A global model for residential energy use: Uncertainty in calibration to regional data

Recently, an active debate has emerged around greenhouse gas emissions due to indirect land use change (iLUC) of expanding agricultural areas dedicated to biofuel production. In this paper we provide a detailed analysis of the iLUC effect, and further address the issues of deforestation, irrigation water use, and crop price increases due to expanding biofuel acreage. We use GLOBIOM – an economic partial equilibrium model of the global forest, agriculture, and biomass sectors with a bottom-up representation of agricultural and forestry management practices. The results indicate that second generation biofuel production fed by wood from sustainably managed existing forests would lead to a negative iLUC factor, meaning...

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Uncertainty, data, energy, global, model, All tags... regional, residential, use, Fewer tags

Predictive soil property map: Calcium carbonate content

These data were compiled to demonstrate new predictive mapping approaches and provide comprehensive gridded 30-meter resolution soil property maps for the Colorado River Basin above Hoover Dam. Random forest models related environmental raster layers representing soil forming factors with field samples to render predictive maps that interpolate between sample locations. Maps represented soil pH, texture fractions (sand, silt clay, fine sand, very fine sand), rock, electrical conductivity (ec), gypsum, CaCO3, sodium adsorption ratio (sar), available water capacity (awc), bulk density (dbovendry), erodibility (kwfact), and organic matter (om) at 7 depths (0, 5, 15, 30, 60, 100, and 200 cm) as well as depth to restrictive...

Tags: Arizona, Colorado, Colorado River, Colorado River Basin, Colorado River Basin above Hoover Dam, All tags... Hoover Dam, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, accuracy and error estimated, available water capacity, bulk density, calcium carbonate, digital soil mapping, electrical conductivity, environmental conditions, environmental raster layers, erodibility, geoscientificInformation, gypsum, interpolate, machine learning, maps and atlases, organic matter, predicitve modeling, predictive mapping, predictive maps, random forest models, random forests, restrictive layer, rock, sodium adsorption ratio, soil conductivity, soil density, soil forming factors, soil pH, soil properties, soil property maps, soil sciences, soil texture, soils, surface rock cover, surface rock size, texture fractions, uncertainty, Fewer tags

Predictive soil property map: Electrical conductivity (salinity)

These data were compiled to demonstrate new predictive mapping approaches and provide comprehensive gridded 30-meter resolution soil property maps for the Colorado River Basin above Hoover Dam. Random forest models related environmental raster layers representing soil forming factors with field samples to render predictive maps that interpolate between sample locations. Maps represented soil pH, texture fractions (sand, silt clay, fine sand, very fine sand), rock, electrical conductivity (ec), gypsum, CaCO3, sodium adsorption ratio (sar), available water capacity (awc), bulk density (dbovendry), erodibility (kwfact), and organic matter (om) at 7 depths (0, 5, 15, 30, 60, 100, and 200 cm) as well as depth to restrictive...

Tags: Arizona, Colorado, Colorado River, Colorado River Basin, Colorado River Basin above Hoover Dam, All tags... Hoover Dam, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, accuracy and error estimated, available water capacity, bulk density, calcium carbonate, digital soil mapping, electrical conductivity, environmental conditions, environmental raster layers, erodibility, geoscientificInformation, gypsum, interpolate, machine learning, maps and atlases, organic matter, predicitve modeling, predictive mapping, predictive maps, random forest models, random forests, restrictive layer, rock, sodium adsorption ratio, soil conductivity, soil density, soil forming factors, soil pH, soil properties, soil property maps, soil sciences, soil texture, soils, surface rock cover, surface rock size, texture fractions, uncertainty, Fewer tags

Understanding the Impacts of Glaciers on Streamflow in Alaska and Washington

Glaciers are a central component to the hydrology of many areas in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. Glacier melt plays a crucial role in the movement of nutrients through a landscape and into the ocean, and the flow of water into streams that sustain many species. As air temperatures rise, increased rates of glacier melt may have significant impacts to the hydrology and ecology in these areas. This project aims to broaden our understanding of the role of glaciers in the hydrology of Alaska and Washington state and incorporate this knowledge into two types of models that simulate past and future scenarios of water flow. The project team aims to develop a public web portal to allow users to explore content, access...

Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2015, Alaska, Alaska, Alaska CASC, CASC, All tags... Data Visualization & Tools, Data Visualization & Tools, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Extreme Weather, Extreme Weather, Glaciers, Glaciers and Permafrost, Glaciers and Permafrost, Glaciers and Permafrost, Hydrology, Northwest, Northwest, Northwest, Northwest, Northwest CASC, Projects by Region, Projects by Region, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Science Tools for Managers, Science Tools for Managers, Water, Coasts and Ice, Water, Coasts and Ice, Water, Coasts and Ice, uncertainty, Fewer tags

Data Release: Modeling coastal salinity regime for biological application

Salinity regimes in coastal ecosystems are highly dynamic and driven by complex geomorphic and hydrological processes. Estuarine biota are generally adapted to salinity fluctuation, but are vulnerable to salinity extremes. Characterizing coastal salinity regime for ecological studies therefore requires representing extremes of salinity ranges at various time scales relevant to ecology (e.g., daily, monthly, seasonally). This data release provides supporting data for the journal article titled, "Quantifying uncertainty in coastal salinity regime for biological application using quantile regression," by Yurek et al. (2022). A spatially-resolved model was developed that derives quantile distributions of salinity related...

Tags: Aquatic Biology, Climatology, Ecology, Hydrology, Land Use Change, All tags... Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge, Suwannee Sound, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, biological salinity tolerance, biota, climate, coastal salinity regime, drought, prediction, quantile regression, streamflow, uncertainty, Fewer tags

Florida Keys Reef Visual Census 2005

In 1998, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's (FWC) Fisheries Independent Monitoring (FIM) program began a long-term monitoring effort of key reef fish populations in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. This effort was aimed at evaluating the relative abundance, size structure, and habitat utilization of specific reef fish species that are targeted by commercial and recreational fisheries.; Smith, S.G., et al. 2011, Multispecies survey design for assessing reef-fish stocks, spatially explicit management performance, and ecosystem condition. Fisheries Research 109(2011)25-41; Brandt, M.E., et. al. 2009, A Cooperative Multi-agency Reef Fish Monitoring Protocol for the Florida Keys Coral...

Categories: Data; Types: NetCDF OPeNDAP Service; Tags: Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuaries Reef Fish Monitoring, array, array-data, basis, basisOfRecord, All tags... bibliographic, bibliographiccitation, body, citation, class, code, collection, collectionCode, comprehensive, coordinate, coordinateUncertaintyInMeters, count, country, data, data_set_name, dataset, datasetID, datasetName, date, datum, dep, depth, dynamic, dynamicProperties, event, eventDate, eventDateRemarks, eventDateTimeZone, eventdate, eventdatetimezone, family, fish, fish sampling, florida, florida keys, genus, geodetic, geodeticDatum, geoscientificInformation, gulf of mexico, habitat, higher, higherInstitutionCode, identification, identifier, individual, institution, institutionCode, keys, kingdom, large, latitude, length, locality, longitude, marine, material, materialSampleID, max, maximum, maximumDepthInMeters, meters, min, minimum, minimumDepthInMeters, miniumDepthInMeters, monitoring, name, national, number, observed, observedIndividualLengthInCm, observedMeanLengthInCm, order, owner, ownerInstitutionCode, phylum, properties, province, quality, quantificationMethod, quantificationName, quantificationStatus, quantificationUnit, quantificationValue, rank, record, recorded, recordedBy, reef, sample, samples, sanctuaries, scientific, scientificName, sea, seawater, service, set, specificEpithet, state, stateProvince, statistics, status, stewardship, system, taxon, taxonRank, taxonomy, time, timeUncertainty, timeseries, timeuncertainty, type, typeStatus, uncertainty, vernacular, vernacularName, verticalDatum, water, waterBody, waterbody, zone, Fewer tags

