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19 September, 2014 by Markus Frey
During the austral summer 2011/2012 atmospheric nitrous acid was investigated for the second time at the Concordia site (75°06' S, 123°33' E) located on the East Antarctic plateau by deploying…17 September, 2014 by Jonathan Watkins
The climate-induced changes presently seen in the ecosystems of the Antarctic region require a precautionary approach with respect to the human use of these ecosystems. In particular, resource harvesting requires…16 September, 2014 by John King, Thomas Lachlan-Cope
Mesoscale model simulations are presented of a westerly föhn event over the Antarctic Peninsula mountain ridge and onto the Larsen C ice shelf, just south of the recently collapsed Larsen…15 September, 2014 by Dominic Hodgson, Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand, James Smith, Joanne Johnson, Robert Larter, Robert Mulvaney, Stephen Roberts, William Dickens
A robust understanding of Antarctic Ice Sheet deglacial history since the Last Glacial Maximum is important in order to constrain ice sheet and glacial-isostatic adjustment models, and to explore the…15 September, 2014 by Janet Silk, Richard Phillips
Until recent decades, details of the migratory movements of seabirds remained largely unknown owing to the difficulties in following individuals at sea. Subsequent advances in biologging technology have greatly increased…Read more on Trans-equatorial migration of Short-tailed Shearwaters revealed by geolocators
15 September, 2014 by Dominic Hodgson, Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand, James Smith, Robert Larter, Robert Mulvaney
The Weddell Sea sector is one of the main formation sites for Antarctic Bottom Water and an outlet for about one fifth of Antarctica's continental ice volume. Over the last…15 September, 2014 by Dominic Hodgson, James Smith, Stephen Roberts, William Dickens
This paper is the maritime and sub–Antarctic contribution to the Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research (SCAR) Past Antarctic Ice Sheet Dynamics (PAIS) community Antarctic Ice Sheet reconstruction. The overarching aim…15 September, 2014 by Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand, James Smith, Joanne Johnson, Robert Larter
Marine and terrestrial geological and marine geophysical data that constrain deglaciation since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) of the sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) draining into the…15 September, 2014 by Dominic Hodgson, Stephen Roberts
The East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS) is the largest continental ice mass on Earth, and documenting its evolution since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) is important for understanding its present-day…Read more on Retreat history of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet since the Last Glacial Maximum
15 September, 2014 by Ed King
Mega-scale glacial lineations (MSGLs) are a characteristic landform on ice stream beds. Solving the puzzle of their formation is key to understanding how ice interacts with its bed and how…15 September, 2014 by Dominic Hodgson, Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand, James Smith, Joanne Johnson, Robert Larter, Stephen Roberts
This paper compiles and reviews marine and terrestrial data constraining the dimensions and configuration of the Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet (APIS) from the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) through deglaciation to…12 September, 2014 by James Smith
Grounding zones, where ice sheets transition between resting on bedrock to full floatation, help regulate ice flow. Exposure of the sea floor by the 2002 Larsen-B Ice Shelf collapse allowed…Read more on Boundary condition of grounding lines prior to collapse, Larsen-B Ice Shelf, Antarctica
5 September, 2014 by Louise Sime
About 23,000 years ago, the southern margins of the great Northern Hemisphere ice sheets across Europe and North America began to melt. The melt rate accelerated ∼20,000 years ago, and…2 September, 2014 by Claire Allen
The varied aspect ratios observed in the Antarctic marine diatom Eucampia antarctica are described and quantified. Data are compiled from detailed measurements of the gross morphology of winter stage specimens…1 September, 2014 by Huw Griffiths, Katrin Linse
Despite recent progress in deep-sea biodiversity assessments in the Southern Ocean (SO), there remain gaps in our knowledge that hamper effi cient deep-sea monitoring in times of rapid climate change.…Read more on Challenges of deep-sea biodiversity assessments in the Southern Ocean
1 September, 2014 by Andrew Clarke
Aim We test the hypothesis that endotherm body temperature varies with diet. Location Global terrestrial ecosystems. Methods We compile data from the literature on diet and body temperature in mammals…1 September, 2014 by David Barnes, Eugene Murphy, Michael Meredith, Nadine Johnston, Philip Trathan
Antarctic and Southern Ocean (ASO) marine ecosystems have been changing for at least the last 30 years, including in response to increasing ocean temperatures and changes in the extent and…1 September, 2014 by Keith Makinson, Keith Nicholls, Paul Holland
