GCE Project Announcements
02/01/2010 – Education News
The Science Education and Applied Research in Coastal Habitats (SEARCH) research experience for teachers workshop and graduate course will be conducted July 6-17, 2010.
SEARCH 2010 will provide participating classroom teachers with a unique professional development opportunity through collaboration with scientists conducting ecosystem research. Participants will be assigned to a research project in field and laboratory settings within the Georgia Coastal Ecosystems Long Term Ecological Research site on Sapelo Island (UGA Marine Institute). In preparation, teachers will attend an intensive 5-day coastal ecological study at the University of Georgia’s Marine Education Center and Aquarium (MECA) facilities on Skidaway Island. Classroom implementation will be aided by the participant teachers’ creation of research based activities for their classes and colleagues through public and web-based data sources. Evaluation will track knowledge growth of participants in terms of science content as well as applications to teaching through teaching portfolio creation. This is a residential program based at UGA facilities on both Skidaway and Sapelo islands.
The complete brochure and application form can be downloaded at http://www.marex.uga.edu/aquarium/docs/SEARCH-2010%20Flyer.pdf, and more information about all of UGA Marine Extension's teacher programs is available at http://www.marex.uga.edu/aquarium/teacherWorkshops.html.
(contact Bob Williams for additional information)
01/13/2010 – Website Addition
A web form is now available for searching for GCE research projects based on personnel, key words, text terms, date range and geographic locations. An interactive Google Map is also included to specify geographic bounding coordinates. A link to this form is provided on the Project List page (http://gce-lter.marsci.uga.edu/public/research/projects.asp).
Note that project documents are stored in a native XML database (eXist-db, http://exist-db.org/), and that this database, search form and associated web services were collaboratively developed with Information Managers from across the LTER Network as part of the cross-site LTER Projects Database effort (see http://intranet.lternet.edu/im/project/LTERProjectDatabase).
(contact Wade Sheldon for additional information)
01/12/2010 – Coastal News
The USGS Georgia Water Science Center is pleased to announce the availability of "Summary of Hydrologic Conditions in Georgia 2008" factsheet by Knaak and others. This fact sheet provides a concise summary of streamflow, reservoir, and groundwater aquifer conditions throughout the 2008 water year. It is intended to accompany the 2008 annual data report for Georgia that (previously available online) contains daily data for each monitoring location.
To access the Summary of Hydrologic Conditions in Georgia, 2008, click:
http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2009/3109/.
To access the Water Resources Data for Georgia, Water Year 2008, click:
http://wdr.water.usgs.gov/wy2008/search.jsp.
12/17/2009 – Website Addition
File attachments can now be added to announcements when news items are added to the GCE web site. This feature can be used to post job announcements, meeting agenda, press releases or other files that need to be shared but do not require formal archiving.
To support this feature, new fields were added to the add/edit announcement form on the private GCE web site (https://gce-lter.marsci.uga.edu/private/app/add_announce.asp) for defining a text label and file to upload as the attachment. The file is stored on the GCE web server, and a link to the attachment is automatically added below the announcement description.
(contact Wade Sheldon for additional information)
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