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International instruments and arrangements in the sub-Antarctic Papers and proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 2007 (Ref: 13154)
Authors:
Jackson A.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

This paper places the sub-Antarctic region in its international context by contrasting the sub-Antarctic’s geographical qualities with the region’s international legal and political characteristics.

Correlations between the satellite-derived seasonal cycles of phytoplankton biomass and aerosol optical depth in the Southern Ocean: Evidence for the influence of sea ice. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 2005 (Ref: 12268)
Authors:
Gabric A.J.Shephard J.M.Knight J.M.Jones G.Trevena A.J.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

[1] The relationship between the production of dimethylsulfide (DMS) in the upper … ocean and atmospheric sulfate aerosols has been confirmed through local shipboard … measurements, and global modeling studies alike.

A scheme for mapping Antarctic seafloor geomorphology to aid benthic bioregionalisation CCAMLR Workshop on Bioregionalisation. Brussels, Belgium, August 2007, 2007 (Ref: 13127)
Authors:
O'Brien P.E.
Category 2: International meeting papers

Publicly available bathymetry and geophysical data can be used to map geomorphic features of the … Antarctic continental margin and adjoining ocean basins at scales of 1:1-5 million.

Male krill grow fast and die young Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2007 (Ref: 13110)
Authors:
Kawaguchi S.Finley L.A.Jarman S.Candy S.G.Ross R.M.Quetin L.B.Siegel V.Trivelpiece W.Naganobu M.Nicol S.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

The size-differentiated sex ratio (proportion of males, PM) of Antarctic krill Euphausia … superba was examined with an extensive dataset derived from scientific surveys in the Indian Ocean … sector and the southwest Atlantic sector, and from the krill fishery in the Southern Ocean.

Assessing the toxic effects of dissolved copper on the Antarctic macroalga Desmarestia menziesii using chlorophyll fluorescence imaging in ecotoxicological tests Toxicological & Environmental Chemistry, 2007 (Ref: 13102)
Authors:
Runcie J.W.Riddle M.J.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Chlorophyll fluorescence was used to measure changes in the maximum fluorescence yield (F0m) and effective quantum yield (F/F0m ) of Antarctic macroalgae in response to dissolved copper.

Why do we need "DigiDARN" - a global network of digital SuperDARN radars? Proceedings of the Workshop on the Applications of Radio Science, Refereed Paper R-25, Leura, New South Wales, 15-17 February, 2006, 2006 (Ref: 13075)
Authors:
Parkinson M.L.Whittington J.S.Devlin J.C.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

The Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN) is an international network of oblique HF over-the-horizon … radars dedicated to the study of high latitude magnetosphere-ionosphere convection. In scientific terms, they have been … an outstanding success…

Penguin colonies as secondary sources of contamination with persistent organic pollutants Journal of Environmental Monitoring, 2007 (Ref: 13074)
Authors:
Roosens L.van den Brink N.Riddle M.Blust R.Neels H.Covaci A.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Although long-range atmospheric transport has been described as the predominant mechanism … for exposing polar regions to persistent organic pollutants (POPs), recent studies have suggested … that bird activity can also contribute substantially to contaminant levels in some environments. However…

Ice drift and deformation during ISPOL2004 14th AMOS Conference, 5th-7th February 2007, Adelaide, Australia, 2007 (Ref: 12886)
Authors:
Heil P.Worby A.P.Hutchings J.K.Hibler W.D.Johannessen M.Launiainen J.Haas C.
Category 3: Abstract

Sea-ice drift and deformation in the Western Weddell Sea during austra; summer of 2004 are characterised using in situ data from a meso-scale array of 24 drifting ice buoys. About 30 days of data during late November and December 2004 are available from the buoy array.

