A NEWS BULLETIN published quarterly by the NEW ZEALAND ANTARCTIC SOCIETY (INC) Albatros chick on an artificial nest incorporating automatic weighing equipment. The chick's weight is measured every five minutes and stored centrally on magnetic tape, providing information on growth, feeding frequency and meal size. Eight such nests have been built at BAS Headquarters and will be used again at Bird Island (South Georgia) in the 19B5-86 summer. Photo: P. Prince, BAS Registered 31 Post Olllce Headquarters. Vol. 10, No 11 Wellington. New Zealand. as a magazine. September 1985 /' ..... 0- / . 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Box 2110, Wellington Address all contributions, inquiries to the Editor CONTENTS POLAR ACTIVITIES NEW ZEALAND 386 AUSTRALIA 399 AUSTRIA 398 CHI LE 399 INDIA 400 JAPAN 401 UNITED KINGDOM 404 GENERAL MIKHAIL SOMOV 407 90 0 SOUTH 409 NORTH POLE EXPEDITION 412 MICRO LITES AND COPEPODS 413 ENDEAVOUR 414 BYRD'S PAPERS 416 OBITUARIES 417 BOOKS 418 t$SN 0003·5327 New Zealand AntarctiC Society (tnc) 1978. r 10 nari 01 Ttl:·~ Du\)I'C.lllun may t)e reprOOllCctJ If) any way wlthOul the PIlOI oerml$SlOfl o! the publishers 386 ANTARCTIC September, 1985 NEW ZEALAND PLANS FOR SEASON Radio tracking of Adelie penguins, further study of the effects of the volcanic loading on Ross Island and a pelagic litter survey are among the projects included in this seasons Antarctic research programme. Input over a wide range of earth, atmospheric, physical and biological sciences has been increased and will be covered by 52 laboratory and field events. A special maintenance team will be at Cape HaIIett again to minimise the effeds of former human habitation at the joint US-NZ research station closed since 1973, and provide the best conditions for the rejuvenation of the site as a penguin rookery. They and the scientists are all members of the parties in the Antarctic Research programme for the 1985-86 season. Including support, logistic and construction activities this programme will call on up to 300 men and women. New Zealand scientists will work Others will come from the Lands and tiils summer in the Beardmore Glacier Survey Department, the Meteorological area less than 400 nautical miles from Service, the Ministry of Works and the South Pole, at Cape Adare and on Development and the Commission . Ross Island. Others will work on the for the Environment. sea ice of McMurdo Sound, in the dry An army construction tcam will valleys of Victoria Land and on Mt. again join staff from the Antarctic Erebus. Division and the Ministry of Works Research projects will be conducted and Development in the Scott Base by scientists and technicians from five rebuilding programme. Post Office New Zealand Universities - Auckland, Staff will operate the Scott Base Waikato, Victoria (Wellington), Post Office and communications Canterbury and Otago. Others will tluoughout the year and aerial in­ come from Lincoln College, the stallations will be checked by Post Medical Research Council, the Office riggers during the summer Carrington Technical Institute and season. Canterbury Museum. Scientists from Australia, West The programme will also draw on Germany, United Kingdom and the staff from DSIR's Antarctic Division, United States will be included in Geophysics DIvision, Geological Sur­ research to be conducted by Victoria vey) Ecology Division, Division of University, the Physics and Engineering Marine and Freshwater Sciences, the Laboratory and the Medical Research Physics and Engineering Laboratory Council. Others will come from Japan and the Institute of Nuclear Sciences. and Sweden. September. 1985 ANTARCTIC 387 Vanda Station in the Wright Valley, Two new summer meteorological 130 km from Scott Base, will be outstations from Vanda are planned operated again litis summer by three for Lower Bull Pass and the Lower men. The leader is Peter Foster. Wright Valley. These will record Tills season's team will provide logistic wind and temperature. support for New Zealand, United The pilot trace gas measurements States and Japanese field parties and project started last summer will be conununications and meteorological extended with more samples of information. Field stations at Cape fluorocarbons and hydrocarbons to be Bird, Lake Fryxell in the Taylor collected and the installation of Valley and huts in the Miers and analy.tical facilities in the Scot! Base Lower Wright Valleys will also be Laboratory. used by New Zealand field parties. LAKES AND STREAMS CONTINUOUS PROGRAMMES Scientists from the Division of All the continuous long tcnn Marine and Freshwater Science Re­ seismic, geomagnetic, ionospheric and search ,Laboratory in Taupo will again meteorological programmes, will be examine the stream community struc­ malntalned at Scott Base. The. tures and functions in the Dry Valleys Meteorological Service will extend its of South Victoria Land. The study solar radiation measurements with the began three years ago. This season installation of new equipment at the Drs Warwick Vincent and Clive tower end of the Geophysicallabora­ Howard-Williams will work on the tory. This will improve diffuse, solar, nutrient uptake and transformation and global radiation measurements in the algal communities of three which will be recorded on data loggers contrasting streams. They will also in the laboratory. The meteorological quantify the photosynthetic charac· screen will be shifted to a new site teristics of the communities and the some 50 metres from the laboratory. deep phytoplankton populations of Building programme Rebuilding of Scot! Base will installation of equipment is be continued with the construction scheduled for the following sum­ of the new light workshop complex. mer season. This is stage VI of the projecl. It will include the carpenter's shop, Last season the interior of electrician and base engineer's Stage V, the Geomagnetics labora­ workshop and machine shop. The tory, was completed. It is 195 construction w·ill again be super­ square metres and 127 square vised by a team from the Ministry metres larger than the old labora­ of Works and Development and tory and was occupied in stages the work which was begun in from November 12, 1984. 8y the October will be undertaken by end of the season it accommodated thirteen New Zealand Army en­ equipment for seismological re· gineers. The building should be cording, and (he magnetics, upper complete by the end of January atmosphere, and meteorological 1986; internal finishing and programmes. 388 ANTARCTIC September,1985 Lake Fryxell. In the field from samples from the granite instrusions November to January the team will exposed in the area. Using fission work at Lakes Vanda and Miers and track dating techniques on apatite at the Walcotl Glacier. They will at Melbourne University the samples be assisted by Gillian Wratl, an Antarc­ should show the timing and rate of tic Division field assistant. uplift. The results will be compared Auckland University scientists Dr with similar work being undertaken in Steven de Mora. Stuart Campbell South and North Victoria land. and Alan Grout \~ill study the chemi­ cal and physical forms of trace metals CLIMATIC YARIATIONS in the waters of Lakes Fryxell and Bonny and the biological metal Long and short term climatic interaction in the biological com­ variations in the Dry Valleys will munity in the Lakes. Measurements be monitored again this year by will also be made of the baseline Trcvor Chinn and Peter Mason from organolead levels in the atmosphere the Water and Soils Science Centre, at Lake Vanda_ MOWD, Christchurch. They will Among ·the scientists from other be accompanied by Antarctic Divi­ nations participating in the programme sion field assistant Warwick Potter are five fmm the Japan Polar Research who will be replaced by Rob Association. Or Tetsuya Torti and Finlayson at Christmas_ They will his team working from Vanda Station study the flow regime, record the will continue their geochemical studies temperature and collect sediment of the highly saline but fresh water samples from the Onyx River, and lakes in the dry valleys. With him measure the levels of nine enclosed this year will be Dr Genki Matsumoto, lakes (Vida, Vanda, House, Joyce, Dr Katsumi Yoshimitsu, Mr Tetsuo Bonney, Henderson, Hoare, Fryxell Takeuchi and Dr Noriyasu Masuda. and Don Juan Pond).