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In January 2005, members of a Chinese expedition team … were the first humans to visit Dome A on the Antarctic plateau, a site … predicted to be one of the very best astronomical sites on earth. In 2006, the Chinese Center for Antarctic Astronomy (CCAA)…
PLATO is a fully-robotic observatory designed for operation … in Antarctica. It generates its own electricity (about 1kW), heat … (sufficient to keep two 10-foot shipping containers comfortably above … 0◦C when the outside temperature is at −70◦C)…
The ground layer turbulence at Dome C is the cause for more than 90% of the total turbulence column. While the height … of this layer has been currently measured to be approximately 30m, no long term statistics is available from this part of … the atmosphere.
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…
ABSTRACT. The PLATeau Observatory (PLATO) is an automated self-powered astrophysical observatory that … was deployed to Dome A, the highest point on the Antarctic plateau, in 2008 January.
Many parasitic Apicomplexa, such as Plasmodium falciparum, contain an unpigmented chloroplast remnant termed the … apicoplast, which is a target for malaria treatment. However, no close relative of apicomplexans with a functional … photosynthetic plastid has yet been described.
Remote acoustic moorings can be used to investigate baleen whales at vastly different temporal and spatial scales. On one end of the spectrum…
Recent data have shown that Dome C, on the Antarctic plateau, is an exceptional site for astronomy, with atmospheric conditions superior to those at any existing mid-latitude site. Dome C, however, may not be the best site on the Antarctic plateau for every kind of astronomy.
Profiling the ground layer turbulence for daytime seeing applications using an array of photodiodes has been documented … in literature, in particular by Beckers who coined the term “SHABAR” for the instrument, short for Shadow Band … Ranger.
The Gattini cameras are two site testing instruments for the measurement of optical sky brightness, large area cloud … cover and auroral detection of the night sky above the high altitude Dome C site in Antarctica. The cameras have been in … operation since January 2006.
The MarClim project was a four year multi-partner funded project created to investigate the effects of climatic warming on marine biodiversity. In particular the project aimed to use intertidal species, whose abundances had been shown to fluctuate with changes in climatic conditions…
The oxygen isotopic record obtained from Globigerina bulloides, Globorotalia inflata, and Neogloboquadrina pachyderma … (s.) was analysed for 5 sediment traps moored in the Southern Ocean and Southwest Pacific. The traps extend from Subtropical … to the Polar Frontal environments…
The efficient sound carrying properties of the ocean and the vocal nature of many marine … mammals provide an excellent means to monitor these often difficult to study animals.
We present water column profiles of excess particulate Ba (Baxs, an estimate of biogenic Ba from total particulate Ba … after small corrections for lithogenic Ba) along a transect in the Australian sector of the Southern Ocean from the … Subantarctic Zone (SAZ) to the Sea Ice Zone during spring…
The seasonal variation in the foraging behaviour of king penguins Aptenodytes patagonicus was studied at Heard Island (53°05S, 73°30E) during 1992/93. On seven occasions throughout the breeding cycle…
Abstract Mixing models are used to determine diets … where the number of prey items are greater than one, however, the limitation of the linear mixing method is … the lack of a unique solution when the number of potential … sources is greater than the number (n) of isotopic … signatures +1.