AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
National assessment of Tree City USA participation according to geography and socioeconomic characteristics

Tree City USA is a national program that recognizes municipal commitment to community forestry. In return for meeting program requirements, Tree City USA participants expect social, economic, and/or environmental benefits. Understanding the geographic distribution and socioeconomic characteristics of Tree City USA communities at the national scale can offer insights into the motivations or barriers to program participation, and provide context for community forestry research at finer scales. In this study, researchers assessed patterns in Tree City USA participation for all U.S. communities with more than 2,500 people according to geography, community population size, and socioeconomic characteristics, such as income, education, and race. Nationally, 23.5% of communities studied were Tree City USA participants, and this accounted for 53.9% of the total population in these communities. Tree City USA participation rates varied substantially by U.S. region, but in each region participation rates were higher in larger communities, and long-term participants tended to be larger communities than more recent enrollees. In logistic regression models, owner occupancy rates were significant negative predictors of Tree City USA participation, education and percent white population were positive predictors in many U.S. regions, and inconsistent patterns were observed for income and population age. The findings indicate that communities with smaller populations, lower education levels, and higher minority populations are underserved regionally by Tree City USA, and future efforts should identify and overcome barriers to participation in these types of communities. 

This dataset is associated with the following publication:
Berland , A., D. Herrmann , and M. Hopton. National Assessment of Tree City USA Participation According to Geography andSocioeconomic Characteristics.   Arboriculture & Urban Forestry. International Society of Arboriculture, Champaign, IL, USA, 42(2): 120-130, (2016).

Tags: arbor-day-foundation, biological-diversity, community-forestry, ecosystem-services, green-infrastructure, municipal-management, stormwater-management, street-trees
Organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Asian longhorned beetle complicates the relationship between taxonomic diversity and pest vulnerability in street tree assemblages

Urban foresters routinely emphasise the importance of taxonomic diversity to reduce the vulnerability of tree assemblages to invasive pests, but it is unclear to what extent diversity reduces vulnerability to polyphagous (i.e. generalist) pests. Drawing on field data from seven communities in metropolitan Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, we tested the hypothesis that communities with higher diversity would exhibit lower vulnerability to the polyphagous Asian longhorned beetle, which currently threatens the region. Based on street tree compositions and the beetle’s host preferences, Asian longhorned beetle threatened up to 35.6% of individual street trees and 47.5% of the total basal area across the study area, but we did not see clear connections between taxonomic diversity and beetle vulnerability among study communities. For example, the city of Fairfield was among the least diverse communities but had the lowest proportion of trees vulnerable to Asian longhorned beetle, whereas the city of Wyoming exhibited high diversity and high vulnerability. On the other hand, Forest Park aligned with our original hypothesis, as it was characterised by low diversity and high vulnerability. Our results demonstrate that relatively high taxonomic diversity in street tree assemblages does not necessarily lead to reduced vulnerability to a polyphagous pest. Considering the threats posed by polyphagous pests, selecting a set of relatively pest resistant trees known to perform well in urban areas may promote long-term stability better than following simple heuristics for maximising taxonomic diversity, but further study is warranted. 

This dataset is associated with the following publication:
Berland , A., and M. Hopton. Asian longhorned beetle complicates the relationship between taxonomic diversity and pest vulnerability in street tree assemblages.   Arboricultural Journal: The International Journal of Urban Forestry. Taylor & Francis Group, London,  UK, 38(1): 28-40, (2016).

Tags: asian-longhorned-beetle, biological-diversity, diversity, ecosystem-services, green-infrastructure, invasive-pests, stormwater-management, street-trees
Organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Stoichiometry of excreta and excretion rates of a stream-dwelling plethodontid salamander

Stoichiometry of excreta and excretion rates of a stream-dwelling plethodontid salamander in Cincinnati, OH, USA. 

This dataset is associated with the following publication:
Milanovich , J., and M. Hopton. Stoichiometry of excreta in larval stream salamanders: implications regarding the ecological roles of salamanders.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY. Blackwell Publishing, Malden, MA, USA,  00, (2012).

