The Team
Many people from several organizations joined efforts to create the data for this site as well as design and build the web application:
| Sarah Spaulding INSTAAR |
project leader, diatom info, diatom data, interface design, diatom images, diatom photos |
| Rhea Esposito INSTAAR |
diatom info, diatom data, data entry, interface design, diatom photos |
| David Lubinski INSTAAR |
web and database leader, data entry, interface design, database design, web programming, map creation |
| Bart Van de Vijver National Museum of Belgium |
diatom data |
| Shannon Horn CU-Boulder |
data entry, interface design |
| Sara Fairchild CU-Boulder |
data entry and editing |
| Antonio González Peña INSTAAR |
database and web programming assistance |
| Lee Stanish INSTAAR |
data and data entry |
| Michael Cox CU-Boulder |
data entry, web programming |
| Diane McKnight INSTAAR |
sample data, basic design |
| Alex Alger U. of Michigan |
diatom info, diatom images |
| Brenda Hall U. of Maine |
diatom data |
| Matt Mayernick U. Colorado |
diatom sample and slide archive |
| Thomas Whittaker U. Maine |
diatom data |
| Chi Yang INSTAAR |
GIS data and System Admin assistance |
See Copyright for use of images, data, and reccomended citation.
Others
Whitney Gant and Thomas Nylen photographed the banner images at the top of each page. The images were extracted from 360-degree panoramas created in January 2001 (Tour of McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica).
A number of people and organizations contributed photos of lakes and streams including:
- Arne Bomblies
- Bert Vermillion
- Chris Jaros
- Josh Landis, NSF/RPS
- Justin Joslin
- Lee Turner
- LTER Web site
- Michael Gooseff
- Pratigya J. Polissar
- Sarah Spaulding
- Thomas Nylen
Institutional support
McMurdo Long-Term Ecological Research
The McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER project is an interdisciplinary study of the aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems in a cold desert region of Antarctica. It is supported by the National Science Foundation. The MCM LTER project was essential to the collection and analysis of the diatom data presented on this web site and also hosts this web site.
Math-Bio Program at CU-Boulder
The Math-Bio program is an undergraduate internship program of the University of Colorado supported by the National Science Foundation through the Niwot Ridge LTER program (NWTLTER). Integrating the study of mathematical and biological concepts, students in the program participate in ongoing research projects and attend weekly lectures. The students gain valuable experience as part of a research team and learn to apply their mathmatical expertise to the natural world. The Math-bio program participants in this project were M. Cox and S. Horn.
National Science Fountation
NSF supported field research, sample processing, web site creation, and undergraduate education through a number of grants that span more than a decade. The grants include MCM-LTER science projects as well as Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), and Partnerships for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy (PEET).
- OPP 9211-773, MCM-LTER, includes support for McKnight and Spaulding.
- OPP-9810219, MCM-LTER, includes support for McKnight and Spaulding.
- DEB-9810218, NWT-LTER, includes support for the Math-Bio Program.
- DEB-9521882, includes PEET support for A. Alger
- OPP-0124014, includes support for B. Hall and T. Whittaker.
- OPP-981306, MCM-LTER, and supplemental funds, includes REU support for M. Meyernick.
Institute of Arctic & Alpine Research
INSTAAR, at the University of Colorado at Boulder, is the home institute for the scientists managing this web site. The Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) develops scientific knowledge of natural and anthropogenic physical and biogeochemical environmental processes at local, regional and global scales, and applies this knowledge to improve society's awareness and understanding of environmental change.