Welcome to the Coweeta LTER 
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One of the oldest continuous environmental studies in North America, Coweeta is based in the eastern deciduous forest of the southern Appalachian Mountains, and the centerpiece of a long-term cooperation between the University of Georgia and the USDA Forest Service. Funded by the National Science Foundation, Coweeta LTER has evolved from a site-based to a site- and region-based project centering on the effects of disturbance and environmental gradients on biogeochemical cycling, and the underlying watershed ecosystem processes that regulate and respond to those ecological cycles. Our current research program, entitled "Southern Appalachia on the Edge" focuses on the impacts that exurbanization and climate change are having on water quality, water quantity, and other ecosytem services. |
Events
CWT SUMMER MEETING
Please feel free to join us on 6/29 for our public presentation of data and findings from the last year. 6/30 is a planning meeting.
Coweeta Hydrologic Lab
June 29, 2010
all day
Intensive Hillslope Plot Planning
The Terrestrial Hillslope Study is part of an effort to understand land use patterns and associated flowpaths, habitats, and human communities found within 1) forested hillslopes; 2) hillslopes in traditional valley developments; and 3) hillslopes in mountaintop developments. Previous work in the Coweeta LTER VI proposal has focused on regional watersheds or subbasins; this fine-scale approach will be taking place in headwater streams and hillslopes. Ultimately the study will link terrestrial hillslope processes, stream water inputs, and instream processes. Because we will need to landowner permission to set up this study, we need to a way to succinctly describe the different aspects of the study and make sure we have covered everything we said we would do in the proposal.
GotoMeeting Session
April 25, 2011
11:00am
Science Advisory Council Meeting
Science Advisory Council meeting to discuss mid-term review & other business
GotoMeeting Session hosted via CWTIM
May 2, 2011
11:00am
Coweeta LTER Mid-Term Review
Coweeta LTER Investigators will present research from the Coweeta VI proposal to a panel of reviewers from the National Science Foundation and other guests.
Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory, Otto, North Carolina
June 28, 2011
all day
Coweeta Brown Bag Lecture
Coweeta Brown Bag Lunch Lecture for August 16, 2011: New Approaches for Linking Fire Behavior, Fuels, and Forest Structure. The Coweeta LTER and Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory are pleased to host Dr. Joe O'Brien on August 16 for a Brown Bag Lecture on the relationship between Fire, Fuel, and Forest Structure. Dr. O'Brien is a Research Ecologist at the USDA Forest Service Center for Forest Disturbance Science in Athens, Georgia. The brown bag lecture at held at noon in the Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory Conference Center. Feel free to bring your lunch and we look forward to seeing you. For more information, contact Jason Love, the Coweeta LTER Site Manager at cwtsm@uga.edu. For directions,see the following website: http://coweeta.uga.edu/directions.
3160 Coweeta Lab Road, Otto, North Carolina
August 16, 2011
12:00pm
