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Estimating the approximate toxicity of substances to many species to improve community level risk assessment SETAC Europe 19th Annual Meeting - Program and Abstracts, 2009 (Ref: 13649)
Authors:
Nugegoda D.Kefford B.J.King C.K.Schäfer R.Dunlop J.E.Warne M.Hickey G.L.Palmer C.G.Liess M.
Category 3: Abstract

Hydrocarbons in Antarctic marine sediments: degradation and ecological effects over five years Oil, Soil, Water and Wine, 15th Australian Organic Geochemistry Conference, Adelaide, 8-12 September 2008, 2008 (Ref: 13641)
Authors:
Woolfenden E.N.M.Powell S.M.Stark S.C.Stark J.S.Thompson B.A.W.Harvey P.McA.Snape I.Riddle M.J.George S.C.
Category 3: Abstract

Contaminated suspended sediments toxic to an Antarctic filter feeder: Aqueous and particulate-phase effects Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 2009 (Ref: 13648)
Authors:
Hill N.A.King C.K.Perrett L.A.Johnston E.L.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Accumulation of DNA damage in Antarctic mosses: correlations with ultraviolet-B radiation, temperature and turf water content vary among species Global Change Biology, 2009 (Ref: 13636)
Authors:
Turnbull J.D.Robinson S.A.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

The susceptibility of three East Antarctic moss species to UV-B radiation was examined by measuring accumulation of cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers under natural sunlight during the austral summer season of 2002/03.

Desiccation protects two Antarctic mosses from ultraviolet-B induced DNA damage Functional Plant Biology, 2009 (Ref: 13635)
Authors:
Turnbull J.D.Leslie S.J.Robinson S.A.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Living in a frozen desert, Antarctic mosses are characterised by the ability to survive desiccation and can tolerate multiple desiccation-rehydration events over the summer growing season. As a result of recent ozone depletion…

The preservation of methanesulphonic acid in frozen ice-core samples Journal of Glaciology, 2008 (Ref: 13695)
Authors:
Abram N.J.Curran M.A.J.Mulvaney R.Vance T.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Ice-core records of methanesulphonic acid (MSA) provide a potentially powerful tool for … producing proxy records of sea ice, a critical but poorly understood component of the Earth’s climate … system. However, MSA is able to diffuse through solid ice…

Bouncing continents: insights into the physics of the polar regions of the Earth from POLENET project in the International Polar Year Physics Education, 2008 (Ref: 13638)
Authors:
Reading A.M.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

When ice sheets melt, and reduce the load on the surface of the Earth, the … land areas beneath them bounce back up. New, accurate observations are … needed to investigate this uplift and its implications effectively.

Anomalous lithosphere beneath the Proterozoic of western and central Australia: A record of continental collision and intraplate deformation? Precambrian Research, 2008 (Ref: 13637)
Authors:
Fishwick S.Reading A.M.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

A newsurfacewave seismic tomography model of Australia is presented which provides a means of investigating … the lithospheric structure beneath the Proterozoic regions in the west, north and centre of the … continent with improved resolution and reliability.

Will the Russians abandon Mirny to the penguins after 1959...or will they stay? Polar Record, 2009 (Ref: 13657)
Authors:
Gan I.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

This paper traces the Soviet responses to initiatives of international scientific institutions for collaborative … research in the Antarctic dating from the International Geophysical Year (IGY) through to the formation of the Special … Committee for Antarctic Research (SCAR)…

Risk and Reward in Australia's Antarctic Program Invited Presentation - Institute of Internal Auditors, Hobart, Tasmania, 10 Oct 2008, 2008 (Ref: 13645)
Authors:
French J.
Category 3: Verbal presentation

Network for the Detection of Mesopause Change (NDMC) 37th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Montreal, Canada, 13 Jul-20 Jul 2008, 2008 (Ref: 13640)
Authors:
Bittner M.Espy P.French J.Höppner K.Scheer J.Taylor M.J.
Category 3: Abstract

The Network for the Detection of Mesopause Change (NDMC) is a global program with the … mission to promote international cooperation among research groups active in studying the … mesopause region (80-100km) with the goal of early identification of changing climate signals.

