GCE-LTER Project News
October 2019 CalendarPredex Meeting Flux Tower VTC Quota Deer Hunt Disturbance VTC New or Updated Publications10/11/2019 –
Napora, K., Cherkinsky, A., Speakman, R.J., Thompson, V.D., Horan, R. and Jacobs, C. 2019. Radiocarbon Pretreatment Comparisons of Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum) Wood Samples from a Massive Buried Deposit on the Georgia Coast, USA. Radiocarbon. 10/07/2019 –
Liu, W. and Pennings, S.C. 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) 09/23/2019 –
Thomsen, M.S., Alteiri, A., Angelini, C., Bishop, M., Gribben, G., Lear, G., Schiel, D., Silliman, B.R., South, P., Watson, D., Wernberg, T. and Zotz, G. 2018. Secondary foundation species enhance biodiversity. Nature Ecology and Evolution. 2:634-639. (DOI: 10.1038/s41559-018-0487-5) 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 Uploads10/07/2019 – Spreadsheet (GCE only) |
GCE Project Announcements10/11/2019 – 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 10/04/2019 – Monitoring Program
Fall monitoring continued on Friday October 4. With glorious weather for field work, we sampled GCE sites 1 and 4 for soil, plants and invertebrates. The GCE technicians were a well-oiled machine, as usual, whereas Dr. Pennings got well acquainted with the mud. Not only that, but this year we're installing temperature loggers at each zone at each site to monitor winter soil temperatures. The goal is to get a first-order understanding of how winter soil temperatures vary among sites and between marsh zones. (contact Steve Pennings for additional information)10/03/2019 – Sapelo News
High tides this week put salt water up over some of the roads on Sapelo Island. As we've learned the hard way, it doesn't take much to threaten us on Sapelo.  Water on the road to Nannygoat Beach, early October 2019 » Add Announcement or Update Announcement (GCE only) » Subscribe to the GCENEWS-L Email List (weekly GCE newsletter) » View/Search Recent GCE Announcements |
