Mountain Watershed Hydrology and Remote Sensing, East River
Integrates multiscale hydrological and biogeochemical data from the East River watershed in Colorado using airborne thermal imaging, hyperspectral remote sensing, and Structure from Motion to improve predictive understanding of mountainous water systems.
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Background
Mountain watersheds are the water towers of the American West, capturing winter snow and slowly releasing it as streamflow that supplies drinking water, agriculture, and ecosystems far downstream. The East River watershed, a 300-square-kilometer headwater catchment of the Upper Colorado River that drains past the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Gothic, Colorado, has become one of the most intensively studied mountain watersheds in the world. Researchers use it as a community testbed to understand how snow, soil, bedrock, vegetation, and microbes interact to determine how much water reaches the stream, when it arrives, and what chemistry it carries. Because the Gunnison Basin sits at the headwaters of a river that supplies roughly 40 million people, small changes in how the East River stores and releases water ripple across the Southwest.
Several key concepts recur throughout this body of research. Snow water equivalent (SWE) is the amount of water held in the snowpack and is the single largest input to mountain streams. Groundwater recharge is the process by which meltwater and rain percolate through soils and into fractured bedrock, where it can be stored for months to decades before emerging as stream baseflow. Interflow describes water that moves laterally through shallow soils rather than sinking deeply, and concentration-discharge (C-Q) relationships describe how the chemistry of a stream changes as its flow rises and falls, revealing which subsurface sources are contributing water at any given moment. The critical zone, the living skin of the Earth that extends from the top of the forest canopy down through soil and weathered bedrock, is where most of these interactions occur.
To observe processes across such a complex landscape, scientists combine traditional field sampling with remote sensing. Airborne imaging spectroscopy (hyperspectral imaging) measures sunlight reflected across hundreds of narrow wavelength bands, allowing researchers to map plant traits, species, and even soil properties from aircraft. LiDAR (light detection and ranging) uses laser pulses to build three-dimensional maps of snow depth, tree canopy structure, and terrain. Stable isotopes of water (the ratios of heavier to lighter forms of hydrogen and oxygen) act as natural tracers that reveal where stream water came from and how long ago it fell as snow or rain. Together, these tools let researchers translate point measurements into watershed-scale understanding.
Foundational work
The modern era of East River research was catalyzed by the establishment of the Department of Energy Watershed Function Project testbed, described in a landmark paper that laid out the scientific vision, monitoring infrastructure, and multi-scale modeling strategy for the site (Hubbard et al., 2018). Around the same time, early hydrologic studies used end-member mixing analysis across nested basins to show that groundwater supplies a surprisingly large and consistent fraction of streamflow, with mean annual groundwater contributions ranging from 12 to 33 percent and rising to as much as 50 percent during baseflow (Carroll et al., 2018). Complementary work demonstrated that interflow from high mountain ridges focuses recharge into convergent zones of the upper subalpine, creating groundwater reserves that proved resilient to drought (Carroll et al., 2019).
These hydrologic insights were paired with foundational biogeochemical work. A mechanistic study of Coal Creek showed that contrasting concentration-discharge patterns arise from the switching dominance of organic-rich shallow soil water during snowmelt and geo-solute-rich deeper groundwater during dry periods (Zhi et al., 2019). Long-term hillslope observations further revealed that the depth of the water table controls where bedrock weathers, with pyrite, carbonate, and organic matter all reacting at a common front determined by water table oscillations (Wan et al., 2019).
Key findings
A central and robust finding across the East River community is that snowpack, not summer rain, generates most streamflow. Across nine mountainous catchments, snow contributed 94 percent of summer streamflow, while only 8 percent of summer rainfall reached the stream and the remainder was returned to the atmosphere as evapotranspiration (Carroll et al., 2022). The North American monsoon adds only about 18 percent of annual water inputs and generates roughly 10 percent of streamflow (Carroll et al., 2020). Isotopic work using deuterium-excess values further showed that high-elevation snowpack above 3200 meters contributes an average of 44 percent of snowmelt-season streamflow, rising to 70 percent at peak melt (Sprenger et al., 2024).
