McMurdo Dry Valleys

U.S. LTER Network McMurdo Dry Valleys McMurdo Station, Antarctica

Institutional affiliations: Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado; University of Alabama; Colorado State University; Texas Tech University; Montana State University; Desert Research Institute; Dartmouth College; U.S. Geological Survey, Water Resources Division, Portland State University; and University of Illinois at Chicago.

Principal biome/main communities: Polar desert oases.

Research topics: Microbial ecosystem dynamics in arid soils, ephemeral streams, and closed basin lakes; resource and environmental controls on terrestrial, stream and lake ecosystems; material transport between aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems; ecosystem response to greater hydrologic flux driven by warming climate.

Site Coordinates: -78.0, +165.0

Site Principal Investigator

W. BERRY LYONS

University of Alabama
Department of Geology
Box 870338
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0338
(205) 348-0583
wlyons@LTERnet.edu

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