Datasets
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Oceanographic Mooring (CTD, Turbidity, ADCP, Turbulence) at Kamb Ice Stream...
Antarctica New ZealandData target a major subglacial outlet river emerging from beneath the Kamb Ice Stream (KIS). These data were used to determine both the role of water beneath the ice sheets and the ice-ocean interactions that take place once this water emerges into the ice shelf cavity. GET DATA: craig.stevens@niwa.co.nzCreated 25 March 2025 • Updated 25 March 2025 -
Automated Weather Station Measurements, Joyce Glacier, 2008-2010
Antarctica New Zealand14-month record of automatic weather station (AWS) observations on Joyce Glacier. The AWS was installed on Joyce Glacier at (-78.02075000, 163.79346667), roughly 400 m above sea level on 26 November 2008 and removed on 31 January 2010. Measurements were taken every 300 s and stored as 15 min averages on a data logger. Parameters and Instruments: - Air...Created 25 March 2025 • Updated 25 March 2025 -
Antarctic Toothfish Recruitment - Interannual Variability
Antarctica New ZealandThese Lagrangian modelling data attempt to explain Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni) recruitment fluctuations and show how sea-ice drift impacts the buoyant eggs and the overall recruitment of juveniles reaching the Amundsen shelf break. This metadata record represents: 1. Trajectory data for particles for the primary mode, seeded over the...Created 25 March 2025 • Updated 25 March 2025 -
GNSS Measurements, Ross Ice Shelf (HWD2), 2015
Antarctica New ZealandContinuous measurements were made with ten Trimble R-6 and R-10 GNSS receivers to measure ice motion and monitor ice deformation. GET DATA: christina.hulbe@otago.ac.nzCreated 25 March 2025 • Updated 25 March 2025 -
Basement Topography and Sediment Thickness Beneath Antarctica's Ross Ice...
Antarctica New ZealandDepth to the magnetic basement beneath Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf was determined from Werner deconvolution of ROSETTA-Ice airborne magnetic data. This process was constrained by offshore seismic data which was tied to the Ross Ice Shelf with Operation Ice Bridge IceBridge airborne magnetic data. Using a sub-ice shelf bathymetry model, we calculated the...Created 25 March 2025 • Updated 25 March 2025 -
Diatom Distribution in IODP Hole 318-U1357B
Antarctica New ZealandThis data publication contains the relative abundances of the Fragilariopsis curta group (F. curta and F cylindrus) and the Thalassiosira antarctica group (resting spores and vegetative cells of T. antarctica cold variety) versus depth (in meters below sea-floor) and age (in years Common Era) in core IODP U1357B. Core IODP U1357B was retrieved in the...Created 25 March 2025 • Updated 25 March 2025 -
eDNA Barcoding from Sub-Ice Platelet Layer at Granite Harbour and New Harbour, 2023
Antarctica New ZealandThis metadata record represents DNA barcoding for species presence/absence. Five sites were sampled (three in Granite Harbour and two in New Harbour). These data were used to characterise the relationship between biological assemblages incorporated into or associated with the platelet ice and their environment. Specifically, determine whether Silverfish –...Created 25 March 2025 • Updated 25 March 2025 -
Automated Weather Station Data (Air Temperature, Humidity, Wind Speed, Wind...
Antarctica New ZealandTwo automated weather stations operates at Cape Adare . The station was established in 2014 and continues to transmit live data. Data are logged every 30 minutes. Time plotted as UTC+12. Cape Adare Ridge (-71.30498, 170.23253) Cape Adare Beach (-71.30820, 170.19580) Parameters: - Barometric Pressure (mbar) - Water Content - Surface (m^3/m) - Temperature –...Created 25 March 2025 • Updated 25 March 2025 -
Coastal and Landfast Sea Ice Thickness in Western Ross Sea, Antarctica, from...
Antarctica New ZealandThe data are approximately 800 km of airborne electromagnetic survey of coastal sea ice and sub-ice platelet layer (SIPL) thickness distributions in the western Ross Sea, Antarctica, from McMurdo Sound to Cape Adare. Data were collected between 8 and 13 November 2017, within 30 days of the maximum fast ice extent in this region. Approximately 700 km of...Created 25 March 2025 • Updated 25 March 2025 -
Phytoplankton Assemblage Raw Sequencing Data, Ross Sea Region, 2018-2019
Antarctica New ZealandThis study investigates eukaryotic plankton diversity and populations distribution in water masses and across major frontal zones of the southwest Pacific. The aims of this study are 1) to characterize the diversity of protistan communities in subtropical and subantarctic waters east of New Zealand and across the subtropical front that separates these...Created 25 March 2025 • Updated 25 March 2025 -
Sea Ice PAR and Temperature Measurements, Cape Evans, 2022
Antarctica New ZealandPAR (Oddesey) and temperature sensors (Hobo) were deployed in the ice under red, green, and blue acrylic sheets to examine the response of rhodopsin-bearing cells to environmental stress. Sensors were placed near the top, middle and bottom of the sea ice and left in place for 2 weeks. GET DATA: ken.ryan@vuw.ac.nzCreated 25 March 2025 • Updated 25 March 2025 -
Life Beneath the Ice: Jellyfish and Ctenophores from the Ross Sea,...