Florida Keys Reef Visual Census 2009

In 1998, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's (FWC) Fisheries Independent Monitoring (FIM) program began a long-term monitoring effort of key reef fish populations in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. This effort was aimed at evaluating the relative abundance, size structure, and habitat utilization of specific reef fish species that are targeted by commercial and recreational fisheries.; Smith, S.G., et al. 2011, Multispecies survey design for assessing reef-fish stocks, spatially explicit management performance, and ecosystem condition. Fisheries Research 109(2011)25-41; Brandt, M.E., et. al. 2009, A Cooperative Multi-agency Reef Fish Monitoring Protocol for the Florida Keys Coral...

Categories: Data; Types: NetCDF OPeNDAP Service; Tags: Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuaries Reef Fish Monitoring, array, array-data, basis, basisOfRecord, All tags... bibliographic, bibliographiccitation, body, citation, class, code, collection, collectionCode, comprehensive, coordinate, coordinateUncertaintyInMeters, count, country, data, data_set_ID, data_set_name, dataset, datasetID, datasetName, date, datum, dep, depth, dynamic, dynamicProperties, event, eventDate, eventDateRemarks, eventDateTimeZone, eventdate, eventdatetimezone, family, fish, fish sampling, florida, florida keys, genus, geodetic, geodeticDatum, geoscientificInformation, gulf of mexico, habitat, higher, higherInstitutionCode, identification, identifier, individual, institution, institutionCode, keys, kingdom, large, latitude, length, locality, longitude, marine, material, materialSampleID, max, maximum, maximumDepthInMeters, meters, min, minimum, minimumDepthInMeters, miniumDepthInMeters, monitoring, name, national, number, observed, observedIndividualLengthInCm, observedMeanLengthInCm, order, owner, ownerInstitutionCode, phylum, properties, province, quality, quantificationMethod, quantificationName, quantificationStatus, quantificationUnit, quantificationValue, rank, record, recorded, recordedBy, reef, sample, samples, sanctuaries, scientific, scientificName, sea, seawater, service, set, specificEpithet, state, stateProvince, statistics, status, stewardship, system, taxon, taxonRank, taxonomy, time, timeUncertainty, timeseries, timeuncertainty, type, typeStatus, uncertainty, vernacular, vernacularName, verticalDatum, water, waterBody, waterbody, zone, Fewer tags

Predictive soil property map: Silt content

These data were compiled to demonstrate new predictive mapping approaches and provide comprehensive gridded 30-meter resolution soil property maps for the Colorado River Basin above Hoover Dam. Random forest models related environmental raster layers representing soil forming factors with field samples to render predictive maps that interpolate between sample locations. Maps represented soil pH, texture fractions (sand, silt clay, fine sand, very fine sand), rock, electrical conductivity (ec), gypsum, CaCO3, sodium adsorption ratio (sar), available water capacity (awc), bulk density (dbovendry), erodibility (kwfact), and organic matter (om) at 7 depths (0, 5, 15, 30, 60, 100, and 200 cm) as well as depth to restrictive...

Tags: Arizona, Colorado, Colorado River, Colorado River Basin, Colorado River Basin above Hoover Dam, All tags... Hoover Dam, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, accuracy and error estimated, available water capacity, bulk density, calcium carbonate, digital soil mapping, electrical conductivity, environmental conditions, environmental raster layers, erodibility, geoscientificInformation, gypsum, interpolate, machine learning, maps and atlases, organic matter, predicitve modeling, predictive mapping, predictive maps, random forest models, random forests, restrictive layer, rock, sodium adsorption ratio, soil conductivity, soil density, soil forming factors, soil pH, soil properties, soil property maps, soil sciences, soil texture, soils, surface rock cover, surface rock size, texture fractions, uncertainty, Fewer tags

