2008/09 V1 details

General information

Season
2008/09
Voyage
V1

Ship

Aurora Australis


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

Leader

Voyage Leader

Tony Worby

Deputy Voyage Leader

John Prichard

Voyage Objectives

Deploy and retrieve personnel - Davis Changeover and Resupply Ice radar project

Voyage Reports

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

Schedule

FromDepartToArrive
Hobart  12-Oct-2008  Casey  20-Oct-2008 
Casey  25-Oct-2008  Davis  1-Nov-2008 
Davis  10-Nov-2008  Hobart  21-Nov-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

42° 50.6' S
76° 09.1' E 147° 41.0' E
68° 36.6' S

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

Voyage Data and Activities

Voyage activities

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

Data from 12-Oct-2008 00:00 UT to 21-Nov-2008 00:00 UT

For data quality, methods used etc., see 200809010 - Aurora Australis Voyage V1 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]
472 Continuous plankton recorder survey [observational]
1156 Sub-Antarctic zone mooring study of interannual variability in particulate carbon export
1159 Antarctic Geodesy Program [observational]
1163 Remediation of petroleum contaminants in the Antarctic and subantarctic
1302 The carbon cycle in the Australian sector of the Southern Ocean
2337 Experimental studies into growth and ageing of krill
2899 Metagenomics of Antarctic Lakes: a Model for Defining Microbial Biogeochemical Processes in the Cold
3012 Physical and biological processes associated with early season (April-May) sea ice growth and ice edge location
3025 Aurora Basin North Ice Core Drilling 08/09: Past and Present Climate
3026 The role of iron as a micro-nutrient to the Antarctic sea-ice zone algal community
3054 Ecological risks from oil products used in Antarctica: characterising hydrocarbon behaviour and assessing toxicity on sensitive early life stages of Antarctic marine invertebrates
3064 High resolution studies of cosmogenic beryllium isotopes (10Be and 7Be) at Law Dome
3103 ICECAP - Casey/Aurora Basin Component