1999/2000 V2 details

General information

Season
1999/2000
Voyage
V2

Ship

Aurora Australis


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

Leader

Voyage Leader

Warren Papworth

Deputy Voyage Leader

Christine Wooley

Voyage Objectives

Davis Resupply, Deploy Summer Ex

Voyage Reports

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

Schedule

FromDepartToArrive
Hobart  4-Oct-1999  Mawson  21-Oct-1999 
Mawson  24-Oct-1999  Davis  29-Oct-1999 
Davis  1-Nov-1999  Mawson  8-Nov-1999 
Mawson  8-Nov-1999  Hobart  19-Nov-1999 

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

See the 1999/2000 Voyage Schedule for other voyages for this season.

Voyage track

Spatial bounds of voyage

42° 50.6' S
64° 55.0' E 147° 28.6' E
68° 34.9' S

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

Voyage Data and Activities

Biological Collections

List of collections of species data collected on this voyage. Some collections are voyage specific or might be from a wider set of observations or samples.

Collection NameObservation countLink to data search form
Seabirds of the Southern and South Indian Ocean 448 Search
Southern Ocean Continuous Zooplankton Recorder (SO-CPR) Survey 749 Search

Voyage activities

ActivityDetails
Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) tows Number of segments = 98 - Link to data at Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) tows

Data from 11-Oct-1999 07:50 UT to 12-Nov-1999 19:01 UT

For data quality, methods used etc., see AADC-00099 - Southern Ocean Continuous Zooplankton Records at GCMD
Underway Data & Voyage Tracks 389215 positions recorded. - Link to data at Underway Data & Voyage Tracks

Data from 1-Oct-1999 06:24 UT to 19-Nov-1999 05:05 UT

For data quality, methods used etc., see 199900020 - Aurora Australis 1999-00 Voyage 2 Underway Data at GCMD
Wildlife at Sea observations Observed 27 species from 491 observations. See Species and observation count - Link to data at Wildlife at Sea observations

Data from 5-Oct-1999 06:15 UT to 12-Nov-1999 07:00 UT

For data quality, methods used etc., see DB_WOV *** 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]
514 Upper atmosphere dynamics and thermodynamics
606 Observations of ULF space plasma waves in Antarctica
1129 Proterozoic and Palaeozoic evolution of the Rauer Group
2276 Determination of the ultraviolet radiation environment at the Australian Antarctic Stations (Now Project 3106)