Study Information

Abstract

This dataset contains organic matter and radiocarbon dating information for six cores from Sweet Hall Marsh in Virginia, USA. This project was a collaboration between the Virginia Institute for Marine Science, the Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in Virginia and the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. Cores were collected along an established wetland transect, near three long-term SET sites, covering creek levee, inner flats, and ghost forest sites. 1 core at each SET site was collected and processed for grain size and organics, while a second core at each site was processed and analyzed for radiocarbon dating information at Chris Hein’s Sediment Lab for Gamma Analysis.

Keywords: Salt marsh, Carbon sequestration, Virginia, Blue Carbon, Cesium

Dataset Authors

Associated Publication

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: 2023

End Date: 2024

Geographic coverage

Data Tables

Study materials and methods

Physical: Lerberg_et_al_2025_materials_and_methods.csv

Soil core information

Physical: Lerberg_et_al_2025_cores.csv

Soil core depthseries information

Physical: Lerberg_et_al_2025_depthseries.csv

Study species information

No study-associated taxonomic information included.

Anthropogenic impacts information

No study-associated anthropogenic impacts information included.

Custom Units

Other Entities

Intellectual Rights

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