Predictive soil property map: Surface rock

These data were compiled to demonstrate new predictive mapping approaches and provide comprehensive gridded 30-meter resolution soil property maps for the Colorado River Basin above Hoover Dam. Random forest models related environmental raster layers representing soil forming factors with field samples to render predictive maps that interpolate between sample locations. Maps represented soil pH, texture fractions (sand, silt clay, fine sand, very fine sand), rock, electrical conductivity (ec), gypsum, CaCO3, sodium adsorption ratio (sar), available water capacity (awc), bulk density (dbovendry), erodibility (kwfact), and organic matter (om) at 7 depths (0, 5, 15, 30, 60, 100, and 200 cm) as well as depth to restrictive...

Tags: Arizona, Colorado, Colorado River, Colorado River Basin, Colorado River Basin above Hoover Dam, All tags... Hoover Dam, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, accuracy and error estimated, available water capacity, bulk density, calcium carbonate, digital soil mapping, electrical conductivity, environmental conditions, environmental raster layers, erodibility, geoscientificInformation, gypsum, interpolate, machine learning, maps and atlases, organic matter, predicitve modeling, predictive mapping, predictive maps, random forest models, random forests, restrictive layer, rock, sodium adsorption ratio, soil conductivity, soil density, soil forming factors, soil pH, soil properties, soil property maps, soil sciences, soil texture, soils, surface rock cover, surface rock size, texture fractions, uncertainty, Fewer tags

Lessons from finance for new land-conservation strategies given climate-change uncertainty

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: *Climate Change, Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation of Natural Resources/economics/*metho, Decision Making, All tags... Uncertainty, Fewer tags

Predictive soil property map: Erodability

These data were compiled to demonstrate new predictive mapping approaches and provide comprehensive gridded 30-meter resolution soil property maps for the Colorado River Basin above Hoover Dam. Random forest models related environmental raster layers representing soil forming factors with field samples to render predictive maps that interpolate between sample locations. Maps represented soil pH, texture fractions (sand, silt clay, fine sand, very fine sand), rock, electrical conductivity (ec), gypsum, CaCO3, sodium adsorption ratio (sar), available water capacity (awc), bulk density (dbovendry), erodibility (kwfact), and organic matter (om) at 7 depths (0, 5, 15, 30, 60, 100, and 200 cm) as well as depth to restrictive...

Tags: Arizona, Colorado, Colorado River, Colorado River Basin, Colorado River Basin above Hoover Dam, All tags... Hoover Dam, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, accuracy and error estimated, available water capacity, bulk density, calcium carbonate, digital soil mapping, electrical conductivity, environmental conditions, environmental raster layers, erodibility, geoscientificInformation, gypsum, interpolate, machine learning, maps and atlases, organic matter, predicitve modeling, predictive mapping, predictive maps, random forest models, random forests, restrictive layer, rock, sodium adsorption ratio, soil conductivity, soil density, soil forming factors, soil pH, soil properties, soil property maps, soil sciences, soil texture, soils, surface rock cover, surface rock size, texture fractions, uncertainty, Fewer tags

Florida Keys Reef Visual Census 2008

In 1998, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's (FWC) Fisheries Independent Monitoring (FIM) program began a long-term monitoring effort of key reef fish populations in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. This effort was aimed at evaluating the relative abundance, size structure, and habitat utilization of specific reef fish species that are targeted by commercial and recreational fisheries.; Smith, S.G., et al. 2011, Multispecies survey design for assessing reef-fish stocks, spatially explicit management performance, and ecosystem condition. Fisheries Research 109(2011)25-41; Brandt, M.E., et. al. 2009, A Cooperative Multi-agency Reef Fish Monitoring Protocol for the Florida Keys Coral...

