GCE Project Announcements
10/22/2009 – Personnel News
Dr. Alicia Wilson (USC Hydrogeology) and Dr. Bill Miller (UGA Photochemistry) were approved as new GCE Affiliated Professionals (Investigators) by a vote of the current GCE membership, in recognition of their work and ongoing collaborations with GCE investigators.
Alicia has collaborated on many studies with Mandy Joye (UGA) and Billy Moore (USC), and she is currently collaborating with Mandy on important studies to elucidate groundwater mixing processes in marsh hammocks.
Bill is the Director of the UGA Marine Institute, and is collaborating with John Schalles and others on remote sensing studies of the GCE domain.
We welcome Alicia and Bill to the project, and look forward to continued collaborations.
10/16/2009 – Website Addition
Near-real-time plots of Marsh Landing weather, Hudson Creek weather and hydrographic conditions, and Altamaha River discharge are now available on the Site Conditions page. Links to full-size plots and corresponding data sets are also included.
Links to this page are provided on the Field Planning menu and below the site conditions plot on the home page.
(contact Wade Sheldon for additional information)
10/08/2009 – Website Addition
New dynamic pages were added to the GCE web site to display information about the over-arching questions guiding GCE research, including research components and related projects, publications, data sets, and personnel. These pages bring together information from proposals, research project descriptions and progress reports to improve accessibility and to tie together all the related elements of the GCE research program and information system. Links to research question pages are included on the "Research" menu, and on the main Research web page.
As part of this effort, a new database was developed to store information about all GCE research projects. This database was designed to comply with the new LTER Project Database XML schema, which will allow GCE research project descriptions to be archived and searched along with other LTER research project descriptions.
(contact Wade Sheldon for additional information)
09/24/2009 – Outreach News
GCE Information Management staff (Wade Sheldon and John Carpenter), working with Georgia Coastal Research Council (www.gcrc.uga.edu) staff, recently finished developing a database of information on water quality monitoring activities in the coastal zones of Georgia, Florida, South Carolina and North Carolina for the National Park Service. This database can be accessed through a web portal hosted on the GCE web server (http://www.gcrc.uga.edu/wqmeta/).
Monitoring sites can be searched by program, name, activity type, measured parameter, date range and geographic coordinates, and information can be retrieved in a variety of formats, including Google Earth (KML) files with informational balloons containing links to site metadata. Links to informational and data distribution web sites are provided for all stations, in addition to detailed metadata describing each program and sponsoring organization.
All long-term GCE-LTER monitoring sites are included in this database, so it will promote broader discovery of GCE research and data. This database also provides GCE investigators with a broader view of regional monitoring activities that may contribute to interpreting their own data.
(contact Wade Sheldon for additional information)
09/24/2009 – IM News
All dynamically-generated Ecological Metadata Language (EML) metadata documents for GCE data sets, species lists, and other resources now support version 2.1.0 of the EML schema (see http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/software/eml/). This version corrects several errors in the original and referenced schemas to provide broader compatibility with XML editing and authoring tools. As of September 2009, all GCE metadata synchronized to the LNO Metacat server and NBII Mercury system use the updated schema.
(contact Wade Sheldon for additional information)
09/23/2009 – Publication News
The September 2009 version of the collected GCE reprint archive is now online in the private GCE file archive (https://gce-lter.marsci.uga.edu/private/app/resource_details.asp?id=202). This archive contains reprints for journal articles and theses/dissertations in Adobe Acrobat PDF format, as well as HTML index files (both with and without abstracts) for offline browsing and searching in a web browser on your local computer.
This archive complements the online version available at https://gce-lter.marsci.uga.edu/private/app/gce_reprints.asp, which is automatically generated from the GCE Bibliographic Database.
(contact Wade Sheldon for additional information)
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