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Plum Island LTER (Image 1)
Plum Island LTER (Image 1)
Aerial photo of the Parker River and Plum Island Sound, Massachusetts [Infrared, 1:25,000]. The Plum Island Ecosystems (PIE) research site, located on the northeastern Massachusetts coast, is part of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network. PIE-LTER research is conducted by scientists from the Ecosystems Center at the Marine Biological Laboratory, the University of South Carolina, the Massachusetts Audubon Society, the Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve, the University of New Hampshire and Clark University.
Interdisciplinary research has been conducted in the Plum Island Sound estuary since the late 1980s with support from NSF's Division of Environmental Biology. Research greatly expanded in 1992 with support from the NSF Land Margin Ecosystems Research (LMER) program. The site became part of the LTER network in 1998, being the first of four sites to focus on the effect of terrestrial and oceanic drivers on ecosystems at the land-sea interface. PIE-LTER is supported under NSF grant OCE 04-23565. [One of two related images. See Next Image.] (Date of Image: July 24, 1985)
Credit: Flown by James W. Sewall, Old Town, Maine, for the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Management.
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