East River Watershed Hydrology and Environmental Monitoring
studies the East River watershed's hydrological processes, water discharge patterns, and environmental changes to understand how mountain ecosystems respond to climate variability and human impacts.
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paleoenvironmental reconstruction
Interpretation of ancient environmental conditions based on fossil assemblages
dendroecological reconstruction
Method of reconstructing past forest conditions using tree-ring data to determine establishment dates and estimate historical stand structure
potential evapotranspiration
An approximation of non-water stressed evapotranspiration calculated using energy-only methods from net radiation estimates
glacier retreat
binary mixing model
vapor pressure deficit
The difference between the amount of moisture in the air and how much moisture the air can hold when it is saturated, indicating evaporative demand
anaerobic methane oxidation
Microbial process where methane is oxidized under anoxic conditions, often coupled to reduction of alternative electron acceptors
stream metabolism
SWE
transpiration
The movement of water from the soil to the plant's stomata which is then released into the atmosphere, serving as an indicator of plant water status
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lignin content
spatial gradients
climate change projections
Future climate scenarios based on different greenhouse gas emission pathways, specifically RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5 scenarios
drag coefficient
connectedness
mass balance
basal area
recharge
biogeochemical hot spots
Areas of disproportionately high biogeochemical activity or export relative to surrounding landscape
cation exchange
Process where cations in solution exchange with cations adsorbed on mineral surfaces
compensatory water uptake
Process where trees shift their root water uptake from topsoil towards subsoil to sustain transpiration rates when shallow soil moisture declines
coefficient of variation
Statistical measure of variation used to quantify family-guild variation and compare across different taxonomic groups
contact metamorphism
Alteration of rocks by pressure and temperature conditions related to igneous intrusions that changes rock pore structure and mineralogy
nitrification
The oxidation of ammonia to nitrate via nitrite, linking nitrogenous organic matter remineralization to nitrogen loss processes in the microbial N-cyc...
climate downscaling
Process of using large-scale climate model outputs to generate local or regional scale climate projections
Last Glacial Maximum
The most recent time during the last glacial period when ice sheets were at their greatest extent
thermal imaging
Use of infrared technology to measure surface temperatures of objects
steady-state conditions
power-law distributions
gas exchange velocities
inorganic carbon
data sharing
iron oxides
NPP
critical zone processes
feature importance
Measure of the relative contribution of each predictor variable obtained by calculating mean decrease in mean square error
metabarcoding
The identification of species from environmental DNA samples using target capture sequencing and database matching
energy flux
The flow of energy through ecological systems, measured as invertebrate biomass transfer from terrestrial to aquatic environments
snowmelt infiltration
Process by which melting snow penetrates soil and triggers changes in microbial activity and nutrient cycling
stream resilience
phylogenetic distance
Evolutionary divergence time between species measured in millions of years, calculated from molecular phylogenetic reconstructions
subsurface water storage
The amount of water stored in soil and subsurface compartments that responds dynamically to hydrological inputs and outputs
clustering approach
R2
Calvin cycle
downscaling approach
aluminum
bankfull overflow
continental geotherms
hyperparameter optimization
system science approach
annual ET
sensor installation and maintenance
Budyko formulation
ozone formation
energy security
bypass flow by piping
dissolved Re yield
POC
charge balance
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Forest inventory plot sampling
Uses full-waveform LiDAR returns processed through adaptive deconvolution and individual tree detection algorithms to map forest structure metrics inc...
ARSTAN chronology development
Wood samples are sectioned into sub-annual increments and cellulose is extracted for oxygen and carbon isotope analysis to assess seasonal water sourc...
Illumina paired-end sequencing
Standard Illumina library preparation using Nextera XT kit followed by paired-end sequencing on HiSeq 2500 platform to generate comprehensive metageno...
automated water sampling
Autonomous sampling system using osmotic pumps to continuously collect water samples over extended periods for chemical analysis. Tubing inlets placed...
NEON AOP Airborne Remote Sensing
National Ecological Observatory Network Airborne Observation Platform flights acquiring LiDAR, imaging spectroscopy, and high-resolution camera imager...
increment core sampling
Standard increment boring technique to extract tree cores for measuring annual ring widths, then calculating basal area increment over specific time p...
Cellulose isotope analysis (Plantae)
Cellulose extraction using Brendel method followed by pyrolysis at 1400°C and isotopic ratio measurement by GC-IRMS.
Heat pulse sap flow measurement (Plantae)
Continuous measurement of tree water transport using thermal dissipation sensors with temperature measurements at multiple depths in sapwood to calcul...
Airborne LiDAR Remote Sensing
Data acquired using a Riegl Q1560 dual-channel LiDAR system mounted on a Piper Navajo aircraft. Survey complied with USGS QL1 standard with point dens...
Stable Water Isotope Analysis
Measurement of hydrogen and oxygen isotope ratios using Off-Axis Integrated Cavity Output Spectrometer with auto-sampler and heated injector block. Re...
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NDVI remote sensing
Time-lapse UAV surveys using RGB and multispectral cameras to monitor vegetation indices (NDVI, GCC) and plant height changes across a hillslope trans...
Chloroform fumigation extraction
Standard chloroform fumigation direct extraction technique for measuring soil microbial biomass, combined with soil chemistry analysis and enzyme acti...
