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Linkages between mineral element composition of soils and sediments with hyporheic zone dissolved organic matter chemistry across the contiguous United States
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  • Jesse Alan Roebuck,
  • Vanessa A Garayburu-Caruso,
  • Rosalie Chu,
  • Amy E. Goldman,
  • Lupita Renteria,
  • Micah Taylor,
  • James C Stegen,
  • Kenton A. Rod
Jesse Alan Roebuck
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (DOE)
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Vanessa A Garayburu-Caruso
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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Rosalie Chu
PNNL
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Amy E. Goldman
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (DOE)
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Lupita Renteria
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (DOE)
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Micah Taylor
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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James C Stegen
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (DOE)
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Kenton A. Rod
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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Abstract

The hyporheic zone is a hotspot for biogeochemical cycling where interactions with mineral metals preserve the release and biodegradation of organic matter (OM). A small fraction of OM can still be exchanged between localized sediments and the overlying water column, and recent evidence suggest there exists a longitudinal structuring in sediment dissolved OM (DOM) chemistry across the continental United States (CONUS). In this study, we tested a hypothesis that water extractable sediment DOM chemistry could be explained by sediment metal contents and integrative watershed scale features at the CONUS scale. Crowdsourced samples were characterized for high resolution mass spectrometry and coupled with sediment metals determined via x-ray fluorescence as well as with land cover and soil elemental information obtained from national databases. Our results highlight weak relationships between DOM chemistry and elemental composition at the CONUS scale indicating limited transferability of organo-metal linkages into multi-scale hydrobiogeochemical models.
09 Sep 2023Submitted to ESS Open Archive
11 Sep 2023Published in ESS Open Archive