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1. Riggbased measurements of currents, temperature and salinity at Filchner plume, Weddelhavet, 2009 [IMR_4]
Measure current, temperature and salinity structures at Filchner plume, Weddelhavet


2. Shipbased measurements of hyrdrography, currents and turbulense at Filcher plume, Weddelhavet 2009 [IMR_5]
Measure turbulense structures and mixing at Filcher overflow plume. Weddelhavet. Measurements are done in 2009


3. Distributions and diversities of viruses and bacteria in the Larsen A in the Anatarctic Weddell Sea [KPDC_DDVBLA_AWS_2012_1]
The collapse of the Larsen A Ice Shelve at the eastern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula occurred in 1995. However, no information is available on the spatial distributions of abundances and compositions ...


4. Trace metal distribution of the Antarctic Peninsula in the Weddell Sea [ECA054]
Dissolved trace metals (Ag, Al, Cd, Co, Cu, Fe, Ni, Pb, and Zn), inorganic nutrients (PO4, H4SiO4), and chlorophyll a were measured at 19 stations along a surface water transect from the Antarctic ...


5. Trace metals in Antarctic copepods from the Weddell Sea (Antarctica) [ECA057]
The concentrations of Cd, Co, Cu, Ni, Pb and Zn were determined in the Antarctic copepods Rhincalanus gigas (Brady, 1883), Calanus propinquus (Brady, 1883), Calanoides acutus (Giesbrecht, 1902), Metridia ...


6. Antarctic Ecosystem: environmental contamination [ECA062]
Although the remote continent of Antarctica is perceived as the symbol of the last great wilderness, the human presence in the Southern Ocean and the continent began in the early 1900s for hunting, ...


7. Bootstrap Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS [NSIDC-0079]
This sea ice concentration data set was derived using measurements from the Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) on the Nimbus-7 satellite and from the Special Sensor Microwave/Imager ...


8. Climate, Drift, and Image Data from Antarctic Icebergs A22A and UK211, 2006-2007 [NSIDC-0466]
This data set includes a variety of station data from two Antarctic icebergs. In 2006, researchers installed specialized weather stations called Automated Meteorological Ice Geophysical Observing ...


9. Sea Ice Trends and Climatologies from SMMR and SSM/I-SSMIS [NSIDC-0192]
NSIDC provides a suite of value-added products to aid in investigations of the variability and trends of sea ice cover. These products provide users with information about sea ice extent, total ice-covered ...


10. 45-500 micron iron oxide major and trace element abundance [Holocene_LGM_diamict_FeOxides]
This data set contains major and trace element abundance for individual iron oxide grains extracted from glacial-marine Antarctic sediment. Fe-oxides were picked from the 45-500 micron fraction of ...


11. Marine viruses in the Southern Ocean ANTXXIV-3 Cruise Feb - Apr 2008 [Marine_Virus_ANTXXIV-3_Evans_IPY71_NL]
Samples were collected during the ANTXIV/3 cruise (February - April 2008) in the Southern Ocean on board RV Polarstern. Three transects were completed of the Greenwich Meridian, Weddell Sea and the ...


12. Free-drifting Icebergs as Proliferating Dispersion Sites of Iron Enrichment, Organic Carbon Production and Export in the Southern Ocean [NSF-ANT06-36440]
Atmospheric warming has been associated with retreating glaciers, disintegrating ice shelves, and the increasing prevalence of icebergs in the Southern Ocean over the last decade. Our preliminary ...


13. Free-Drifting Icebergs as Proliferating Dispersion Sites of Iron Enrichment, Organic Carbon Production and Export in the Southern Ocean [NSF-ANT06-36543]
Atmospheric warming has been associated with retreating glaciers, disintegrating ice shelves, and the increasing prevalence of icebergs in the Southern Ocean over the last decade. Our preliminary ...


14. Free-Drifting Icebergs as Proliferating Dispersion Sites of Iron Enrichment, Organic Carbon Production and Export in the Southern Ocean [NSF-ANT06-36723]
Atmospheric warming has been associated with retreating glaciers, disintegrating ice shelves, and the increasing prevalence of icebergs in the Southern Ocean over the last decade. Our preliminary ...


15. Free-drifting Icebergs as Proliferating Dispersion Sites of Iron Enrichment, Organic Carbon Production and Export in the Southern Ocean [NSF-ANT06-36730]
Atmospheric warming has been associated with retreating glaciers, disintegrating ice shelves, and the increasing prevalence of icebergs in the Southern Ocean over the last decade. Our preliminary ...


16. Organic Fe Speciation in the Southern Ocean [Organic_Fe_speciation_Antarctic_Gerringa_IPY35_NL]
Objectives The distribution and biological availability of Fe is strongly controlled by its physical-chemical speciation within seawater, ...


17. Brine flow through sea ice [ASAC_1060]
Metadata record for data from ASAC Project 1060 See the link below for public details on this project. Taken from the referenced publications: Sea ice exhibits a marked ...


18. R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer NBP0902 - Free drifting icebergs: Influence of floating islands on pelagic ecosystems in the Weddell Sea [NBP0902]   PARENT DIF
The NSF-supported research icebreaker Nathaniel B. Palmer operates year-round in support of the U.S. Antarctic Program, carrying out global change studies in biological, chemical, physical, and oceanographic ...


