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Case study: Enhanced data sharing capability for Antarctica and the Southern Ocean
Authors: Antarctic Science Platform
Year Published: 2024
Document Type:
Case Studies, Science
Summary: New Zealand now has an informative and searchable inventory of Antarctic and Southern Ocean research datasets.
Case study: Biological data informs Ross Sea marine ecosystem management
Authors: Antarctic Science Platform
Year Published: 2024
Document Type:
Case Studies, Science
Summary: The Antarctic Science Platform supports Aotearoa New Zealand’s commitment to be a research leader in the Ross Sea region Marine Protected Area.
Case study: Developing the next generation of Antarctic and Southern Ocean researchers
Authors: Antarctic Science Platform
Year Published: 2024
Document Type:
Case Studies, Science
Summary: Examples of how the Antarctic Science Platform is sustaining and growing human capabilities in this strategic priority science area.
Case study: Scaling up vessel-based research in the Ross Sea
Authors: Antarctic Science Platform
Year Published: 2024
Document Type:
Case Studies, Science
Summary: Showcasing New Zealand’s collaboration with international partners to coordinate Southern Ocean and Ross Sea research.
Case study: Detecting polynya from space
Year Published: 2023
Document Type:
Case Studies
Ownership: Antarctic Science Platform
Summary: Antarctic Science Platform researchers are using satellite data to determine the spatial extent of polynya with better accuracy, which unlocks the ability to quantify their role in large-scale processes, such as sea-ice formation, ocean circulation and their impact on marine ecosystems.
Sea ice and ecosystems
Authors: Rowan Howard-Williams, Ian Hawes
Year Published: 2023
Document Type:
Cold Call Articles
Ownership: Antarctic Science Platform
Summary: Sea ice plays a crucial role in the life cycles of many Antarctic organisms, from the algae at the base of food chains, to seals and penguins at the top.
New Southern Ocean transfer function for subsurface temperature prediction using radiolarian assemblages
Summary: A Southern Ocean-wide transfer function (TF) for subsurface temperature reconstructions (subST) using the Southern Ocean RAdiolarian Dataset (SORAD).
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.