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1. Geology of possible runway sites in the Davis region, Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica [ANARE-98]
From the abstract of the referenced publication: Five possible runway sites have been proposed within 4 km of Davis on the northwestern part of Broad Peninsula, Vestfold Hills. Most are on on thin, ...


2. Rates of depletion of lubricant and fuel contaminants from Antarctic regions during natural attenuation and remediation procedures [ASAC_2915]   CHILD DIFs   PARENT DIF
Metadata record for data expected from ASAC Project 2915 See the link below for public details on this project. Petroleum contamination poses a major threat to Antarctic and subantarctic ecosystems ...


3. Gravity data collected from the Australian Antarctic Territory and subantarctic between 1967 and 1986 [GRAVITY_LD_WL_1967_1986_CSV]
Gravity data collected from the Australian Antarctic Territory and subantarctic between 1967 and 1986. Data are mostly from the Casey region. The download file contains a large number of csv files, ...


4. Copies of field and lab books associated with ASAC project 1163 - Remediation of petroleum contaminants in the Antarctic and subantarctic [ASAC_1163_field_lab_books]
These are the electronic scanned copies of the lab and field books used for ASAC (AAS) project 1163 (Remediation of petroleum contaminants in the Antarctic and subantarctic) between 1999 and 2012. ...


5. Amery Ice Shelf - hot water drill borehole, 2005-06 - AM03 [ASAC_1164_AM03]   CHILD DIFs
Amery Ice Shelf AM03 borehole drilled mid-December 2005. Sub-shelf water profiling measurements conducted over a period of a few days. Partial video recording of borehole walls and sea floor benthos. ...


6. Amery Ice Shelf - hot water drill borehole, 2005-06 - AM03 - video footage [ASAC_1164_AM03_video]   PARENT DIF
Amery Ice Shelf AM03 borehole drilled mid-December 2005. Sub-shelf water profiling measurements conducted over a period of a few days. Partial video recording of borehole walls and sea floor benthos. ...


7. Amery Ice Shelf - hot water drill borehole, 2005-06 - AM04 [ASAC_1164_AM04]   CHILD DIFs   PARENT DIF
Amery Ice Shelf AM04 borehole drilled mid-January 2006. Sub-shelf water profiling measurements conducted over a period of a few days. Partial video recording of borehole walls and sea floor benthos. ...


8. Amery Ice Shelf - hot water drill borehole, 2005-06 - AM04 - video footage [ASAC_1164_AM04_video]   PARENT DIF
Amery Ice Shelf AM04 borehole drilled mid-January 2006. Sub-shelf water profiling measurements conducted over a period of a few days. Partial video recording of borehole walls and sea floor benthos. ...


9. Amery Ice Shelf - hot water drill borehole, 2009-11 - AM05 [ASAC_1164_AM05]   CHILD DIFs   PARENT DIF
Amery Ice Shelf AM05 borehole drilled mid-December 2009. Sub-shelf water profiling measurements conducted over a period of a few days. Partial video recording of borehole walls and sea floor benthos. ...


10. Amery Ice Shelf - hot water drill borehole, 2010-11 - AM06 [ASAC_1164_AM06]   CHILD DIFs   PARENT DIF
Amery Ice Shelf AM06 borehole drilled early January 2010. Sub-shelf water profiling measurements conducted over a period of a few days. Partial video recording of borehole walls and sea floor benthos. ...


11. Polenet East: An International Seismological Network for East Antarctica [NSF-ANT08-38973]
The high elevations of East Antarctica are critical in localizing the initial Cenozoic glaciation and stabilizing it with respect to melting during warm interglacials. However, the geological history ...


12. The Australian Antarctic Geodetic Network [AAGN]
The Australian Antarctic Geodetic Network (AAGN) consists of geodetic positions (latitudes and longitudes) of permanent survey marks on stable rock. The positions are computed from a network of older ...


13. Survey Report - Australian Antarctic Territory MacRobertson Land Control Station Summaries - Horizontal and vertical control stations visited by B.A. Murphy during the 1978-79 summer season [survey_1978-79_MacRobertson]
Survey Report - Australian Antarctic Territory MacRobertson Land Control Station Summaries - Horizontal and vertical control stations visited by B.A. Murphy during the 1978-79 summer season. The ...


14. Survey Report - Casey Station, Antarctica, 1978 - by Peter Quinn [survey_1978_Casey]
Survey report for Casey Station, 1978, by Peter Quinn. Taken from the survey report: Purpose: - To provide survey expertise for the Glaciology Traverses south of Casey. - To do survey work for the ...


15. Survey Report - Casey Station, Antarctica, 1979 - by JC Sutton [survey_1979_Casey]
Survey report for Casey Station, 1979, by the wintering senior technical officer, JC Sutton. Taken from the survey report: Purpose: - Provision of site details for proposed building program - Extension ...