In situ measurements of the direct-current conductivity of Antarctic sea ice: implications for airborne electromagnetic sounding of sea-ice thickness Annals of Glaciology, 2006 (Ref: 12847)
Authors:
Reid J.E.Pfaffling A.Worby A.P.Bishop J.R.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Airborne, ship-borne and surface low-frequency electromagnetic (EM) methods have … become widely applied to measure sea-ice thickness. EM responses measured over sea ice depend … mainly on the sea-water conductivity and on the height of the sensor above the sea-ice–sea-water … interface…

Tardigrade remains from lake sediments Journal of Paleolimnology, 2007 (Ref: 13067)
Authors:
Cromer L.Gibson J.A.E.McInnes S.J.Agius J.T.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Remains of tardigrades have rarely been … reported to preserve in sediments, resulting in the … absence of important ecological and biogeographic … information that they could provide. However…

Estimation of thin sea-ice thickness from NOAA AVHRR data in a polynya off the Wilkes Land coast, East Antarctica Annals of Glaciology, 2006 (Ref: 12848)
Authors:
Tamura T.Ohshima K.I.Enomoto H.Tateyama K.Muto A.Ushio S.Massom R.A.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Antarctic coastal polynyas are major areas of intense ocean–atmosphere heat and moisture … flux, and associated high sea-ice production and dense-water formation. Their accurate detection, including an estimate of thin ice thickness, is therefore very important. In this paper…

Relativistic proton production during recent solar events 4th Annual Meeting, Asia Oceania Geosciences Society, Bangkok, Thailand, 31 July - 4 August 2007, 2007 (Ref: 13051)
Authors:
Bombardieri D.J.Michael K.J.Duldig M.L.Humble J.E.
Category 3: Abstract

On 20 January 2005 the sun produced the highest intensity of relativistic … solar particles observed at Earth in 50 years. The sea-level increase at Terre Adelie … (~46 X in 1 minute data) was slightly less than in 1956 (Leeds ~47 X in 15 minute … data).

The potential of blue-dyed bait to reduce seabird bycatch in pelagic longline fisheries Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels. Third Meeting of Advisory Committee, Valdivia, Chile 19-22 June 2007, 2007 (Ref: 13014)
Authors:
Cocking L.J.Milburn P.J.Brando V.Double M.C.
Category 2: International meeting papers

Blue-dyed bait is a seabird bycatch mitigation technique which is assumed to reduce the … contrast between the bait and the ocean background making baits visually cryptic to seabirds. We tested this assumption in two ways. First, using measured spectral profiles of blue-dyed … baits (fish and squid)…

ARISE (Antarctic Remote Ice Sensing Experiment) in the East: Validation of satellite-derived sea-ice data products. Abstracts of the SCAR Open Science Conference, Hobart, 12-14 July 2006., 2006 (Ref: 12501)
Authors:
Massom R.A.Worby A.P.Lytle V.Markus T.Allison I.Scambos T.Enomoto H.Tateyama K.Haran T.Comiso J.C.Pfaffling A.Tamura T.Muto A.Kanagaratnam P.Giles B.Young N.Hyland G.Michael K.Key E.
Category 3: Poster

Although satellite passive-microwave remote sensing is the main source of global sea-ice … information, the data products have never been adequately validated for East Antarctic … conditions.

Acclimation of Antarctic bottom-ice algal communities to lowered salinities during melting. Polar Biology, 2004 (Ref: 12029)
Authors:
Ryan K.G.Ralph P.McMinn A.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Sea-ice brine algal communities were exposed … to salinities between 30 and 10& during melting. There … was a progressive decline in maximum quantum yield, relative electron transfer rate (rETRmax) and photosynthetic … efficiency (a) with decreasing salinity of the final … melted sample.

Analog conversion for FPGA implementation of the TIGER transmitter using a 14 bit DAC Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Workshop on Electronic Design Test and Applications, 2004 (Ref: 13007)
Authors:
Salim T.Devlin J.Whittington J.
Category 3: Conference paper

FPGA is a potential medium for DSP implementation of direct conversion transmitters and receivers. However analog interface cannot be ruled out since amplification and other tasks are still in the analog domain. In a previous work…

Quantization effects in digital upconversion and digital beam forming for TIGER Radar System WARS04 (Workshop on the Applications of Radio Science) Proceedings, National Committee for Radio Science, Australian Academy of Science, Paper G11, 2004 (Ref: 13006)
Authors:
Salim T.Devlin J.Whittington J.
Category 3: Conference paper

Quantization is a representation of data samples with a certain number of bits per sample after rounding to a suitable … level of precision. Quantization errors in a Digital Signal Processing (DSP) system can be introduced from three … sources; one source is input quantization…

An international integrated research program in South of Brazil for observations of solar-terrestrial interactions IUGG XXIV 2007, Perugia, Italy July 2-13, 2007, 2007 (Ref: 12999)
Authors:
Schuch N.J.
Category 3: Abstract

This overview describes an international scientific cooperation between Brazil, USA and Japan, for an … integrated research program developed in south of Brazil for observations of solar-terrestrial interactions … and geospace.

