No. 24 - Nationalkomitee SCAR/IASC

INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF SCIENTIFIC UNIONS
S CIENTIFIC C OMMITTEE ON A NTARCTIC R ESEARCH
ANNUAL SCAR REPORT ON
NATIONAL ANTARCTIC SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES
1 JULY 2002 - 30 JUNE 2003
No. 24
GERMANY
Bremerhaven, March 2003
INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF SCIENTIFIC UNIONS
S CIENTIFIC C OMMITTEE ON A NTARCTIC R ESEARCH
ANNUAL SCAR REPORT ON
NATIONAL ANTARCTIC SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES
1 JULY 2002 - 30 JUNE 2003
Member Country
Germany
National SCAR Committee
Title
Address
Telephone
Fax
Chairman
Representatives to SCAR
Permanent Delegate
Alternate Delegate
Deutscher Landesausschuss SCAR/IASC
(German National Committee for SCAR and IASC)
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Postfach 20 50 04
53170 Bonn - Bad Godesberg
Germany
(49) 228/885-2363
(49) 228/885-2599
Prof. Dr. Georg Kleinschmidt
Name
Address
Prof. Dr. J. Thiede
Prof. Dr. Georg Kleinschmidt
1
2
Members of SCAR Scientific Standing Groups
Life Science
Geoscience
Physical Science
Prof. Dr. Wolf Arntz
Dr. Joachim Plötz
Dr. Hans-Ulrich Peter
Prof. Wilhelm Hagen
Dr. Detlef Damaske
Prof. Dr. Reinhard Dietrich
Prof. Viereck-Götte
Dr. Rainer Gersonde
Dr. Hans Oerter
Dr. Roland Neuber
Dr. Christian Spiering
Dr. Eberhard Fahrbach
1
1
17
21
5
8
22
1
1
1a
15
1
Members of SCAR Groups of Specialists
Seals
Evolution of Cenozoic Palaeo-environments
of the Southern High Latitudes
Antarctic Environmental Affairs
and Conservation (GOSEAC)
Global Change and the Antarctic (GLOCHANT)
Dr. Joachim Plötz
Prof. Dr. Dieter Fütterer
1
1
Prof. Dr. Heinz Miller
1
Dr. Gerd Hubold
6
National Operating Agency
Title
Address
Telephone
Fax
Director
Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Postfach 12 01 61
27515 Bremerhaven
Germany
(49) 471/4831-1100
(49) 471/4831-1102
Prof. Dr. Jörn Thiede
COMNAP Representative
SCALOP Representative
Member Country
Name
Address
Prof. Dr. H. Miller
Dr. H. Gernandt
1
1
Germany
Wintering Stations
Name
Location
Coordinates
Neumayer Station
Ekström Ice Shelf/northeastern
Weddell Sea
70°39'S/08°15'W
Name
Location
Coordinates
Dallmann Laboratory
Annex Station to "Jubany" (Argentina)
King George Island
62°14'S/58°40'W
GARS (German Antarctic
Receiving Station)
(temporary campaigns only)
Annex to Station "General Bernado
O'Higgins" (Chile)
63°19'S/57°54'W
Kohnen Station
Amundsenisen/Dronning Maud Land
75°00’S/00°04’E
Summer-only Stations
Currently not used:
Lillie Marleen Hut
Gondwana Station
Mt. Dockery, Victoria Land
Mt. Melbourne, Victoria Land
71°12'S/164°31'E
74°38'S/164°13'E
Automatic Recording Stations/Observatories
Name/Identifier
Coordinates
Parameters Recorded
Air Chemistry
Observatory
(at Neumayer Station)
70°39'S/08°15'W
atmospheric trace compounds like
near surface and stratospheric ozone,
PAH,black carbon, aerosols including
analysis of their constituents;
Aitken nuclei, CO2, 13CO2, 14CO2,
CH4, 85Kr, 7Be, 10Be, 210Pb, SF6,
and other trace compounds in air
and snow
Meteorological
Observatory
(at Neumayer Station)
70°39'S/08°15'W
synoptic observations, radiation
measurements, columnar aerosol
concentrations, upper air soundings,
ozone soundings, receiving of current
satellite pictures (NOAA, DMSP),
Weather Forecasting Center for
Dronning Maud Land during summer
Geophysical
Observatory
(at Neumayer Station)
70°39'S/08°15'W
Earth magnetic field measurements,
seismology, gravity measurements,
CTBT station IS27
(at Neumayer Station)
70°39’S/08°15’W
Aerosol sampler
(at Kohnen Station)
75°00’S/00°04’E
Infrasound measurements
Chemical (ionic) composition of the
aerosol
Automatic Weather Stations:
at O'Higgins Station,
Chile:
63°19’S/57°54’W
PRARE weather station
air temperature, pressure, humidity
Permanent GPS tracker
TURBO ROGUE
Permanent GPS tracker
to receive data from NAVSTAR-GPSsatellites
to receive data from NAVSTAR-GPSsatellites and GLONASS-satellites
PRARE Ground Unit No. 3
tracking of satellite orbits (ERS 2)
Tide Gauge Sensor assembly
observations of sea surface changes
Member Country
Germany
National Programmes/Projects by Working Group
