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A function that approximates atmospheric tidal behavior in the polar regions is … described.
Atrialwas undertaken of two techniques for assessing the physical condition ofwalking tracks (trails) over extended distances. A distance-based technique, in which categorical measurements were made at regular spatial intervals, proved to be sufficiently … reliable to warrant further development.
Long-term studies at Bird Island, South … Georgia, show that numbers of wandering, black-browed … and grey-headed albatrosses have been decreasing … since the late 1970s. To determine the status of the total … South Georgia population…
Longline fisheries have been responsible for the deaths of large numbers of seabirds worldwide. Two of the most difficult seabird species to deter from baited hooks are the whitechinned … petrel (Procellaria aequinoctialis) and sooty shearwater (Puffinus griseus).
One hundred and fifteen sperm whales (97 female, 15 male, 3 unknown sex) were involved in three mass stranding events during the month of February 1998 along the west and northwest coastlines of Tasmania, Australia. Sixty-six of these whales stranded at Ocean Beach, Strahan; 35 at Greens Beach…
Harvesting of marine living resources in the Southern Ocean is managed by the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), which is widely known for its ecosystem approach to managing fisheries and inclusion of food-web maintenance in the conservation objectives.
Total dissolvable iron (TDFe) was measured in sections of ice cores recovered from Law Dome on the … coast of Wilkes Land, East Antarctica. These samples include ice dating from the Last Glacial Maximum … (LGM), the Last Deglaciation…
We used a snow pit record in conjunction with detailed snow accumulation data and … oxygen isotope records to examine atmospheric transport and deposition effects on 10Be at … Law Dome, Antarctica.
The water quality of a marine embayment (Brown Bay) was monitored during the remediation of an abandoned waste disposal site at … Casey Station, East Antarctica, using a combination of biomonitoring and chemical methods. The Antarctic amphipod Paramoera walkeri…
The Australian Antarctic Data Centre (AADC) plays a key role in managing and providing … access to scientific data collected under the auspices of the Australian Antarctic program. Through its membership of the Joint Committee of Antarctic Data Management (JCADM)…