MCMURDO DRY VALLEY LAKE DESCRIPTIONS

Acceptance and utilization of LTER data requires that:

• the Principal Investigator be sent a notice stating reasons for acquiring any data and a description of the publication intentions.
• The Principal Investigator of the data set be sent a copy of the report or manuscript prior to submission and be adequately cited in any resultant publications.
• A copy of any resultant publications should be sent to the McMurdo data manager at:
  as well as the Principal Investigator. For a list of MCM LTER Principal Investigators.

FILE NAME:
lakedsc.dat Data File (Comma Delimited Ascii Format).
lakedsc.txt Data File (MS-DOS Text Format - Table Layout).

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR:

Address:         Phone: E-Mail:	W. Berry Lyons Byrd Polar Research Center Ohio State University 1090 Carmack Rd Scott Hall Columbus, OH 43210-1002 (614) 688-3241 lyons.142@osu.edu
	&
Address:     Phone: E-Mail:	John Priscu Department of Biology Montana State University Bozeman MT, 59717 (406)994-3250 ubijp@gemini.oscs.montana.edu or JPriscu@LTERnet.edu

OTHERS:

Address:       Phone:

Kathy Welch Byrd Polar Research Center Ohio State University 1090 Carmack Rd, Scott Hall Columbus, OH 43210-1002 688-4593

&

Address:     Phone:

Craig Wolf Department of Biology Montana State University Bozeman MT, 59717 (406)994-2360

KEYWORDS: lake, limnology, location, elevation, latitude, longitude, ice thickness, volume, surface area

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STATUS: Public Access (Type 1).

VARIABLE DESCRIPTION:

 
VARIABLE	TYPE	UNITS		MISSING VALUE INDICATOR   MINIMUM	MAXIMUM	    PRECISION

Location	String	None		  Required entry	   n/a		  n/a	       n/a
Latitude	String	DD-MM-SS South	  Required entry	   n/a		  n/a	       n/a
Longitude	String	DDD-MM-SS East	  Required entry	   n/a		  n/a	       n/a
Description	String	None			Null		   n/a		  n/a	       n/a

LOG:

NOTE: Data contained in these files has been subjected to quality control standards imposed by the investigator. The user of this data should be aware that, while efforts have been taken to ensure that these data are of the highest quality, there is no guarantee of perfection for the data contained herein and the possibility of errors exists. If you encounter questionable data, please contact the MCM LTER data manager (; (303)492-4639) so that the data can be corrected or qualified. Thus, these data may be modified and future data will be appended.