Georgia Coastal Ecosystems LTER Data Set Details

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GCE-LTER Data Set Summary

Accession:

PLT-GCED-2407

Research Theme:

Plant Ecology (Directed Study)

Contributor:

Steven C. Pennings

Title:

Soil temperature at GCE core monitoring sites in the winter of 2019-2020

Abstract:

We deployed one hobo logger in each vegetation zone at each of the ten primary GCE monitoring sites, for a total of 20 loggers. The loggers were deployed at plot number 1 in each zone, to the "outside" (away from plot number 2), parallel in elevation with the middle of plot 1, buried 10 cm deep, lying horizontal, and tied with a string to the upper left hand (looking from the ocean towards the land) corner stake of the plot. Hobos were deployed during fall monitoring in October 2019, and set to start logging on October 15, 1 am, at 15 minute intervals, with the loggers set on Central Time (times were converted to UTC in post-processing). They were retrieved in April 2020 and files were trimmed to end on a standard date. Exact deployment and retrieval dates are on the attached adobe acrobat file.

DOI:

10.6073/pasta/c15f5f4b26f5ae75a1d65e4c95a91ad5

Key Words:

GCE, GCE1, GCE10, GCE2, GCE3, GCE4, GCE5, GCE6, GCE7, GCE8, GCE9, marshes, Plant Monitoring, Sediment Monitoring, soils

LTER Core Area:

Other Site Research

Research Themes:

Plant Ecology

Study Period:

15-Oct-2019 to 20-Apr-2020

Study Sites:

GCE1 -- Eulonia, Georgia, USA
GCE2 -- Four Mile Island, Georgia, USA
GCE3 -- North Sapelo, Sapelo Island, Georgia, USA
GCE4 -- Meridian, Georgia, USA
GCE5 -- Folly River, Georgia, USA
GCE6 -- Dean Creek, Sapelo Island, Georgia, USA
GCE7 -- Carrs Island, Georgia, USA
GCE8 -- Alligator Creek, Georgia, USA
GCE9 -- Rockdedundy Island, Georgia, USA
GCE10 -- Hunt Camp, Sapelo Island, Georgia, USA

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Downloads:

Supporting Document: Deployment_Retrieval_logs (Log of instrument serial numbers, deployment locations and dates, and retrieval dates)

Access: Public (released 12-Jul-2024)

Metadata: XML (Ecological Metadata Language)

Data Formats: PDF document [419 kb]

Data Table: PLT-GCED-2407 (Main data table for data set PLT-GCED-2407, 362800 records)

Access: Public (released 12-Jul-2024)

Metadata: Text (ESA FLED), XML (Ecological Metadata Language)

Data Formats: Spreadsheet (CSV) [43488.67kb], Text File [39945.09kb], MATLAB (GCE Toolbox) [3145.88kb], MATLAB (Variables) [3151.00kb], Text Report [42404.91kb]

Column List:(display)

Column	Name	Units	Type	Description
1	Date	YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss	string	Calendar date (UTC)
2	Year	YYYY	integer	Calendar year
3	Month	MM	integer	Calendar month
4	Day	DD	integer	Calendar day
5	Hour	hr	integer	Hours
6	Minute	min	integer	Minutes
7	Site	none	integer	GCE site number
8	Zone	none	integer	GCE marsh zone
9	Plot	none	integer	GCE plot number
10	Location	none	string	Geographic location code in the GCE Metadata Database for the sampling plot
11	Flag_Location	none	string	QA/QC flags for Geographic location code in the GCE Metadata Database for the sampling plot (flagging criteria, where "x" is Location: manual)
12	Location_Notes	none	string	Notes on location assignments and geographic accuracy
13	Longitude	degrees	floating-point	Geographic longitude in decimal degrees
14	Flag_Longitude	none	string	QA/QC flags for Geographic longitude in decimal degrees (flagging criteria, where "x" is Longitude: x<-180="I", x>180="I", manual)
15	Latitude	degrees	floating-point	Geographic latitude in decimal degrees
16	Flag_Latitude	none	string	QA/QC flags for Geographic latitude in decimal degrees (flagging criteria, where "x" is Latitude: x<-90="I", x>90="I", manual)
17	SerialNumber	none	integer	Instrument serial number
18	Record	none	integer	Record
19	Temperature	degrees C	floating-point	Temperature

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Citation:

Pennings, Steven C. 2024. Soil temperature at GCE core monitoring sites in the winter of 2019-2020. Georgia Coastal Ecosystems LTER Project, University of Georgia, Long Term Ecological Research Network. http://dx.doi.org/10.6073/pasta/c15f5f4b26f5ae75a1d65e4c95a91ad5

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