Biological and environmental datasets from the August 2017 total solar eclipse

Emma M Brinley Buckley; Andrew J Caven; Benjamin L Gottesman; Mary J Harner; Bryan C Pijanowski; Michael L Forsberg

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2018.10.008

Biological and environmental datasets from the August 2017 total solar eclipse

Data Brief. 2018 Oct 5:21:552-555. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2018.10.008. eCollection 2018 Dec.

Authors

Emma M Brinley Buckley¹, Andrew J Caven², Benjamin L Gottesman^{3

4}, Mary J Harner^{1

5}, Bryan C Pijanowski^{3

4}, Michael L Forsberg^{6

7}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Communication, University of Nebraska at Kearney, Kearney, NE 68849, USA.
² The Crane Trust, Wood River, NE 68883, USA.
³ Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA.
⁴ Center for Global Soundscapes, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA.
⁵ Department of Biology, University of Nebraska at Kearney, Kearney, NE 68849, USA.
⁶ Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education & Communication, University of Nebraska, Lincoln 68583, USA.
⁷ Michael Forsberg Photography, Lincoln, NE 68542, USA.

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 changes during a total solar eclipse on 21 August 2017, in south-central Nebraska, USA, with a multimodal 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.