Patterns of environmental spatial structure lie at the heart of the most fundamental and
familiar patterns of diversity on Earth. Antarctica contains some of the strongest …

This paper reviews developments in our understanding of the state of the Antarctic and
Southern Ocean climate and its relation to the global climate system over the last few …

To understand how planet Earth works we study it increasingly as a system–a collection of
interdependent parts or spheres–the lithosphere, the hydrosphere, the cryosphere, the …

The occurrence of groundwater in Antarctica, particularly in the ice-free regions and along
the coastal margins is poorly understood. Here we use an airborne transient …

Setting The McMurdo Dry Valleys exist because the Transantarctic Mountains block much of
the flow of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet toward McMurdo Sound (Chinn 1990). In addition, at …

Soil organic matter in the dry valleys of the McMurdo Sound Region sustains a unique
terrestrial microbial community in one of the most extreme climates on earth. The origin of …

The meteorological characteristics and hydrological response of an extreme warm, and cold
summer in the McMurdo Dry Valleys are compared. The driver behind the warmer summer …

Abstract Lakes in the Taylor Valley, Antarctica were investigated to determine the impact of a
significant air temperature warming event that occurred during the austral summer of 2001 …

Lake Fryxell is a perennially ice-covered lake in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, with a
sharp oxycline in a water column that is density stabilized by a gradient in salt concentration …

At no time in the history of the earth have the? chemical and physical properties of soil and
their biota been so radically transformed by human activities. In the past 100 years …