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Determining the extent of weathering of spilled fuel in contaminated soil using the diastereomers of pristane and phytane Organic Geochemistry, 2007 (Ref: 13313)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

A method is described for determining the relative extent of weathering in moderately biodegraded, hydrocarboncontaminated … soils from Antarctica. Plotting the pristane diastereomer ratio (PrDR) vs. pristane/phytane (Pr/Ph) allows … the relative extent of weathering…

Vessel collisions with small cetaceans worldwide and with large whales in the Southern Hemisphere, an initial assessment Latin American Journal of Aquatic Mammals, 2007 (Ref: 13319)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

ABSTRACT: Collisions with vessels are a well-documented conservation problem for some populations of large whales (LW) in the Northern Hemisphere. Less attention has been given to incidents in the Southern Hemisphere or to small cetaceans … (SC) worldwide…

Summary factsheets for bioregionalisation of the Southern Ocean - examples from the Indian Ocean Sector (Area 58) CCAMLR Workshop on Bioregionalisation. Brussels, Belgium, August 2007, 2007 (Ref: 13126)
Category 2: International meeting papers

Factsheets outlining the physical and biological attributes of selected sectors of the CCAMLR … convention area are presented. An overview of CCAMLR Area 58 (Indian Ocean Sector) illustrates … bathymetry and major oceanographic features (fronts and sea ice extent)…

A von Bertalanffy growth model for toothfish at Heard Island fitted to length-at-age data and compared to observed growth from mark-recapture studies CCAMLR Science, 2007 (Ref: 13168)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Length-at-age data for Patagonian toothfi sh (Dissostichus eleginoides) at Heard Island … (Division 58.5.2) were fi tted using a von Bertalanffy (VB) growth model taking into … account response-biased sampling of fi sh that were aged. Subsampling of random lengthfrequency … (LF)…

Long term trends in tides in the lower thermosphere above Antarctica IUGG XXIV 2007, Perugia, Italy July 2-13, 2007, 2007 (Ref: 13000)
Category 3: Abstract

Radar observations of the winds above the Antarctic coast have been … underway since 1968 using meteor (Molodezhnaya, 45.9E, 67.75) and MF … (Mawson 62.9E 67.65, Davis 78.0E, 68.65) radars. Comparisons between … concurrent observations from Moldezhnaya and Mawson…

Comparing King, Gentoo, and Royal Penguin responses to pedestrian visitation The Journal of Wildlife Management, 2007 (Ref: 13262)
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Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

For wildlife managers, determining inter-species differences in the behavioral responses of seabirds to visitation can allow … greater efficacy of visitor guidelines. Two key management outcomes for such information include 1)…

Experimental evaluation of a new ground-based survey method for estimating the density and abundance of nesting Adélie penguins Pygoscelis adeliae Polar Biology, 2007 (Ref: 13261)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

A new ground-based technique for estimating … the density of nesting Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) within occupied habitat is described and evaluated using an … experimental approach with model penguins. In this set-up…

Southern Ocean atmospheric chemistry signals since the LGM as recorded in the coastal Law Dome ice core: Comparisons with the inland Dome C ice core record XVII INQUA Congress 2007, Cairns, 28 July - 3 August 2007, 2007 (Ref: 13254)
Category 3: Conference paper

Law Dome is situated in East Antarctica, and is a relatively high elevation … coastal site, with an ice core record spanning approximately 80,000 years. It … receives high snow accumulation and is situated on the most northerly … coastline in Antarctica (apart from the tip of the Peninsula)…

The role of the global electric circuit in solar and internal forcing of clouds and climate Advances in Space Research, 2007 (Ref: 13259)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Reports of a variety of short-term meteorological responses to changes in the global electric circuit associated with a set of disparate … inputs are analyzed. The meteorological responses consist of changes in cloud cover, atmospheric temperature, pressure, or dynamics.

Planetary waves and intraseasonal oscillations at Davis, Antarctica, from undersampled time series Journal of Geophysical Research, 2007 (Ref: 13258)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

[1] Nine years (1997 to 2005) of nighttime hydroxyl (6-2) band rotational temperatures … were measured with a scanning spectrometer over Davis station, Antarctica (68.6S, 78.0E). A novel time series analysis technique is employed to create continuous longterm … time series…

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