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	McMurdo LTER Project Overview
		The McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER project is an interdisciplinary study of the aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems in a cold desert region of Antarctica.
		The McMurdo Dry Valleys are located on the western coast of McMurdo Sound (77°00'S 162°52'E) and form the largest relatively ice-free area (approximately 4800 square kilometers) on the Antarctic continent.
		The overall objectives of the McMurdo LTER are to understand the influence of physical and biological constraints on the structure and function of dry valley ecosystems and to understand the modifying effects of material transport on these ecosystems.
	huey.colorado.edu /LTER/project.html (724 words)

	McMurdo Base Antarctica
		The American McMurdo base is built on land beside the coast of continental Antarctica at the edge of McMurdo Sound, it is built at the southern end of Ross Island.
		McMurdo shares Ross Island with the New Zealand Scott base and Mount Erebus, a 12,448ft (3,794m) active volcano as well as emperor penguin, adélie penguin and skua colonies.
		McMurdo is at 77°55'S, 166°40'E between the Ross Sea and the Ross Ice Shelf - this is a floating area of freshwater ice fed by glaciers spilling off the continent of Antarctica and is approximately the size of France.
	www.coolantarctica.com /Community/mcmurdo/mcmurdo_base_antarctica.htm (594 words)

	McMurdo Station Antarctica
		McMurdo Station is the largest research station in Antarctica, and also the central staging station for the U.S. Antarctic Program.
		All US inland stations are resupplied through McMurdo, which in turn is supplied through flights from Christchurch, New Zealand, as well as via cargo vessel that docks once a year after icebreakers cut a channel through the frozen McMurdo Sound.
		Above: Facing away from McMurdo Sound, and towards Ross Island (the island that McMurdo is located on), a view towards the 'Mammoth Mountain Inn' and 'Hotel California' dorms, the Mechanical Equipment Center, the Berg Field Center and Observation Hill on the right hand side.
	www.tamug.edu /labb/Projects/Weddell/McM2001/McMurdo/McMurdo_2001.htm (508 words)

	EPA: Federal Register: Issuance of a General Permit to the National Science Foundation for the Ocean Disposal of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		McMurdo Station is the largest of the three stations, and serves as the primary logistics base for Antarctica.
		Background on McMurdo Station Ice Pier The NSF was established as an independent agency of the Executive Branch of the government in 1950.
		McMurdo Station, which is located on the southern tip of Hut Point Peninsula on Ross Island, is the largest of the three stations.
	www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-WATER/2003/January/Day-07/w335.htm (5379 words)

	Geography From Space - Answer #3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A border between two of the images can be seen running diagonally through the sound and Ross Sea, explaining the apparent discontinuity in the distribution of floating ice.
		Ross Island is half locked in ice with the peak of Mt. Erebus, an active volcano, visible in the center of the west half of the island.
		McMurdo research station is on the peninsula extending southwest into the Ross Ice Shelf.
	www.nasm.si.edu /research/ceps/gaw/gfs97/GAW3a.html (333 words)

	McMurdo Station Antarctica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		McMurdo Station is the largest research station in Antarctica, and also the central staging station for the U.S. Antarctic Program.
		All US inland stations are resupplied through McMurdo, which in turn is supplied through flights from Christchurch, New Zealand, as well as via cargo vessel that docks once a year after icebreakers cut a channel through the frozen McMurdo Sound.
		Above: Facing away from McMurdo Sound, and towards Ross Island (the island that McMurdo is located on), a view towards the 'Mammoth Mountain Inn' and 'Hotel California' dorms, the Mechanical Equipment Center, the Berg Field Center and Observation Hill on the right hand side.
	tamug.tamu.edu /labb/Projects/Weddell/McM2001/McMurdo/McMurdo_2001.htm (508 words)

	McMurdo 1960 Crash
		I was on stationed at NAF McMurdo Sound from September 1960 to August 1961.
		I was a Seabees electricians mate and was assigned on temporary duty to the NAF crash crew at Williams Field at McMurdo.
		The sound opens up during the summer and the aircraft is currently sitting on the bottom of McMurdo Sound in approximately 600 fathoms of water.
	www.conniesurvivors.com /1-1960_mcmurdo_article.htm (738 words)

