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The State of Polar Research: A Statement from the International Council for Science/World Meteorological Organization Joint Committee for the International Polar Year 2007 - 2008 World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, 2009 (Ref: 13632)
Authors:
Allison I.Beland M.and 21 others
Category 2: International meeting papers

The International Polar Year 2007–2008 (IPY) was an intensive, internationally coordinated … scientific research campaign in the Arctic and … the Antarctic sponsored by the International … Council for Science (ICSU) and the World … Meteorological Organization (WMO). In two action-packed years…

Variations in behavior and condition of a Southern Ocean top predator in relation to in situ oceanographic conditions Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 2007 (Ref: 13380)
Authors:
Biuw M.Boehme L.Guinet C.Hindell M.Costa D.Charrassin J-B.Roquet F.Bailleul F.Meredith M.Thorpe S.Tremblay Y.McDonald B.Park Y-H.Rintoul S.R.Bindoff N.Goebel M.Crocker D.Lovell P.Nicholson J.Monks F.Fedak M.A.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Responses by marine top predators to environmental variability … have previously been almost impossible to observe directly. By … using animal-mounted instruments simultaneously recording … movements, diving behavior, and in situ oceanographic properties…

The reluctant hosts: Soviet Antarctic expedition ships visit Australia and New Zealand in 1956 Polar Record, 2009 (Ref: 13626)
Authors:
Gan I.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Russian and Australian primary sources were examined in an attempt to reconstruct the voyage of the … first composite Soviet Antarctic expedition to Antarctica and from thence to Leningrad [St Petersburg].

Inter-hemispheric asymmetry in polar mesosphere summer echoes and temperature at 69° latitude Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 2009 (Ref: 13622)
Authors:
Morris R.J.Klekociuk A.R.Latteck R.Singer W.Holdsworth D.A.Murphy D.J.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Phantom hitch-hikers mislead estimates of genetic variation in Antarctic mosses Plant Systematics and Evolution, 2007 (Ref: 13611)
Authors:
Stevens M.I.Hunger S.A.Hills S.F.K.Gemmill C.E.C.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Previous studies of Antarctic mosses … employing RAPDs have reported extraordinarily … high levels of genetic variation, even within a single … clump of moss. This is unexpected given their … extreme isolation in Antarctica and lack of sexual … reproduction. We offer an alternative explanation:

Hydrocarbon contamination increases the liquid water content of frozen Antarctic soils Environmental Science & Technology, 2008 (Ref: 13608)
Authors:
Siciliano S.D.Schafer A.N.Forgeron M.A.M.Snape I.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

We do not yet understand why fuel spills can cause greater … damage in polar soils than in temperate soils. The role of water … in the freezing environment may partly be responsible for … why polar soils are more sensitive to pollution.

Terrestrial microarthropods of Victoria Land and Queen Maud Mountains, Antarctica: Implications of climate change Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2006 (Ref: 13229)
Authors:
Sinclair B.J.Stevens M.I.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

We review aspects of climate change likely to impact upon the Collembola and mites (microarthropods) of Victoria Land and the Queen Maud Mountains (VLQMM) in the Ross Sea Region of Antarctica. Five important aspects of biological and biological…

Telescope and instrument robotization at Dome C Astron. Nachr., 2007 (Ref: 13316)
Authors:
Strassmeier K.G.Agabi K.Agnoletto L.Allan A.Andersen M.I.Ansorge W.Bortoletto F.Briguglio R.Buey J-TCastellini S.Coude du Foresto V.Dame L.Deeg H.J.Eiroa C.Durand G.Fappani D.Frezzotti M.Granzer T.Groschke A.Karcher H.J.Lenzen R.Mancini A.Montanari C.Mora A.Pierre A.Pirnay O.Roncella F.Schmider F-XSteele I.Storey J.W.V.Tothill N.F.H.Travouillon T.Vittuari L.Weber M.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Hydroids of the BANZARE expeditions, 1929 - 1391: the family Haleciidae (Hydroza, Leptothecata) from the Australian Antarctic Territory Memoirs of Museum Victoria, 2008 (Ref: 13603)
Authors:
Watson J.E.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Lidar Observations at Davis, Antarctica Swedish Institute of Space Physics seminar series 43, 30 September 2008, 2008 (Ref: 13606)
Authors:
Klekociuk A.
Category 3: Verbal presentation

A Rayleigh-Raman lidar has been operating at Australia's Davis Station in Antarctica since early 2001. The lidar is part of a suite of instruments making measurements of various processes from the lower atmosphere to the edge of space.

