COMPASS-FME Synoptic Site Characterization

Patel, Kaizad; Malhotra, Avni; Norris, Cooper; McKever, Sophia; Fields, Devon; Musci, Jared; Bandopadhyay, Sreejata; Bond-Lamberty, Ben; Chen, Xingyuan; Day, Donnie; Doro, Kennedy; Fluet-Chouinard, Etienne; Garcia, Marci; Kemner, Kenneth; Machado-Silva, Fausto; McDowell, Nate; Morris, Kendalynn; Myers-Pigg, Allison; O'Loughlin, Edward; O'Meara, Teri; Peixoto, Roberta; Pennington, Stephanie; Regier, Peter; Rich, Roy; Rod, Kenton; Sulman, Benjamin; Thornton, Peter; Ward, Nicholas; Wilson, Stephanie; Weintraub, Michael; Megonigal, J. Patrick; Bailey, Vanessa

doi:10.15485/2583150

Title: COMPASS-FME Synoptic Site Characterization

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This dataset contains soil biogeochemical and physicochemical characterization data for the COMPASS-FME synoptic sites.This dataset also contains data for the paper Patel et al. 2025 "Transition zones at the changing coastal terrestrial-aquatic interface", https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JG008978.Coastal soils are a significant but highly uncertain component of global biogeochemical cycles. These systems experience unique spatial and temporal variability in biogeochemical processes, driven by wetland-to-upland gradients and hydrological fluctuations. We studied drivers of coastal soil variability (a) at regional scales and (b) across transects from upland forest to wetland, in two contrasting regions — Lake Erie, a freshwater lacustrine system, and Chesapeake Bay, a saltwater estuarine system. Salinity-related analytes were a key driver of soil variability, not just in the saltwater system, but surprisingly, also in the freshwater system. We had hypothesized linear trends in biogeochemical parameters along the TAI – however, contrary to expectations, transition soils were not consistently intermediate between upland and wetland endmembers; the non-monotonic trends of carbon, phosphorus, iron along our transects suggest that these are key analytes to study in our regions. Rapidly changing soil factors across coastal gradients provide insights into which soil processes may act as precursors to ecosystem shifts. Our comprehensive soil characterization across the coastal transectsmore »« less

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; Malhotra, Avni; Norris, Cooper; McKever, Sophia; Fields, Devon; Musci, Jared; Bandopadhyay, Sreejata; Bond-Lamberty, Ben; Chen, Xingyuan; Day, Donnie; Doro, Kennedy; Fluet-Chouinard, Etienne; Garcia, Marci; Kemner, Kenneth; Machado-Silva, Fausto; McDowell, Nate; Morris, Kendalynn; Myers-Pigg, Allison; O'Loughlin, Edward; O'Meara, Teri more »

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington
California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, Arcata, California
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio
Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Smithsonian Environmental Research Institute, Edgewater, Maryland

Publication Date:: Wed Jan 01 04:00:00 UTC 2025

DOE Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231

Research Org.:: COMPASS-FME

Sponsoring Org.:: U.S. DOE > Office of Science > Biological and Environmental Research (BER)

Subject:: 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > SOILS; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > COASTAL PROCESSES; ESS-DIVE CSV File Formatting Guidelines Reporting Format; ESS-DIVE File Level Metadata Reporting Format

OSTI Identifier:: 2583150

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.15485/2583150

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                    Patel, Kaizad, Malhotra, Avni, Norris, Cooper, McKever, Sophia, Fields, Devon, Musci, Jared, Bandopadhyay, Sreejata, Bond-Lamberty, Ben, Chen, Xingyuan, Day, Donnie, Doro, Kennedy, Fluet-Chouinard, Etienne, Garcia, Marci, Kemner, Kenneth, Machado-Silva, Fausto, McDowell, Nate, Morris, Kendalynn, Myers-Pigg, Allison, O'Loughlin, Edward, O'Meara, Teri, Peixoto, Roberta, Pennington, Stephanie, Regier, Peter, Rich, Roy, Rod, Kenton, Sulman, Benjamin, Thornton, Peter, Ward, Nicholas, Wilson, Stephanie, Weintraub, Michael, Megonigal, J. Patrick, and Bailey, Vanessa. COMPASS-FME Synoptic Site Characterization.  United States: N. p., 2025. 
        Web.  doi:10.15485/2583150.

