Long-Term Monitoring of Human Impacts to the Terrestrial Environment at McMurdo Station

Antarctic Futures: Human Engagement with the Antarctic Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 213-227

  Klein, Andrew G ^a   Sweet, Stephen T ^b   Kennicutt, Mahlon C ^a   Wade, Terry L ^b   Palmer, Terry A ^c   Montagna, Paul ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY CORPUS CHRISTI   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental monitoring; Geographic information systems; McMurdo station; Metals; Petroleum hydrocarbons; Soils

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920093691     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6582-5_9     Document Type: Chapter

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