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Section XIII of the 1998-99 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

BO-004-O

14C

15N

14C - bicarbonate 15N2,15NO3,15NH4

McMurdo Station

Metabolic studies of microscopic algae in permanent ice and snow

BO-010-O

14C

14C - Sodium Bicarbonate

R/V/ LAURENCE M. GOULD

New approaches to Measuring and Understanding the Effects of Ultraviolet Radiation on Photosynthesis by antarctic Phytoplankton on the Weddell Sea and Palmer Station

BO-012-O

3H

3H - Ouabain solution

McMurdo Station

Binding assay to study Nalk-ATPase

BP-016-O

14C

14C - Sodium bicarbonate

Palmer Station; R/V LAURENCE M. GOULD; R/V NATHANIEL B. PALMER

Palmer Station/LM Gould: LTER on the Antarctic Marine Ecosystem: An Ice Dominated Environment - Phytoplankton Ecology Component

BO-037-O

35S

35S - Methionine/ Cysteine Mix

Palmer Station

Molecular Adaptations of Microtubule Production in Antarctic Fish

BM-042-P

3H

14C

3H - Thymidine

14C - Carbonate/Bicarbonate

McMurdo Station/Dry Valleys

McMurdo Dry Valleys: A Cold Desert Ecosystem

BO-044-O

14C

3H

14C - Sodium Bicarbonate

3H - Thymidone

3H - Leucine

3H - Amino Acid Mix

McMurdo Station/Dry Valleys

Metabolic studies microbial communities in the permanent ice covers on lakes in the McMurdo Dry Valleys

BP-046-O

3H

14C

3H - Leucine

14C - Sodium Bicarbonate

R/V LAURENCE M. GOULD; R/V NATHANIEL B. PALMER

LTER: Microbiology and carbon flux

BO-085-O

14C

14C - Sodium Bicarbonate

14C - Glucose

R/V LAURENCE M. GOULD

Adaptations of organisms at the sulfide and methane containing hydrothermal areas of Deception Island

AO-109-O

241Am

241Am - Metal Disk

South Pole Station

South Pole Air Shower Experiment (SPASE)-2

BO-200-O

3H

14C

3H - Leucine

14C -

R/V LAURENCE M. GOULD; Weddell Sea

Determination of bacteria plankton response to UV radiation in the Weddell Sea and Palmer Station LTER grid.

OR-216-B

3H

3H - Leucine

R/V NATHANIEL B. PALMER

Research on Ocean-Atmosphere Variability in Ecosystem Response in the Ross Sea (ROAVERRS)

OR-216-C

3H
14C

3H - Leucine
14C - Thymidine

R/V NATHANIEL B. PALMER

Research on Ocean-Atmosphere Variabaility and Ecosystem Response in the Ross Sea (ROAVERRS)

OO-257-O

63Ni

63Ni - Foil or Plated source

South Pole Station

South Pole Monitoring for Climatic Change:

U.S. Deparment of Commerce; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory (Source is inside an electron capture detector of a gas chromatograph)

BO-267-O

3H

3H - Water

Cape Shirreff; Livingston Island

To determine the energetic costs and benefits of different foraging patterns of South Shetland Antarctic fur seals off of Cape Shirreff and Livingston Island

OO-270-O

241Am

241Am - Sealed Sources

South Pole Station

Investigation of sulfur chemistry in the Antarctic Troposphere (ISCAT); these sources are used to generate ions for the mass spectrometers and an aerosol monitor.

BO-301-O

35S

14C

32P

33P

3H

35S - Methionine

14C - Amino Acids

32P - Nucleic Acids

33P - Nucleic Acids

3H - Amino Acid

McMurdo Station

Metabolic studies of various Antarctic organisms

BX-325-O

14C

14C - Sodium Bicarbonate

R/V NATHANIEL B. PALMER; Ross Sea

Primary productivity station Ross Sea

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