2003-002

01 Nov 02 – 15 Feb 2005

Taking; Entry into ASPA

Cape Crozier (ASPA #154); Cape Royds (ASPA #121); Beaufort Island (ASPA #105; Cape Adare (ASPA # 158)

Tag chicks, collect stomach samples, weigh, attach PTT tags to investigate the demography of Adelie penguins inhabiting a cluster of colonies on Ross and Beaufort Island to determine why some colonies are growing more quickly than others.

2003-003

01 Oct 02 – 01 Oct 2003

Taking; Import into the U.S.; Entry into ASPA

Cape Crozier (ASPA #541); Beaufort Island (ASPA #105)

Census the Emperor  penguin colonies at these two locations to determine the extent of the adverse impact of the B15 iceberg has had on these colonies

2003-004

01 Oct 02 – 30 Sep 2007

Taking

Palmer Station, Anvers Island and Marguerite Bay vicinity, Antarctic Peninsula

Census, tag, weigh, collect stomach samples, and attach transmitters to seabirds as a continuation of a long-term ecological research program to assess how annual environ-mental variability affects seabird populations.

2003-005

01 Oct 02 – 30 Sep 2007

Taking; Entry into APSA

Litchfield Island (ASPA #113); Biscoe Point (ASPA #139); Dion Island (ASPA #107); Avian Island (ASPA #117); & Lagotellerie Island (ASPA #115)

Census, tag, weigh, collect stomach samples, and attach transmitters to seabirds as a continuation of a long-term ecological research program to assess how annual environ-mental variability affects seabird populations.

2003-006

01 Oct 02 – 30 Sep 2007

Taking

Palmer Station and vicinity

Salvage specimens of various species, that died of natural causes, and preserve for use in teaching and research institutions.

2003-007

01 Oct 02 – 28 Feb 2003

Entry into ASPA

Beaufort Island (ASPA #105), New College Valley (ASPA #116), Cape Royds (ASPA #121), and Cape Crozier (ASPA #124)

Photo documentation of adverse affects of the large icebergs in McMurdo Sound on the local penguin rookeries.

2003-008

01 Dec 02 – 01 Apr 2003

Take and Import into U.S.A.

Palmer Station and local islands in the vicinity

Collect small bones, feathers, broken egg shells, etc. for educational displays in elementary  schools.

2003-009

01 Oct 02 – 28 Feb 2004

Take and Import into the U.S.

Crary Lab, McMurdo Station

Import E. coli and algae cultures to be used to replicate DNA during gene cloning, and as food for antarctic larval forms reared in the lab.  All cultures will be sterilized and or auto-laved to kill the cells at the end of the season.

2003-010

01 Nov 02 – 31 Jan 2003

Entry into ASPA

Fildes Peninsula (ASPA #125), Byers Peninsula (ASPA #126), Potter Peninsula (ASPA #132), Chile Bay (Discovery Bay) (ASPA #144), Cape Shirreff (ASPA #149), Ardley Island (ASPA #150), Lions Rump (ASPA #151), & Western Bransfield Strait (ASPA #152)

Access to sites to examine the glacial geology and raised beaches of the South Shetland Islands in order to gain a better understanding of the climate and glacial history of the area.  Dig small pits in the sediment to examine internal structure and to collect samples for later grain-size analysis and radiocarbon dating.

2003-011

05 Oct 02 – 31 Dec 2002

Take

McMurdo Station and immediate vicinity

To quantify the dynamics of lipid uptake and utilization in naturally foraging mammalian carnivores, such as seals.  Blood samples will be taken to gain insight into the difficult field of carnivore foraging biology.

2003-012

01 Oct 02 – 28 Feb 2007

Take, Entry into ASPA, & Import into the U.S.A.

White Island (ASPA #137), McMurdo Sound, & Ross Sea

Continuation of a long-term research program on Weddell seals.  Seals will be censused, tagged, weighed, blood, urine samples taken, VHF & satellite transmitters 

2003-013

05 Nov 02 – 28 Feb 2003

Introduce non-indigenous species to Antarctica

Crary Science & Engineering Lab, McMurdo Station

Use of brine shrimp larva as food for Antarctic larval fish for use within the Crary Lab.

2003-015

07 Oct 02 – 31 Jan 2003

Entry into ASPA

Cape Evans hut (ASPA #154), Cape Royds hut (ASPA #156), & Discovery hut (ASPA #157)

Photograph imagines from the historic huts for an article in the New York Time science section, and to take images for a book on the history of human habitation in Antarctica. 

2003-016

02 Jan 02 – 28 Feb 2003

Entry into ASPA

Camp facilities at Cape Crozier (ASPA #124)

To perform an Environmental Field Camp Audit to include documentation of camp footprint, as well as compliance of applicable waste and E,H&S protocols.

2003-017

05 Apr 03 – 30 Aug 2005

Introduce non-indigenous species into Antarctica

Vicinities of Low, Brabant, Anvers, and Livingston Islands, Antarctic Peninsula

Use frozen fish tissues from fish species native to Patagonia, Chile, as bait in experimental fishing of fish traps/pots.  Collected fish will be used in the study of biochemistry and molecular biology of  Antarctic fishes.

2003-018

05 Apr 03 – 30 Aug 2005

Introduce non-indigenous species into Antarctica

Vicinities of Low, Brabant, Anvers, and Livingston Islands, Antarctic Peninsula

Use frozen fish tissues from fish species native to Patagonia, Chile, as bait in experimental fishing of fish traps/pots.  Collected fish will be used in the study of biochemistry and molecular biology of  Antarctic fishes.