Once snowmelt enters the subsurface, it sets off tightly coupled hydrologic, chemical, and biological dynamics. Meander-scale studies showed that intra-meander hyporheic flow paths create lateral redox gradients that strongly influence nitrogen and iron export to the river (Dwivedi et al., 2018). Snowmelt infiltration triggers a microbial biomass bloom beneath the snowpack and a pulse of soil nitrate when the snow disappears, with distinct winter-adapted, snowmelt-specialist, and spring-adapted microbial communities occupying these seasonal niches (Sorensen et al., 2020). These microbial dynamics are mirrored in the virosphere, where thousands of DNA and RNA viral populations shift seasonally alongside their bacterial hosts (Coclet et al., 2023).
Vegetation plays an equally important role. Tree-ring isotope records from Engelmann spruce and subalpine fir reveal that conifers preferentially use snowmelt but opportunistically shift to summer rain in wet years (Berkelhammer et al., 2020). Integrated hydrologic models that track water parcels show that evapotranspiration can draw on water many years old, while outflow residence times span many years and depend strongly on land cover (Maxwell et al., 2019). The first watershed-scale airborne campaign outside the NEON core sites demonstrated that imaging spectroscopy can accurately map foliar nitrogen, leaf mass per area, and leaf water content across these forests, linking canopy traits to subsurface processes (Chadwick et al., 2020).
Current frontier
Early work in the 2010s established the hydrologic and biogeochemical skeleton of the East River, but recent studies since 2020 have shifted decisively toward climate change projections, deep subsurface processes, and finer-scale heterogeneity. A high-resolution integrated model extending 400 meters into bedrock projects that warming will increase forest water use, deplete groundwater storage, and cause streamflow declines that persist even through wet years, with the Gunnison and Colorado Headwater basins among the most vulnerable (Carroll et al., 2024). Follow-up work shows that deeper, more porous bedrock circulation systems buffer minimum flows during multi-year droughts, making subsurface architecture a first-order control on watershed resilience (Carroll et al., 2025). Analyses of the Upper Colorado record attribute 67 percent of post-2000 streamflow deficits to the combination of declining spring precipitation and rising potential evapotranspiration (Hogan & Lundquist, 2024).
New findings are also refining how forests mediate these changes. Canopy structure strongly modulates tree responses to snowpack variability: trees in dense stands increase transpiration in big snow years, while trees in open stands rely more on summer rain (Berkelhammer et al., 2025). Aspen respond to drought by shifting uptake to 60 to 80 centimeters depth and increasing deep-soil water use sevenfold, although this compensation is not enough to fully offset shallow drying (Sprenger et al., 2025). Watershed-scale LiDAR analyses reveal that snow water equivalent and snow disappearance rate are the dominant controls on conifer forest structure (Worsham et al., 2025). Emerging methodological frontiers include deep-learning prediction of snowpack, time-lapse imagery for quantifying snow patchiness during melt, drone-based thermal mapping of groundwater discharge, Bayesian record linkage of repeated LiDAR scans for tree demography, and coupled particle-tracking models that use matrix diffusion to reconcile observed mixtures of young and old groundwater (Thiros et al., 2025).
Open questions
Despite rapid progress, important questions remain. How deep does active groundwater circulation really extend beneath mountain watersheds, and how will that storage respond to sustained drought? How will shifts in snowpack timing, canopy structure, and rooting depth interact to change the partitioning of precipitation between streamflow and evapotranspiration over the coming decades? Can remote sensing of canopy traits reliably predict subsurface biogeochemical conditions at management-relevant scales? How will seasonal microbial and viral dynamics, which are tightly tied to snowmelt timing, reorganize as snow arrives later and melts earlier? And how should water managers integrate these insights into operational forecasts for the Colorado River, given that groundwater depletion may not recover even in wet years? The next decade of research, increasingly built on integrated models, airborne and satellite remote sensing, and long-term isotope and chemistry records, will determine how well mountain watersheds like the East River can be managed as the climate continues to warm.
