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Anthropogenic noise generated through travel in the Antarctic has the potential to affect the region’s … wildlife. Weddell seals (Leptonychotes weddellii) in particular can be exposed to anthropogenic noise because they … live under, and breed on, the fast ice on which humans travel.
Abstract A microbial enrichment culture tolerant of … petroleum hydrocarbons was developed from sediment … collected near Casey Station, Antarctica. To select coldadapted … microbes that would degrade diesel, enrichments … were cultured at 0°C during six successive … transfers to fresh medium…
The effects of diesel fuel and three lubricating oils on microbial communities in marine sediment were investigated in a field experiment at Casey Station, Antarctica. Sediment from a pristine site in Antarctica was treated with either Special Antarctic Blend (SAB) diesel, a synthetic lubricant…
The existence of Polar Mesosphere Summer Echoes (PMSE) in the Southern Hemisphere … (SH) has recently been confirmed using HF radar (Ogawa et al., 2002), MST … radar (Morris et al., 2004), and a Dynasonde (Jarvis et al., 2005) following earlier … observations using MST radar (Woodman et al., 1999).
Common geological, geochemical, and geophysical characteristics of continental fragments of East … Gondwana and adjacent oceanic lithosphere define a long-lived, low-volume, diffuse alkaline magmatic … province (DAMP) encompassing the easternmost part of the Indo-Australian Plate, West Antarctica…
The Adare Trough, located 100 km NE of Cape Adare, Antarctica, is the extinct third arm of a Tertiary spreading ridge that … separated East from West Antarctica. We use seismic reflection data, tied to DSDP Site 274…
A 5.52 m long sediment sequence was recovered from Lake Terrasovoje, Amery Oasis, East Antarctica, in … order to reconstruct the regional environmental history. The basal sediments, which are dominated by … glacial and glaciofluvial clastic sediments…
The diatom flora of three lakes in the ice-free … Amery Oasis, East Antarctica, was studied. Two of the … lakes are meltwater reservoirs, Terrasovoje Lake (31 m … depth) and Radok Lake (362 m depth), while Beaver … Lake (>435 m depth) is an epishelf lake.
The efficient sound carrying properties of the ocean and the vocal nature of many marine … mammals provide an excellent means to monitor these often difficult to study animals.
Abstract: Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) are found throughout much of their life in schools. In the laboratory however…