A-Z of Datasets
Alphabetical Index
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Datasets
AFI 01/01_01 - Biodiversity response to climate change: biodiversity and climate significance of Tertiary forest communities of Antarctica - Fossil wood & leaves of Tertiary age, Seymour Island & adjacent, 2001
During field work in 2001 over 1600 specimens were collected from four main fossil plant assemblages: the ''Nordenksjold flora'' from the Cross Valley Formation of Late Palaeocene age; and 3 floras from La Meseta Formation i) Flora2 from th...
AFI 01/01_02 - Biodiversity response to climate change: biodiversity and climate significance of Tertiary forest communities of Antarctica - Analysis of fossil wood & leaves of Tertiary age, Seymour Island&adjacent, 2001
Fossils from Palaeogene strata on Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula, were studied to determine the nature of vegetation response to the fundamental change from greenhouse to icehouse climates in Antarctica. Palaeoclimate data was derived ...
AFI 01/05_01 - Basal conditions on Rutford Ice Stream, West Antarctica: Hot-water drilling and down-hole instrumentation - Borehole sensors data, 2004/06
Approximatively 1MB of ice temperature data acquired during the RABID Project. Measured on a thermistor cable with 10 sensors located at depths between 15 m and 300 m below the surface. Collected between November 2004 and February 2006.
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AFI 01/05_02 - Basal conditions on Rutford Ice Stream, West Antarctica: Hot-water drilling and down-hole instrumentation - Drill monitoring data, 2004/06
Digital time series data collected for monitoring of drilling during the RABID Project. Water temperature, pressure, flow. Drill depth and hose tension.
Instrumentation:
SENSORS
Flow meter - Kobold Instruments Ltd, L25 axial turbine f...
AFI 01/05_03 - Basal conditions on Rutford Ice Stream, West Antarctica: Hot-water drilling and down-hole instrumentation - GPS data, 2004/06
GPS positions from sensors monitoring ice flow during the RABID Project (Leica and Trimble receivers). Five stations on the ice stream, plus one on slow-moving adjacent ice sheet (Fletcher Promontory), and one on a nunatak (unofficial name ...
AFI 01/05_04 - Basal conditions on Rutford Ice Stream, West Antarctica: Hot-water drilling and down-hole instrumentation - Seismic reflection data, 2004/06
Digital seismic reflection data (BISON 9024 seismograph) acquired during the RABID Project. Data collected using 24 channels, active source (explosives). Four single-fold lines. Line length 3.6 km.
Instrumentation
Data logger: BISON 902...
AFI 01/05_05 - Basal conditions on Rutford Ice Stream, West Antarctica: Hot-water drilling and down-hole instrumentation - Ice core samples, 2004/06
Sections of ice core acquired from upper 100 m of the ice stream during the RABID Project. Retrieved using hot-water corer. Cores taken at selected depths in two adjacent holes. Core section length = up to 4 m. Number of core sections = 6. ...
AFI 01/05_06 - Basal conditions on Rutford Ice Stream, West Antarctica: Hot-water drilling and down-hole instrumentation - Radar data, 2004/06
Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR) data acquired during the RABID Project with a Mala GPR....
AFI 01/05_07 - Basal conditions on Rutford Ice Stream, West Antarctica: Hot-water drilling and down-hole instrumentation - Weather data, 2004/06
Weather data acquired on Rutford Ice Stream during the RABID Project. Wind speed, wind direction, temperature, pressure, humidity, solar radiation recored with an HOBO AWS (Automatic Weather Station: data logger & sensors );...
AFI 01/08 - Imaging the plasmasphere from Antarctica - VLF Doppler (Doppler Radio Receiver) at Rothera 2001-2002
New instrumentation was deployed in the Antarctic Peninsula region to monitor conditions occurring in the region of near-space surrounding the Earth. The opportunity was taken to link into a NASA satellite mission occurring at the same time...
AFI 01/27_01 - Dyke intrusions as tracers of continental break-up processes - Rock samples collected in Dronning Maud Land in 2000/2001
The style and volume of magmatism varies between margins from large volume flood basalts such as the Parana or Deccan provinces to less volumetric margins such as the southern part of the South Atlantic. This CASE (Collaborative Awards in S...
