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Amery Ice Shelf - hot water drill borehole, 2005-06 - AM04

Entry ID: ASAC_1164_AM04

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Summary

Abstract: 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.
Collection of targetted ice core samples. Sediment sample collected from sea floor. Long term monitoring instruments installed (thermistors in ice, 3 x CTD in ocean cavity).

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Related URL

Link: VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE

Description: Public information for ASAC project 1164

Link: VIEW RELATED INFORMATION

Description: Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset

Geographic Coverage

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Spatial coordinates

	N: -69.89	S: -69.9	E: 70.3	W: 70.29
Min Altitude: 72.1 M

Parent DIF

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ASAC_1164

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 2006-01-10

Location Keywords

CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > Amery Ice Shelf

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

Science Keywords

OCEANS > BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY > WATER DEPTH

OCEANS > MARINE SEDIMENTS

ISO Topic Category

BIOTA

OCEANS

Platform

SHIPS

Instrument

TRAWL

Project

OBIS > OCEAN BIOGEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM

IPY > INTERNATIONAL POLAR YEAR

Quality During the second half of the cruise the use of the conical nets were discontinued. This cruise provides data from the first of six cruises, which provides a good coverage of the area over varying seasons and conditions.

Data collection: Three net types were used for the collection of species; rectangular midwater trawl (RMT8), bongo nets, and conical nets. Routine ...

Access Constraints The data and documentation are available for download from the URLs given below. Data also published to GBIF, OBIS and SCAR-MarBIN.

Use Constraints This data set conforms to the PICCCBY Attribution License
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at the URL below when using these data.

Ancillary Keywords

FIBEX

zooplankton

Data Set Progress

COMPLETE

Originating Center

AAD

Data Center

Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia

Data Center URL: http://data.aad.gov.au

Data Center Personnel
Name: DATA OFFICER AADC Phone: +61 3 6232 3244 Fax: +61 3 6232 3351 Email: metadata at aad.gov.au Contact Address: Australian Antarctic Division 203 Channel Highway City: Kingston Province or State: Tasmania Postal Code: 7050 Country: Australia

Distribution

Distribution Media: HTTP

Distribution Size: 88 kb

Distribution Format: excel

Fees: free

Distribution Media: HTTP

Distribution Size: 13 MB

Distribution Format: pdf

Fees: free

Personnel

GRAHAM HOSIE

Role: INVESTIGATOR

Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT

Role: DIF AUTHOR

Phone: +61 3 6232 3364

Fax: +61 3 6232 3158

Email: graham.hosie at aad.gov.au

Contact Address:

Australian Antarctic Division

203 Channel Highway

City: Kingston

Province or State: Tasmania

Postal Code: 7050

Country: Australia

Publications/References

Williams R. et al. (1983) FIBEX cruise zooplankton data. Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition Research Notes 7

Creation and Review Dates

DIF Creation Date: 1999-10-07

Last DIF Revision Date: 2009-02-27

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