Long term effects of human activity on benthic macrofauna adjacent to McMurdo Station, Antarctica

• Main Author: Smith, Sara M.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: contamination; benthic; human impacts; environmental monitoring; Armitage; Austral; Cape Armitage; McMurdo Sound; McMurdo Station; Winter Quarters Bay; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.6/570

A Thesis Paper Submitted In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE, Environmental Science Program Sediments in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica have been altered through contamination derived from McMurdo Station. Long-term monitoring of benthic communities provides a b...