2001 LTER Site Flash
PIE
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The Plum Island Ecosystems (PIE) LTER has upgraded the network and information
system at the field station in Rowley, MA. At our field station we now
have an operational T1 line and a NT server with 6 ports available for desktop
or laptop Internet/Intranet connections. In addition to the main PIE LTER
WWW page, http://ecosystems.mbl.edu/PIE/, hosted by a NT server at The Ecosystems
Center in Woods Hole, MA, we have added a PIE LTER field station web page,
http://www.pielter.org/, hosted by the NT server at the Rowley field station.
The server at the Rowley field station is also the receiving station for
radio-transmitted data from our meteorological station and water quality
sonde units in the Plum Island Estuary. The radio-transmitted data is available
as provisional data in real time on line at the field station web page.
Campbell Scientifics’ Real Time Data Management (RTDM) software has been
used for graphic display of real time data. Researchers at the PIE LTER
have found the availability of real time data very useful for planning their
research.
The Marine Biological Laboratory’s Ecosystems Center is getting ready to
move into the new C.V. Starr Environmental Sciences Building. The 32,000-square
foot building will provide office space for all center staff under one roof
for the first time in more than a decade. It also contains laboratories,
staging areas for field samples and equipment, a geographic information
system (GIS) facility and classrooms for the Semester in Environmental Science
and other MBL courses. Many present and former Ecosystems Center staff
members and friends made special gifts to help name the center's new GIS
facility in memory of John Helfrich (ARC LTER), who worked at the center
for 23 years before his death in 1998.
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