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EXPEDITION PROGRAM ANTARCTICA (ANT – Land 2014/2015) EXPEDITION PROGRAM ANTARCTICA (ANT – Land 2014/2015) STATIONS AND FLIGHT MISSIONS NEUMAYER STATION III KOHNEN STATION Flight Missions DALLMANN LABORATORY Other Activities Coordinators: Uwe Nixdorf Eberhard Kohlberg Dirk Mengedoht Tom Brey Daniel Steinhage ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH November 2014 ANT-Land 14/15 CONTENTS 1. NEUMAYER STATION III 4 1.1 Summary 4 1.2 Operation of observatories 5 1.2.1 Meteorological Observatory 5 1.2.2 Operational weather forecast service for DROMLAN 5 1.2.3 Geophysical observatory 6 1.2.4 Air chemistry observatory 7 1.2.5 PALAOA - the Perennial Acoustic Observatory in the Antarctic Ocean 8 1.3 Scientific projects 9 1.3.1 Neutron-Monitor and Muon-Telescope 9 1.3.2 SPOT – Single Penguin Observation and Tracking 9 1.3.3 Long term measurement of the cosmic radiation component on different geological positions. 10 1.3.4 Consequences of longterm-Confinement and Hypobaric HypOxia on Immunity in the Antarctic Environment at NEUMAYER STATION III (CHO2ICE@NMIII) 11 1.3.5 Antarctic Fast Ice Network – Sea Ice Monitoring in Atka Bay 13 1.4 National and international visits and inspections 15 1.4.1 International Visits, International Guest Scientists 15 1.4.2 International Guest Scientists 15 1.4.3 International Inspection 16 1.5 Scientific projects during wintering 16 1.5.1 Human Physiology at Neumayer Station III – Campaign 2015 16 2. KOHNEN STATION 18 2.1. Summary 18 2.2 Scientific Projects 19 2.2.1 Coldest Firn and Associated Projects (CoFi & CoFiAP) 19 2.2.2 Coldest Firn – Meteorology 19 1 ANT-Land 14/15 3. AWI FLIGHT MISSIONS AND DROMLAN 20 3.1 Dronning Maud Land Air Network (DROMLAN) 20 3.2 DROMLAN operations for AWI 22 3.3 Logistic flight missions of POLAR 6 22 3.4 Scientific surveys with POLAR 6 23 4. KING GEORGE ISLAND 26 4.1 Summary 26 4.2 Dallmann Laboratory 26 4.3 Planned scientific projects 27 4.3.1 Elephant Seal Tagging Campaign 2015 Fehler! Textmarke nicht definiert. 4.3.2 Glacier surface mass and energy balance 27 4.3.3 Population genetics of storm petrels Oceanites oceanicus and Fregetta tropica and response to climate change Fehler! Textmarke nicht definiert. 4.3.4 Response of bacterial communities at Carlini Base to a small oil-spil and the attempt to develop a bioremediation technique for Antarctic habitats. 27 4.3.5 The influence of climate, photobiont selection and biogeography on bacterial communities in the widespread Antarctic and Arctic lichen Cetraria aculeateFehler! Textmarke nicht definiert. 4.3.6 Lipidomics in a changing environment: effect of temperature rise on fatty acid pathways in Antarctic harpacticoid copepods 27 4.3.7 Occurrence of potentially harmful dinoflagellates in the Antarctica 27 5. OTHER ACTIVITIES 27 5.1 AWI coordinated activities at other stations and locations 27 5.1.1 Long term monitoring of Antarctic seabirds and seals on Fildes Peninsula, King George Island 27 5.1.2 CryoSat-2 Cal/Val with kinematic GNSS 34 6. LOGISTICS, SCHEDULES, PARTICIPANTS 32 6.1 DROMLAN flight schedules October 2015 36 6.3 Participants 43 2 ANT-Land 14/15 7. PARTICIPATING INSTITUTIONS 46 7.1 Institute/Company Address 46 7.2 DROMLAN – Partners 49 7.3 DROMSHIP – Partners 50 3 ANT-Land 14/15 1. NEUMAYER STATION III 1.1 Summary The season ANT-Land 2015/2015 is scheduled for the period from 12 November 2015 until 25 February 2015. Most of personnel will be flown into the Antarctic and back via the air link from Cape Town within the frame of Dronning Maud Land Air Network (DROMLAN). Ship calls are scheduled for RV POLARSTERN 25th of December 2015, to supply the majority of cargo, supply of Kohnen Station and fuel for NEUMAYER STATION III and aircraft operations. Furthermore ship calls are SA AGULHAS II 16th of December 2015 Begin of February 2015 second call for loading cargo returning to Germany. No further scheduled ship calls. NEUMAYER STATION III has successfully run its wintering period. The main logistic objectives of the season 2015/2015 on the Ekström Ice Shelf will be the technical operation of NEUMAYER STATION III. Logistics will focus on two periods of lifting of the station. Furthermore a construction team will be onsite for maintenance of the station facilities. Another construction is supposed to do warranty work related to the leakages of the roof. In the vicinity of NEUMAYER STATION III only geophysical projects are planned. during the summer season. Medical studies of the Berlin Centre for Space Medicine (ZWMB) and University of Munich (LMU) will be continued and extended by the station staff during the winter period. In parallel station facilities will be used to support the traverse to KOHNEN STATION, furthermore to operate the Basler BT-67 aircraft POLAR 6. The regular weather forecast service (AWI/DWD) will be provided to all aircraft operations within the Dronning Maud Land region, in particular as a contribution to DROMLAN. KOHNEN STATION will be visited (7 