McMurdo Dry Valleys Lake Bonney Autonomous Lake Profiler and Samplers (ALPS): Particulate Organic Carbon and Nitrogen Concentrations

• Main Authors: Takacs-Vesbach, Cristina, Doran, Peter, Priscu, John
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Environmental Data Initiative 2017
• Subjects: Bonney; Lake Bonney; McMurdo Dry Valleys
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.6073/pasta/0043c1728b4e51879970d59f2d0ce575; https://portal.edirepository.org/nis/mapbrowse?packageid=knb-lter-mcm.301.4

Knowledge of the McMurdo Dry Valley (MDV) lakes is limited by winter access, a period which is most relevant in understanding the habitability of other icy worlds and critical to understanding the overall function of these lakes. Owing to the lack of winter access, data that normally require human presence are incomplete. Our goal was to conduct the first year-round investigation of the biogeophysics of these unique lakes. An important part of the McMurdo Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) is evaluating carbon and nitrogen budgets in perennial ice-covered lakes. This data set addresses this core area of research and quantifies the particulate carbon and nitrogen found at specific depths in McMurdo Dry Valley lakes.