AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
The LakeCat Dataset: Accumulated Attributes for NHDPlusV2 (Version 2.1) Catchments for the Conterminous United States: Base Flow Index

This dataset represents the base flow index values within individual local and accumulated upstream catchments for NHDPlusV2 Waterbodies. Catchment boundaries in LakeCat are defined in one of two ways, on-network or off-network. The on-network catchment boundaries follow the catchments provided in the NHDPlusV2 and the metrics for these lakes mirror metrics from StreamCat, but will substitute the COMID of the NHDWaterbody for that of the NHDFlowline. The off-network catchment framework uses the NHDPlusV2 flow direction rasters to define non-overlapping lake-catchment boundaries and then links them through an off-network flow table. The base-flow index (BFI) grid for the conterminous United States was developed to estimate (1) BFI values for ungaged streams, and (2) ground-water recharge throughout the conterminous United States (see Source_Information). Estimates of BFI values at ungaged streams and BFI-based ground-water recharge estimates are useful for interpreting relations between land use and water quality in surface and ground water. The bfi (%) was summarized by local catchment and by watershed to produce local catchment-level and watershed-level metrics as a continuous data type.

Tags: alabama, arizona, arkansas, california, colorado, connecticut, delaware, district-of-columbia, ecosystem, environment, florida, georgia, idaho, illinois, indiana, inlandwaters, iowa, kansas, kentucky, louisiana, maine, maryland, massachusetts, michigan, minnesota, mississippi, missouri, modeling, monitoring, montana, natural-resources, nebraska, nevada, new-hampshire, new-jersey, new-mexico, new-york, north-carolina, north-dakota, ohio, oklahoma, oregon, pennsylvania, rhode-island, south-carolina, south-dakota, surface-water, tennessee, texas, united-states, united-states-of-america, usa, utah, vermont, virginia, washington, west-virginia, wisconsin, wyoming
Organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
The LakeCat Dataset: Accumulated Attributes for NHDPlusV2 (Version 2.1) Catchments for the Conterminous United States: Agricultural Nitrogen Inputs

This dataset represents the application of nitrogen within individual local and accumulated upstream catchments for NHDPlusV2 Waterbodies based data published in EPA EnviroAtlas. Catchment boundaries in LakeCat are defined in one of two ways, on-network or off-network. The on-network catchment boundaries follow the catchments provided in the NHDPlusV2 and the metrics for these lakes mirror metrics from StreamCat, but will substitute the COMID of the NHDWaterbody for that of the NHDFlowline. The off-network catchment framework uses the NHDPlusV2 flow direction rasters to define non-overlapping lake-catchment boundaries and then links them through an off-network flow table. These data are based on county-scale estimates of N in the form of fertilizer, manure, or cultivated biological nitrogen fixation. The rasters used for this analysis were prepared for EnviroAtlas published datasets on agricultural nitrogen inputs. Links to data in each raster can be found in Data Sources below. The nitrogen characteristics (kg N/ha/yr) were summarized to produce local catchment-level and watershed-level metrics as a continuous data type.

Tags: alabama, arizona, arkansas, california, colorado, connecticut, delaware, district-of-columbia, ecosystem, environment, florida, georgia, idaho, illinois, indiana, inlandwaters, iowa, kansas, kentucky, louisiana, maine, maryland, massachusetts, michigan, minnesota, mississippi, missouri, modeling, monitoring, montana, natural-resources, nebraska, nevada, new-hampshire, new-jersey, new-mexico, new-york, north-carolina, north-dakota, ohio, oklahoma, oregon, pennsylvania, rhode-island, south-carolina, south-dakota, surface-water, tennessee, texas, united-states, united-states-of-america, usa, utah, vermont, virginia, washington, west-virginia, wisconsin, wyoming
Organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
The LakeCat Dataset: Accumulated Attributes for NHDPlusV2 (Version 2.1) Catchments for the Conterminous United States: 2010 US Census Road Density

