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Published July 2, 2025 | Version 2.0
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TIERRAS Tracer Injection Experiments in RiveRs And Streams

Authors/Creators

  • 1. ROR icon University of New Mexico
  • 2. ROR icon University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • 3. New Mexico State University
  • 4. ROR icon Washington State University

Description

The TIERRAS project is an open-access platform that compiles a database of more than 400 tracer injection experiments in rivers and streams, sourced from previously published studies and reports. It also includes interactive features that allow users to explore, download, and contribute new data. The goal is to provide a centralized and accessible repository for researchers, environmental managers, and anyone interested in water quality, hydrological modeling, and stream solute dynamics.
 
These experiments were collected from various sources, including published studies, unpublished data, and technical reports from different authors. The original data were in diverse formats and units; all data were curated and standardized to a consistent format and to the Imperial (U.S. customary) units.
 
Visit TIERRAS at https://www.tierras.org/ 

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Rodríguez, L., Tunby, P., Abusang, A., Tartakovsky, A., Carroll, K., Ginn, T., & González-Pinzón, R. (2025). TIERRAS Tracer Injection Experiments in RiveRs And Streams (2.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15794259 

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Funding

U.S. National Science Foundation
Collaborative Research: Informing River Corridor Transport Modeling by Harnessing Community Data and Physics-Aware Machine Learning 2142691
U.S. National Science Foundation
Collaborative Research: Informing River Corridor Transport Modeling by Harnessing Community Data and Physics-Aware Machine Learning 2142165
U.S. National Science Foundation
Collaborative Research: Informing River Corridor Transport Modeling by Harnessing Community Data and Physics-Aware Machine Learning 2141503
U.S. National Science Foundation
Collaborative Research: Informing River Corridor Transport Modeling by Harnessing Community Data and Physics-Aware Machine Learning 2142686

Dates

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2024-10-10
The website was deployed and functional

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