2008/09 V5 details

General information

Season
2008/09
Voyage
V5

Ship

Aurora Australis


©AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1997
Catalogue id
2439B3
Caption
Pumping fuel to Mirny
Photographer
McCormack, David (Dave)

Leader

Voyage Leader

Pete Perderson

Deputy Voyage Leader

Karin Beaumont

Voyage Objectives

Davis Personnel Retrieval & Macquarie Island Resupply

Voyage Reports

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

Schedule

FromDepartToArrive
Hobart  24-Feb-2009  Davis  6-Mar-2009 
Davis  9-Mar-2009  Macquarie Island  19-Mar-2009 
Macquarie Island  25-Mar-2009  Hobart  28-Mar-2009 

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

42° 52.9' S
76° 04.9' E 159° 01.5' E
68° 34.4' S

Voyage Data and Activities

Voyage activities

ActivityDetails
Underway Data & Voyage Tracks - Link to data at Underway Data & Voyage Tracks

Data from 24-Feb-2009 00:00 UT to 26-Mar-2009 00:00 UT

For data quality, methods used etc., see 200809050 - Aurora Australis Voyage V5 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]
124 Concentration and isotopic measurements of radiatively important gases in the southern atmosphere [observational]
472 Continuous plankton recorder survey [observational]
701 Long-term monitoring of the mesopause region via hydroxyl emissions at Davis
1163 Remediation of petroleum contaminants in the Antarctic and subantarctic
1302 The carbon cycle in the Australian sector of the Southern Ocean
1307 Sea ice primary production off eastern Antarctica
2153 Investigation of virus biodiversity in antarctic terrestrial plants
2244 Measurements of stratospheric nitrogen dioxide at Macquarie Island [observational]
2337 Experimental studies into growth and ageing of krill
2683 Passive acoustic monitoring of antarctic marine mammals
2752 Photosynthetic condition of Southern Ocean phytoplankton
2933 Developing water and sediment quality guidelines for Antarctica: Responses of Antarctic marine biota to contaminants.
2940 Winter Foraging Locations Of Southern Ocean Predators - sub antarctic islands
2941 Conservation and Management Science of Marine Mammals