B-508 - Hydro-geochemical Controls on Many Glaciers Pond
PI: Dr. Jeb Barrett
Project Lead: Michael Gooseff
Funding Source: NSF/PLR 1115245
Location: McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
Dates: 2011-10-14 to 2012-08-13
Project Summary
In 1980 the NSF funded the US Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network, a collaborative effort involving more than 1,800 scientists and students. The McMurdo LTER is one of 26 sites that investigates ecological processes over long temporal and broad spatial scales. The MCM LTER program is an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary study of the aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems in the ice-free McMurdo Dry Valleys. This project is the geochemistry component of the MCM LTER. Researchers monitor the inorganic geochemistry of waters and solid samples collected from the glaciers, streams, ponds, lakes and landscape of the Dry Valleys. They continue to study the upland seeps and ponds to gain a better understanding of their hydrologic and geochemical controls. TLS data was gathered at Many Glaciers Pond to create a high-precision (1cm) ground model of a field site that was then used in a water diversion experiment.