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Holocene climate history from investigations of the glacial system, ice cores and local climate patterns from Skinner Saddle, Victoria Land Coast Antarctica

Entry ID: K049_1999_2012_NZ_10

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Summary

Abstract: To understand the drivers and consequences of climate change on timescales important to humans, the paleoclimate of ice cores, the glacial system and local climate patterns were analysed from Skinner Saddle. GPR/GPS (8, 35, 200 and 500MHz) survey was carried out to provide an image of the internal layering of the glacier and the topography of the ice-rock interface beneath. A 17m firn core was ...

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Geographic Coverage

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Spatial coordinates

	N: -80.93	S: -80.93	E: 159.28	W: 159.28
Min Altitude: 0 Max Altitude: 917.5
Min Depth: 0 Max Depth: 17

Data Set Citation

Dataset Originator/Creator: Robin M. Ross and Langdon B. Quetin

Dataset Title: 9495pal: Palmer Station Season

Dataset Release Date: 1995

Dataset Release Place: UCSB

Dataset Publisher: Palmer Station LTER

Other Citation Details: Data from the Palmer LTER data archive were supported by Office of Polar Programs, NSF (OPP-9011927)

Online Resource: http://www.icess.ucsb.edu/cgi-bin/studycatalog.cgi

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1994-10-01

Stop Date: 1995-03-31

Location Keywords

OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN

CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

Science Keywords

OCEANS > BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY > WATER DEPTH

OCEANS > OCEAN ACOUSTICS > ACOUSTIC REFLECTIVITY

ISO Topic Category

BIOTA

OCEANS

Platform

SHIPS

Instrument

CPR > Continuous Plankton Recorder

PLANKTON NETS

TRAWL

Project

IPY > INTERNATIONAL POLAR YEAR

CAML > CENSUS OF ANTARCTIC MARINE LIFE

COML > CENSUS OF MARINE LIFE

EBA > Evolution and Biodiversity in the Antarctic

Quality The Dates provided in temporal coverage are approximate only, and represent the beginning and end of the 2007 - 2009 Antarctic seasons. The latitudes and longitudes provided in spatial coverage are approximate only.

2007/2008 Season

The original work plan requested 48 days of on-site ship time and included sampling both pelagic and benthic ... environments from the Aurora Australis. It soon became evident that there was insufficient ship time to adequately support all the major marine science projects in the 2007/08 season, i.e. the SIPEX sea ice survey PN2901 and PN2767, CASO PN2973 and CEAMARC PN2792. Both CASO and CEAMARC required the same sampling period of January and February for optimal success. The Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology was invited to collaborate on CEAMARC with their vessel Umitaka Maru. Umitaka Maru conducted the sampling of plankton and fish in the pelagic and mesopelagic zones over 15 days in the survey area. Aurora Australis conducted the sampling for demersal fish and benthic organisms with 20 days allocated on site. Astrolabe joined the project providing an additional 10 days of plankton sampling to compliment the Umitaka Maru work. Complimentary oceanographic sampling was conducted on all vessels. The combined 45 days proved more effective than the original planned 48 days on one ship, which had a substantial amount of time scheduled for changing gear between benthic and pelagic equipment as well as backtracking over the same ground. Three ships also provided more berths for more scientists and international collaborators and produced a greater number of sites sampled. Spreading the work amongst three ships also allowed the CASO and CEAMARC projects to combine on one voyage providing greater synergy between the two projects.

Taken from the 2008-2009 Progress Report:
Variations to work plan or objectives:
The original work plan requested 48 days of on-site ship time and included sampling both pelagic and benthic environments from the Aurora Australis. It soon became evident that there was insufficient ship time to adequately support all the major marine science projects in the 2007/08 season, i.e. the SIPEX sea ice survey PN2901 and PN2767, CASO PN2973 and CEAMARC PN2792. Both CASO and CEAMARC required the same sampling period of January and February for optimal success. The Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology was invited to collaborate on CEAMARC with their vessel Umitaka Maru. Umitaka Maru conducted the sampling of plankton and fish in the pelagic and mesopelagic zones over 15 days in the survey area. Aurora Australis conducted the sampling for demersal fish and benthic organisms with 20 days allocated on site. Astrolabe joined the project providing an additional 10 days of plankton sampling to compliment the Umitaka Maru work. Complimentary oceanographic sampling was conducted on all vessels. The combined 45 days proved more effective than the original planned 48 days on one ship, which had a substantial amount of time scheduled for changing gear between benthic and pelagic equipment as well as backtracking over the same ground. Three ships also provided more berths for more scientists and international collaborators and produced a greater number of sites sampled. Spreading the work amongst three ships also allowed the CASO and CEAMARC projects to combine on one voyage providing greater synergy between the two projects.

