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Start date:
October 2014
End date:
December 2014
Locations:
Lake Bonney, Taylor Valley
Principle Investigator:
Peter Doran
Organisation:
University of Illinois, Chicago
State
Illinois
Deploy autonomous instrumentation in selected lakes of Taylor Valley, Antarctica, to collect the first below ice suite of physical, chemical and biological data during the polar night. Our proposed research will test the overarching hypothesis that the winter darkness induces a cascade of physiological changes that alters the biodiversity and functional roles of autotrophic and heterotrophic microplankton within the lakes.