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Biology & Medicine
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Dr. Polly Penhale
Program Manager
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B-016-L/P
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NSF/OPP Award 02-17282
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Station:
R/V Laurence M. Gould, Palmer Station
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RPSC POC:
Rob Edwards/Stephanie Suhr-Sliester
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Research Site(s):
Palmer Station, R/V Laurence M. Gould
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Dates in Antarctica:
Mid October to mid April
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Palmer Long Term Ecological Research Project (PLTER): Climate migration, ecological response and teleconnections in an ice-dominated environment.
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Photo not available.
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Deploying Team Members:
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Eli Loomis
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Karie A. Sines
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Jessica Spence
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Austen Thomas
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Lyndon Valicenti
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Maria Vernet
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Research Objectives:
This component of the Palmer Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) program focuses on rates of primary production, phytoplankton community structure and absorption properties, and their relationship to physical forcing. Team members will collect water samples to estimate biochemical properties of phytoplankton and carry out experiments to estimate rate processes in the Palmer Basin vicinity while on station. They will do the same thing on a larger scale area in the middle and southern peninsula area onboard the R/V Laurence M. Gould.
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