technicians) for maintenance work such as lifting up the station and construction work inside bathroom and toilets.. A traverse, to KOHNEN STATION including supply goods will start from NEUMAYER STATION III after port call of RV POLARSTERN. Furthermore the station acts as base for scientific field work of the COFI project and an air chemistry project by Rolf Weller. In total 64 scientists, engineers, technicians and visitors will be working or temporarily staying at NEUMAYER STATION III. Maintenance works (4) Revision technical facilities (4) 4 ANT-Land 14/15 warranty work (4) Logistic operations (3) Flight Missions Polar 6 (6) Operation of scientific observatories (4) Cooperation International Institutes scientists (2) AWI wintering staff (18) DWD weather forecast service (2) Maintenance of KOHNEN STATION (7) Public relations (1) National and international visits (10) 1.2 Operation of observatories 1.2.1 Meteorological Observatory Gert König-Langlo (AWI), Elena Stautzebach (AWI), Elke Ludewig (AWI) In the coming summer season 2014/2015 the following program will be performed at the meteorological observatory of Neumayer III: Arrival of the weather forecaster (NN) from German Weather Service and start of the DROMLAN-Service with the first aircraft arriving at Neumayer in November 2014 Arrival of Elke Ludewig (wintering over person responsible for the meteorological observatory 2015) end of 2014 Arrival of Gert König-Langlo (scientific leader of the meteorological observatory) beginning of 2015 Teaching the new wintering over person responsible for the meteorological observatory Exchanging the IT-hardware including the server for the data acquisition from the meteorology Testing an autonomous automatic weather station (AWS) including wind generator, solar panel and IRIDIUM data transfer. Servicing all meteorological measurement systems Departure of Elena Stauzebach, Gert König-Langlo, the weather forecaster (NN) in February 2015 1.2.2 Operational weather forecast service for DROMLAN Harald Rentsch (DWD), Robert Hausen (DWD) 5 ANT-Land 14/15 Since 2002/03 the meteorological observatory of the German Antarctic station Neumayer offers a detailed and individual weather forecast service for all activities in Dronning Maud Land. This service is performed in close cooperation between the Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and the German Weather Service (DWD). During the summer season 2014/2015 up to 5000 forecasts will be performed for field parties, ships, stations and especially aircrafts. It is obvious, that this service will increase the safeness of the ambiguous projects in the Dronning Maud Land. Furthermore, it will help to reduce weather induced idle times of expensive flight operations to a minimum. 1.2.3 Geophysical observatory Jölund Asseng (AWI), Johannes Lohse (AWI), Daniel Armbruster (AWI), Annemarie Sticher (AWI), Andreas Leonhardt (AWI) Period: December 2014 – February 2015 Project: Service works at remote seismographic stations Service works Geophysical Observatory Scientific leader: Jölund Asseng (AWI) Area: NEUMAYER STATION III, Dronning Maud Land (DML) During summer season 2014/2015 no special or additional field program at or around Neumayer-III is planned. The main task is again servicing the remote seismic stations VNA2 and VNA3 on Halvfarryggen and Söråsen ice rises. Both stations had been almost entirely operational during the polar winter. VNA3 showed short breaks during the time period when the sun came back again after the polar winter and when the battery management system was switching back and forth between accumulators charged by a wind turbine and accumulators starting to be recharged again by solar panels. This disadvantageous effect should be eliminated during service works. Unfortunately VNA3 broad band recordings are contaminated by persistent 100 sec wave trains affecting the horizontal components. We have to look for the reasons for these very bad disturbances and to eliminate them. VNA2 recordings currently suffer from the noise generated during strong winds by the 3 wind turbines mounted at the container. We will try to reduce this influence by replacing the sensor some 200 meters way from the container. Any damage, if there is one; at the wind generators should be repaired. If possible, a short trip to SVEA station for a 2-4 days stay may be part of the summer program. In cooperation with the Swedish Polar Secretary we want to use this site for further seismic recording. However, some substantial efforts have to improve DC power supply and the recording conditions at the seismometer site. If there will be a chance to go to Svea we would try to construct a better shelter 6 ANT-Land 14/15 for the seismometer. Further refurbishments are planned a year later together with Swedish colleagues. At the base the computer systems will be completely exchanged and there will certainly arise some work to keep all systems and measurements running properly again.
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