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                    Patel, Kaizad, Malhotra, Avni, Norris, Cooper, McKever, Sophia, Fields, Devon, Musci, Jared, Bandopadhyay, Sreejata, Bond-Lamberty, Ben, Chen, Xingyuan, Day, Donnie, Doro, Kennedy, Fluet-Chouinard, Etienne, Garcia, Marci, Kemner, Kenneth, Machado-Silva, Fausto, McDowell, Nate, Morris, Kendalynn, Myers-Pigg, Allison, O'Loughlin, Edward, O'Meara, Teri, Peixoto, Roberta, Pennington, Stephanie, Regier, Peter, Rich, Roy, Rod, Kenton, Sulman, Benjamin, Thornton, Peter, Ward, Nicholas, Wilson, Stephanie, Weintraub, Michael, Megonigal, J. Patrick, & Bailey, Vanessa. COMPASS-FME Synoptic Site Characterization.  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.15485/2583150

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                    Patel, Kaizad, Malhotra, Avni, Norris, Cooper, McKever, Sophia, Fields, Devon, Musci, Jared, Bandopadhyay, Sreejata, Bond-Lamberty, Ben, Chen, Xingyuan, Day, Donnie, Doro, Kennedy, Fluet-Chouinard, Etienne, Garcia, Marci, Kemner, Kenneth, Machado-Silva, Fausto, McDowell, Nate, Morris, Kendalynn, Myers-Pigg, Allison, O'Loughlin, Edward, O'Meara, Teri, Peixoto, Roberta, Pennington, Stephanie, Regier, Peter, Rich, Roy, Rod, Kenton, Sulman, Benjamin, Thornton, Peter, Ward, Nicholas, Wilson, Stephanie, Weintraub, Michael, Megonigal, J. Patrick, and Bailey, Vanessa. 2025.  
"COMPASS-FME Synoptic Site Characterization".  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.15485/2583150.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/2583150. Pub date:Wed Jan 01 04:00:00 UTC 2025

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@article{osti_2583150,

  title        = {COMPASS-FME Synoptic Site Characterization},

  author       = {Patel, Kaizad and Malhotra, Avni and Norris, Cooper and McKever, Sophia and Fields, Devon and Musci, Jared and Bandopadhyay, Sreejata and Bond-Lamberty, Ben and Chen, Xingyuan and Day, Donnie and Doro, Kennedy and Fluet-Chouinard, Etienne and Garcia, Marci and Kemner, Kenneth and Machado-Silva, Fausto and McDowell, Nate and Morris, Kendalynn and Myers-Pigg, Allison and O'Loughlin, Edward and O'Meara, Teri and Peixoto, Roberta and Pennington, Stephanie and Regier, Peter and Rich, Roy and Rod, Kenton and Sulman, Benjamin and Thornton, Peter and Ward, Nicholas and Wilson, Stephanie and Weintraub, Michael and Megonigal, J. Patrick and Bailey, Vanessa},

  abstractNote = {This dataset contains soil biogeochemical and physicochemical characterization data for the COMPASS-FME synoptic sites.This dataset also contains data for the paper Patel et al. 2025 "Transition zones at the changing coastal terrestrial-aquatic interface", https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JG008978.Coastal soils are a significant but highly uncertain component of global biogeochemical cycles. These systems experience unique spatial and temporal variability in biogeochemical processes, driven by wetland-to-upland gradients and hydrological fluctuations. We studied drivers of coastal soil variability (a) at regional scales and (b) across transects from upland forest to wetland, in two contrasting regions — Lake Erie, a freshwater lacustrine system, and Chesapeake Bay, a saltwater estuarine system. Salinity-related analytes were a key driver of soil variability, not just in the saltwater system, but surprisingly, also in the freshwater system. We had hypothesized linear trends in biogeochemical parameters along the TAI – however, contrary to expectations, transition soils were not consistently intermediate between upland and wetland endmembers; the non-monotonic trends of carbon, phosphorus, iron along our transects suggest that these are key analytes to study in our regions. Rapidly changing soil factors across coastal gradients provide insights into which soil processes may act as precursors to ecosystem shifts. Our comprehensive soil characterization across the coastal transects provides essential data for mechanistic modeling of ecosystem dynamics.The data are provided as processed, csv files. Raw data and processing scripts can be accessed on GitHub (https://github.com/COMPASS-DOE/cmps-soil_characterization).A note on the nomenclature: the experimental design represents three points along the coastal gradient -- upland, transition, and wetland. "wetland" is referred to as "marsh" in the corresponding paper. The two terms can be used interchangeably for the sites in this study.},

  doi          = {10.15485/2583150},

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  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Wed Jan 01 04:00:00 UTC 2025},

  month        = {Wed Jan 01 04:00:00 UTC 2025}

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