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Funding Aotearoa New Zealand’s commitment to the Ross Sea region Marine Protected Area
Authors: Ian Hawes, Melissa Climo
Year Published: 2023
Document Type:
Reports
Ownership: Antarctic Science Platform
Summary: This document explores how Aotearoa New Zealand can best support our commitment to the Ross Sea region Marine Protected Area and its Research and Monitoring Plan.
An Assessment of the Oceanic Physical and Biogeochemical Components of CMIP5 and CMIP6 Models for the Ross Sea Region
Authors: G.Rickard, E.Behrens, A.Bahamondes-Dominguea, M.Pinkerton
Year Published: 2023
Document Type:
Papers
Ownership: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
Summary: The physical and biogeochemical performance of 16 CMIP5 and 16 CMIP6 Earth System models (ESM) are examined relative to present day (1976–2005) observational data sets for a Ross Sea Region (RSR).
Soil environmental DNA metabarcoding in low-biomass regions requires protocol optimization: a case study in Antarctica
Authors: P.Olmedo-Rojas, G.Jeunen, M.Lamare, J.Turnbull, N.Gemmel, C.Fraser
Year Published: 2023
Document Type:
Papers
Ownership: Antarctic Science
Summary: Optimized workflow for soil metabarcoding through a comparative study encompassing variation in sampling strategy, DNA extraction and library preparation.
Phytoclass: A pigment-based chemotaxonomic method to determine the biomass of phytoplankton classes
Authors: A.Hayward, M.Pinkerton, A. Gutierrez-Rodriguez
Year Published: 2023
Document Type:
Papers
Ownership: Limnology and Oceanography: Methods
Summary: An alternative chemotaxonomic method that utilizes simulated annealing with a steepest descent algorithm to derive class abundances and pigment-to-Chl a ratios.
Basal mass balance and prevalence of ice tongues in the Western ross sea
Authors: R.Gomez-Fell, O.Marsh, W.Rack, C.Wild, H.Purdie
Year Published: 2023
Document Type:
Papers
Ownership: Frontiers in Earth Science
Summary: Calculating the basal mass change of twelve Antarctic ice tongues using a flux gate approach, deriving thickness from ICESat-2 height measurements and ice surface velocities from Sentinel-1 feature-tracking over the same period.
Ocean turbulent boundary-layer influence on ice crystal behaviour beneath fast ice in an Antarctic ice shelf water plume: The “dirty ice”
Authors: C.Stevens, N.Robinson, G.O'Connor, B.Grant
Year Published: 2023
Document Type:
Papers
Ownership: Frontiers in Marine Science
Summary: Observations of ocean boundary-layer processes and ice crystal behaviour in an Ice Shelf Water outflow region from the Ross/McMurdo Ice Shelves.
Crevasse refreezing and signatures of retreat observed at Kamb Ice Stream grounding zone
Authors: J.Lawrence, P.Washam, C.Stevens, C.Hulbe, H.Horgan, G.Dunbar et al.
Year Published: 2023
Document Type:
Papers
Ownership: Nature Geoscience
Summary: In situ observations from an underwater vehicle deployed at Kamb that show how fine-scale variability in ice and ocean structure combine to influence a diversity of ice–ocean interactions.
New Southern Ocean transfer function for subsurface temperature prediction using radiolarian assemblages
Authors: M.Civel-Mazens, G.Cortese, X.Crosta, K.Lawler, V.Lowe, M.Ikehara, T.Itaki
Year Published: 2023
Document Type:
Papers
Ownership: Marine Micropaleontology
Summary: A Southern Ocean-wide transfer function (TF) for subsurface temperature reconstructions (subST) using the Southern Ocean RAdiolarian Dataset (SORAD).