AFI 01/27_02 - Dyke intrusions as tracers of continental break-up processes - Ar-Ar dating, field data and selected geochemical analysis data of rock samples collected in Dronning Maud Land in 2000/2001
The style and volume of magmatism varies between margins from large volume flood basalts such as the Parana or Deccan provinces to less volumetric margins such as the southern part of the South Atlantic. This case (Collaborative Awards in S...
AFI 02/30_01 - The status of dark septate fungi in Antarctic plant and soil communities - Fungal cultures, plant and soil samples (live and frozen) collected from the northern Antarctic Peninsula region in 2002/2003
Three plant species, the leafy liverwort Cephaloziella varians and the angiosperms Deschampsia antarctica and Colobanthus quitensis, were sampled from 12 islands across a 1480 km latitudinal gradient from South Georgia through to Adelaide I...
AFI 02/30_02 - The status of dark septate fungi in Antarctic plant and soil communities - Analysis of fungal cultures, plant and soil samples collected from the northern Antarctic Peninsula region in 2002/2003
This study investigated the status of dark septate ("DS") fungi in Antarctic plant and soil communities, with the aim of determining the abundance of DS fungi in plant roots and rhizoids, their taxonomic affinities and their symbi...
AFI 02/36_01 - Geochemical Tracing of Pacific-to-Atlantic Mantle Flow through the Drake Passage/Scotia Sea Gateway - Dredge sampling information from the Scotia Sea collected in February and March 2004
The target area was along the eastern segments of the West Scotia Ridge, an ocean spreading centre which stopped spreading about 10 million years ago. The spreading centre has high topographic relief and contains an axial rift, which has fl...
AFI 02/36_02 - Geochemical Tracing of Pacific-to-Atlantic Mantle Flow through the Drake Passage/Scotia Sea Gateway - Rock samples collected by dredging in the Scotia Sea, February and March 2004
Sampling was undertaken within the West Scotia Sea in an attempt to identify the boundary between the Pacific and Bouvet mantle domains and so understand, quantify and document the flow of mantle - which is important for understanding globa...
AFI 02/36_03 - Geochemical Tracing of Pacific-to-Atlantic Mantle Flow through the Drake Passage/Scotia Sea Gateway - Swath Bathymetry conducted in the Scotia Sea, February and March 2004
The target area was along the eastern segments of the West Scotia Ridge, an ocean spreading centre which stopped spreading about 10 million years ago. The spreading centre has high topographic relief and contains an axial rift, which has fl...
AFI 02/36_04 - Geochemical Tracing of Pacific-to-Atlantic Mantle Flow through the Drake Passage/Scotia Sea Gateway - Geochemical analysis of rock samples collected by dredging in the Scotia Sea, February and March 2004
The initial aim of this project was to carry out a higher resolution geochemical study of mantle flow using existing samples. This confirmed flow from the Bouvet domain into the East Scotia Sea and placed constraints on flow pathways. The s...
AFI 02/37_01 - Identifying terranes in the Antarctic Peninsula using primitive basalt dykes as lithospheric probes - Rock samples collected from Palmer Land and Graham Land in the 2001/2002 field season.
Initial work during the 2001/2002 field season commenced with reconnaissance and sampling in northeast Palmer Land. Over a two month period, outcrop from the Welch Mountains to the Eternity Range was visited, the geology described, and maf...
AFI 02/37_02 - Identifying terranes in the Antarctic Peninsula using primitive basalt dykes as lithospheric probes - Geochemical and petrographic analysis of rock samples, 2001/02
The chemistry of mafic volcanic rocks and minor intrusions erupted on continents can be used to define the composition and history of subcontinental asthenospheric and lithospheric mantle domains. We have produced new and collated published...
AFI 02/48_01 - Ice-rafted debris on the Antarctic continental margin and dynamics of the Antarctic Ice Sheet - Swath Bathymetry, EM120 & TOPAS data collected from the Weddell Sea and Marguerite Bay, Feb & March 2002
Ice-rafted (Heinrich) layers in the North Atlantic provide clear evidence that basins of large Quaternary ice sheets have, in the past, exhibited major dynamic instabilities. The presence of large ice sheets on the modern Antarctic continen...
