QUANTIFYING UNCERTAINTY IN ECOSYSTEM STUDIES Carrie Rose Levine, Ruth Yanai, John Campbell, Mark Green, Don Buso, Gene Likens Hubbard Brook Cooperators.

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QUANTIFYING UNCERTAINTY IN ECOSYSTEM STUDIES Carrie Rose Levine, Ruth Yanai, John Campbell, Mark Green, Don Buso, Gene Likens Hubbard Brook Cooperators Meeting 6 July /

Outline What is QUEST? Uncertainty in Hydrologic Budgets Precipitation Streamflow Using uncertainty to address questions about monitoring efficiency The future of QUEST Get involved!

Outline What is QUEST? Uncertainty in Hydrologic Budgets Precipitation Streamflow Using uncertainty to address questions about monitoring efficiency The future of QUEST Get involved!

Outline What is QUEST? Uncertainty in Hydrologic Budgets Precipitation Streamflow Using uncertainty to address questions about monitoring efficiency The future of QUEST Get involved!

Outline What is QUEST? Uncertainty in Hydrologic Budgets Precipitation Streamflow Using uncertainty to address questions about monitoring efficiency The future of QUEST Get involved!

Outline What is QUEST? Uncertainty in Hydrologic Budgets Precipitation Streamflow Using uncertainty to address questions about monitoring efficiency The future of QUEST Get involved!

Currently funded project is an analysis of hydrologic input-output budgets in small headwater catchments throughout the US Includes researchers and students throughout the US, and in Canada and Japan QUEST is a research network interested in improving understanding and facilitating use of uncertainty analyses in ecosystem research.

Uncertainty in Hydrologic Input-Output Budgets Precipitation: Most uncertainty is in spatial variability. Varies with landscape factors; often shows orographic effects Many spatial models can be used to predict precipitation amount in watersheds Low temporal uncertainty: generally measured cumulatively, most uncertainty in this area arises from analytical error

Alternative spatial models for precipitation in the Hubbard Brook Valley

0.36 % 0.58 % 0.24 % 0.77 % 0.83 % Coefficient of variation between models

Uncertainty in Hydrologic Input-Output Budgets Uncertainty in streamflow: Streamflow varies temporally Some of the major sources of uncertainty include: Error measuring at very high flows (when flow exceeds weirs) Many different methods exist for interpolating stream nutrient concentrations between measurements

Bootstrapping approach to estimating uncertainty in streamwater flux Estimated fluxes of dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) via a bootstrapping methodology: Produces a daily series of DIN concentrations using daily flow values and resampling existing DIN samples from similar flow rates, and is repeated 1000 times to determine the uncertainty in the DIN fluxes.

Uncertainty in streamwater chemistry estimates: Methods comparison Comparing methods for estimating flux of Si at Hubbard Brook: Linear interpolation: concentrations for the week are linearly estimated between the two sampling dates Weekly average: One value applied to the entire week (many ways to do this) Composite method: model including a concentration-discharge relationship which is driven through the measured points Annual Si fluxes varied by ~5%

Using uncertainty to assess monitoring efficiency: Precipitation Test how sampling intensity contributes to confidence in the annual precipitation estimates by sequentially omitting individual precipitation gauges. Median annual precipitation estimates varied little until five or more of the eleven precipitation gauges were ignored.

Using uncertainty to assess monitoring efficiency: Streamflow Year Annual Streamwater N export, W6 (kg ha -1 yr -1 )

Year Annual Streamwater N export, W6 (kg ha -1 yr -1 ) Using uncertainty to assess monitoring efficiency: Streamflow

Year Streamwater N export (kg ha -1 yr -1 ) Every year Every other Every third Every fourth year year year Using uncertainty to assess monitoring efficiency: Streamflow Standard error of the slope increases as the number of sampled years decreases Trade off between less sampling (lower cost) and higher error around regression

Future QUEST projects: Hydrologic budget of QUEST sites including uncertainty in inputs and outputs QUEST workshops on soils, vegetation, and ecosystem budgets Ecosystem nutrient budgets including uncertainty in all pools and fluxes Be a part of QUEST! Find more information at: Read papers, get sample code, stay updated with QUEST News us at

QUEST would like to thank: NSF Long-Term Ecological Research Network NSF Division of Environmental Biology All QUEST sites for contributing data QUEST Steering committee: Doug Burns (USGS) and Shannon LaDeau (Cary Institute) All participants of the QUEST working group who contributed to the QUEST workshop in March 2011: Mary Beth Adams (USFS), Mark Harmon (Oregon State), Trevor Keenan (Harvard Univ.), William McDowell (UNH), Jordan Parman (CU- Boulder), Stephen Sebestyan (USFS), Jaime Shanley (USGS), Jim Vose (USFS)