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Continuous Water Level, Salinity, and Temperature Data from Creeks and Monitoring Wells in Natural and Restored Wetlands on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 2019

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2019-04-29
End Date
2019-10-24

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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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RestoredMarshes_2019_meta.xml
“CSDGM metadata.”
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		58.25 KB application/fgdc+xml
Scusset_RestoredSaltMarsh.jpg
“Scusset Restored Salt Marsh” 		thumbnail 396.15 KB image/jpeg
Creeks_2019.csv
“CSV of continuous monitoring of creek water level, temperature, and salinity.” 		1.65 MB text/csv
SensorDeploymentHeights_2019.csv
“Water level logger summary data for land elevation, deployment, and well height.” 		1.3 KB text/csv
Wells_2019.csv
“CSV of continuous monitoring of well water level, temperature, and salinity.” 		2.8 MB text/csv
revision_history.txt 1,013 Bytes text/plain

Purpose

For several decades, local towns, conservation groups, and government organizations have worked to identify, replace, repair, and enlarge culverts to restore tidal flow upstream from historical tidal restrictions in an effort to restore salt marsh ecosystems on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Undersized or failed culverts restrict tidal exchange between the marsh and the bays and estuaries, which leads to alterations in plant community composition and in fundamental processes controlling soil carbon accumulation, soil carbon transformations, and greenhouse gas emissions. In this study, sites were selected to compare salt marshes restored over a range of years and to compare marshes upstream and downstream from a restored tidal restriction. Salt marshes downstream from tidal restrictions represent "natural" conditions because hydrology was not substantially altered, whereas marshes upstream from repaired culverts represent "restored" conditions.
Scusset Restored Salt Marsh
Scusset Restored Salt Marsh

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Revision 2.0 by Jen O'Keefe Suttles on August 18, 2022. To review the changes that were made, see “revision_history.txt” in the attached files section.

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