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2003 LTER Site Byte

LTER Site: Baltimore Ecosystem Study

Contributor: Jonathan Walsh (Aug 27, 2003)

Site Byte:

Baltimore Ecosystem Study

2003 Site Byte


New BES Website -


The BES website, http://beslter.org has been redesigned. Data and metadata are represented in a better format and there is a new section - "Linking Science and Decision Making" which studies and fosters interplay between the intellectual pursuit of ecological understanding and the development of ecological literacy and ecologically sound practices in the metropolitan area.
 



SQL 2000 Server -


Database applications on the new server are being used for online data collection for species counts and stream chemistry. These online databases, reachable via the Internet, are useful since participants and laboratories of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study are in several locations.
 



Four Years of Stream Chemistry Online -


The BES Website now contains four years of weekly stream sampling data and metadata for four longitudinal sites along the Gwynn's Falls Watershed and four small watersheds.
 



Translation of Metadata to Ecological Metadata Language -


The Open Research System (ORS), our online metadata database, now has an Export Function. This new function outputs the metadata to Standard Delimited Format. We can then, in turn, convert the data to any other format. This will facilitate translation directly into Ecological Metadata Language (EML). David Blankman paid a visit and we compared files and determined the EML nodes required, and fields we should to add to our metadata database. We then created a field translation "map".
 



Climate Database (CLIMDB) -


The CLIMDB engine now regularly harvests the data from our station located at Mcdonogh school. The McDonogh weather station is located in a large area of horse pastures at a private school near Owings Mills, MD. It is the primary or reference meteorological station for BES, and it provides the best meteorological representation for the Gwynns Falls watershed, which is the focus of much of BES research.
 
 


Jonathan Walsh, August, 2003