Surface and porewater chemistry and sulfur stable isotpes for alpine and subalpine wetland sites, 2021.

To understand patterns in aqueous biogeochemistry of wetlands at Niwot Ridge, samples were collected and analyzed for dissolved anions and stable isotopes of sulfur in 2021. Samples were collected from eight wetland sites representing three wetland types, from the Saddle into the subalpine. At each site, tension lysimeters were placed at visible surface inflow and outflow paths to collect porewater. Water samples were collected from the tension lysimeters and surface pools during four time points through the summer season. Water samples were measured for a suite of dissolved anions using ion chromatography, including dissolved chloride, nitrate, and sulfate. Samples were also measured for dissolved organic carbon. Sulfur from one surface water sample from each site at each time point was precipitated as barium sulfate, and precipitations were analyzed for stable sulfur isotope ratio (δ^34S-SO4^2-) at the Center for Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. Data was used in conjunction with soil biogeochemistry data from 2020 to evaluate patterns in reactants among wetland types.