Soil porewater equipment construction and data collection
Curtis AC. 2014. Soil porewater equipment construction and data collection
The following Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) outlines the procedures involved in establishing soil porewater monitoring plots and sampling soil porewater in salt marsh community monitoring sites. These procedures are adapted from Louisiana Department of Natural Resources Coastal Resource Division protocol (Folse and West 2004, Folse et al. 2008). Soil porewater constituents are relatively uniform above 20–25 cm (Feijtel et al. 1988) and these depths represent the approximate mean and maximum depth of the root zone (Mitsch and Gosselink 2007). Soil porewater salinities are easily measured in the field with use of a porewater sipper (Figure 1) to aid in extracting interstitial water from each depth and measuring salinity with a handheld salinity meter of extracted water (McKee et al. 1988). Field personnel will measure soil porewater salinity within specific plots at 10 cm and 30 cm depth during site visits.
- Type
- Standard Operating Procedure
- Authors
- Curtis, A
- Date of Issue
- 2014-09-08
- Units
- SECN
- Keywords
- Amphibian Procedures, Amphibians, fire fuels, Land Birds, Plant Community, Salt Marsh, salt marsh elevation, Saltmarsh Elevation Procedures