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Investigation of evaporation and biodegradation of fuel spills in Antarctica: II - Extent of natural attenuation at Casey Station. Chemosphere, 2006 (Ref: 12286)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

In many temperate regions, fuel and oil spills are sometimes managed simply by allowing natural degradation to … occur, while monitoring soils and groundwater to ensure that there is no off-site migration or on-site impact.

Fertilization stimulates anaerobic fuel degradation of Antarctic soils by denitrifying microorganisms. Environmental Science and Technology, 2006 (Ref: 12284)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Human activities in the Antarctic have resulted in … hydrocarbon contamination of these fragile polar soils. Bioremediation is one of the options for remediation of these sites. However…

Antarctic polar plateau vertical electric field variations across heliocentric current sheet crossings. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 2006 (Ref: 12281)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

A superposed epoch analysis of variations of the vertical electric field measured at Vostok (78.51S, 1071E; magnetic … latitude 83.61S) during 1998–2002 heliocentric current sheet (HCS)…

Characteristics of the wind, temperature and PMSE field above Davis, Antarctica. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 2006 (Ref: 12271)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Polar Mesosphere Summer Echoes (PMSE) were detected above the high-latitude station Davis, Antarctica (68.61S) using a 55MHz atmospheric radar during the 2003–2004 austral summer. In this paper…

Unsaturated diether lipids in the psychrotrophic archaeon Halorubrum lacusprofundi. Systematic and Applied Microbiology, 2005 (Ref: 11827)
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The major phospholipids of Halorubrum lacusprofundi grown at 25 1C were archaeol phosphatidylglycerol, archaeol … phosphatidylglycerylsulphate and archaeol phosphatidylglycerylphosphate methyl ester.Glycolipids included a monoglycosyl archaeol and the sulphate ester of a diglycosyl archaeol.

Interdecadal water mass changes in the Southern Ocean between 30°E and 160°E Geophysical Research Letters, 2005 (Ref: 13293)
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Interdecadal water mass changes in the Indian -Western … Pacific sectors of the Southern Ocean were investigated … using the Japanese Antarctic Research Expeditions and … historical hydrographic observations from the 1950s to … 1990s.

Immobilisation of free-living Weddell seals Leptonychotes weddellii using midazolam and isoflurane Polar Biology, 2005 (Ref: 12594)
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Eleven lactating female Weddell seals were … immobilised using inhaled isoflurane and oxygen, having … initially been sedated using an intramuscular injection of … midazolam. The seals were selected from colonies in … Long Fjord, East Antarctica. Isoflurane was delivered … using a precision…

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