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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…
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…
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)…
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)…
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…
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)…
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…
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)…
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.
[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…