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1. Soil climate and atmospheric data for Scott Base, Marble Point, Mount Fleming, Bull Pass, Granite Harbour, Minna Bluff, Victoria Valley, Don Juan Pond and Bull Pass, Antarctica [K123_1999_2012_NZ_1]
In collaboration with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) climate stations were installed at six locations in the Ross Sea Region including Scott Base, Marble Point and Bull Pass all ...


2. Environmental protection, management and classification of terrestrial ecosystems in the Ross Sea Region [K123_2010_2012_NZ_3]
Soil samples from a diverse range of soil types have been collected from the Wright and Victoria Valley Systems, to determine whether soil distribution patterns aid prediction of microbial abundance ...


3. IPA-IPY Thermal State of Permafrost (TSP) Snapshot Borehole Inventory, Version 1.0 [G02190]
During the planning and implementation of the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007 - 2009, the International Permafrost Association (IPA) coordinated the acquisition of permafrost temperature data ...


4. Direct Molecular Analysis of Antarctica and Southern Ocean Microbial Communities [ASAC_867]
Metadata record for data from ASAC Project 867 See the link below for public details on this project. Dataset Sea-ice bacteria data are associated with ASAC_1012 and included there Data for bacteria ...


5. Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring (CALM) Program Network [ggd313]
The CALM network currently includes 130 active sites in both hemispheres, with 15 participating countries. An additional 20 or more secondary sites are co-located with these primary sites, resulting ...


6. New Zealand Antarctic Soils Database [ggd25]
This data set includes the New Zealand National soils database, a comprehensive collection of data relating to Antarctic soils, permafrost, and frozen ground conditions. Data are from about 800 sites ...


7. Micrometeorology, soil temperatures (PermaAntarctica), Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands [ggd205]
This data set consists of micrometeorological tower data from Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands (periantarctic). Parameters include summer heat flux balance, soil heat flux, and active ...


8. Circumpolar Active-Layer Permafrost System (CAPS) [G01175]
The Circumpolar Active-Layer Permafrost System (CAPS) CD-ROM contains data sets and information products pertaining to permafrost and frozen ground topics. CAPS was originally compiled by the International ...


9. Soil chemistry and soil CO2 concentration and isotopic composition from sites in Taylor Valley and the Lake Wellman area [K072_2008_2010_NZ_1]
This study aimed to understand the origin and dynamics of pedogenic carbonate in Antarctic soils, with a long-term view to understanding the formation of carbonate and the storage and turnover of ...


10. Microclimate and soil climate data in Dry Valleys [UW_Dry_Valley_Datalogging]
The data set contains microclimate and soil temperature data at 5 sites in the MCM Dry Valleys.


11. Hydrologic Margins Research Project, 2004-2008, McMurdo Dry Valleys [B268_hydrol_margins_dvs_proj]
In this field research project, we investigated the soil hydrology, biogeochemistry, and microbial ecology along hydrologic gradients in soils adjacent to streams and lakes in Wright and Taylor Valleys. ...


12. McMurdo Sound sea ice properties and temperatures [McMurdo_Ice_Temps]
Metadata for ice temperatures and ice core properties collected in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica as part of the project "Measurements and Improved Parameterization of the Thermal ...


13. Collaborative Research: Integrating Geomorphological and Paleoecological Studies to Reconstruct Neogene Environments of the Transantarctic Mountains [ANT-0739700_BU-054-004]
This project studies the last vestiges of life in Antarctica from exceptionally well-preserved fossils of tundra life--mosses, diatoms, ostracods, Nothofagus leaves, wood, and insect remains recently ...


14. Fossil-rich lacustrine deposits in the Dry Valleys, Antarctica [ANT-0440711_BU-054-003]
The data set includes fossil images,trace-element geochemical analyses of volcanic tephra, geochronologic data for Dry Valleys ashfall deposits, locations and description of soil pits in the Antarctic ...


15. Soil climate and atmospheric data for Scott Base, Marble Point, Mount Fleming, Bull Pass, Granite Harbour, Minna Bluff and the Victoria Valley, Antarctica [K123_1999_2008_NZ_1]
In collaboration with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) climate stations were installed at six locations in the Ross Sea Region including Scott Base, Marble Point and Bull Pass all ...