Categories: Data; Types: NetCDF OPeNDAP Service; Tags: Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuaries Reef Fish Monitoring, array, array-data, basis, basisOfRecord, All tags... bibliographic, bibliographiccitation, body, citation, class, code, collection, collectionCode, comprehensive, coordinate, coordinateUncertaintyInMeters, count, country, data, data_set_name, dataset, datasetID, datasetName, date, datum, dep, depth, dynamic, dynamicProperties, event, eventDate, eventDateRemarks, eventDateTimeZone, eventdate, eventdatetimezone, family, fish, fish sampling, florida, florida keys, genus, geodetic, geodeticDatum, geoscientificInformation, gulf of mexico, habitat, higher, higherInstitutionCode, identification, identifier, individual, institution, institutionCode, keys, kingdom, large, latitude, length, locality, longitude, marine, material, materialSampleID, max, maximum, maximumDepthInMeters, meters, min, minimum, minimumDepthInMeters, miniumDepthInMeters, monitoring, name, national, number, observed, observedIndividualLengthInCm, observedMeanLengthInCm, order, owner, ownerInstitutionCode, phylum, properties, province, quality, quantificationMethod, quantificationName, quantificationStatus, quantificationUnit, quantificationValue, rank, record, recorded, recordedBy, reef, sample, samples, sanctuaries, scientific, scientificName, sea, seawater, service, set, specificEpithet, state, stateProvince, statistics, status, stewardship, system, taxon, taxonRank, taxonomy, time, timeUncertainty, timeseries, timeuncertainty, type, typeStatus, uncertainty, vernacular, vernacularName, verticalDatum, water, waterBody, waterbody, zone, Fewer tags

Dry Tortugas Reef Visual Census 2014

In 1998, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's (FWC) Fisheries Independent Monitoring (FIM) program began a long-term monitoring effort of key reef fish populations in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. This effort was aimed at evaluating the relative abundance, size structure, and habitat utilization of specific reef fish species that are targeted by commercial and recreational fisheries.; Smith, S.G., et al. 2011, Multispecies survey design for assessing reef-fish stocks, spatially explicit management performance, and ecosystem condition. Fisheries Research 109(2011)25-41; Brandt, M.E., et. al. 2009, A Cooperative Multi-agency Reef Fish Monitoring Protocol for the Florida Keys Coral...

Categories: Data; Types: NetCDF OPeNDAP Service; Tags: Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuaries Reef Fish Monitoring, array, array-data, basis, basisOfRecord, All tags... bibliographic, bibliographiccitation, body, citation, class, code, collection, collectionCode, comprehensive, coordinate, coordinateUncertaintyInMeters, count, country, data, dataSetID, data_set_name, dataset, datasetName, date, datum, dep, depth, dynamic, dynamicProperties, event, eventDate, eventDateRemarks, eventDateTimeZone, eventdate, eventdatetimezone, family, fish, fish sampling, florida, florida keys, genus, geodetic, geodeticDatum, geoscientificInformation, gulf of mexico, habitat, higher, higherInstitutionCode, identification, identifier, individual, institution, institutionCode, keys, kingdom, large, latitude, length, locality, longitude, marine, material, materialSampleID, max, maximum, maximumDepthInMeters, meters, min, minimum, minimumDepthInMeters, miniumDepthInMeters, monitoring, name, national, number, observed, observedIndividualLengthInCm, observedMeanLengthInCm, order, owner, ownerInstitutionCode, phylum, properties, province, quality, quantificationMethod, quantificationName, quantificationStatus, quantificationUnit, quantificationValue, rank, record, recorded, recordedBy, reef, sample, samples, sanctuaries, scientific, scientificName, sea, seawater, service, set, state, stateProvince, statistics, status, stewardship, system, taxon, taxonRank, taxonomy, time, timeUncertainty, timeseries, timeuncertainty, type, typeStatus, uncertainty, vernacular, vernacularName, verticalDatum, water, waterBody, waterbody, zone, Fewer tags

Florida Keys Reef Visual Census 2000

In 1998, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's (FWC) Fisheries Independent Monitoring (FIM) program began a long-term monitoring effort of key reef fish populations in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. This effort was aimed at evaluating the relative abundance, size structure, and habitat utilization of specific reef fish species that are targeted by commercial and recreational fisheries.; Smith, S.G., et al. 2011, Multispecies survey design for assessing reef-fish stocks, spatially explicit management performance, and ecosystem condition. Fisheries Research 109(2011)25-41; Brandt, M.E., et. al. 2009, A Cooperative Multi-agency Reef Fish Monitoring Protocol for the Florida Keys Coral...