Dynamical critical scaling of electric field fluctuations in the greater cusp and magnetotail implied by HF radar observations of F-region Doppler velocity Annales Geophysicae, 2006 (Ref: 13003)
Authors:
Parkinson M.L.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Akasofu’s solar wind " parameter describes the … coupling of solar wind energy to the magnetosphere and … ionosphere. Analysis of fluctuations in " using model independent … scaling techniques including the peaks of probability … density functions (PDFs)…

To determine the proportion of Australian shy albatrosses (Thalassarche cauta) killed in pelagic longline and trawl fisheries Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels. Third Meeting of Advisory Committee, Valdivia, Chile 19-22 June 2007 AC3 Inf19, 2007 (Ref: 13015)
Authors:
Double M.C.Ryan P.J.Beck N.R.Booksmythe I.
Category 2: International meeting papers

Pelagic longline and trawl fisheries are known to kill large numbers of albatrosses worldwide. However, the impact on individual species and populations has rarely been assessed, often … because many albatross species are difficult to identify. Shy albatrosses (Thalassarche … cauta)…

Developing water and sediment quality guidelines for Antarctica: The sensitivity of Antarctic marine biota to metal contaminants. Abstract of the SCAR Open Science Conference, Hobart, 12-14 July 2006., 2006 (Ref: 12645)
Authors:
King C.K.Riddle M.J.Kefford B.J.Nugegoda D.Lane A.
Category 3: Abstract

There are a range of chemical contaminants of concern in Antarctic marine environments as a … result of the activities of humans, including past waste disposal practices and accidental fuel … spills. Environmental guidelines for contaminants, including targets for contaminated site … remediation…

Optimising estimates of mesospheric neutral wind using the TIGER SuperDARN radar Advances in Space Research, 2006 (Ref: 12949)
Authors:
Matthews D.M.Parkinson M.L.Dyson P.L.Devlin J.C.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN) HF backscatter radaras scan 16 beam directions over a field of view of ~52°. In the common mode of operation, data is collected using 45-km range gates and 7-s integrations on each beam.

The Antarctic Committee for Environmental Protection: past, present, and future Polar Record, 2007 (Ref: 13002)
Authors:
Sanchez R.A.McIvor E.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

ABSTRACT. The Committee for Environmental Protection (CEP) was established under the Protocol on … Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty to advise the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM) on … matters relating to protection of the Antarctic environment.

Global Solar UV Index: Australian Measurements, Forecasts and Comparison with the UK Photochemistry and Photobiology, 2004 (Ref: 12990)
Authors:
Gies P.Roy C.Javorniczky J.Henderson S.Lemus-Deschamps L.Driscoll C.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

The 2002 revision of the UV index (UVI) issued by the World … Health Organisation (WHO), the World Meteorological Office … (WMO), the United Nations Environment Programme … (UNEP) and the International Commission on Non-Ionizing … Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) (World Health Organization … [2002]…

Measurements of solar UVR at Australian Antarctic Stations. Conference Proceedings of NIWA UV Workshop UV Radiation and it's Effects: an update (2006), Dunedin, NZ, 19-21 April 2006, 2006 (Ref: 12368)
Authors:
Henderson S.Gies P.Javorniczky J.Roy C.Ayton J.Watzl R.Lugg D.
Category 3: Conference paper

Abstract. Changes in stratospheric ozone have a direct impact on the solar ultraviolet radiation (UVR) levels reaching the earth’s surface. A decrease in ozone leads to an increase in the biologically effective UVB radiation (280-315 nm) with potentially serious consequences for humans [Diffey…

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