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1. IPY-100 - Polar Field Stations and IPY History: Culture, Heritage, Governance (1882-Present) [GB-NERC-BAS-PDC-00471]
Field stations have been through one of the most salient and tangible features of IPYs since 1882-83 and through to the coming IPY 2007-08. Field stations, and the scientific expeditions that created ...


2. GRADES-QWAD: Quaternary West Antarctic Deglaciations [GB-NERC-BAS-AEDC-00521]
Current predictions of sea level rise do not correctly quantify contributions from Antarctica. Some sectors of the Antarctic ice sheet are showing considerable rates of change; are these changes a ...


3. IPY-246_01 - ABACUS - Plant Growth and Allocation [GB-NERC-BAS-PDC-00476]
The aim of WP1 is to understand how plant growth and C allocation drive C dynamics at the community level and how this relates to plant N status and site fertility.It therefore focuses on testing ...


4. Compendium of Environmental Sustainability Indicator Collections: Complete Collection, Version 1.1 [CIESIN_SEDAC_CESIC_COMPLETE_V11]
The Compendium of Environmental Sustainability Indicator Collections contains 426 indicators for 239 countries from five major environmental sustainability indicator efforts: the 2006 Environmental ...


5. Survey Information of Casey and Surrounding Areas 1965-1968 [casey_survey_info_1965_1968]
A compilation of survey information from the surveys carried out at and around Casey/Wilkes station area between 1965 and 1968. Includes plotted maps, photocopies of aeriel photography in the area, ...


6. Reduction in mortality of seabirds in longline fisheries - 2008 Line Shooter Header Data [ASAC_2295_2008]
This research was a manipulative experiment on a chartered fishing vessel that was chartered to control the confounding effects. Future users of the data should be familiar with the associated published ...


7. Seabird conservation in the Antarctic toothfish longline fishery - results and time-depth recorder data [ASAC_2295_TDR]
This research was a manipulative experiment on an autoline toothfish vessel in the Ross Sea testing the effect of a line shooter on the sink rate of autolines. The vessel was production fishing during ...


8. Geographic variations in underwater male Weddell seal Trills suggest breeding area fidelity [ASAC_1132-2]
Adult Weddell seals (Leptonychotes weddellii) exhibit site fidelity to where they first breed but juveniles, and perhaps transient adult males, may disperse from their natal location. If there is ...


9. Margin Migration of Siple Dome Ice Streams [Truffer0086997]
In this modeling project, we attempted to explain the large velocity gradients observed across the margins of Whillans Ice Stream. Using measured topography and ice temperatures, we concluded ...


10. Permian-Triassic Strata for Southern Victoria Land, Antarctica [0440919]
The data set consist of rocks samples, stratigraphic columns, and paleocurrent data. This project studies fossils from two to three hundred million year old rocks in the Allan Hills ...


11. Southern giant petrels AAT [sgp_census_a]
The data set is a compilation of all available information on counts of Southern giant petrel populations at three locations in the Australian Antarctic Territory (specifically the Frazier Islands, ...


12. SOMBASE - Southern Ocean Mollusc Database [GB-NERC-BAS-AEDC-00068]
Understanding where organisms live and why they live there is the key aim of ecology. SOMBASE is a tool for looking at marine molluscs in the seas around Antarctica. Using a database and the latest ...


13. Coastal Gulf of Alaska LTOP standard station locations [std_stations_LTOP_CGOA]
Coastal Gulf of Alaska LTOP standard station latitude and longitude locations for the following regions: Seward Line, Fairfield Line, Prince William Sound and Montague Strait, Hinchenbrook Entrance, ...


14. Study of alimentary and reproductive aspects of the Antarctic and South Georgia shags: identification of utility parameters to monitor environmental changes in littoral Antarctic ecosystems. [CDA_AR-STUDYOFALIMENTARYANDREPRODUCTIVEASPECTSOFANTARCTICANDSOUTHGEOR]
ENGLISH: Shags are of utility in monitoring programmes. Argentina developed a methodology for the analysis of the diet of the Antarctic Shag, which is useful to monitor changes in fish ...


15. Atlas Cove Terrestrial Photos - historic ANARE Base [atlas_cove_photos]
Photographs and photo locations of the historic Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition (ANARE) base at Atlas Cove on Heard Island. The station was established 11 December 1947 and was ...


16. GPS surveying to obtain ice flow velocities for the southern McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica, 2002-2005. [K114_2002_2003_NZ_1]   PARENT DIF
In the 2002/03 field season (event K114), 34 marker poles were established in a 2.5 km-spaced grid over the southern McMurdo Ice Shelf (SMIS), and these were positioned using differential ...


17. Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) surveys of a an ice rise on the southern McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica. [K065_2004_2005_NZ]
A topographic rise was observed on satellite imagery and ground traverses of the southern McMurdo Ice Shelf, part way between the SW tip of Black Island and the north shore of Minna Bluff was investigated ...


