This readme.txt file was generated on 20170208 by Martin Bevis GENERAL INFORMATION 1. Title of Dataset: Greater Blue Earth River Basin Sediment Budget Shapefiles 2. File Information: Shapefile Layers: River_shapefiles.zip Name: BE_2008_LB Description: Shapefile of the left bank of the Blue Earth River in 2008 Name: BE_2008_RB Description: Shapefile of the right bank of the Blue Earth River in 2008 Name: BE_2008_CL Description: Shapefile of the centerline of the Blue Earth River in 2008 Name: BE_1938_CL Description: Shapefile of the centerline of the Blue Earth River in 1938 Name: BE_1938_LB Description: Shapefile of the left bank of the Blue Earth River in 1938 Name: BE_1938_RB Description: Shapefile of the right bank of the Blue Earth River in 1938 Name: Wat_1938_LB Description: Shapefile of the left bank of the Watonwan River in 1938 Name: Wat_1938_RB Description: Shapefile of the right bank of the Watonwan River in 1938 Name: Wat_1938_CL Description: Shapefile of the centerline of the Watonwan River in 1938 Name: Wat_2008_LB Description: Shapefile of the left bank of the Watonwan River in 2008 Name: Wat_2008_RB Description: Shapefile of the right bank of the Watonwan River in 2008 Name: Wat_2008_CL Description: Shapefile of the centerline of the Watonwan River in 2008 Name: LS_2003_CL Description: Shapefile of the centerline of the LeSueur River in 2003 Name: Map_2003_CL Description: Shapefile of the centerline of the Maple River in 2003 Ravines_shapefiles.zip Name: BlueEarth_Ravines Description: Shapefile of ravines in the Blue Earth River watershed circa 2010 Name: Cobb_Ravines Description: Shapefile of ravines in the Cobb River watershed circa 2010 Name: LS_Ravines Description: Shapefile of ravines in the LeSueur River watershed circa 2010 Name: Map_Ravines Description: Shapefile of ravines in the Maple River watershed circa 2010 Name: Watonwan_Ravines Description: Shapefile of ravines in the Watonwan River watershed circa 2010 GreaterBlueEarthBasin_shapefiles.zip Name: GBER_bluffs Description: Shapefile of bluffs in the greater Blue Earth River basin circa 2010 Name: GBER_ChannelPts Description: Shapefile of channel centerlines in the greater Blue Earth River basin circa 2010 Name: GBER_lakesheds Description: Shapefile of watersheds upstream of lakes in the greater Blue Earth River basin circa 2010 Name: GBER_subwatersheds Description: Shapefile of watersheds above sediment gauges in the Blue Earth River basin circa 2010 3. Principal Investigator Contact Information A. Name: Martin A Bevis B. Institution: University of Minnesota Duluth C. Address: D. Email: bevisma@gmail.com 4. Associate or Co-investigator Contact Information A. Name: Karen B. Gran B. Institution: University of Minnesota Duluth C. Address: D. Email: kgran@d.umn.edu 5. Date of data collection (single date, range, approximate date): 2012-09-15 to 2014-09-15. 6. Geographic location of data collection (where was data collected?): Mankato, MN 7. Date files were created: 2014-11-13 8. Are there multiple versions of the dataset? no 9. Information about funding sources that supported the collection of the data: Sponsorship: Minnesota Department of Agriculture METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION 1. Description of methods used for collection/generation of data: These shapefiles were created to measure erosion rates and delineate the extent of eroding landforms in the greater Blue Earth River basin. The shapefiles were used to create a modern sediment budget (ca. 1940-2010) sediment budget for the basin. For more informatin, please reference Bevis, Martin. (2015). Sediment budgets indicate Pleistocene base level fall drives erosion in Minnesota's greater Blue Earth River basin. Retrieved from the University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy, http://hdl.handle.net/11299/170661.5. 2. Methods for processing the data: 3. Instrument-specific information needed to interpret the data: none 4. Standards and calibration information, if appropriate: none 5. People involved with sample collection, processing, analysis and/or submission: Karen Gran, Stephanie Day, Andrea Johnson, Drew Faherty, Jessica Cormier SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION 1. Licenses/restrictions placed on the data: CC0 1.0 Universal 2. Links to publications that cite or use the data: Bevis, Martin. (2015). Sediment budgets indicate Pleistocene base level fall drives erosion in Minnesota's greater Blue Earth River basin. Retrieved from the University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy, http://hdl.handle.net/11299/170661.5. Day, S.S., Gran, K.B., Belmont, P., Wawrzyniec, T., 2013. Measuring bluff erosion part 2: pairing aerial photographs and terrestrial laser scanning to create a watershed scale sediment budget. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 3. Links to other publicly accessible locations of the data: https://gis.uspatial.umn.edu/arcgis/rest/services/DataLocker/GBE/MapServer 4. Links/relationships to ancillary data sets: Was data derived from another source? A. List source(s) digital elevation models: http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/maps/lidar/index.html historic aerial photographs: https://www.lib.umn.edu/apps/mhapo/ recent aerial photographs: https://www.fsa.usda.gov/programs-and-services/aerial-photography/imagery-programs/naip-imagery/ 6. Recommended citation for the data: Bevis, Martin A; Gran, Karen B. (2017). Greater Blue Earth River Basin sediment budget shapefiles. Retrieved from the Data Repository for the University of Minnesota, http://hdl.handle.net/11299/183618. Credits: Template provided by the University of Minnesota Libraries, http://lib.umn.edu/datamanagement