The Palmer LTER established from the program onset both a regional grid (900kmx200km West of the Antarctic peninsula) as well as a Palmer basin grid (within 2 mile limit of station) as organizing elements of the annual sampling strategy. Grid locations West of the Antarctic Peninsula may be calculated from latitude-longitude coordinates in order to establish a location within the LTER regional grid reference frame.
- Map: regional stations
- Map: basin stations
- Data: basic stations
- Data: full stations
- Converter: grid to lat/long
A summary of the sampling strategy is available in the publication by K.J. Waters and R. C. Smith (Palmer LTER: A sampling grid for the Palmer LTER program, Antarctic Journal of the United States, 27(5), 236-239, 1992).
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