Cold and dense Ice Shelf Water (ISW) emerging from the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf cavity in the southwestern Weddell Sea flows northward through the Filchner Depression to eventually descend the continental…Read more on Hydrography and circulation in the Filchner Depression, Weddell Sea, Antarctica
1 September, 2014 by Sandra McInnes, Sandra McInnes
Despite the importance and regular occurrence of tardigrades in the Antarctic terrestrial ecosystem, taxonomic studies of, in particular, continental Antarctica species have advanced very slowly. During a large survey to…1 September, 2014 by Peter Ward
Estimating growth and production rates of mesozooplankton, and copepods in particular, is important in describing flows of material and energy though pelagic systems. Over the past 30 years, the Moult…Read more on Re-assessing copepod growth using the Moult Rate method
1 September, 2014 by Catharine Horswill, Helen Peat, Jaume Forcada, Michael Meredith, Mark Preston, Norman Ratcliffe, Philip Trathan
1. Understanding the demographic response of free-living animal populations to different drivers is the first step towards reliable prediction of population trends. 2. Penguins have exhibited dramatic declines in population…1 September, 2014 by Eugene Murphy
Arctic and Antarctic marine systems have in common high latitudes, large seasonal changes in light levels, cold air and sea temperatures, and sea ice. In other ways, however, they are…Read more on Krill, climate, and contrasting future scenarios for Arctic and Antarctic fisheries
1 September, 2014 by Mark Clilverd
Many solar wind and magnetosphere parameters correlate with relativistic electron flux following storms. These include relativistic electron flux before the storm, seed electron flux, solar wind velocity and number density…1 September, 2014 by Lloyd Peck, Melody Clark
Many studies into the responses of early life-stages to ocean acidification utilise offspring obtained from parents reared under present-day conditions. Their offspring are directly introduced to altered-pH conditions. This study…1 September, 2014 by Emily Venables, Keith Makinson, Keith Nicholls, Paul Anker
Microstructure shear, temperature, and conductivity observations from a tethered profiler have been made beneath George VI Ice Shelf to examine processes driving vertical heat flux in the oceanic turbulent boundary…Read more on Measuring turbulent dissipation rates beneath an Antarctic ice shelf
1 September, 2014 by Susan Gregory
Studies on the phenology of harbour seal moult have been carried out in the Atlantic and Pacific, however there has been no research into this process in the Republic of…Read more on Moulting phenology of the harbour seal in south-west Ireland
1 September, 2014 by Philip Trathan, Richard Phillips
Seabirds are increasingly threatened worldwide, with population declines for many species that are faster than in any other group of birds. Here the Important Bird Area (IBA) criteria recommended by…1 September, 2014 by Jaume Forcada
The local population of common bottlenose dolphin in the Balearic Islands coastal waters, a mass tourism destination in the western Mediterranean subject to increasing anthropogenic pressures, was monitored over a…1 September, 2014 by Fausto Ferraccioli, Philip Leat, Tom Jordan
The Antarctic Peninsula (AP) consists of a long lived and uniquely well preserved magmatic arc system. The broad tectonic structure of the AP arc is well understood. However, magmatic processes…1 September, 2014 by Dominic Hodgson
Lacustrine microbial mats in Antarctic ice-free oases are considered modern analogues of early microbial ecosystems as their primary production is generally dominated by cyanobacteria, the heterotrophic food chain typically truncated…Read more on Organic and mineral imprints in fossil photosynthetic mats of an East Antarctic lake
1 September, 2014 by Jonathan Shanklin
In reply to Enrico Scchetti's photo feature "Science on ice", June pp.26-31.1 September, 2014 by Damien Guihen, Sophie Fielding
A combination of scientific, economic, technological and policy drivers is behind a recent upsurge in the use of marine autonomous systems (and accompanying miniaturized sensors) for environmental mapping and monitoring.…1 September, 2014 by Peter Convey, Sandra McInnes, Sandra McInnes
Tardigrades are important members of the simple terrestrial ecosystems in the extreme environments in Antarctica. This study provides a baseline description of tardigrade species diversity and distribution pattern within the…29 August, 2014
Pine Island Glacier is one of the fastest and most dynamic glaciers in West Antarctica. The stability of the glacier may thus have profound impact on the overall stability of…28 August, 2014 by Richard Horne
It has been reported from Van Allen Probe observations that plasmaspheric hiss intensification in the outer plasmasphere, associated with a substorm injection on 30 September 2012, occurred with a peak…Read more on Generation of unusually low frequency plasmaspheric hiss
