GCE-LTER Project News
December 2019 CalendarQuota Deer Hunt Flux Tower VTC Disturbance VTC New or Updated Publications12/03/2019 –
Burns, C. 2018. Historical analysis of 70 years of salt marsh change at three coastal LTER sites. M.S. Thesis. University of Georgia, Athens, GA. 188 pages. 11/12/2019 –
Letourneau, M.L., Schaefer, S.C., Alber, M. and Medeiros, P.M. 2019. Poster: Spatio-temporal changes in dissolved organic matter composition and biodegradation throughout the GCE-LTER domain. 25th Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation (CERF) Conference, November 2019, Mobile, AL. 11/12/2019 –
Martineac, R.P., Craft, C.B. and Medeiros, P.M. 2019. Poster: Effects of simulated seawater intrusion on soil biomarkers distribution in a tidal freshwater marsh wetland. 25th Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation (CERF) Conference, November 2019, Mobile, AL. Latest Data Releases06/14/2019 – Data Release
Provisional SALTEx well logger monitoring data are available on the Project Data page through February 2019. The Schlumberger logger files were corrected for atmospheric pressure and sensor elevation for calculation of water level, and salinity and density were calculated from temperature and conductivity measurements. 04/26/2019 – Data Release
Two data sets investigating the effects of elevation on surface soil temperature gradients within salt marshes was added to the GCE Data catalog by Merrly Alber and Jessica O'Connell. MSH-GCE0-1904: Variation in Landsat 8-estimated land surface temperature with elevation from Spartina alterniflora marsh cross sections in the Georgia Coastal Ecosystems Long Term Ecological Research (GCE-LTER) site and Virginia Coast Reserve (VCR) LTER sites for winter and summer observations spanning 2013-2018 MSH-GCED-1904: Continuous soil temperature measurements at 10 cm depth from 3 month-long deployments in summer and winter within the Georgia Coastal Ecosystems Long Term Ecological Research (GCE-LTER) site in 2017 and 2018
11/20/2018 – Data Release
Provisional SALTEx well logger monitoring data are available on the Project Data page through September 2018. The Schlumberger logger files were corrected for atmospheric pressure and sensor elevation for calculation of water level, and salinity and density were calculated from temperature and conductivity measurements. Latest File Uploads11/25/2019 – Spreadsheet (GCE only) |
GCE Project Announcements10/25/2019 – Website Addition
Data plots from the HADCP deployed in the Duplin River are now being displayed in near real-time on the GCE website. Cross-river and along-river velocities are plotted for several date ranges. The plots can be found on this page: http://gce-lter.marsci.uga.edu/portal/stations/gce_adcp/index.xml You can also access the HADCP plots from the site conditions page: http://gce-lter.marsci.uga.edu/public/app/conditions.asp (contact Daniela Di Iorio for additional information)10/22/2019 – Employment
The GCE LTER program seeks a research technician to assist with studies of coastal ecology. Work will involve studies of water quality, soils, and wetland plants and animals. This Research Technician II position is based at the UGA Marine Institute on Sapelo Island, GA. The selected individual will work with other technicians, faculty and students at the field site. (contact Steve Pennings for additional information)10/11/2019 – Monitoring Program
We're wrapping up the 2019 fall monitoring, and celebrating 20 years of data! That's quite a milestone.  Fengrun Wu and Jacob Shalack celebrating the end of fall monitoring 2019 10/07/2019 – Publication News
Wenwen Liu and Steve Pennings just published a massive synthesis of many years of fall monitoring of Spartina alterniflora stem height and density at the GCE LTER site. The bottom line is that all the variation across zones, sites and years in Spartina alterniflora height and flowering status can be understood as resulting from a couple simple allometric rules. THANK YOU to all the GCE Technicans and graduate students who helped collect the fall monitoring data over the past 20 years! Liu, Wenwen, and S. C. Pennings. 2019. Self-thinning and size-dependent flowering of the grass Spartina alterniflora across space and time. Functional Ecology 33:1830-1841. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.13384. (contact Steve Pennings for additional information)10/07/2019 – Monitoring Program
The fall monitoring effort continued apace on Monday, despite fall showers that soaked the crew to the skin. Brendan is back, Patrick joined us from the Angelini lab to help with invertebrate monitoring, and Steve jumped in the creek up to his chest to try (unsuccessfully) to pull out an old pvc pole from an abandoned plot.  Field crew at site 9, shortly before the rain began 10/07/2019 – Personnel News
Brendan is back from training in the reserves, has rejoined the LTER field crew, and is immediately contributing to the fall monitoring effort. Welcome back!  Brendan doing fall monitoring 2019 10 » Add Announcement or Update Announcement (GCE only) » Subscribe to the GCENEWS-L Email List (weekly GCE newsletter) » View/Search Recent GCE Announcements |
