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Project: Vermont Forest Health Monitoring

Dataset: Geological and Soil Characteristics of Forest Health Monitoring Plots

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Parent Project

Vermont Forest Health Monitoring

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Status

Completed

Data Availability

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Data License

Geological and Soil Characteristics of Forest Health Monitoring Plots is licensed under a Creative Commons CC0 - Public domain 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at https://vmc.w3.uvm.edu/vmcdevel/data/archive/project/forest-health-monitoring/dataset/geological-soil-characteristics-forest-health-monitoring

Project Lead / Principal Investigator

James Duncan

Affiliation:: Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative, (FEMC)
Role:: Project Lead/Principal Investigator
Start date:: 2014-06-01
Contact Information:: E-mail: james.duncan@uvm.edu
Work phone: (802) 656-2975

Jennifer Pontius

Affiliation:: University of Vermont
Role:: Project Lead/Principal Investigator
Start date:: 2014-06-01
Contact Information:: E-mail: jennifer.pontius@uvm.edu
Work phone: (802) 656-3091

John Truong

Affiliation:: Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative, (FEMC)
Role:: Project Lead/Principal Investigator
Start date:: 2016-05-16
Contact Information:: E-mail: jtruong@uvm.edu
Work phone: 802-234-1438

Alexandra Kosiba

Affiliation:
Role:: Project Lead/Principal Investigator
Start date:: 2018-01-01
End date:: 2020-04-21
Contact Information:: E-mail: Alexandra.Kosiba@uvm.edu
Work phone: 802-656-7631

Sandra Wilmot

Affiliation:: Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation, Vermont Agency of Natural Resources
Role:: Project Lead/Principal Investigator
Start date:: 1990-01-01
End date:: 2017-12-01
Contact Information:: E-mail: sandy.wilmot@gmail.com
Work phone: 8028994366

Dataset Overview

The soils and geology of each plot were characterized by pH, duff/soil depth, presence of acidic/basic indicators, and descriptions of the rocks present, topography, and the expected bedrock at each location.

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Data Collection Status

Data collection for this dataset has been completed

Start date

2018-06-16

End date

2018-08-15

Contents

54 records with 12 fields

Data Availability

Available for download

Data License

Preferred Citation

Gene O Desideraggio (2018) Geological and Soil Characteristics of Forest Health Monitoring Plots. FEMC. Available online at: https://www.uvm.edu/femc/data/archive/project/forest-health-monitoring/dataset/geological-soil-characteristics-forest-health-monitoring

Update Frequency

Unknown

Maintenance Plan

Not provided

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Previous Versions

Version 1 - Geology and Soil Char V1 (created 2018-08-21 by Stephen Rotella)

Preview

Plot	Study_Location_(between_subplots)	pH_of_O_	pH_of_B	Duff_Depth_(cm)	Soil_Depth_>Probe_(Y/N)	Acidic_Indicators_	Basic_Indicators_	Rocks	Topography	Expected_Bedrock
VMC 245	1-2	4.50	4.50	3.50	Y	1	1	Schist, breaks somewhat easily	small rocky outcrops, schist sallow depth to bedrock generally; glacial topography	Quarts- sericite albita-biolite schist
VMC 245	1-3	4.75	0.00	4.50	Y	1	1
VMC 245	1-4	6.50	6.00	0.50	N	1	1
LEMP 14	1-2	5.00	4.50	2.50	N	1	2	Some erratics present, silty substrate in upland micro climates, clay in lower washout area	Pit/mound, muddy lots of leaf litter	greenish quartzite schist. Purple/red local
LEMP 14	1-3	4.50	6.50	3.00	N	2	2

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