LTER Core Areas

This division of our measured parameters into the LTER Core Area categories is based on what CCE and PAL have already done.
Ours don't match exactly, but here's how they split theirs up so we have something to start with:

Disturbance Patterns

weather stations
sea level and anomalies
water temperature
sea ice

Inorganic Matter

dissolved inorganic nutrients
dissolved iron
DIC (dissolved inorganic carbon)
DO (dissolved oxygen)
Ammonia Oxidizing Bacteria and Archaea Abundance

Organic Matter:

Bacteria
DOC (Dissolved Organic Carbon)
Sediment trap fluxes
POC and PON (particulate organic carbon and nitrogen)
total DOC and DON
photosynthetic parameters from photosynthetic-irradiance curves

Population Studies:

birds (well, penguins)
diet
bacteria
HPLC
zooplankton
mesozooplankton
body lengths

Primary Production:

Chlorophyll
HPLC pigments
nitrate uptake
size fractionated chlorophyll
primary production
dissolved oxygen
photosynthetic parameters from photosynthetic-irradiance curves

Signature

8 for PAL including chick counts, chlor, primary production, weather, ice, zooplankton
6 for CCE including zooplankton, primary production, and water temp