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Aliens in Antarctica: Assessing transfer of plant propagules by human visitors to reduce invasion risk. Biological Conservation, 2014 (Ref: 15166)
Authors:
Huiskes A.H.L.Gremmen N.J.M.Bergstrom D.M.Frenot Y.Hughes K.A.Imura S.Kiefer K.Lebouvier M.Lee J.E.Tsujimoto M.Ware C.Van De Vijver B.Chown S.L.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Global Muon Detector Network – GMDN and the Space Situational Awareness Conference Abstracts, Cospar 2010, 38th Scientific Assembly, 18-25 July 2010, Bremen, Germany, Paper, 2010 (Ref: 14192)
Authors:
Schuch N.J.Munakata K.Dal Lago A.Echer E.Gonzalez W.D.Da Silva M.R.Rigozo N.R.Petry A.Pinheiro D.K.Braga C.R.Silveira M.V.D.Stekel T.R.C.Antunes C.E.Kemmerlich N.Kato C.Fushishita A.Fujii Z.Bieber J.Evenson P.Kuwubara T.Duldig M.L.Humble J.E.Chilingarian A.Sabbah I.Jansen F.
Category 3: Abstract

Space weather forecasting is a very important tool for the space situational awareness to the space objects, the space environment and related threats and risks for manned and non-manned spacecrafts. The global network of ground based multi-directional detectors (GMDN)…

The Antarctic Treaty System and wildlife health: Disease awareness, prevention and response Health of Antarctic Wildlife: A Challenge for Science and POlicy, 2009 (Ref: 13913)
Authors:
Riddle M.J.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

A technique for the identification and analysis of icebergs in synthetic aperture radar images of Antarctica. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 1999 (Ref: 9027)
Authors:
Williams R.N.Rees W.G.Young N.W.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

This paper describes an image analysis technique developed to identify icebergs depicted in synthetic aperture radar images of Antarctica, and to determine the outlines of these icebergs. The technique uses a pixel bonding process to delineate the edges of the icebergs.

Toward a large telescope facility for submm/FIR astronomy at Dome C Proceedings of SPIE 7012, 2008 (Ref: 13769)
Authors:
Durand G.A.Minier V.Lagage P.I.Daddi E.El Khouloudi S.Schneider-Bontemps N.Talvard M.Veyssiere C.Durand G.A.Walter C.Sabbatini L.Challita Z.Storey J.W.V.Calisse P.Pierre A.Busso M.
Category 3: Conference paper

Submillimetre astronomy is the prime technique to unveil the birth and early evolution of stars and galaxies in the local … and distant Universe.

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)…

The Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels: rationale, history, progress and the way forward Marine Ornithology, 2006 (Ref: 13335)
Authors:
Cooper J.Baker G.B.Double M.C.Gales R.Papworth W.Tasker M.L.Waugh S.M.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

The Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP) is a newly-constituted international treaty that as yet may be little … known to marine ornithologists around the world. We outline the rationale for the existence of the Agreement, the history of its development…

A large array of telescopes in Antarctica with all-sky imaging every 5 seconds Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes, Proceedings of SPIE, 2006 (Ref: 12900)
Authors:
York D.G.Wang L.Pennypacker C.Cui X.Cappellaro E.Blouke M.Lamb D.Storey J.Malina R.Ashley M.C.B.Basa S.Zhou X.Hu J.Yuan X.Harper D.Sandford D.Lawrence J.Thorburn J.
Category 3: Conference paper

We describe a large-angle survey for fast, optical transients: gamma ray bursts (GRBs), supernovae (SNe), lensed and … transiting planets, AGNs and serendipitously found objects.

A High Performance Digital Radar for Extended Space Weather Investigations Australian Institute of Physics (AIP) 17th Congress, Refereed Paper 48, Brisbane, 4-8 December 2006, 2006 (Ref: 13048)
Authors:
Whittington J.S.Devlin J.C.
Category 3: Conference paper

This paper outlines work at La Trobe University on the development of a “fully digital” radar for space weather … investigations. The new radar will enhance the existing Tasman International Geospace Environment Radar … (TIGER) that probes beyond the horizon…

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…

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]…

Seasonal occurrence of low frequency whale vocalisations across eastern Antarctic and southern Australian waters, February 2004 to February 2007 2007 meeting of the International Whaling Commission-Scientific Committee, Paper SC/59/SH5, 2007 (Ref: 12944)
Authors:
Gedamke J.Gales N.Hildebrand J.Wiggins S.
Category 2: International meeting papers

Long term acoustic records of underwater sound can be used to assess the timing of migrations, peak periods of … relative abundance, and seasonality and overlap of different species’ presence over large spatial scales.

Short note: Some software developments within the Australian Antarctic Division. WG-EMM-02-68. CCAMLR Scientific Abstracts, 2002., 2002 (Ref: 11035)
Authors:
Ball I.R.Constable A.J.
Category 3: Abstract

Phytoplankton distribution and abundance off east Antarctica, as determined by CHEMTAX analysis of HPLC pigment data (BROKE survey, January - March 1996). ANARE Research Notes, 2000 (Ref: 9992)
Authors:
Wright S.W.van den Enden R.L.
Category 3: Article

The depth distributions of eight groups of phytoplankton were determined along eight north-south transects between longitudes 80„aE and 150„aE, from 63„aS to the sea ice edge or beyond.

