Soil Characterizations of Five Urban Sites in Knoxville, Tennessee. 2024-2025

Dataset · Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2026

DOI:https://doi.org/10.15485/3024076· OSTI ID:3024076

Mayes, Melanie ^[1]; Mead, Tommy ^[1]; Salvador, Christian Mark ^[1]; Warren, Jeffrey ^[1]; Balog, Madeline ^[2]; Boggs, Ethan ^[3]; Lord, Jacob

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1. Oak Ridge National Laboratory
2. University of Michigan
3. North Carolina State University

This dataset includes soil characterizations from five urban parks in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA: Cumberland Estates Park (CEP), Socially Equal Energy Efficient Development (SEED), West View Park (WVP), Victor Ashe Park (VAP), and West Hills Park (WHP). The dataset consists of seven CSV files reporting the data from the measurements of gravimetric moisture content, pH, total carbon and nitrogen, soil texture, dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen, and microbial biomass carbon and nitrogen derived from these soil cores. During five separate sampling events conducted in 2024 and 2025, five soil cores were collected at each site within 3 meters of the remote soil monitoring equipment. In 2025, an additional three soil cores were collected adjacent to the monitoring equipment at each site to assess soil bulk density. This dataset is part of a larger study investigating the effects of soil moisture and plant evapotranspiration on ambient temperature and relative humidity across multiple urban parks in Knoxville, Tennessee.

• Research Organization: Biogeochemical cycling along the urban interface
• Sponsoring Organization: ESS-DIVE; U.S. DOE > Office of Science > Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-05CH11231
• OSTI ID: 3024076
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > SOILS
EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > SOILS > SOIL MOISTURE/WATER CONTENT
EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > SOILS > SOIL TEXTURE
soil_carbon_content
soil_dissolved_nitrogen
soil_dissolved_organic_carbon
soil_microbial_biomass_carbon
soil_microbial_biomass_nitrogen
soil_nitrogen_content
soil_pH