References
Berkelhammer, M., et al. (2025). Canopy structure modulates the sensitivity of subalpine forest stands to interannual snowpack and precipitation variability. Hydrology and Earth System Science. →
Berkelhammer, M., Still, C. J., Ritter, F., Winnick, M., Anderson, L., Carroll, R., Carbone, M., Williams, K. H. (2020). Persistence and Plasticity in Conifer Water-Use Strategies. JGR Biogeosciences. →
Carroll, R. W. H., Bearup, L. A., Brown, W., Dong, W., Bill, M., Williams, K. H. (2018). Factors Controlling Seasonal Groundwater and Solute Flux from Snow-Dominated Basins. Hydrological Processes. →
Carroll, R. W. H., Deems, J. S., Niswonger, R., Schumer, R., Williams, K. H. (2019). The importance of interflow to groundwater recharge in a snowmelt-dominated headwater basin. Geophysical Research Letters. →
Carroll, R. W. H., et al. (2020). Efficiency of the Summer Monsoon in Generating Streamflow Within a Snow-Dominated Headwater Basin of the Colorado River. →
Carroll, R. W. H., et al. (2022). Variability of Snow and Rainfall Partitioning Into Evapotranspiration and Summer Runoff Across Nine Mountainous Catchments. →
Carroll, R. W. H., et al. (2024). Declining groundwater storage expected to amplify mountain streamflow reductions in a warmer world. Nature Water. →
Carroll, R. W. H., et al. (2025). The role of bedrock circulation depth and porosity in mountain streamflow response to prolonged drought. Geophysical Research Letters. →
Chadwick, K. D., et al. (2020). Integrating airborne remote sensing and field campaigns for ecology and Earth system science. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. →
Coclet, C., et al. (2023). Virus diversity and activity is driven by snowmelt and host dynamics in a high-altitude watershed soil ecosystem. Microbiome. →
Dwivedi, D., et al. (2018). Geochemical exports to river from the intra-meander hyporheic zone under transient hydrologic conditions: East River Mountainous Watershed, Colorado. Water Resources Research. →
Hogan, D., Lundquist, J. D. (2024). Recent Upper Colorado River Streamflow Declines Driven by Loss of Spring Precipitation. Geophysical Research Letters. →
Hubbard, S. S., et al. (2018). The East River, Colorado, Watershed: A mountainous community testbed for improving predictive understanding of multiscale hydrological-biogeochemical dynamics. Vadose Zone Journal. →
Maxwell, R. M., et al. (2019). Exploring source water mixing and transient residence time distributions of outflow and evapotranspiration with an integrated hydrologic model and Lagrangian particle tracking approach. Ecohydrology. →
Sorensen, P. O., et al. (2020). The Snowmelt Niche Differentiates Three Microbial Life Strategies That Influence Soil Nitrogen Availability During and After Winter. Frontiers in Microbiology. →
Sprenger, M., et al. (2024). Stream water sourcing from high-elevation snowpack inferred from stable isotopes of water: a novel application of d-excess values. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. →
Sprenger, M., et al. (2025). Opportunistic short-term water uptake dynamics by subalpine trees observed via in situ water isotope measurements. Water Resources Research. →
Thiros, N., et al. (2025). Matrix diffusion controls mountain hillslope groundwater ages and inferred storage dynamics. Groundwater. →
Wan, J., et al. (2019). Predicting sedimentary bedrock subsurface weathering fronts and weathering rates. Scientific Reports. →
Worsham, M., et al. (2025). Abiotic influences on continuous conifer forest structure across a subalpine watershed. Remote Sensing of Environment. →
Zhi, W., Li, L., Dong, W., Brown, W., Kaye, J., Steefel, C., Williams, K. H. (2019). Distinct Source Water Chemistry Shapes Contrasting Concentration-Discharge Patterns. Water Resources Research. →
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thermal imaging
Use of infrared technology to measure surface temperatures of objects
Global Meteoric Water Line
GMWL
last interglacial period
The most recent period in Earth's history (~116-130 ka) when temperatures were persistently warmer than today, specifically the Eemian period at 125 k...
atmospheric correction
Processing procedure to remove atmospheric effects from hyperspectral radiance data to estimate surface reflectance
sliding-window analysis
Statistical approach that tests all possible combinations of climate drivers and temporal windows to identify optimal predictive time scales
watershed resilience
The degree to which a watershed can rebound after perturbations to predicted increases in climate variability
Long Short-Term Memory
Type of recurrent neural network capable of learning temporal dependencies in sequential data through gated memory cells
exponential distribution of root mass
lichenometry
A dating technique that uses the measured diameters of lichen thalli to estimate the age of rock surfaces
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time domain reflectometry
Green Chromatic Coordinate
Measure of vegetation greenness calculated as G/(R+G+B) used as proxy for evapotranspiration
phage-host interactions
Ecological relationships between bacteriophages and their bacterial hosts involving infection, replication, and lysis or lysogeny
external inputs
dissolved As
Protocol (10) →
Custom VSWIR atmospheric correction with topographic compensation
A custom atmospheric correction procedure for VSWIR hyperspectral data that uses ACORN-6LX software with 200-meter processing kernels incorporating lo...
sUAS thermal infrared stream characterization
Use of small unoccupied aircraft systems with thermal infrared cameras to identify groundwater discharge zones in stream corridors through temperature...
