The Lateral Weathering Study looked at spatial patterns of mineral weathering processes at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest. This project characterized mineral and elemental depletion/enrichment, soil morphology and chemistry, solute transport, and groundwater chemistry along hydrological and soil morphological gradients.
This dataset provides the total elemental mass of inorganic solutes (Ca, Na, Mg, Al, Fe, Mn, P, and S) as well as dissolved organic carbon (DOC) that were extracted off resins installed into shallow groundwater wells (~30-100cm) in Watershed 3. Resin packs were deployed for a total of one year (August 2019-2020) with four consecutive deployment periods, to avoid overloading resin ion capacity. Total mass was accounted for an entire resin pack, which was 5 cm in height and 5 cm in diameter, containing approximately 90 g of resin. Resin packs were installed in three different topographic positions along three transects (sites = 9), to characterize solute mass fluxes of shallow groundwater.
These data were gathered as part of the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study (HBES). The HBES is a collaborative effort at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, which is operated and maintained by the USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station.