GCE-LTER Yr 1 annual rept.PDF

The GCE web site has been set up and is available online at http://gcelter.marsci.uga.edu/lter/. Data sets from the Georgia Rivers LMER as well as new data from the LTER are being organized in the database associated with this web site. We have made presentations about the GCE LTER at local and coastal schools and to a meeting of the research coordinators from NOAA’s National Estuarine Research Reserve program. We have been interviewed by reporters from newspapers in Athens, Savannah and Jacksonville. We have established collaborative working relationships with other agencies (GA Department of Natural Resources, The Nature Conservancy, Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve, USGS). We have initiated a monitoring program at the head of tide on the Altamaha River and at 10 study sites within the saltmarsh/estuarine study domain. Scientists from our group are participating in LTER comparative studies of ground water, microbial diversity, and sediment organic matter. One of the senior scientists on the proposal, Dr. Deborah Bronk, moved from UGA to VIMS and is no longer part of the GCE-LTER.