Directory
Early November
Mid February
Dry Valleys, Lake Miers, Lake Fryxell, Lake Hoare, Lake Bonney, F6, Commonwealth Stream, Onyx River, Garwood Valley
Dr. Michael N Gooseff
University of Colorado Boulder
Colorado
Streams and Geochemistry
Participants with the “stream team” will stay at the F6 camp and occasionally work out of Lake Hoare camp for a few days at a time. Field work will be conducted in Wright, Taylor, and Miers Valleys. The group will also conduct analyses in Crary Laboratory. Field sites will be accessed on foot and by helicopter day trips. Field activities may include: (1) maintaining a stream-gauge network; (2) collecting water-quality samples; (3) monitoring microbial mats in an abandoned channel in the Taylor Valley; (4) measuring dissolved oxygen in streams in the Lake Hoare and Lake Fryxell basins; (5) deploying and maintaining Aeolian sediment collectors across stream channels for over-winter collection of wind-blown material; (6) permafrost degradation experiments (PDE); and (7) glacier-stream-soil (GSS) studies.