22 August, 2014 by Sabrina Heiser
The north-west Pacific kelp, Undaria pinnatifida, was first discovered in Europe on the Mediterranean coast of France (1971) and introduced to Brittany for aquaculture (1983). In the north-east Atlantic, it…22 August, 2014
The L * invariant coordinate depends on the global electromagnetic field topology at a given instance and the standard method for its determination requires a computationally expensive drift contour tracing. This…22 August, 2014 by Mark Clilverd
Phase and amplitude measurements of VLF radio signals on a short, nearly all-sea path between two Hawaiian Islands are used to find the height and sharpness of the lower edge…Read more on Low-latitude ionospheric D region dependence on solar zenith angle
22 August, 2014 by Mark Clilverd
Measurements from the Polar-Orbiting Environmental Satellite (POES) Medium Energy Proton and Electron Detector (MEPED) instrument are widely used in studies into radiation belt dynamics and atmospheric coupling. However, this instrument…20 August, 2014 by John King
Ice shelves in the Antarctic Peninsula have significantly disintegrated during recent decades. To better understand the atmospheric contribution in the process, we have analysed the inter-annual variations in radiative and…18 August, 2014
The volatilisation of iodine from the ocean and release to the atmosphere in the ice-covered polar regions has been studied. Laboratory experiments involving sea ice- and ice associated- diatoms have…16 August, 2014 by Adrian Jenkins, Hugh Corr, Keith Nicholls, Pierre Dutrieux
Ocean waters melt the margins of Antarctic and Greenland glaciers, and individual glaciers' responses and the integrity of their ice shelves are expected to depend on the spatial distribution of…16 August, 2014 by Povl Abrahamsen, Keith Nicholls
We study a mechanism of iceberg breakup that may act together with the recognized melt and wave-induced decay processes. Our proposal is based on observations from a recent field experiment…Read more on The ‘footloose’ mechanism: iceberg decay from hydrostatic stresses
15 August, 2014
Observations suggest that properties of Antarctic Intermediate Water (AAIW) are changing. An understanding of how changes in the ocean may interact with the atmosphere is crucial for understanding how Earth’s…Read more on Global climate impacts from changes in Antarctic Intermediate Water
15 August, 2014 by Jane Francis, Vanessa Bowman
Fluctuations in Late Cretaceous climate were already influencing biotic change prior to the environmental upheaval at the Cretaceous – Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary, but their general nature, magnitude and timing remain…15 August, 2014 by Joanne Johnson
The Amundsen Sea Embayment of West Antarctica hosts one of the most rapidly changing sectors of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. With the fastest-flowing ice streams in Antarctica, the region…14 August, 2014 by Nigel Meredith, Richard Horne, Tobias Kersten
Gyroresonant wave particle interactions with electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC) waves are a potentially important loss process for relativistic electrons in the Earth's radiation belts. Here we perform a statistical analysis…Read more on Global morphology and spectral properties of EMIC waves derived from CRRES observations
12 August, 2014 by Andrew Clarke, Eugene Murphy, John Turner
The record of winter fast-ice in the South Orkney Islands, northern Weddell Sea, Antarctica is over a century long and provides the longest observational record of sea-ice variability in the…Read more on Variability of sea-ice in the northern Weddell Sea during the 20th century
6 August, 2014 by Michael Thorne, Melody Clark
Isolated and established in culture from the Antarctic in 1988, the nematode Panagrolaimus davidi has proven to be an ideal model for the study of adaptation to the cold. Not…Read more on Molecular analysis of the cold tolerant Antarctic nematode, Panagrolaimus davidi
4 August, 2014 by Hugh Venables, Michael Meredith
A multi-year, all-season time series of water column physical properties and sea ice conditions in Ryder Bay, at the western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP), is used to assess the effects on…3 August, 2014 by Richard Phillips
Carry-over effects have major implications for individual fitness and population and evolutionary dynamics. The strength of these effects is dependent on an individual's intrinsic performance and the environmental conditions it…1 August, 2014 by Richard Phillips
Top predators are critical to ecosystem function, exerting a stabilising effect on the food web. Brown skuas are opportunistic predators and scavengers. Although skuas are often the dominant land-based predator…1 August, 2014 by Roger Worland, Peter Convey
Polar terrestrial invertebrates are suggested as being vulnerable to temperature change relative to lower latitude species, and hence possibly also to climate warming. Previous studies have shown Antarctic and Arctic…1 August, 2014 by Lloyd Peck