Antarctica New ZealandThis Zenodo dataset contain the Common Objects in Context (COCO) files linked to the following publication: Each COCO zip folder contains an "annotations" folder including a json file and an "images" folder containing the annotated images. Verhaegen, G, Cimoli, E, & Lindsay, D (2021). Life beneath the ice: jellyfish and ctenophores from the Ross Sea,...Created 25 March 2025 • Updated 25 March 2025 -
Oxygen Concentrations by Microelectrode Profiling, Lake Fryxell and Lake Bonney, 2023
Antarctica New ZealandThis metadata record represents oxygen concentration measurements across six locations at Lake Fryxell and Lake Bonney. GET DATA: ian.hawes@waikato.ac.nzCreated 25 March 2025 • Updated 25 March 2025 -
Oceanographic Casts (CTD, Turbidity, ADCP, Turbulence) at Kamb Ice Stream...
Antarctica New ZealandData target a major subglacial outlet river emerging from beneath the Kamb Ice Stream site 1 (KIS). These data were used to determine both the role of water beneath the ice sheets and the ice-ocean interactions that take place once this water emerges into the ice shelf cavity. Turbulence measured with VMP microstructure profiler to characterise the mixing...Created 25 March 2025 • Updated 25 March 2025 -
Digital Photographs of 14 Glaciers across the Victoria, Wright and Taylor...
Antarctica New ZealandThe Dry Valleys region contains many unusual and fascinating geographical features, with some of the most stunning being the frozen-based alpine glaciers that flow from the ranges of the Victoria, Wright and Taylor Valleys. In the summers of 1970 to 1974, the lower margins and termini of 14 glaciers were selected to be photographed from locations and...Created 25 March 2025 • Updated 25 March 2025 -
Aerosol Chemistry and Phytoplankton Biomarker Dataset from Snow Samples,...
Antarctica New ZealandThis metadata record represents data generated from snow samples - chemical composition (water isotopes, soluble ions, organic compounds, insoluble particles) GET DATA: holly.winton@vuw.ac.nzCreated 25 March 2025 • Updated 25 March 2025 -
Environmental Datalogger Array, Lake Bonney, 2024
Antarctica New ZealandThis metadata record represents one datalogger array at Lake Bonney. These data were used to investigate how the environment is changing as lake levels rise and the ice thins. It provides the context for evaluating the responses of ecosystems. GET DATA: ian.hawes@waikato.ac.nzCreated 25 March 2025 • Updated 25 March 2025 -
Oceanographic Mooring: Continuous Temperature, Salinity, and Current Flow...
Antarctica New ZealandThe oceanographic mooring (-77.891050, 166.258333) provided year-round characterisation of the water column near Cape Armitage. Depth, Temperature, Salinity, and Density records from the three microcat (SBE37) instruments deployed at nominal depths of: - 84 mSBL, - 252 mBSL, - 452 mBSL. This collection includes: - 11 instruments - Temperature logger...Created 25 March 2025 • Updated 25 March 2025 -
Autonomous Phase-Sensitive Radio Echo Sounder (ApRES) Measurements at Kamb...
Antarctica New ZealandThis metadata record represents ApRES (Autonomous phase-sensitive Radio Echo Sounder) measurements conducted at Kamb Ice Stream 3 (KIS3). . GET DATA: r.levy@gns.cri.nzCreated 25 March 2025 • Updated 25 March 2025 -
Far- and Mid- Infrared FTS measurements: Greenhouse and Ozone Depleting...
Antarctica New ZealandMeasurements of partial and total column of several atmospheric trace gases (e.g.O3, HCl, N2O, CH4, HNO3, ClONO2, HCN, HF, OCS, CO, C2H6, CFC-11, CFC-12, COF2 + others). Measurements are made with Bruker Fourier transform spectrometers, using direct sunlight (or moonlight) at infrared wavelengths (700-10000cm-1). The Bruker FTS instruments have two liquid...Created 25 March 2025 • Updated 25 March 2025