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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...
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The U.S. network of 160 weather radars known as NEXRAD (NEXt generation RADar) is one of the largest and most comprehensive terrestrial sensor networks in the world. To date, the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) has archived about 2 petabytes data from this system. Although designed for meteorological applications, these radars readily detect the movements of birds, bats, and insects. Many of these movements are continental in scope, spanning the entire range of the network. It is unclear whether biological or meteorological data comprise the bulk of the archive. Regardless, the biological portion is sufficiently large that it likely represents one of the largest biological data archives in the world, perhaps...
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The USGS Southwest Repeat Photography Collection (‘Collection’), formerly named the Desert Laboratory Repeat Photography Collection, is now housed by the Southwest Biological Science Center (SBSC) in Flagstaff, Arizona. It contains images from the late 1800s to mid-2000s, and was assembled over decades by now retired USGS scientists Drs. Robert H. Webb and Raymond M. Turner. There are 80 camera points, or stakes, along Kanab Creek in the Collection, with images and fields notes taken between 1872 and 2010 (a 138-year span). About one-fourth of the Kanab Creek film had been previously digitized, but none of the associated materials, including field notes, were digitized. The goal of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 Kanab...
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The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Geology, Geophysics and Geochemistry Science Center (GGGSC) collaborated with the USGS Data at Risk (DaR) team to preserve and release a subset of magnetotelluric data from the San Andreas Fault in Parkfield, California. The San Andreas Fault data were collected by the Branch of Geophysics, a precursor to the now GGGSC, between 1989 and 1994. The magnetotelluric data selected for this preservation project were collected in 1990 using USGS portable truck mounted systems that measure the distribution of electrical conductivity beneath the surface of the earth. Truck mounted systems of this era output data to 3.5” discs, from which data were recovered and transformed to binary or ASCII...
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The banding data provides a comprehensive list of where and when each of the 21 golden eagles were captured, tagged (all satellite-tagged, some also radio-tagged) and deployed. The banding data is organized into a spreadsheet (Banding_Records.csv) that provides basic information on each bird as well as any notes about recaptures or deaths. The Capture_Sheets.pdf is a supplemental document that provides more detailed biological and spatiotemporal information about 15 of the tagged individuals. Individual golden eagles can be identified across the three datasets with their unique and consistent PTT numbers.
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The satellite data consist of 9,253 estimated locations of 21 golden eagles (Aquila chrysaetos) that were satellite-tagged in either east-central Idaho (Salmon, Idaho) or southwestern Idaho (Snake River National Conservation Area) and tracked between 1993 and 1997 via the Argos satellite system. The raw eagle tracking data provided by Argos were filtered one time using a version of the Douglas Argos-Filter Algorithm and converted into XLS spreadsheet form. This preservation project preserved the geospatial and satellite information from the XLS spreadsheet and released it in shapefile format (Satellite_Data.shp) and CSV format (Satellite_Data.csv). Each tagged bird in this dataset has a unique PTT number that is...
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Of the 21 golden eagles satellite-tagged in Salmon, Idaho and Snake River National Conservation Area, 10 were also radio-tagged with tail-mounted very high frequency (VHF) transmitters to allow for behavioral observations between 1993 and 1994. The observed data were originally processed as a DIF file. The Data at Risk preservation project transformed the original DIF file data into CSV format and created a shapefile from the geospatial points. The observed data shapefile (Observed_Data.shp) provides the 682 estimated locations of the golden eagles and all behavioral observations taken in the field. The information provided in the Observed dataset can be related to the other two datasets via each bird’s unique PTT...
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In 1954 researchers at the USGS Great Lakes Science Center conducted 11 research cruises on Lake Michigan during which 779 bathythermographs were cast to collect temperature profile data (temperature at depth). Bathythermographs of that era recorded water pressure and temperature data by mechanically etching them as a curve on a glass slide. Data was collected from the glass slide by projecting the image of the curve, superimposing a grid, and taking a photo of it, thereby creating a bathythermogram. Data collection personnel could then read the data from the curve. This USGS data release is a digitized set of those original bathythermogram print photos and the temperature and depth data the project team collected...