Structure from Motion processing
Images were processed in Agisoft Metashape Software to derive a georeferenced dense point cloud and 3D model, then orthorectified and combined into a ...
Ray tracing shade mask generation
A custom ray tracing algorithm that generates shade masks for hyperspectral imagery by calculating paths between the sun, ground points, and sensor us...
Deep learning hybrid predictive modeling for ecosystem fluxes
A novel approach combining LSTM neural networks with process-based ecological understanding to predict evapotranspiration and ecosystem respiration. T...
Random Forest Groundwater Time Series Imputation
A methodology using random forest algorithms to fill missing values in sub-hourly groundwater monitoring data with entropy-based uncertainty quantific...
PFLOTRAN
Numerical solution of the one-dimensional Richards equation using PFLOTRAN software to simulate soil water flow and generate synthetic soil moisture d...
High-frequency river thorium monitoring
Frequent collection and ICP-MS analysis of river water samples to detect thorium concentration excursions as indicators of bedrock fracture processes....
Gas chromatography methane analysis
Methane concentrations measured using headspace equilibration technique and gas chromatograph with flame ionization detector.
Field filtration
In-field filtering of water samples using 0.2 µm polyethersulfone syringe filters. Removes particulate matter from surface water and groundwater sampl...
Publication (124) →
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
Modeling geogenic and atmospheric nitrogen through the East River Watershed, Colorado Rocky Mountains
From legacy contamination to watershed systems science: a review of scientific insights and technologies developed through DOE-supported research in water and energy security
Model-based interpretation of solute exports and carbon partitioning during shale weathering in a mountainous hillslope
Surface parameters and bedrock properties covary across a mountainous watershed: Insights from machine learning and geophysics
Distinct Source Water Chemistry Shapes Contrasting Concentration-Discharge Patterns
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Depth- and time-resolved distributions of snowmelt-driven hillslope subsurface flow and transport and their contributions to surface waters.
Modeling the Impact of Riparian Hollows on River Corridor Nitrogen Exports
Differential C-Q Analysis: A New Approach to Inferring Lateral Transport and Hydrologic Transients Within Multiple Reaches of a Mountainous Headwater Catchment
Aerobic respiration controls on shale weathering
Declining groundwater storage expected to amplify mountain streamflow reductions in a warmer world
Hidden features: How subsurface and landscape heterogeneity govern hydrologic connectivity and stream chemistry in a montane watershed
Hydrological control of rock carbon fluxes from shale weathering
Geochemical exports to river from the intra-meander hyporheic zone under transient hydrologic conditions: East River Mountainous Watershed, Colorado
Controls from above and below: Snow, soil, and steepness drive diverging trends of subsurface water and streamflow dynamics
Bedrock weathering contributes to subsurface reactive nitrogen and nitrous oxide emissions
Quantifying Subsurface Flow and Solute Transport in a Snowmelt-Recharged Hillslope With Multiyear Water Balance
Understanding the Hydrogeochemical Response of a Mountainous Watershed Using Integrated Surface-Subsurface Flow and Reactive Transport Modeling
Shale as a Source of Organic Carbon in Floodplain Sediments of a Mountainous Watershed
Watershed zonation through hillslope clustering for tractably quantifying above-and below-ground watershed heterogeneity and functions
Variability in observed stable water isotopes in snowpack across a mountainous watershed in Colorado
Snowmelt controls on concentration-discharge relationships and the balance of oxidative and acid-base weathering fluxes in an alpine catchment, East River, Colorado
Latest Pleistocene glacial chronology and paleoclimate reconstruction for the East River watershed, Colorado, USA
Improving predictions of stream CO2 concentrations and fluxes using a stream network model: A case study in the East River watershed, CO, USA
Constraining Bedrock Groundwater Residence Times in a Mountain System With Environmental Tracer Observations and Bayesian Uncertainty Quantification
Concentration-Discharge Relationships of Dissolved Rhenium in Alpine Catchments Reveal Its Use as a Tracer of Oxidative Weathering
A deep learning hybrid predictive modeling (HPM) approach for estimating evapotranspiration and ecosystem respiration
Direct Observation of the Depth of Active Groundwater Circulation in an Alpine Watershed
Contrasting depth dependencies of plant root presence and mass across biomes underscore prolific root-regolith interactions
Baseflow Age Distributions and Depth of Active Groundwater Flow in a Snow Dominated Mountain Headwater Basin
Streamflow partitioning and transit time distribution in snow-dominated basins as a function of climate
Remote Sensing-Informed Zonation for Understanding Snow, Plant and Soil Moisture Dynamics within a Mountain Ecosystem
BASIN-3D: A brokering framework to integrate diverse environmental data
Return flows from beaver ponds enhance floodplain-to-river metals exchange in alluvial mountain catchments
Geochemical Controls on Release and Speciation of Fe(II) and Mn(II) From Hyporheic Sediments of East River, Colorado
Integrating airborne remote sensing and field campaigns for ecology and Earth system science
Matrix diffusion controls mountain hillslope groundwater ages and inferred storage dynamics
Molecular diversity of dissolved organic matter reflects macroecological patterns in river networks
Recent Upper Colorado River Streamflow Declines Driven by Loss of Spring Precipitation
Sensitivity analysis of hydraulic conductivity and Manning’s n parameters lead to new method to scale effective hydraulic conductivity across model resolutions.
