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Sensitivity of the present-day climate to freshwater forcing associated with Antarctic sea ice loss Journal of Climate, 2008 (Ref: 13750)
Authors:
Aiken C.M.England M.H.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

The role played by Southern Hemisphere sea ice in the global climate system is explored using an earth … system climate model of intermediate complexity.

10Be studies in snow and ice from Arctic and Antarctic at monthly and annual resolution spanning the last 70 years 11th International Conference on Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Rome, Italy, 13-19 September 2008, 2008 (Ref: 13701)
Authors:
Smith A.M.Simon K.Pedro J.Fink D.Curran M.van Ommen T.
Category 3: Abstract

New high-resolution records of dustiness over recent centuries from Greenland and Antarctic ice cores Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2008 (Ref: 13698)
Authors:
McConnell J.R.Aristarain A.J.Curran M.A.J.Thomas E.R.Banta J.R.Edwards R.
Category 3: Abstract

Archived in glaciers and ice sheets are long term records … of dustiness. Dust impacts Earth’s radiative forcing directly by … modifying the radiation budget and affecting cloud nucleation … and optical properties, and indirectly through ocean … fertilization which alters carbon sequestration.

E-region decameter-scale plasma waves observed by the dual TIGER HF radars Proceedings of the SuperDARN 2008 Workshop, Newcastle, Australia, 1 - 6 June 2008, 2008 (Ref: 13781)
Authors:
Carter B.A.Makarevich R.A.
Category 3: Conference paper

The dual Tasman International Geospace Environment Radar (TIGER) HF radars regularly … observe E-region echoes at sub-auroral magnetic latitudes 58°-60°S including during … geomagnetic storms.

SuperDARN observations of high-velocity E-region echoes from the eastward auroral electrojet Proceedings of the SuperDARN 2008 Workshop, Newcastle, Australia, 1 - 6 June 2008, 2008 (Ref: 13780)
Authors:
Makarevich R.A.
Category 3: Conference paper

A statistical analysis of short-range E-region echoes observed by the SuperDARN HF radars in … the evening sector (16-22 MLT) over 3 years near the solar cycle peak is presented. Significant … populations of the high-velocity (350-450 m/s)…

E-region irregularities observed by the TIGER HF radars during geomagnetic storms Eos Trans. AGU, Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting Supplement, 2008 (Ref: 13777)
Authors:
Carter B.A.Makarevich R.A.
Category 3: Conference paper

AB: We investigate the storm-time E-region backscatter observed by the … Tasman International Geospace Environment Radar (TIGER) HF radars. In … the afternoon sector during the negative geomagnetic storm phase…

Thermospheric winds and temperatures above Mawson, Antarctica, observed with an all-sky imaging, Fabry-Perot spectrometer Eos Trans. AGU, Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting Supplement, 2008 (Ref: 13776)
Authors:
Anderson C.Conde M.Dyson P.Davies T.Kosch M.J.
Category 3: Conference paper

A new all-sky imaging Fabry-Perot spectrometer has been installed at … Mawson station (67°36' S, 62°52' E), Antarctica. This instrument is capable … of recording independent spectra from many tens of locations across the sky … simultaneously. Useful operation began in March 2007…

Radio, satellite and optical multipoint observations of the magnetosphere-ionosphere system (Invited) Eos Trans. AGU, Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting Supplement, 2008 (Ref: 13775)
Authors:
Dyson P.L.
Category 3: Conference paper

: SuperDARN (SuperDual Auroral Radar Network) provides multi-point … observations of ionospheric flows over both southern and northern … hemisphere auroral regions and similarly GPS TEC and tomography … observations provide images of structures in the ionosphere and … plasmasphere.

Local scale numerical modelling of high latitude thermospheric dynamics: neutral wind response Eos Trans. AGU, Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting Supplement, 2008 (Ref: 13774)
Authors:
Cooper S.Conde M.Dyson P.L.
Category 3: Conference paper

A simplified three dimensional, time-dependant model of a small region … of Earth's thermosphere is being developed to investigate dynamical … processes over spatial scales of less than 100 km. Because hydrostatic … equilibrium is not enforced in the model…

Gattini: a multisite campaign for the measurement of sky brightness in Antarctica Proceedings of SPIE 7012, 7012261-10, 2008 (Ref: 13766)
Authors:
Moore A.Allen G.Aristidi E.Ashley M.Bedding T.Beichman C.Briguglio R.Busso M.and 41 others
Category 3: Conference paper

We present the Gattini project: a multisite campaign to measure the optical sky properties above the two high altitude … Antarctic astronomical sites of Dome C and Dome A. The Gattini-DomeC project, part of the IRAIT site testing … campaign and ongoing since January 2006…

On observations of meteor trail diffusion using VHF radar 2008 Workshop on Applications of Radio Science proceedings, Australian National Committee for Radio Science, ISBN-0-9580476-1-8, 2008 (Ref: 13727)
Authors:
Younger J.Reid I.Vincent R.
Category 3: Conference paper

The diffusion of meteor trails has recently been exploited to estimate temperatures in the 80-100 km region of … the atmosphere. More recent modeling work suggests that meteoric dust laid down by the trails themselves will … affect the diffusion of the trails.

Adaptive optics sky coverage for Dome C telescopes Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2008 (Ref: 13755)
Authors:
Lawrence J.S.Ashley M.C.B.Storey J.W.V.Jolissaint L.Travouillon T.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

The unique atmospheric characteristics found at Dome C on the Antarctic plateau offer significant … advantages for the operation of adaptive optics systems.