AFI 02/48_02 - Ice-rafted debris on the Antarctic continental margin and dynamics of the Antarctic Ice Sheet - Vibro & gravity cores, sediments & data collected from the Weddell Sea & Marguerite Bay, Feb & March 2002
Ice-rafted (Heinrich) layers in the North Atlantic provide clear evidence that basins of large Quaternary ice sheets have, in the past, exhibited major dynamic instabilities. The presence of large ice sheets on the modern Antarctic continen...
AFI 04/09_01 - Improving ice-core interpretation - AWS data, Rothschild, Latady & Smyley Islands, 2005
The project was concerned with understanding how air mass origin and meteorology affect the mass accumulation of snow in areas of the Antarctic Peninsula, and how the atmosphere''s properties are preserved in the snow. Three micro-power Aut...
AFI 04/09_02 - Improving ice-core interpretation - Analysis of Snow/Ice cores collected from Rothschild, Latady & Smyley Islands, 2006
The project was concerned with understanding how air mass origin and meteorology affect the mass accumulation of snow in areas of the Antarctic Peninsula, and how the atmosphere''s properties are preserved in the snow. Ground truth measurem...
AFI 04/16_01 - Satellite-Derived Elevation Changes on the Antarctic Peninsula CVaCS-DECAP - Glacier flow vertical motion measurements, Antarctic Peninsula, 2005/07
Correction, Verification and Context, of Satellite-Derived Elevation Changes on the Antarctic Peninsula CVaCS-DECAP
The aim of the project was to measure the various factors that affect altitude of snow surfaces in Antarctica, in order ...
AFI 04/17_01 - Glacial-interglacial changes in the lost drainage basin on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet - EM120 Swath Bathymetry and TOPAS sub-bottom profiler data, Bellingshausen Sea, 2004
The main aim of this project was to carry out the first systematic investigation of the former ice drainage basin in the southern Bellingshausen Sea, using sediment cores, swath bathymetry by means of the EM120 multibeam echo sounder and th...
AFI 04/17_02 - Glacial-interglacial changes in the lost drainage basin on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet - Sediment cores collected in the Bellingshausen Sea, 2004
The main aim of this project was to carry out the first systematic investigation of the former ice drainage basin in the southern Bellingshausen Sea, using sediment cores, swath bathymetry by means of the EM120 multibeam echo sounder and th...
AFI 07/02_01 - Subglacial Lake Ellsworth - SEISMIC data, Antarctica, 2007/08
Seismic reflection data acquired in the region of Subglacial Lake Ellsworth. Recording instrument: Geometrics Geode, 48 channels, active source (explosives). Five single-fold lines. Line length between 7.7 and 2.5 km.
In addition, fold inc...
AFI 07/02_02 Subglacial Lake Ellsworth - GPS data, Antarctica, 2007/08
Geographical Positioning System (GPS) data recorded in the region of Subglacial Lake Ellsworth. Recording instruments: Leica geodetic receivers. Four locations with continuous data records; all other locations (~70) occupied for short perio...
AFI 07/02_03 Subglacial Lake Ellsworth - RADAR data, Antarctica, 2007/08
Radar data acquired in the region of Subglacial Lake Ellsworth. Recording instrument: the British Antarctic Survey''s (BAS) "DELORES 1" and "DELORES II" radar systems. Line length between 1 and 45 km.
Simultaneous GPS d...
AFI 07/02_04 - Subglacial Lake Ellsworth - METEOROLOGICAL data, Antarctica, 2007/08
Meteorological data acquired in the region of Subglacial Lake Ellsworth. Recording instrument: HOBO Weather Station (HOBO AWS) recording wind speed, wind direction, temperature, pressure, humidity, solar radiation.
HOBO - registered trad...
AFI 07/02_05 - Subglacial Lake Ellsworth - ICE CORE samples, Antarctica, 2007/08
Shallow ice cores collected in the region of Subglacial Lake Ellsworth. Three cores drilled to ~20 m depth. Two cores returned to UK for analysis. One core measured for density-depth in the field, then discarded.