1.Understanding the extent to which organisms are affected by climate change and are capable of adapting to warming is essential for managing biodiversity. Recent macrophysiological analyses suggest that range-related responses…Read more on Lack of coherence in the warming responses of marine crustaceans
1 August, 2014 by Mervyn Freeman
Spacecraft observations have established that all known planets with an internal magnetic field, as part of their interaction with the solar wind, possess well-developed magnetic tails, stretching vast distances on…1 August, 2014 by Nigel Meredith, Richard Horne
Wave particle interactions play an important role in controlling the dynamics of the radiation belts. The purpose of this study is to estimate how variations in the plasma density can…1 August, 2014
The results of a multi-proxy study, including quantitative planktonic foraminifera faunal analysis, geochemistry of foraminifera tests, and lithogenic counts (IRD) are presented for two open marine sites. The sites are…1 August, 2014 by Hugh Corr, Keith Nicholls
Ice shelves fringe much of the Antarctic continent, and, despite being up to 2 km thick, are vulnerable to climate change. Owing to their role in helping to control the…1 August, 2014 by Huw Griffiths, Alistair Crame, Susie Grant
1 August, 2014 by Andrew Meijers, Huw Griffiths, Susie Grant
1 August, 2014 by Teal Riley
The recognition of a Mesoproterozoic large igneous province (LIP) across large parts of southern Africa has been strengthened by recent geochronology, geochemistry and petrology. The c. 1100 Ma Umkondo province…1 August, 2014 by Huw Griffiths, Paul Rodhouse, Susie Grant
28 July, 2014 by Liz Thomas
Interior Antarctica is among the most remote places on Earth and was thought to be beyond the reach of human impacts when Amundsen and Scott raced to the South Pole…25 July, 2014 by Richard Phillips
Capsule Great Skuas Stercorarius skua wintering in different areas spent different amounts of time in flight (foraging or searching for food) and so may be experiencing different feeding conditions. Aims…Read more on Activity patterns of wintering Great Skuas Stercorarius skua
24 July, 2014 by Jaume Forcada
Global environmental change is expected to alter selection pressures in many biological systems, but the long-term molecular and life history data required to quantify changes in selection are rare. An…Read more on Climate change selects for heterozygosity in a declining fur seal population
17 July, 2014 by David Barnes
Bryozoans exhibit a highly variable chemistry within their calcium carbonate skeletons. Previous studies have shown that the level of Mg-calcite in skeletons increases with increasing seawater temperature. For high-latitude regions…Read more on Variability of Mg-calcite in Antarctic bryozoan skeletons across spatial scales.
13 July, 2014 by Jean-Baptiste Sallee, Michael Meredith
The Southern Ocean plays a pivotal role in the global ocean circulation and climate1, 2, 3. There, the deep water masses of the world ocean upwell to the surface and…Read more on Eddy-induced variability in Southern Ocean abyssal mixing on climatic timescales
7 July, 2014 by Jennifer Jackson
Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) annually undertake the longest migrations between seasonal feeding and breeding grounds of any mammal. Despite this dispersal potential, discontinuous seasonal distributions and migratory patterns suggest that…Read more on Global diversity and oceanic divergence of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae)
3 July, 2014 by Andrew Clarke, Lloyd Peck, Michael Thorne, Simon Morley
Thermal reaction norms are fundamental relationships for geographic comparisons of organism response to temperature. They are shaped by an organism’s environmental history and provide insights into both the global patterns…Read more on Limpet feeding rate and the consistency of physiological response to temperature
1 July, 2014 by Iain Staniland
South American fur seals (SAFS) (Arctophoca australis1) are one of the most widely distributed otariids breeding on both the Atlantic and Pacific sides of South America, from Uruguay to Peru…Read more on Diet of South American fur seals at the Falkland Islands
1 July, 2014 by Mervyn Freeman
We present a comprehensive study of the magnetic field and plasma signatures of reconnection events observed with the Cassini spacecraft during the tail orbits of 2006. We examine their “local”…1 July, 2014 by Andrew Fleming, Adrian Fox
This paper aims to introduce the main types and sources of remotely sensed data that are freely available and have cryospheric applications. We describe aerial and satellite photography, satellite-borne visible,…Read more on Open access data in polar and cryospheric remote sensing
1 July, 2014 by Richard Phillips
Procellariiform seabirds have extreme life histories; they are very long-lived, first breed when relatively old, lay single egg clutches, both incubation and chick-rearing are prolonged and chicks exhibit slow growth.…1 July, 2014 by Philip Trathan
The annual moult creates the highest physiological stress during a penguin's breeding-cycle and is preceded by a period of hyperphagia at sea. Although crucial to individual survival, foraging strategies before…