18. Geodetic (data) survey marks for a geodetic referencing system in the Ross Sea Region: Scott Base GPS continuous tracking station [K150_2004_2008_NZ_1]
A number of survey stations are in use in the Ross Sea Region by both the USAP and NZAP. All of the survey stations have been visited to connect and unify all current survey datums in use in the area ...


19. Ocean Biogeographic Information System - Spatial Ecological Analysis of Megavertebrate Populations (OBIS-SEAMAP) [OBIS-SEAMAP]   CHILD DIFs
The Spatial Ecological Analysis of Marine Megavertebrate Populations (SEAMAP) initiative, a node of the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), has developed a digital database of geo-referenced ...


20. Biological Investigations of Marine Antarctic Systems and Stocks (BIOMASS) Programme [seamap75]   PARENT DIF
The Biological Investigations of Marine Antarctic Systems and Stocks (BIOMASS) Programme was established in the late 1970's for the study of the Antarctic marine ecosystem and its living resources ...


21. Continuous GPS (static) data from Ross Ice Shelf near its iceberg calving front [macayeal_cont_GPS_Ross_Ice_Shelf_0229546]   PARENT DIF
In November, 2005, three geodetic GPS receivers were deployed on the Ross Ice Shelf near its ice front to observe short-term fluctuations in ice-shelf velocity (associated with tidal forcing and other ...


22. GPS survey of 11 points for the David Glacier and its Drygalski Ice Tongue [GPS_David_Glacier]
Drygalski Ice Tongue is the largest ice tongue in Ross Sea. It is 70 kilometers long (43.4 miles) and 20 kilometers wide (12.4 miles) and drains David Glacier. This ice tongue is large enough to show ...


23. SMRU Southern Elephant Seal pup telemetry from Macquarie Island, 1995-1996 [seamap70]   PARENT DIF
The Ocean Biogeographic Information System - Spatial Ecological Analysis of Megavertabrate Populations (OBIS-SEAMAP) is a spatially referenced database of data related to marine mammals, birds and ...


24. UK Royal Navy Marine Mammal Observations [seamap64]   PARENT DIF
This dataset is of unclassified incidental sightings of cetaceans from UK Royal Navy ships. The dataset is global in coverage.


25. Geodetic GPS framing network for deformations control in the Terra Nova Bay Area [GPS_network_at_TNB]
In the frame of the IV Italian expedition in Antarctica (1988/89) a GPS geodetic network has been established in an area 2000 Km2 wide and close to the Terra Nova Bay station. The network was partially ...


26. Scotia Arc GPS Project (SCARP) 1997-2002 [UNAVCO_SCARP]
The SCARP (Scotia Arc GPS Project) data set consists of daily raw and RINEX format GPS files from field campaign observations at sites in the Antarctic Peninsula and southern South America between ...


27. Archaeological Prospection of the Peninsula of Fildes [IDN_NOD_AMD_UY_ARCH_2006]
Responsible: Dr Antonio Lezama, Lic. Virginia Pereira, Bach. Ezequiel Fern?ndez. The present project raises the accomplishment of an archaeological investigation in the Peninsula of Fildes. The low ...


28. Italian GPS permanent station in Antarctica (Terra Nova Bay - Victoria Land) [permanent_GPS_station_at_TNB]
In the framework of the GPS geodetic network in Terra Nova Bay, the network reference station (0100) coordinates were determined with high precision in WGS84 - ITRF system through the data processing ...


29. GPS strain net in Dome C area aimed at a detailed investigation of the ice flow. [GPSstrainNetworkDomeC]
In the framework of the European Science Foundation Project, named EPICA (Europea Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica) an international plan for deep ice coring drilling in Antarctica was established, ...


30. Geodetic GPS detail network established in 1990-91 for the study of deformation control of Mount Melbourne volcano, Victoria Land. [GPS_melbourne_network_in_1990]
Geodetic GPS network established in 1990-91 for the study of deformation control of Mount Melbourne volcano, Victoria Land. The network, composed of 8 points, has been surveyed four times: 1990-91, ...


31. Kinematic double frequency GPS and RES (Radio Echo Sounding) surveys in the Dome C area [Dome_C_kinematic]
During the 1993 Dome Concordia Frech-Italian Antarctic Campaign, a first kinematic GPS survey was performed by means of two geodetic L1 frequency Trimble 4000SE GPS receivers. A Kinematic GPS and ...


32. Victoria Land Network for DEFormation control (VLNDEF) aimed at the crustal deformation detection materialized and surveyed during the 1999-2000 Italian antarctic Expedition [GPS_Victoria_Land_network]
In the framework of VLNDEF Programme (Victoria Land DEFormation control) aimed at the crustal deformation detection in the Victoria Land area, the main field activity was materialization and surveying ...


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