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There are 12 composite NEXRAD images included in this Science Base item, with four images each for hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma. The four images for each storm are labeled as: StormName_Reflectivity_High, StormName_Reflectivity_Low, StormName_Radial_Velocity_High, and StormName_Radial_Velocity_Low. Reflectivity and radial velocity refer to the moment (type of data) collected by the NEXRAD radars, with reflectivity measuring the overall strength of the radar signal and radial velocity measuring the velocity of the target with respect to the radar. High and Low refer to the operating angle of the NEXRAD radars with high being the closest angle to 3.5 degs and low being the closest angle to 0.5 degs for each...
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Global climate models are a key source of climate information and produce large amounts of spatially explicit data for various physical parameters. However, these projections have substantial uncertainties associated with them, and the datasets themselves can be difficult to work with. The project team created the first version (cst 0.1.0) of the Climate Futures Toolbox, an open source workflow in R that allows users to access downscaled climate projections data, clip data by spatial boundaries (shapefile), save the output, and generate summary tables and plots. A detailed R vignette guides users to easily generate derived variables in order to answer specific questions about their region of interest (e.g. how will...
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The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) maintains over 8,000 streamgages across the U.S. Streamgages in Illinois are operated by the USGS Illinois-Iowa Water Science Center (USGS IL-IA WSC). Gage-height data at many USGS streamgages were collected on paper-punch tapes during the period of 1965 to 1985 in Illinois. These data were not saved in the National Water Information System (NWIS) due to lack of sufficient computer storage at that time. The USGS IL-IA WSC currently has the equivalent of 2,049 years of data from 152 streamgages on paper tapes stored at the National Archive and Records Administration (NARA) Federal Records Center that are not in NWIS. All of these data need to be stored in NWIS for public use before...
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This Science Base item contains three file geodatabases (Katrina_Radar_Data, Rita_Radar_Data, and Katrina_Radar_Data), a symbology folders with two layer files (Radial_Velocity_scale and Reflectivity_scale, as well there associated shapefiles), and a single metadata document (Composite_NEXRAD_Metadata in three formats: .xml, .txt, and .html) that covers all the data in the three geodatabases. Each geodatabase contains data (if available) compiled from 94 NEXRAD stations in the eastern half of the U.S. collected at approximately 0300 UTC on the day these three hurricanes made landfall: 8/29/2005 - Katrina, 9/24/2005 - Rita, and 10/24/2015 - Wilma. There are four feature classes within each geodatabase: StormName_Reflectivity_High,...
    map background search result map search result map Composite images of NEXRAD data during three hurricanes Composite NEXRAD Data from three hurricanes USGS Southwest Repeat Photography Collection: Kanab Creek, southern Utah and northern Arizona, 1872-2010 Magnetotelluric Data from the San Andreas Fault, Parkfield CA, 1990 Bathythermograph Data, Lake Michigan, 1954 Gage Height Data, Friends Creek at Argenta, Illinois, 1971-1982 Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) Satellite Telemetry and Observational Data, Western North America, 1993-1997 Satellite Data, Golden Eagles (Aquila chrysaetos), Western North America, 1993-1997 Observational Data, Golden Eagles (Aquila chrysaetos), Idaho and Oregon, United States, 1993-1994 Banding Data, Golden Eagles (Aquila chrysaetos), Idaho, United States, 1993-1996 Open-Source and Open-Workflow Climate Futures Toolbox for Adaptation Planning Magnetotelluric Data from the San Andreas Fault, Parkfield CA, 1990 Observational Data, Golden Eagles (Aquila chrysaetos), Idaho and Oregon, United States, 1993-1994 Banding Data, Golden Eagles (Aquila chrysaetos), Idaho, United States, 1993-1996 Gage Height Data, Friends Creek at Argenta, Illinois, 1971-1982 Bathythermograph Data, Lake Michigan, 1954 Composite images of NEXRAD data during three hurricanes Composite NEXRAD Data from three hurricanes Satellite Data, Golden Eagles (Aquila chrysaetos), Western North America, 1993-1997 Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) Satellite Telemetry and Observational Data, Western North America, 1993-1997 Open-Source and Open-Workflow Climate Futures Toolbox for Adaptation Planning