Coal Creek

article

Hidden features: How subsurface and landscape heterogeneity govern hydrologic connectivity and stream chemistry in a montane watershed

2025Hydrological Processesprimary study site

article

Controls from above and below: Snow, soil, and steepness drive diverging trends of subsurface water and streamflow dynamics

2025Hydrological Processesprimary study site

article

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

2025Biogeosciencesprimary study site

article

Model and remote-sensing-guided experimental design and hypothesis generation for monitoring snow-soil–plant interactions

2024Frontiers in Waterprimary study site

article

River thorium concentrations can record bedrock fracture processes including some triggered by distant seismic events

2023Nature Communicationsprimary study site

article

Watershed zonation through hillslope clustering for tractably quantifying above-and below-ground watershed heterogeneity and functions

2022Hydrology and Earth System Sciencesprimary study site

article

Disinfection byproducts formed during drinking water treatment reveal an export control point for dissolved organic matter in a subalpine headwater stream

2022Water research Xprimary study site

article

Variability of Snow and Rainfall Partitioning Into Evapotranspiration and Summer Runoff Across Nine Mountainous Catchments

2022Geophysical Research Letters,primary study site

article

Cytotype and genotype predict mortality and recruitment in Colorado quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides)

2021Ecological Applicationsprimary study site

article

The Colorado East River Community Observatory Data Collection

2021Hydrologic Processesprimary study site

article

Significant stream chemistry response to temperature variations in a high-elevation mountain watershed

2020Communications Earth & Environment. DOI: 10.1038/s43247-020-00039-wprimary study site

article

The East River Community Observatory Data Collection: Diverse, multiscale data from a mountainous watershed in the East River, Colorado

2020Authoreaprimary study site

article

Satellite-derived foresummer drought sensitivity of plant productivity in Rocky Mountain headwater catchments: spatial heterogeneity and geological-geomorphological control

2020Environmental Research Lettersprimary study site

article

Distinct Source Water Chemistry Shapes Contrasting Concentration-Discharge Patterns

2019Water Resources Researchprimary study site

student_paper

Seasonal Progression of Algal Development and Quality in Streams that Vary in Timing of Springtime Peak Flow

2019primary study site

article

The East River, Colorado, Watershed: A mountainous community testbed for improving predictive understanding of multiscale hydrological-biogeochemical dynamics

2018Vadose Zone Journalsecondary site

student_paper

Effects of Light Availability on Aspen Understory Species

2018primary study site

student_paper

Asteraceae pollen specialization affects vulnerability to brood parasitism in mason bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae).

2014primary study site

student_paper

The effect of long-term metal exposure and mermithid parasitism on behavior and predation of nymphal Baetis bicaudatus by Megarcys signata

2013primary study site

article

PASSIVE TREATMENT OF MINING INFLUENCED WASTEWATER WITH BIOCHEMICAL REACTOR TREATMENT AT THE STANDARD MINE SUPERFUND SITE, CRESTED BUTTE, COLORADO

2012Journal American Society of Mining and Reclamationmentioned

article

Ecosystem engineering by beavers affects mayfly life histories

2011Freshwater Biologyprimary study site

article

Does the morphology of beaver ponds alter downstream ecosystems?

2011Hydrobiologiaprimary study site

student_paper

Dissolved iron stimulates uptake of organic phosphorus by Didymosphenia geminata

2010primary study site

student_paper

Species richness along an elevational gradient

2009primary study site

student_paper

Possible influence of altitude, geographical distance between sites and annual precipitation rates on species richness

2009primary study site

student_paper

Species richness along elevation gradient and possible correlation factors

2009primary study site

student_paper

Plant community composition with respect to species richness along an altitudinal gradient in gunnison county, co

2009primary study site

student_paper

Effects of single and terraced beaver ponds on benthic macroinvertebrate communities

2007primary study site

other

Drosera rotundifolia monitoring protocol

2001mentioned

other

Bottom sediment chemistry and water quality near Mount Emmons, Colorado

1982Proceedings of the Exeter Symposiumprimary study site

Coal Creek

Child Places (7)

Lower Coal Creek

Ohio fork

Splain's Gulch

Splains Creek

Station 2

Station 3

Upper Coal Creek

Publications (30)

Hidden features: How subsurface and landscape heterogeneity govern hydrologic connectivity and stream chemistry in a montane watershed

Controls from above and below: Snow, soil, and steepness drive diverging trends of subsurface water and streamflow dynamics

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

Model and remote-sensing-guided experimental design and hypothesis generation for monitoring snow-soil–plant interactions

River thorium concentrations can record bedrock fracture processes including some triggered by distant seismic events

Watershed zonation through hillslope clustering for tractably quantifying above-and below-ground watershed heterogeneity and functions

Disinfection byproducts formed during drinking water treatment reveal an export control point for dissolved organic matter in a subalpine headwater stream

