strmdic English utf8 dataset McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER http://mcmlter.org/ 2015-01-20 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - North American Profile Metadata - Data with Biological Extensions ISO 19115-2:2009(E) Dissolved Inorganic Carbon in Streams 2015-01-20 publication 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 dissolved inorganic carbon levels. This dataset shows concentrations of dissolved inorganic carbon found in various streams of the McMurdo Dry Valleys. completed McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER http://mcmlter.org/ unknown Metadata was enhanced during migration to the DEIMS in 2015. The original iterations of the 'strmdic' file (stream dissolved inorganic carbon data) were created by Kathy Welch as part of the stream nutrients file, 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 add some fields (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. In order to follow the same pattern as found for the lake chemistry datasets, the dissolved inorganic carbon values were moved to a separate file from the stream nutrient values. Following these revisions, the data was imported into Microsoft Access and saved in a table named "Dissolved Inoganic Carbon (DIC) Levels". This table was exported as an ascii, text, comma delimited file (strmdic.dat) and as an MS-DOS text, table layout file (strmdic.txt), to present on the MCM LTER web site. Both of these files are linked to this web page inorganic nutrients theme LTER Core Areas English 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 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 Coordinates based on averaging the starting and ending points of the 'Delta stream at upper site' transect (measurements are occasionally made in middle of the established transect) Parent Stream: Delta Stream Provenance : StreamsIC-97-98_ques.txt ID: delta_upper 163.098678600000 163.098678600000 -77.653030000000 -77.653030000000 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 at mouth Description: Coordinates taken from 1996-97 GPS measurements at center of creek where it enters Lake Fryxell ID: harnish_mouth File Name :GPS96-97.DOC 163.238769531250 163.238769531250 -77.608192443848 -77.608192443848 USGS site 2; coordinates taken from 1996-97 GPS measurements at center of weir Parent Stream: Huey Creek Provenance : GPS96-97.DOC ID: huey_f2 163.127410900000 163.127410900000 -77.604897000000 -77.604897000000 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 Victoria River at Lake Vida. Id: victoria_vida 161.199996948242 161.199996948242 -77.383331298828 -77.383331298828 ground condition 1994-01-01 1996-12-31 Sampling locations include : Victoria River at Lake Vida, Delta Stream at F10, Delta Stream at upper site, Green Creek at F9, Harnish Creek at mouth, Huey Creek at F2, Von Guerard Stream at lower site, Von Guerard stream at upper site, Canada Stream at F1. See related map. https://mcm.lternet.edu/sites/default/files/strmdic.csv strmdic eng; US McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER strmdic Record Delimiter : \n Number of Header Lines : 1 Number of Footer Lines : 0 Orientation : Column Quote Character : "Field Delimiter : , false Dataset code Code representing stream chemistry / dissolved inorganic carbon dataset strmgageid Code representing 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:MM Location Name of stream gauge station DIC (mG C/L) dissolved inorganic carbon concentration DIC (mM C/L) dissolved inorganic carbon concentration DIC comments Comments pertaining to dissolved inorganic carbon measurement Data Source file name and/or location of data documentation Method Method / instrument used to measure nutrient concentrations DBF https://mcm.lternet.edu/sites/default/files/strmdic.csv dataset Metadata Access Constraints: none Metadata Use Constraints: none annually McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER http://mcmlter.org/ pointOfContact