Metatranscriptomics libraries - Whalers Bay - Deception Island - Maritime Antarctic. Metatranscriptomics libraries - Whalers Bay

Sampling was carried out from sediments with a biofilm formed on the surface of melting water, derived from a close glacier, in Whalers Bay (WB), Deception Island, South Shetlands archipelago (Maritime Antarctica; - S 62 ° 97 '934' 'and W 060 ° 55' 532 ''), in December of 2017 (austral summer). Sediment samples were collected in triplicate (2017), from the surface of a transect along the extension of the melting water, comprising: site 1: WB1, subglacial sediments; site 2: WB2, 50 cm far from the glacier; site 3: WB3, central area; site 4: WB4, transect end.