Research Emphasis:
Scientific information management, relational and XML database design, developing software for automated data processing, analysis and integration based on structured metadata (see IT Development page).
GCE Committees:
GCE Executive Committee, Taxonomic Database Committee
Contact Information:
Primary Organization: University of Georgia
Mailing Address:
Wade M. Sheldon Jr.
Dept. of Marine Sciences
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia 30602-3636
Office Phone: (706) 542-5955
FAX Number: (706) 542-5888
E-Mail: sheldon@uga.edu
GCE Data Sets:
MET-GCES-0508b (Annual summaries of daily climatological observations from the National Weather Service weather station at Brunswick, Georgia for 1915 to 2004)
MET-GCES-0508a (Annual summaries of daily climatological observations from the National Weather Service weather station at the UGA Marine Institute on Sapelo Island, Georgia for 1958 to 2004)
HYD-GCES-0508a (Annual summaries of daily observations from the USGS Streamflow Gauging Station on the Altamaha River near Doctortown, Georgia, for 1932 to 2004)
HYD-GCES-0508b (Monthly sea-level summary data for the Fort Pulaski, Georgia, water level station (NOAA/NOS CO-OPS ID 8670870) from 01-Jul-1935 to 30-Jun-2006)
MET-GCEM-0109 (Daily climatological observations from Sapelo Island, Georgia, from May 1957 through July 2001)
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Journal Articles
Lasher, C., Dyszynski, G., Everett, K., Ye, W., Sheldon, W.M. Jr., Joye, S.B., Moran, M.A. and Whitman, W.B. 2009. The diverse bacterial community in intertidal, anaerobic sediments at Sapelo Island, Georgia. Microbial Ecology. 58(2):244-261. (DOI: 10.1007/s00248-008-9481-9)
Conference Proceedings (Published Papers and Abstracts)
Sheldon, W.M. Jr. 2008. Dynamic, Rule-based Quality Control Framework for Real-time Sensor Data. Pages 145-150 in: Gries, C. and Jones, M.B. (editors). Proceedings of the Environmental Information Management Conference 2008 (EIM 2008): Sensor Networks. Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Henshaw, D.L., Sheldon, W.M., Remillard, S.M. and Kotwica, K. 2006. ClimDB/HydroDB: A web harvester and data warehouse approach to building a cross-site climate and hydrology database. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Hydroscience and Engineering (ICHE 2006). Michael Piasecki and College of Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA.
Sheldon, W.M. Jr., Moran, M.A. and Hollibaugh, J.T. 2002. Efforts to link ecological metadata with bacterial gene sequences at the Sapelo Island Microbial Observatory. Pages 402-407 in: Proceedings of the 6th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics: Information Systems Development II. International Institute of Informatics and Systemics, Orlando, Florida.
Conference Posters and Presentations
Sheldon, W.M. Jr. 2009. Poster: Dynamic, Rule-based Quality Control Framework for Real-time Sensor Data. 2009 LTER All Scientists Meeting, September 13-17, 2009, Estes Park, Colorado.
Sheldon, W.M. Jr. 2009. Poster: GCE Software Tools for Data Mining, Analysis and Synthesis. 2009 Annual Meeting of the Georgia Coastal Ecosystems LTER Project, January 6-7, 2009, Athens, Georgia.
Sheldon, W.M. Jr. 2009. Presentation: GCE-LTER Taxonomic Database. 2009 LTER All Scientists Meeting, September 13-17, 2009, Estes Park, Colorado.
Sheldon, W.M. Jr. 2008. Presentation: Dynamic, Rule-based Quality Control Framework for Real-time Sensor Data. Quality Assurance Systems. Environmental Information Management 2008, September 10-11, 2008, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Sheldon, W.M. 2007. Presentation: Synthesis of incomplete and qualified data using the GCE Data Toolbox. Workshop to define quality management standards for data completeness in derived data products, January 31-February 1, 2007, Jornada Experimental Range, Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Sheldon, W.M. and Remillard, S. 2006. Poster: Software tools for automated synthesis of LTER, USGS and NOAA climate and hydrologic data. Long Term Ecological Research Network All-Scientists Meeting, September 20-24, 2006, Estes Park, Colorado.
Sheldon, W.M. 2004. Presentation: EML Best Practices for LTER Site Metadata. 2004 LTER Information Managers Meeting. July 28-31, 2004, Portland, Oregon.
Sheldon, W.M. 2004. Presentation: LTER Metadata Query Interface – Current Status and Future Challenges. 2004 LTER Information Managers Meeting. July 28-31, 2004, Portland, Oregon.
