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Start date:
Instruments operate year-round.
Locations:
Lake Fryxell, Wright Valley
Principle Investigator:
John Gillies
Organisation:
Desert Research Institute
State
Nevada
This work has been recently published in Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface:
Gillies, J.A., W.G. Nickling, M. Tilson, and E. Furtak-Cole (2012). Wind-formed Gravel Bed Forms, Wright Valley, Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface, 117: F04017, doi: 10.1029/2012JF002378.
Gillies, J.A., W.G. Nickling, and M. Tilson (2013). Frequency, magnitude and characteristics of aeolian sediment transport: McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface, doi: 10.1029/2012JF002473.
In the third season we will: 1) download the collected data and collect the sediment in the traps. At each of our sediment transport measurement sites at four locations in three of the Dry Valleys (Victoria, Taylor and Wright); 2) remove instrumentation at each of the four sites and retro instruments and supporting hardware back to the U.S.; and 3) map the tracer movements at the coarse gravel megaripples; 4) Collect sediment and then remove traction load samplers.