Award: ANT-9632763

Project: Palmer Station Antarctica Long Term Ecological Research site

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2-minute PALMOS automatic weather station meteorological measurements (precipitation, radiation, cloud base, temperature, etc.) from Palmer Station Antarctica, 2001 - March 2017.
Abundance of ammonia oxidizing bacteria and archaea that were collected on LMG 06-01 (archaea) at discrete depths, 2006.
Adelie penguin 1:2 chick nest ratio, 1991-2021
Adelie penguin area-wide breeding population census, 1991-2021
Adelie penguin breeding population arrival chronology on Humble Island, 1991-2021
Adelie penguin chick fledging weights, 1991-2021
Adelie penguin colony-specific chick production, 1991-2021
Adelie penguin diet composition, fish species and number, 1991-2021
Adelie penguin diet composition, krill size frequency distribution, 1991-2021
Adelie penguin diet composition, preliminary analyses of whole samples, 1991-2021
Adelie penguin diet composition, secondary prey items, 1991-2020
Adelie penguin diet metadata, 1991-2024
Adelie penguin flipper band resightings, 1991 - 2006.
Adelie penguin reproduction success, 1991-2021
Antarctic krill wet weight, total length and sexual maturity from throughout the mesoscale Palmer LTER region using 2-M metro trawl towed in the upper 120 m. Data collected aboard cruises off the coast of the Western Antarctic Penninsula, 1997 - 2007.
At-sea seabird censuses. Data on the species encountered (including marine mammals), their abundance, distribution and behavior. Data collected aboard cruises off the coast of the Western Antarctic Penninsula, 1993 - 2018.
At-sea seabird censuses. Data on the species encountered (including marine mammals), their abundance, distribution and behavior. Data collected aboard cruises off the coast of the Western Antarctic Penninsula, 1993 - 2018.
At-sea seabird censuses. Data on the species encountered (including marine mammals), their abundance, distribution and behavior. Data collected aboard cruises off the coast of the Western Antarctic Penninsula, 1993 - present.
At-sea seabird censuses. Data on the species encountered (including marine mammals), their abundance, distribution and behavior. Data collected aboard cruises off the coast of the Western Antarctic Penninsula, 1993, 1999 and 2001.
At-sea seabird censuses. Data on the species encountered (including marine mammals), their abundance, distribution and behavior. Data collected aboard cruises off the coast of the Western Antarctic Penninsula, 1993, 1999 and 2001.
At-sea seabird censuses. Data on the species encountered (including marine mammals), their abundance, distribution and behavior. Data collected aboard cruises off the coast of the Western Antarctic Penninsula, 1993, 1999 and 2001.
Average monthly sea ice coverage for the PAL LTER region West of the Antarctic Peninsula derived from passive microwave, 1978 - July 2023.
Average yearly sea ice coverage for the PAL LTER region West of the Antarctic Peninsula derived from passive microwave satellite, 1979 - 2022.
Bacterial abundance and produciton at the Palmer Station LTER sites B and E in May 2011 and 2012
Bacterial properties in discrete water column samples at selected depths, collected aboard Palmer LTER annual cruises off the coast of the Western Antarctica Peninsula, 2003 - 2019.
Bacterial properties in discrete water column samples collected during Palmer LTER station seasons at Palmer Station Antarctica, 2002 - 2017.
Biological and chemical data taken during a CO2 perturbation experiment with adult Antarctic krill, during a Palmer LTER cruise in January 2011
Calculated abundances for krill, salp and species of zooplankton. Data collected aboard cruises off the coast of the Western Antarctic Penninsula, 1993 - 2004.
Chlorophyll and phaeopigments from water column samples, collected at selected depths aboard Palmer LTER annual cruises off the coast of the Western Antarctic Peninsula, 1991 – 2019.
Chlorophyll and phaeopigments from water column samples, collected at selected depths at Palmer Station Antarctica, during the Palmer LTER field seasons, 1991 – 2021.
Chlorophyll determined by extraction of samples taken approximately weekly from seawater intake starting at Palmer Station by station personnel including during winter-over period, 1991 – May 2021.
Conductivity Temperature Depth (CTD) sensor profile data binned by depth from PAL LTER annual cruises, 1991 - 2017 (ongoing).
Daily averaged weather timeseries (air temperature, pressure, wind speed, wind direction, precipitation, sky cover) at Palmer Station, Antarctica combining manual observations (1989 - Dec 12, 2003) and PALMOS automatic weather station measurements (Dec 13, 2003 - March 2019).
Data from oceanographic moorings deployed on the Antarctic Continental Shelf (and inshore) west of the Antarctic Peninsula as part of the Palmer Long Term Ecological Research Project (PAL LTER), 2007 - 2017.
Dissolved inorganic carbon and alkalinity of discrete water column samples, collected aboard Palmer LTER annual cruises of the Western Antarctic Peninsula, 1993 - 2019.
