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Marine plastics found at Heard Island and Macquarie Island
This project monitored plastics at the four-bays area on Heard Island and at Sandell Bay on Macquarie Island. It characterised plastics by infra-red spectroscopy both from the... -
Chemical contaminants in marine sediment at Casey station from 1997 to 2015
Description: This data set is a collection of chemical and physical parameters determined for sediment samples collected from the marine benthic environment in the vicinity of... -
Oceanographic data from the Environmental Impact Assessment of the Davis...
Untreated, macerated wastewater effluent has been discharged to the sea at Davis Station since 2005, when the old wastewater treatment infrastructure was removed. This... -
Project 3054 Season 1 Hydrocarbon ecotoxicological experiments Paramoera walkeri
Ecotoxicological tests were done at Davis and Casey Stations in 2009/10, 2010/11 and 2011/12 summer seasons under AAS Project 3054 to test the sensitivity of near-shore marine... -
Responses of Antarctic marine biota to contaminants - Brown Ostracod...
Metadata record for data from AAS (ASAC) Project 2933. While it is generally thought that Antarctic organisms are highly sensitive to pollution, there is little data to support... -
Increased sensitivity of subantarctic marine invertebrates to metals under a...
Study location and test species Subantarctic Macquarie Island lies in the Southern Ocean, just north of the Antarctic Convergence at 54 degrees 30' S, 158 degrees 57' E. Its... -
Toxicity of an intermediate fuel and three chemical fuel dispersants to an...
Live O. orensanzi were found in the AAD's Marine Research Facility emerging from sediments during feeding on 3 July 2014. It is likely that live specimens were included in... -
Responses of Antarctic marine biota to contaminants - Amphipod and Isopod...
Metadata record for data from AAS (ASAC) Project 2933. While it is generally thought that Antarctic organisms are highly sensitive to pollution, there is little data to support... -
Non-modelled 10 day LC50 from rapid tests at Macquarie Island 2007/08
Rapid toxicity tests (Kefford et al. 2005) were used to test the sensitivity of a wide range of intertidal and shallow sub-tidal marine invertebrates collected off the northern... -
Sea ice POP (persistent organic pollutants - organochlorine pesticides) data
This data set provides the organochlorine content found in four sea-ice samples collected in the vicinity of Davis station over a three week period in 2014/15. Sea-ice is... -
Statistical method for determining No Effect Concentration (NEC)
This data record has been compiled for a statistical methods study, conducted by Abigael Proctor as part of her PhD research in 2018. The data in this record have been used to... -
Development and application of DGT devices for passive sampling of...
Metadata record for data from ASAC Project 2385 See the link below for public details on this project. ---- Public Summary from Project ---- Facilities for chemical analysis of... -
Chemistry data from the Environmental Impact Assessment of the Davis Sewage Outfall
Untreated, macerated wastewater effluent has been discharged to the sea at Davis Station since 2005, when the old wastewater treatment infrastructure was removed. This... -
Monthly fuel usage (of the main engines, generator sets and boilers) of...
This indicator is no longer maintained, and is considered OBSOLETE. INDICATOR DEFINITION The quantity of fuel used by ships travelling to Australian Antarctic stations and on... -
Toxicity of metals to Antarctic marine microalgae
This metadata record contains the results from 11 bioassays conducted with 2 species of Antarctic marine microalgae. Seven tests were conducted with Phaeocystis antarctica... -
The response of Antarctic near-shore marine zooplankton to hydrocarbon...
This metadata record will contain the results of bioassays conducted to characterise the response of Antarctic near-shore marine zooplankton to hydrocarbon contaminants in... -
Responses of Antarctic marine biota to contaminants - Brown Ostracod...
Metadata record for data from AAS (ASAC) Project 2933. While it is generally thought that Antarctic organisms are highly sensitive to pollution, there is little data to support... -
Non-modelled 10 day LC50 from rapid tests at Macquarie Island 2007/08
Rapid toxicity tests (Kefford et al. 2005) were used to test the sensitivity of a wide range of intertidal and shallow sub-tidal marine invertebrates collected off the northern... -
Toxicity of an intermediate fuel and three chemical fuel dispersants to an...
Live O. orensanzi were found in the AAD's Marine Research Facility emerging from sediments during feeding on 3 July 2014. It is likely that live specimens were included in... -
Developing environmental quality guidelines for Antarctica: Responses of...
Metadata record for data from AAS (ASAC) Project 2933. See the child records for access to the datasets. Public While it is generally thought that Antarctic organisms are highly...