• Network: AmeriFlux (US-StJ)
  
• Principal investigators: Rodrigo Vargas
  
• PI-affiliated institution: University of Delaware
  
• Primary IGBP ecosystem type: Permanent wetlands
  
• Dominant plant functional type: Grass
  
• Recent and historic disturbance and management events that may affect this site:
  • Hydrologic event: Drainage, persistent flooding, or chronic flooding. Does not include storm events or irrigation
  • Undisturbed: No disturbance or management has occurred on the site
• Flux data collection:
  • Start date: January 2015
    
  • End date: Ongoing
    
• Flux methods:
  • Eddy Covariance
    
• Optical data collection:
  • Start date: January 2016
    
  • End date: Ongoing
    
• Data collection period: Continuous operation: Variable collected continuously with the reported method.
  
• Data scale: Landscape
  
• Collection methods: Tower
  
• Types of data collected: Albedo (CNR 4 Net Radiometer - Kipp & Zonen), NDVI (Decagon SRS sensor), PAR (LI-190SA), PRI (Decagon SRS sensor), Relative Humidity (Vaisala), Webcam (RGB and IR images), Leaf pigment data (Apogee SI-111: Standard Field of View Infrared Radiometer Sensor), Species composition (Apogee CCM-200 plus: Chlorophyll Content Meter), leaf pigment data.
  
• Publications:
  • Vazquez-Lule AD & Vargas R (2021) Biophysical drivers of net ecosystem and methane exchange across phenological phases in a tidal salt marsh. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 300:108309 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.108309
  • Trifunovic B, Vazquez-Lule A, Capooci M, Seyfferth AL, Moffat C, Vargas R (2020) Carbon dioxide and methane emissions from a temperate salt marsh tidal creek. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences 125(8):e2019JG005558 https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JG005558

External homepage: https://ameriflux.lbl.gov/sites/siteinfo/US-StJ

Phenocam: https://phenocam.sr.unh.edu/webcam/sites/stjones/