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1. Subantarctic Zone photos of sediment trap samples [SAZ_Photos]   PARENT DIF
SAZ photos of sediment trap samples Sediment traps are cones which intercept and store falling marine particles in collection cups. The particles consist of a range of material including phytoplankton, ...


2. Oceanographic data from the Environmental Impact Assessment of the Davis Sewage Outfall [DAVIS_STP_Oceanography]   PARENT DIF
Untreated, macerated wastewater effluent has been discharged to the sea at Davis Station since 2005, when the old wastewater treatment infrastructure was removed. This environmental assessment was ...


3. Environmental Impact Assessment of the Davis Sewage Outfall [DAVIS_STP]   CHILD DIFs
Untreated, macerated wastewater effluent has been discharged to the sea at Davis Station since 2005, when the old wastewater treatment infrastructure was removed. This environmental assessment was ...


4. Chemistry data from the Environmental Impact Assessment of the Davis Sewage Outfall [DAVIS_STP_Chemistry]   CHILD DIFs   PARENT DIF
Untreated, macerated wastewater effluent has been discharged to the sea at Davis Station since 2005, when the old wastewater treatment infrastructure was removed. This environmental assessment was ...


5. Particulate matter collected by sediment trap collected on the 41st Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE-41) [JP_ANTARCTIC_JARE41_SEDIMENT]
[Adapted from Antarctic Research Activities: Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition, "http://www.nipr.ac.jp/english/"] This data set pertains to particulate matter collected with sediment traps ...


6. Micrometeorites from the South Pole Water Well [NSIDC-0113]
Micrometeorites dated between 1100 A.D. to 1500 A.D. were collected from the bottom of the South Pole Water Well in December 1995. Element analyses of 181 cosmic glass spherule and micrometeorite ...


7. The biodiversity of the coastal underwater marine benthic ecosystem in the Ross Sea Region [K082_2001_2007_NZ]   CHILD DIFs
The long term research program ICECUBE (Coastal Underwater Benthic Ecosystems) provides fundamental information on the structural and functional biodiversity of Antarctic coastal benthic ecosystems. ...


8. The structural and functional diversity of the shallow-water benthic community at Cape Evans [K082_2001_2002_NZ_1]   PARENT DIF
The biodiversity of the seafloor community at Cape Evans was investigated to determine the structural and functional diversity of the benthic community and resurveyed over several seasons to assess ...


9. Oceanography and sedimentation beneath the McMurdo/Ross Ice Shelf in Windless Bight [K042_2002_2003_NZ_1]
Water flow and sedimentation beneath the McMurdo Ice Shelf south of Ross Island was investigated by using a hot water drilling system to melt access holes through the ice shelf allowing measurements ...


10. Seasonal phytodetritus deposition on the West Antarctic Peninsula Shelf [FOODBANCS_particle_flux]
Time-lapse cameras and moored sediment traps were used to record seasonal deposition of summer-bloom-derived phytodetritus on the West Antarctic Peninsula shelf. Various analyses of the ...


11. Aeolian Processes in the Dry Valleys [Aeolian_Processes_McMurdo]
This dataset contains data collected during studies of boundary layer winds and surface characteristics. These field experiments were designed to: 1. Understand and quantify the ...


12. IVARS: Interannual Variations in the Ross Sea [IVARS]
The Ross Sea, a marginal Antarctic sea south of New Zealand, has been studied since the days of the Scott/Amundsen expeditions. It is the site of extensive penguin, bird and mammal colonies, ...


13. Biogenic Particle Fluxes Measured Using Sediment Traps during the JGOFS North Atlantic Bloom Experiment (NABE) [JGOFS_NABE_SEDIMENT]
The Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS) seeks to understand the processes that control the transfer of carbon and other biologically active elements in the ocean. In addition, ...


14. Oceanic Particle Fluxes Measured Using Particle Interceptors during the JGOFS North Atlantic Bloom Experiment (NABE) [JGOFS_NABE_PITDATA]
The Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS) seeks to understand the processes that control the transfer of carbon and other biologically active elements in the ocean. In addition, ...


15. Sediment Trap Particle Flux Measured during the U.S. JGOFS Arabian Sea Process Study [USJGOFS_ARAB_SED_TRAP]
A component of U.S. Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS) is the Arabian Sea Process Study. Eleven cruises took place aboard the R/V Thomas G. Thompson for about sixteen months ...


16. Water-column Carbohydrate Percentages Measured during the JGOFS Equatorial Pacific Process Study [JGOFS_EQPAC_CARBOHYDRATES]
The Equatorial Pacific Process Study (EQPAC) was conducted along 140 deg W longitude during 1992. Four cruises took place: February 3 - March 9, March 19 - April ...


17. Glacial movement and sedimentation rate of the Mackay Glacier, Granite Harbour [K042_1982_1983_NZ_1]
Granite Harbour can be considered a 'closed basin' which collects sediment deposited from the Mackay Glacier Tongue. Study of this sedimentation system enables a more precise interpretation of the ...


