This GSSE_waterQuality_2020_readme.txt file was generated on 2020-08-12 by Taylor Woods ------------------- GENERAL INFORMATION ------------------- 1. Title of Dataset GSSE water quality 2020 2. Author Information Name: Taylor Woods Institution: University of Tennessee Knoxville Address: 569 Dabney Hall, 1416 Circle Dr, Knoxville, TN 37996 Email: twoods9@vols.utk.edu Principal Investigator Contact Information Name: Xingli Giam Institution: University of Tennessee Knoxville Address: 569 Dabney Hall, 1416 Circle Dr, Knoxville, TN 37996 Email: xgiam@utk.edu Alternate Contact Information Name: Marisa Moazen, Sunya Aghili, Atira Aidarous, Priyanshu Alluri, Seungwoo An, Elle Anderson, Sophia Aponte, Samuel Ashley, Matthew Ashline, Launna Atkinson, Khin Aye, Jonathan Bailey, Neal Bagai, Nathanael Bekele, Vaidehi Bhatara, Saim Bhimji, Lauren Bivins, Reed Bishofberger, Jonathon Boling, Autumn Bopp, Daniel Borza, Ian Brunetz, Kimberly By Goytia, Abigail Caveness, Grace Chang, Eric Chen, Henry Chen, Liz Chen, Vivan Chen, Christian Cherukuri, John Choi, Jacob Clark, Aiden Cloud, Landon Crabtree, Linen Cooper, Noble Cowden, Michael Crockett, Henry Dansereau, Julie Davenport, Joao De Sa Filho, Angelina Delgado, Matthew Drake, Kylie Dyer, Miriam Elwasif, Sruti Gandreti, John Grzegorczyk, Saniya Gupta, Ammar Farra, Bella Fishman, Avery Fletcher, Kenny Goodman, Jared Hallford, Lily Han, Lydia Han, Ruijing Han, Braxton Hart, Matt Hart, Abagael Hicks, Francis Hilliard, Raymond Jin, Baylor Johnson, Chloe Kamssu, Amy Kang, Ayla Khan, Jihoon Kim, Yuka Kimura, Samuel Klein, Tammy Le, Jaden Levin, Iris Li, Rachel Lin, Will Ling, Eli Logan, Thol Lok, Lizbeth Lozano, Chaney McKnight, Eshani Mehta, Ben Miller, Riya Mitra, Melany Morales, Nevaeh Morris, Neil Narayanan, Connor Nelson, Vincent Ores, William Ouyang, Miriam Owoola, Shreya Palakurthi, Akanksha Pandey, Elokkin Pate-Geames, Deep Patel, Riya Patel, Vishva Patel, Vraj Patel, Devanny Perez, Lauren Peppers, Jules Prater, Natalie Rash, Jane Rich, Macie Roberts, Amal Sam, Nikitha Sam, Jelissa Sasraku, Pujan Shah, Jackson Smith, Rishi Soni, Karen Soria, Shravya Tathineni, Duy Tran, Delisha Valacheril, Rupali Venkatesan, Amarachi Waboso, Adam Wang, Hannah Warmbrod, Yukino Wakatsuki, Evan Ward, Gabriel Watson, Joshua Whitehead, James Wilbanks, Rebecca Williams, Carly Wines, Kanan Wise, Dylan Woods, Ethan Yang, Kerry Zhao, Franklin Zhang, Nicholas Zolnierczuk 3. Date of data collection: 2020-06-12 - 2020-07-11 4. Geographic location of data collection (where was data collected?): Tennessee (state-wide) 5. Information about funding sources that supported the collection of the data: University of Tennessee (Governor's School for the Sciences and Engineering) Tennessee Department of Education 6. Abstract/description of the dataset: Water quality sampling took place as a component of the University of Tennessee Knoxville’s Governor’s School for Science and Engineering (GSSE) during June and July 2020. GSSE is a five-week program for high achieving high school students in the state of Tennessee to receive hands-on training in STEM skills. Students in the program (n = 128) were mailed water quality kits to conduct sampling for both home and field water quality as part of the project. For home water quality samples, we used testing strips to measure chlorine, copper, fluoride, hardness, lead, pH and nitrate levels from kitchen faucets; and the zip codes and counties from which samples were taken. For field water quality samples, we measured alkalinity, conductivity, lead, nitrate, nitrite, pH, and temperature from natural water bodies. We took samples from three types of water bodies: lakes, ponds, and streams/rivers. In addition to water quality levels and water body type, we also recorded the county, latitude, and longitude from which samples were taken. 7: Keywords for the dataset (provide 3 - 5): Tennessee, water quality, streams, lakes, Clean Water Act -------------------------- SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION -------------------------- 1. Licenses/restrictions placed on the data: None 2. Links to publications that cite or use the data: None 3. Links to other publicly accessible locations of the data: None 4. Links/relationships to ancillary data sets: None 5. Was data derived from another source? If yes, list source(s): None 6. Recommended citation for the data: --------------------- DATA & FILE OVERVIEW --------------------- 1. File List A. Filename: GSSE_waterQuality_2020.csv Short description: This file contains raw water quality data for both home tap water and field collections throughout the state of Tennessee 2. Relationship between files: NA 3. Additional related data collected that was not included in the current data package: None 4. Are there multiple versions of the dataset? no -------------------------- METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION -------------------------- 1. Description of methods used for collection/generation of data: Water quality samples were taken from home and field tap water using ON4HOME water quality testing strips (http://on4home.com/) and HoneForest TDS Meter, EC Meter & Temperature Meters (http://www.honeforest.net/product/honeforest-tds-meter-white/) were additionally used in field water quality sampling. All results were entered into a spreadsheet using Google Forms. 2. Methods for processing the data: none 3. Instrument- or software-specific information needed to interpret the data: none 4. Standards and calibration information, if appropriate: none 5. Environmental/experimental conditions: Tennessee, USA 6. Describe any quality-assurance procedures performed on the data: none 7. People involved with sample collection, processing, analysis and/or submission: Sunya Aghili, Atira Aidarous, Priyanshu Alluri, Seungwoo An, Elle Anderson, Sophia Aponte, Samuel Ashley, Matthew Ashline, Launna Atkinson, Khin Aye, Jonathan Bailey, Neal Bagai, Nathanael Bekele, Vaidehi Bhatara, Saim Bhimji, Lauren Bivins, Reed Bishofberger, Jonathon Boling, Autumn Bopp, Daniel Borza, Ian Brunetz, Kimberly By Goytia, Abigail Caveness, Grace Chang, Eric Chen, Henry Chen, Liz Chen, Vivan Chen, Christian Cherukuri, John Choi, Jacob Clark, Aiden Cloud, Landon Crabtree, Linen Cooper, Noble Cowden, Michael Crockett, Henry Dansereau, Julie Davenport, Joao De Sa Filho, Angelina Delgado, Matthew Drake, Kylie Dyer, Miriam Elwasif, Sruti Gandreti, John Grzegorczyk, Saniya Gupta, Ammar Farra, Bella Fishman, Avery Fletcher, Kenny Goodman, Jared Hallford, Lily Han, Lydia Han, Ruijing Han, Braxton Hart, Matt Hart, Abagael Hicks, Francis Hilliard, Raymond Jin, Baylor Johnson, Chloe Kamssu, Amy Kang, Ayla Khan, Jihoon Kim, Yuka Kimura, Samuel Klein, Tammy Le, Jaden Levin, Iris Li, Rachel Lin, Will Ling, Eli Logan, Thol Lok, Lizbeth Lozano, Chaney McKnight, Eshani Mehta, Ben Miller, Riya Mitra, Melany Morales, Nevaeh Morris, Neil Narayanan, Connor Nelson, Vincent Ores, William Ouyang, Miriam Owoola, Shreya Palakurthi, Akanksha Pandey, Elokkin Pate-Geames, Deep Patel, Riya Patel, Vishva Patel, Vraj Patel, Devanny Perez, Lauren Peppers, Jules Prater, Natalie Rash, Jane Rich, Macie Roberts, Amal Sam, Nikitha Sam, Jelissa Sasraku, Pujan Shah, Jackson Smith, Rishi Soni, Karen Soria, Shravya Tathineni, Duy Tran, Delisha Valacheril, Rupali Venkatesan, Amarachi Waboso, Adam Wang, Hannah Warmbrod, Yukino Wakatsuki, Evan Ward, Gabriel Watson, Joshua Whitehead, James Wilbanks, Rebecca Williams, Carly Wines, Kanan Wise, Dylan Woods, Ethan Yang, Kerry Zhao, Franklin Zhang, Nicholas Zolnierczuk ----------------------------------------- DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION FOR: [FILENAME] ----------------------------------------- 1. Number of variables: 25 2. Number of cases/rows: 475 3. Variable List A. Name: waterSample_type Description: Describes the water quality sampled collected: Home water quality: home tap water Field water quality: field data collection B. Name: zipcode Description: Zipcode from which the home water quality sample was taken C. Name: county_home Description: County from which the home water quality sample was taken D. Name: time_home Description: Time at which the home water quality sample was taken E. Name: waterbody Description: Waterbody type from which the field sample was collected Lake: non-flowing, large body of water Pond: non-flowing, small body of water Stream/river: flowing body of water F. Name: date_home Description: Date on which the home water quality sample was collected (m/d/yy) G. Name: latitude Description: Latitude (decimal degrees) at which the field water sample was collected H. Name: longitude Description: Longitude (decimal degrees) at which the field water sample was collected I. Name: date_field Description: Date on which the field water quality sample was collected (m/d/yy) J. Name: time_field Description: Time at which the field water quality sample was taken K. Name: county_field Description: County in which the field water quality sample was taken L. Name: temperature_field Description: Temperature of the field water quality sample (degrees Celsius) M. Name: conductivity_field Description: Conductivity of the field water quality sample (µS/cm) N. Name: pH_field Description: pH of the field water quality sample O. Name: lead_home Description: Lead value of the home water quality sample (mg/L) P. Name: pH_home Description: pH value of the home water quality sample Q. Name: nitrate_home Description: Nitrate value of the home water quality sample (mg/L) R. Name: fluoride_home Description: Fluoride value of the home water quality sample (mg/L) S. Name: copper_home Description: Copper value of the home water quality sample (mg/L) T. Name: hardness_home Description: Hardness value of the home water quality sample (mg/L) U. Name: alkalinity_field Description: Alkalinity value of the field water quality sample (mg/L) V. Name: totalChlorine_field Description: Chlorine value of the field water quality sample (mg/L) W. Name: nitrate_field Description: Nitrate value of the field water quality sample (mg/L) X. Name: nitrite_field Description: Nitrite value of the field water quality sample (mg/L) Y. Name: lead_field Description: Lead value of the field water quality sample (mg/L) 4. Missing data codes: NA, -9999 5. Specialized formats of other abbreviations used: None