Gibson Jack, ID Environmental Data (AIMS_MW_GBJ_ENVI)

This resource includes static environmental data collected for the sensor and sampling locations in the Gibson Jack Watershed located near Pocatello, ID. Gibson Jack Creek (outlet location: 42.7853, -112.4446) drains 1620 ha of the US Forest Service Research Natural Area within the Caribou National Forest. Predominantly forested with deciduous trees, sub-apline fir, Douglas fir, and with woody shrubs, sagebrush, and grasses, Gibson Jack spans an elevation range of 1555-2130 m, and has an mean annual temperature and precipitation of 6.5°C and 614.5 mm/yr, respectively. Gibson Jack spans the rain to snow transition with rainfall occurring at the lower elevations and snowfall at the upper elevations. Gibson Jack Creek drains to the Portnuef River and is heavily recreated by the local community.

Further information for all data fields can be found in the "Data Types" tab of this file. In short, this resource contains data for sites across a suite of sensor types, denoted by the sublocation field. These sublocations include:
- "SW" -- a site where regular surface water sampling occured, and contained a stilling well to record stream water level

This resource was created using geospatial analyses using publicly available topographic data (Digital Elevation Models, DEMs from the USGS National Map Downloader v2.0; https://apps.nationalmap.gov/downloader/).
Site locations GPS coordinates were collected using a eMLID Reach RX multi-band RTK rover.
Elevation was extracted from a DEM. All additional environmental data were derived from this DEM using whitebox functions for topographic and stream network analysis (Wu & Brown, 2022) in R version 4.4.0 (R Core Team, 2024).

Approach 1 site is GSS01
Approach 2 sites indicated by GPZ
Approach 3 sites are listed as GBJ or STIC