Aerosols in the Mesopause Region: A Bipolar Perspective Swedish Institute of Space Physics seminar series 42, 29 September 2008, 2008 (Ref: 13605)
Authors:
Klekociuk A.
Category 3: Verbal presentation

Over the past few years, co-located radar and lidar measurements have been made of ice aerosol layers in the summer mesospause region (80-95 km height) above Australia's Davis station in Antarctica.

The influence of small-scale wave processes on polar stratospheric clouds and stratospheric ozone depletion 9th International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography, Melbourne, Australia 9 to 13 February 2009, 2009 (Ref: 13604)
Authors:
Klekociuk A.
Category 3: Verbal presentation

Planetary waves, ozone distribution and tropopause height asymmetries in connection to Antarctic Peninsula warming Eos Trans. AGU, 88(52), Fall Meeting Suppl., Abstract A53E-11, 2007 (Ref: 13607)
Authors:
Milinevsky G.Evtushevsky O.Grytsai A.Agapitov O.Klekociuk A.Lozitsky V.Kravchenko V.
Category 3: Abstract

Decadal variations of the quasi-stationary wave amplitude and zonal structure are analyzed using the TOMS data. Seasonal dependence of total ozone content (TOC) is considered.

Interannual variability of pteropod shell weights in the High-CO2 Southern Ocean Second Symposium on The Ocean in a High-CO2 World, Monaco, 6-9 October, 2008, 2008 (Ref: 13592)
Authors:
Roberts D.Howard W.R.Moy A.D.Roberts J.L.Trull T.W.Bray S.G.Hopcroft R.R.
Category 3: Conference paper

Anthropogenic CO2 added to the atmosphere during and since the industrial revolution is entering the global ocean. Addition of extra (anthropogenic) CO2 to the ocean changes the carbonate chemistry and the pH of the surface ocean…

Reduced calcification in modern Southern Ocean planktonic foraminifera Second Symposium on The Ocean in a High-CO2 World, Monaco, 6-9 October, 2008, 2008 (Ref: 13591)
Authors:
Moy A.D.Howard W.R.Bray S.Trull T.
Category 3: Conference paper

Laboratory experiments suggest that decreased ocean carbonate-ion concentrations due to anthropogenic CO2 will result in reduced calcification rates in marine calcareous organisms.

High-resolution palaeoclimatology of the last millennium: a review of current status and future prospects The Holocene, 2009 (Ref: 13600)
Authors:
Jones P.D.Briffa K.R.Osborn T.J.Lough J.M.van Ommen T.D.Vinther B.M.Luterbacher J.Wahl E.R.Zwiers F.W.Mann M.E.Schmidt G.A.Ammann C.M.Buckley B.M.Cobb K.M.Esper J.Goosse H.Graham N.Jansen E.Kiefer T.Kull C.Küttel M.Mosley-Thompson E.Overpeck J.T.Riedwyl N.Schulz M.Tudhope A.W.Villalba R.Wanner H.Wolff E.Xoplaki E.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

This review of late-Holocene palaeoclimatology represents the results from a PAGES/CLIVAR … Intersection Panel meeting that took place in June 2006. The review is in three parts: the principal high-resolution … proxy disciplines (trees, corals, ice cores and documentary evidence)…

