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  4. Continuous Water Level, Salinity, and Temperature Data from Monitoring Wells in Wetlands on the South Shore of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 2020

Continuous Water Level, Salinity, and Temperature Data from Monitoring Wells in Wetlands on the South Shore of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 2020

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2020-06-18
End Date
2020-12-06

Citation

O'Keefe Suttles, J.A., Eagle, M.J., Sanders-DeMott, R., Nick, S.K., Brooks, T.W., Mann, A.G., and Kroeger, K.D., 2022, Continuous water level, salinity, and temperature data from coastal wetland monitoring wells, Cape Cod, Massachusetts (ver. 2.0, August 2022): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9T1KOTW.

Summary

Environmental parameters affecting plant productivity and microbial respiration, such as water level, salinity, and groundwater temperature included in these datasets, are key components of wetland carbon cycling, carbon storage, and capacity to maintain elevation. Data were collected to (1) provide background data to evaluate potential differences in water level and carbon flux between wetland sites with differing elevation and tidal inundation and (2) facilitate applications of Blue Carbon projects in coastal wetlands. Associated child pages include continuous water level, salinity, and temperature from shallow wells installed in coastal wetland sites on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. These datasets are grouped by the project they support [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Jennifer A O'Keefe Suttles
Originator :
Jennifer A O'Keefe Suttles, Meagan Eagle, Rebecca Sanders-Demott, Sydney K Nick, Thomas W Brooks, Adrian G Mann, Kevin D Kroeger
Data Owner :
Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
SDC Data Owner :
Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Natural Hazards
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase

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SLP_Phrag_2020.jpg
“Photograph of a unrestricted Phragmites wetland in Sage Lot Pond, Cape Cod, MA.” 		thumbnail 2.01 MB image/jpeg
SLP_Phrag_Well_2020.csv
“Continuous monitoring of well water level, temperature, and salinity.” 		5.6 MB text/csv
SLP_wells_meta_2020.xml
“CSDGM metadata.”
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		48.65 KB application/fgdc+xml
SLP_WellSensorDeploymentHeights_2020.csv
“Water level loggers land elevation, deployment, and well height.” 		1.36 KB text/csv

Purpose

Two sites were established in locations of the Sage Lot Pond salt marsh complex (Waquoit Bay, Mashpee, MA) dominated by Phragmites vegetation, close to the forested upland. The site closer to the bay experiences more frequent tidal inundation and more saline waters (Unrestricted-High) than the inland site which is at a higher elevation and where fresh groundwater contributes to lower salinity (Unrestricted-Low). Data reported include continuous water level, salinity, and temperature in support of field experiments examining how carbon fluxes vary across a salinity gradient in impounded and natural, tidally unrestricted Phragmites wetlands. Data from the tidally restricted sites at Herring River are available in an accompanying child page within this data release.
Photograph of a unrestricted Phragmites wetland in Sage Lot Pond, Cape Cod, MA.
Photograph of a unrestricted Phragmites wetland in Sage Lot Pond, Cape Cod, MA.

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