GCE%20Site%20and%20Information%20Management%20Overview

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GCE Site and Information Management Overview

• Wade Sheldon
• GCE Information Manager

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GCE LTER Study Area
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Altamaha River
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Sapelo Island
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Intertidal Marsh
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Reynolds Mansion
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Coastal Development
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Marsh Creek Monitoring Sites

• Water/salt transport
• Nutrient fluxes
• Plant biomass and productivity
• Soil organics
• Decomposer activity and diversity
• Climate (3-4 sites)

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Hydrographic Survey Locations(Quarterly surveys,
moored instruments)

• Tidal Surveys
• Surface Salinity
• Surface Temperature
• DOM/ChlA fluorescence?
• Depth Profiles (2-4km stations)
• Salinity
• Temperature
• PAR?
• Moored Instruments
• CT sensors
• ADCP (Altamaha Sound)

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GCE Information Management

• IM Staff 1 manager (.75 time)
• IT Infrastructure
• UGA Campus Networking Services
• IMAP, SMTP, listserv, personal WWW
• Ethernet backbone (Gigabit fiber)
• high bandwidth switch (new)
• Sapelo (field station) UGAMI LAN
• Modem and ISDN (new)
• Remote Sensor Connectivity
• mostly offline (dataloggers)
• USGS microwave (1 Met/Hydro station)
• GCE Server
• Web (HTML, ASP, Matlab Web Server)
• Database (SQL Server)
• File sharing, FTP (very limited)

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Management Strategy

• Concentrate on core data management (not IT)
• Development of standards and protocols
• Data processing, validation
• Data documentation templates, web applications
• Data set, data product dissemination
• Maintain web sites for public relations, project
  participants
• Automate extensively
• Database-driven web pages
• Web-based data entry with client- server-side
  scripting
• Automated tabular data set processing,
  formatting, statistical analysis (GCE Data
  Tools/Data Structures)
• Provide research support to encourage
  participation
• Custom statistical reports for submitted data
  sets
• Data analysis/visualization applications
  (Windows/Unix GUIs)
• General resources (tide tables, site maps, aerial
  photos, external data)

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Data Processing Scheme
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Progress and Plans

• Public and private web sites in operation
• Data standards and policies published
• 6 data sets processed to date
• Climate and hydrographic data coming in
• Data submission web application under development
  (templates in use)
• End-user GUIs for GCE Data Tools in testing
• Web-based programs for manipulating, analyzing
  Data Structures planned

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GCE Data Tools