Phytoplankton community structure and stocks in the East Antarctic marginal ice zone (BROKE survey, Jan - Mar 1996) determined by CHEMTAX analysis of HPLC pigment signatures. Deep-Sea Research Part II, 2000 (Ref: 9378)
Authors:
Wright S.W.van den Enden R.L.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

The distribution and abundance of phytoplankton communities off east Antarctica were surveyed using CHEMTAX analysis of HPLC pigment profiles, supplemented by microscopy. Eight north--south transects … were surveyed between 80°E and 150°E, from approximately 63°S to the sea-ice, during Jan.--Mar.

Changes in floe size distribution in the Weddell Sea during November-December 2004. Abstracts of the SCAR Open Science Conference, Hobart, 12-14 July 2006., 2006 (Ref: 12560)
Authors:
Worby A.P.Steer A.Heil P.
Category 3: Abstract

The Ice Station Polarstern (ISPOL) was a drifting ice station experiment in the western … Weddell Sea during November and December 2004.

The Antarctic Biodiversity Database. VIII SCAR International Biology Symposium 'Antarctic Biology in a Global Context' 27th August - 1st September 2001, The Netherlands, 2001 (Ref: 10197)
Authors:
Belbin L.Watts D.J.
Category 3: Conference paper

The international Antarctic science community collects an amazing amount of information about wildlife. Traditionally, this information has gone into field notebooks and more recently, software such as Excel®.

The effect of receiver firmware upgrades on GPS vertical timeseries. Cahiers du Centre Européen de Géodynamique et de Séismologie, 2004 (Ref: 12078)
Authors:
Tregoning P.Morgan P.J.Coleman R.
Category 3: Conference paper

Until recently, the IGS network of global tracking sites was predominently populated y Rogue/Turborogue GPS receivers. Firmware used in these receivers was found to perform poorly during periods of high ionospheric disturbances and, during 1999/2000…

Davis and Casey magnetic field data – an Australian Antarctic Division review. ANARE Reports, 2001 (Ref: 10057)
Authors:
Roberts P.J.Burns G.B.Morris R.J.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Digital magnetometer data have been collected from Davis (68.58°S, 78.0°E) since 16 February 1988 and from Casey (66.28°S, 110.5°E) since 17 January 1989. The processing of the variometer data from Casey has been transferred to the Australian Geological Survey Organisation (AGSO)…

Dynamics of the polar cap ionosphere. Part 1. Applications of digisonde animations in ionospheric research. ANARE Reports, 2001 (Ref: 10044)
Authors:
Breed A.M.Maddern T.M.Dyson P.L.Morris R.J.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

A UMLCAR ( University of Massachusetts Lowell, Centre for Atmospheric Research) Digital Ionosonde (DPS-4) has operated at the Australian Antarctic polar cap station Casey (80.8oS geomagnetic latitude) since early 1993, primarily to study the dynamics of the southern polar cap ionosphere.

AFOS: Probing the UV-visible potential of the Antarctic Plateau. SPIE, 2004 (Ref: 11902)
Authors:
Dempsey J.T.Storey J.W.V.Ashley M.C.B.Burton M.G.Calisse P.G.Jarnyk M.
Category 3: Conference paper

The Antarctic Fibre-Optic Spectrometer (AFOS) is a 30cm Newtonian optical telescope that injects light through … six 30m long optical ¯bres onto a 240¡850nm spectrograph with a 1024 x 256 pixel CCD camera.

Estimating the breeding populations of black-browed, grey-headed and wandering albatrosses at South Georgia using boat-based digital photography. Third International Albatross and Petrel Conference, 23-27 August 2004, Montevideo, Uruguay., 2004 (Ref: 11664)
Authors:
Poncet S.Robertson G.Lawton K.Croxall J.P.Phillips R.Phalan B.
Category 3: Verbal presentation

South Georgia (540S; 380W) lies 350 km south of the Polar Front in the south-west Atlantic Ocean. It is a key global location for albatrosses: at the last all-island census in 1986, it was estimated that approximately 92,500 pairs of grey-headed albatrosses (most important global site), 101…

Amplicon: software for designing PCR primers on aligned DNA sequences. Bioinformatics, 2004 (Ref: 11454)
Authors:
Jarman S.N.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Life at the front: history, ecology and change on southern ocean islands. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 1999 (Ref: 8764)
Authors:
Bergstrom D.M.Chown S.L.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Terrestrial ecosystems of southern ocean islands have enjoyed renewed attention recently. Stimulated by findings that their climates are changing dramatically, outcomes include an enhanced understanding of the biogeography of this region…

Notes on the flora, vertebrate fauna and biological significance of Beaufort Island, Ross Sea, Antarctica Polarforschung, 1999 (Ref: 8736)
Authors:
Seppelt R.D.Green T.G.A.Skotnicki M.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Beaufort Island, Ross Sea, Antarctica, is a Specially Protected Area originally designated on account of, and still supporting, a small winter sea ice breeding colony of Emperor penguins, a large summer breeding colony of Adélie penguins, and several colonies of Skuas. A substantial area of moss…

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