• Sakovich, A., McClymont, E., Rowlands, E., & Manno, C. (2026). Lipid mass and free fatty-acid composition of Calanus hyperboreus (CV) exposed to pristine and biofouled microplastics during shipboard incubation experiments (southeastern Greenland, summer 2024) (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/0298edcf-93b1-4a6c-9a81-d9c785149b39

• Taylor, L., Pryer, H., Hendry, K., Mawji, E., Woodward, E., Arrowsmith, C., Leng, M., & Manno, C. (2025). Surface ocean temperature, salinity, dissolved macronutrients, oxygen isotopes, and silicon isotopes of seawater around giant icebergs A-76A and A-23A in 2023 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/89b12c53-1244-4fbf-8699-262fa4c97b27

• Jones-Williams, K., Rowlands, E., Primpke, S., Galloway, T., Cole, M., Waluda, C., & Manno, C. (2025). Microplastic abundance in Antarctic Snow samples (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/ac6ade29-2815-4938-a93a-d84f0d322bd6

• Atherden, F., Blackbird, S., & Manno, C. (2025). Copepods picked from a sediment trap (400 m depth) at the P3 observation site, Northeast, Scotia Sea, throughout 2018 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/0f223636-0ded-4ea3-b300-0c20af9cd9fa

• Atherden, F., & Manno, C. (2024). Zooplankton picked from a sediment trap (400 m depth) at the P3 observation site, Northeast Scotia Sea, throughout 2018 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/f803893c-7978-42cf-993a-e0886dc32a9a

• Fielding, S., & Manno, C. (2024). Raw acoustic data collected by an EK60 echosounder in Bransfield Strait and the caldera of Deception Island on board the RRS James Clark Ross cruise JR17002 (20 January 2018) (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/0826a8a0-e9c5-4504-8f75-a7516041c282

• Abrahamsen, P., Tarling, G., Firing, Y., King, B., Marzocchi, A., Burson, A., Hendry, K., Henley, S., Liszka, C., Manno, C., Ward, F., Woodward, M., Wootton, M., Brunetta, M., Song, Y., & Thorpe, S. (2024). Dissolved nutrient and particulate material concentrations and phytoplankton abundance and community composition from cruise JC211 to South Georgia, Southern Ocean, February 2021 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/eef71670-f6dc-46f6-9143-7569599854e5

• Belcher, A., Wootton, M., & Manno, C. (2023). Sediment trap plankton community composition from the Scotia Sea in 2018 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/6a5a80f9-4c30-4ad6-a5be-ccba53f8a464

• Belcher, A., Henley, S., Hendry, K., Friberg, L., Dallman, U., Wang, T., & Manno, C. (2023). Sediment trap fluxes and stable isotopes of particulate carbon, nitrogen and biogenic silica from the Scotia Sea in 2018 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/32629396-bafc-40bd-ab6f-3dea5f3e51c1

• Manno, C., & Falco, P. (2023). Fish faecal pellets and eggs data collected using a sediment trap deployed in 1998 in Terra Nova Bay, Ross Sea, Antarctica (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/49047818-d36a-45ce-8ad1-3d459e1ccead

• Fielding, S., Enderlein, P., Stowasser, G., Tarling, G., & Manno, C. (2022). Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) biomass density estimates derived from acoustic backscatter data collected in the Western Core Box survey, South Georgia, South Atlantic: 1996 – 2019 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/e85a9312-8531-4261-a2f6-1c58f40cfc71

• Manno, C. (2020). Exuviae krill flux in the northern Scotia Sea from January 2018 to December 2018 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/60f9b354-2cbf-4d4d-84f7-13c9224f82d4

• Liszka, C. (2019). CTD fluorescence and faecal pellet data from the Ecosystems Western Core Box and Moorings cruise to the Scotia Sea, Southern Ocean (JR304) (Version 1.0) [Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/e2921d09-975c-4236-8acf-039d7462762e

• Manno, C. (2018). Carbonate flux in the Northern Scotia Sea from April 2009 to February 2011 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. Polar Data Centre, British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/749ffa17-ee4f-46a4-8827-5f062af19a6c

• Enderlein, P., Fielding, S., Tarling, G., & Manno, C. (2017). Deep sediment trap (3700m) mooring data collected in the Southern Ocean north-west of South Georgia in November 2015 during the marine cruise JR15002 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00999

• Enderlein, P., Fielding, S., Tarling, G., & Manno, C. (2017). Deep sediment trap (3700m) mooring data collected in the Southern Ocean north-west of South Georgia in December 2016 during the marine cruise JR16003 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01000

• Enderlein, P., Fielding, S., Tarling, G., & Manno, C. (2017). Deep sediment trap (3700m) mooring data collected in the Southern Ocean north-west of South Georgia in December 2013 during the marine cruise JR291 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00998

• Tarling, G., Enderlein, P., Fielding, S., Stowasser, G., & Manno, C. (2017). Deep sediment trap (3700m) mooring data collected during multiple marine cruise in the Southern Ocean north-west of South Georgia from November 2006 onwards (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00952

• Enderlein, P., Fielding, S., Tarling, G., & Manno, C. (2017). Deep sediment trap (3200m) mooring data collected in the Southern Ocean south-west of South Georgia in November 2015 during the marine cruise JR15002 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01008

• Enderlein, P., Tarling, G., Fielding, S., & Manno, C. (2017). Deep sediment trap (3200m) mooring data collected in the Southern Ocean south-west of South Georgia in November 2014 during the marine cruise JR304 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01007

• Enderlein, P., Fielding, S., Tarling, G., & Manno, C. (2017). Deep sediment trap (3200m) mooring data collected in the Southern Ocean south-west of South Georgia in December 2016 during the marine cruise JR16003 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01009

• Enderlein, P., Fielding, S., Tarling, G., & Manno, C. (2017). Deep sediment trap (3200m) mooring data collected in the Southern Ocean south-west of South Georgia in December 2013 during the marine cruise JR291 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01006

• Tarling, G., Enderlein, P., Fielding, S., Stowasser, G., & Manno, C. (2017). Deep sediment trap (3200m) mooring data collected during multiple marine cruise in the Southern Ocean south-west of South Georgia from April 2007 onwards (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00953

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