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CALM SITE A10 |
NAME |
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Site code |
A10 |
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Site name |
Minna Bluff |
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CAPS I
Metadata form |
_________ |
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CAPS II
Metadata form |
_________ |
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Site
Photograph (link) |
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Responsible
for data submission |
Tanya O'Neill |
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Email Address |
tanya.o'neill@waikato.ac.nz |
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Institution/Organization |
University of
Waikato |
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Location
description |
Minna Bluff,
Antarctica |
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Location Lat. |
78830.696' S |
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Location Lon. |
166845.972' E |
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Elevation
avg. (m) |
22
m______________ |
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Methods Grid |
__________________ |
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Methods Other |
__________________ |
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Landscape
Description |
Patterned
ground____ |
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Vegetation
/Classification |
None______________ |
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Soils (or
Material) |
Basalt
dominated till__ |
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Thaw depth
measurements (year started)
|
2003______________ |
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Air temp. measurements
(year started) |
2003______________ |
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Snow cover
measurements (year started) |
N/A_______________ |
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soil temp. measurements (year started) |
2003______________ |
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soil moisture
measurements (year started) |
2003______________ |
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general
description of soil moisture (dry, moist, wet, saturated) |
dry________________ |
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soil texture:
if non organic describe texture, if organic indicate thickness of organic
layer (cm) |
Stony clay
loam |
SITE
DESCRIPTION
Minna Bluff station is located on the north side of Minna Bluff
Peninsula on developed low centered polygons. The patterned ground area is
relatively flat but is bounded to the north and east by areas of strongly
hummocky material (relief of up to about 10 m), which shows evidence that ice
melt-out is occurring, and there are numerous “kettle” lakes.
SOIL
DESCRIPTION:
(predominant texture, i.e., ‘sand’, ‘gravel’,
‘peat’, etc.): Dystri Turbi-Histic
(Gleyic), Gleyi-Turbic Cryosols (loamy)
Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive,
calcareous, hypergelic Typic
Haploturbels
SAMPLING
DESIGN AND METHOD:
This station monitors soil
temperature to a depth of 107 cm, soil water content (2, 5, 15, 25, 38, 60, and
94 cm depths), air temperature, relative humidity, solar radiation, and wind
(speed and direction). Measurements are made at 20-minute intervals and
averaged and recorded every hour.
REFERENCES:
Below are links to data,
pictures etc.
Site Photos