Field work:
All field work for CEAMARC was completed.
Aurora Australis - 20 on-site ship days during the 42-day V3/CEAMARC CASO Voyage between 139 degrees and 145 degrees E and 67 degrees and 65 degrees 20' S. Sampling was conducted with AAD beam trawl (mounted with either video or still camera), Agassiz beam trawl, box corer the Geosciences Australia remotely operated video and CTD, with occasional samples using an epibenthic sledge. 88 sites were sampled.
Umitaka Maru - 15 on-site ship days between 140 degrees and 145 degrees E and south of 62 degrees S. Sampling was conducted at various fixed depths between the surface and 2,000 m using WP2, Norpac, and salp plankton nets, multinet, RMT1+8 midwater trawl, IYGPT midwater trawl, as well as a video plankton profiler and CTDs. This produced more than 300 plankon/fish net samples at 24 sites. 31 CTD casts were made with phytoplankton and water samples collected at set depths at each site for 264 phytoplankton samples.
L'Astrolabe - 10 on-site ship days between 140 degrees and 145 degrees 40'E and south of 65 degrees 50'S. Sampling was conducted with WP2 and bongo plankton nets, and CTD and bottles for phytoplankton. This produced 36 zooplankton samples and 112 phytoplankton samples at 20 stations.

Laboratory activity/analysis:
All demersal fish and benthic samples for taxonomic analysis were sent directly to the National Natural History Museum (MNHN) in Paris. Samples will be distributed to taxonomic experts within the museum and outwith the museum in Europe. WP2 net samples collected on Umitaka Maru, and the WP2 and bongo net samples, will be analysed at the University of Liege STARESO Marine Station, Corsica. The IYGPT fish samples from Umitaka Maru will be processed at the University of Paris VI - Zoology Station at Villefranche-sur-mer. The remaining plankton and fish samples from Umitaka Maru will be processed at TUMSAT and AAD laboratories. Processing of these samples have started at the AAD and TUMSAT in Tokyo. Whereas the samples being processed in France/Europe have only recently returned to Paris for distribution.
Identifications are required for collation of data by February 2008. Preliminary analysis of data is required by May 2008 for presentation at the CAML Symposium in Genoa Italy, and at the SCAR 10th Biology Symposium in Sapporo, July 2009. All data needs to be collated by December 2009 to meet deadlines for the international Census of Marine Life (CoML).

Access Constraints See the child records and other CAML records for access to the data.

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 http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=ASAC_2792 when using these data.

Ancillary Keywords

CAML

biodiversity

Data Set Progress

COMPLETE

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

Personnel

GRAHAM HOSIE

Role: INVESTIGATOR

Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT

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

MICHAEL STODDART

Role: INVESTIGATOR

Phone: +61 3 6226 2959

Email: michael.stoddart at utas.edu.au

Contact Address:

Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies

University of Tasmania

City: Hobart

Province or State: Tasmania

Postal Code: 7001

Country: Australia

DAVE CONNELL

Role: DIF AUTHOR

Phone: +61 3 6232 3244

Fax: +61 3 6232 3351

Email: dave.connell 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

Lindsay, D., Page F., Corbera, J., Miyake, H., Hunt, J.C., Ichikawa, T., Segawa, K., and Yoshida, H. (In Press) The anthomedusan fauna of the Japan Trench: preliminary results from in situ surveys with manned and unmanned vehicles. Plankton Biology and Ecology

Lindsay, D., Pages, F., Corbera, J., Miyake, H., Hunt, J.C., Ichikawa, T., Segawa, K., and Yoshida, H. (2008), The anthomedusan fauna of the Japan Trench: preliminary results from in situ surveys with manned and unmanned vehicles, Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 88, 8, 1519-1540

Creation and Review Dates

DIF Creation Date: 2006-07-27

Last DIF Revision Date: 2012-05-07

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