Case Study
CSI gear at the core of weather network inthe McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
he Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) program, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, monitors ecologi- cal phenomena in a range of environ- ments. The program supports 16 sites in North America and two in Antarc- tica, including the newest site in the McMurdo Dry Valleys—one of the most extreme deserts on Earth. The McMurdo LTER, headed by Dr. Robert Wharton, Jr. (DRI), is the cold- est and driest site. The study attempts to understan