16. Survey Report - Casey Station, Antarctica, 1982 - by RW Goldsworthy [survey_1982_Casey]
Survey report for Casey Station, 1982, by the wintering technical officer, RW Goldsworthy. Taken from the survey report: To provide survey and navigation support for the Glaciology program. To ...


17. Survey Report - Casey Station, Antarctica, 1983 - by Peter James [survey_1983_Casey]
Survey report for Casey Station, 1983, by wintering technical officer Peter James. Taken from the survey report: Summer Program A detailed program of measurements was made on the Vanderford Glacier, ...


18. Survey Report - Casey Station, Antarctica, 1984 - by James Clarke [survey_1984_Casey]
Survey report for Casey Station, 1984, by the wintering technical officer, James Clarke. Taken from the survey report: To provide survey and navigation support for the International Antarctic Glaciological ...


19. Survey Report - Casey Station, Antarctica, 1985 - by G.B. Lawrence [survey_1985_Casey]
Survey report for Casey Station, 1985, by wintering technical officer G.B. Lawrence. Taken from the survey report: Projected Summer Program It is proposed to accurately survey the bedrock in the ...


20. Antarctic wide seafloor geomorphology [ant_seafloor_geomorph]
Publicly available bathymetry and geophysical data can be used to map geomorphic features of the Antarctic continental margin and adjoining ocean basins at scales of 1:1-5 million. These data can ...


21. Geological Observations of Heard Island - 1948 [Heard_Geology_1948]
Taken from the scanned dataset: 1) Summary - Some observations on the geomorphology have been recorded. - Xenolithic ejectamenta collected from the tuffs of Rogers Head and Rogers Head Peninsula ...


22. Tellurometer Readings in Enderby Land, 1976 and 1978 [enderby_tellurometer_1978]
Tellurometer readings were taken over a series of sites in Enderby Land in 1976, and then remeasured in 1978. Temperature, barometric pressure and relative humidity readings were also taken at most ...


23. Testing a Kerguelen Plateau hotspot trace hypothesis [ASAC_3043]
Metadata record for data from AAS (ASAC) project 3043. Public McDonald Island is the southern end of a line of submerged islands (seamounts) evenly spaced, similar to the Hawaiian chain. Here, the ...


24. Survey report 2010/11 summer season Geoscience Australia Authors - Ryan Ruddick, Sam Griffiths and Nicholas Brown / Geoscience [survey_2010-11]
Executive Summary from the report: Geoscience Australia's involvement in Antarctica has primarily been focused on the maintenance and enhancement of geodetic infrastructure within the Australian Antarctic ...


25. Kerguelen-Heard Island region - Mapping Under Sea Geomorphology [Kerg_Heard_Plateau_Under_Sea_Geomorphology]
The geomorphology was digitised using contours derived from the DEM created by Dr. R. Beaman from James Cook University for Geoscience Australia. The data, the metadata record and the report related ...


26. A CD snapshot of Heard Island data from 1901-2002 held by the AADC [Heard_data_snapshot_1901-2002]
The CD was produced by the Australian Antarctic Data Centre for distribution to Heard Island expeditioners in the 2003/2004 season. The CD contained all publicly available data held by the Australian ...


27. Tectonic, magmatic and hydrothermal evolution of ocean floor spreading at Macquarie Island [ASAC_1318]
Macquarie Island offers a rare land-based cross-section through the deep ocean floor, which covers 60% of our Earth. It formed 11 million years ago as slow spreading crust, which has had minimal study ...


28. Report from the 1985 ANARE expedition to Heard Island [Heard_Island_Report_1985]
Report of the 1985 A.N.A.R.E to Heard Island. This document contains the following scientific reports: Zoology - elephant seals, fur seals, General Zoology - leopard seals, fish, insects, birds; Botany ...


29. IPY Research: Investigating the Cryospheric Evolution of the Central Antarctic Plate (ICECAP) [blankenship_0733025]
This is the master metadata record for the ICECAP project, a four-year International Polar Year campaign to map the morphology, geology and glaciology of the major marine subglacial basins of East ...


30. Cape Denison Geological Sampling - 2010-2011 [AAS_3289]
Two samples were collected at Cape Denison (Permit no. ATEP 10-11-3289), both by Dr David Tingay (2010 - 2011 Mawson's Huts Foundation Expedition). Both samples were cleaned with water prior to RTA ...


31. The strength of the lower continental crust; evidence from the Stillwell Hills-Oygarden Group Coastline. [ASAC_1150]
The nature of the data were lithological and structural geological mapping, in addition to the collection of relevant geological specimens. The quality of the data collected ranges from detailed form ...


32. AAD publications database [AAD_Publications]
This database is a catalogue for the list of publications held by the Australian Antarctic Division. The database is available online at the URL given below. In some cases, pdf downloads are available, ...


