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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

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

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…

The cool side of medicine The Australian New Zealand College Anaesthetists Bulletin Feature: In the Field, 2009 (Ref: 13630)
Authors:
Melick J.
Category 4: Popular articles

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

Polar Medicine Expedition & Wilderness Medicine, 2009 (Ref: 13614)
Authors:
Lugg D.J.L.Ayton J.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

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

Black and white or shades of grey? Detectability of Adélie penguins during shipboard surveys in the Antarctic pack-ice Journal of Applied Ecology, 2009 (Ref: 13601)
Authors:
Southwell C.Low M.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

1. Estimates of penguin abundance are important for developing marine ecosystem models and … assessing potential competition between penguins and fisheries operations. 2. Most shipboard surveys of penguins use strip transect (ST) or conventional distance sampling … (CDS)…

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.

An automated camera system for remote monitoring in polar environments Cold Regions Science and Technology, 2009 (Ref: 13552)
Authors:
Newbery K.M.Southwell C.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

There is widespread recognition of the benefits in automating procedures for the collection of scientific data, and an increasing ability to do so as technology advances.

Global distribution of atmospheric waves in the equatorial upper troposphere and lower stratosphere: AGCM simulation of sources and propagation Journal of Geophysical Research, 2009 (Ref: 13575)
Authors:
Kawatani Y.Takahashi M.Sato K.Alexander S.P.Tsuda T.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

The global distribution, sources, and propagation of atmospheric waves in the … equatorial upper troposphere and lower stratosphere were investigated using an … atmospheric general circulation model with T106L60 resolution (120-km horizontal … and 550-m vertical resolution).

Report of the GBIF Metadata Implementation Framework Task Group (MIFTG) , 2009 (Ref: 13963)
Authors:
Jones M.B.Bertrand N.Holetschek J.Hutchison V.Ko B.C-J.Suárez-Mayorga A.Meaux M.Ulate W.Watts D.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

The need for mobilisation of biological data via data portals Xth SCAR International Biology Symposium, Sapporo, Japan, July 26-31, 2009, 2009 (Ref: 13857)
Authors:
Watts D.Danis B.
Category 3: Conference paper

To support the work programs of EBA, existing information on taxonomy, species distribution, genetic data etc needs to be readily accessible to solve the broader questions of the Antarctic community. By aggregating core data in portals, users can discover patterns…

'The first practical Soviet steps towards getting a foothold in the Antarctic': the Soviet Antarctic whaling flotilla Slava> Polar Record, 2009 (Ref: 13955)
Authors:
Gan I.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

After World War II (WWII), the USSR acquired a whaling flotilla as war reparations from the Germans. This event was the beginning of Soviet whaling in the Antarctic.

Soviet Antarctic plans after the International Geophysical Year: changes in policy Polar Record, 2009 (Ref: 13965)
Authors:
Gan I.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

The final months of the International Geophysical Year of 1957–1958 were a period when the political … and scientific future of the Antarctic was being shaped, with many of the participating countries reassessing their … policies regarding the South Polar region.

Report on workshop on the future Australian-Japanese Antarctic research cooperation Antarctic Record (Nankyoku Shiryo), 2008 (Ref: 13644)
Authors:
Kawaguchi S.Shiraishi K.
Category 3: Conference paper

A workshop on future Australian-Japanese Antarctic cooperation was held on 12 June 2008 to exchange scientific information and to initiate a dialog to explore the way forward to further enhance and strengthen collaboration in Antarctic science between the two nations.

Position analysis: climate change, sea-level rise and extreme events: impacts and adaptation issues ACE CRC, Hobart, Australia, 2008 (Ref: 13568)
Authors:
Sandford R.Hunter J.Allison I.
Category 6: Report

Ultraviolet protective mechanisms in the survival of Antarctic Ceratodon purpureus and two other Antarctic bryophytes Bachelor of Biotechnology Advanced (Honours), University of Wollongong, Australia, 2008 (Ref: 13639)
Authors:
Waterman M.
Category 3: Thesis, higher degree

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