Diane M. McKnight 2015-07-24 tabular digitial data McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER 10.6073/pasta/b8a304e75b0df06c6aefc29f429b0b7d https://mcm.lternet.edu/content/relict-channel-locations As part of the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) project in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica, water was diverted to a relict stream channel in order to reactivate the streamflow. The purpose of this experiment was to quantify the time scales of response to the arrival of water after many years of dessication. This table contains data showing the measurement locations (latitude, longitude and elevation) for the Relict Channel in the Fryxell basin.  1996-01-01 2000-12-31 ground condition  Records generated from monitoring the Relict Channel had been submitted to Denise Steigerwald (the MCM LTER data manager) in the same files as core LTER data sets.       Denise therefore went through these files, separated out any records dealing with the Relict Channel, and created new files with a similar layout as the core datasets. Coordinates  (latitude, longitude and elevation) were then tracked down for each of the records, and synonymous location names were updated. The resulting 'relict_locs.dat' and 'relict_locs.txt' files were posted on the web in July, 2000. Fields for dataset code and location code were included in order to simplify generating links between different data and metadata fields, and assist in making the data more relational / useful in Oracle and ArcInfo. As needed 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 79m 79m meter [term:vocabulary] None <cntorg>McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER</cntorg> <onlink>http://mcmlter.org/</onlink> <span property="dc:title" content="McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span> Not Applicable Not Applicable Field and/or Lab Methods  In October 1998, the MCM LTER data manager asked the team making stream measurements to track down coordinates for the Relict Channel measurement sites. Mike Gooseff  provided the resulting information. It is unknown what was initially used to measure these  latitudes, longitudes and elevations.  In October 1998, the MCM LTER data manager asked the team making stream measurements to track down coordinates for the Relict Channel measurement sites. Mike Gooseff  provided the resulting information. It is unknown what was initially used to measure these  latitudes, longitudes and elevations. unknown relict_locs Dataset code Code representing Relict Channel experiment locations dataset The data provider Code representing Relict Channel experiment locations dataset Stream Name of McMurdo Dry Valley stream / channel The data provider Name of McMurdo Dry Valley stream / channel Location code Code representing a given location within the Relict Channel The data provider Code representing a given location within the Relict Channel Location name Name of sampling point within the Relict Channel The data provider Name of sampling point within the Relict Channel Latitude Latitude / angular distance south of equator for sampling site The data provider -80 -70 degree 0.01 Longitude Longitude / angular distance east of Greenwich meridian for sampling site The data provider 160 165 degree 0.01 Elevation Height of sample location above sea level The data provider 0 500 meter 0.1 Comments Helpful hints about the sampling site; may show other names of site used in the past The data provider Helpful hints about the sampling site; may show other names of site used in the past McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER The data distributor shall not be liable for innacuracies in the content http 1 0 \n 1 column , None 2015-07-24 2015-07-24 McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER http://mcmlter.org/ Biological Data Profile of the Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata devised by the Federal Geographic Data Committee. Drupal Ecological information Management Systems, version D7, Biological Data Profile module