2008/09 V2 details

General information

Season

2008/09

Voyage

V2

Ship

Aurora Australis

Leader

Voyage Leader

Robb Clifton

Deputy Voyage Leader

Andy Cianchi

Voyage Objectives

Casey Changeover and Davis Summer Personnel changeover

Voyage Reports

No reports known - if you know of any, please contact the Data Centre and we can add them.

Schedule

From	Depart	To	Arrive
Hobart	23-Nov-2008	Casey	3-Dec-2008
Casey	9-Dec-2008	Davis	15-Dec-2008
Davis	17-Dec-2008	Fremantle	27-Dec-2008

See also List of sitreps - not guaranteed to work as voyage naming conventions are not consistent.

See the 2008/09 Voyage Schedule for other voyages for this season.

Voyage track

Spatial bounds of voyage

	31° 56.0' S
72° 26.6' E		147° 29.9' E
	68° 34.9' S

Voyage Track map from the Marine Underway database, averaged every 15 minutes

Voyage Data and Activities

Voyage activities

Activity	Details
Underway Data & Voyage Tracks	- Link to data at Underway Data & Voyage Tracks Data from 23-Nov-2008 00:00 UT to 26-Dec-2008 00:00 UT For data quality, methods used etc., see 200809020 - Aurora Australis Voyage V2 2008/09 Track and Underway Data at GCMD

Weather

Science Projects

Note - this page lists projects where there has been some requirements logged. This may include requests that are not directly associated with any science performed on the ship.

Australian Antarctic Science Projects for voyage. Click on the project number to see Public details such as project metadata and Australian Antarctic Program publications.

7	Distribution, size and dissolution of Antarctic icebergs [observational]
29	Variations of cosmic radiation [observational]
40	The role of antarctic marine protists in trophodynamics and global change and the impact of UV-B on these organisms
472	Continuous plankton recorder survey [observational]
737	Lidar studies of atmospheric dynamics, composition and climatology
974	Atmospheric Electric Circuit Weather and Climate Research
1164	Ice shelf - ocean interaction in the cavity beneath the Amery Ice Shelf
1302	The carbon cycle in the Australian sector of the Southern Ocean
2337	Experimental studies into growth and ageing of krill
2516	Glacial Isostatic Rebound in East Antarctica
2519	Real-time monitoring of upper ocean variability in the Australian region of the Southern Ocean using Argo profiling floats (observational)
2668	Investigations of the Antarctic Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere using satellite data
2672	Pathways of alkane biodegradation in antarctic and subantarctic soils and sediments
2683	Passive acoustic monitoring of antarctic marine mammals
2699	Small-scale processes in Earth's mesosphere and thermosphere in the auroral zone
2722	Predator research survey and monitoring in support of CCAMLR's management of the krill fishery
2771	Enigmatic Orogeny during the dispersal of Rodinia: Deciphering the Record of Tectonic Reworking in the Vestfold Hills
2783	Dome A Terahertz Observatory (DATO)
2794	Winter foraging success of Southern Ocean predators in relation to stochastic variation in sea-ice extent and winter water formation
2899	Metagenomics of Antarctic Lakes: a Model for Defining Microbial Biogeochemical Processes in the Cold
2909	IPY: Coordinated Research into Antarctic Calving (CRAC) - Amery Ice Shelf component
2933	Developing water and sediment quality guidelines for Antarctica: Responses of Antarctic marine biota to contaminants.
2946	Development of an artificial “living” sediment to study the effects of metal contamination in Antarctic marine ecosystems.
2948	TRENZ: The TRophic Ecology of the antarctic Nearshore Zone: local and global constraints on patterns and processes
3008	Kerguelen Mixing Experiment