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Astronomers have always sought the very best locations for their telescopes. From … observatories in city centres, astronomers moved first to nearby mountain tops, then to … remote sites in distant countries, to aircraft, and into space.
The AASTINO (Automated Astrophysical Site Testing INternational Observatory) is a remote … laboratory that has been operating at Dome C station on the Antarctic plateau since January 2003. It … is designed to run throughout the Antarctic winter without intervention…
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…
Industrial longline fisheries are considered worldwide as the main threat to albatross and … petrel populations, particularly at open oceans. However, inside countries’ EEZ artisanal … fleets account for a significant fishing effort and eventually…
Within a 6-minute span on January 20, 2005, the count rate registered by a neutron monitor at the sea level … station of McMurdo, Antarctica increased by a factor of 30, while the rate at the high-altitude (2820 m) site … of South Pole increased by a factor of 56.
Two calibration neutron monitors were completed in September 2002. These instruments are designed to … provide an intercalibration between the 40-odd neutron monitors around the world, so that rigidity spectra … can be calculated from them.
Besides producing the largest ground level enhancement (GLE) in half a century, the relativistic solar particles … detected during the event of January 20, 2005 showed some interesting temporal and directional features, including extreme anisotropy.
Measuring the geo-electric field becomes important in understanding the global electric circuit and how it is affected by other phenomena. It is also useful in assessing how the global electric circuit variations can affect climate.
ABSTRACT: Foraging movements of Adélie penguins are constrained both by environmental conditions … (e.g. sea ice cover) and life history factors (e.g. regular offspring provisioning). We describe … within season changes in foraging range…
Forty seven identified louse species from birds and mammals are listed from Macquarie Island. Five further records are given at the generic level only. Bibliographic references to Macquarie Island louse records are listed for each species and genus. A list of the host-louse associations is given.
The purpose of this paper is to make available transcripts of reports … by the fi rst visitors to Heard Island. The sequence of voyages in the … vicinity of the island between 1773 and 1858 is described. Discovery … is attributed to Captain John J. Heard in the bark Oriental in 1853.