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Photokinetic adaptation of sea-ice algae
Metadata record for data from ASAC Project 2702 See the link below for public details on this project. Sea-ice algae are the basis of the Antarctic food web and are essential... -
Leopard and Weddell seal program - health status
Blood samples from 35 seals have been collected for serum biochemistry analysis. Scats from 20 animals have been collected for parasitology. Estimated weights and morphometric... -
Characterising the microbial interactions that drive organic sulphur cycling...
These data come from a set of experiments conducted on the coastal waters near Davis Station in January 2017. The first set of data are from a transect near the Sorsdal glacier... -
Winter diet of Gentoo penguins in South Georgia
See spreadsheets - Gentoo Experiment Details 18s Each number corresponds to each worksheet 1. Samples and Date Gentoo penguin scats were collected from Cumberland Bay, South... -
Chemical properties of marine sediments sampled during the Thala Valley Long...
This data set contains chemical parameters determined for marine sediment samples collected in the 2014-15 summer field season as part of the Thala Valley Long term Monitoring... -
Abatus Microsatellites data set
The present data set corresponds to the genotypes for seven microsatellite markers for three Antarctic sea urchin species of the genus Abatus. Sea urchin individuals were... -
Single metal toxicity to the Antarctic marine microalga Cryothecomonas armigera
This metadata record contains the results from 3 bioassays conducted with the Antarctic marine microalgae Cryothecomonas armigera (incertae sedis). These tests assessed the... -
Pelagic Polychaetes of the Southern Ocean
This dataset is a document describing the Pelagic Polychaetes of the Southern Ocean. It lists all the known species and with illustrated diagrams provides a guide to their... -
Antifreeze molecules in Nototheniid fish around Davis Station, Antarctica
A report completed as part of this project is available for download from the URL given below. Extracts of the report are presented in the metadata record. See the report for... -
Microalgal Biodiversity at Antarctica
A collection of about 20 isolates of Antarctic microalgae from the Windmill Islands region, around Casey Station has been established in the University of Malaya Algae Culture... -
Electrical conductivity of sea ice: a comparison of in-situ and laboratory...
Metadata record for data from ASAC Project 2381 See the link below for public details on this project. ---- Public Summary from Project ---- This project will compare sea ice... -
Environmental DNA metabarcoding for monitoring metazoan biodiversity in...
Our aim was to compare water and sediment as sources of environmental DNA (eDNA) to better characterise Antarctic benthic communities and further develop practical approaches... -
Oxygen and nitrogen isotopic composition of nitrate in the Antarctic...
Overview of the project and objectives: To investigate whether nitrate uptake and processes other than nitrate uptake by phytoplankton are significant and show spatial... -
A manipulative field experiment examining the effect of contaminated...
The effect of location, depth and sediment contamination on recruitment of soft-sediment assemblages were examined in a pilot experiment at Casey Station, East Antarctica. Two... -
Voyage 4 of the Aurora Australis, 2018 environmental DNA samples analysed...
In March 2018, 23 environmental DNA (eDNA) samples (2 L of filtered seawater) were collected between Hobart, Tasmania and subantarctic Macquarie Island. These samples were... -
Concentration of Trace Metals in sediment collected from the Sabrina Coast...
Trace metal concentrations are reported in micrograms per gram of sediment in core C012-PC05 (64⁰ 40.517’ S, 119⁰ 18.072’ E, water depth 3104 m). Each sediment sample... -
Carbon and Nitrogen Stable Isotopes in tissue of Antarctic Rock-cod...
Data show results of carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes in muscle tissue of Trematomus bernacchii collected at 5 sites adjacent to Casey Station. Sites are contaminated Brown... -
Iceberg rafted debris flux on the Sabrina continental slope - for A042_KC14
Ice-rafted debris is characterised by coarse material with typically angular grains, transported within icebergs and deposted in the ocean as the icebergs melt. This iceberg... -
Data for manuscript 'Ocean acidification reduces growth and grazing of...
This data set was collected from a ocean acidification minicosm experiment performed at Davis Station, Antarctica during the 2014/15 summer season. It includes: - description of... -
Studies on the wingless fly (Calycopteryx moseleyi minor. end.) at Heard Island, 1951
A scanned report and some data on scientific work carried out on a species of wingless fly on Heard Island. Taken from the report: During a years stay at Heard Island (1951) the...