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Deep vadose zone respiration contributions to CO2 fluxes from a semi-arid floodplain, Vadose Zone Journal: Dataset

This data package provides lists of parameter values presented in the paper “Deep vadose zone respiration contributions to CO2 fluxes from a semi-arid floodplain” by Tokunaga et al., Vadose Zone J. 2016. Each table or figure from that paper that contains numerical information is represented as a sheet within the Excel file. Table 1 lists depth profile values for particle-size, bulk density, and parameters for correlating moisture contents with matric potentials. Table 2 lists soil respiration fluxes reported in other studies of semi-arid environments. Figure 3. Presents representative relations between moisture contents with matric potentials. Figure 4 presents depth profiles on different dates at site TT03 for hydraulic head, matric head, pore space volumetric air fraction, temperature, and the effective CO2 diffusion coefficient. Figure 5a presents the time-dependence of relative water table elevation (relative to the deepest measured depth during the study), daily CO2 flux rates at the soil surface, and soil temperature at a depth of 0.20 m. Figure 5b presents continuous measurements of CO2 flux and soil temperature. Figure 6 presents depth profiles on different dates of CO2 concentrations in the gas phase at the 5 monitoring stations. Figure 7 presents CO2 surface fluxes calculated by the gradient method, comparisons between calculated and measured rates at the soil surface, CO2 fluxes at 2m depth, and the ratio of deep (2 m) to surface CO2 fluxes.

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Using strontium isotopes to evaluate the spatial variation of groundwater recharge, Science of The Total Environment: Dataset

Data tables used in Christensen et al. 2018 Using strontium isotopes to evaluate the spatial variation of groundwater recharge, Science of The Total Environment, 637-638, 672-685 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.05.019 Files include Sr and U isotopic (87Sr/86Sr and 234U/238U) and concentration data for groundwaters, porewaters, and surface waters at the Rifle, Colorado field site, as well as mass balance modeling results for the percentage of vadose zone porewater in groundwater.

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Transport and humification of dissolved organic matter within a semi-arid floodplain: Dataset

Fluorescence excitation-emission matrix (EEM) spectroscopy, humification index (HIX) and specific UV absorbance (SUVA) at 254 nm were to characterize depth and seasonal variations of Dissolved Organic Matter (DOM) composition within sediments of a semi-arid floodplain at Rifle, Colorado, USA. It is expected that these relatively simple spectroscopic measurements (e.g., EEM spectroscopy, HIX and SUVA) applied to depth- and temporally-distributed pore-water samples can provide useful insights into transport and humification of DOM in other subsurface environments as well.

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Influence of hydrological, biogeochemical and temperature transients on subsurface carbon fluxes in a flood plain environment, Biogeochemistry: Dataset

Data tables used in Arora et al. 2016b Influence of hydrological, biogeochemical and temperature transients on subsurface carbon fluxes in a flood plain environment. Biogeochemistry, 127(2-3), 367-396. Files include reactive transport model parameters describing soil physical and thermal parameters, geochemical reaction network and rate laws, as well as initial and boundary conditions. The last table documents modeling results with respect to annual carbon fluxes from the site to the river.

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Identifying geochemical hot moments and their controls on a contaminated river floodplain system using wavelet and entropy approaches, Environmental modelling & software: Dataset

We used entropy and wavelet techniques to identify temporal variability in geochemical constituents and their controls along three transects within a contaminated floodplain system near Rifle CO. The objectives of this study were to: (1) identify hot moments of conservative and redox sensitive species as short time-periods with disproportionally high levels of concentration, and (ii) associate the transport and/or biogeochemical factors controlling this temporal variability. This data package includes tables from Arora et al. 2016a: Identifying geochemical hot moments and their controls on a contaminated river floodplain system using wavelet and entropy approaches, Environmental modelling & software, 85, 27-41. In particular, files include sampling frequency for geochemical data at the Rifle site, and results of entropy analysis.