Mineralogical, magnetic and geochemical data constrain the pathways and extent of weathering of mineralized sedimentary rocks
Seasonal manganese transport in the hyporheic zone of a snowmelt-dominated river (East River, Colorado)
From tree to tap: The impacts of climate change on biogeochemical processes during conifer needle distribution and broader implications for water quality in Colorado
Assessment of Spatiotemporal Variability of Evapotranspiration and Its Governing Factors in a Mountainous Watershed
Probabilistic Evaluation of Geoscientific Hypotheses With Geophysical Data. Application to Electrical Resistivity Imaging of a Fractured Bedrock Zone
Satellite-derived foresummer drought sensitivity of plant productivity in Rocky Mountain headwater catchments: spatial heterogeneity and geological-geomorphological control
Molecular nature of mineral-organic associations within redox-active mountainous floodplain sediments
The Snowmelt Niche Differentiates Three Microbial Life Strategies That Influence Soil Nitrogen Availability During and After Winter
Late Quaternary Paleoecology of Two High-Elevation Mammal Species from the Southern Rocky Mountains, Colorado, USA
Investigating Microtopographic and Soil Controls on a Mountainous Meadow Plant Community Using High-Resolution Remote Sensing and Surface Geophysical Data
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
Variability of Snow and Rainfall Partitioning Into Evapotranspiration and Summer Runoff Across Nine Mountainous Catchments
Meanders as a scaling motif for understanding of floodplain soil microbiome and biogeochemical potential at the watershed scale
Hyporheic Zone Microbiome Assembly Is Linked to Dynamic Water Mixing Patterns in Snowmelt-Dominated Headwater Catchments
On the similarity of hillslope hydrologic function: a clustering approach based on groundwater changes
Efficiency of the Summer Monsoon in Generating Streamflow Within a Snow-Dominated Headwater Basin of the Colorado River
Predicting sedimentary bedrock subsurface weathering fronts and weathering rates
Canopy structure modulates the sensitivity of subalpine forest stands to interannual snowpack and precipitation variability
A hybrid data-model approach to map soil thickness in mountain hillslopes
Mineral and metabolic constraints on carbon cycling within and export from mountainous floodplain soils
Contrasting the hydrologic response due to land cover and climate change in a mountain headwaters system
Model and remote-sensing-guided experimental design and hypothesis generation for monitoring snow-soil–plant interactions
Dwindling Groundwater Reserves Will Threaten Mountain Streamflow in a Warmer World
A tale of two catchments: causality analysis and isotope systematics reveal mountainous watershed traits that regulate the retention and release of nitrogen
Abiotic influences on continuous conifer forest structure across a subalpine watershed
Modeling snow dynamics and stable water isotopes across mountain landscapes
Stream water sourcing from high-elevation snowpack inferred from stable isotopes of water: a novel application of d-excess values
Relationships between CO2, thermodynamic limits on silicate weathering, and the strength of the silicate weathering feedback
Old-Aged groundwater contributes to mountain hillslope hydrologic dynamics
The influence of orbital parameters on the North American Monsoon system during the Last Interglacial Period
Hydrology outweighs temperature in driving production and export of dissolved carbon in a snowy mountain catchment
Effect of elevation, season and accelerated snowmelt on biogeochemical processes during isolated conifer needle litter decomposition
Imputation of contiguous gaps and extremes of subhourly groundwater time series using random forests
Resolution matters when modeling climate change in headwaters of the Colorado River
Disinfection byproducts formed during drinking water treatment reveal an export control point for dissolved organic matter in a subalpine headwater stream
Variations in bedrock and vegetation cover modulate subsurface water flow dynamics of a mountainous hillslope
Hidden Processes During Seasonal Isolation of a High-Altitude Watershed
Heterogeneity in Hyporheic Flow, Pore Water Chemistry, and Microbial Community Composition in an Alpine Streambed
Impact of intra-meander hyporheic flow on nitrogen cycling
