Biological and environmental data sets from the August 2017 total solar eclipse

Authors

Emma M. Brinley Buckley, University of Nebraska at KearneyFollow
Andrew J. Caven, The CraneTrustFollow
Benjamin L. Gottesman, Purdue UniversityFollow
Mary J. Harner, University of Nebraska at KearneyFollow
Bryan C. Pijanowski, Purdue University & University of Nebraska at KearneyFollow
Michael L. Forsberg, University of Nebraska - Lincoln & Michael Forsberg PhotographyFollow

Date of this Version

10-5-2018

Citation

2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc.

Comments

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2018.10.008 E.M. Brinley Buckley et al. / Data in Brief 21(2018)552–555

Abstract

The datasets in this article are associated with the research article 'Assessing biological and environmental effects of a total solar eclipse with passive multimodal technologies' (Brinley Buckley et al., 2018). We documented biotic and abiotic changed during a total solar eclipse on 21 August 2017, in south-central Nebraska, USA, with a multimodel suite of tools, including time-lapse camera systems, data loggers, and sound recording devices. Time-lapse images were used to approximate changes in light, data loggers were used to record temperature and humidity, and sound recordings were used to calculate acoustic indices characterizing variation in the soundscape, as well as to manually identify and estimate avian vocalization activity.