One of the two cores retur...
AFI 07/02_06 - Subglacial Lake Ellsworth - ICE CORE data, Antarctica, 2007/08
Analysis of shallow ice cores collected in the region of Subglacial Lake Ellsworth. Three cores drilled to ~20 m depth. Two cores returned to UK for analysis. One core measured for density-depth in the field, then discarded.
One of the two...
AFI 07/02_07 Subglacial Lake Ellsworth - GRAVITY data, Antarctica, 2007/08
Gravity data acquired in the region of Subglacial Lake Ellsworth. Instrument Lacoste & Romberg land gravity meter. Drift control primarily contained within the local area. Single, one-way tie to international gavity base station network...
AFI 07/02_08 Subglacial Lake Ellsworth 20-m - TEMPERATURE data, Antarctica, 2007/08
Measurement of temperature at the base of a 20-m deep borehole in the region of Subglacial Lake Ellsworth. Resistance of two calibrated thermistors measured at the base of a 20 m deep borehole....
Antarctic Microclimate Data
Automatic data loggers are often used to monitor environmental variables such as temperature (of air and soil), humidity, wind speed and radiation in microclimates where experimental or ecological studies are being carried out. Some loggers...
Antarctic Peninsula Lake Database
A geographic databse of lakes on the Antarctic Peninsula.
A database of lake locations and subsiduary information. Fields include:
Lake unique id,
Name,
location,
imager reference/how identified,
locality,
size (longest axis),
a...
Antarctic Plant Database (Database of the BAS Herbarium)
This database contains information on the herbarium specimens held in the herbarium of the British Antarctic Survey (international code AAS) as well as information about specimens collected in the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic and held in oth...
Antarctic Snow Accumulation Map and Data
The map is derived from a compilation of field measurements. Satellite observations from AMSR-E and AVHRR instruments are used to guide the interpolation. The effective resolution of the map is approximately 100 km. The estimates of root me...
BAS Geological Data - Marine Geology Data
The Marine Geology data is a subset of the BAS geological database....
BAS Geological Data - Overview
The British Antarctic Survey holds one of the most extensive collections of Antarctic rocks and fossils anywhere in the world. These are predominately from the Antarctic Peninsula region and Scotia Arc, although there is also important mat...
BAS Geological Data - Type and Figured Fossil Collection
The palaeontology collection at the British Antarctic Survey is a unique and internationally important collection of specimens sourced predominantly from the Antarctic Peninsula and Scotia Arc. The collection was started in the 1940s and co...
BAS Geophysical Data - Aerogravity
Aerogravity measurements from a variety of campaigns....
BAS Geophysical Data - Aeromagnetics
Aeromagnetic data collected over a series of campaigns....
BAS Geophysical Data - Marine bathymetry
Marine bathymetry datasets collected as single and multi-beam on a variety of ships...
BAS Geophysical Data - Marine magnetics
Magnetic data collected on a variety of cruises....
BAS Geophysical Data - Marine seismics
Seismic data collected on a variety of ships....
BAS Geophysical Data - Radio Echo Sounding
Radio Echo Sounding data collected over a number of campaigns....
BEDMAP ice-thickness database
Data describing the thickness of the Antarctic ice sheet collected on surveys undertaken over the past 50 years have been brought together into a single database. These data have allowed the compilation of a suite of seamless digital topogr...
Biologically Relevant Radiation (Bentham spectroradiometer data, Rothera)
Biologically-relevant radiation has been recorded since February 1997 using a Bentham spectroradiometer at Rothera.
The Bentham spectroradiometer is sited on the roof of the Bonner Laboratory at Rothera. It measures spectral global irradia...
CACHE PEP-P: James Ross Island Ice Cap Drilling - PROJECT
A team of eight scientists will visit James Ross Island to recover the first complete ice core climate record from the northern Antarctic Peninsula spanning for the Holocene (which began over 10,000 years ago and continues today) to help sh...
Daily base seal count at Signy Island
The number of Fur and Elephant seals around the base on Signy Island have been counted daily between January and March since 1992. Details of the area counted are given in the 1992 Seal Mammal report (archive number: H/1992/NM3)....