19. Atmospheric Boundary Layer Measurements on the Weddell Sea Drifting Station [NSF-ANT90-24544]
Location: Ice camp on perennial sea ice in the southwestern corner of the Weddell Sea, Antarctic The first direct radiative and turbulent surface flux measurements ever made over floating Antarctic ...


20. Radiocarbon ages of sterols and of total organic carbon from Weddell Sea and Gerlache Strait sediments [Seds_14C_compound_classes_TOC]
Sterols in a core from the Schollaert Drift, Gerlache Strait, Antarctica can be used successfully to determine the ages of sediment horizons. It has, however, not been possible to extend ...


21. Radiometric Age Validation of the Patagonian and Antarctic Toothfishes [NSF_Award_0232000]
The Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) is one of the dominant fishes in the Antarctic belonging to the family Nototheniidae, the Antarctic cods. Age estimates from otolith growth zone ...


22. R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer NBP0806 - Free drifting icebergs: Influence of floating islands on pelagic ecosystems in the Weddell Sea [NBP0806]   PARENT DIF
The NSF-supported research icebreaker Nathaniel B. Palmer operates year-round in support of the U.S. Antarctic Program, carrying out global change studies in biological, chemical, physical, and oceanographic ...


23. Collaborative Research: Paleohistory of the Larsen Ice Shelf System: Phase II [Larsen_Phase-II]
The data set consists of: -Single channel Chirp seismic profiles of seafloor -Multibeam swath bathymetry -Sediment core samples (selected) -Bottom photographs and video ...


24. Weddell Polynya Modeling [Wedell_Polynya_Modeling]
Research Activities: In this project a coupled sea-ice ocean numerical model was developed for the purpose of studying the formation mechanism for a large, aperiodic anomaly occurring ...


25. R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer NBP0207 - Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic Reconstructions of the Southwest Pacific [NBP0207]   PARENT DIF
The NSF-supported research icebreaker Nathaniel B. Palmer operates year-round in support of the U.S. Antarctic Program, carrying out global change studies in biological, chemical, physical, and oceanographic ...


26. Increasing levels and biomagnification of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in Antarctic biota [ECA037]
This dataset evidences that two benthic fish species (Gobionotothen gibberifrons, Chaenocephalus aceratus) feeding on benthos invertebrates and fish reflected significantly increasing concentrations ...


27. R/V Laurence M. Gould LMG0514A - Free drifting icebergs: Influence of floating islands on pelagic ecosystems in the Weddell Sea. [LMG0514A]   PARENT DIF
The NSF-supported research icebreaker Laurence M. Gould operates year-round in support of the U.S. Antarctic Program, carrying out global change studies in biological, chemical, physical, and oceanographic ...


28. R/V Laurence M. Gould LMG0502 - Paleohistory of the Larsen Ice Shelf: Phase III [LMG0502]   PARENT DIF
The NSF-supported research icebreaker Laurence M. Gould operates year-round in support of the U.S. Antarctic Program, carrying out global change studies in biological, chemical, physical, and oceanographic ...


29. R/V Laurence M. Gould LMG0304 - Structure, Function, and Expression of Tubulins, Globins, and Microtubule-Dependent Motors from Cold-Adapted Antarctic Fishes [LMG0304]   PARENT DIF
The NSF-supported research icebreaker Laurence M. Gould operates year-round in support of the U.S. Antarctic Program, carrying out global change studies in biological, chemical, physical, and oceanographic ...


30. SCAR Marine Biodiversity Information Network [SCAR-MarBIN]   CHILD DIFs
SCAR-MarBIN (SCAR Marine Biodiversity Information Network) establishes and supports a distributed system of interoperable databases, forming the Antarctic Regional OBIS Node, under the ...


31. U.S./Chinese Ship of Opportunity Sampling Program Phase II [NSF-ANT02-30284]
This work is the continuation of a joint project with the Polar Research Institute of China to make measurements of the structure of the upper ocean in the northern Weddell Sea along the route taken ...


32. Dissolved Al in the Southern Ocean [Dissolved_Al_Antarctic_Middag_IPY35_NL]
Sampling and Analytical Methodology: Samples were taken using 24 internally Teflon-coated PVC 12 litre GO-FLO Samplers (General Oceanics Inc.) mounted on an all-titanium ...


33. Dissolved Mn in the Southern Ocean [Dissolved_Mn_Antarctic_Middag_IPY35_NL]
Sampling and Analytical Methodology: Samples were taken using 24 internally Teflon-coated PVC 12 litre GO-FLO Samplers (General Oceanics Inc.) mounted on an all-titanium frame (De Baar ...


34. Study of Southern Ocean Biota - Ecology of Benthic and Pelagic Antarctic Marine Animals [RU_RIHMI-WDC_394]
This dataset describes some aspects of the study of the Southern ocean biota (ecology of benthic and pelagic antarctic marine animals) and first of all the collection of the Zoological Institute RAN ...


