McMurdo Dry Valleys Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Latest News http://www.mcmlter.org Read Amy Leventer's book review of The Lost Seal children's book by MCM PI Diane McKnight 04/23/2008 http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v1/n3/full/ngeo145.html MCM Team members currently in the field are taking part in a live webcast on March 12, 2008. Click above to register. 03/12/2008 http://www.polartrec.com/live-from-ipy/archive Live flow data are being telemetered from the Onyx River in Antarctica by the USGS. Download data here. 12/17/2007 http://wy.water.usgs.gov/projects/antarctica/index.htm Many MCM members are currently in the field for the IPY. Read about life and research in Antarctica. 11/06/2007 http://www.mcmlter.org/blogs0708.html Ann Curry from NBC's today shows is reporting live from Antarctica and the McMurdo Dry Valleys as part of 'Ends of the Earth.' 11/05/2007 http://www.mcmlter.org/rss/news/today_show.htm The capabilities of the web interface for searching and browsing MCM publications has been improved and updated! 09/18/2007 http://www.mcmlter.org/publications_home.htm Read about the PM of New Zealand and NSF director's visit to the MCM field site last season (page 8). 09/04/2007 http://www.mcmlter.org/in_the_news/network_news.html Check out the new interactive online GIS map and other mapping options for MCM-LTER researchers. 06/11/2007 http://www.mcmlter.org/mapping.htm The Online version of PBS's NewsHour features an interview with Diana Wall and a slideshow from the Dry Valleys LTER. 02/27/2007 http://www.pbs.org/newshour/indepth_coverage/science/poles/slideshow_audio/index_flash.html Diane McKnight's "The Lost Seal" children's book was featured on Denver's CBS Channel 4. 11/29/2006 http://www.cbs4denver.com/video/?id=25059@kcnc.dayport.com An Antarctic Ecosystem Shows Signs of Trouble as a Tiny Worm Turns. 11/21/2006 http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/21/science/21prof.html?ref=science MCM members are currently in the field. Read about life and research in Antarctica. 11/09/2006 http://www.mcmlter.org/blogs.html Read Peter Doran's Op-Ed piece on global warming in the July 27 New York Times! 07/28/2006 http://www-bprc.mps.ohio-state.edu/news/doran_nytimes_20060727.pdf All MCM metadata is now in the LTER Network-standardized format, EML (Ecological Metadata Language). This is a big step towards LTER network-wide data synthesis. 06/12/2006 http://www.mcmlter.org/queries/all_news.jsp The online home of The Lost Seal, the second in the LTER children's book series, is now available. View kids' artwork and comments from all over the world! 03/24/2006 http://www.mcmlter.org/lostseal The Antarctic Sun, published during the austral summer for the USAP, features the collaborative effort of MCM LTER scientists as the lead story in this week's issue. 02/13/2006 http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/2005-2006/sctn02-12-2006.cfm Just added - Explore the new photo database of images from the Dry Valleys, Antarcica. (Still under development, but functional!) 02/01/2006 http://www.mcmlter.org/photos.htm Just added - search the database for dynamically calculated daily stream statistics - mean, standard deviation, max, min, n. 01/20/2006 http://www.mcmlter.org/queries/avg_hydro_queries.jsp The USGS Wyoming Water Science Center now has real-time streamflow data available for the Onyx River in Wright Valley. 01/12/2006 http://wy.water.usgs.gov/projects/antarctica/ Just added - New Stream Chemistry query tool - search the database by date and stream name for major ions, nutrients, DOC, and DIN. 01/10/2006 http://www.mcmlter.org/queries/streamchem_queries.jsp The future Internet home of The Lost Seal outreach project is now available. Here you can learn more and view original artwork based on the story created by children in the U.S., U.K., New Zealand, and Australia. 01/03/2006 http://www.mcmlter.org/lostseal Just Added - If you're using a high speed Internet connection, check out the new Taylor Valley 3D Fly Through(17 MB file) 12/12/2005 http://www.mcmlter.org/video/fly_through.htm Welcome to the new MCM LTER website! You will continue to see additions and improvements to this site in terms of both content and data accessibility. 12/01/2005 http://www.mcmlter.org Carol Landis and April Jacobs were featured in the Worthington News in Columbus, OH. Carol and April traveled to local elementary schools to read The Lost Seal, a children's story written by MCM LTER PI Diane McKnight, to 2-4 grade students. The children then created original watercolor artwork that will later be featured on a website, and possibly the final publication of the book. Visit the Worthington News for the full story! 10/27/2005 http://www.snponline.com/NEWS10-19/10-19_wolandis.htm Diana Wall was featured as one of the 8 environmental scientists to comment on what was learned over the past 25 years and what is expected in the next 25 years by DISCOVER magazine (April, 2005 issue). 10/19/2005 http://www.mcmlter.org/queries/all_news.jsp Diana Wall and Andrew Fountain have begun serving 3 year appointments to the NRC/NAS's Polar Research Board. Berry Lyons has just rotated off the board. 10/19/2005 http://www.mcmlter.org/queries/all_news.jsp Berry Lyons and Andrew Fountain were both elected Fellows of the Geological Society of America and were acknowledged at the Society's annual meeting on October 15. 10/19/2005 http://www.mcmlter.org/queries/all_news.jsp Diana Wall edited the book Sustaining Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Soils and Sediments. Published by Island Press in 2004, it is about the biodiversity in soil, freshwater sediments, and marine sediments and their role in the operation of ecosystems and provision of ecosystem services. The book was developed as a project of the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) and is volume 64 in a series of books designed to assemble and synthesize current thinking in a diverse array of scientific topics. The book arose from deliberations during the final international workshop of the SCOPE Committee on Soil and Sediment Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning in Estes Park, Colorado in the autumn of 2002. 10/19/2005 http://www.mcmlter.org/queries/all_news.jsp The Wormherders' research was featured in another book by published by Island Press entitled Under Ground: How creatures of mud and dirt shape our world, by Yvonne Baskin. This book also grew out of the SCOPE meeting in Estes Park, but is a non-technical tour of soils research around the world that starts with a nematode collecting expedition to the McMurdo Dry Valleys. 10/19/2005 http://www.mcmlter.org/queries/all_news.jsp