DWCZ- CO - Coal-Creek, Soil sensors, SoilAuger, Soil Pits, (DWCZ-CC_Soil_LBixby)-(2021)

LOCATION: Coal Creek is a high-elevation, headwater tributary to the Upper Colorado Basin located in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. Coal Creek is also a sub-catchment of the larger East River watershed (300 km2) and falls within the research domain of the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (RMBL). This is the Splains Conifer Granite Site. The overlying vegetation is conifer, underlying bedrock is granite and it is north facing. It is also in a Splains Creek watershed, a subwatershed of Coal Creek.

In three components:
ABSTRACT CC_1-5_Sensors_Bixby: Soil sensors are installed in 5 different soil pits in Crested Butte. Sites are located in varying bedrock types (Granite and Sandstone) and vegetation types (Aspen and Conifer). Soil moisture and temperature data is collected every 30 minutes. Gas data is collected every hour.

ABSTRACT SOIL AUGER CC_SoilAuger_Bixby: Soil data collected from multiple different auger sites and counting. Sites are located in varying bedrock types (Granite and Sandstone) and vegetation types (Aspen and Conifer).

ABSTRACT SOIL PITS CC_SoilPits_Bixby: Soil data collected from 5 different soil pits. Sites are located in varying bedrock types (Granite and Sandstone) and vegetation types (Aspen and Conifer).

Some additional images: CC_SoilPit_images_Bixby

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