Sounding sediments Nature Geoscience, 2009 (Ref: 13627)
Authors:
Moy A.D.Howard W.R.Bray S.G.Trull T.W.
Category 4: Popular articles

Looking to the past for changes in the present Australian Antarctic Magazine, 2007 (Ref: 13623)
Authors:
Howard W.Moy A.
Category 4: Popular articles

Micromégas National Geographic France, 2009 (Ref: 13621)
Authors:
Carpio M-A.Fontaine B.
Category 4: Popular articles

Ocean acidification impacts on Southern Ocean calcifiers IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. Paper presented at Climate Change Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions, Copenhagen 10-12th March 2009, 2009 (Ref: 13624)
Authors:
Howard W.Roberts D.Moy A.Roberts J.Trull T.Bray S.Hopcroft R.
Category 3: Abstract

Adding carbon dioxide (CO2) to the ocean alters the carbonate chemistry and lowers pH, making surface waters more acidic and decreasing the carbonate ions available to calcifiers for calcite and aragonite production.

Holocene climate variability and the impact of feral animals on world heritage sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island On-line proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography, Melbourne, Australia, January 2009, 2009 (Ref: 13620)
Authors:
Saunders K.M.Hodgson D.A.Gibson J.A.E.McMinn A.
Category 3: Abstract

Tag loss probabilities are not independent: Assessing and quantifying the assumption of independent tag transition probabilities from direct observations Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 2009 (Ref: 13631)
Authors:
McMahon C.White G.C.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Reduced calcification in modern Southern Ocean planktonic foraminifera Nature Geoscience, 2009 (Ref: 13625)
Authors:
Moy A.D.Howard W.R.Bray S.G.Trull T.W.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Anthropogenic carbon dioxide has been accumulating in the … oceans, lowering both the concentration of carbonate ions … and the pH (ref. 1), resulting in the acidification of sea … water.

Antarctic Paleobiology: Glacial refugia and constraints on past ice-sheet reconstructions PAGES Newsletter, 2009 (Ref: 13619)
Authors:
Newman L.Convey P.Gibson J.A.E.Linse K.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Zooplankton and zoobenthos in high-latitude water bodies Polar lakes and rivers, 2008 (Ref: 13618)
Authors:
Rautio M.Bayly I.A.E.Gibson J.A.E.Nyman M.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Zooplankton and benthic invertebrates are important components of polar lakes and often form the highest trophic level in the aquatic food web. Their biodiversity decreases towards high latitudes…

Paratrochammina minutissima n. sp. in brackish, marine-derived lakes of the Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica Journal of Foraminiferal Research, 2008 (Ref: 13617)
Authors:
Gibson J.A.E.Quilty P.G.Swadling K.M.Newman L.Paterson K.S.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Paratrochammina minutissima n. sp. is described from … Abraxas and Ace Lakes in the Vestfold Hills, East … Antarctica. The species is characterized by very small size … (120 mm diameter), 4K chambers in the final whorl…

Evidence for the continued existence of Abraxas Lake, Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica during the Last Glacial Maximum Antarctic Science, 2009 (Ref: 13616)
Authors:
Gibson J.A.E.Paterson K.S.White C.A.Swadling K.M.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Evidence is provided from a sediment core from saline Abraxas Lake, Vestfold Hills, that indicates that the lake existed through the Last Glacial Maximum. It can therefore be concluded that at least part of the Vestfold Hills also remained ice-free through the Last Glacial Maximum…

DGGE fingerprinting of bacteria in soils from eight ecologically different sites around Casey Station, Antarctica Polar Biology, 2009 (Ref: 13615)
Authors:
Chong C.W.Tan G.Y.A.Wong R.C.S.Riddle M.J.Tan I.K.P.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Bacterial community structures in soils collected … from eight sites around Casey Station, Antarctica, were … investigated using denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis … (DGGE) of ampliWed 16S rRNA gene fragments.

Ice sheet contributions to sea level rise: a post IPCC AR4 assessment IPCC-WCRP-IGBP Workshop on New Science Directions and Activities Relevant to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (Honolulu, 2-6 March 2009), 2009 (Ref: 13634)
Authors:
Allison I.Warner R.Fricker H.A.Alley R.B.Thomas R.H.
Category 3: Poster

The Snows of Kilimanjaro: A critical comment on Numerical Simulations of the Role of Land Surface Conditions on the Climate of Mt Kilimanjaro Region CLIVAR Exchanges, 2009 (Ref: 13633)
Authors:
Kaser G.Allison I.
Category 3: Article

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