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Data and Model Archive for Simulations of Seawater Restoration on Diked Salt Marshes

Metadata Updated: October 1, 2025

This dataset and model archive provides geochemical modeling input and selected output data used in simulations of seawater restoration on historically diked salt marshes. Biogeochemical changes resulting from seawater reintroduction were simulated using the computer program PHREEQC (Parkhurst and Appelo, 2013) to help support efforts to restore tidal flow and associated estuarine habitat to diked marshes, including the Herring River estuary in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod. First, one-dimensional reactive transport models were developed and calibrated using data from Portnoy and Giblin (1997) microcosm experiments of sediment cores to better understand the associated timing and sequence of biogeochemical reactions and their implications to aquatic health. These cores included diked, flooded marsh sediments and subaerially exposed, diked, drained sediments representative of the Herring River diked marsh. Solute concentrations measured in the microcosm experiment data were used to estimate sedimentary organic matter decay rates by matching the timing and magnitude of simulated dissolved ferrous iron and sulfide concentrations. Then, "basecase" models were used to simulate a single flow velocity to better understand biogeochemical conditions over longer time periods and with varying ferric iron source minerals.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Metadata Created Date September 12, 2025
Metadata Updated Date October 1, 2025

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Harvested from DOI USGS DCAT-US

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Metadata Created Date September 12, 2025
Metadata Updated Date October 1, 2025
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Maintainer
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Data Last Modified 2024-12-09T00:00:00Z
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Public Access Level public
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