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Tower_team:
PI: Gil Bohrer bohrer.17@osu.edu - The Ohio State University
AncContact: Janice Kerns Janice.Kerns@dnr.state.oh.us - Old Woman Creek National Estuarine Research Reserve, Ohio Department of Natural Resources
DataManager: Justine Missik missik.2@osu.edu - Ohio State University
Lat, Long: 41.3795, -82.5125
Elevation(m): 174
Network Affiliations: AmeriFlux
Vegetation IGBP: WET (Permanent Wetlands: Lands with a permanent mixture of water and herbaceous or woody vegetation that cover extensive areas. The vegetation can be present in either salt, brackish, or fresh water)
Climate Koeppen: Dfb (Warm Summer Continental: significant precipitation in all seasons )
Mean Annual Temp (°C): 10.7
Mean Annual Precip. (mm): 930
Flux Species Measured: CO2, CH4, H, H2O
Years Data Collected: 2015 - Present
Years Data Available:

AmeriFlux BASE 2015 - 2024   Data Citation

AmeriFlux FLUXNET 2015 - 2016   Data Citation

Data Use Policy:AmeriFlux CC-BY-4.0 Policy1
Description:
Old Woman Creek is a natural freshwater estuary connected to Lake Erie in northern Ohio. It is one of few natuaral estuary systems left in Ohio. The site ...
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URL: http://coastal.ohiodnr.gov/oldwomancreek
Research Topics: Coupling methane formation and transport with microbial data.
Acknowledgment: NOAA National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRS). System-wide Monitoring Program. Data accessed from the NOAA NERRS Centralized Data Management Office website: http://www.nerrsdata.org/
Ohio Department of Natural Resources
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    The AmeriFlux Legacy Policy must be followed if this site’s data are combined with data from sites that require the AmeriFlux Legacy Policy.
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Image Credit: Gil Bohrer, 06/18/2015
Copyright preference: Open use
Site Publication More Site Publications
Rey-Sanchez, A., Morin, T., Stefanik, K., Wrighton, K., Bohrer, G. 2017. Determining Total Emissions And Environmental Drivers Of Methane Flux In A Lake Erie Estuarine Marsh, Ecological Engineering, in press.
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