Since the bulk of Coweeta LTER's current internet presence is based upon
work down since 2002, we list holdings and accomplishments together as one.
Coweeta LTER IM warehouses, protects, and serves the following:
New Additions in 2004:
All Data Metadata transferred to EML
(Ecological Metadata Language format).
Information |
Example
874 Publications online
...one of the most extensive online repository of research-based
publications in the world.
Transfer of all
data metadata into Ecological Metadata Language.
About EML
|
Example
Historic County Boundaries for the southern Appalachians: 1790-1999
Coweeta
LTER offers county boundary files for the southern Appalachians on a decadal
basis ranging from 1790 to 1999. Files are provided in ArcView .shp (Shape)
format, and are available in lat/lon and Universal Transverse Mercator. UTM
projections are NAD83, Zone 17 North.
Little
Tennessee Collection - Comprehensive GIS Datasets, due last week
of November.
Saison
-
Coweeta LTER and AHPA are collaborating on the comparative historical
ecology of the
Little
Tennessee River Basin in western North Carolina and the
Saison River Basin in the western Pyrenees on the French-Spanish
border.
Information Management
Guide - The beginning stages of documenting the Coweeta LTER method of
information management - driven by the requests of other organizations
interested in adopting our information management tools.
New Additions in 2003:
Monthly climate data for the southern Appalachians Study Region
Dating from 1931 to 2002 (123 climate stations and 29 types of weather
data).
Demographic Data for the entire southern Appalachians Study Region
Provided
in ArcView Shape format, at the block level, the most focused coverage area
publicly available - 1980 & 1990.
Coweeta LTER Sample Archives Database
Sample archives, representing documentation of over 17,000 samples that are
housed at Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory.
Coweeta LTER Species List
Documentation of over 20,000 mammals and amphibians collected from 1905 to
present.
Researchers
Biographical Sketches - ******including universal search of Coweeta's
holdings by each researcher.
Try it
(click "run universal search")
Coweeta LTER is directly supported by the
National Science Foundation under cooperative agreements DEB-9632854 &
DEB-0218001. To qualify for National Science Foundation funding, a
biographical sketch is required for each individual identified as senior
project personnel. More information about biographical sketches can be
found at the NSF
website.
Data from 2001 and previous:
Over 200 data
sets online
dating from 1937 to present, the products of research over a seventy year
period.
1200+ citations online
Searchable by author, title, abstract, year, researchers, the introduction
to publications based upon Coweeta research.
190+ Citations for thesis/dissertations
...resulting from research at Coweeta LTER. Dynamically generated, and
searchable by author, title, year.
GIS (Geographic Information Systems) Data - Coweeta Basin to Regional
coverage.