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Author (14) →
Christopher Still
Martin Briggs
Mariah Carbone
H. Marshall Worsham
Max Berkelhammer
Mark S. Raleigh
David Gochis
Stijn Wielandt
Sergi Molins
Malak M. Tfaily
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Publication (117) →
The East River, Colorado, Watershed: A mountainous community testbed for improving predictive understanding of multiscale hydrological-biogeochemical dynamics
The Colorado East River Community Observatory Data Collection
The East River Community Observatory Data Collection: Diverse, multiscale data from a mountainous watershed in the East River, Colorado
Factors Controlling Seasonal Groundwater and Solute Flux from Snow-Dominated Basins
Challenges in Building an End-to-End System for Acquisition, Management, and Integration of Diverse Data From Sensor Networks in Watersheds: Lessons From a Mountainous Community Observatory in East River, Colorado
Surface parameters and bedrock properties covary across a mountainous watershed: Insights from machine learning and geophysics
Modeling geogenic and atmospheric nitrogen through the East River Watershed, Colorado Rocky Mountains
Distinct Source Water Chemistry Shapes Contrasting Concentration-Discharge Patterns
From legacy contamination to watershed systems science: a review of scientific insights and technologies developed through DOE-supported research in water and energy security
Modeling the Impact of Riparian Hollows on River Corridor Nitrogen Exports
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Differential C-Q Analysis: A New Approach to Inferring Lateral Transport and Hydrologic Transients Within Multiple Reaches of a Mountainous Headwater Catchment
Model-based interpretation of solute exports and carbon partitioning during shale weathering in a mountainous hillslope
Hydrological control of rock carbon fluxes from shale weathering
Declining groundwater storage expected to amplify mountain streamflow reductions in a warmer world
Geochemical exports to river from the intra-meander hyporheic zone under transient hydrologic conditions: East River Mountainous Watershed, Colorado
Depth- and time-resolved distributions of snowmelt-driven hillslope subsurface flow and transport and their contributions to surface waters.
Microbial communities across a hillslope-riparian transect shaped by proximity to the stream, groundwater table, and weathered bedrock
Hidden features: How subsurface and landscape heterogeneity govern hydrologic connectivity and stream chemistry in a montane watershed
Understanding the Hydrogeochemical Response of a Mountainous Watershed Using Integrated Surface-Subsurface Flow and Reactive Transport Modeling
Watershed zonation through hillslope clustering for tractably quantifying above-and below-ground watershed heterogeneity and functions
Bedrock weathering contributes to subsurface reactive nitrogen and nitrous oxide emissions
Aerobic respiration controls on shale weathering
Improving predictions of stream CO2 concentrations and fluxes using a stream network model: A case study in the East River watershed, CO, USA
Variability in observed stable water isotopes in snowpack across a mountainous watershed in Colorado
Baseflow Age Distributions and Depth of Active Groundwater Flow in a Snow Dominated Mountain Headwater Basin
Concentration-Discharge Relationships of Dissolved Rhenium in Alpine Catchments Reveal Its Use as a Tracer of Oxidative Weathering
Shale as a Source of Organic Carbon in Floodplain Sediments of a Mountainous Watershed
Remote Sensing-Informed Zonation for Understanding Snow, Plant and Soil Moisture Dynamics within a Mountain Ecosystem
Direct Observation of the Depth of Active Groundwater Circulation in an Alpine Watershed
Latest Pleistocene glacial chronology and paleoclimate reconstruction for the East River watershed, Colorado, USA
Modeling Spatial Distribution of Snow Water Equivalent by Combining Meteorological and Satellite Data with Lidar Maps
Geochemical Controls on Release and Speciation of Fe(II) and Mn(II) From Hyporheic Sediments of East River, Colorado
Streamflow partitioning and transit time distribution in snow-dominated basins as a function of climate
Downscaled hyper-resolution (400 m) gridded datasets of daily precipitation and temperature (2008-2019) for East Taylor subbasin (western United States)
Return flows from beaver ponds enhance floodplain-to-river metals exchange in alluvial mountain catchments
The effect of the foresummer drought on carbon exchange in subalpine meadows
Sulfur Biogeochemical Cycling and Redox Dynamics in a Shale-Dominated Mountainous Watershed
The effects of spatial and temporal resolution of gridded meteorological forcing on watershed hydrological responses
Integrating airborne remote sensing and field campaigns for ecology and Earth system science
The Snowmelt Niche Differentiates Three Microbial Life Strategies That Influence Soil Nitrogen Availability During and After Winter
Constraining Bedrock Groundwater Residence Times in a Mountain System With Environmental Tracer Observations and Bayesian Uncertainty Quantification
Assessment of Spatiotemporal Variability of Evapotranspiration and Its Governing Factors in a Mountainous Watershed
Investigating Microtopographic and Soil Controls on a Mountainous Meadow Plant Community Using High-Resolution Remote Sensing and Surface Geophysical Data
Variability of Snow and Rainfall Partitioning Into Evapotranspiration and Summer Runoff Across Nine Mountainous Catchments
X-ray chemical imaging for assessing redox microsites within soils and sediments
Satellite-derived foresummer drought sensitivity of plant productivity in Rocky Mountain headwater catchments: spatial heterogeneity and geological-geomorphological control
Mineralogical, magnetic and geochemical data constrain the pathways and extent of weathering of mineralized sedimentary rocks
Predicting sedimentary bedrock subsurface weathering fronts and weathering rates
Advanced monitoring of soil-vegetation co-dynamics reveals the successive controls of snowmelt on soil moisture and on plant seasonal dynamics in a mountainous watershed
Molecular nature of mineral-organic associations within redox-active mountainous floodplain sediments
Efficiency of the Summer Monsoon in Generating Streamflow Within a Snow-Dominated Headwater Basin of the Colorado River
On the similarity of hillslope hydrologic function: a clustering approach based on groundwater changes
A hybrid data-model approach to map soil thickness in mountain hillslopes
Meanders as a scaling motif for understanding of floodplain soil microbiome and biogeochemical potential at the watershed scale