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Hot spots and hot moments of nitrogen in a riparian corridor, Water Resources Research: Dataset

We simulated a fully coupled biogeochemical system in the Rifle floodplain from 1 January to 31 December 2014. We use 3D high resolution reactive transport modeling to investigate whether the spatial distribution of organic carbon rich and chemically reduced sediments located in the riparian zone and temporal variability in groundwater flow direction impact the formation and distribution of nitrogen hot spots (regions that exhibit higher reaction rates when compared to other locations nearby) and hot moments (times that exhibit high reaction rates as compared to longer intervening time periods) within the Rifle floodplain in Colorado. This data package includes simulated hydrologic and biogeochemical data from 01 Jan 2014 to 31 Dec 2014.

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Geochemical exports to river from the intrameander hyporheic zone under transient hydrologic conditions, Water Resources Research: Dataset

To understand how redox processes influence carbon, nitrogen, and iron cycling within the intrameander hyporheic zone, we developed a biotic and abiotic reaction network and incorporated it into the reactive transport simulator PFLOTRAN. Two dimensional reactive flow and transport simulations were performed (1) to evaluate how transient hydrological conditions control the lateral redox zonation within an intrameander region of the East River in Colorado and (2) to quantify the impact of a single meander on subsurface exports of carbon and other geochemical species to the river. This data package includes simulated hydrologic and geochemical data from 23 Oct 2015 to 22 Oct 2016.

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Using geochemical indicators to distinguish high biogeochemical activity in floodplain soils and sediments, Science of the Total Environment: Dataset

Data associated with analysis of sediment samples collected in the East River watershed and Rifle floodplain sites, CO. Samples were collected and analyzed as part of two student MS theses at Colorado School of Mines (Kenwell and Prugue) over a time period ranging from 2012 to 2015. Analyses include total organic carbon, leachable Fe and Mn, and total microbial DNA; all analyses performed at Colorado School of Mines. Methods: Samples were collected from core during a drilling campaign at the Rifle Site. Samples were collected every 1.5 m. At the East River site soil and sediment samples were collected using hand-augered bulk density sampler. Collected samples were stored at -20C until analysis. Samples were thawed in an anaerobic chamber and subsampled for extractions and DNA analysis. Samples for DNA analysis were freeze-dried, the remaining sample was oven dried and ground to 0.991 cm for TOC and leaching analysis. TOC analysis was performed on duplicate samples using a CM 5014 Coulometer (UIC, Joliet, IL, USA). Two chemical extractions were performed: hydroxylamine (HA) extraction of Fe and Mn adapted from Lovley et al., 1987 and synthetic precipitation (ppt) leaching adapted from EPA method 1312 (EPA, 1994) . For theHA extraction 3g of wet sediment was mixed with 150 mL of 0.5 N HCl in one bottle and another 3 g of sediment was mixed with 150 mL of 0.25 N hydroxylamine hydrochloride in 0.5 N HCl. Extraction were performed for 24 hours at room temperature after which samples of the liquid were removed and filtered to 0.45 micron and analyzed by ICP-AES. HA-reducible iron and manganese concentrations were determined by difference between the two extractions. For ppt leaches, a 60:40 sulfuric:nitric acid mixture was added to Milliq water to a pH of 4.2 and combined with sediment in a 20:1 mass ratio of acid to sediment. The extraction was performed for 18 hours at room temperature after which the samples of the liquid were removed and filtered to 0.45 micron and analyzed by ICP-AES. DNA was sampled from sediment using a PowerSoil DNA Isolation Kit and extractions were performed according to manufactured instuctions with one adjustment, a 1 minute bead beating replaced the 10 minute vortexing step. Extracted DNA was stored at -20C. Quantitative PCR was performed in triplicate on a Roche LightCycler 480 system and working curves were created by amplifying environmental samples with primers and bead purifying them with Agencourt AMPure XP. Analysis was performed with a Qubit 2.0 Fluorometer and Qubit dsDNA High Sensitivity Assay Kit with results converted to copies using the URI Genomics and Sequencing Center converter (Staroscik, 2004). Additional method details can be found in Kenwell et al., 2016. Lovley, D.R., Phillips, E.J.P. (1987). Rapid assay for microbially reducible ferric iron in aquatic sediments. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 53(7), 1536-1540. Staroscik, A. (2004). Calculator for determining the number of copies of a template. URI Genomics & Sequencing Center. <http://cels.uri.edu/gsc/cndna.html>. EPA. (1994). Method 1312: Synthetic precipitation leaching procedure.

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