East River Watershed

Part of: Colorado

Scale: regional

Elevation: 2700m

Elevation range: 2700m – 4100m

Habitat: mountainous terrain, montane watershed, subalpine, mountainous watershed, subalpine conifer forest, high mountain glacial watershed, high-elevation continental watershed, high altitude mountain watershed, mountainous shale-dominated watersheds, Rocky Mountain landscapes, mountain watershed, alpine, subalpine, montane and riparian ecosystems, subalpine and alpine mountain watershed, high elevation drainage basin, alpine, subalpine, and montane life zones, montane mixed vegetation, mountainous snow-dominated watershed, mountainous headwater, headwater catchment, mountainous catchment, mountainous headwater catchment, alpine environment, high montane watershed, mountainous high-elevation watershed, high-elevation Rocky Mountain streams, headwater watershed, high-altitude streams, seasonally snow-covered high-elevation watershed, subalpine watershed, subalpine forest, aspen forest, Alpine and subalpine, mixed montane meadow community, montane to alpine systems, upper subalpine regions, coniferous forests, montane and subalpine, stream system, aspen forests

Also known as: East River watershed, Upper East River watershed, Upper East River Watershed, upper East River Watershed, Upper east river watershed, Middle East River watershed

Papers: 77 | Mentions: 223

Publications (78)

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Model-based interpretation of solute exports and carbon partitioning during shale weathering in a mountainous hillslope

2026Water Resources Researchprimary study site

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Depth of nutrient uptake by deep-rooted plants is regulated by water availability

2026PNASprimary study site

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Measurement report: An investigation of the spatiotemporal variability in aerosols in the mountainous terrain of the upper Colorado River basin using SAIL-Net

2025Atmospheric Chemistry and Physicsprimary study site

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Abiotic influences on continuous conifer forest structure across a subalpine watershed

2025Remote Sensing of Environmentprimary study site

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Sick and alone? Evaluating how immune response is associated with social network position in yellow-bellied marmots

2025mentioned

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Soil signals of key mechanisms driving greater protection of organic carbon under aspen compared to spruce forests in a North American montane ecosystem

2025Biogeosciencesreference location

East River Watershed

Child Places (61)

Avery Creek

Avery Picnic

Avery Picnic Transect

Billy's Brook

Bradley Creek Drainage

Bradley Hillslope

Bradley Meadow

Brush Creek

Butte SNOTEL

Castle Creek

Coal 11-ISCO

Coal Creek

Copper Creek

EAQ

EBC

East River Trail

East River at Almont

East River at Pumphouse

Hanging Valley

Headwaters

Irwin

Kettle Ponds Annex

Kettle Ponds Transect

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Watershed Science Focus Area

Littlest Tribune

Lower Benthette Brook

Lower Montane

Lower Montane Floodplain

Lower Reaches

Lower Rock Creek

Mancos Formation

Marmot Creek

Meander C

Meander D

Mount Gothic

Mt. Gothic

Muddy Creek

North Lost Trail

North Mantle

PH

PLM hillslope

Park Cone

Pumphouse

Pumphouse Hillslope

Pumphouse Lower Montane hillslope

Pumphouse gauging station

Pumphouse location

Pumphouse-ISCO

Roaring Judy

Slide Rock Road

Slope Valley

Snodgrass Creek

South Baldy

Taylor

Taylor Creek

Upper Benthette Brook

Upper Reaches

Upper Rock Creek

Upper Taylor

Virginia Creek

floodplain G

Publications (78)

Model-based interpretation of solute exports and carbon partitioning during shale weathering in a mountainous hillslope

Depth of nutrient uptake by deep-rooted plants is regulated by water availability

Measurement report: An investigation of the spatiotemporal variability in aerosols in the mountainous terrain of the upper Colorado River basin using SAIL-Net

Abiotic influences on continuous conifer forest structure across a subalpine watershed

Sick and alone? Evaluating how immune response is associated with social network position in yellow-bellied marmots

Soil signals of key mechanisms driving greater protection of organic carbon under aspen compared to spruce forests in a North American montane ecosystem

Observations of surface energy fluxes and meteorology in the seasonally snow-covered high-elevation East River watershed during SPLASH, 2021–2023

Datasets (144)

Surface Water Quality Data from Beaver-Impacted Streams; Trail Creek and East River, Colorado 2025

Reduced Surface Hoar in a Warming World— SUMMA Model Output and Codes

Meteorological and Soil Data from Ecohydrology Sensor Towers at Pump House and Snodgrass Mountain in East River Watershed, Colorado, 2019-2025

Reduced Surface Hoar in a Warming World— SUMMA Model Output and Codes

SUMMA model output for surface hoar study

SPLASH Field Study; BST/NOAA PSL Level 3 UAS Soil Moisture, Digital Elevation, Normalized Difference Vegetative Index, and Surface Temperature (NCEI Accession 0301536)

SPLASH Field Study; NOAA PSL Soil Moisture and Surface Temperature Probe Data at Avery Picnic and Kettle Ponds, Colorado (NCEI Accession 0302136)

SPLASH Field Study; NOAA PSL CL31 Ceilometer Backscatter and Cloud Base Height Data from 2021-10-21 to 2022-01-28 (NCEI Accession 0303807)