18. Seafloor bathymetry and sediment sampling from the southwest corner of McMurdo Sound [K042_1982_1983_NZ_3]
A seafloor bathymetry and sediment sampling program was conducted in McMurdo Sound aboard the USGS GLACIER to take deep water samples not accessible from the sea ice, to sample off Granite Harbour ...


19. Seismic, bathymetry and piston coring transects to determine sediment movement in the Cape Royds area [K041_1986_1987_NZ_3]
Seismic, bathymetry and piston coring transects were undertaken in the Cape Royds area to determine how sediment was moving over the sea floor of this area to the 900m deep Erebus basin offshore. ...


20. The nature (speed/direction/persistence) of mud carrying bottom currents entering Granite Harbour to determine the movement of sediments entering the harbour [K042_1989_1990_NZ_2]
The movement of sediment entering Granite Harbour from the Ross Sea was investigated with the nature (speed/direction/peristence) of mud carrying bottom currents in Granite Harbour determined. The ...


21. Santa Barbara Basin Sediment Trap G. bulloides del18O and del13C Data [NOAA_NCDC_PALEO_2000-009]
Santa Barbara Basin Sediment Trap G. bulloides del18O and del13C Data The file sbbtrap-O18C13bulloides.xls contains stable isotope data (oxygen and carbon) generated on specimens of G. bulloides ...


22. Relationship of the Tetra-unsaturated C37 Alkenone to Salinity and Temperature [NOAA_NCDC_PALEO_2003-013]
Water column or sediment trap alkenone, SST, and salinity data from numerous locations around the world ocean.


23. Foraminifera SST Transfer Function Comparison [NOAA_NCDC_PALEO_1999-018]
This data set consists of modern foraminiferal fauna and SST data used to compare the Imbrie-Kipp Transfer Function with Modern Analog Temperature Estimates.


24. Palmer Station Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) R/V Polar Duke SantaClaus Cruise Data, December 1994 [LTER_PAL_PD9412]
Data was collected during the SantaClaus (Studies in Antarctica: Coupled Linkages Among microorganisms) LTER time-series R/V Polar Duke cruise. The cruise was a special-focus microbiology cruise ...


25. The Biogeochemical Ocean Flux Study (Atlantic Ocean and Southern Ocean); data on CD-ROM published by the British Oceanographic Data Centre [BODC_BOFS_CDROM]
The British Oceanographic Data Centre publishes a CD-ROM of the Biogeochemical Ocean Flux Study, which contains data from the North Atlantic Ocean and the Southern Ocean. See Parameter Keywords and ...


26. Succession guidelines in coastal benthic communities of Antarctica [CNDA-ESP_REN2000-3193-E]
In English: The campaign was developed in collaboration with the Alfred Wegener Institut of Bremerhaven, the aim was to study the marine benthos communities colonization and succession processes ...


27. PALEOCLIMATOLOGY OF QUATERNARY (CEREGE) [UMA202]
ENGLISH Studies of the climatic variations (especially of low latitude climatic (Monsoon-ENSO) dynamics in Indian and Pacific Ocean) during the last glacial cycles. The study data comes from sediment ...


28. Particulate Organic Carbon (POC) flux in the upper water column in the floating ice area in Chuckchi Sea [1999-1999_N_OC_OC03_LO_POC]
A sediment trap system (with open area 0.033 square meter) was deployed in the floating ice area of Chuckchi Sea (75N,161W) to determine the Particulate Organic Carbon (POC) and particular flux in ...


29. Seasonal Subantarctic Planktonic Foraminiferal Flux Data [NOAA_NCDC_PALEO2003-022]
Sediment trap moorings were deployed between September 1997 and February 1998 at 47S (central Subantarctic Zone), 51S (Subantarctic Front), and at 54S (Polar Frontal Zone). Moorings at 47S were redeployed ...


30. Palmer Station Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) ASRV Laurence M. Gould Annual Cruise Data, January/February 1999 [LTER_PAL_LMGR99]
Annual sampling for the seventh Palmer Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) January cruise was completed. The LTER stations were held on the Western Antarctic Peninsula LTER meoscale grid. Sampling ...


31. Palmer Station Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) R/V Polar Duke Marine Carbon Cycling Cruise Data, November 1992 [LTER_PAL_PD9209]
Data was collected during the Austral spring LTER time-series R/V Polar Duke marine carbon cycling cruise. Several independent, but complementary research objectives addressed various aspects of ...


32. Particle dynamics in the water column & in the water-sediment interface & their relationship with the ecophysiology of benthic particle feeders, Potter Cove [JCADM_CDA_DNA_BENTHO-PELAGIC]
In the present project the dynamics of particulate matter at the water-bottom interface will be studied, identifying the role of the main physical forcing factors controlling such dynamics. The relative ...


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