The data and maps in the links should provide useful information to a variety of discliplines and interests. Feel free to contact the GIS lab with your questions. Coweeta lies near the southern terminus of the Blue Ridge Mountain physiographic province of the Appalachian Mountains. Regional studies are both interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary. Investigators represent interests which vary from anthropology to zoology.
Research is focused between northern Georgia and southern Virginia.
The site is a 2,185 ha experimental facility in North Carolina, and is administered by the USDA Forest Service. More than 50 km of streams drain the area. The regional climate is classified as marine, with cool summers, mild winters, and adequate rainfall during all seasons. Mean annual temperature is 13 C. Annual precipitation is high and variable over the area, with an average of 178 cm at lower elevations to over 250 cm on upper slopes. Snow typically contributes less than 2 percent to total precipitation.