Variability of Snow and Rainfall Partitioning Into Evapotranspiration and Summer Runoff Across Nine Mountainous Catchments

Cytotype and genotype predict mortality and recruitment in Colorado quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides)

The Colorado East River Community Observatory Data Collection

Significant stream chemistry response to temperature variations in a high-elevation mountain watershed

The East River Community Observatory Data Collection: Diverse, multiscale data from a mountainous watershed in the East River, Colorado

Satellite-derived foresummer drought sensitivity of plant productivity in Rocky Mountain headwater catchments: spatial heterogeneity and geological-geomorphological control

Distinct Source Water Chemistry Shapes Contrasting Concentration-Discharge Patterns

Seasonal Progression of Algal Development and Quality in Streams that Vary in Timing of Springtime Peak Flow

The East River, Colorado, Watershed: A mountainous community testbed for improving predictive understanding of multiscale hydrological-biogeochemical dynamics

Effects of Light Availability on Aspen Understory Species

Asteraceae pollen specialization affects vulnerability to brood parasitism in mason bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae).

The effect of long-term metal exposure and mermithid parasitism on behavior and predation of nymphal Baetis bicaudatus by Megarcys signata

PASSIVE TREATMENT OF MINING INFLUENCED WASTEWATER WITH BIOCHEMICAL REACTOR TREATMENT AT THE STANDARD MINE SUPERFUND SITE, CRESTED BUTTE, COLORADO

Ecosystem engineering by beavers affects mayfly life histories

Does the morphology of beaver ponds alter downstream ecosystems?

Dissolved iron stimulates uptake of organic phosphorus by Didymosphenia geminata

Species richness along an elevational gradient

Possible influence of altitude, geographical distance between sites and annual precipitation rates on species richness

Species richness along elevation gradient and possible correlation factors

Plant community composition with respect to species richness along an altitudinal gradient in gunnison county, co

Effects of single and terraced beaver ponds on benthic macroinvertebrate communities

Drosera rotundifolia monitoring protocol

Bottom sediment chemistry and water quality near Mount Emmons, Colorado

Datasets (52)

CHESS 2025: Location data for field observations and sampling

Geophysical survey associated with NEON AOP survey, East River, CO 2018

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

Data From: "Warming and snow loss increase reliance on old groundwater in a Colorado River headwater"

Depth-resolved sagebrush root metabolomics, rhizosphere microbial communities, and geochemistry at the East River Watershed

Mountain Basin Controls on the Snow-to-Streamflow Signal: An AIC-Weighted Multiple Linear Regression Framework

CHESS 2025: Field-collected vegetation attributes and site photos

Data from Stewart et al. 2026 "Organic Colloid Composition in Variable-Redox Porewaters within a Mountainous Floodplain"

Documents (12)

Public Land Order No. 7939; Thompson Divide Withdrawal, Colorado

Notice of Proposed Withdrawal and Public Meeting, Thompson Divide Area, Colorado

Letter to Gunnison County Board of Commissioners

Letter to BLM from RMBL on the Mt. Emmons Iron Fen

Letter: New Mine Proposal from Amax

Vegetation Appendix Materials for Vegetation and Wildlife Studies for the Mount Emmons Project

Letters from RMBL about Mt. Emmons

Biologically Significant Areas in Gunnison County Colorado

Making a Mine at Mount Emmons

Species Studied Here

Fisher

Picea engelmannii

Beetles

Lupinus prunophilus

Lupinus

Lupinus caespitosus

Abies lasiocarpa

Artemisia

Erigeron speciosus

Artemisia tridentata

CHESS 2025: Leaf Area Index (LAI) for meadow, shrub, tree, and understory vegetation

Foliar element determination from field survey in association with an Analytical Spectral Device Fieldspec3 survey, East River, CO 2023

Geochemistry and Strontium Isotopes for Coal Creek Watershed, Colorado, 2021-2022

Solute chemistry for streams draining geomorphic features and varying land cover gradients in the East River watershed, Colorado

Surface Water Disinfection Byproducts and Organic Matter Characterization Data Associated with: “Disinfection byproducts formed during drinking water treatment reveal an export control point for dissolved organic matter in a subalpine headwater stream”

Groundwater and river water elevations and temperature from 2017 to 2022 across Meander Z in the East River Watershed, Colorado

Site and endmember spectra of terrestrial vegetation and soils for the Colorado Headwaters Ecological Spectroscopy Study, June-July 2025

2D reactive transport model of shale chemical weathering and biogeochemical fluxes along a mountainous hillslope, East River Watershed, Colorado: Input files and simulation results

Data from: 'Abiotic influences on continuous conifer forest structure across a subalpine watershed'

Multiple RGB ortho-mosaics and digital surface models in 2017 and 2018 across the Lower Montane site in the East River Watershed, Colorado