Amft, J., Helm, K., Kang, K., Sheldon, W.M. and Blanton, J.O. 2003. Poster: Salinity Monitoring in Coastal Georgia. LTER All Scientists Meeting. 19-21 September 2003, Seattle, Washington.
Sheldon, W.M. 2003. Presentation: GCE Data Toolbox -- metadata-based tools for automated data processing and analysis. 2003 LTER All-Scientists Meeting. Sept. 18-21, 2003, Seattle, WA.
Sheldon, W.M. 2003. Presentation: Software Tools for Automated Metadata Creation, Metadata-mediated Data Processing and Quality Control Analysis – real time processing solutions for real-time data. 2003 LTER All-Scientists Meeting. Sept. 18-21, 2003, Seattle, WA.
Sheldon, W.M. 2003. Presentation: Strategies for Adding EML Support to the GCE Data Toolbox for Matlab. IMEXEC 2003 Winter Meeting, Feb. 4, 2003, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA.
Sheldon, W.M., Moran, M.A. and Hollibaugh, J.T. 2003. Presentation: Efforts to Link Ecological Metadata with Bacterial Gene Sequences at the Sapelo Island Microbial Observatory. 2003 LTER All-Scientists Meeting. Sept. 18-21, 2003, Seattle, WA.
Sheldon, W.M. 2002. Presentation: GCE Taxonomic Database: A researcher-managed web database application. 2002 LTER Information Managers Meeting. Long Term Ecological Research Network, July 11, 2002, Orlando, Florida.
Sheldon, W.M. 2002. Presentation: GCE-LTER Taxonomic Database: An automated database application for displaying custom species lists on the web. OBFS Informatics Training Workshop. October 23, 2002, Sevilleta, New Mexico.
Sheldon, W.M. 2001. Presentation: GCE Site and Information Management Overview. 2001 LTER Information Managers Meeting. Long Term Ecological Research Network, August 1-4, 2001, Madison, Wisconsin.
Sheldon, W.M. Jr., Chalmers, A.G. and Hollibaugh, J.T. 2000. Poster: Georgia Coastal Ecosystems - A New Coastal Site in the Long Term Ecological Research Network. Poster presented at the LTER All Scientists Meeting, August, 2000, Snowbird, Utah.
Newsletter and Newspaper Articles
Sheldon, W.M. Jr. 2009. Getting started with eXist and XQuery. In: LTER Databits - Information Management Newsletter for the Long Term Ecological Research Network: Spring 2009. Long Term Ecological Research Network.
Sheldon, W.M. 2008. Developing a Searchable Document and Imagery Archive for the GCE-LTER Web Site. DataBits: An electronic newsletter for Information Managers. Long Term Ecological Research Network, Albuquerque, NM. Spring 2008 Issue, p. 5-8.
Sheldon, W.M. Jr. 2007. Practical Distributed Computing Approach for Web Enabling Processor-intensive Programs. DataBits: An electronic newsletter for Information Managers, Spring 2007 issue. Long Term Ecological Research Network, Albuquerque, NM.
Sheldon, W.M. 2006. Mining and Integrating Data from ClimDB and USGS using the GCE Data Toolbox. DataBits: An electronic newsletter for Information Managers, Spring 2006 issue. Long Term Ecological Research Network, Albuquerque, NM.
Sheldon, W.M. 2005. EML Harvesting II: Preparing Site Metadata and Harvest Lists. DataBits: An electronic newsletter for Information Managers, Spring 2005 issue. Long Term Ecological Research Network, Albuquerque, NM.
Sheldon, W.M. 2005. GCE Data Search Engine: A Client-side Application for Metadata-based Data Discovery and Integration. DataBits: an electronic newsletter for Information Managers, Spring 2005 issue. Long Term Ecological Research Network, Albuquerque, NM.
Sheldon, W.M. 2002. GCE Data Toolbox for Matlab® -- Platform-independent tools for metadata-driven semantic data processing and analysis. DataBits: an electronic newsletter for Information Managers, Fall 2002 issue. Long Term Ecological Research Network, Albuquerque, NM.
Sheldon, W.M. 2001. A Standard for Creating Dynamic, Self-documenting Tabular Data Sets Using Matlab®. DataBits: An electronic newsletter for Information Managers, Spring 2001 issue. Long Term Ecological Research Network, Albuquerque, NM.
Sheldon, W.M. Jr. 2001. Database Techniques for Creating Maintenance-free Web Pages. In: DataBits: An electronic newsletter for Information Managers, Fall 2001 issue. Long Term Ecological Research Network, Albuquerque, NM.