Tags: amphibians, eurycea-cirrigera, fish, headwater-streams, land-use, nitrogen, nutrients, phosphorus, plethodontidae, salamanders, stable-isotopes, stoichiometry, urea
Organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
SFBR Synoptic Study

The data set consists of fecal indicator bacteria and microbial source tracking marker concentrations in water and sediments across multiple seasons.  Samples were collected during baseflow from a variety of watershed classifications. Portions of this dataset are inaccessible because: Researchers are still working on manuscripts out of this data set and can't be released at this time. They can be accessed through the following means: Contacting corresponding author for product. Format: The data set will contain environmental parameters, fecal indicator bacteria concentrations and DNA source tracking markers. 

This dataset is associated with the following publication:
Bradshaw, J.K., B. Snyder, A. Oladeinde, D. Spidle, M. Berrang, R. Meinersmann, B. Oakley, R. Sidle, K. Sullivan , and M. Molina. Characterizing relationships among fecal indicator bacteria, microbial source tracking markers, and associated waterborne pathogen occurrence in stream water and sediments in a mixed land use watershed.   WATER RESEARCH. Elsevier Science Ltd, New York, NY, USA, 101: 498-509, (2016).

Tags: agricultural-watersheds, fecal-indicator-bacteria, pathogens, risk-assessment, sediments, storm-events, synoptic-sampling
Organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Dasroption of Heavy metals from water using pyrolized biochar

Removal of copper and lead metal ions from water using pyrolized plant materials. Method can be used to develop a low cost point-of-use device for cleaning contaminated water. 

This dataset is associated with the following publication:
DeMessie, B., E. Sahle-Demessie , and G. Sorial. Cleaning Water Contaminated With Heavy Metal Ions Using Pyrolyzed Banana Peel Adsorbents.   Separation Science and Technology. Marcel Dekker Incorporated, New York, NY, USA, 50(16): 2448-2457, (2015).

Tags: adsorption-equilibrium, copper-and-lead-ions, heavy-metal, kinetics, pyrolyzed-banana-peel, removal-efficiency
Organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Fathead minnow whole-mount in situ hybridization (WISH)

This study demonstrates the potential of whole-mount in situ hybridization (WISH), in conjunction with quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (QPCR) assays, to examine the mechanistic basis of the effects of toxicants on early-lifestage fathead minnows. Specifically, fathead minnow embryos were exposed to the environmentally-relevant estrogen receptor agonist, estrone, and the data show that: (1) the estrogen-responsive gene transcripts esr1, vtg, and cyp19b can be up-regulated in very early-lifestages of the fathead minnow, (2) WISH methods developed for zebrafish can also be applied successfully to fathead minnows, and (3) WISH has potential to be a useful tool for toxicological studies pertaining to early-lifestage development in the fathead minnow. This type of mechanistic information relative to spatial distribution of gene expression is important in determining potential biological pathways that may be impacted by targeted chemicals and the development of associated adverse outcome pathways. 

This dataset is associated with the following publication:
Cavallin, J., A. Schroeder, K. Jensen , D. Villeneuve , B. Blackwell, K. Carlson, M. Kahl , C. LaLone , E. Randolph , and G. Ankley. Evaluation of whole-mount in situ hybridization as a tool for pathway-based  toxicological research with early-life stage fathead minnows.   AQUATIC TOXICOLOGY. Elsevier Science Ltd, New York, NY, USA, 169: 19-26, (2015).

Tags: adverse-outcome-pathway, development, endocrine-disruption, fathead-minnow, qpcr, whole-mount-in-situ-hybridization
Organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Non-labile silver species in biosolids remain stable throughout 50 years of weathering and ageing

The dataset contains energy and absorption data for XANES spectra indicated in Figure 1 of the manuscript. 

This dataset is associated with the following publication:
Donner, E., K. Scheckel , R. Sekine, R. Popelka-Filcoff, J. Bennett, G. Brunetti, R. Naidu, S. McGrath, and E. Lombi. Non-labile silver species in biosolids remain stable throughout 50 years of weathering and ageing..  D.O. Carpenter, and E.Y. Zeng  ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION. Elsevier Science Ltd, New York, NY, USA, 205: 78-86, (2015).

