GCE Announcement
Monitoring Program
2025 SETs
Surface Elevation Table measurements from 8 of the 9 marsh monitoring sites took place 14-16 December 2025. The UNCW crew was supported by the outstanding support of LTER Technicians Emily Pace and CJ Sides under the guidance of John Williams.
Braving a brutally cold and windy day, LTER technician CJ Sides in the foreground with UNCW undergraduate student Dylan Brockman looking on. Lori Sutter reading the SET pins. photograph
The height of pins placed carefully at the soil surface relative to a fixed vertical position allow us to evaluate changes in marsh elevation over many years of measurements.
Budding researchers Gray Gilbert (left) and Dylan Brockman (right) assist with the 2025 Surface Elevation Table reading at the "Island Apex" site (GCE 3).
(Contact Lori Sutter for additional information)
submitted Dec 17, 2025