Canopy structure modulates the sensitivity of subalpine forest stands to interannual snowpack and precipitation variability
Dwindling Groundwater Reserves Will Threaten Mountain Streamflow in a Warmer World
Mineral and metabolic constraints on carbon cycling within and export from mountainous floodplain soils
Hyporheic Zone Microbiome Assembly Is Linked to Dynamic Water Mixing Patterns in Snowmelt-Dominated Headwater Catchments
Model and remote-sensing-guided experimental design and hypothesis generation for monitoring snow-soil–plant interactions
Old-Aged groundwater contributes to mountain hillslope hydrologic dynamics
Modeling snow dynamics and stable water isotopes across mountain landscapes
Abiotic influences on continuous conifer forest structure across a subalpine watershed
Balancing the needs of consumers and producers for scientific data collections
Stream water sourcing from high-elevation snowpack inferred from stable isotopes of water: a novel application of d-excess values
Soil Respiration Response to Rainfall Modulated by Plant Phenology in a Montane Meadow, East River, Colorado, USA
Contrasting the hydrologic response due to land cover and climate change in a mountain headwaters system
Imputation of contiguous gaps and extremes of subhourly groundwater time series using random forests
Variations in bedrock and vegetation cover modulate subsurface water flow dynamics of a mountainous hillslope
Interannual precipitation controls on soil CO2 fluxes in high elevation conifer and aspen forests
Impact of intra-meander hyporheic flow on nitrogen cycling
Linking surface processes, solute generation, and CO2 budgets across lithological and land cover gradients in Rocky Mountain watersheds
Hydrology outweighs temperature in driving production and export of dissolved carbon in a snowy mountain catchment
Shifting groundwater fluxes in bedrock fractures: Evidence from stream water radon and water isotopes
Resolution matters when modeling climate change in headwaters of the Colorado River
Climate forcing controls on carbon terrestrial fluxes during shale weathering
Heterogeneity in Hyporheic Flow, Pore Water Chemistry, and Microbial Community Composition in an Alpine Streambed
The importance of interflow to groundwater recharge in a snowmelt-dominated headwater basin
Hidden Processes During Seasonal Isolation of a High-Altitude Watershed
River thorium concentrations can record bedrock fracture processes including some triggered by distant seismic events
A distributed temperature profiling system for vertically and laterally dense acquisition of soil and snow temperature
Exploring source water mixing and transient residence time distributions of outflow and evapotranspiration with an integrated hydrologic model and Lagrangian particle tracking approach
Opportunistic short-term water uptake dynamics by subalpine trees observed via in situ water isotope measurements
Production of hydrogen peroxide in an intra-meander hyporheic zone at East River, Colorado
Beaver dams overshadow climate extremes in controlling riparian hydrology and water quality
Statistical framework to assess long-term spatio-temporal climate changes: East River mountainous watershed case study
Disinfection byproducts formed during drinking water treatment reveal an export control point for dissolved organic matter in a subalpine headwater stream
Automated Cloud Based Long Short-Term Memory Neural Network Based SWE Prediction
Using geochemical indicators to distinguish high biogeochemical activitiy in floodplain soils and sediments
Persistence and Plasticity in Conifer Water-Use Strategies
Forest responses to increasing aridity and warmth in the southwestern United States
Reactive iron, not fungal community, drives organic carbon oxidation potential in floodplain soils
Wetter summers mitigated temperature stress on Rocky Mountain forests during the last interglacial warm period
From Grain to Floodplain: Evaluating heterogeneity of floodplain hydrostatigraphy using sedimentology, geophysics, and remote sensing.
Efficient hydrogeological characterization of remote stream corridors using drones
Three-Dimensional Surface Downwelling Longwave Radiation Clear-Sky Effects in the Upper Colorado River Basin
Virus diversity and activity is driven by snowmelt and host dynamics in a high-altitude watershed soil ecosystem
Leveraging groundwater dynamics to improve predictions of summer low-flow discharges
Using tree rings to predict the response of tree growth to climate change in the continental United States during the twenty-first century
Hyporheic Oxygen Dynamics in the East River, Colorado: Insights From an In‐Situ, High Frequency Time Series During Two Distinct Flow Seasons
Climate in the southern Sawatch Range and Elk Mountains, Colroado, U.S.A., during the last glacial maximum: inferences using a simple degree-day model
The role of bedrock circulation depth and porosity in mountain streamflow response to prolonged drought
Late Quaternary vertebrates from the Upper Gunnison Basin, Colorado, and small-mammal community resilience to climate change since the last glacial maximum
Cosmogenic 10Be and 36Cl ages from late Pleistocene terminal moraine complexes in the Taylor River drainage basin, central Colorado, USA
Populations of aspen (<i>Populus tremuloides</i> Michx.) with different evolutionary histories differ in their climate occupancy
A Meteorology and Snow Data Set From Adjacent Forested and Meadow Sites at Crested Butte, CO, USA
Glacial advances and soil development, Grand Mesa, Colorado
Spatial variations in the fate and transport of metals in a mining-influenced stream, North Fork Clear Creek, Colorado
Palynology of Pinedale Sediments, Devlins Park, Boulder County, Colorado
Quaternary incision rates and drainage evolution of the Uncompahgre and Gunnison Rivers, western Colorado, as calibrated by the Lava Creek B ash
Exploration and geology of the Mt. Emmons molybdenite deposits, Gunnison County, Colorado
Stable isotope compositions of precipitation from Gunnison, Colorado 2007–2016: implications for the climatology of a high-elevation valley
Influence of Metal Contamination and Sediment Deposition on Benthic Invertebrate Colonization at the North Fork Clear Creek Superfund Site, Colorado, USA
Pinedale glacial history of the upper Arkansas River valley
New Upper Cretaceous Microvertebrate Assemblage from the Williams Fork Formation, northwestern Colorado, U.S.A., and its Paleoenvironmental Implications
Rock glaciers in Central Colorado, U.S.A., as indicators of Holocene climate change
Selenium Distribution for Soils Derived from Mancos Shale in Gunnison and Uncompahgre River Basins, West-Central Colorado
Persistence of high elevation fens in the Southern Rocky Mountains, on Grand Mesa, Colorado, U.S.A.
