uid=MCM,o=EDI,dc=edirepository,dc=org all public read GLACIER_SUPRA_MESOCOSM Anna Bergstrom annabergstrom@boisestate.edu https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9684-4018 Michael Gooseff michael.gooseff@colorado.edu http://goosefflab.weebly.com https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4322-8315 McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER http://mcmlter.org/ Joel Singley

Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research Boulder CO 80303 US

joel.singley@colorado.edu https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7906-8491 field crew Kathleen Welch kathleen.welch@colorado.edu https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1028-3086 lab technician Renée Brown rfbrown@unm.edu https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4986-7663 data manager 2020-02-12 English

We used sediment incubations to quantify and compare nutrient uptake rates from biota living in sediment across glaciers in Taylor Valley, Antarctica. Hughes Glacier is located towards the polar plateau on the western edge of the valley and flows from the southern Kukri Hills north into the valley. Canada and Commonwealth glaciers flow south into the valley from the Asgard range. Commonwealth glacier is located closest to the ocean on the east end of the valley. Canada glacier is located mid-valley, between Hughes and Commonwealth glaciers. Sediment was brought to the lab and incubated with added nutrient solutions. Solutions were then analyzed to determine change in nutrient concentration. 

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https://mcm.lternet.edu/content/nutrient-addition-incubation-experiments-using-sediments-supraglacial-streams-taylor-valley Hughes Glacier is a small alpine glacier flowing toward Lake Bonney in Taylor Valley from the Kukri Hills on the south. Named for Professor McKenny Hughes. 162.437667846680 162.581527709961 -77.727073669434 -77.749969482422 The Canada Glacier a small glacier flowing south-east into the northern side of Taylor Valley.  The glacier receives less than 10 cm of snowfall annually. Its seasonal melting feeds Lake Hoare to the west and Lake Fryxell to the east. 162.894287109375 163.057708740234 -77.598403930664 -77.632133483887 The Commonwealth glacier flows in a southeasterly direction and enters the northern side of Taylor Valley immediately west of Mount Coleman. Named by the British Antarctic Expedition for the Commonwealth of Australia in the early 1900s.   163.197784423828 163.373565673828 -77.545059204102 -77.589111328125 286 286 meter 2017-12-15 2017-12-17 McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER Information Manager im@mcmlter.org McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER http://mcmlter.org/ McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER

We collected up to 10 kg of sediment from the main supraglacial stream networks of Commonwealth, Hughes, and Canada Glaciers. Specifically, sediment was collected from one location on the drainage network of three glaciers in Taylor Valley, Antarctica: Hughes Glacier (-77.73054167, 162.4337083), Canada Glacier (-77.62767, 162.96059), and Commonwealth Glacier (-77.58606667, 163.2535667). Sediment was collected using sterilized scoops, placed in Whirl-Paks and frozen for transport back to McMurdo Station. In the lab, we thawed and homogenized sediment. For each glacier, we autoclaved half the sediment at 120 C for 35 minutes. Sediment moisture content remained consistent before and after autoclaving. We then divided live and autoclaved sediments into 50 g (+/- 0.5 g) subsets and placed into a sterile 250 ml cell culture flask. We stored all flasks at -20 C until they were ready to be treated with 125 ml of a nutrient solution and placed directly into a cold water bath. Solutions were NH4Cl, NaNO3-, KH2PO43-, NaNO3- + KH2PO43-, and a deionized water control. Initial concentrations of NH4+ NO3- and PO43– were 10, 10, and 4 uM, respectively. All flasks were incubated in a large open saltwater tank (to avoid freeze over and maintain thermal stability) outside at ambient air temperature (~0 C) and under ambient light conditions (300-700 W m-2). Due to the high number of replicates, we grouped incubations by glacier and the experiment was run over the course of three days.Two flasks, one containing live and the other autoclaved sediment of each treatment (8 flasks total) were removed from the cold-water bath each hour after the start of the incubation. 110 ml of water was removed and filtered (using GF/F filters) from each flask into a clean 125 ml polyethylene bottle. The filtrate was frozen at -20 C and shipped back to the University of Colorado-Boulder for analysis. We scooped a 25 g subsample of sediment from the incubation flask into a weigh boat, weighed, and dried overnight at 55 C. Sediment was then reweighed and burned at 450 C for 4 hours, and weighed a final time to calculate percent loss on ignition (LOI). The filters were also dried, burned, and weighed to calculate loss on ignition for suspended matter.In addition to the long-duration incubation experiments, we performed a ~5-minute incubation on live and autoclaved sediments for each treatment and each glacier in triplicate. Finally, we performed KCl extracts on five replicates of 10 g of live and autoclaved sediments for each glacier using 40 ml of 2M KCl solution and extracting on a shaker table for 1 hour. The extract solution was filtered and frozen at -20 C for later analysis. We performed analysis of all filtrate from treatments and KCl extracts for N as NO3¬, and P as PO43- by Lachat (Hach instruments). All samples analyzed for ammonium used a salicylate colorimetric method and microplate reader (BioTek Instruments, inc.)

GLACIER_SUPRA_MESOCOSM Nutrient Addition in Supraglacial Sediments GLACIER_SUPRA_MESOCOSM.csv 30788 1 column , " https://mcm.lternet.edu/sites/default/files/data/GLACIER_SUPRA_MESOCOSM_0.csv DATASET_CODE Dataset code Internal dataset code. string Internal dataset code. SAMPLE_ID Sample ID Sample unique identifier. string Sample unique identifier. DATE_TIME Date Date on which incubation was conducted. date MM/DD/YYYY BLANK missing DURATION Duration Duration of the incubation in decimal hours, from the time nutrient solution was added to the time of filtering. decimalTime real BLANK missing GLACIER Glacier Name of the glacier (i.e., Canada, Commonwealth, or Hughes) from which the sample was collected. string Name of the glacier (i.e., Canada, Commonwealth, or Hughes) from which the sample was collected. AUTOCLAVED Autoclaved Whether or not the sample was autoclaved. string Yes Sample was autoclaved. No Sample was not autoclaved (i.e., live). TREATMENT Treatment Nutrient solution or deionized water (DIW) added to sample. Options include NO3, NH4, PO4, NO3+PO4, DIW control, or KCl. string Nutrient solution or deionized water (DIW) added to sample. Options include NO3, NH4, PO4, NO3+PO4, DIW control, or KCl. PO4_MG_L Phosphorous concentration Phosphorus concentration of solution after incubation. milligramsPerLiter real BLANK missing NO3_MG_L Nitrate concentration Nitrate concentration of the solution after incubation. Any value of 0 is below the detection limit of the instrument. milligramsPerLiter real BLANK missing NH4_MG_L Ammonium concentration Ammonium concentration of the solution after incubation. Any value of 0 is below the detection limit of the instrument. milligramsPerLiter real BLANK missing SED_DRY_MASS_G Sediment dry mass Dry mass of sediment from incubation used for loss on ignition (LOI) analysis. gram real BLANK missing SED_DRY_MASS_LOI_G Sediment dry mass after ignition Mass loss of sediment after burning in a muffle furnace (i.e., mass loss on ignition (LOI) ). gram real BLANK missing VOL_FILTERED_ML Volume of solution filtered Volume of solution filtered from incubation flask. milliliter real BLANK missing FILTER_MASS_LOI_G Filter mass after ignition Mass lost from filter after burning in a muffle furnace (i.e., mass loss on ignition (LOI) ). gram real BLANK missing