Permit #
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Active Dates
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Permit Activity
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Location
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Purpose
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2003-002
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01 Nov 02 – 15 Feb 2005
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Taking; Entry into ASPA
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Cape Crozier
(ASPA #154); Cape Royds (ASPA #121); Beaufort Island (ASPA #105;
Cape Adare (ASPA # 158)
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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.
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2003-003
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01 Oct
02 – 01 Oct 2003
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Taking; Import into the U.S.; Entry
into ASPA
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Cape Crozier (ASPA #541); Beaufort
Island (ASPA #105)
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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
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2003-004
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01 Oct
02 – 30 Sep 2007
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Taking
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Palmer Station, Anvers Island and
Marguerite Bay vicinity, Antarctic Peninsula
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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.
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2003-005
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01 Oct
02 – 30 Sep 2007
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Taking; Entry into APSA
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Litchfield Island (ASPA #113); Biscoe
Point (ASPA #139); Dion Island (ASPA #107); Avian Island (ASPA #117);
& Lagotellerie Island (ASPA #115)
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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.
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2003-006
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01 Oct
02 – 30 Sep 2007
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Taking
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Palmer Station and vicinity
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Salvage specimens of various species,
that died of natural causes, and preserve for use in teaching and
research institutions.
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2003-007
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01 Oct
02 – 28 Feb 2003
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Entry into ASPA
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Beaufort Island (ASPA #105), New
College Valley (ASPA #116), Cape Royds (ASPA #121), and Cape Crozier
(ASPA #124)
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Photo documentation of adverse affects
of the large icebergs in McMurdo Sound on the local penguin rookeries.
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2003-008
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01 Dec
02 – 01 Apr 2003
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Take and Import into U.S.A.
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Palmer Station and local islands
in the vicinity
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Collect small bones, feathers, broken
egg shells, etc. for educational displays in elementary schools.
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2003-009
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01 Oct
02 – 28 Feb 2004
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Take and Import into the U.S.
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Crary Lab, McMurdo Station
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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.
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2003-010
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01 Nov
02 – 31 Jan 2003
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Entry into ASPA
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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)
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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.
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2003-011
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05 Oct
02 – 31 Dec 2002
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Take
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McMurdo Station and immediate vicinity
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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.
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2003-012
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01 Oct
02 – 28 Feb 2007
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Take, Entry into ASPA, & Import
into the U.S.A.
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White Island (ASPA #137), McMurdo
Sound, & Ross Sea
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Continuation of a long-term research
program on Weddell seals. Seals
will be censused, tagged, weighed, blood, urine samples taken, VHF
& satellite transmitters
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2003-013
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05 Nov
02 – 28 Feb 2003
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Introduce non-indigenous species
to Antarctica
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Crary Science & Engineering Lab,
McMurdo Station
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Use of brine shrimp larva as food
for Antarctic larval fish for use within the Crary Lab.
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2003-015
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07 Oct
02 – 31 Jan 2003
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Entry into ASPA
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Cape Evans hut (ASPA #154), Cape
Royds hut (ASPA #156), & Discovery hut (ASPA #157)
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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.
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2003-016
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02 Jan
02 – 28 Feb 2003
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Entry into ASPA
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Camp facilities at Cape Crozier (ASPA
#124)
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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.
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2003-017
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05 Apr
03 – 30 Aug 2005
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Introduce non-indigenous species
into Antarctica
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Vicinities of Low, Brabant, Anvers,
and Livingston Islands, Antarctic Peninsula
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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.
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2003-018
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05 Apr
03 – 30 Aug 2005
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Introduce non-indigenous species
into Antarctica
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Vicinities of Low, Brabant, Anvers,
and Livingston Islands, Antarctic Peninsula
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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.
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