Project information
HEIL, Dr Petra
Australian Antarctic Division
Auster Rookery, Davis, Mawson, Vestfold Hills
Project aim
Antarctic fast ice is a crucial climate component, and of critical importance to the survival of higher predators and to shipping and (intra-continental fixed-wing) aircraft operations. Neither its base state nor its variability are well documented. We shall deploy several digital environmental monitoring systems to collect regional-scale* data on spatio-temporal variability of fast-ice. The aim is to initiate an ongoing high-resolution data series of fast-ice extent and meteorological parameters for our analysis of the fast ice response to atmospheric circulation changes. Our data on fast-ice variations will be well suited to study the variability in breeding success of Emperor penguins.
Related publications
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Seasonal and interannual variability of the landfast ice mass balance between 2009 and 2018 in Prydz Bay, East Antarctica The Cryosphere, 2023
(Ref: 16760)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature
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Biogeochemical observations during the winter-spring transition in East Antarctic sea ice: Evidence of iron and exopolysaccharide controls. Marine Chemistry, 2009
(Ref: 13882)
Authors:Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature
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Semi-automated feature-tracking of East Antarctic sea ice from Envisat ASAR imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment, 2011
(Ref: 14672)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature
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Sea-ice flux in the Weddell Sea: New insights from an International Program for Antarctic Buoys drift experiment (IPAB) during Ice Station Polarstern in 2004. Flux News: Newsletter of the World Climate Research Programme Working Group on Surface Fluxes, 2007
(Ref: 14334)
Category 3: Article
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Annual cycle of landfast sea ice in Prydz Bay, east Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research, 2010
(Ref: 14332)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature