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Toxicity of single metals and metal mixtures to Antarctic Marine Copepods
This metadata record contains the results of two bioassays testing the response of Antarctic marine copepods to both individual and combined metals via 14 day toxicity tests.... -
Responses of Antarctic marine biota to contaminants - Juvenile Gastropod...
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... -
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... -
The 1992 Wintering Field Season at Heard Island
1992 Wintering Field Season at Heard Island. Taken from the report: Genesis of the Expedition The concept of the 1992 expedition arose from the need to gain access to animals at... -
Toxicity of dispersed and undispersed Special Antarctic Blend diesel in...
This data set describes the toxicity of marine sediment spiked with undispersed diesel and diesel dispersed with Dasic Slickgone to the Antarctic ophiuroid Ophiura crassa. In 4... -
Analyses of tissue samples from Antarctic Rock-cod (Trematomus bernacchii)...
This metadata record will contain the results of analyses of tissue samples from Antarctic Rock-cod (Trematomus bernacchii) collected at sites around Davis station to determine... -
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... -
Heavy metal concentrations in marine sediments around Casey station, East...
Sediment cores (5cm diameter x 10cm deep), collected as part of the long-term monitoring of the Thala Valley waste disposal site clean-up (Casey station), were sectioned and a... -
Thala Valley Tip Site GIS Dataset
The Thala Valley Tip Site GIS dataset mapped from January 2001 aerial photography. The dataset includes watercourse, waterhole, breakline, spot height, contour, embankment,... -
Casey marine sediment meiofauna 2005
Marine sediment meiofauna community composition and sediment environmental data collected in 2005 and published in Stark, J. S., M. Mohammad, A. McMinn, and J. Ingels. 2020.... -
Evaluation of Possible Effects on Rocky Shore Biota from Oil Spillage from...
Metadata record for data expected from ASAC Project 250 See the link below for public details on this project. The study investigated the impacts of oiling on the biota of rocky... -
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... -
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... -
SRE4 Metals in O'Brien Bay sediments
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... -
Soft sediment assemblages at Casey Station: Spatial variation and human...
A survey of macrobenthic assemblages in soft-sediments was done at Casey Station, East Antarctica. Samples were taken by divers using hand-held corers (core size - 10 cm... -
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... -
A manipulative field experiment examining the effect of contaminated...
The effect of location and sediment contamination on recruitment of soft-sediment assemblages were examined in field experiment at Casey Station, East Antarctica. Four locations... -
Measurements and brooding details of Abatus collected at Casey 01/02 and 02/03
This data set describes details of test measurements and numbers of brooded juveniles for Abatus nimrodi and Abatus ingens heart urchins collected from uncontaminated sites 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... -
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...