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Vulnerability of shallow Antarctic invertebrate-dominated ecosystems
Human impacts threaten not only species, but also entire ecosystems. Ecosystems under stress can collapse or transition into different states, potentially reducing biodiversity... -
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... -
Chemistry data from the 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... -
Davis Multibeam Survey 2016/17, Antarctica (GA-0357-0360/ AAP 5093/ HI590) –...
Geoscience Australia, the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) and the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) conducted a hydrographic and seafloor characterisation survey in nearshore... -
Toxicity of dispersed and undispered Special Antarctic Blend diesel in...
This data set describes the toxicity of marine sediment spiked with undispersed diesel and diesel dispersed with Dasic Slickgone. The temperate heart urchin species... -
Environmental data from the antFOCE (Antarctic Free Ocean Carbon Enrichment)...
Metadata record AAS_4127_antFOCE_EnvironmentalData contains seafloor Ambient Light and ambient Seawater Temperature data sets collected at the antFOCE site during the... -
Cold adaptation and functionality of the Antarctic Coastal Benthic Zones
Antarctic sediments and sea-ice are important regulators in global biogeochemical and atmospheric cycles. These ecosystems contain a diverse range of bacteria whose... -
Macroalgal responses to heavy metals and varying light levels at Casey Station
In situ chlorophyll fluorescence measurements using pulse amplitude technique (PAM) of macroalga Desmarestia menziesii, assessing adaptation to high light exposure after sea ice... -
A manipulative field experiment examining the recruitment of mobile epifauna...
The recruitment of mobile epifauna on hard-substratum was examined in a field experiment using tiles. A total of 160 tiles were deployed at five locations, with 32 tiles at each... -
Recruitment Tile Motile Fauna data from the antFOCE (Antarctic Free Ocean...
Refer to antFOCE report section 4.5.1 for deployment, sampling and analysis details. https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/AAS_4127_antFOCE_Project4127 The download file... -
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... -
Seafloor image annotations from the Sabrina upper slope, East Antarctica
Four camera tow transects were completed on the upper slope during survey IN2017_V01 using the Marine National Facility’s Deep Tow Camera. This system collected oblique facing... -
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... -
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... -
Soft sediment assemblages at Casey Station: (core samples: Nov 1998 - Jan 1999)
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... -
SRE4 (Sediment Recruitment Experiment 4) Sediment Total Organic Carbon plus...
(SRE4) was a large, long term (5 year) field experiment run at Casey Station (from 2001 to 2006) testing the effects of 4 different hydrocarbons on marine sediment ecosystems.... -
Underwater video footage from voyage 4 of the Aurora Australis, 2003-2004
Underwater footage was taken with a Sony digital Handycam mounted in a pressure case on a roll cage, and then trawled off the back of the Aurora Australis. The footage was taken...