16. Data on geomorphology, neotectonics, soils, permafrost and freshwater in the Antarctic Peninsula region. [CNDP-ESP_GEOANT-UAM]   CHILD DIFs
In English: This dataset contains registered data on studies carried out by the research group on Geology from the University Autonoma of Madrid (GEOANT). Data about geomorphology, neotectonics, ...


17. Data on geomorphology, soils and permafrost in the Antarctic Peninsula region. [CNDP-ESP_GEOANT-UAM_Geomorphology-Soils-Permafrost]   PARENT DIF
In English: Data on geomorphology, soils and permafrost in the Antarctic Peninsula region from projects of the research group on geology of the University Autonoma of Madrid (GEOANT). General geomorphology, ...


18. Ground penetrating radar (GPR) and Photogrammetry, electrical resistivity tomography (ERT), electromagnetic and topography data of polygonal patterned ground in the Victoria and Beacon Valleys [K054_2006_2007_NZ_1]
To understand the subsurface properties of polygonal patterned ground (PPG) and to attempt to resolve competing theories of PPG activity, non-invasive, non-destructive geophysical methods were used ...


19. Permafrost Active Layer Thermal Monitoring in Livingston and Deception Islands (Antarctica). Action to the International Polar Year. [CNDA-ESP_CGL2004-20896-E]
In English: We send two types of data. One of them corresponding to the thermal active layer evolution, temperatures gradient measuring into the soil placed at 5, 15, 40, 90, 150 and 230 cm deep ...


20. Energy balance and thermal regime on the soil surface: Livingston Island [CNDA-ESP_ANT93-1000-CO2]
In English: The energy exchange between soil and atmosphere in polar summer regions is an efficient process to thawing active layer. In this project we have controlled different meteorological (air ...


21. Permafrost thermal regimen near of the Spanish Antarctic Station (Juan Carlos I) [CNDA-ESP_ANT91-1263]
In English: We have installed three micrometeorological stations that were measuring during the summer in Hurd glacier, two of them, and near to the Spanish Antarctic Station (Juan Carlos I) the ...


22. Physical parameters in the study of atmosphere/permafrost interaction to describe the annual active layer evolution. Livingston and Deception islands [CNDA-ESP_ANT1998-0571]
In English: The goal of this proposal will be developed a physical model of the soil thermal regime in a permafrost terrain and validate with soil temperatures and radiation balance measurements ...


23. STUDY OF GLACIO-CLIMATIC CHANGES, PERMAFROST AND HYDROGEOLOGY ON NORTHERN ANTARCTIC PENINSULA REGION [CDA_AR_GLACIOLOGY_PICTA-32-2004]
ENGLISH The cryosphere of the Antarctic Peninsula was subject to major changes in recent decades, with a drastic reduction in the extent and volume of glaciers, a decrease of ice-rich permafrost ...


24. Climatic and Environmental Studies by Means of Ice Cores [CDA_AR_GLA_GLAF_ICE_CORES]
More than twenty years ago the Instituto Antartico Argentino initiated ice-cores studies in the Antarctic Peninsula. It also carried out the first work of this type in the Argentine central Andes. ...


25. Climatic and Environmental Studies by Means of Ice Cores [CDA_AR_GLAF_ICE_CORES]
More than twenty years ago the Instituto Antartico Argentino initiated ice-cores studies in the Antarctic Peninsula. It also carried out the first work of this type in the Argentine central Andes. ...


26. Cryology Data at Riscos Rink, James Ross Island, Permafrost Monitoring Station [CDA_AR_CRIOLOGY_RISCOS_RINK_JRI]   PARENT DIF
Since 1995, the "Riscos Rink" Permafrost Monitoring Automatic Recorder Station has been recording: Air temperature Soil temperature Basement temperature on the active area of permafrost ...


27. Cryology Data from Lachman Costa, James Ross Island, Permafrost Monitoing Station [CDA_AR_CRIOLOGY_LACHMAN_COSTA]   PARENT DIF
Since 1995, the "Lachman Costa", JRI. Permafrost Monitoring Station, positioned at 8 m height, has been gathering the following data: Air temperature; Soil temperature; and Basement ...


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