Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 59, No. 3 (2014), pp. 811-826 (16 pages) The water of the ice-covered lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys is derived primarily from glacial melt streams and to a lesser ...

The McMurdo Dry Valleys (MDV), home to the southernmost freshwater ecosystem in the world, displays complex hydrological interactions between local glaciers, snowbanks, meltwater streams and ...

The McMurdo Dry Valleys (MDVs) are a cold desert region of Antarctica supporting terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems that host microbial food webs, with few species of primitive animals (like ...

Approximately 0.3% of Antarctica is perpetually ice free, with the largest single area being the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Victoria Land. These glacially carved valleys are thought to be some of the ...

Examples of fossils found in the McMurdo Dry Valleys. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or ...

We sent 4 copies to Antarctica (one for McMurdo and one at each of the main field camps in the Dry Valleys). A message from the copy that is housed at McMurdo announced that it was a hot commodity and ...

I am a Ph.D. student researching glacier melting and stream hydrology in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, throughout the Holocene and late Pleistocene. My passion for Earth sciences is inspired by ...