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2003 LTER Site Byte

LTER Site: Hubbard Brook LTER

Contributor: John Campbell (Sep 18, 2003)

Site Byte:

After much deliberation over the last several years, the governance of the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study was restructured. There were a number of organizational changes that occurred as a result of this restructuring, including some that pertain to information management. A committee called the Information Oversight Committee (IOC), which is now chaired by Nicholas Rodenhouse of Wellesley College, addresses information management issues. The IOC consists of three working groups: Data Working Group, Editorial Working Group, and the External Activities Working Group.

Ellen Denny of Yale University will be relocating to New Hampshire and will work at the USDA Forest Service in Durham. Ellen helps maintain the Hubbard Brook web site and works on other information management issues.

In response to comments from our LTER site review in June, 2001, we obtained coordinates for all past and present study site locations at Hubbard Brook with a GPS receiver. Two REU students from Syracuse University worked on this project during summer 2003 under the guidance of Dr. Chris Johnson in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

We received a small NSF supplement to continue to populate the HydroDB and ClimDB databases. We will soon be hiring a work study student to help in contributing daily wind speed and direction, solar radiation, relative humidity, and additional precipitation rain gage data and metadata.

Progress has been made in our effort to covert existing semi-structured ASCII Hubbard Brook metadata to EML. David Blankman visited the Durham, New Hampshire office and helped develop a plan for that conversion. Hubbard Brook data and metadata, which was recently moved to the LTER network office server in New Mexico (www.hubbardbrook.org), will be stored in a SQL server database.