NSF/OPP Antarctic Treaty Report- Radioactive Materials 2003-2004 Plans

Section XIII of the 2003-2004 season plans lists the radioactive materials to be used and provides information regarding their form, nuclide, site, and specific use.

PROJECT	NUCLIDE	FORM	SITE	USE
B-002-N	³H ³⁵S ¹⁴C	³H Leucine ³⁵S Methionine ¹⁴C DMSO	R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer	Impact of solar radiation and nutrients on biogeochemical cycling of DMSP and DMS in the Ross Sea
B-005-M	¹⁴C ³H	¹⁴C – Sodium Bicarbonate ³H- Leucine	McMurdo Station	Antifreeze Proteins in Antarctic Fishes
B-012-M	¹⁴C	¹⁴C- Polyethylene	McMurdo	Drinking and Na/k-Atpase alpha-subunit isoform expression in Antarctic fish
B-016-P/L	¹⁴C	¹⁴C - Sodium Bicarbonate	Palmer Station, R/V Laurence M. Gould	Palmer, Antarctica Long Term Ecological Research Project: Climate Migration, Ecological Response, and Teleconnections in an Ice-Dominated Environment (Phytoplankton Group)
B-029-M	³⁵S ¹⁴C	³⁵S Amino acid ¹⁴C Phenylalanine	McMurdo	Geonomic networks for cold-adaptation in embryos of marine polar invertebrates
B-045-P/L	³H	³H – Thymidine/leucine	Palmer Station R/V Laurence M. Gould	Palmer, Antarctica Long Term Ecological Research Project: Climate Migration, Ecological Response, and Teleconnections in an Ice-Dominated Environment
B-047-M	¹⁴C	¹⁴C – Sodium Bicarbonate ¹⁴C-Toluene	McMurdo Station, US Coast Guard Polar Star	Interannual Variability in the Antarctic Ross Sea: Nutrient Fields and Seasonal Productivity II
B-200-N	³H	³H Thymidine/leucine	R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer	Interactive effect of UV vertical mixing on phytoplankton and bacterial productivity of Ross Sea Phaeocystis bloom
B-203-N	¹⁴C	¹⁴C Sodium	R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer	Interactive effects of UV and vertical mixing and phytoplankton and bacteriplankton in the Ross Sea
B-228-L	¹⁴C ³H ⁵⁵Fe	¹⁴C Bicarbonate ³H Leucine/thymidine ⁵⁵Fe sealed source	R/V Laurence M. Gould	Plankton community structure and iron distribution in the Southern Drake passage
B-422-M	¹⁴C ³H	¹⁴C – Bicarbonate/ leucine ³H – Thymidine/toluene	McMurdo Station/Dry Valleys	The Role of Natural Legacy on Ecosystem Function and Structure in a Polar Desert
B-423-M	¹⁴C	¹⁴C - Sodium Bicarbonate	McMurdo Station	McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER
O-176-S	⁶³Ni ²⁴¹AM	⁶³Ni foil ²⁴¹AM sealed source	South Pole	Antarctic Troposphere chemistry investigation
O-257-S	⁶³Ni	⁶³Ni - Foil	South Pole Station	South Pole Monitoring for Climatic Change: U.S. Department of Commerce; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory (Source is inside an electron capture detector of a gas chromatograph)