Metadata record for data expected from ASAC Project 2915
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Petroleum contamination poses a major threat to Antarctic and subantarctic ecosystems ...
These data relate to the Max Easton Honours project, carried out at Macquarie University in 2010, supervised by Simon George THE LONG-TERM DEGRADATION OF LUBRICANT OIL IN ANTARCTIC MARINE SEDIMENTS. ...
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 ...
Metadata record for data from ASAC Project 867
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Dataset
Sea-ice bacteria data are associated with ASAC_1012 and included there
Data for bacteria ...
Exopolysaccharide (EPS) is complex sugar made by many microbes in the Antarctic marine environment. This project seeks to understand the ecological role of microbial EPS in the Southern Ocean, where ...
Metadata record for data from ASAC Project 869
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Dataset included are for the characterisation of methanotrophs from saline lakes of the Vestfold ...
Researchers studied persistent organohalogen contaminants (POCs) in the eastern Antarctic sector. Samples were collected during January and February 2006 and originated from 12 sampling stations. ...
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The lakes and fjords of the Vestfold Hills region of Antarctica provide unique ecosystems for studying environmental changes in Antarctica over the past 8000 ...
The data set includes imformation relevant for the study and description of sea-ice bacteria contains the following dataset subgroups and is organised by REFERENCE number.
1) Isolation data: strain ...
Data Acquisition:
Sampling was performed on seawater collected from CTDs and minicosm experiments. Sampling involved the collection of 250 mL of seawater from each Niskin bottle and minicosm ...
Antarctic sediments and sea-ice are important regulators in global biogeochemical and atmospheric cycles. These ecosystems contain a diverse range of bacteria whose biogeochemical roles remains largely ...
During the 2005-2006 austral summer, an extensive field season was conducted at the MPH site. Soil from the contaminated site was sampled at regular intervals over the course of the summer and an ...
As a direct result of the 1989-90 trip as part of ASAC 245, a sample of petrol used by Scott on his ill-fated expedition to the South Pole was obtained. This petrol sample was supplied by the late ...
