GCE Project Announcements
05/12/2012 – Employment
We are currently seeking a data management specialist to assist with information management for the Georgia Coastal Ecosystems LTER, a major NSF-sponsored research project administered at UGA. The employee will assist with collecting, editing and documenting data for archiving and web distribution through the GCE LTER information system, assist with maintenance of content in project web sites and databases, and create and manage web pages and other content for outreach and educational activities. They will also provide administrative support for project personnel. The job may include periodic travel to locations on the Georgia coast to assist with education and outreach activities. (full article)
(contact Wade Sheldon for additional information)
04/30/2012 – Software Release
Version 3.35 of the GCE Data Toolbox for MATLAB is now available (more information). This release includes major performance improvements in text file importing functions for MATLAB 7+, new GUI dialogs for batch importing and exporting files, extended Thalweg reference data for GA coastal rivers, and prototype functions for importing EML-described data tables into the GCE Data Toolbox. (full article)
(contact Wade Sheldon for additional information)
04/13/2012 – Award
The Environmental Law Institute has announced the recipients of the prestigious National Wetland Awards, which recognizes individuals who have made exceptional and innovative contributions to wetlands conservation. GCE-LTER principal investigator Dr. Chris Craft (Indiana University) was named as this year's Science Research recipient. (full article)
04/09/2012 – Publication News
The GCE Collected Reprints archive was updated to include 208 journal articles, theses and dissertations resulting from GCE-LTER research. This archive compliments the online GCE Reprint Library, and allows GCE participants to download the entire library of PDF reprints along with an HTML index for offline browsing on a local computer.
Please note that due to publisher restrictions, reprints are only available to GCE members. Please use the public links or reprint request service of the GCE Bibliography if you do not have a GCE login.
(contact Wade Sheldon for additional information)
04/09/2012 – Publication News
The January 2012 issue of Ecology includes two separate publications from GCE graduate students working on marsh community ecology.
Hongyu Guo (Pennings Ph.D. student) published "Mechanisms mediating plant distributions across estuarine landscapes in a low-latitude tidal estuary".
Christina Angelini (Silliman Ph.D. student) published "Patch size-dependent community recovery after massive disturbance".
Congratulations to both students on their success.
(contact Steve Pennings for additional information)
04/05/2012 – Software Release
The NOAA National Climatic Data Center recently began providing public access to long-term daily data from the Global Historical Climatology Network. Data query and parsing applications have now been added to the GCE Data Toolbox for MATLAB software to support programmatically retrieving daily data sets from nearly 20,000 GHCN station across the world directly into the MATLAB environment for analysis and synthesis. A GUI form is provided for selecting stations by state or territory, and command-line retrieval is also fully supported for scripting downloads. (full article)
(contact Wade Sheldon for additional information)
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