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Reasonably Foreseeable Development Scenario For Oil and Gas Development In the Buffalo Field Office Area, Campbell, Johnson and Sheridan Counties, Wyoming
occur. To do this an occurrence potential aa map was constructed (Map 1). The oil and gas occurrence potential was classified as $3 - High, Moderate, ...
A Geologist's View of Global Change
|’: There have been about 40 glacial cycles during the f = past 3 million years. Civilization developed during the \"Current interglacial that has las...
Dataset (130) →
Discharge data collected within the East River for the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Watershed Function Science Focus Area (water years 2015-2018)
Discharge data collected at the East River in the Upper Colorado River Basin for the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Watershed Function Scient...
Discharge data collected within the East River for the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Watershed Function Science Focus Area (water years 2015-2018)
Discharge data collected at the East River in the Upper Colorado River Basin for the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Watershed Function Scient...
Conifer water use patterns in the East River Watershed, Colorado US, based on stable water isotopes and cellulose isotopes
This data package contains a series of datasets aimed at understanding the seasonal origins of water used by the dominant conifer species, Abies lasio...
Anion Data for the East River Watershed, Colorado (2014-2022)
The anion data for the East River Watershed, Colorado, consists of fluoride, chloride, sulfate, nitrate, and phosphate concentrations collected at mul...
NEON AOP Survey of Upper East River CO Watersheds: Waveform LiDAR Binary Data
The waveform Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data in this package were generated through a National Ecological Observatory Network Airborne Observ...
East River Watershed Stable Water Isotope Data in Precipitation, Snowpack and Snowmelt 2016-2020
Stable water isotopes (d18O, d2H and d-excess) are important tracers in hydrologic research to understand water partitioning between vegetation, groun...
Distributed hydrological, chemical, and microbiological measurements around Meander A of East River, Colorado.
In July-August 2018, we collected 88 filtered pore water samples at 20 cm depth and analyzed them for anions, cations, dissolved organic carbon, disso...
2018 Meander Y and Meander Z floodplain groundwater chemistry from the East River watershed, Colorado
This dataset includes groundwater geochemistry data from floodplain piezometers collected as a part of the Watershed Function Scientific Focus Area (S...
CHESS 2025: Location data for field observations and sampling
This dataset represents geolocation data associated with field observations and sampling from the Colorado Headwaters Ecological Spectroscopy Study (C...
LiDAR collection in August 2015 over the East River Watershed, Colorado, USA
Airborne LiDAR data were acquired over the East River Watershed on June 8, 2015 to August 10, 2015. The area covered was approximately 4933 square kil...
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2018 Meander C floodplain groundwater chemistry from the East River Watershed, Colorado.
This dataset includes groundwater geochemistry data from floodplain piezometers collected as a part of the Watershed Function Scientific Focus Area (S...
The Importance of Interflow to Groundwater Recharge in a Snowmelt-Dominated, Alpine Watershed, Geophysical Research Letters: Modeling and Data Package
This data package contains hydrologic modeling input and output files for the East River (ER_PRMS.zip) and Copper Creek (CC_GSFLOW.zip) for water year...
Hydrologic Model Files (PRMS) for Historical Conditions in the East River Watershed, Colorado between 1987-2019
The data package contains model input and output file for the East River watershed (85 km2) located in the headwaters of the Colorado River. The model...
Gap-filled meteorological data (2011-2020) and modeled potential evapotranspiration data from the KCOMTCRE2 WeatherUnderground weather station, from the East River Watershed, Colorado.
This dataset is a gap-filled meteorological dataset (years 2011-2020) that includes modeled potential evapotranspiration from a station near the pumph...
Groundwater and Surface Water Flow (GSFLOW) model files for the East River, Colorado
The data package contains model input files and executables for the East River, Colorado (750 km2) located in the headwaters of the Upper Colorado Riv...
Data from: 'Abiotic influences on continuous conifer forest structure across a subalpine watershed'
This package archives the core data used for analysis and inference in 'Abiotic influences on continuous conifer forest structure across a subalpine w...
Locations, metadata, and species cover from field sampling survey associated with NEON AOP survey, East River, CO 2018.
Locations and descriptions of the sites where field sampling was conducted during the 2018 National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) Airborne Obs...
Stable Water Isotope Data for the East River Watershed, Colorado (2014-2021)
The stable water isotope data for the East River Watershed, Colorado, consists of delta2H (hydrogen) and delta18O (oxygen) values from samples collect...
Stream discharge data collected within the East River, Colorado for the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Watershed Function Science Focus Area (water years 2019 to 2020).
This data package contains East River, Colorado stream discharge and temperature data for water years 2019 to 2020. This data were collected to unders...
The East River, Colorado, Watershed: A Mountainous Community Testbed for Improving Predictive Understanding of Multiscale Hydrological-Biogeochemical Dynamics: Dataset
This dataset contains snow water, precipitation, and discharge data collected from the East River watershed. This provides insight as to how the water...
CHESS 2025: Field-collected vegetation attributes and site photos
This dataset represents field observations of vegetation samples collected as part of the Colorado Headwaters Ecological Spectroscopy Study (CHESS) du...
Downscaled precipitation and mean air temperature datasets; East-Taylor subbasin; 2008-2019; daily temporal resolution; 400 m spatial resolution.
This dataset provides gridded meteorological forcing data (specifically, daily precipitation and daily mean air temperature). The dataset has been gen...
East River Watershed Stable Water Isotope Data in Precipitation, Snowpack and Snowmelt 2016-2020
Stable water isotopes (d18O, d2H and d-excess) are important tracers in hydrologic research to understand water partitioning between vegetation, groun...
Hydrogeochemical data for the characterization of stream, groundwater, and beaver-induced floodplain exchange in the East River Science Focus Area, Crested Butte, CO
The U.S. Geological Survey, along with scientists from Rutgers University, collected water chemistry, electromagnetic, redox-potential, dissolved oxyg...
