relict_locs English utf8 dataset McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER http://mcmlter.org/ 2015-07-24 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - North American Profile Metadata - Data with Biological Extensions ISO 19115-2:2009(E) Relict Channel Locations 2015-07-24 publication Diane McKnight University of Colorado Boulder http://www.colorado.edu/ diane.mcknight@colorado.edu pointOfContact documentDigital 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.  completed McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER http://mcmlter.org/ unknown  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. English 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 ground condition 1996-01-01 2000-12-31 relict_locs eng; US McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER relict_locs Record Delimiter : \n Number of Header Lines : 1 Number of Footer Lines : 0 Orientation : Column Quote Character : "Field Delimiter : , false Dataset code Code representing Relict Channel experiment locations dataset Stream Name of McMurdo Dry Valley stream / channel Location code Code representing a given location within the Relict Channel Location name Name of sampling point within the Relict Channel Latitude Latitude / angular distance south of equator for sampling site Longitude Longitude / angular distance east of Greenwich meridian for sampling site Elevation Height of sample location above sea level Comments Helpful hints about the sampling site; may show other names of site used in the past DBF dataset  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. Metadata Access Constraints: none Metadata Use Constraints: none annually McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER http://mcmlter.org/ pointOfContact