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Wideband radars for sea ice and snow thickness measurements International Workshop on Antarctic Sea Ice Thickness, Program and Abstracts, Hobart, Australia 5-7 July 2006, 2006 (Ref: 12965)

Authors:

Gogineni S.Kanagaratnam P.Holt B.Markus T.Lytle V.

Category 3: Abstract

Thicknesses of sea ice and snow are key variables in ice-ocean-atmosphere interactions. Sea ice insulates the warm ocean from polar air and controls the heat exchange, which is … determined by its thickness. Also, sea ice thicknesses, together with sea ice extent…

Variations in Antarctic sea ice freeboard and thickness distributions from ICESat data International Workshop on Antarctic Sea Ice Thickness, Program and Abstracts, Hobart, Australia 5-7 July 2006, 2006 (Ref: 12964)

Authors:

Zwally H.J.Yi D.Kwok R.Laxon S.W.

Category 3: Abstract

Sea ice freeboard distributions are detennined from ICESat measurements of mean surface … elevations with a range precision of -2 cm over 70 m footprints spaced by 170 m along … track. Freeboard (snow cover plus sea ice) distributions are constructed from elevation … measurements within :i:

Validating satellite estimates of Antarctic sea ice thickness International Workshop on Antarctic Sea Ice Thickness, Program and Abstracts, Hobart, Australia 5-7 July 2006, 2006 (Ref: 12963)

Authors:

Giles K.

Category 3: Abstract

Techniques to calculate sea ice thickness from measurements of sea ice freeboard from … spacebome radar and laser altimeters in the Arctic have the potential to be used in the … Antarctic. The conversion of freeboard, measured by the altimeter…

Antarctic sea ice thickness from space International Workshop on Antarctic Sea Ice Thickness, Program and Abstracts, Hobart, Australia 5-7 July 2006, 2006 (Ref: 12962)

Authors:

Laxon S.

Category 3: Abstract

Estimates of sea ice thickness around Antarctica are particularly sparse due to the … difficulty of accessing the continent (particularly during winter) and the lack of submarine … data. However recent measurements of ice or snow freeboard, from both space-borne radar … and laser…

The ASPeCt data set - recent analysis and applications International Workshop on Antarctic Sea Ice Thickness. Program and Abstracts. Hobart, Australia 5-7 July 2006, 2006 (Ref: 12975)

Authors:

Worby A.Geiger C.Paget M.van Woert M.Ackley S.DeLiberty T.

Category 3: Abstract

Ship-based observations of sea ice conditions have been collated from 89 voyages to the … Antarctic pack ice, between 1980 and 2005. These data were collected primarily by … Russian, Australia, US…

Measurement of moss growth in continental Antarctica Polar Biology, 2007 (Ref: 12960)

Authors:

Selkirk P.M.Skotnicki M.L.

Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Using steel pins inserted into growing moss … colonies near Casey Station, Wilkes Land, continental … Antarctica, we have measured the growth rate of three … moss species: Bryum pseudotriquetrum and Schistidium … antarctici over 20 years and Ceratodon purpureus … over 10 years.

Plant biodiversity in an extreme environment: Genetic studies of origins, diversity and evolution in the Antarctic Trends in Antarctic Terrestrial and Limnetic Ecosystems: Antarctica as a Global Indicator, 2006 (Ref: 12955)

Authors:

Skotnicki M.L.Selkirk P.M.

Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Australian Antarctic Division contributions to the Network Network for the Detection of Mesopause Change (NDMC), Garmisch-Partenkirchen 14-18 May 2007, 2007 (Ref: 12935)

Authors:

French J.Burns G.Klekociuk A.Innis J.Murphy D.Morris R.Duldig M.Symons L.

Category 3: Verbal presentation

Important Considerations when using Hydroxyl Airglow Measurements to Determine Climate Trends of the Mesopause Region American Geophysical Union 2007 Joint Assembly. Acapulco, Mexico 21-25 May 2007, 2007 (Ref: 12937)

Authors:

Burns G.French J.

Category 3: Poster

AB: Spectral calibrations, airglow and possibly auroral contaminations, solar and telluric absorption features and the selection of transition probabilities can all influence rotational temperatures derived from measurements of hydroxyl airglow intensities.

The Long Term Trend and Solar Cycle Variation Observed in 12 years of Hydroxyl Temperatures Over Davis, Antarctica American Geophysical Union 2007 Joint Assembly. Acapulco, Mexico 21-25 May 2007, 2007 (Ref: 12936)

Authors:

French J.Burns G.

Category 3: Poster

AB: Hydroxyl (6-2)-band rotational temperature observations have been accumulated at Davis station, Antarctica (68°S, 78°E) over 12 consecutive years since 1995.

The International Polar Year 2007-2008: a developing research agenda Proceedings of the seminar "Antarctic Research in the University of Malaya", 27-28 June 2005., 2006 (Ref: 12942)

Authors:

Allison I.

Category 3: Conference paper

HF Radar backscatter inversion technique Radio Science, 2006 (Ref: 12948)

Authors:

Norman R.J.Dyson P.L.

Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Methods of inverting high-frequency radar land and sea backscatter to obtain … ionospheric vertical profiles offer an important means of remote sensing the ionosphere up … to thousands of kilometers from the transmitter/receiver location.

On the occurrence of auroral westward flow channels and substorm phase Advances in Space Research, 2006 (Ref: 12947)

Authors:

Parkinson M.L.Dyson P.L.Pinnock M.

Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Auroral westward flow channels (A WFCs) are intense, narrow channels of westward drift overlapping the equatorward edge of the … auroral oval in the pre-magnetic midnight sector. They are a close relative of the sub-auroral polarisation stream which encompasses … polarisation jets…

Interhemispheric asymmetries in the occurrence of magnetically conjugate sub-auroral polarisation streams Annales Geophysicae, 2005 (Ref: 12946)

Authors:

Parkinson M.L.Pinnock M.Wild J.A.Lester M.Yeoman T.K.Milan S.E.Ye H.Devlin J.C.Frey H.U.Kikuchi T.

Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Earthward injections of energetic ions and electrons … mark the onset of magnetospheric substorms. In the inner … magnetosphere (L4), the energetic ions drift westward … and the electrons eastward, thereby enhancing the equatorial … ring current.

On-site assessment of metal contamination during remediation of a waste disposal site in Antarctica XXX ATCM, CEP X Information paper IP34 (Australian Submission). New Delhi, India 30 April - 11 May 2007., 2007 (Ref: 12941)

Authors:

Stark S.C.Snape I.Graham N.J.Brennan J.C.Gore D.B.

Category 2: International meeting papers

A methodology for the on-site chemical assessment of contaminant metals in soil was successfully … developed, tested and employed to facilitate the clean-up of the abandoned Thala Valley waste disposal site … at Australia’s Casey station in 2003/04.

The population trend of southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) at Macquarie Island (1952 - 2004) Polar Biology, 2007 (Ref: 12945)

Authors:

van den Hoff J.Burton H.Raymond B.

Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Total numbers of adult female southern elephant … seals (cows) breeding at Macquarie Island were … determined for 19 of the 52 year period between 1952 and … 2004. Totals for 1952-1987 (exc. 1959 and 1985)…

Biology and molecular phylogenetics of Nematoceras sulcatum, a second endemic orchid species from subantarctic Macquarie Island Polar Biology, 2007 (Ref: 12943)

Authors:

Clements M.A.Mackenzie A.M.Copson G.R.Molloy B.P.J.Carmichael N.Skotnicki M.L.Selkirk P.M.

Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

A second orchid species, Nematoceras … sulcatum M.A.Clem. et D.L.Jones, has been found on … subantarctic Macquarie Island. A history of its discovery … and recognition is provided. The morphology, biology and ecology of the new species are compared … with N. dienemum (D.L.Jones) D.L.Jones, M.A.Clem.

Determining the extent of biodegradation of fuels using diastereomers of acrylic isoprenoids Environmental Science and Technology, 2007 (Ref: 12933)

Authors:

McIntyre C.P.Harvey P.McA Ferguson S.H.Wressnig A.M.Volk H.George S.C.Snape I.

Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Improved testing and remediation procedures for sites … contaminated with petroleum hydrocarbons are a priority … in remote cold regions such as Antarctica, where costs are … higher and remediation times are longer.

Magnetic local time, substorm, and particle precipitation-related variations in the behaviour of SuperDARN Doppler spectral widths. Annales Geophysicae, 2004 (Ref: 12438)

Authors:

Parkinson M.L.Chisham G.Pinnock M.Dyson P.L.Devlin J.C.

Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Weddell seal underwater calling rates during the Winter and Spring near Mawson Station, Antarctica Marine Mammal Science, 2007 (Ref: 12921)

Authors:

Rouget P.A.Terhune J.M.Burton H.R.

Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Underwater vocalization monitoring and surveys, both on ice and underwater were used to determine if Weddell seals( Leptonychotews eddellit)n ear Mawson Station, Antarctica, remain under the fast ice during winter within close range of breeding … sites.

Assessing biogeochemical measurement endpoints for petroleum hydrocarbon contaminated soils in polar regions Assessment and Remediation of Contaminated Sites in Arctic and Cold Climates, Edmonton, Canada, 2007 (Ref: 12925)

Authors:

Schafer A.Snape I.Siciliano S.

Category 3: Conference paper

The impacts of rabbits on Macquarie Island - what can be learnt through photo-monitoring? Conference paper, SCAR Open Science Conference, Hobart, Australia, July 2006, 2006 (Ref: 12928)

Authors:

Shaw J.Scott J.Terauds A.Copson G.Carmichael N.Springer K.

Category 3: Conference paper

Liquid water content increases in frozen Antarctic soils that are contaminated with hydrocarbons Assessment and remediation of Contaminated Sites in Arctic and Cold Climates, Edmonton, Canada, 2007 (Ref: 12926)

Authors:

Siciliano S.Schafer A.Snape I.

Category 3: Conference paper