QA/QC-ed Groundwater Level Time Series in PLM-1 and PLM-6 Monitoring Wells, East River, Colorado
Performed Quality Assurance and Quality Control (QA/QC) analysis of measured groundwater levels in monitoring wells PLM-1 and PLM-6, including identif...
Hyporheic, Floodplain, and Surface Water (on Floodplain and River) Geochemical Datasets, and Shapefiles on Meander C at the East River, Colorado.
The purpose of this dataset was to sample surface water and groundwater geochemistry at random locations in the East River, Colorado to provide a broa...
CHESS 2025: Leaf Area Index (LAI) for meadow, shrub, tree, and understory vegetation
This dataset contains Leaf Area Index (LAI) measurements made as part of the Colorado Headwaters Ecological Spectroscopy Study (CHESS) during June and...
Groundwater and Surface Water Flow (GSFLOW) model files for the East River, Colorado
The data package contains model input files and executables for the East River, Colorado (750 km2) located in the headwaters of the Upper Colorado Riv...
Groundwater level elevation and temperature across Meander C at the Lower Montane in the East River Watershed, Colorado.
This groundwater level elevation and temperature data package is aimed at improving the predictive understanding of hydro-biogeochemical processes at ...
Machine Learning Assisted Gap-Filled Discharge Data for the East River Community Watershed, Colorado, for Water Years 2014-2021
This dataset contains a collection of machine learning assisted gap-filled discharge data created for all discharge stations across the East River Wat...
Floodplain hydrostratigraphy from sedimentology, geophysics, and remote sensing
This file includes the data published in: Malenda, H.F., Sutfin, N.A., Stauffer, S., Guryan. G., Rowland, J.C., Williams, K.H., and Singha, K. (2019)....
Conifer water use patterns in the East River Watershed, Colorado US, based on stable water isotopes and cellulose isotopes
This data package contains a series of datasets aimed at understanding the seasonal origins of water used by the dominant conifer species, Abies lasio...
Leaf mass per area and leaf water content measurements from field survey in association with NEON AOP survey, East River, CO 2018. A Multiscale Approach to Modeling Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling within a High Elevation Watershed.
<p>Leaf area, wet, and dry weights for leaf samples from sites where field sampling was conducted during the 2018 National Ecological Observatory Netw...
Custom NEON AOP reflectance mosaics and maps of shade masks, canopy water content.
This mosaic of visible to shortwave infrared (VSWIR) data was derived from the assignable asset NEON AOP radiance data that was collected by LBNL&rsqu...
ATS (Advanced Terrestrial Simulator) integrated hydrology and reactive transport model output in Copper Creek, Colorado.
This dataset is generated using the ATS (Advanced Terrestrial Simulator) model at Copper Creek, Colorado, the largest catchment in the East River wate...
Groundwater level elevation and temperature at the Lower Montane in the East River Watershed, Colorado.
This groundwater level elevation and temperature data package is aimed at improving the predictive understanding of hydro-biogeochemical processes at ...
Soil Nitrogen, Water Content, Microbial Biomass, and Archaeal, Bacterial and Fungal Communities from the East River Watershed, Colorado collected in 2016-2017.
This data set contains soil measurements made at the Pumphouse Hillslope to Floodplain transect at the locations of the early snowmelt-timing manipula...
Daily water stable isotopes, transpiration, and matrix potential data for an aspen and engelmann stand in the East River Watershed
We provide daily stable isotope (2H & 18O) ratios in soil water and xylem (plant stem) water, as well as the sap flow (transpiration) and the soi...
Remote sensing and geophysical characterization of a floodplain-hillslope system in the East River watershed, Colorado
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Cation Data for the East River Watershed, Colorado (2014-2021)
This data package contains mean values for cation concentration for water samples taken from the East River Watershed in Colorado. Inductively coupled...
Raw soil carbon dioxide, moisture, temperature and micrometeorological data in the East River Watershed, Colorado June 2021-October 2022. (DE-SC0021139). Ecohydrological controls on root and microbial respiration in the East River watershed of Colorado
This dataset contains raw data from four tripod stations along an elevation gradient on Snodgrass Mountain in the East River Watershed, CO, USA. Eac...
The East River, Colorado, Watershed: A Mountainous Community Testbed for Improving Predictive Understanding of Multiscale Hydrological-Biogeochemical Dynamics: Dataset
This dataset contains snow water, precipitation, and discharge data collected from the East River watershed. This provides insight as to how the water...
Plant species distribution within the Upper Colorado River Basin estimated by using hyperspectral and LiDAR airborne data.
This package is part of the Watershed Function SFA project and contains a remote sensing dataset acquired at the East River, Colorado. The remote sens...
Conifer water use patterns in the East River Watershed, Colorado US, based on stable water isotopes and cellulose isotopes
This data package contains a series of datasets aimed at understanding the seasonal origins of water used by the dominant conifer species, Abies lasio...
Spectral data for quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) clones of different ploidy levels
Data comprise measurements of spectral reflectance for quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) trees at a range of sites in southwestern Colorado n...
Multiple RGB ortho-mosaics and digital surface models in 2017 and 2018 across the Lower Montane site in the East River Watershed, Colorado
Aerial imagery was collected at the Lower Montane site (Pumphouse) in the East River Watershed, Colorado during the spring, summer, and fall seasons o...
Groundwater and Surface Water Flow (GSFLOW) model files to explore bedrock circulation depth and porosity in Copper Creek, Colorado
This data package contains integrated hydrological model input and output files for Copper Creek, Colorado (24 km2), a tributary of the East River loc...
The East River, Colorado, Watershed: A Mountainous Community Testbed for Improving Predictive Understanding of Multiscale Hydrological-Biogeochemical Dynamics: Dataset
This dataset contains snow water, precipitation, and discharge data collected from the East River watershed. This provides insight as to how the water...
NEON AOP Survey of Upper East River CO Watersheds: LAZ Files, LiDAR Surface Elevation, Terrain Elevation, and Canopy Height Rasters
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Conifer water use patterns in the East River Watershed, Colorado US, based on stable water isotopes and cellulose isotopes
This data package contains a series of datasets aimed at understanding the seasonal origins of water used by the dominant conifer species, Abies lasio...
Natural abundance nitrate isotopes from Rifle and the East River Watershed, Colorado
This data package provides data on the natural abundance isotopes of nitrate from various sources, including porewater, stream, and precipitation. The...
Conifer water use patterns in the East River Watershed, Colorado US, based on stable water isotopes and cellulose isotopes
This data package contains a series of datasets aimed at understanding the seasonal origins of water used by the dominant conifer species, Abies lasio...
NEON AOP Survey of Upper East River CO Watersheds: Waveform LiDAR Binary Data
The waveform Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data in this package were generated through a National Ecological Observatory Network Airborne Observ...
Sapflow and xylem water isotopes from Snodgrass Mountain, East River Watershed, Colorado USA. Space and time dynamics of transpiration in the East River watershed: biotic and abiotic controls
This dataset includes sapflux and stable water isotopes of soil water and xylem water for aspen, fir and spruce trees along the Snodgrass Mountain t...
Model files for estimating snow dynamics and stable water isotopes across the East River, CO.
A coupled hydrologic and snowpack stable water isotope model is used to assesses controls on isotopic inputs across the East River, Colorado, a large,...
Raw soil carbon dioxide, moisture, and temperature data from a mixed conifer and aspen forest stands in the East River Watershed of Colorado June 2011-December 2021.
These datasets contain raw data from adjacent mixed-conifer (Abies lasiocarpa and Picea engelmannii) and deciduous (Populus tremuloides) forest stands...
Geochemical analyses of surface water, groundwater and springs surrounding Mount Emmons near Crested Butte, Colorado (ver. 2.0, September 2020)
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety (DRMS), and Coal Creek Watershed Coalition (CCWC) working indep...
Chemical and geophysical data collected along Oh-be-joyful Creek, Gunnison National Forest, Colorado
As part of their Watershed Function Scientific Focus Area (SFA), Berkeley Lab and its collaborating institutions (e.g., USGS) have established a "Comm...
Snow Depth on March 31st 2018 for Upper East River Derived from Airborne Snow Observatory Data
This is a 3m map of snow depth derived from repeat LiDAR data collection by the Airborne Snow Observatory. This dataset has been clipped and resampled...
Electrical Resistivity Tomography data from 2016 to 2018 at the Lower Montane site in the East River Watershed, Colorado
This dataset contains time-lapse Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT) data along a transect located on the northeast-facing hillslope at the lower ...
Data from: 'Abiotic influences on continuous conifer forest structure across a subalpine watershed'
This package archives the core data used for analysis and inference in 'Abiotic influences on continuous conifer forest structure across a subalpine w...
Dissolved Inorganic Carbon and Dissolved Organic Carbon Data for the East River Watershed, Colorado (2015-2021)
This data package contains mean values for dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) for water samples taken from the East R...
Geophysical borehole logging data of wells ER-GLS1, ER-GUM1, ER-PLM7, and ER-PLM8 at the East River Watershed, Colorado.
The purpose of this data set is to provide a means of characterizing the bedrock variability both within a single borehole location and across the Eas...
NEON AOP Imaging Spectroscopy Survey of Upper East River Colorado Watersheds: Raw-Space Radiance and Observational Variable Dataset.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) contracted the National Ecological Observatory Network Airborne Observation Platform (NEON AOP) to observ...
Site-level Foliar C, N, delta13C data from samples collected during field survey associated with NEON AOP survey, East River, CO 2018.
Carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) weight percent concentrations were obtained from the bulk foliar samples collected across East River, Washington Gulch, Sl...
Genome-resolved metagenomics and metatranscriptomics of microbial communities in three meander-bound floodplain soils along the East River, Colorado.
This dataset comprises paired environmental and genomic data for soil samples collected across meander-bound floodplains G (ERMG), L (ERML) and Z (ERM...
Depth and elevation of floodplain fine sediment along the East River near Crested Butte, Colorado measured in 2016 and 2017.
The depth of floodplain fine sediment was measured at 1,601 points along the East River near Crested Butte, Colorado spanning a study reach approximat...
hydrokeira/Si_RandomForest: Si Random Forest Analysis Code
This release contains code to replicate random forest analyses associated with the JGR-Biogeoscience paper "Climate, hydrology, and nutrients control ...
Estimated Darcy Velocities Using Temperature Time Series for Meander A of East River, Colorado.
Heat was used as a tracer to quantify seasonal changes in vertical Darcy velocity through the streambed at three different locations about Meander A o...
Post survey report for AOP Assignable Asset collection of Crested Butte, CO
This report contains details of the National Ecological Observatory Network Airborne Observation Platform (NEON AOP) assignable asset (AA) flight over...
Copper Creek Baseflow Age Experiment using Environmental Gas Tracers in the East River Watershed, CO.
Groundwater contributions to streams, or baseflow, represents a mix of numerous flow paths through the subsurface of varying ages that are important t...
Data from: 'Abiotic influences on continuous conifer forest structure across a subalpine watershed'
This package archives the core data used for analysis and inference in 'Abiotic influences on continuous conifer forest structure across a subalpine w...
Annual floodplain sediment deposition recorded using feldspar clay marker horizons along the East River, Colorado, 2015-2017.
White feldspar clay was placed along 24 transects defining a ~9-km long study reach along the meandering snowmelt-dominated East River in Colorado, US...
Snow Depth on April 7th 2019 for Upper East River Derived from Airborne Snow Observatory Data
<p>This is a 3m map of snow depth derived from repeat LiDAR data collection by the Airborne Snow Observatory. This dataset has been clipped and resamp...
Fiber-optic distributed temperature data collected along the streambed of the East River, Crested Butte, CO, USA
The data set includes temperature data from the base of the water column along the sediment interface of the East River near Crested Butte Colorado, U...