Tags: biosolids, e-values, isotopic-dilution, silver-nanoparticles, synchrotron-speciation
Organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Water Quality Time Series, Aggregate values, and Related Aggregate Risk Measures

The excel file contains time series data of flow rates, concentrations of alachlor , atrazine, ammonia, total phosphorus, and total suspended solids observed in two watersheds in Indiana from 2002 to 2007. The aggregate time series data corresponding or representative to all these parameters was obtained using a specialized, data-driven technique. The aggregate data is hypothesized in the published paper to represent the overall health of both watersheds with respect to various potential water quality impairments. The time series data for each of the individual water quality parameters were used to compute corresponding risk measures (Rel, Res, and Vul) that are reported in Table 4 and 5. The aggregation of the risk measures, which is computed from the aggregate time series and water quality standards in Table 1, is  also reported in Table 4 and 5 of the published paper. Values under column heading "uncertainty" reports uncertainties associated with reconstruction of missing records of the water quality parameters. Long-term records of the water quality parameters were reconstructed in order to estimate the (R-R-V) and corresponding aggregate risk measures. 

This dataset is associated with the following publication:
Hoque, Y., S. Tripathi, M. Hantush , and R. Govindaraju. Aggregate Measures of Watershed Health from Reconstructed Water Quality Data with Uncertainty.  Ed Gregorich  JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY. American Society of Agronomy, MADISON, WI, USA, 45(2): 709-719, (2016).

Tags: aggregate-measure, nutrients, pesticides, reliability, resiliance, risk-assessment, sediment, uncertainty, vulnerability, water-quality, watershed, watershed-health
Organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Linear Combination Fitting (LCF)-XANES analysis of As speciation in selected mine-impacted materials

This table provides sample identification labels and classification of sample type (tailings, calcinated, grey slime).  For each sample, total arsenic and iron concentrations determined by acid digestion and ICP analysis are provided along with arsenic in-vitro bioaccessibility (As IVBA) values to estimate arsenic risk. Lastly, the table provides linear combination fitting results from synchrotron XANES analysis showing the distribution of arsenic speciation phases present in each sample along with fitting error (R-factor). 

This dataset is associated with the following publication:
Ollson, C., E. Smith, K. Scheckel, A. Betts, and A. Juhasz. Assessment of arsenic speciation and bioaccessibility in mine-impacted materials.  Diana Aga, Wonyong Choi, Andrew Daugulis, Gianluca Li Puma, Gerasimos Lyberatos, and Joo Hwa Tay  JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS. Elsevier Science Ltd, New York, NY, USA, 313: 130-137, (2016).

Tags: arsenic, in-vitro-bioaccessibility, synchrotron-speciation, tailings
Organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Iron mineralogy and uranium-binding environment in the rhizosphere of a wetland soil

The dataset contains two XRF images of iron and uranium distribution on plant roots and a database of XANES data used to produce XANES spectra figure for Figure 7 in the published paper. 

This dataset is associated with the following publication:
Kaplan, D., R. Kukkadapu, J. Seaman, B. Arey, A. Dohnalkova, S. Buettner, D. Li, T. Varga, K. Scheckel, and P. Jaffe. Iron Mineralogy and Uranium-Binding Environment in the Rhizosphere of a Wetland Soil.  D. Barcelo  SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT. Elsevier BV, AMSTERDAM,  NETHERLANDS, 569: 53-64, (2016).

Tags: iron-nanoparticles, mossbauer, plant-root, synchrotron-speciation, uranium, wetlands
Organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Neurite outgrowth in human iPSC-derived neurons

Data on morphology of rat and human neurons in cell culture. 

This dataset is associated with the following publication:
Druwe, I., T. Freudenrich , K. Wallace , T. Shafer , and W. Mundy. Comparison of Human Induced PluripotentStem Cell-Derived Neurons and Rat Primary CorticalNeurons as In Vitro Models of Neurite Outgrowth.   Applied In vitro Toxicology. Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., Larchmont, NY, USA, 2(1): 26-36, (2016).

Tags: alternative-models, developmental-neurotoxicity, human-ipsc, neurite
Organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Data for "Controls on nitrous oxide production and consumption in reservoirs of the Ohio River Basin"

Dissolved oxygen, dissolved nitrous oxide, and water temperature in reservoirs. 

