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    • University of Wisconsin Antarctic Soils Database, Version 1

    Metadata Updated: September 18, 2025

    The University of Wisconsin Antarctic Soils Database contains data collected by Dr. James G. Bockheim and his colleagues from 1975 through 1987. Data include site information, air and soil temperature measurements, soil profile features, and surface boulder weathering features for 482 sites in the McMurdo Sound area of Antarctica. Soil profile descriptions are provided for soils inside the McMurdo Dry Valleys from 23 December 1975 to 22 December 1987, and outside the Dry Valleys from 13 November 1978 to 04 January 1986. Chemical and physical properties of soils at 214 sites are also provided. The study area is confined to 77 deg 7.5 min S to 78 deg S, 160 deg E to 164 deg E. Data are in tab-delimited ASCII text format, and are available via ftp.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date September 18, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date September 18, 2025
    Publisher NSIDC
    Maintainer
    Identifier 10.7265/pga6-pg66
    Data Last Modified 2025-09-11
    Category Earth Science
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 666147e5-aba2-4be2-b9ff-46781226c6a7
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://nsidc.org/forms/GGD221_or.html?major_version=1
    Old Spatial "CARTESIAN",{"WestBoundingCoordinate":160.0,"NorthBoundingCoordinate":-77.2,"EastBoundingCoordinate":164.0,"SouthBoundingCoordinate":-78.0}
    Program Code 026:000
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash d7ed04a10adf142bb691e865cf6a9845e77a240a24130c2557edbc3e56287dbe
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 1975-01-01/1975-01-01

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