Blood fatty acids indicate inter- and intra-annual variation in the diet of Adélie penguins: Comparison with stomach content and stable isotope analysis Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 2008 (Ref: 13745)
Authors:
Tierney M.Nichols P.D.Wheatley K.E.Hindell M.A.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Adélie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) diet is an important indicator of prevailing environmental conditions and … resource availability. In this study, dietary variation within and between years was studied with fatty acid … signature analysis (FASA), stomach content analysis (SCA)…

Analysis of Australian fur seal diet by pyrosequencing prey DNA in faeces Molecular Ecology, 2009 (Ref: 13726)
Authors:
Deagle B.E.Kirkwood R.Jarman S.N.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

DNA-based techniques have proven useful for defining trophic links in a variety of … ecosystems and recently developed sequencing technologies provide new opportunities … for dietary studies. We investigated the diet of Australian fur seals (Arctocephalus pusillus … doriferus)…

Estimation of effective sample size for catch-at-age and catch-at-length data using simulated data from the Dirichlet-multinominal distribution CCAMLR Science, 2008 (Ref: 13704)
Authors:
Candy S.G.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Evaluating and using stable-isotope analysis to infer diet composition and foraging ecology of Adélie penguins Pygoscelis adeliae Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2008 (Ref: 13308)
Authors:
Tierney M.Southwell C.Emmerson L.M.Hindell M.A.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

We investigated whether diet composition determined from stable-isotope analysis … (SIA) was similar to that determined from stomach content analysis for Ad¨¦lie penguins Pygoscelis … adeliae.

Stability of Antarctic Bottom Water formation to freshwater fluxes and implications for global climate Journal of Climate, 2008 (Ref: 13446)
Authors:
Trevena J.Sijp W.P.England M.H.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

The stability of Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) to freshwater (FW) perturbations is investigated in a … coupled climate model of intermediate complexity. It is found that AABW is stable to surface freshwater … fluxes greater in volume and rate to those that permanently “shut down”…

Pseudogenes and DNA-based diet analyses: a cautionary tale from a relatively well sampled predator-prey system Bulletin of Entomological Research, 2008 (Ref: 13350)
Authors:
Dunshea G.Barros N.B.Wells R.S.Gales N.J.Hindell M.A.Jarman S.N.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Mitochondrial ribosomal DNA is commonly used in DNA-based dietary … analyses. In such studies, these sequences are generally assumed to be the … only version present in DNA of the organism of interest. However…

Detectability of penguins in aerial surveys over the pack-ice off Antarctica Wildlife Research, 2008 (Ref: 13475)
Authors:
Southwell C.Paxton C.G.M.Borchers D.L.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Knowledge of penguin abundance at regional and circumpolar scales across the Southern Ocean is important … for the development of ecosystem models and to estimate prey consumption by penguins to assess potential competition … with fisheries’ operations.

ULF wave propagation in near-Earth space: Initial results from a 3-D ideal MHD simulation Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting, Cairns, Australia 29/07-01/08/2008, 2008 (Ref: 13686)
Authors:
Green D.L.Waters C.L.Sciffer M.D.
Category 3: Poster

A new ENSO proxy from the Law Dome ice core SCAR/IASC IPY Open Science Conference, St. Petersburg, Russia, July 8-11 2008. Abstract Volume, 2008 (Ref: 13646)
Authors:
van Ommen T.D.Curran M.A.J.
Category 3: Abstract

Ice cores provide a suite of proxy variables which respond to potentially complex and non-linear interactions between … many climatic and environmental variables. This complexity can obscure identification of links between ice core … measurements and classical climate variables.

Ice shelf disintegration by plate bending and hydro-fracture: Satellite observations and model results of the 2008 Wilkins ice shelf break-ups Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2009 (Ref: 13659)
Authors:
Scambos T.Fricker H.A.Liu C-C.Bohlander J.Fastook J.Sargent A.Massom R.Wu A-M.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Satellite remote sensing observations of three break-up events in 2008 for the Wilkins Ice Shelf (28 February … to 6 March, 27 May to 31 May, and 28 June to mid-July) provide unprecedented detail of ice shelf calving … during rapid break-up.

Accumulation of DNA damage in Antarctic mosses: correlations with ultraviolet-B radiation, temperature and turf water content vary among species Global Change Biology, 2009 (Ref: 13636)
Authors:
Turnbull J.D.Robinson S.A.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

The susceptibility of three East Antarctic moss species to UV-B radiation was examined by measuring accumulation of cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers under natural sunlight during the austral summer season of 2002/03.

Scaling laws of marine predator search behaviour Nature, 2008 (Ref: 13629)
Authors:
Sims D.W.Southall E.J.Humphries N.E.Hays G.C.Bradshaw C.J.A.Pitchford J.W.James A.Ahmed M.Z.Brierley A.S.Hindell M.A.Morritt D.Musyl M.K.Righton D.Shepard E.L.C.Wearmouth V.J.Wilson R.P.Witt M.J.Metcalfe J.D.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Anomalous lithosphere beneath the Proterozoic of western and central Australia: A record of continental collision and intraplate deformation? Precambrian Research, 2008 (Ref: 13637)
Authors:
Fishwick S.Reading A.M.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

A newsurfacewave seismic tomography model of Australia is presented which provides a means of investigating … the lithospheric structure beneath the Proterozoic regions in the west, north and centre of the … continent with improved resolution and reliability.

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