GCRC Program Summary |
Georgia Rivers Land Margin Ecosystem Research Program:
A comparative study of the transport and transformation of materials from rivers through the land-sea margin.
PIs: Richard G. Wiegert, Robert Hodson, William Wiebe, Mary Ann Moran, Merryl Alber, Alice Chalmers (Dept. of Marine Sciences, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA), Lawrence R. Pomeroy (Inst. of Ecology, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA), Jackson O. Blanton and Clark Alexander (Skidaway Inst. of Oceanography, Savannah, GA)
Support: National Science Foundation
Timeframe: 10/94 - 9/00
Project Overview:
The Georgia Rivers LMER project was funded by the National Science Foundation
to examine the interactions between coastal wetlands and rivers and their adjacent
oceanic ecosystems, and the influence of salt and freshwater intertidal marshes
on processes that occur within estuarine water and sediment. The project focused
on the estuaries of the Savannah, Ogeechee, Altamaha, Satilla, and St. Marys
rivers, and was a joint effort of scientists from the University of Georgia
Department of Marine Sciences, the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, the University
of Georgia Marine Institute on Sapelo Island, and the University of Georgia
Institute of Ecology.
Major Findings:
Link to publications:
http://wiegert.marsci.uga.edu/publications.html
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Please refer to
the GARLMER site
for more information.