State of the Antarctic and Southern Ocean climate system (SASOCS) Reviews of Geophysics, 2009 (Ref: 13599)
Authors:
Mayewski P.A.Meredith M.P.Summerhayes C.P.Turner J.Worby T.Barrett P.J.Casassa G.Bertler N.A.N.Bracegirdle T.Naveira Garabato A.C.Bromwich D.Campbell H.Hamilton G.S.Lyons W.B.Maasch K.A.Aoki S.Xiao C.van Ommen T.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Ticks Associated with Macquarie Island Penguins Carry Arboviruses from Four Genera PLoS ONE, 2009 (Ref: 13598)
Authors:
Major L.Linn M.L.Slade R.W.Schroder W.A.Hyatt A.D.Gardner J.Cowley J.Suhrbier A.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Macquarie Island, a small subantarctic island, is home to rockhopper, royal and king penguins, which are often infested with the globally distributed seabird tick, Ixodes uriae. A flavivirus, an orbivirus, a phlebovirus, and a nairovirus were isolated from these ticks and partial sequences obtained.

A limnological reconnaissance of the Vestfold Hills. ANARE reports, 2000 (Ref: 10108)
Authors:
Dartnall H.J.G.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Two-day Planetary Wave Impact on Austral Polar Mesopause Temperatures: as Revealed by a January Diminution in PMSE above Davis, Antarctica EOS Trans. AGU 89(53), Fall Meet. Suppl. Abstract SA33C-07, 2008 (Ref: 13585)
Authors:
Morris R.J.Klekociuk A.R.Murphy D.J.Holdsworth D.A.
Category 3: Abstract

Icy aerosols in the mesopause region - a Southern Hemisphere perspective Australian Institute of Physics 18th National Congress, Adelaide, 30 Nov - 5 Dec 2008, Abstract 485, 2008 (Ref: 13582)
Authors:
Klekociuk A.R.Morris R.J.Alexander S.P.
Category 3: Abstract

The polar upper atmosphere is receiving increasing interest as a natural laboratory to investigate processes and phenomena under extreme conditions, and to detect atmospheric change. During summer, temperatures in the high-latitude mesopause region (80–95 km altitude)…

A study of the relationship between stratospheric gravity waves and polar mesospheric clouds at Davis Antarctica Journal of Geophysical Research, 2008 (Ref: 13581)
Authors:
Innis J.L.Klekociuk A.R.Morris R.J.Cunningham A.P.Graham A.D.Murphy D.J.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

We used a Rayleigh lidar located at Davis station, East Antarctica, to compare Polar … Mesospheric Cloud (PMC) and stratospheric gravity wave (GW) strengths in the … austral summer 2005–2006.

First Southern Hemisphere common-volume measurements of PMC and PMSE Geophysical Research Letters, 2008 (Ref: 13577)
Authors:
Klekociuk A.R.Morris R.J.Innis J.L.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

[1] Using Rayleigh lidar and Mesosphere-Stratosphere- … Troposphere radar at Davis Antarctica (68.6S) during the … 2005–2006 austral summer, we obtained the first Southern … Hemisphere common-volume measurements of Polar … Mesospheric Clouds (PMC) and Polar Mesosphere … Summer Echoes (PMSE).

Southern Ocean acidification: A tipping point at 450-ppm atmospheric CO2 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2008 (Ref: 13562)
Authors:
McNeil B.I.Matear R.J.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

World-wide lightning location using VLF propagation in the Earth-ionosphere waveguide Antennas and Propagation Magazine of the IEEE, 2008 (Ref: 13586)
Authors:
Dowden R.L.Holzworth R.H.Rodger C.J.Lichtenberger J.Thomson N.R.Jacobson A.R.Lay E.Brundell J.B.Lyons T.J.O'Keefe S.Kawasaki Z.Price C.Prior V.Ortega P.Weinman J.Mikhailov Y.Veliz O.Qie X.Burns G.Collier A.Pinto Jr O.Diaz R.Adamo C.Williams E.R.Kumar S.Raga G.B.Rosado J.M.Avila E.E.Clilverd M.A.Ulich T.Gorham P.Shanahan T.J.G.Osipowicz T.Cook G.Zhao Y.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

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