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Nova Scotia Geoscience Publications (NovaScan)
Entry ID:
Canada_NovaScotia_NovaScan
Summary
Abstract:
This product provides on-line search capabilities for Nova Scotia's
bibliographic geoscience database called NovaScan. All records contained in NovaScan are accessible as FGDC compliant metadata though the GeoConnections Discovery Portal and the Canadian Geoscience Knowledge Network (CGKN).NOVASCAN is the bibliographic geoscience database for Nova Scotia and is produced and maintained by the ... 
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Data Set Citation
Dataset Originator/Creator:
Norman Lyttle - Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources, Mineral Resources Branch
Dataset Title:
Nova Scotia Geoscience Publications (NovaScan)
Online Resource:
http://www.gov.ns.ca/natr/meb/pubs/pi_nvscn.htm
Temporal Coverage
Start Date:
1864-01-01
Stop Date:
2005-03-31
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All of the collected soil samples are stored at the University of Waikato, Hamilton New Zealand in a -80C PC2 containment facility with small splits in the UK with David Hopkins and US with Jeb Barrett. A small subset of samples are at the University of West Cape, Cape Town, South Africa with Don Cowan. Samples of mites and springtails and mosses were are also collected and mainly held at the University of Waikato. Full metadata is available for each valley. Temperature and relative humidity data was collected on the valley sides along transects at 200m elevation increments.
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Data Center
Personnel
Role:
INVESTIGATOR
Phone:
+64 7 838 4593
Fax:
+64 7 838 4218
Email:
caryc at UDel.Edu
Email:
c.cary at waikato.ac.nz
Contact Address:
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Waikato
PO BOX 3105
City:
Hamilton
Postal Code:
3105
Country:
New Zealand
Publications/References
Cary, S.C., McDonald, I.R., Barrett, J.E., Cowan, D.A. 2010. On the rocks: the microbiology of Antarctic Dry Valley soils. Nature reviews 8:129-138. doi:10.1038/nrmicro2281
Banks, J.C., Ross, P.M., Smith, T.E. 2010. Report of a mummified leopard seal carcass in the southern Dry Valleys, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Antarctic science 22(1): 43-44. doi:10.1017/S0954102009990368 Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date:
2009-04-30
Last DIF Revision Date:
2010-02-23
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