Shifting groundwater fluxes in bedrock fractures: Evidence from stream water radon and water isotopes
A comparison of lodgepole and spruce needle chemistry impacts on terrestrial biogeochemical processes during isolated decomposition
Interannual precipitation controls on soil CO2 fluxes in high elevation conifer and aspen forests
The importance of interflow to groundwater recharge in a snowmelt-dominated headwater basin
Linking surface processes, solute generation, and CO2 budgets across lithological and land cover gradients in Rocky Mountain watersheds
Climate forcing controls on carbon terrestrial fluxes during shale weathering
River thorium concentrations can record bedrock fracture processes including some triggered by distant seismic events
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
Accelerated snowmelt protocol to simulate climate change induced impacts on snowpack dependent ecosystems
Automated Cloud Based Long Short-Term Memory Neural Network Based SWE Prediction
Persistence and Plasticity in Conifer Water-Use Strategies
Virus diversity and activity is driven by snowmelt and host dynamics in a high-altitude watershed soil ecosystem
Statistical framework to assess long-term spatio-temporal climate changes: East River mountainous watershed case study
Using geochemical indicators to distinguish high biogeochemical activitiy in floodplain soils and sediments
A distributed temperature profiling system for vertically and laterally dense acquisition of soil and snow temperature
Wetter summers mitigated temperature stress on Rocky Mountain forests during the last interglacial warm period
Efficient hydrogeological characterization of remote stream corridors using drones
Leveraging groundwater dynamics to improve predictions of summer low-flow discharges
Hyporheic Oxygen Dynamics in the East River, Colorado: Insights From an In‐Situ, High Frequency Time Series During Two Distinct Flow Seasons
Assessing the Role of Oxbow Deposits in Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics within Alpine Watersheds
A Bayesian record linkage approach to applications in tree demography using overlapping LiDAR scans
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
Three-Dimensional Surface Downwelling Longwave Radiation Clear-Sky Effects in the Upper Colorado River Basin
Using time-lapse imagery to determine snow heterogeneity
The role of bedrock circulation depth and porosity in mountain streamflow response to prolonged drought
Effects of Dissolved Oxygen & Iron II Concentration Fluxes in Beaver-Impacted Floodplains
Late Quaternary vertebrates from the Upper Gunnison Basin, Colorado, and small-mammal community resilience to climate change since the last glacial maximum
A Meteorology and Snow Data Set From Adjacent Forested and Meadow Sites at Crested Butte, CO, USA
Stable isotopes reflect the ecological stability of two high-elevation mammals from the late Quaternary of Colorado
Cosmogenic 10Be and 36Cl ages from late Pleistocene terminal moraine complexes in the Taylor River drainage basin, central Colorado, USA
Rock glaciers in Central Colorado, U.S.A., as indicators of Holocene climate change
Spatial variations in the fate and transport of metals in a mining-influenced stream, North Fork Clear Creek, Colorado
Hydrological effects of hypothetical climate change in the East River basin, Colorado, USA
Stable isotope compositions of precipitation from Gunnison, Colorado 2007–2016: implications for the climatology of a high-elevation valley
Pinedale glacial history of the upper Arkansas River valley
Palynology of Pinedale Sediments, Devlins Park, Boulder County, Colorado
Exploration and geology of the Mt. Emmons molybdenite deposits, Gunnison County, Colorado
Influence of Metal Contamination and Sediment Deposition on Benthic Invertebrate Colonization at the North Fork Clear Creek Superfund Site, Colorado, USA
Reactive transport modeling of remedial scenarios to predict cadmium, copper, and zinc in north fork of Clear Creek, Colorado
Responses of soil and water chemistry to mountain pine beetle induced tree mortality in Grand County, Colorado, USA
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
River and hyporheic zone water geochemical data from OsmoSamplers, East River Pumphouse, Colorado, Nov 2017-Sept 2018
This data package contains geochemical and river water temperature data from OsmoSamplers deployed at East River, Colorado pump house. There are thr...
