STREAM_IONS English utf8 dataset McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER Information Manager im@mcmlter.org pointOfContact 2015-01-20 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - North American Profile Metadata - Data with Biological Extensions ISO 19115-2:2009(E) Ion concentrations in glacial meltwater streams, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica (1993-2023, ongoing) 2015-01-20 publication Melisa Diaz The Ohio State University https://www.osu.edu/ diaz.237@osu.edu https://polarenv.weebly.com pointOfContact Michael Gooseff University of Colorado Boulder http://www.colorado.edu/ michael.gooseff@colorado.edu http://goosefflab.weebly.com pointOfContact W. Berry Lyons The Ohio State University https://www.osu.edu/ (614) 688-3241 275 Mendenhall Lab Columbus OH 43210 US lyons.142@osu.edu http://research.bpcrc.osu.edu/EnvironmentalGeochemistry/ pointOfContact documentDigital As part of the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) project in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica, a systematic aqueous geochemical sampling program has been undertaken. A series of terrestrial water samples have been collected and analyzed for major ion chemistry by ion chromatography. The concentrations of ions cover a wide range of total dissolved solids from the stream waters. This dataset shows concentrations of lithium, sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium, iron, chlorine, bromine, silicon, fluorine, sulfate, and hydrogen ions found in various streams of the McMurdo Dry Valleys. Name: Kathleen A. Welch Role: lab technician Name: Renée F. Brown Role: data manager Name: Inigo San Gil Role: former data manager Name: Chris Gardner Role: former data manager completed McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER Information Manager im@mcmlter.org pointOfContact unknown Metadata improved in 2016, San Gil. The original iterations of the 'strmchem' file (stream chemistry data) were created by Kathy Welch, and submitted to Denise Steigerwald (the data manager) at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR). These files are currently located on the PC in the data manager's office at INSTAAR. Following discussions between Kathy Welch and Denise Steigerwald, it was decided to remove some fields (eg., dilution factor), and add others (eg. strmgageid, collection date, comments for each type of measurement) to these files in order to make them more consistent and relational for future references. Following these revisions, they were imported into Microsoft Access and saved in a table named "Stream Chemistry / Ion Concentrations". This table was exported as an ascii, text, comma delimited file (strmchem.dat) and as an MS-DOS text, table layout file (strmchem.txt), to present on the MCM LTER web site. Both of these files are linked to this web page above. inorganic nutrients theme LTER Core Areas English Adams Stream at Weir ID: adams_weir kiwi site 3500027; 200 meters downstream of adams glacier 163.750000000000 163.750000000000 -78.131668000000 -78.131668000000 USGS site 4; coordinates taken from 1996-97 GPS measurements at center of weir Parent Stream: Aiken Creek Provenance : GPS96-97.DOC ID: aiken_f5 163.271942100000 163.271942100000 -77.602516000000 -77.602516000000 USGS site 9; coordinates taken from 1996-97 GPS measurements at center of weir Parent Stream: Andersen Creek Provenance : GPS96-97.DOC ID: andrsn_h1 162.906356800000 162.906356800000 -77.622772000000 -77.622772000000 Andrews Creek at mouth ID: andrws_mouth 163.044448852539 163.044448852539 -77.620834350586 -77.620834350586 Bartlette Creek at mouth ID: bartlt_mouth 162.416671752930 162.416671752930 -77.720832824707 -77.720832824707 Coordinates based on averaging the starting and ending points of the 'Bohner stream at lower site' transect (measurements are occasionally made in middle of the established transect) Parent Stream: Bohner Stream Provenance : StreamsIC-97-98_ques.txt ID: bohnr_lower 162.561920200000 162.561920200000 -77.697334000000 -77.697334000000 Bohner Stream at mouthId: bohnr_mouth 162.544788000000 162.544788000000 -77.695564000000 -77.695564000000 Bowles Creek at mouth ID: bowles_mouth 163.050003051758 163.050003051758 -77.622222900391 -77.622222900391 USGS site 1; coordinates taken from 1996-97 GPS measurements at center of weir Parent Stream: Canada Stream Provenance : GPS96-97.DOC ID: canada_f1 163.054733300000 163.054733300000 -77.613655000000 -77.613655000000 Commonwealth Stream at C1 ID: common_c1 USGS site 13 163.380828900000 163.380828900000 -77.563332000000 -77.563332000000 USGS site 6; coordinates taken from 1996-97 GPS measurements at center of weir Parent Stream: Crescent Stream Provenance : GPS96-97.DOC ID: crescent_f8 163.184463500000 163.184463500000 -77.619064000000 -77.619064000000 USGS site 7; coordinates taken from 1996-97 GPS measurements at center of weir Parent Stream: Delta Stream Provenance : GPS96-97.DOC ID: delta_f10 163.108444200000 163.108444200000 -77.624619000000 -77.624619000000 Garwood River below confluence ID: garwood_blwconf Garwood River at sample site 2 164.066665649414 164.066665649414 -78.019447326660 -78.019447326660 Garwood Stream at Lake Colleen ID: garwood_colleen kiwi site 3500020; 500 meters downstream of Lake Colleen 163.913894653320 163.913894653320 -78.027778625488 -78.027778625488 Garwood River at sample site 1; flats ID: flatsgarwood_flats 164.016662597656 164.016662597656 -78.020835876465 -78.020835876465 Green Creek at F9Description: USGS site 8; coordinates taken from 1996-97 GPS measurements at center of weirID: green_f9 Provenance File Name :GPS96-97.DOC 163.059753417969 163.059753417969 -77.624099731445 -77.624099731445 Harnish Creek Tributary at F11Description: USGS site 20; coordinates taken from 1996-97 GPS measurements at center of weirID: harnish_f11File Name :GPS96-97.DOC 163.269515991211 163.269515991211 -77.621246337891 -77.621246337891 Harnish Creek at F7ID: harnish_f7USGS site 17 163.232772827148 163.232772827148 -77.608329772949 -77.608329772949 House Stream at H2 Description: USGS site 10; coordinates taken from 1996-97 GPS measurements at center of weir ID: house_h2 Provenance File Name :GPS96-97.DOC 162.741317749023 162.741317749023 -77.642982482910 -77.642982482910 USGS site 16 Parent Stream: Lawson Creek id: lawson_b3 162.269910000000 162.269910000000 -77.721248000000 -77.721248000000 Lizotte Creek at mouth ID: lizotte_mouth 162.483337402344 162.483337402344 -77.704170227051 -77.704170227051 USGS site 3; coordinates taken from 1996-97 GPS measurements at center of weir Parent Stream: Lost Seal Stream Provenance : GPS96-97.DOC ID: lostseal_f3 163.244400000000 163.244400000000 -77.595268000000 -77.595268000000 Lyons Creek at B4 ID: lyons_b4 USGS site 19 162.274993900000 162.274993900000 -77.727776000000 -77.727776000000 Provenance: e-mail from Mike Gooseff Re: DOC results 7/18/2000 Parent Stream: Lyons Creek Tributary ID: lyons_trib 162.270004300000 162.270004300000 -77.720001000000 -77.720001000000 Mariah Creek at mouth ID: mariah_mouth 163.047226000000 163.047226000000 -77.623611000000 -77.623611000000 Mason Creek at Mouth ID: mason_mouth 162.274993900000 162.274993900000 -77.729164000000 -77.729164000000 McKay Creek at mouth. Id: mckay_mouth 162.747222900000 162.747222900000 -77.644722000000 -77.644722000000 McKnight Creek at mouth ID: mcknight_mouth 163.264724700000 163.264724700000 -77.599724000000 -77.599724000000 USGS site 15; kiwi site 3500002; coordinates taken from 1996-97 GPS measurements at center of weir Parent Stream: Onyx River Provenance : GPS96-97.DOC ID: onyx_lwright 162.653533900000 162.653533900000 -77.444534000000 -77.444534000000 USGS site 14; kiwi site 3500001; coordinates taken from 1996-97 GPS measurements at center of weir Parent Stream: Onyx River Provenance : GPS96-97.DOC ID: onyx_vnda 161.696624800000 161.696624800000 -77.523430000000 -77.523430000000 Priscu Stream at B1 Id: priscu_b1 USGS Site 11 162.534729000000 162.534729000000 -77.699997000000 -77.699997000000 Red River art Blood Falls ID: red_bfalls 162.268051147461 