Study Information

Abstract

This data release represents a synthesis of sediment cores collected from coastal wetlands in Maine between 2012 and 2020 for 6 individual senior thesis projects conducted at Bates College. Collectively, these studies estimated carbon stocks from 14 sites along the coast of Maine by measuring sediment carbon content and dry bulk density. These data were used in a larger analysis of U.S. tidal wetlands which is available in Earth’s Future (Morris et al, 2016).

Keywords: soil carbon stocks, coastal wetlands, tidal marsh, nitrogen, data synthesis, Maine

Authors

Associated Publications

Morris, J.T., Barber, D.C., Callaway, J.C., Chambers, R., Hagen, S.C., Hopkinson, C.S., Johnson, B.J., Megonigal, P., Neubauer, S.C., Troxler, T. and Wigand, C., 2016. Contributions of organic and inorganic matter to sediment volume and accretion in tidal wetlands at steady state. Earth’s future, 4(4), pp.110-121. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015EF000334

Kulesza, A., 2018. Assessing the amount of carbon stored in Maine salt marshes. Geology Senior Thesis, Bates College (supervised by B. Johnson), 108 p. https://scarab.bates.edu/geology_theses/42

Pickoff, M.A., 2013. Maine’s blue carbon: estimating carbon stocks in Maine saltmarshes. Geology Senior Thesis, Bates College (supervised by B. Johnson), 97 p. https://scarab.bates.edu/geology_theses/10

Stames, D., 2017. Assessing the effectiveness of Typha as a proxy for estimating seasonal methane emissions on Maine;s midcoast salt marshes. Geology Senior Thesis, Bates College (supervised by B. Johnson), 70 p. https://scarab.bates.edu/geology_theses/49

Karboski, B. 2021. The effect of tidal flow restriction on carbon density in Sprague and Small Point Marshes, Phippsburg, Maine. Geology Senior Thesis, Bates College (supervised by B. Johnson), 38 p. https://scarab.bates.edu/geology_theses/52

Gunn, C., 2016. Methane emissions along a salinity gradient of a restored salt marsh in Casco Bay, Maine. Geology Senior Thesis, Bates College (supervised by B. Johnson), 68 p. https://scarab.bates.edu/honorstheses/175

Russ, C., 2014. Stable Carbon Isotope Analyses of Sediment Cores and the Origin of the Sprague River Marsh, Phippsburg, Maine. Geology Senior Thesis, Bates College (supervised by B. Johnson).

Data Publication

This data release was assembled and published by the Coastal Carbon Network. Please direct any related comments or inquiries to CoastalCarbon@si.edu.

Coverage

Temporal coverage

Start Date: 2012

End Date: 2020

Geographic coverage

Taxonomic coverage

Data Tables

Study materials and methods

Physical: Johnson_et_al_2024_materials_and_methods.csv

Soil core information

Physical: Johnson_et_al_2024_cores.csv

Soil core depthseries information

Physical: Johnson_et_al_2024_depthseries.csv

Study species information

Physical: Johnson_et_al_2024_species.csv

Custom Units

Other Entities

Intellectual Rights

This dataset is listed under a Creative Commons BY 4.0 and can be used with attribution.