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SRE4 Effects of hydrocarbons on Antarctic Marine Sediment Ecosystems
Sediment Recruitment Experiment 4 (SRE4) was a large, long term (5 year) field experiment run at Casey Station (from 2001 to 2006) testing the effects of 4 different... -
Sediment metal data (1M HCl extraction) from the Davis STP (Sewage Treatment...
Untreated, macerated wastewater effluent has been discharged to the sea at Davis Station since 2005, when the old wastewater treatment infrastructure was removed. This... -
Historical Adelie penguin breeding population estimates in the Australian...
Ecologists are increasingly turning to historical abundance data to understand past changes in animal abundance and more broadly the ecosystems in which animals occur. However,... -
Data from a 3 m sediment core collected west of Pidgeon Island in the...
A sediment core was collected from the western side of Pidgeon Island, (66.3216 S, 110.445 E) at a water depth of 82.0 m. This sediment core (PG 1411-2) was recovered using a... -
The Biochemistry, Ecology and Organic Geochemistry of Phaeocystis pouchetii...
This metadata record covers ASAC projects 113, 191 and 625. (ASAC_113, ASAC_191, ASAC_625). The total lipid, fatty acid, sterol and pigment composition of water column... -
A GIS dataset of bird nests mapped in the Windmill Islands by Frederique...
Very little information is known about the distribution and abundance of snow petrels at the regional scale. This dataset contains locations of bird nests, mostly snow petrels,... -
Concentration of heavy metals in marine waters around Casey station - summer 2003/04
The concentration of heavy metals in seawater at four sites around Casey was determined via Diffusive Gradients in Thin films (DGT) loggers attached to experimental mesocosms... -
SRE4 Sediment Chemistry
Sediment Recruitment Experiment 4 (SRE4) was a large, long term (5 year) field experiment run at Casey Station (from 2001 to 2006) testing the effects of 4 different... -
Photoquadrat survey of hard substratum assemblages around Casey Station:...
A survey of the epibenthic fauna of hard-substrata was made around Casey Station, using a camera mounted on a frame to take photoquadrats. A nested sampling design was used with... -
Light-driven tipping points in polar ecosystems - Casey Station, Antarctica
Some ecosystems can undergo abrupt transformation in response to relatively small environmental change. Identifying imminent "tipping points" is crucial for biodiversity... -
SRE4 (Sediment Recruitment Experiment 4) Sediment grain size analysis, Casey...
Sediment Recruitment Experiment 4 (SRE4) was a large, long term (5 year) field experiment run at Casey Station (from 2001 to 2006) testing the effects of 4 different... -
Diatom and associated data for examining the effects of heavy metal and...
Full title: Diatom and associated data for a manipulative field experiment examining the effects of heavy metal and petroleum hydrocarbon contamination on benthic diatom... -
SRE4 Metals in treatment Oils
Sediment Recruitment Experiment 4 (SRE4) was a large, long term (5 year) field experiment run at Casey Station (from 2001 to 2006) testing the effects of 4 different... -
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... -
Environmental risk assessment of groundwater from remediated fuel spill...
An ecotoxicological risk assessment of groundwater from two Macquarie Island fuel spill sites was conducted to assess the level of risk posed by the sites to the adjacent marine... -
Soft sediment assemblages at Casey Station: Brown Bay Grid - samples taken...
A survey of macrobenthic assemblages in soft-sediments was done at Casey Station, East Antarctica. Samples were taken along four transects in Brown Bay, along a pollution... -
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... -
Diatom, and associated data from grid samples collected in Brown Bay
Sediment samples were collected from nine points along 3 parallel transects within the contaminated Brown Bay. The diatom spreadsheet (diatom_data) contains both initial diatom... -
Diatom data for transects at 4 locations in the Windmill Islands
Sediment samples were collected from four locations within the Windmill Islands (Cloyd Island, Odbert Island, Shannon Bay and Brown Bay). Within each location three parallel... -
Interaction between Carbon and Sulfur Cycles in Antarctic Stratified Lakes and Fjords
---- Public Summary from Project ---- The lakes and fjords of the Vestfold Hills region of Antarctica provide unique ecosystems for studying environmental changes in Antarctica...