This dataset represents the road density within individual local and accumulated upstream catchments for NHDPlusV2 Waterbodies. Catchment boundaries in LakeCat are defined in one of two ways, on-network or off-network. The on-network catchment boundaries follow the catchments provided in the NHDPlusV2 and the metrics for these lakes mirror metrics from StreamCat, but will substitute the COMID of the NHDWaterbody for that of the NHDFlowline. The off-network catchment framework uses the NHDPlusV2 flow direction rasters to define non-overlapping lake-catchment boundaries and then links them through an off-network flow table.  This data set is derived from TIGER/Line Files of roads in the conterminous United States. Road density describes how many kilometers of road exist in a square kilometer. A raster was produced using the ArcGIS Line Density Tool to form the landscape layer for analysis. The (kilometer of road/square kilometer) was summarized by local catchment and by watershed to produce local catchment-level and watershed-level metrics as a continuous data type.

Tags: alabama, arizona, arkansas, california, colorado, connecticut, delaware, district-of-columbia, ecosystem, environment, florida, georgia, idaho, illinois, indiana, inlandwaters, iowa, kansas, kentucky, louisiana, maine, maryland, massachusetts, michigan, minnesota, mississippi, missouri, modeling, monitoring, montana, natural-resources, nebraska, nevada, new-hampshire, new-jersey, new-mexico, new-york, north-carolina, north-dakota, ohio, oklahoma, oregon, pennsylvania, rhode-island, south-carolina, south-dakota, surface-water, tennessee, texas, united-states, united-states-of-america, usa, utah, vermont, virginia, washington, west-virginia, wisconsin, wyoming
Organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
The LakeCat Dataset: Accumulated Attributes for NHDPlusV2 (Version 2.1) Catchments for the Conterminous United States: 2010 US Census Housing Unit and Population Density

This dataset represents the population and housing unit density within individual local and accumulated upstream catchments for NHDPlusV2 Waterbodies based on the 2010 US Census data (See Supplementary Info for Glossary of Terms). Densities are calculated for every block group and watershed averages are calculated for every local NHDPlusV2 catchment. Catchment boundaries in LakeCat are defined in one of two ways, on-network or off-network. The on-network catchment boundaries follow the catchments provided in the NHDPlusV2 and the metrics for these lakes mirror metrics from StreamCat, but will substitute the COMID of the NHDWaterbody for that of the NHDFlowline. The off-network catchment framework uses the NHDPlusV2 flow direction rasters to define non-overlapping lake-catchment boundaries and then links them through an off-network flow table. This data set is derived from The TIGER/Line Files and related database (.dbf) files for the conterminous USA. It was downloaded as Block Group-Level Census 2010 SF1 Data in File Geodatabase Format (ArcGIS version 10.0). The landscape raster (LR) was produced based on the data compiled from the questions asked of all people and about every housing unit.   The (block-group population / block group area) and (block-group housing units / block group area) were summarized by local catchment and by watershed to produce local catchment-level and watershed-level metrics as a continuous data type.

Tags: alabama, arizona, arkansas, california, colorado, connecticut, delaware, district-of-columbia, ecosystem, environment, florida, georgia, idaho, illinois, indiana, inlandwaters, iowa, kansas, kentucky, louisiana, maine, maryland, massachusetts, michigan, minnesota, mississippi, missouri, modeling, monitoring, montana, natural-resources, nebraska, nevada, new-hampshire, new-jersey, new-mexico, new-york, north-carolina, north-dakota, ohio, oklahoma, oregon, pennsylvania, rhode-island, south-carolina, south-dakota, surface-water, tennessee, texas, united-states, united-states-of-america, usa, utah, vermont, virginia, washington, west-virginia, wisconsin, wyoming
Organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Database of Sources of Environmental Releases of Dioxin-Like Compounds in the United States

The Database of Sources of Environmental Releases of Dioxin-like Compounds in the United States was developed by EPA to be a repository of certain specific chlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxin/dibenzofuran (CDD/CDF) emissions data from all known sources in the US.  The database contains information that can be analyzed to track emissions of CDD/CDF over time, compare specific profiles between and among source categories, and develop source specific emission factors that can then be used to develop emission estimates.

