Data

These datasets support the conclusions in the journal article entitled "National population exposure and evacuation potential in the United States to earthquake-generated tsunami threats " as described in the abstract below: Previous efforts to characterize tsunami threats to people have focused primarily on individual scenarios in specific areas but have not recognized multiple...

This dataset consists of estimates of population trends for 236 species and species complexes of North American birds, and bird taxonomic, primary habitat biome, or conservation status group relative abundance trajectories. Both sets of estimates cover the period 1970 - 2022. Sources of data include the North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS), Christmas Bird Count (CBC), Waterfowl...

This data repository documents the input files, output files, and RStudio scripts used to quantify changes in water-quality concentrations after the 2020 Cameron Peak Fire in the North Fork Big Thompson River and Buckhorn Creek watersheds using the Weighted Regressions on Time, Discharge, and Season (WRTDS) method. A WRTDS model was developed using 12 years of pre-fire data (2008-August...

This data release contains data in support of "Diverging trends in Nitrate and Phosphorus Loads and Yields Across Illinois Watersheds, 1997–2022" (Kamrath and others, 2025). It contains input and output data used to estimate total nitrate + nitrite, dissolved phosphorous and total phosphorous loads for sites in Illinois from water years 1974 to 2022. The input data includes "input-data...

The North East 2nd Street Superfund site in Happy, Texas, overlies a groundwater plume of primarily carbon tetrachloride (CT) that is contained within an upper transmissive zone of the High Plains aquifer system (hereinafter referred to as the "Ogallala aquifer"). The Ogallala aquifer is contained in Tertiary-age sediments of the Ogallala Formation in the study area, which are described...

Over time, barrier islands may become eroded and experience land loss, which require management actions to restore island integrity. The process of restoring barrier islands can create new habitats but also alter existing habitats, which can impact the organisms depending on coastal habitats, such as the Endangered Species Act-listed Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus). Therefore, we...

This study evaluated three sedation methods to determine their efficacy for use during telemetry tagging. Five fish species (bighead carp, grass carp, bigmouth buffalo, American paddlefish, and lake sturgeon) were sedated using eugenol (AQUI-S® 20E), dissolved carbon dioxide, and electroanesthesia to determine sedation induction times. After sedation, half of the fish from each treatment...

The FSim wildfire simulation model is widely used to generate estimates of burn probability (BP). However, few studies have compared BP models to subsequent wildfires to assess their suitability for estimating near-future wildfire risk. Here, we compared the U.S.D.A. Forest Service’s publicly available BP map for the conterminous U.S. (Short et al., 2020; Dillon et al., 2023) to observed...

The Everglades Vulnerability Analysis (EVA) is a series of connected, modular Bayesian networks that predict the response of several Everglades indicators of ecosystem health to changes in hydrology, salinity, and the landscape. EVA produces spatial explicit model outputs, and we created and compiled shapefiles to: 1) delineate boundaries that are relevant to the EVA project and 2)...

In this study, passive acoustic monitoring was conducted at Lock No. 19 near Keokuk, Iowa on the Upper Mississippi River between 20 June – 26 August 2019 to coincide with peak navigation use. Sound pressure levels were calculated from .wav files collected with passive SoundTrap hydrophones at six locations in the downstream lock approach. This data set consists of the location and...

Lake water level fluctuations are an important factor driving variation in many ecosystem processes. The nearshore sediments that are periodically exposed and re-inundated can develop distinct physical and chemical characteristics, especially in relationship to the organic matter content of the sediments and the particle size distribution. These sediment characteristics in turn can alter...

Habitat models can help inform land management, but are not always used where they could be most helpful. In this study, researchers aimed to identify specific actions that could foster greater use of habitat models for managing rare and invasive plants on public lands. The researchers gathered data through surveys and expert elicitation workshops with modelers and model users. One...