162.268051147461 -77.723335266113 -77.723335266113 Santa Fe Stream at B2 ID: santafe_b2 USGS site 12; formerly N Taylor & Hendy Stream 162.266662597656 162.266662597656 -77.723052978516 -77.723052978516 Sharp Creek at mouth. Id: sharp_mouth 162.247222900391 162.247222900391 -77.722221374512 -77.722221374512 USGS site 5; coordinates taken from 1996-97 GPS measurements at center of weir Parent Stream: Von Guerard Stream Provenance : GPS96-97.DOC ID: vguerard_f6 163.253997802734 163.253997802734 -77.608200073242 -77.608200073242 ID:vguerard_lower Coordinates based on averaging the starting and ending points of the 'Von Guerard stream at lower site' transect (measurements are occasionally made in middle of the established transect) 163.287963867188 163.287963867188 -77.619476318359 -77.619476318359 Von Guerard stream at upper site ID: vguerard_upper Coordinates based on averaging the starting and ending points of the 'Von Guerard stream at upper site' transect (measurements are occasionally made in middle of the established transect) 163.306304931641 163.306304931641 -77.634384155273 -77.634384155273 Vincent Creek at mouth (vincent_mouth) 162.425003051758 162.425003051758 -77.720275878906 -77.720275878906 Wharton Creek at mouth. ID: wharton_mouth 162.747222900391 162.747222900391 -77.645835876465 -77.645835876465 ground condition 1993-12-02 2023-12-23 https://mcm.lternet.edu/sites/default/files/data/mcmlter-strm-ions-20250226.csv STREAM_IONS eng; US McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER STREAM_IONS Data Source Definition : Ions Record Delimiter : \n Number of Header Lines : 1 Number of Footer Lines : 1 Orientation : Column Field Delimiter : , false DATASET_CODE Code representing stream chemistry / ion concentrations dataset strmgageid Code representing stream gauge station Location Name of stream gauge station Sample Name Original name for sample when gathered in field, submitted to INSTAAR DATE_TIME Date/time of sample (McMurdo time) Date Time Format: MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI Li (mg/L) lithium concentration Li (mM) lithium concentration Li comments Comments pertaining to lithium measurement Na (mg/L) sodium concentration Na (mM) sodium concentration Na comments Comments pertaining to sodium measurement K (mg/L) potassium concentration K (mM) potassium concentration K comments Comments pertaining to potassium measurement Mg (mg/L) magnesium concentration Mg (mM) magnesium concentration Mg comments Comments pertaining to magnesium measurement Ca (mg/L) calcium concentration Ca (mM) calcium concentration Ca comments Comments pertaining to calcium measurement F (mg/L) fluorine concentration F (mM) fluorine concentration F comments Comments pertaining to fluorine measurement Cl (mg/L) chlorine concentration Cl (mM) chlorine concentration Cl comments Comments pertaining to chlorine measurement Br (mg/L) bromine concentration Br (mM) bromine concentration Br comments Comments pertaining to bromine measurement SO4 (mg/L) sulfate concentration SO4 (mM) sulfate concentration SO4 comments Comments pertaining to sulfate measurement Alkalinity (meq/L) alkalinity measured by titration in lab alk comments Comments pertaining to alkalinity measurement Si (mg/L) silicon concentration Si (mM) silicon concentration Si comments Comments pertaining to silicon measurement Remarks Sample Comments DBF https://mcm.lternet.edu/sites/default/files/data/mcmlter-strm-ions-20250226.csv dataset A Dionex DX-300 ion chromatographic system was used for the major ion analyses. Please see the following citation for complete methods: Welch, K.A., Lyons, W.B., Graham, E., Neumann, K., Thomas, J.M., and D. Mikesell. 1996. Determination of major element chemistry in terrestrial waters from Antarctica by ion chromatography. Journal of Chromatography A 739: 257-263. Instrumentation:Dionex DX-300 ion chromatographic system Metadata Access Constraints: none Metadata Use Constraints: none annually McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER http://mcmlter.org/ pointOfContact