Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative

Vermont Long-Term Soil Monitoring Program: Plot Identifying Information

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Metadata Provider

  • Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative

    • Address:
      705 Spear Street
      South Burlington, Vermont 05403
      United States of America

      Phone: (802) 391-4135
      Email: femc@uvm.edu
      Website: www.uvm.edu/femc

Abstract

    Long-term monitoring of forest soils is necessary to understand the effects of continued environmental change, including climate change, atmospheric deposition of metals, and recovery from acidic precipitation. A monitoring program was initiated in 2002 at five protected forest sites in Vermont, three in Mt. Mansfield State Forest and two in the Lye Brook Wilderness Area. Every 5 years at each site, ten soil pits are dug and sampled from subplots in a 50 × 50-m plot.

People

  • Joshua Halman: Content Provider

  • Carl Waite: Content Provider

  • Sandra Wilmot: Content Provider

  • Nancy Burt: Content Provider

  • Jamie Shanley: Content Provider

  • Deane Wang: Content Provider

  • Sean Lawson: Content Provider

  • Thomas Villars: Principal Investigator

  • Scott Bailey: Principal Investigator

  • Donald Ross: Principal Investigator

  • James Duncan: Content Provider

  • Jennifer Wright: Content Provider

  • Angelica Quintana: Content Provider

Keywords

  • forest health, long term monitoring, soils,

Organizations

  • United States Geological Survey (USGS) : partner
  • United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service: partner
  • Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative (FEMC) : partner
  • University of Vermont College of Agriculture and Life Sciences: partner
  • United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Forest Service Green Mountain and Finger Lakes National Forests: partner

Geographic Coverage

  • Coordinates
    • -73.059551667, 43.05681667
    • -72.79543333, 43.05681667
    • -72.79543333, 44.53525
    • -73.059551667, 44.53525
    • -73.059551667, 43.05681667

Data Table

  • Title: Plot Identifying Information
  • Start Date: 2002-01-01
  • Description: Plot-level information that will aid in the relocation of plots. In 2002 plots corners coordinates were measured using a Trimble. From these plot corner coordinates the center, northeastern, southeastern, southwestern, and northwestern coordinates of the four quadrants in each of the 100 subplots were calculated.

  • Purpose: Provide information for relocation of plot quadrants

  • Condensed Title: Z0161_2459_YJAXCN

  • Object Name: VMC.161.2459

  • Data Type: mySQL
  • Citation: Natural Resources Conservation Service, Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative, University of Vermont, USDA Forest Service, Green Mountain National Forest and Northern Research Station, and US Geological Survey. (2018) Plot Identifying Information. FEMC. Available online at: https://www.uvm.edu/femc/data/archive/project/long-term-soil-monitoring/dataset/plot-identifying-information-2

  • Online Distribution: https://vmc.w3.uvm.edu/vmcdevel/data/archive/project/long-term-soil-monitoring/dataset/plot-identifying-information-2

Attribute List

    Attribute Name: fkSiteID
    • Label: Site ID
    • Description: Each of the 5 sites are given two letter IDs.
    • Storage Type: text
    • Measurment Type: nominal
    Attribute Name: fldCenterLat
    • Label: Center Latitude
    • Description: Center Latitude of the quadrant.
    • Storage Type: decimal
    • Measurment Type: ratio
    • Precision: 0.0000001
    • Unit: degree
    Attribute Name: fldGeometry
    • Label: fldGeometry
    • Storage Type: text
    • Measurment Type: nominal
    Attribute Name: fldCenterLong
    • Label: Center Longitude
    • Description: Center longitude of the quadrant
    • Storage Type: decimal
    • Measurment Type: ratio
    • Precision: 0.0000001
    • Unit: degree
    Attribute Name: fldNELat
    • Label: NE Latitude
    • Description: Latitude of NE corner
    • Storage Type: decimal
    • Measurment Type: ratio
    • Precision: 0.0000001
    • Unit: degree
    Attribute Name: fldNWLat
    • Label: NW latitude
    • Description: Latitude of NW corner
    • Storage Type: decimal
    • Measurment Type: ratio
    • Precision: 0.0000001
    • Unit: degree
    Attribute Name: fldNELong
    • Label: NE longitude
    • Description: Longitude of NE corner
    • Storage Type: decimal
    • Measurment Type: ratio
    • Precision: 0.0000001
    • Unit: degree
    Attribute Name: fldNWLong
    • Label: NW Longitude
    • Description: Longitude of NW corner
    • Storage Type: decimal
    • Measurment Type: ratio
    • Precision: 0.0000001
    • Unit: degree
    Attribute Name: fldSELat
    • Label: SE Latitude
    • Description: Latitude of SE corner
    • Storage Type: decimal
    • Measurment Type: ratio
    • Precision: 0.0000001
    • Unit: degree
    Attribute Name: fldSELong
    • Label: SE longitude
    • Description: Longitude of SE corner
    • Storage Type: decimal
    • Measurment Type: ratio
    • Precision: 0.0000001
    • Unit: degree
    Attribute Name: fldSWLat
    • Label: SW Latitude
    • Description: Latitude of SW corner
    • Storage Type: decimal
    • Measurment Type: ratio
    • Precision: 0.0000001
    • Unit: degree
    Attribute Name: fldSWLong
    • Label: SW Longitude
    • Description: Longitude of SW corner
    • Storage Type: decimal
    • Measurment Type: ratio
    • Precision: 0.0000001
    • Unit: Degree
    Attribute Name: pkPlotID
    • Label: Plot ID
    • Description: Numerical ID given to each plot within each site. There are 100 plots per site.
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: nominal
    Attribute Name: pkQuadrantID
    • Label: Quadrant ID
    • Description: The quadrant of the subdivided pit, NE, SE, SW, NW, NA.
    • Storage Type: text
    • Measurment Type: nominal

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Sampling Equipment

  • No sampling equipment recorded for this dataset

Site Characteristics

  • No site characteristics recorded for this dataset