The Summer 2019 Sampling (S19S) campaign occurred in summer and early fall of 2019 and sampled surface water and riverbed sediments in 97 globally distributed river corridor systems. The S19S campaign was designed with the science community to ask questions associated with links among core and satellite metabolomes, microbial metabolism, biogeochemical function, and physical properties of watershed and river corridor systems. The data generated will further enable distributed, mechanistic modeling of integrated hydrobiogechemical dynamics within river corridors spanning a broad range of physical–chemical–biological settings. Integration, analysis, and modeling of the resulting data will be facilitated in part through collaborations with KBase, the IDEAS project, industry, and academia. The outcome will be transferable data, knowledge, and models focused on mechanistic links among fundamental physical, biological, and chemical processes playing out at the reaction scale within the context of the broader river corridor.

Spatial coverage

Click on the upper left corner of the map for options to turn on and off campaign-specific sampling sites.

Data types

Surface water only – Anions, total N, specific conductivity, pH, excitation-emission spectra (via Rachel Gabor at Ohio State University), dissolved inorganic carbon, O and H isotopes (EMSL), and hydrographs (USGS and others).

Sediment only – Grain size, mineralogy (EMSL), and bulk C and N (EMSL)

Both surface water and sediment – Respiration rate, NPOC, metabolomics via FTICR-MS (EMSL), Mercury (via Oak Ridge National Lab), microbial biomass (via Edo Bar-Zeev and Shai Arnon at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), metagenomics (via Joint Genome Institute), and metatranscriptomics (via Joint Genome Institute).

Ideas for science questions to explore with the data

• What is the magnitude of global variation in respiration rates in sediments and surface waters? How do physical, chemical, and biological processes drive this variation?
• How do physical properties of bed sediments vary globally? Does that variation drive shifts in microbial gene expression?
• What universal links exist among watershed features, microbial community composition and function, and molecular details of organic matter?

Data access

Published data are available below. Some data from this study are still being generated and thus are not yet published. Preliminary data are available via a Google Drive. We request that you contact us before attempting to use these preliminary data. If you choose to use them in your work, please cite the final data set when it is published to ESS-DIVE.

Toyoda J G; Goldman A E; Chu R K; Danczak R E; Daly R A; Garayburu-Caruso VA; Graham E B; Lin X; Moran J J; Ren H; Renteria L; Resch C T; Tfaily M; Tolic N; Torgeson J M; Wells J; Wrighton K C; Stegen J C; WHONDRS Consortium (2020): WHONDRS Summer 2019 Sampling Campaign: Global River Corridor Surface Water FTICR-MS, NPOC, and Stable Isotopes. River Corridor and Watershed Biogeochemistry SFA Worldwide Hydrobiogeochemistry Observation Network for Dynamic River Systems (WHONDRS). doi:10.15485/1603775

Goldman A E ; Chu R K ; Danczak R E ; Daly R A ; Fansler S ; Garayburu-Caruso V A ; Graham E B ; McCall M L ; Ren H ; Renteria L ; Resch C T ; Tfaily M ; Tolic N ; Torgeson J M ; Toyoda J G ; Wells J ; Wrighton K C ; Stegen J C ; WHONDRS Consortium T (2020): WHONDRS Summer 2019 Sampling Campaign: Global River Corridor Sediment FTICR-MS, NPOC, and Aerobic Respiration. River Corridor and Watershed Biogeochemistry SFA Worldwide Hydrobiogeochemistry Observation Network for Dynamic River Systems (WHONDRS). doi:10.15485/1729719

Collaborators

United States Forest Service (USFS)

• Caspar Creek Experimental Watershed
• HJ Andrews Experimental Forest (HJ Andrews Experimental Forest is a Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER), a National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) site, and a USFS experimental forest)
• Kings River Experimental Watershed
• Santee Experimental Forest

Department of Energy (DOE) SBR Watershed Testbeds

• Argonne National Laboratory
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

NSF LTER Sites

• Baltimore Ecosystem Study
• Florida Coastal Everglades
• Hubbard Brook
• Intensively Managed Landscapes
• Kellogg Biological Station
• Konza Prairie
• Kuparuk River Arctic
• North Temperate Lakes
• Plum Island Ecosystems

NSF Critical Zone Observatories (CZOs)

• Boulder Creek
• Catalina-Jemez
• Jemez/Valle Caldera
• Luquillo
• Reynolds Creek Experimental Watershed
• Shale Hills

NSF NEON Sites

• Arikaree River – ARIK
• Black Warrior River – BLWA
• Blue River – BLUE
• Caribou Creek, Caribou – CARI
• Como Creek – COMO
• Flint River – FLNT
• Kings Creek – KING
• LeConte Creek – LECO
• Lewis Run – LEWI
• Lower Hop Brook – HOPB
• Lower Tombigbee River – TOMB
• Martha Creek – MART
• Mayfield Creek – MAYF
• McDiffett Creek – MCDI
• McRae Creek – MCRA
• Oksrukuyik Creek – OKSR
• Posey Creek – POSE
• Pringle Creek – PRIN
• Red Butte Creek – REDB
• Rio Cupeyes – CUPE
• Rio Guilarte – GUIL
• Sycamore Creek – SYCA
• Teakettle 2 Creek – TECR
• Upper Big Creek – BIGC
• Walker Branch – WALK
• West St. Louis Creek – WLOU

Universities and Institutions

• Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
• Boise State University, USA
• Colorado State University, USA
• Indiana University, USA
• Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Germany
• Oregon State University, USA
• Politecnico di Torino, Italy
• Pusan National University, South Korea
• Stroud Water Research Center, USA
• Thompson Rivers University, Canada
• United States Geological Survey
• University of Birmingham, UK
• University of Cincinnati, USA
• University of Georgia Marine Sciences, USA
• University of Idaho ENREP, USA
• University of New Mexico, USA
• University of Texas at Austin, USA
• University of Utah, USA
• University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA
• Utah State, USA
• Virginia Institute of Marine Science, USA
• Virginia Tech, USA
• Washington State University, USA
• Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway

Funding

Funding for this project is provided by the DOE Biological and Environmental Research (BER) Environmental Systems Science (ESS) Program.