Geochemical characterization of floodplain sediments from Meander C and O in the East River Watershed, CO, USA.
This data package is part of the Watershed Function SFA data collection and contains geochemical characterization of sediments as a function of depth ...
Modeling the impact of riparian hollows on river corridor nitrogen exports
This package contains all reactive transport simulation outputs used in "Modeling the impact of riparian hollows on river corridor nitrogen exports" (...
Conifer water use patterns in the East River Watershed, Colorado US, based on stable water isotopes and cellulose isotopes. Space and Time Dynamics of Transpiration in the East River Watershed: Biotic and Abiotic Controls
<p>This data package contains a series of datasets aimed at understanding the seasonal origins of water used by the dominant conifer species, Abies la...
Thermal infrared, multispectral, and photogrammetric data collected by drone for hydrogeologic analysis of the East River and Coal Creek beaver-impacted corridors near Crested Butte, Colorado
The U.S. Geological Survey collected low-altitude (typically 200-350 ft als) airborne thermal infrared, multispectral, and visual imagery data via a m...
Differential concentration discharge for the upper and lower reaches of the East River Watershed, Colorado
This dataset captures the difference in concentration over the difference in discharge across upper and lower reaches of the East River watershed for ...
A meteorology and snow dataset from adjacent forested and meadow sites at Crested Butte, CO, USA
This dataset contains meteorology and snow observation data collected at sites in the southwestern Colorado Rocky Mountains during water years 2019-20...
Unsaturated and Saturated Hydraulic Parameters of Soils at the East River Watershed, Colorado Calculated using the Pedotransfer Function Method
The purpose of the data package is to present the results of calculations of the following unsaturated-saturated hydraulic parameters of soils of the ...
Total Dissolved Nitrogen and Ammonia Data for the East River Watershed, Colorado (2015-2022)
This data package contains mean values for total dissolved nitrogen (TDN) and ammonia concentrations for water samples taken from the East River Water...
NEON AOP foliar trait maps, maps of model uncertainty estimates, and conifer map, East River, CO 2018.
This data package contains mapped trait estimates and their uncertainties, and conifer map, for the National Ecological Observatory Network's Airborne...
Differential concentration discharge for the upper and lower reaches of the East River Watershed, Colorado
This dataset captures the difference in concentration over the difference in discharge across upper and lower reaches of the East River watershed for ...
Soil Environmental Conditions in the East River Watershed, CO.
This dataset contains depth-resolved soil environmental variables collected between June 2016 and October 2018 from the Bradley Meadow site in the Eas...
Time-domain reflectometer survey across the East River Watershed, Colorado.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) collected near-surface point-measurements of soil temperature (file variable TDR_T(C)), volumetric water ...
Using geochemical indicators to distinguish high biogeochemical activity in floodplain soils and sediments, Science of the Total Environment: Dataset.
This dataset involves analysis of sediment samples collected in the East River watershed and Rifle floodplain sites, CO. Samples were collected and an...
NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Woodhouse et al. 2006 Updated Streamflow Reconstructions for the Upper Colorado River Basin
This archived Paleoclimatology Study is available from the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), under the World Data Service (W...
Data used in Wainwright, H.M. et al. 2021, “Watershed zonation through hillslope clustering for tractably quantifying above- and belowground watershed heterogeneity and functions”
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Thermal infrared and photogrammetric data collected by small unoccupied aircraft system for hydrogeologic analysis of Oh-be-joyful Creek, Gunnison National Forest, Colorado, August 2017
The U.S. Geological Survey collected low-altitude airborne thermal infrared data and visual imagery via a multirotor, small unoccupied aircraft system...
Hillslope subsurface flow and transport data for the PLM transect in East River, Colorado.
This file contains data used to calculate subsurface flow and transport at the Pumphouse Lower Montane (PLM) hillslope transect. Information includes ...
River bank erosion and accretion rates, and planform metrics of the East River, downstream of Gothic Colorado over intervals between 1955 and 2015
This dataset provides the tabular summary of analysis of an alluvial floodplain reach of the East River, downstream of Gothic, CO near Crested Butte. ...
hmworsham/er-forest-structure: Abiotic influences on continuous conifer forest structure across a subalpine watershed: RSE review archive
This release archives the code base for the manuscript Worsham et al., "Abiotic influences on continuous conifer forest structure across a subalpine w...
Dissolved Oxygen and Temperature Data from the Hyporheic Zone of the East River Watershed July 2017 to October 2018
Dissolved oxygen (DO) is critical for aquatic ecosystems. Our focus is on the long-term DO dynamics in hyporheic zone of rivers, which are a function ...
Geochemical exports to river from the intrameander hyporheic zone under transient hydrologic conditions, Water Resources Research: Dataset.
To understand how redox processes influence carbon, nitrogen, and iron cycling within the intrameander hyporheic zone, we developed a biotic and abiot...
Assessment of Spatiotemporal Variability of Evapotranspiration and Its Governing Factors in a Mountainous Watershed at the East River, Colorado, Water: Dataset.
This data package contains simulation results of daily evapotranspiration for 17 locations of meteorological stations with different precipitation, ai...
USGS Water Data for the Nation
This collection provides access to water-resources data collected at approximately 1.5 million sites in all 50 States, the District of Columbia, Puert...
Hydrologic and geophysical data from high-elevation boreholes in Redwell Basin near Crested Butte, Colorado
Four boreholes (MW1, MW1UZ, MW2, MW2.1) were drilled in the fall of 2017 and summer of 2018 in upper Redwell Basin, a headwater catchment underlain by...
NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Woodhouse and Lukas 2004 TreeFlow Colorado Streamflow Reconstructions
This archived Paleoclimatology Study is available from the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), under the World Data Service (W...
Data associated with Quaternary Research manuscript Latest Pleistocene glacial chronology and paleoclimate reconstruction for the East River watershed, Colorado, USA
The data here are associated with Quaternary Research manuscript Latest Pleistocene glacial chronology and paleoclimate reconstruction for the East Ri...
