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Airfield Glaciology JONES, Ms Marjorie (Midj) Intercont a/craft landing site, Bunger Hills, Casey

This project will collect meteorological and glaciological data that are required to select, operate and maintain an ice airfield suitable for intercontinental aircraft. Apart from specifications including the length, width, slope, etc.

Antarctic ice sheet history and stability: baseline palaeoclimate research on the Pagodroma Group, Prince Charles Mountains MCMINN, Prof. Andrew Prince Charles Mountains

We propose to collect detailed sedimentary information and palaeontological samples from several deposits of the Pagodroma Group in the Prince Charles Mountains, an area where little information is presently available.

Monitoring for long-term or cumulative impacts in Southern Ocean seabirds WOEHLER, Dr Eric Ardery and Odbert Islands ASPA, HIMI, McDonald Islands, Commonwealth Bay, Mawson, Australia (or home country), Casey, Charlton Island, Clark Peninsula ASPA, Davis, Dewart Island, Frazier Island, Frazier Islands, NE Bailey Peninsula ASPA, Nelly Island, Vestfold Hills, Windmill Islands

This project provides population data on Antarctic and Subantarctic seabirds that permit assessments to be made of natural population trends at local to regional scales, so that changes in populations due to to human disurbance, such as station activities and helicopter operations can be identified.

Late Quaternary Glacial History and Palaeoenvironments of Prydz Bay GOODWIN, A/Prof. Ian Marine Science

This proposal is for a collaborative US-Australian marine geoscience expedition to Prydz Bay in 2000-2001 using the US icebreaker Nathaniel B Palmer. The Palmer is equipped with a sophisticated seafloor mapping sonar system that will enable detailed maps of the seafloor to be produced.

Biogenic sediment history from diatom remains in cores along Wilkes Land ARMAND, A/Prof. Leanne Australia (or home country)

This proposal provides shore-based technical support for the processing of sea-floor sediments generated from the Italian/Australian mission along the George V Coast of Antarctica.

Prince Charles Mountains Expedition of Germany-Australia (PCMEGA) WILSON, Prof. Christopher (Chris) Prince Charles Mountains

In 2002/03 it is proposed to mount a combined Australian and German expedition to investigate geological and glaciological histories and past climates in the southern Prince Charles Mountains.

The automated astrophysical site testing observatory BURTON, Prof. Michael South Pole, Other, Dome A, Dome C

The Antarctic plateau provides the best terrestrial location for … infrared and submillimetre astronomy. The best sites lie within the … Australian Antarctic Territory. From them the most sensitive observations of … the faint light from distant stars and galaxies could be made.

Improved measurement of Antarctic sea ice thickness using electromagnetic induction techniques REID, Dr James Australia (or home country)

This project aims to improve ship-based sea-ice thickness measurements made using an electromagnetic induction device by performing a theoretical analysis of the sensitivity of the electromagnetic instrument to factors such as instrument height and orientation, ice conductivity and thickness…

AMISOR Geoscience - Sedimentation beneath the Amery Ice Shelf HARRIS, Dr Peter Amery Ice Shelf, Davis, Marine Science, Prydz Bay

The landward and seaward flows of water beneath floating ice shelves are deflected by the Coriolis force, and tend to be laterally separated. However, the sedimentary implications of this circulation pattern have not been considered.

Macquarie Island: A window into the oceanic crust and upper mantle CAWOOD, Prof. Peter Macquarie Island

Because of the inaccessibility of the deep-ocean floor, our knowledge about the composition and structure of the oceanic crust is very limited.

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