35. CTD and Moored Current Meter and Hydrographic Measurements in the Southern Weddell Sea [ROPEX-98]
This data set consists of data from ~120 CTD profiles collected over the southern Weddell Sea during the ROPEX-98 cruise on HMS Endurance, ...


36. Past Environmental Conditions on the Antarctic Peninsula: a Palynological Characterization of In-situ Sediments recovered during the 2006 SHALDRIL campaign [NSF-ANT06-36747]
This project studies microfossils of plants and algae to understand climate during the earliest glaciations of Antarctica. The microfossils are from marine sediment cores collected by the 2006 SHALDRIL ...


37. Collaborative Research: Paleohistory of the Larsen Ice Shelf System: Phase II [NSF-ANT03-38220]
The Larsen Ice Shelf is the third largest ice shelf in Antarctica and has continued a pattern of catastrophic decay since the mid 1990's. The proposed marine geologic work at the Larsen Ice Shelf ...


38. Collaborative Research: Plankton Community Structure and Iron Distribution in the Southern Drake Passage and Scotia Sea [NSF-ANT04-44040]
The Shackleton Fracture Zone (SFZ) in Drake Passage of the Southern Ocean defines a boundary between low and high phytoplankton waters. Low chlorophyll water flowing through the southern Drake Passage ...


39. New Porifera from the ANDEEP II and III expeditions [scarmarbin_1542]   PARENT DIF
New species and new occurrences of Polymastiidae and Suberitidae (Demospongiae) and Hexactinellida from the deep Weddell Sea, published or in press.


40. CLIMate change in ANTarctica: A pelagic-benthic coupling approach to the extremes of the Weddell Sea (CLIMANT) [CNDP-ESP_CLIMANT_POL2006-06399]
In English: Sediment from the Western and the Eastern Antarctic Peninsula is analyzed in order to know its grain size and organic matter content. Fresh and degraded pigments (Chla, Chlb, Chlc and ...


41. Collaborative Research: Plankton Community Structure and Iron Distribution on in the Southern Drake Passage and Scotia Sea [NSF-ANT04-43403]
The Shackleton Fracture Zone (SFZ) in Drake Passage of the Southern Ocean defines a boundary between low and high phytoplankton waters. Low chlorophyll water flowing through the southern Drake Passage ...


42. Museum Victoria Mammalogy data via OZCAM [OBIS_OZCAM_MV_Mammalogy]   PARENT DIF
This data source pertains to Museum Victoria's Mammalogy Collection. Museum Victoria, Australia's largest public museums organisation, is the State Museum for Victoria (Australia), responsible ...


43. Raw data of XBT and XCTD data of CHINARE-15 (Dec. 1998-Feb. 1999) [1998-1999_15-15_S_OC_OC02_LO_O066201_000_R0_Y]
XBT and XCTD probes were droped along a section north of the Weddell Sea, Antarctica, to measure temperatures and salinities at the upper ocean (above 1000m), during the austral summer of 1998/1999.


44. Raw data of XBT and XCTD data of CHINARE-16 (Dec. 1999-Feb. 2000) [1999-2000_16-16_S_OC_OC02_LO_O066201_000_R0_Y]
XBT and XCTD probes were droped along a section north of the Weddell Sea, Antarctica, to measure temperatures and salinities at the upper ocean (above 1000m), during the austral summer of 1999/2000.


45. ANTXXIII-8 Birds and Mammals Observations [SCAR-MarBIN] [scarmarbin_ANTXXIII8TP]   PARENT DIF
This dataset is a compilation of observation recorded by Henri Robert (Royal Belgian Instiute of Natural Sciences) and Gauthier Chapelle (International Polar Foundation) during the ANTXXIII-8 ...


46. Museum Victoria Ichthyology data via OZCAM [OBIS_OZCAM_MV_Ichthyology]   PARENT DIF
This data source pertains to Museum Victoria's Ichthyology Collection which comprises bony fish, cartilagenous fish and lancelets. Museum Victoria, Australia's largest public museums organisation, ...


47. Museum Victoria Marine Invertebrates data via OZCAM [OBIS_OZCAM_MV_MarineInvertebrates]   PARENT DIF
This data source pertains to Museum Victoria's Marine Biology collections which comprise invertebrate (non insect) taxa. Museum Victoria, Australia's largest public museums organisation, ...


48. Museum Victoria Ornithology data via OZCAM [OBIS_OZCAM_MV_Ornithology]   PARENT DIF
This data source pertains to Museum Victoria's Ornithology Collection. Museum Victoria, Australia's largest public museums organisation, is the State Museum for Victoria (Australia), responsible ...


49. South Australian Museum Mammalogy data via OZCAM [OBIS_OZCAM_SAM_Mammalogy]   PARENT DIF
This data source pertains to the South Australian Museum's Mammalogy Collection. The South Australian Museum is a custodian for the State's cultural and natural heritage. The specialised ...


50. South Australian Museum marine faunal data via OZCAM [OBIS_OZCAM_SAM]   CHILD DIFs   PARENT DIF
The South Australian Museum is a custodian for the State's cultural and natural heritage. The specialised data generated by collection managers, curators and scientists over the last 150 ...


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