	EPA: Federal Register: Issuance of a Final General Permit to the National Science Foundation for the Ocean Disposal of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		McMurdo Station, which is located on the southern tip of Hut Point Peninsula on Ross Island, is the largest of three stations in Antarctica operated by the National Science Foundation.
		The McMurdo Station Ice Pier The NSF is the agency of the United States Government responsible for oversight of the United States Antarctic Program.
		The NSF currently operates three major bases in Antarctica: McMurdo Station on Ross Island, adjacent to McMurdo Sound; Palmer Station, near the western terminus of the Antarctic Peninsula; and Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, at the geographic South Pole.
	www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/2003/February/Day-14/i3840.htm (2057 words)

	EO Newsroom: New Images - B-15A Iceberg Blocks McMurdo Sound
		Summer’s thaw normally releases Antarctica’s Ross Sea and McMurdo Sound from the thick sea ice that accumulates over the winter, but this year the process is being blocked.
		The effect of the B-15A iceberg on McMurdo Sound is apparent in these true-color images, acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite on December 13, 2004, top, November 9, 2004, bottom left, and November 7, 2003, bottom right.
		The frozen McMurdo Sound is a bluish white to the left of the two large icebergs.
	earthobservatory.nasa.gov /Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16759 (411 words)

	USATODAY.com - Too much Antarctic ice prompts call for aid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This year, however, sea ice stretches about 80 miles north from McMurdo and is as much as 13 feet thick, around twice the thickness of most years.
		McMurdo Sound is roughly between the red dot and the top of the "M" in "McMurdo." This is almost due south of New Zealand.
		The tanker that goes to McMurdo each January carries the fuel that will be used at McMurdo and the U.S. South Pole station during this year's Antarctic winter, which begins in March, and for these stations as well as temporary field camps during the 2002-03 "summer" research season, which begins next October.
	www.usatoday.com /news/science/cold-science/2001-11-21-mcmurdo-ice.htm (803 words)

	Dictionary of Antarctic slang
		Of the three airstrips serving McMurdo and Scott Base, it is by far the furthest away and least used.
		The old name for the "McMurdo Ground Station", a large dome just downhill from Arrival Heights, built in the 1994-1995 season to collect data from a satellite that has not been launched as of the end of the 1995-1996 season.
		For regular "wall time" McMurdo follows Chch, which is GMT+12 hours in the winter, GMT+13 in the summer (even though the sun never sets in the summer and there is no night to save the daylight from).
	penguincentral.com /MCMslang.html (5480 words)

	McMurdo Sound -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The sound source may be a violin, an automobile horn, or a barking dog.
		The sound tracks of most films are made up of both synchronous sound—sound recorded as the film is being shot—and postsynchronous sound—sound recorded and added after shooting.
		Contains a decade-by-decade chronology of film sound with images from each era, audio clips of pioneer Thomas Edison, links to supplemental information on various inventors and corporations, and a comparative index of different film sound processes.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9049829?tocId=9049829 (866 words)

	11/7/98 dispatch (1 of 3)
		We checked into McMurdo Operations (MacOps) both in person and through the VHF radio in the Sprite, and left them a record of our planned route, the number of persons involved and set up scheduled times to check in by radio and to be back in camp.
		At the moment McMurdo Sound is frozen solid out to Cape Royds and beyond yet towards the end of the Austral summer this ice will break up and drift north to become part of the pack ice surrounding the continent.
		McMurdo Base is resupplied by an icebreaker and a container ship during this period.
	www.engr.psu.edu /NewsEvents/EPS/v15n2_1999spring/dispatches/1107a.htm (1647 words)

	Is Antarctica's McMurdo Base on danger? - Last News
		The icebreaker Krasin left Vladivostock on Russia's Pacific coast on Dec. 21 and is scheduled to rendezvous with an American icebreaker on the outer edge of the Antarctic ice pack on Jan. 20, Interfax said.
		The base at McMurdo Sound is the main scientific base of the Antarctica program of the U.S. National Science Foundation.
		McMurdo is the largest station in Antarctica, which can host about 5,000 people at the same time.
	www.bibliotecapleyades.net /esp_antartica_derrite03.htm (1352 words)

