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Mid December
Early February
Dry Valleys Southern Royal Society Range
Dr Brenda Hall
The University of Maine
Maine
Five participants will work at the western margin of McMurdo Sound, concentrated in the southern Royal Society Range. In each season they will deploy to the field and tent camp at three sites for five weeks in late December through January. Field sites will be accessed by foot from camps. Helicopter support will be required for camp put-ins and moves and for three day trips to remote sites each season.
Field work will consist of ground-truthing satellite and aerial imagery and walking sampling transects to collect algal and rock samples for radiocarbon dating. Collected samples will be shipped off-continent for analysis. The group will not perform work in Crary Laboratory, but will require use of an office for short periods before and after field deployment.