Tags: chemicals, datafinder, dioxins, environment, substances, united-states
Organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Database of Physiological Parameters for Early Life Rats and Mice

The Database of Physiological Parameters for Early Life Rats and Mice provides information based on scientific literature about physiological parameters.  Modelers are encouraged to use the database as a starting point for researching age-specific parameter values needed in their models.

Tags: analysis-technology, biomonitoring, datafinder, environment, health, health-assessment, health-risks, human-health, monitoring, research, research-analysis, united-states
Organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Physiological Parameters Database for Older Adults

The Physiological Parameters Database for Older Adults is available for download and contains physiological parameters values for healthy older human adults (age 60 and older), as well as data for some individuals with adverse health conditions that may relate to environmental exposure.  The information in this database was collected from review of peer-review published papers.

Tags: datafinder, environment, human-health, life-stages-and-populations, seniors-health, united-states
Organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) Residue Effects Database

The PCB Residue Effects (PCBRes) Database was developed to assist scientists and risk assessors in correlating PCB and dioxin-like compound residues with toxic effects. The purpose is to develop PCB critical residue values for fish, mammals and birds, especially as these relate to aquatic and aquatic-dependent species.

Tags: air, air-pollutants, air-quality, datafinder, environment, environmental-media-topics, pollutants-and-contaminants, substances, united-states
Organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
ToxCast/ToxRefDB

ToxCast is used as a cost-effective approach for efficiently prioritizing the toxicity testing of thousands of chemicals. It uses data from state-of-the-art high throughput screening (HTS) bioassay and builds computational models to forecast potential chemical toxicity in humans. ToxRefDB stores data related to ToxCast.

Tags: chemicals, environment, exposure, health-risks, human-health, substances, threshold-level, toxicity, united-states
Organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Aggregated Computational Toxicology Online Resource

Aggregated Computational Toxicology Online Resource (AcTOR) is EPA's online aggregator of all the public sources of chemical toxicity data. ACToR aggregates data from over 1,000 public sources on over 500,000 chemicals and is searchable by chemical name, other identifiers and by chemical structure. It can be used to query a specific chemical and find all publicly available hazard, exposure and risk assessment data. It also provides access to EPA's ToxCast, ToxRefDB, DSSTox, Dashboard and DSSTox data.

Tags: animal-studies, animal-toxicity, animal-toxicity-data, chemical-health-effects, chemical-safety, chemical-safety-research, chemical-science, chemical-screening, chemical-testing, chemicals, computational-toxicology, environment, epa, epa-research, in-vitro-data, innovative-chemical-testing, tox21, toxcast, united-states
Organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Consumer Product Category Database

The Chemical and Product Categories database (CPCat) catalogs the use of over 40,000 chemicals and their presence in different consumer products. The chemical use information is compiled from multiple sources while product information is gathered from publicly available Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS). EPA researchers are evaluating the possibility of expanding the database with additional product and use information.

Tags: chemical-exposure, chemical-health-effects, chemical-safety, chemical-safety-research, chemical-science, chemical-screening, chemical-testing, chemicals, computational-toxicology, consumer-product, consumer-product-database, environment, epa, epa-research, expocast, high-throughput-exposure-prediction, innovative-chemical-testing, sample, tox21, toxcast, united-states, wal-mart-data
Organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Exposure Forecaster

The Exposure Forecaster Database (ExpoCastDB) is EPA's database for aggregating chemical exposure information and can be used to help with chemical exposure predictions. The database currently includes biomonitoring exposure data from three studies: the American Healthy Homes Survey, the First National Environmental Health Survey of Child Care Centers and the Children's Total Exposure to Persistent Pesticides and Other Persistent Organic Pollutants study. Data include the amounts of chemicals found in food, drinking water, air, dust indoor surfaces and urine. The database will eventually include high-throughput exposure predictions for thousands of chemicals based on manufacture and use information. EPA researchers developed high-throughput exposure models to predict exposures for 1,763 chemicals using production volume, environmental fate and transport models, and a simple indicator of consumer product use.The model is being improved by adding more refined indoor and consumer use information since these are also large determinants of exposure. As these models are refined and more exposure data is collected, it will be added to ExpoCastDB.

