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Start date:
2010
End date:
2010
Locations:
Commonwealth, Howard, Canada, and Taylor Glaciers; Taylor, Beacon, Wright, Victoria, and Garwood Valleys
Principle Investigator:
Dr. Andrew Fountain
Organisation:
Portland State University
The McMurdo Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) projects will continue to investigate the McMurdo Dry Valleys as an end-member ecosystem and focus on the relative roles of legacy and extant processes on current biodiversity and ecosystem structure and function. This project measures Dry Valley meteorological parameters and the physical properties of Dry Valley glaciers, with special emphasis on LTER core research areas.