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  4. Continuous Water Level, Salinity, and Temperature Data from Monitoring Wells in Herring River Wetlands, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 2020-2021

Continuous Water Level, Salinity, and Temperature Data from Monitoring Wells in Herring River Wetlands, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 2020-2021

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2020
End Date
2021

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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HR_wells_meta_2020_2021.xml
“CSDGM metadata.”
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		54.4 KB application/fgdc+xml
HerringRiver_Typha.jpg
“Photo of a tidally restricted Typha wetland in the Herring River Estuary.” 		thumbnail 1.35 MB image/jpeg
HR_Wells_2020_2021.csv
“CSV of continuous monitoring of well water level, temperature, and salinity.” 		37.11 MB text/csv
HR_WellSensorDeploymentHeights_2020_2021.csv
“Water level logger summary data for land elevation, deployment, and well height.” 		1.5 KB text/csv

Purpose

The Herring River Estuary (Wellfleet, Cape Cod, Massachusetts) has been tidally restricted for over a century by a dike constructed near the mouth of the river. Behind the dike, the tidal restriction has caused the conversion of salt marsh wetlands to various other ecosystems including impounded freshwater marshes, flooded shrub land, drained forested upland, and wetlands dominated by Phragmites australis. This estuary is now managed by the National Park Service, which has plans to replace the dike and restore tidal flow to the estuary. To assist National Park Service land managers with restoration planning, study collaborators have been investigating differences in soil properties, carbon accumulation, and greenhouse gas fluxes across differing ecosystems within the Herring River Estuary. The U.S. Geological Survey has collected continuous monitoring data (including water level, water temperature, and salinity in shallow wells provided in this data release) since 2015 to support data interpretation from these studies; data in this report begin in 2020 (previous data releases are linked in the metadata).
Photo of a tidally restricted Typha wetland in the Herring River Estuary.
Photo of a tidally restricted Typha wetland in the Herring River Estuary.

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