Tags: chemical-exposure, chemical-health-effects, chemical-safety, chemical-safety-research, chemical-screening, chemical-testing, chemicals, computational-toxicology, consumer-product, consumer-product-database, environment, epa-research, expocast, high-throughput-exposure-prediction, innovative-chemical-testing, tox21, toxcast, united-states, wal-mart-data
Organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Data from: Long-term monitoring indicates stability of summer range forage resources at the US Sheep Experiment Station

<p dir="ltr">The US Sheep Experiment Station (USSES) is a USDA-ARS research location based in Dubois, Idaho (44° 31.499'N, 111° 47.040'W). The station's land base includes approximately 16,000 acres of summer grazing range in Southwest Montana. This land area is a complex of montane and sub-alpine rangelands. This dataset includes long-term monitoring data of indicators vegetation composition at the US Sheep Experiment Station Summer Range. Long-term monitoring plots were established by USSES Range Scientist Bill Laycock in 1959. Relative percent composition was monitored during peak growing seasons during 1959, 1978, and 1994 but the data were never published. The dataset includes the original digitized data for 60 plots on four plot types (open conifer, perennial tall forb, sagebrush-dominated, and grassland sites) across three grazing allotments on the area used by the USSES for summer grazing in Montana. Site location and species were confirmed with site visits by lead author in 2022-2024. The dataset also includes a modern summary of the composition by weight, species look up table, weather data from the local Lakeview, Montana weather station, and site data including location, slope, site type, and aspect.</p>

Tags: centennial-mountains, grazing, mountain, sheep-grazing, tall-forb, us-sheep-experiment-station
Organization: Department of Agriculture
ToxCast Phase I

Background: Chemical toxicity testing is being transformed by advances in biology and computer modeling,  concerns over animal use and the thousands of environmental chemicals lacking toxicity data. EPA's ToxCast program aims to address these concerns by screening and prioritizing chemicals for potential human toxicity using in vitro assays and in silico approaches. Objectives: This project aims to evaluate the use of in vitro assays for understanding the types of molecular and pathway perturbations caused by environmental chemicals and to build initial prioritization models of in vivo toxicity. Methods: We tested 309 mostly pesticide active chemicals in 467 assays across 9 technologies,  including high-throughput cell-free assays and cell-based assays in multiple human primary cells and cell lines,  plus rat primary hepatocytes. Both individual and composite scores for effects on genes and pathways were analyzed. Results: Chemicals display a broad spectrum of activity at the molecular and pathway levels. Many expected interactions are seen,  including endocrine and xenobiotic metabolism enzyme activity. Chemicals range in promiscuity across pathways,  from no activity to affecting dozens of pathways. We find a statistically significant inverse association between the number of pathways perturbed by a chemical at low in vitro concentrations and the lowest in vivo dose at which a chemical causes toxicity. We also find associations between a small set in vitro assays and rodent liver lesion formation. Conclusions: This approach promises to provide meaningful data on the thousands of untested environmental chemicals,  and to guide targeted testing of environmental contaminants.

Tags: chemical-health-effects, chemical-safety, chemical-safety-research, chemical-science, chemical-screening, chemical-testing, chemicals, computational-toxicology, environment, epa-research, innovative-chemical-testing, tox21, toxcast, united-states
Organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Surplus Precipitation

Surplus Precipitation (mm): precipitation minus potential evaporation within catchment

Tags: alabama, alaska, arizona, arkansas, california, colorado, connecticut, delaware, ecosystem, environment, florida, georgia, hawaii, idaho, illinois, indiana, iowa, kansas, kentucky, louisiana, maine, maryland, massachusetts, michigan, minnesota, mississippi, missouri, modeling, monitoring, montana, natural-resources, nebraska, nevada, new-hampshire, new-jersey, new-york, nhdplus-v21, north-carolina, north-dakota, ohio, oklahoma, oregon, pennsylvania, precipitation, rhode-island, south-carolina, south-dakota, surface-water, tennessee, texas, united-states, utah, vermont, virginia, washington, water, west-virginia, wisconsin, wyoming
Organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP)

The Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP) was a national research program run by EPA’s Office of Research and Development from 1990 to 2008 to develop the tools necessary to monitor and assess the status and trends of national ecological resources. Initially, resources included estuaries and coastal waters, wadeable streams, lakes, wetlands, forests, agroecosystems, arid areas, and landscape ecology. Later, this was narrowed down to just the aquatic resources. EMAP collected field data from 1990 to 2006. EMAP's goal was to develop the scientific understanding for translating environmental monitoring data from multiple spatial and temporal scales into assessments of current ecological condition and forecasts of future risks to our natural resources. EMAP aimed to advance the science of ecological monitoring and ecological risk assessment, guide national monitoring with improved scientific understanding of ecosystem integrity and dynamics, and demonstrate multi-agency monitoring through large regional projects. EMAP developed indicators to monitor the condition of ecological resources. EMAP also investigated designs that addressed the acquisition, aggregation, and analysis of multiscale and multitier data. Monitoring of the nation’s aquatic resources is now being routinely conducted by the National Aquatic Resource Surveys, run by EPA’s Office of Water.

Tags: coastal-waters, environmental-assessment, environmental-monitoring, estuaries, lakes, streams, u-s, wetlands
Organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Toxicity Reference Database

The Toxicity Reference Database (ToxRefDB) contains approximately 30 years and $2 billion worth of animal studies. ToxRefDB allows scientists and the interested public to search and download thousands of animal toxicity testing results for hundreds of chemicals that were previously found only in paper documents. Currently, there are 474 chemicals in ToxRefDB, primarily the data rich pesticide active ingredients, but the number will continue to expand.

Tags: chemicals, datafinder, environment, exposure, health, health-risks, human-health, substances, united-states
Organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Data from: A haplotype-resolved genome assembly of hexaploid Kentucky-31 tall fescue (<i>Lolium arundinaceum</i>)

<p dir="ltr">Genome sequence with structural and functional annotation files of LoarK31 haplotype 1 and haplotype 2 genome assembly reported in the manuscript "A haplotype-resolved genome assembly of hexaploid Kentucky-31 tall fescue (<i>Lolium arundinaceum</i>)". Also included is the transposable element (TE) annotation from EDTA and chloroplast genome with annotation.</p>

Tags: festuca, forage, perennial-grass, single-nucleotide-polymorphism
Organization: Department of Agriculture
OGC Dashboard

The Office of General Counsel (OGC) has an ongoing business process engineering and business process automation initiative which has helped the office reduce administrative labor costs while increasing employee effectiveness. Supporting this effort is a system of automated routines accessible through a "portal' interface called "OGC Dashboard." The dashboard helps OGC track work progress, legal case load, written work products such as legal briefs and advice, and scheduling processes such as employee leave plans (via calendar) and travel compensatory time off.

Tags: environment, legal, united-states
Organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Case and Administrative Support Tools

Case and Administrative Support Tools (CAST) is the secure portion of the Office of General Counsel (OGC) Dashboard business process automation tool used to help reduce office administrative labor costs while increasing employee effectiveness. CAST supports business functions which rely on and store Privacy Act sensitive data (PII). Specific business processes included in CAST (and respective PII) are: -Civil Rights Cast Tracking (name, partial medical history, summary of case, and case correspondance). -Employment Law Case Tracking (name, summary of case). -Federal Tort Claims Act Incident Tracking (name, summary of incidents). -Ethics Program Support Tools and Tracking (name, partial financial history). -Summer Honors Application Tracking (name, home address, telephone number, employment history). -Workforce Flexibility Initiative Support Tools (name, alternative workplace phone number). -Resource and Personnel Management Support Tools (name, partial employment and financial history).

Tags: environment, legal, united-states
Organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency