Plum Island Ecosystem LTER site - Ipswich River Particulate Dataset

PIE-LTER research is conducted by scientists from the Ecosystems Center at the Marine Biological Laboratory, the Univeristy of South Carolina, the Massachusetts Audubon Society, Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve, and the University of New Hampshire. The Plum Island Ecosystem was originally called The Plum Island Sound Comparative Ecosystems Research Program and was part of the The Land Margin Ecosystems Research Program funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) from 1992 to 1996.

The Plum Island Ecosystem Research site investigates the importance to estuarine ecosystems of organic carbon and organic nitrogen inputs from watersheds with various land covers and uses. It also asks whether the interaction of inorganic nutrients with the quantity and quality of organic carbon and organic nitrogen play an important role in determining the trophic structure, production and trophic efficiency in estuaries.