Hudson River Estuary Tidal Marsh Sediment Data

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Authors

Brian YellenFollow
Jonathan Woodruff, University of Massachusetts AmherstFollow

Publication Date

2020

Keywords

tidal marsh, salt marsh, sediment, sea level rise, marsh restoration, Hudson River

Disciplines

Environmental Engineering | Environmental Monitoring | Geomorphology | Natural Resources Management and Policy | Sedimentology

Description

This repository contains data from sediment cores collected at six tidal wetland complexes that are located within the Hudson River Estuary. The sites include Stockport Marsh, Esopus Delta, Tivoli North Bay, Tivoli South Bay, Vanderburgh Cove, and Iona Island Marsh. A variety of core collection tools and methods were used to collect uncompacted records, including gouge coring, Russian peat coring, and piston push coring, with the method determined by coring environment. The general workflow for cores included (1) splitting; (2) Itrax XRF scanning; (3) subsampling cores ~10 cm spacing; (4) drying and burning samples for percent water, organic, and mineral content. Gamma spectroscopy was used to identify down-core profiles of ¹³⁷Cs and ²¹⁰Pb in at least one representative core from each site. Relative abundance and onset of heavy metals zinc (Zn) and lead (Pb) as recorded in X-ray Flourecense (XRF) data were used as additional supportive age constraint in cores. Collectively, data from these cores provide evidence within the tidal freshwater Hudson River for rapid accretion within anthropogenic tidal freshwater wetlands relative to those that developed prior to the industrial era.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7275/dh3v-0x33

Grant/Award Number and Agency

This work was sponsored by the National Estuarine Research Reserve System Science Collaborative, which is funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and managed by the University of Michigan Water Center (NAI4NOS4190145). This project was supported by Grant or Cooperative Agreement No. G12AC00001 from the U.S. Geological Survey and Department of Interior Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center fellowships for Caroline Ladlow and Brian Yellen.

Comments

The README file for this data is included in the downloadable .zip file.

Additional Related Content

Forthcoming: Rapid Tidal Marsh Development in Anthropogenic Backwaters, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Recommended Citation

Yellen, Brian and Woodruff, Jonathan, "Hudson River Estuary Tidal Marsh Sediment Data" (2020). Data and Datasets. 108.
https://doi.org/10.7275/dh3v-0x33 https://scholarworks.umass.edu/data/108