NSF/OPP Antarctic Treaty Report- Radioactive Materials 2004-2005 Plans

Section XIII of the 2004-2005 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 ³⁵S- DMSP ¹⁴C DMSP	R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer	Impact of solar radiation and nutrients on biogeochemical cycling of DMSP and DMS in the Ross Sea
B-006-M	¹⁴C ³H ³⁵S ³²P ³³P	¹⁴C - Alanine ¹⁴C - ATP ¹⁴C - Sodium bicarbonate ¹⁴C - Leucine ³H - Lysine ³H - Uridine ³H - Histidine ¹⁴C - Amino acid Mix ³⁵S - Methionine ³²P - ATP ³³P - ATP	McMurdo Station	Energetics of protein metabolism during development of Antarctic echinoderms
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-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	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 Bicarbonate	R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer	Interactive effects of UV and vertical mixing and phytoplankton and bacteriplankton in the Ross Sea
B-300-M	³H ¹⁴C	³H Thymidine ¹⁴C Sodium Bicarbonate	McMurdo Station	Biochemistry of dissolved organic material in Pony Lake, Ross Island
B-310-M	¹⁴C	³H Thymidine	McMurdo Station/ Taylor Valley	What limits denitrification and bacterial growth in Lake Bonney, Taylor Valley, Antarctica
B-420-M	²²⁶Ra ²⁰⁹Po	²²⁶Ra – LSC Vials ²⁰⁹Po – Aqueous in 0.5M HCl	McMurdo Station/ Dry Valleys	McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER
B-422-M	¹⁴C ³H	¹⁴C – Bicarbonate ³H – Thymidine	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 ¹⁴C - Sucrose	McMurdo Station/Dry Valleys	McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER
O-215-N	⁶³Ni	⁶³Ni foil	R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer	ANSLOPE - Cross slope exchanges at the Antarctic Slope Front (source is inside an electron capture detector of a gas chromatograph)
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)