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LTER Site: Plum Island Ecosystem

Contributor: Hap Garritt (Aug 03, 2005)

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The Plum Island Ecosystems (PIE) LTER has recently, through the help of the LTER Network Office (Inigo San Gil and Duane Costa) and Jim Laundre ARC successfully converted 119 non-spatial legacy metadata files to ~ Level 2.5 EML including harvest into the LNO Metacat. We are continuing to make progress in standardizing a metadata document for the three different spatial data softwares (ESRI ARC, Clark University IDRISI and University of New Hampshire GHAAS-RGIS in use at PIE which will be followed up by conversion to EML.

In June 2005, PIE LTER hosted a workshop for developing plans for upgrading the Marshview Farm field facility into the Plum Island Coastal Research Facility. Attendees included PIE research personnel and also outside researchers who have had experience in managing field research facilities. Working groups met to discuss facility and infrastructure needs in the program areas of Research, Education and Outreach with the intent of developing new facilities that would complement existing available facilities in the area. The recommendations from the workshop will be incorporated into a facilities upgrade proposal in the near future

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