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...
Depth-resolved seasonal porewater chemistry measurements from 3 locations around Meander A of the East River, Colorado
Depth-resolved pore water samples were recovered from 3 locations around Meander A in the East River near Crested Butte, CO, USA for a suite of physio...
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...
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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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)....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Remote sensing and geophysical characterization of a floodplain-hillslope system in the East River watershed, Colorado
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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...
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...
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...
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...
Data from "A Bayesian Record Linkage Approach to Applications in Tree Demography Using Overlapping LiDAR Scans"
Processed LiDAR data and environmental covariates from 2015 and 2019 LiDAR scans in the Vicinity of Snodgrass Mountain (Western Colorado, USA), in a g...
Solute chemistry for streams draining geomorphic features and varying land cover gradients in the East River watershed, Colorado
This dataset contains solute chemistry data and GPS coordinates for surface water samples collected in the East River watershed in the Elk and West El...
WHONDRS Summer 2019 Sampling Campaign: Global River Corridor Sediment FTICR-MS, Dissolved Organic Carbon, Aerobic Respiration, Elemental Composition, Grain Size, Total Nitrogen and Organic Carbon Content, Bacterial Abundance, and Stable Isotopes (v9)
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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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
DevonKerins/HydrologicalDynamicsinHeadwaterCatchments: Input and data analysis files for "Controls From Above and Below: snow, soil, and steepness drive diverging trends of subsurface water and streamflow dynamics"
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Bedrock weathering rates, reactive nitrogen influxes and effluxes, and nitrous oxide emissions rates from the Pumphouse Hillslope, East River Watershed, Colorado.
Atmospheric nitrous oxide contributes directly to global warming, yet models of the nitrogen cycle do not account for bedrock, the largest pool of ...
Soil moisture and temperature data along the northeast facing hillslope at the Lower Montane site in the East River Watershed, Colorado.
Soil moisture, temperature and electrical conductivity have been monitored with 5TE sensors (Decagon Inc.) located at 10 and 50 cm depth at 4 differ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Recent Upper Colorado River Streamflow Declines Driven by Loss of Spring Precipitation
The dataset accompanying the manuscript titled "Recent Upper Colorado River Streamflow Declines Driven by Loss of Spring Precipitation" provides compr...
NEON AOP Survey of Upper East River CO Watersheds: LAZ Files, LiDAR Surface Elevation, Terrain Elevation, and Canopy Height Rasters
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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,...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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, ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Data from: “Significant stream chemistry response to temperature variations in a high-elevation mountain watershed”
High-elevation mountain regions, central to global freshwater supply, are experiencing more rapid warming than low-elevation locations. High-elevation...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
Predicting sedimentary bedrock subsurface weathering fronts and weathering rates: Dataset.
Although bedrock weathering strongly influences water quality and global carbon and nitrogen budgets, the weathering depths and rates within subsurfac...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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" (...
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...
Whole rock major, minor, and trace element geochemistry of the upper part of the Mount Emmons-Redwell porphyry molybdenum (Climax-type) deposit, Redwell Basin, Crested Butte, Colorado
This U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) data release provides whole rock major, minor, and trace element geochemical data from the fluorine-rich Mount Emmo...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Dataset for Quantifying Dissolved Organic Matter Scaling Relationships and Trends in Watersheds
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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...
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...
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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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...
Airborne Magnetic and Radiometric Survey, Colorado Mineral Belt, Mid Block, 2023
This data release provides digital flight-line and gridded data for a high-resolution airborne magnetic and radiometric survey over the central portio...
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 ...
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....
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
Global Daily Surface Blue-sky Albedo Climatology and Land Cover Climatology Dataset from 20-year MODIS Products (500m)
Only the first days of each month were uploaded to Zenodo due to the data storage limitation, and the full dataset is available at http://glass.umd.ed...
Stream carbon dioxide in the East River watershed, Crested Butte, CO, USA
Saccardi and Winnick Data contains the East River sample data including chemistry and corrected pCO2 data (n=162) with the included column denoting wh...
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...
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...