This data package contains reflectance data and associated aerial images collected using a helicopter-suspended "albedo box," in which a shortwave radiometer and camera where mounted facing downward.
Dataset Results
Long-term ecological field surveys from the McMurdo Dry Valleys Long Term Ecological Research program (MCM LTER) have documented the abundance and diversity of microbial mat types across ephemeral glacial meltwater streams in the McMurdo Dry Valleys region of Antarctica. However, field surveys are limited and are incapable of being performed across the entirety of streams within a field season.
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An intensive field campaign was conducted during the 2018-2019 austral summer to assess spectral and biological characteristics of multiple microbial mat types, as well as mosses, across nine ephemeral glacial meltwater streams in the Fryxell Basin of Taylor Valley, located in the McMurdo Dry Valleys region of Antarctica.
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This data package consists of video footage of a rare rain event that occurred in the Fryxell and Hoare Basins of Taylor Valley, located in the McMurdo Dry Valleys region of Antarctica, on December 21, 2018. Footage was captured at 0600 NZDT at Lake Fryxell camp by Laura Smarrito, a Leidos contract carpenter. Permission was granted to publish this footage for the purposes of obtaining a DOI to properly cite this occurence in a scientific manuscript under revision by JE Barrett et al.