Shambley Creek Environmental Data (AIMS_SE_WHR_ENVI)

This resource includes static environmental data collected for the sensor and sampling locations in the Shambley Creek research watershed (outlet location: 32.98410915, -88.01334337) on privately owned property in Greene County (AL, USA) as part of the Aquatic Intermittency effects on Microbiomes in Streams (AIMS) project, an NSF EPSCoR funded project (OIA 2019603). The project sought to explore the impacts of stream drying on downstream water quality across Kansas, Oklahoma, Alabama, and Idaho, integrating datasets on hydrology, microbiomes, macroinvertebrates, and biogeochemistry. The watershed drains a non-perennial unnamed tributary to Shambley Creek, and contains 0.70 km^2 of coniferous forest managed for silviculture in the East Gulf Coastal Plain physiographic section. Located near Eutaw, AL, the watershed spans an elevation range from 63 to 94 m above sea level, and is a tributary to the Sipsey River (within the larger Mobile-Tombigbee basin). The region has a humid subtropical climate, with mean daily January and July air temperatures of 7.3°C and 27.4°C respectively, and mean annual precipitation of 1,350 mm/yr.

All data was extracted from Digital Elevation Model (DEM) rasters provided by the USGS National Map Downloader v2.0. Additionally, accompanying watershed_WHR.zip and streamnetwork_WHR.zip files contain .shp files containing the watershed boundary polygon and delineated stream network lines respectively. The watershed was delineated to the outlet location (site: WHM01), and the stream network was delineated using a threshold of 12,000 cells to most closely match the field-observed geomorphic stream network.