	McMurdo Sound - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		McMurdo Sound is a sound about 55 km (35 mi) long and wide, lying at the junction of the Ross Sea and Ross Ice Shelf between Ross Island and Victoria Land.
		Discovered by Captain James Clark Ross in February 1841 and named after Lt. Archibald McMurdo of HMS Terror.
		The United States's major Antarctic base, McMurdo Station, is located on Ross Island.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/McMurdo_Sound (98 words)

	US Base - McMurdo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The United States Base at McMurdo Sound serves as a port for supplies to all bases in Antarctica.
		McMurdo does have to supply up to 1200 people at times so shops are fairly comprehensive.
		The clear glass displays the view, looking straight out onto the sound with a glass map of Antarctica, bread (host) wafer, wine cup, wheat sheaves, grapes, bible and penguin (or is it a nun).
	www.intercoast.com.au /~comaid/mc_us_base.html (411 words)

	McMurdo — 70South - Antarctic News, Antarctic Information, Interactive and Updated Daily... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		McMurdo Sound is named after Lieutenant Archibald McMurdo, an officer on the ship Terror.
		More recent history has seen McMurdo as the main Antarctic station for the US since 1955, and is the hub of all US activity during the summer season.
		McMurdo is primarily a logistics center in the summer months with over 1000 people and more than 100 structures including a harbor, an airport (Williams Field), and a helicopter pad.
	www.70south.com /resources/antarctic-bases/mcmurdo (138 words)

	:: NASA Quest > Archives :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Rising high above the western shore of McMurdo Sound and the Ross Sea, 90 kilometers from Ross Island, the glacier-mantled peaks of the Transantarctic Mountains provide a beautiful background to the McMurdo area.
		The range is characterized by nearly horizontal layers of sedimentary rocks--mostly a yellowish sandstone (Beacon Sandstone of Devonian age) and interlayer of dark dolerite (a lava similar to basalt) that were injected as sills between the existing sandstone layers.
		The valleys are ice- free because of the geography of their upper, or western ends, where high lips slow the entry of ice from the east antarctic ice sheet.
	quest.arc.nasa.gov /antarctica/background/NSF/valleys.html (1763 words)

	USATODAY.com - U.S., Russian icebreakers open path to Antarctic base (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This year's sea ice extended more than 90 miles north of the McMurdo Station, after building up behind the world's biggest iceberg, known as B15A, which has blocked wind and water currents that usually break up ice floes in the sound.
		McMurdo, which is almost due south of New Zealand, is Antarctica's largest station.
		Each year, a channel must be broken through the ice that forms on McMurdo Sound to allow access for the tanker and cargo ship.
	www.usatoday.com /weather/resources/coldscience/2005-02-06-mcmurdo-ships_x.htm (649 words)

	Antarctic Penguin Chicks Face Starvation - Science - RedOrbit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Currently there is "more fast (blocked) ice in McMurdo Sound than we've ever recorded in living history for this time of year," Sanson said.
		The alternatives are to break an 80-mile channel through the pack ice to reach Winter Quarters Bay on the McMurdo Sound coast - or offload the fuel and other supplies on the ice edge, pumping fuel through temporary lines several miles to storage tanks, he said.
		The iceberg is located between McMurdo Sound and Franklin Island to the south and is moving north toward the sound at about 1.2 miles a day.
	www.redorbit.com /news/display?id=111041 (778 words)

	To the End of the Earth: The Journey - McMurdo Station
		McMurdo Station is located on the southern end of Ross Island, an island off the coast of Antarctica at 78° S latitude, 168° E longitude, at the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
		The first winter over at McMurdo was in 1956 and consisted of 93 men.
		McMurdo includes a "downtown" area, science and support facilities and an outlying airport (Williams Field), plus a blue ice (glacial ice) runway and a summer runway on the sea ice.
	www.entreeventurenetwork.com /Antarctica/mcmurdo.shtml (317 words)

	Newswise
		As a result, NSF personnel at the station are undertaking an alternative method of transferring several million gallons of fuel from a tanker offshore over the sea ice of McMurdo Sound.
		Personnel at McMurdo worked with officials at NSF and at Colorado--based Raytheon Polar Services, NSF's Antarctic logistics contractor, to develop the plans to transfer the fuel safely while protecting the environment of the McMurdo Sound.
		In an unrelated incident, a leak in an on-shore fuel tank at a McMurdo Station helicopter pad Feb. 19 resulted in a spill of roughly 6,500 gallons of diesel fuel.
	www.newswise.com /articles/view?id=REFUEL.NSF (655 words)

