Dataset for airborne PCBs and OH-PCBs inside and outside urban and rural U.S. schools

Rachel F Marek; Peter S Thorne; Nicholas J Herkert; Andrew M Awad; Keri C Hornbuckle

doi:10.25820/data.002114

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Dataset for airborne PCBs and OH-PCBs inside and outside urban and rural U.S. schools

Rachel F Marek, Peter S Thorne, Nicholas J Herkert, Andrew M Awad and Keri C Hornbuckle

University of Iowa

01/24/2020

DOI: 10.25820/data.002114

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This dataset from the Iowa Superfund Research Program (ISRP) includes indoor and outdoor air mass, concentration, and associated quality control of PCBs and OH-PCBs in two rural schools and four urban schools, the latter near a PCB-contaminated waterway of Lake Michigan in the United States. Samples (n=108) were collected as indoor/outdoor pairs using PUF-PAS from January 2012 to November 2015. Samples were analyzed using GC/MS-MS for all 209 PCBs and 72 OH-PCBs. Concentrations inside schools were 1-2 orders of magnitude higher than outdoors and ranged from 0.5 to 194 ng/m3 (PCBs) and from 4 to 665 pg/m3 (OH-PCBs). Congener profiles were similar within each sampling location across season but different between schools and indicated the sources as Aroclors from building materials and individual PCBs associated with modern pigment.

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Title: Subtitle: Dataset for airborne PCBs and OH-PCBs inside and outside urban and rural U.S. schools
Creators: Rachel F Marek - University of Iowa, IIHR--Hydroscience and Engineering
Peter S Thorne - University of Iowa, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Nicholas J Herkert - University of Iowa, IIHR--Hydroscience and Engineering
Andrew M Awad
Keri C Hornbuckle - University of Iowa, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Resource Type: Dataset
Resource Sub-type: Data
Publisher: University of Iowa
DOI: 10.25820/data.002114
Grants: Airborne PCBs: Sources, Exposures, Toxicities, Remediation, P42ES013661, National Institutes of Health (United States, Bethesda) - NIH
Environmental Health Sciences Research Center, P30ES005605, National Institutes of Health (United States, Bethesda) - NIH
Language: English
Date collected: 08/17/2012 - 11/30/2015
Date posted: 11/18/2019
Date published: 01/24/2020
Date updated: 04/26/2021
Academic Unit: IIHR--Hydroscience and Engineering; Iowa Superfund Research Program
Record Identifier: 9983736897902771

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