Categories: Data; Types: NetCDF OPeNDAP Service; Tags: Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuaries Reef Fish Monitoring, array, array-data, basis, basisOfRecord, All tags... bibliographic, bibliographiccitation, body, citation, class, code, collection, collectionCode, comprehensive, coordinate, coordinateUncertaintyInMeters, count, country, data, data_set_ID, data_set_name, dataset, datasetID, datasetName, date, datum, dep, depth, dynamic, dynamicProperties, event, eventDate, eventDateRemarks, eventDateTimeZone, eventdate, eventdatetimezone, family, fish, fish sampling, florida, florida keys, genus, geodetic, geodeticDatum, geoscientificInformation, gulf of mexico, habitat, higher, higherInstitutionCode, identification, identifier, individual, institution, institutionCode, keys, kingdom, large, latitude, length, locality, longitude, marine, material, materialSampleID, max, maximum, maximumDepthInMeters, meters, min, minimum, minimumDepthInMeters, miniumDepthInMeters, monitoring, name, national, number, observed, observedIndividualLengthInCm, observedMeanLengthInCm, order, owner, ownerInstitutionCode, phylum, properties, province, quality, quantificationMethod, quantificationName, quantificationStatus, quantificationUnit, quantificationValue, rank, record, recorded, recordedBy, reef, sample, samples, sanctuaries, scientific, scientificName, sea, seawater, service, set, specificEpithet, state, stateProvince, statistics, status, stewardship, system, taxon, taxonRank, taxonomy, time, timeUncertainty, timeseries, timeuncertainty, type, typeStatus, uncertainty, vernacular, vernacularName, verticalDatum, water, waterBody, waterbody, zone, Fewer tags

Future-proofing the Emergency Recovery Plan for Freshwater Biodiversity

Freshwater biodiversity loss is accelerating globally, but humanity can change this trajectory through actions that enable recovery. To be successful, these actions require coordination and planning at a global scale. The Emergency Recovery Plan for global freshwater biodiversity aims to reduce the risk for freshwater biodiversity loss through six priority actions: (1) accelerate implementation of environmental flows; (2) improve water quality to sustain aquatic life; (3) protect and restore critical habitats; (4) manage exploitation of freshwater species and riverine aggregates; (5) prevent and control nonnative species invasions in freshwater habitats; and (6) safeguard and restore freshwater connectivity. These...

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Climate Change, Freshwater, Freshwater Conservation, Freshwater Ecosystems, Freshwater Life, All tags... Uncertainty, Fewer tags

Turning Uncertainty into Useful Information for Conservation Decisions

We routinely encounter uncertainty when we make decisions – from picking a new morning coffee to choosing where to live. Even decisions that are supported by science contain some level of remaining uncertainty. In the context of conservation and wildlife management, the potential for uncertainty to influence decisions is perhaps most obvious when we think about predicting how actions (or non-actions) will have lasting impacts into the future. Our abilities to precisely predict future climatic and ecological conditions and determine the exact consequences of our actions are, and will remain, limited. Conservation practitioners and land and wildlife managers must navigate these challenges to make science-informed...

Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2012, CASC, Climate Change, Completed, Data Visualization & Tools, All tags... Data Visualization & Tools, FY 2012, Projects by Region, Science Tools For Managers, Science Tools for Managers, Science Tools for Managers, Southeast, Southeast CASC, Southeast Climate Science Center, State of the Science, State of the Science, States, U.S. States, United States, boundaries, demographics, farm information, households, population, resource management, society, uncertainty, Fewer tags