33. GIS analysis, biological samples (soil microorganism, invertebrate and plant), automatic weather station data and vegetation and invertebrate surveys to determine the terrestrial biocomplexity of the McMurdo Dry Valleys [K020_2008_2012_NZ_1]
The McMurdo Dry Valleys are the largest area of snow-free land in Antarctica. Managers ability to promote and protect these areas would benefit if we knew the biodiversity present and what controls ...


34. The geological evolution of the Mawson Coast/Framnes Mountains [ASAC_177]
Metadata record for data from ASAC Project 177 See the link below for public details on this project. From the abstracts of some of the referenced papers: The high-grade metamorphic rocks of the ...


35. Casey EPH Fuel Tank Supply Line Leak - Soil samples for TPH analysis [IHIS2684]
The dataset contains a list of the location of sixteen soil samples taken from the vicinity of the Casey EPH fuel tank on the 13/02/2012 and 20/03/2012. Soil samples were taken for Total Petroleum ...


36. Southern Ocean geomorphology spatial data layers [ANTABIF_Geomorphology]
This set of GIS shapefiles describe seafloor geomorphic features mapped from bathymetric analysis, with features cross-checked from available seismic lines. The mapping is based on GEBCO contours, ...


37. International Polar Year Historical Data and Literature [G02201]
The International Polar Year Historical Data and Literature collection (formerly known as the Discovery and Access of Historic Literature from the IPYs (DAHLI) project) is an online data collection ...


38. Macquarie Island nitrogen dioxide [MACQ_NO2]
Slant column densities of stratospheric nitrogen dioxide (NO2) determined from spectroscopic measurements of zenith scattered twilight at wavelengths from 430-485 nanometres. These data are provided ...


39. Accessory mineral behaviour during partial melting in the crust - improving the geochronology of granulite terrains. [ASAC_2690]
Metadata record for data expected ASAC Project 2690 See the link below for public details on this project. Relating ages, determined using the decay of radioactive elements in minerals, to geological ...


40. Absolute gravity measurements [GSI_ABSOLUT_GRAVITY_ANT]
The IAGBN aims to distribute gravity points worldwide and construct a network on which gravity observation is based. There are two kinds of points: A is a point set up in regions with stable crustal ...


41. Continuous GPS observation [GSI_GPS_SYO]
The 36th JARE (1994) set up an IGS point (SYOG) inside Syowa Station, from which observation data is transmitted to Japan daily. IGS does not have many observation ...


42. Fluctuation survey of exposed rock area [GSI_FLUCT_EXROCK_ANT]
The objective of fluctuation survey on exposed rock area is to detect fluctuations of the ice sheet and post-glacial rebound in the area. As the observation ...


43. Geographical Survey Institute (GSI) Control Point Data for the Japan Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE) [GSI_JARE_CONTROLPOINT]
This data set is the results of control point surveys conducted by GSI in the eastern Dronning Maud Land. About 360 ground control points have been established since 1957. Most of their coordinates ...


44. Geographical Survey Institute (GSI) Geomagnetic Data for the Japan Antarctic Research Expedition [GSI_JARE_GEOMAGNETIC]
As of the 47th JARE (2005), we have accumulated a total of 1,757 geomagnetic observation data items excluding aeromagnetic survey information on geographical positions by virtue of research on exposed ...


45. Geographical Survey Institute (GSI) Gravity Data for the Japan Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE) [GSI_JARE_GRAVITY]
This data set is the results of gravity surveys conducted by GSI at the gravity points in the eastern Dronning Maud Land using Sintrex gravimeter/LaCoste Lomberg gravimeter.


46. Leveling Data [GSI_LEVELING_ANT]
All leveling was conducted in conformity with first-order leveling.


47. Radio Aurora Records at Syowa Station [NICT_AURORAL_RADAR]
Radio auroral echoe observed with auroral radar at Syowa Station.


48. Bacterial numbers in year five of SRE4 experiment by most probable number count [SRE4_hydrocarbondegrading_MPN_2006]   PARENT DIF
Most probable number counts of bacteria in sediment samples from the Sediment Recruitment Experiment 4. Samples were taken immediately after the collection of sediment, after the addition of the oils ...


49. Hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria in SRE4 experiment by most probable number count [SRE4_hydrocarbondegrading_MPN_2001]   PARENT DIF
Most probable number counts of bacteria in sediment samples from the Sediment Recruitment Experiment 4. Samples were taken immediately after the collection of sediment, after the addition of the oils ...


50. Acitve source digital seismic waveforms by SEAL exploration, East Antarctica [NIPR_GEO_SEIS_SEAL_MIZUHO]
Digital seismic waveforms by active source surveys on Mizuho Plateau, East Antarctica. All the data are available from network library system (POLARIS) in NIPR.


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