change, geospatial datasets Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) Satellite Telemetry and Observational Data, Western North America, 1993-1997 The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Data at Risk (DaR) team partnered with the Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center (FRESC) to preserve and release a subset of their golden eagle telemetry data. In the 1990’s, researchers from what is now FRESC worked with Boise State University (BSU) and collected telemetry and ground observation data that documented the local and migratory movements and behaviors of golden eagles. Over the course of this study 21 golden eagles in the conterminous western US were captured and marked with Argos platform terminal transmitters (PTTs) and tracked by satellite as they moved between breeding and wintering locations (individuals marked with Argos PTTs and tracked by satellite are... Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alaska, Aquila chrysaetos, Argos System, Arizona, British Columbia, All tags... California, Canada, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, North America, Oregon, Snake River Bird of Prey Natural Area, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Utah, VHF radio tags, Washington, Wyoming, Yukon Territory, biota, bird banding, birds, birds of prey, breeding, eagles, habitat connectivity, migration (organisms), plant and animal tagging, radio telemetry, satellite telemetry, telemetry, Fewer tags Favorability of environmental conditions for coral reefs in Guam and American Samoa under multiple climate scenarios This dataset consists of raster geotiff outputs of relative environmental favorability for coral growth and survival in the United States territories of Guam and American Samoa across 3 climate scenarios: Present, Intermediate Emissions (Representative Concentration Pathway 4.5), and Worst Case Emissions (Representative Concentration Pathway 4.5). These datasets were generated from a synthesis of spatial variability in many environmental conditions, including thermal stress, wave power, irradiance, chlorophyll concentrations, macroalgal cover, calcite concentrations, turbidity, and erosion. Input conditions were classified as “Managed” or “Non-managed” based on whether the condition could be managed at the island... Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: American Samoa, American Samoa, Ecology, Guam, Guam, All tags... PICASC, Pacific Islands Climate Adaptation Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), WGSC, Western Geographic Science Center, Wildlife Biology, corals, Fewer tags Laboratory studies on the thermal biology of freshwater mussels and their host fish species Data are included for laboratory studies evaluating the thermal biology of several freshwater mussel species and their host fish including dwarf wedgemussel (Alasmidonta heterodon), brook floater (Alasmidonta varicosa), creeper (Strophitus undulatus), eastern elliptio mussel (Elliptio complanata), tesselated darter (Etheostoma olmstedi), and slimy sculpin (Cottus cognatus). Thermal endpoints include critical thermal maximum, temperature preference, oxygen consumption rates, and clearance rates of organisms acclimated to a range of temperature treatments. Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Delaware River, Ecology, Susquehanna River, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... aquatic biology, endangered species, fish, mollusks, native species, Fewer tags Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Restoration Assessment (GLCWRA) Upper Peninsula, U.S.: Degree Flowlines This dataset is part of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Restoration Assessment (GLCWRA) initiative. These data represent the flowline network in the Upper Peninsula Restoration Assessment (UPRA). It is attributed with the number of disconnections (e.g., road crossings) between the reach and Lake Ontario. The more road crossings on a flowline the more disconnected that area is from the lake and the less suitable it will be for restoration. These data help identify the condition of hydrologic separation between potential restoration areas and Lake Ontario. Low numbers represent fewer disconnections, such as culverts, between the reach and the water body requiring no flow network modification... Types: GeoTIFF, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Chippewa, Ecology, Great Lakes, Holocene, Hydrology, All tags... Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Land Use Change, Mackinac, Michigan, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Resources, environment, geoscientificInformation, habitat suitability indices, hydrology, inlandWaters, lake, lakeshore, natural resource management, remediation, resource management, river, stream, water quality, wetland, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, wetland restoration, Fewer tags Chesapeake Bay Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) Database 2022 Edition The Chesapeake Bay Land Use and Land Cover Database (LULC) facilitates characterization of the landscape and land change for and between discrete time periods. The database was developed by the University of Vermont’s Spatial Analysis Laboratory in cooperation with Chesapeake Conservancy (CC) and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) as part of a 6-year Cooperative Agreement between Chesapeake Conservancy and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and a separate Interagency Agreement between the USGS and EPA to provide geospatial support to the Chesapeake Bay Program Office. The database contains one-meter 13-class Land Cover (LC) and 54-class Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) for all counties within or adjacent to the... Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Chesapeake, Delaware, District of Columbia, Land Use Change, Maryland, All tags... New York, Pennsylvania, Remote Sensing, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Virginia, West Virginia, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, land change, land use and land cover, land use change, maps and atlases, Fewer tags 1 2 3 4 5 ... 7 »