Dissolved inorganic nutrients including 5 macro nutrients: silicate, phosphate, nitrate, nitrite, and ammonium from water column bottle samples collected between October and April at Palmer Station, 1991 - 2018.
Dissolved inorganic nutrients including 5 macro nutrients: silicate, phosphate, nitrate, nitrite, and ammonium from water column bottle samples collected during annual cruise along western Antarctic Peninsula, 1991 - 2018.
Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) taken from discrete water column samples collected between October and April at Palmer Station, 2002-2012.
Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) taken from discrete water column samples collected during annual cruise along western Antarctic Peninsula, 2003-2012.
Dissolved oxygen of discrete water column samples at selected depths collected aboard Palmer LTER annual cruises off the coast of the Western Antarctic Peninsula, 1993 - 2012.
Elemental composition, respiration, and excretion measurements of pteropods collected from the PAL LTER research cruises along the Western Antarctic Peninsula 2017-2019.
Euphausia superba length frequency from zooplankton collected with a 2-m, 700-um net towed from surface to 120 m, aboard Palmer LTER annual cruises off the coast of the Western Antarctic Peninsula, 1993 - 2023.
Flow cytometry data for SYBR-Green stained samples collected as part of the Palmer LTER project off the western Antarctic Peninsula, 2010 - 2014.
Inherent optical properties measured at selected water-column depths, collected aboard Palmer LTER Annual cruises off the coast of the Western Antarctic Penninsula, 2009.
Inherent optical properties measured at selected water-column depths, collected at Palmer Station Antarctica, 2008/2009 field season.
Intercompartmental trophic exchanges from an inverse plankton foodweb model for the north and south penguin foraging regions in the Palmer LTER study area, 1995 - 2006.
Isotopic signatures of diet provisioned to 15 day old chick Pygoscelis penguins reared along the Palmer Archipelago near Palmer Station, 2007-2009
Isotopic signatures of diet provisioned to 5 day old chick Pygoscelis penguins reared along the Palmer Archipelago near Palmer Station, 2007-2009
Isotopic signatures of diet provisioned to 5 week old chick Pygoscelis penguins reared along the western Antarctic Peninsula, 2007-2009
Isotopic signatures of foraging among adult Pygoscelis penguins nesting along the Palmer Archipelago near Palmer Station, 2007-2009
Isotopic signatures of penguin food-web components along the western Antarctic Peninsula, 2009-2011
Larval euphausiids collected using a 1 x 1 m square frame net with 333-μm mesh aboard Palmer LTER annual cruises off the coast of the Western Antarctic Peninsula, 1993-2013
Length of Salpa thompsoni collected with a 2-m, 700-um net towed from surface to 120 m, collected aboard Palmer LTER annual cruises off the coast of the Western Antarctic Peninsula, 2009 - 2020.
Macrozooplankton taxonomic density collected using a 1 x 1 m square net with 700-μm mesh at Palmer Station, Antarctica during Palmer LTER field seasons, 2017-2020
Marine Mammal Survey, Sightings and Sampling Event Log at Palmer Station, Antarctica, 2020-2024
Merged discrete water-column data from PAL LTER research cruises along the Western Antarctic Peninsula, from 1991 to 2020.
Merged discrete water-column data from annual PAL LTER field seasons at Palmer Station, Antarctica, from 1991 to 2021.
Monthly averaged weather timeseries (temperature, pressure and melted precipitation) from Palmer Station, Antarctica derived from "Palmer Station Weather - Daily Averages" (1989 - March 2019) with additional historic temperature measurements (1974 - 1989).
Nitrate (15N) Uptake from samples collected aboard Palmer LTER annual cruises off the Western Antarctic Peninsula, 2012-2014
Nitrate (15N) Uptake near Palmer Station, 2012-2013
Nuclear genetic markers used to infer population genetic structure among breeding Adelie penguins from four regional rookeries along the western Antarctic Peninsula, 2008-2011.
Palmer (PAL) log of events aboard Palmer LTER cruises off the coast of the Western Antarctic Peninsula (cruise happenings ordered by time) is a meta dataset, including lat-lon, datetime, activity, events, etc, 1991 - 2016.
Palmer Station VERTEX-style Sediment Trap measurements, 50 m depth, 2012-2013
Particulate organic carbon and nitrogen measurements from Go-Flo bottles sampling the water column from a zodiac during Palmer LTER station seasons at Palmer Station Antarctica, 1991 - 2012.
Particulate organic carbon and nitrogen measurements from water column sample bottles, collected aboard Palmer LTER annual cruises off the Western Antarctic Peninsula, 1991 - 2012. Cruise PD94-01 not included in time series for lack of samples
Photosynthesis-irradiance measurements collected during Palmer LTER station seasons at Palmer Station Antarctica, 1991 - 1993.
Photosynthesis-irradiance measurements used to derive P-I relationships and to calculate primary production for each discrete sample. Samples collected aboard Palmer LTER annual cruises off the coast of the Western Antarctic Peninsula, 1991 - 1993.
Photosynthetic pigments of water column samples analyzed using High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC), sampled during the Palmer LTER field seasons at Palmer Station, Antarctica, 1991 – 2019.
Photosynthetic pigments of water column samples and analyzed with High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC), collected aboard Palmer LTER annual cruises off the coast of the Western Antarctica Peninsula, 1991 - 2020.
Sea ice duration or the time elapse between day of advance and day of retreat within a given sea ice year for the PAL LTER region West of the Antarctic Peninsula derived from passive microwave satellite, 1979 - 2023.
Sediment trap in nearshore waters collected during Palmer LTER station season at Palmer Station Antarctica, 1992 - 1995.
Sediment trap results from Amundsen Sea Polynya International Research Expedition (ASPIRE) including C, N and mass fluxes and isotopic composition, Dec 2010 - Dec 2011
Shell lengths of pteropod, Limacina helicina antarctica, collected from the PAL LTER sediment trap along the Western Antarctic Peninsula, 2004 - 2018, and from net tows 2017-2018.
Skin-blubber biopsy samples and associated demographic data collected from cetaceans encountered along the Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP), 2010 – present.
Sources of oceanic freshwater content along the western Antarctic Peninsula (PAL-LTER Study Region) determined by the stable isotope composition (d18O) of seawater.
Stable isotope composition (d18O) of seawater from stations in the Palmer LTER Study Site
Standard body length of Euphausia superba collected with a 2-m, 700-um net towed from surface to 120 m, collected aboard Palmer LTER annual cruises off the coast of the Western Antarctic Peninsula, 2009 - 2020.
Station locations for the 20km x 10km Palmer Station Antarctica LTER sampling grid.
Station locations for the full Palmer Station Antarctica LTER sampling grid including the 20km x 10km grid, 5km x 5km grid, inshore stations, Palmer basin stations, high density grid, picket line 10km, picket line 3km and picket line multi.
Structural size measurements and isotopic signatures of foraging among adult male and female Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) nesting along the Palmer Archipelago near Palmer Station, 2007-2009
Structural size measurements and isotopic signatures of foraging among adult male and female Chinstrap penguins (Pygoscelis antarcticus) nesting along the Palmer Archipelago near Palmer Station, 2007-2009
Structural size measurements and isotopic signatures of foraging among adult male and female gentoo penguins (Pygoscelis papua) nesting along the Palmer Archipelago near Palmer Station, 2007-2009
Terminus lines of the Marr Piedmont Glacier at Palmer Station, Antarctica, from 1963 to 2023.
Vertical fluxes of particulate carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus from a sediment trap deployed west of Palmer Station, Antarctica at a depth of 170 meters, 1992-2019.
Water column primary production from inorganic carbon uptake for 24h at simulated in situ (SIS) light levels in deck incubators, collected aboard Palmer LTER annual cruises off the coast of the Western Antarctic Peninsula, 1995 – 2019.
Water column primary production from inorganic carbon uptake for 24h at simulated in situ light levels in deck incubators, collected at Palmer Station Antarctica during Palmer LTER field seasons, 1994 – 2020.
Watercolumn total Th-234 from samples collected aboard Palmer Station Antarctica LTER annual cruises off the western antarctic peninsula, 2012-2014
Watercolumn total Th-234, Palmer Station, 2012-2013
Zooplankton collected aboard Palmer Station LTER annual cruises off the western antarctic peninsula, 1993 - 2008.
Zooplankton collected with a 1.4-m2 frame, 500-μm mesh Multiple Opening/Closing Net and Environmental Sensing System (MOCNESS) aboard Palmer LTER annual cruises off the coast of the Western Antarctic Peninsula, 2009-2017
Zooplankton collected with a 2-m, 700-um net towed from surface to 120 m, aboard Palmer Station Antarctica LTER annual cruises off the western Antarctic peninsula, 2009 - 2020.

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Award: ANT-9011927
Award URL: http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=9011927 
Principal Investigator: Robin M. Ross (University of California-Santa Barbara)
Co-Principal Investigator(s): Raymond C Smith, Langdon B Quetin
Datasets funded from this award: 

Award: ANT-0823101
Award URL: http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0823101 
Principal Investigator: Hugh W. Ducklow (Marine Biological Laboratory)
Datasets funded from this award: 

Award: ANT-0217282
Award URL: http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0217282 
Principal Investigator: Hugh W. Ducklow (College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science)
Datasets funded from this award: 

Award: PLR-1344502
Award URL: http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1344502 
Principal Investigator: Hugh W. Ducklow (Columbia University)
Datasets funded from this award: