McMurdo Dry Valleys Long Term Ecological Research
The McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER project is an interdisciplinary study of the aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems in a cold desert region of Antarctica. The MCM LTER Limnology team is focused on understanding the ecosystem structure and function of the microbially-dominated, permanently ice-covered lakes in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, where few metazoans exist within the water columns. Specifically, this project collects long-term data on the physical and chemical conditions within the lakes and relates them to biological diversity and rate processes. The lakes, being the terminus of the hydrological continuum in the MCM, are reservoirs of history and are the only environments within the study site that contain liquid water and support metabolic activity throughout the year.
Participants Involved in This Project
Jade Lawrence | Researcher Fellow
Made possible with funding by the U.S. National Science Foundation Award #2221990. The information contained here is those of the author(s) and does not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. National Science Foundation.