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| Data Table: | Stream_DOC_Units
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Short Name: | strmdoc |
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Individual: | W. Berry Lyons |
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| Byrd Polar Research Center, |
| Ohio State University, |
| 108 Scott Hall, |
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| Columbus, OH 43210-1002 USA |
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Organization: | McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER |
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As part of the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) project in the McMurdo Dry
Valleys of Antarctica, a systematic aqueous geochemical sampling program has been undertaken.
A series of terrestrial water samples have been collected and analyzed for dissolved organic
carbon levels. This dataset shows concentrations of dissolved organic carbon found in various
streams of the McMurdo Dry Valleys.
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- stream
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- organic
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- chemistry
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- dissolved organic carbon
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Data contained in these files has been subjected to quality control standards
imposed by the investigator. The user of this data should be aware that, while efforts have
been taken to ensure that these data are of the highest quality, there is no guarantee of
perfection for the data contained herein and the possibility of errors exists. If you
encounter questionable data, please contact the MCM LTER data manager corrected or qualified.
Thus, these data may be modified and future data will be appended.
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| License and Usage Rights: |
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| MCM LTER data may be used freely with the following restrictions: |
The Principal Investigator be sent a notice stating reasons for acquiring any
data and a description of the publication intentions.
The Principal Investigator of the data set be sent a copy of the report or
manuscript prior to submission and be adequately cited in any resultant
publications.
A copy of any resultant publications should be sent to the McMurdo data
manager and principal investigator.
The end-user follow the guidelines set forth in the LTER Network Data Access
Policy, Data Access Requirements, and General Data Use Agreement found at
http://www.mcmlter.org/data_guidelines.htm
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Geographic Description: | Study areas are located in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of southern Victoria
Land, Antarctica (on the western coast of the Ross Sea at 77oS). Although the majority of the
streams in the study are found in Taylor Valley, data has also been collected from streams in
the nearby Miers, Alph, Wright, Pearse, Garwood, and Victoria Valleys. An extensive network of
gauging stations was set up throughout these valleys to monitor the stream hydrology. While
collecting hydrology data, stream water samples to be used for chemical analysis are also
gathered. Sample locations for stream chemistry data thus coincides with those for hydrology
samples. Locations also remain consistent from season to season. Specific latitudes and
longitudes for each stream gauge can be found in this site. |
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| West: | 162 degrees
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| East: | 163.6 degrees
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| North: | -77.2 degrees
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| South: | -77.8 degrees
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Mimimum Altitude: | 0 meter |
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Maximum Altitude: | 1000 meter |
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The original iterations of the 'strmdoc' file (stream dissolved organic carbon
data) were created by Kathy Welch, and submitted to Denise Steigerwald (the data manager) at
the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR). These files are currently located on
the PC in the data manager's office at INSTAAR. Following discussions between Kathy Welch and
Denise Steigerwald, it was decided to add some fields (eg. strmgageid, collection date,
comments for each type of measurement) to these files in order to make them more consistent
and relational for future references. Following these revisions, they were imported into
Microsoft Access and saved in a table named "Stream Chemistry / Dissolved Organic Carbon".
This table was exported as an ascii, text, comma delimited file (strmdoc.dat) and as an
MS-DOS text, table layout file (strmdoc.txt), to present on the MCM LTER web site. Both of
these files are linked to this web page above.
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Organization: | McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER |
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Position: | Data Manager |
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Organization: | McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER |
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