Data for the manuscript "HydroMix v1.0: a new Bayesian mixing framework for attributing uncertain hydrological sources"
This folder contains scripts and datasets used in the manuscript titled " HydroMix v1.0: a new Bayesian mixing framework for attributing uncertain hyd...
Sub-Basin Delineation for the Upper East River, Colorado, United States
Upper East sub-basins are delineated as area contributing flow to SFA 2016 stream gage locations. Shapefile attributes include sub-basin ID, name, are...
End-Member Mixing Analysis Data Package for the East River Watershed, CO USA.
The data package consolidates water year 2016 stream, rain, snow and groundwater data used by Carroll et al. (2018) for end-member mixing analysis to ...
Classified channel masks of the East River, Colorado, U.S.A and areas of floodplain erosion and accretion ranging from 1955 to 2015.
This dataset provides four sets of geotiffs used for the mapping and analysis an alluvial floodplain reach of the East River, downstream of Gothic, ...
NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Woodhouse and Lukas 2004 TreeFlow Colorado Streamflow Reconstructions
This archived Paleoclimatology Study is available from the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), under the World Data Service (W...
Quality-controlled Vegetation Canopy Height Model for the Upper East River Domain
This is a vegetation canopy height map from the 2018 NEON AOP dataset. It was derived from the NEON Lidar-based digital surface model and the re-proce...
A composite high resolution canopy height map for the Upper East River domain
<p>This dataset represents a 1/3 m resolution vegetation canopy height model for the upper East River Watershed in Western Colorado. Source datasets ...
Styled canopy structure basemap of the Upper Gunnison domain
<p>This dataset is a styled basemap depicting vegetation canopy structure variables in the Upper Gunnison domain overlaid on high-resolution topograph...
3 m Resolution Understory Cover for the Upper Gunnison Basin derived from 2015 and 2019 LiDAR Data
<p>This is a map of vegetation understory cover or density for the Upper Gunnison River Basin based on 2015 and 2019 LiDAR data. Cover is measured as ...
1 m Resolution Canopy Height Estimates for the Upper Gunnison Basin derived from 2015 and 2019 LiDAR Data
This is a map of vegetation canopy height above the ground for the Upper Gunnison River Basin based on 2015 and 2019 LiDAR data. Height is measured in...
3 m Resolution 20th Percentile Canopy Height Estimates for the Upper Gunnison Basin derived from 2015 and 2019 LiDAR Data
This is a map of 20th percentile canopy height above the ground for the Upper Gunnison River Basin based on 2015 and 2019 LiDAR data. Height is measur...
3 m Resolution 80th Percentile Canopy Height Estimates for the Upper Gunnison Basin Derived from 2015 and 2019 LIDAR Data
<p>This is a map of 20th percentile canopy height above the ground for the Upper Gunnison River Basin based on 2015 and 2019 LiDAR data. Height is mea...
Shale drilling field notes, lithologic descriptions, and core photographs of wells PLM5, PLM8, GUM1, and GLS1 at the East River Watershed, Colorado.
The purpose of this dataset is to maintain a record of the shale drilling field notes, lithologic descriptions, and core photographs taken at the PLM5...
Sample Collection Metadata for Soil Cores from the East River Watershed, Colorado collected in 2017.
This data package contains sample collection metadata for soil cores from the East River Watershed in Colorado used in biogeochemical analyses by the ...
Sub-Basin Delineation for the Upper East River, Colorado, United States.
Upper East sub-basins are delineated as area contributing flow to SFA 2016 stream gage locations. Shapefile attributes include sub-basin ID, name, are...
Distinct Source Water Chemistry Shapes Contrasting Concentration Discharge Patterns, Water Resources Research: Dataset.
This data package contains discharge and water quality data and model results at Coal Creek Watershed in the central Rocky Mountains of Colorado, USA....
Qinayan/Soil-thickness: Soil thickness estimation
This release includes Python codes and associated field sampling and remote sensing data for the estimation of the spatial distribution of soil thickn...
NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Woodhouse - Cochetopa Dome - PIPO - ITRDB CO594
This archived Paleoclimatology Study is available from the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), under the World Data Service (W...
NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Woodhouse - Cochetopa Dome - PIPO - ITRDB CO594
This archived Paleoclimatology Study is available from the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), under the World Data Service (W...
Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) for Key Metabolism Enzymes
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NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Woodhouse - Cochetopa Dome - PIPO - ITRDB CO594
Tree ring data from the International Tree Ring Data Bank and World Data Center for Paleoclimatology archives. Most data sets include raw treering mea...
rpS3 gene phylogenetic tree
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NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Woodhouse - Cochetopa Dome - PIPO - ITRDB CO594
Tree ring data from the International Tree Ring Data Bank and World Data Center for Paleoclimatology archives. Most data sets include raw treering mea...
Amino-acid Sequences of HMM Hits
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1660 clusters of ribosomal protein S3 (rpS3) amino-acid sequences
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The State of Open Data 2020
We’re proud to release our fifth State of Open Data report and feel inspired and encouraged that most open data trends are heading in the right direct...
Spin: A Docker-based Platform for Deploying Science Gateways at NERSC
This demonstration presents Spin, a Docker-based, on-premise cloud platform at NERSC that enables researchers to design, build, and manage their own s...
Data Citation Guidelines for Earth Science Data , Version 2
Guidelines for developing citations for Earth and environmental science data generated by the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP; www.esipfed.or...
POLLEN ANALYSIS AT 5GN817, CHANCE GULCH, COLORADO WITH SUPPORTING ARCHAEOCLIMATE MODELS FROM GUNNISON, COLORADO.
The Chance Gulch site, 5GN817, is an 8000 year old camp located about 2.5 miles southeast of the town of Gunnison, Colorado. The site is situated with...