This dataset is associated with the following publication:
Beaulieu , J., C. Nietch , and J. Young. Source or sink: Insight on controls of nitrous oxide biogeochemistry from a 20 reservoir survey.   Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences. American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, USA, 120(10): 1995-2010, (2015).

Tags: epilimnion, greenhouse-gas-emissions, hypolimnion, nitrous-oxide-saturation, reservoirs
Organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Data for Figures in Rainfall-induced release of microbes from manure: model development, parameter estimation, and uncertainty evaluation on small plots

•	Figure 1.  Ratio of cumulative released cells to cells initially present in the manure at Week 0 as they vary by time, manure type and age, microbe, and Event (i.e., season). The 95% confidence intervals of the observed median number of cells in microbial runoff are shown as the shaded area.
•	Figure 2.  Typical observed and simulated cumulative microbial runoff for Plots A403 and C209 with individual plot calibration.
•	Figure 3.  Observed versus simulated microbial runoff associated with the Approach 1, adjusted for cumulative results by manure type and Event. Results accounted for counts associated with field monitoring time intervals described in Section 2.1 Field method. NS=Nash-Sutcliffe modeling efficiency, EC=E. coli, En=enterococci, FC= fecal coliforms.
•	Figure 4.  Ratio of cumulative released cells/mass to cells/mass initially present in the aged manure by time and component (e.g., microbe) for solid manure (a) and (b), and amended, dry litter, and slurry manure (c). Solid lines (Equation (11) correspond to values in Table 3 for solid manure, and dry litter and slurry manure, respectively: (a) uses individual b values, and (b) and (c) use the combined values for b. Bounds of first and third quartiles associated with the present study’s results for cattle. Bounds of first and third quartiles associated with the present study’s results for poultry and swine. The full color versions of all figures are available in the online version of this paper, at http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wh.2016.239.
•	Figure 5.  Ranges in α and β values for bovine (dairy calf, cattle, or cow) manure, as published or computed from the literature: (1) Bradford & Schijven (2002), (2) Schijven et al. (2004), (3) Guber et al. (2013), (4) Equation (9), (5) Blaustein et al. (2015), and (6) estimated in the present study (PEST and bootstrap). 

This dataset is associated with the following publication:
Kim, K., G. Whelan , M. Molina , T. Purucker , Y. Pachepsky, A. Guber, M. Cyterski , D. Franklin, and R. Blaustein. Rainfall-induced release of microbes from manure: model development, parameter estimation, and uncertainty evaluation on small plots.   JOURNAL OF WATER AND HEALTH. IWA Publishing, London,  UK, 14(2): wh2016239, (2016).

Tags: bootstrap, bradfordschijven-release-model, manure, microbe, pest, quantitative-microbial-risk-assessment-qmra
Organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Maggie Creek Water Quality Data for Ecological Proper Functioning Condition Analysis

These data are "standard" water quality parameters collected for surface water condition analysis (for example pH, conductivity, DO, TSS). 

This dataset is associated with the following publication:
Kozlowski, D., R. Hall , S. Swanson, and D. Heggem. Linking Management and Riparian Physical Functions to Water Quality and Aquatic Habitat.   JOURNAL OF WATER RESOURCES PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT. American Society of Civil Engineers  (ASCE), Reston, VA, USA, 8(8): 797-815, (2016).

Tags: ecological-condition-assessment, ecological-health, environmenal-health, proper-functioning-condition, tribal-sustainability, vulnerable-groups, water-quality
Organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Supporting Data and Information to Assessing Inhalation Exposures Associated with Contamination Events inWater Distribution Systems

EPANET network models (inp files) used in paper. The file “cdf2003-12singles.txt” developed using ATUS data, that contains tab-separated values for the starting times and cumulative probabilities plotted in Fig. 2 in supporting design report. There are 101 rows in the file. The first entry in each row is the cumulative probability (0 to 1.0) and the second entry is the corresponding starting time (0.0 to 24.0 hours). The second file (“two events 2003-12.txt”) was developed that contains data for all 36,652 ATUS respondents who reported two grooming events in 2003 to 2012. Results in this file are used in TEVA-SPOT to generate random starting time for individuals who take two showers per day. The file has 36,652 rows and five tab-separated columns. The first column contains the year the data were collected and the second column contains the ATUS identifiers used for the respondents. The third column contains the starting times in hours local time for the first event and the fourth column contains the starting time in hours local time for the second event. The fifth column provides the ATUS weights for the respondents. Weights are needed to compensate for the manner in which sampling and data collection were carried out in ATUS. The Report (EPA/600/R-15/271) documents the design for incorporating the capability for estimating inhalation doses in TEVA-SPOT. 