IPY-013 - Sea level and tidal sciences in the polar oceans - Ocean level data - poles, continuous measurements
As part of PSMSL (Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level) and GLOSS (Global Sea Level Observing System) activities, there are tide gauges in the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic at Faraday/Vernadsky (Ukraine station); BAS stations at Signy, Rother...
IPY-014 - Stable oxygen isotope and dissolved barium samples from Arctic Synoptic Basin-wide Oceanography (ASBO) project
These are samples of dissolved barium and stable isotopes of oxygen (d-18O), taken on two cruises in the summers of 2007 and 2008, in collaboration between the NERC-funded Arctic Synoptic Basin-wide Oceanography (ASBO) IPY consortium and th...
IPY-092 - ICED/SOSA/CASO - Hydrographic section at latitude 24, March-April 2009
Data collected during the International Polar Year under the ICED (Integrating Climate and Ecosystem Dynamics) project.
Complete hydrographic section from South America to Africa at latitude 24S, with physical, chemical, biological and m...
IPY-372 - Polarview information products
Polar View delivers a range of environmental information services for the polar regions derived primarily from satellite imagery and data. The project aims to coordinate delivery of these information products direct to users. Services inclu...
IPY-451 - Antarctic Touring Exhibition, European venues, 2007-2012
The Natural History Museum, in association with British Antarctic Survey, developed a touring exhibition which launched at the NHM in 2007 and is now travelling to European venues. The exhibition, developed to support the educational and pu...
List of non-lichenized fungi from the Antarctic region
This list provides a check-list of the non-lichenized fungi reported from Antarctica that have been published in the literature or deposited in major culture collections. The list includes all macrofungi, filamentous forms and yeasts, toge...
Long-Term Monitoring of Signy Lake Chemistry by BAS 1963-2004
The long term monitoring of water chemistry in Signy Island lakes is unique in polar limnology, in its duration (30+ years), detail, and range of sites. It details seasonal patterns of snow and ice cover, inorganic nutrient status and chlor...
Magnetometer data from 2001 - LPM network
The British Antarctic Survey holds magnetic data measuring the plasmaspheric mass loading on magnetic field lines in Antarctica. The network of Low Power Magnetometer instruments consists of permanent and temporary sites. The data is collec...
Monthly mean temperature,pressure and wind speed data from a selection Antarctic stations and automatic weather stations for use in climatic research
The READER Project
READER (REference Antarctic Data for Environmental Research) is a project of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR http://www.scar.org/) and has the goal of creating a high quality, long term dataset of...
SOMBASE - Southern Ocean Mollusc Database
Understanding where organisms live and why they live there is the key aim of ecology. SOMBASE is a tool for looking at marine molluscs in the seas around Antarctica. Using a database and the latest mapping technology it is possible to displ...
Seal count data at Signy Island
The total number of seals on Signy Island is counted in February each year. The island is divided into 6 areas, sub-divided into 105 zones and the number of Antarctic Fur seals, Elephant seals, Weddell seals and other seal species in each z...
South Georgia Bathymetric Dataset grid
Bathymetric grid at 150m resolution of the area surrounding South Georgia. Projected in LCC co-ordinates saved in esri grid format. Continuous dataset constructed form a variety of sources....
Targeting Glacial Retreat and Ice Stream Systems (TIGRIS)
Predicting the contribution of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to sea level rise is one of the biggest current challenges in glaciology. Through integrated fieldwork and modelling, TIGRIS is making a number of specific advances in understanding cur...
VELOX
Data from the VELOX (VLF/ELF Logger Experiment) at Halley. Continuous VLF/ELF radio wave power, polarisation, arrival bearing, maximum/ minimum, and impulse counts, in 10 frequency bands from 300 Hz to 10 kHz with a 1 s time resolution.
Fo...
Vector Topographic Data of Antarctica - The Antarctic Digital Database
The Antarctic Digital Database (ADD) is the premier source of vector topographic data for Antarctica. First published on CD-ROM in 1993, the current version is available for download from http://www.add.scar.org/. The data are supplied in ...
