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Resupply Perspectives Brian Stone Antarctic Infrastructure amp Logistics Why McMurdo Station Deep water access for ships Relatively stable ice edge Annual sea ice breakout Access to Ross Ice Shelf and the continent. The Last . Continent. (short text version). Copyright: . Material on these pages is copyright Paul Ward / CoolAntarctica.com or reproduced with permission from other copyright owners. It may be downloaded and printed for personal reference or public performance in an educational establishment as long as it is not for direct or indirect commercial use. It may be altered or modified, but not made publically available or transmitted to others in original or modified form without the written permission of Paul Ward / CoolAntarctica.com. . Antarctic Logistics Blue Ribbon Panel. DHS Policy, Office of Strategic Plans. &. DHS Management Directorate, Office of Program Analysis & Evaluation. January 24, 2012. Strategic Overview: the Antarctic. Cody . McCann . and Arthur . Ryzak . Source: www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/sn_icexv/. Source: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/antarctica/5011121/. Overview. Antarctica. Basin. Treaty System. Ice Resources - Freshwater. Any small, pelagic, shrimplike crustaceans of the family Euphausiidae, eaten as food by certain whales. . The lowly krill averages around two inches (five centimetres) in length, but it represents a giant-sized link in the global food chain. . Notothenioid. Fishes. by: Priscilla Watson-Wynn. Antarctica. Fifth largest continent. The world’s most southern continent. Surrounded by Southern Ocean. 98% covered in ice sheet & 2% barren rock. professor i naturgeografi/ glaciologi, . Uppsala universitet, . Institutionen för geovetenskaper, . Geocentrum. State . of. the Arctic. The . state. -. of. -the-art from the SWIPA . report. . published. By Rose. Antarctica is a very cold place, so animals have to adapt to it in special ways. Not many people go there because it is to cold. But when you see the wildlife you know it is worth it!. Antarctica has an abundance of natural wildlife. Animals in Antarctica have to be very strong to survive the cold weather.. : Phylogenetic tree based on nearly complete 16S rRNA gene sequences of . Arthrobacter. isolates and clones from RSR soils, constructed by . the . maximum likelihood, . RAxML. method. . Filled circles indicate bootstrap support . EVSC 1300. Spring 2016. Average. vertical. temperature. structure. of atmosphere. Average. vertical. temperature. structure. of atmosphere. NO. x. + VOCs + sunlight .  . Ground-level ozone. Figure18-9 p528. Territorial Disputes in Antarctica an be traced to the first formal claim made. b. y Great Britain in 1908. It began when W. S. Bruce let a Scottish National Antarctic Expedition to . Laurie Island in the South Orkneys in 1902-1904. Geologic timescale. Plate Tectonics. Rodinia. , Pangea and . Gondwana. Antarctic Continent and Geology. Andes . Mtns. begin forming, warming. Pangea forms, ice. s. heet over . Gondwana. Rodinia. fragments. Antarctic Ice Sheet to systematically . examine vulnerability to regional . collapse of its floating ice shelves . and the potential for large resulting . contributions to sea level rise (SLR).. Significance and Impact. Global Monitoring Division . Earth System Research Laboratory. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 24-25 January, 2012. Antarctic Logistics Blue Ribbon Panel. National Science Foundation. (Scott Borg). Antarctic Infrastructure & Logistics. (Brian Stone). Polar Environment. , . Health and Safety. (Polly Penhale). George Blaisdell. Operations Manager. 3, 4 November 2011. Antarctic Science.