This dataset is associated with the following publication:
Davis, M., R. Janke , and T. Taxon. Assessing Inhalation Exposures Associated with Contamination Events in Water Distribution Systems.   PLoS ONE. Public Library of Science, San Francisco, CA, USA,  1-41, (2016).

Tags: atus, census-data, contaminants-in-water-systems, cumulative-probabilities-for-starting-times-for-taking-a-shower, drinking-water-distribution-systems, epanet-network-models, humidifier-inhalation-exposures, inhalation-exposures, microbial-and-volatile-chemical-exposures-from-inhalation, teva-spot
Organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Microbial pathogens in source and treated waters from drinking water treatment plants in the United States and implications for human health

Bacteria and fungi in source and treated drinking water. 

This dataset is associated with the following publication:
King , D., S. Pfaller , M. Donohue , S. Vesper , E. Villegas , M. Ware , S. Glassmeyer , M. Vogal, E. Furlong, and D. Kolpin. Microbial pathogens in source and treated waters from drinking water treatment plants in the United States and implications for human health.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT. Elsevier BV, AMSTERDAM,  NETHERLANDS, 562: 987–995, (2016).

Tags: drinking-water, legionella, microorganisms, mycobacteria, per-and-polyfluoroalkyl-substances, pharmaceuticals, source-water
Organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
data for figures

Figures 1-10 and Table 1. 

This dataset is associated with the following publication:
Chang, S.Y., S. Arunachalam, A. Valencia, B. Naess, V. Isakov , M. Breen , T. Palma , and W. Vizuete. A modeling framework for characterizing near-road air pollutant concentration at community scales.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT. Elsevier BV, AMSTERDAM,  NETHERLANDS, 538: 905-921, (2015).

Tags: air-pollution, dispersion, exposure, modeling, traffic
Organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Monthly statistics for WRF with and without MODIS vegetation

The 2006 monthly average statistical metrics for 2m Q (g kg-1) domain-wide for the base and MODIS WRF simulations against MADIS observations. 

This dataset is associated with the following publication:
Ran, L., J. Pleim, R. Gilliam, F. Binkowski, C. Hogrefe, and L. Band. Improved meteorology from an updated WRF/CMAQ modeling system with MODIS vegetation and albedo.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES. American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, USA, 121(5): 2393-2415, (2016).

Tags: lai, meteorology, model-statistics, modis, sattelite, water-vapor-mixing-ratio, wrf-cmaq
Organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
WRF-CMAQ simulations of Aerosol Direct Effects

CMAQ and WRF output files. This dataset is not publicly accessible because: Too Big. It can be accessed through the following means: The data can be accesses from the ASM data archive at the National Environmental Supercomputing Center at the USEPA. Format: WRF–CMAQ Model output data including SW radiation, PM2.5 , Sulfate aerosol, EC, and SO2 concentrations,   Also aerosol optical depth (AOD). 

This dataset is associated with the following publication:
Gan, C., J. Pleim , R. Mathur , C. Hogrefe , C.N. Long, J. Xing, D. Wong , R. Gilliam , and C. Wei. Assessment of long-term WRF–CMAQ simulations for understanding direct aerosol effects on radiation "brightening" in the United States.   Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. Copernicus Publications, Katlenburg-Lindau,  GERMANY, 15: 12193-12209, (2015).

Tags: aerosol, air-quality, brightening, castnet, surfrad, wrf-camq
Organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
STOTEN2016 Tong data

CTAG model inputs and outputs. 

This dataset is associated with the following publication:
Tong, Z., R. Baldauf , V. Isakov , P.J. Deshmukh, and M. Zhang. Roadside vegetation barrier designs to mitigate near-road air pollution impacts.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT. Elsevier BV, AMSTERDAM,  NETHERLANDS, 541: 920-927, (2016).

Tags: air-quality-models, dry-deposition, green-infrastructure, particulate-matter, urban-planning
Organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency