DWCZ - CO - Manitou Experimental Forest, Hotel Gulch - Water Chemistry - (DWCZ-MEF-HG-GW-SW-Array-SBush) - (2018-2021)

NOTE: This resource represents the data as presented in Sidney Bush’s dissertation, working title: “Spatiotemporal Patterns in Hydrologic Connectivity in a Montane Headwater System in Central Colorado.”

Surface water samples were collected within Hotel Gulch from 2018 to 2021. Samples were regularly collected at over 30 sites in total, including both surface water and groundwater. Sampling occurred during the spring, summer, and into the fall. Storm flows were also sampled on occasion.

All chemistry samples were analyzed at the University of Colorado Boulder / Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research. Major cations and anions were analyzed on the IC in the Ecohydrology Laboratory, and isotope samples were analyzed in the Stable Isotope Laboratory.

Location: Hotel Gulch is within the Manitou Experimental Forest. The area contains a series of alluvial and colluvial fans, which are indicative of historic debris-flow scars. Equipment is installed within these alluvial/colluvial fans at increasing distances from the stream. Stream sites are measured along a longitudinal profile, starting from the headwater and extending to the lowest site just upstream of the flume.

Please formalize metadata for locations.

PLEASE SEE RELATED FOR MORE DWCZ SOIL MOISTURE / SOIL TEMPERATURE DATA.