	EO Newsroom: New Images - Breaking Sea Ice in McMurdo Sound
		After remaining a solid mass throughout Southern Hemisphere spring and the first part of summer, sea ice in McMurdo Sound finally began to break into pieces in January 2005.
		McMurdo Sound passes through an annual cycle in which thick ice freezes on the water during Antarctica’s frigid winter, then breaks and drifts into the Ross Sea during the summer.
		Flights scheduled to carry supplies to the McMurdo Station (United States) and Scott Base (New Zealand) research stations near McMurdo Sound were delayed due to the fierce weather.
	earthobservatory.nasa.gov /Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16790 (572 words)

	Middle East Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The previous position of the iceberg had caused a build up of sea ice in McMurdo Sound, threatening access by US ice-breaking ships to New Zealand's Scott Base and the nearby US McMurdo Sound base.
		He added that the renewed drift of the iceberg had loosened the build up of sea ice in McMurdo Sound, hopefully allowing access to the bases by icebreakers in the next summer season, starting late this year.
		The iceberg, 120 kilometers long, with an area exceeding 2,500 square kilometers, is so large that scientists have been worried about its effects on sea life and penguin colonies in the region.
	www.metimes.com /articles/normal.php?StoryID=20050401-021432-8835r (388 words)

	Zetron Console Comes Out on Top at Bottom of World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		McMurdo Station, Antarctica: Located on McMurdo Sound in the Ross sea, McMurdo Station is some twenty-four hundred miles straight south of Christchurch, New Zealand, on the continent of Antarctica.
		Operated by the National Science Foundation, McMurdo is the largest of the three Antarctic research stations manned year-round by the United States.
		McMurdo Station is essentially a small town, with VHF radio the primary wireless communication system that complements the modern wireline telephone system.
	www.zetron.com /pages/english/realw/7110.html (1648 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Iceberg is threat to penguins
		Currently there is "more fast (blocked) ice in McMurdo Sound than we've ever recorded in living history for this time of year," Sanson said.
		The alternatives are to break an 80-mile channel through the pack ice to reach Winter Quarters Bay on the McMurdo Sound coast — or offload the fuel and other supplies on the ice edge, pumping fuel through temporary lines several miles to storage tanks, he said.
		The iceberg is located between McMurdo Sound and Franklin Island to the south and is moving north toward the sound at about 1.2 miles a day.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,595112470,00.html (785 words)

	JS Online: Pole's serenity rivals McMurdo bashes
		The crowd at the party, in a vehicle maintenance garage, is a mix of the tattooed and pierced support workers, slightly more staid scientists and even a few in formal wear.
		Antarctica is a vast unspoiled wilderness, but McMurdo Station is as gritty as a mining town.
		Stepping on snow makes a creaky sound that is quite different from the sound of Wisconsin snow.
	www.jsonline.com /news/gen/jan01/2diary08010701.asp?format=print (886 words)

	McMurdo Sound, Antarctica
		The pictures were taken on several helicopter and skidoo trips to various areas in the sound.
		Whenever a group is left on the ground for some time, with the helicopter performing other flights in the area, survival bags have to stay with the ground group, in case of a protracted stay forced by weather.
		McMurdo Station and Scott Base are both located on Ross Island.
	www.tamug.tamu.edu /labb/Projects/Weddell/McM2001/Sound/McMurdo_Sound.htm (320 words)

	NSF chooses alternative method to refuel its main Antarctic research station
		As a result, NSF personnel at the station are undertaking an alternative method of transferring several million gallons of fuel from a tanker offshore over the sea ice of McMurdo Sound.
		Personnel at McMurdo worked with officials at NSF and at Colorado—based Raytheon Polar Services, NSF's Antarctic logistics contractor, to develop the plans to transfer the fuel safely while protecting the environment of the McMurdo Sound.
		In an unrelated incident, a leak in an on-shore fuel tank at a McMurdo Station helicopter pad Feb. 19 resulted in a spill of roughly 6,500 gallons of diesel fuel.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2003-02/nsf-nca022703.php (679 words)

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