(All activities and projects which were or will be carried out during the period July 2002 to June
2003)
Biology
Subject
Investigation
Locality
Duration
Principal
Address
Investigator
Krill and
Zooplankton
Composition,
diversity, biomass
distribution, recruitment, demography, long-term
variability, sea-ice
interactions
Antarctic
Peninsula
ongoing
V. Siegel
6
Krill
Physiological adap- Dallmann
tation to extreme
Laboratory
environmental conditions of Euphausia
Superba larvae
01/03 03/03
B. Meyer
1
Salps
Biomass, longterm variability
ongoing
V. Siegel
6
Cephalopods
Biology, distriAntarctic Penbution, taxonomy
insula,
trophic relationships Weddell Sea
ongoing
U. Piatkowski
Fish stocks
Assessment,
trophic relationships
Antarctic
Peninsula
S-Georgia
ongoing
H.-U. Kock
6
Benthos & fish
Modelling biodiversity change
Antarctic
shelves
ongoing
J. Gutt
1
Fish eggs
Studies on spermatozoa
Antarctica
ongoing
R. Riehl
16
Parasites in
fish
Analysis and
evaluation
Antarctica
ongoing
H. Mehlhorn
16
Bacterioplankton
Structure and
abundance of
oligotrophic
bacteria in South
Polar Seas
Antarctic
Peninsula,
Scotia Sea,
S. Sandwich
Islands
ongoing
T. L. Tan
Higher plants &
Algae
Cytological &
Dallmann
photophysiological Laboratory
studies on UVradiation & temperature adaption
of Antarctic higher
plants & snow algae
01/03 02/03
Lütz
Antarctic
Peninsula,
Scotia Sea
14
1
19
Subject
Investigation
Locality
Duration
Principal
Address
Investigator
UV-Radiation
Measurement of
Surface UVRadiation
Dallmann
Laboratory
10/02 11/02
H. Tüg
1
Marine invertebrates Aging in polar
& boreal marine
invertebrates
Dallmann
Laboratory
10/02
03/03
D. Abele
1
Elephant Seals
Satellite tracking
Marion Island
April 2002 March 2003
J. Plötz
1
Birds
Monitoring of
Wilson’s storm
Petrel oceanites
Oceanicus;
Life history parameters of skuas
Dallmann
Laboratory
12/02 03/03
H.U.Peter
17
Penguins
Occurrence and
influence of pathogene bacteria
(Salmonellae) on
penguins
Dallmann
Laboratory
01/03 02/03
H. Oelke
18
Subject
Investigation
Locality
Duration
Principal
Address
Investigator
Dissolved organic
matter
Chemical composition of refractory
compounds
Weddell Sea,
Greenland Sea
2001 –
2004
G. Kattner
Locality
Duration
Principal
Address
Investigator
Marine Chemistry
1
Physical Oceanography
Subject
Investigation
NONE
Geodesy and Geographic Information
Subject
Investigation
Locality
Duration
Principal
Address
Investigator
Geodetic Observatory at
GARS O’Higgins
Determination
of Geodetic
Reference
Systems in the
S. hemisphere
Top of Antarctic Peninsula
10/2002 03/2003
W. Schlüter
3b
Geodesy
Geodetic field
work
Vostok
Station
11/02 02/03
R. Dietrich
8
Subject
Investigation
Duration
Principal
Address
Investigator
KGIS
King George Isld.
King George
Data acquisition & Island
Processing for
SCAR-WGGI project
2002/2003
H. Goßmann
Prince Charles
Mts.
11/02 02/03
R. Dietrich
Locality
Duration
Principal
Address
Investigator
Thermochronology fission track dating
Prince Charles Mts.
Lambert Rift
Prince Charles
Mts.
2002 – 2003 M. Olesch
Hydrothermal fluids Chemical analysis
(HYDROARC)
of hydrothermal
fluids
Bransfield Strait 07/2002 03/2003
Volcanism
Dyke swarms
structures and
geochemistry
S Shetland Islds. 2000 – 2004 H. Miller
Climatic and
environmental
history
Paleolimnology,
paleoclimatology,
paleoglaciology
Dry Valleys
08/2002 07/2004
M. Melles
10
Cenozoic paleoclimate and
glacial history
Sedimentology,
clay mineralogy
(cores CRP, CIROS,
MSSTS, DVDP)
McMurdo
Sound
ongoing
W. Ehrmann
10
Structural
Geology
Structural evolution of crystalline basement
and Lambert Rift
Southern
Prince Charles
Mountains
2002 2003
A. Läufer
2
Geological
Survey during
PCMEGA
Petrological, geochemical, isotopic
investigations
Prince Charles
Mountains
11/02 02/03
N.W. Roland
F. Henjes-Kunst
5
5
Subject
Investigation
Locality
Duration
Principal
Address
Investigator
GLIMS/
GLAS
Global Land Ice
Antarctic
Measurements from Peninsula
Space, Glacier geometry, dynamics of
glacial systems
2002/2003
H. Goßmann
Crustal deformation GPS observations
(PCMEGA)
Locality
12
8
Geology
Subject
Investigation
K. Wallmann
7
11
4
Glaciology
12
Subject
Investigation
Locality
Duration
Principal
Address
Investigator
Glacial and
climatic history
(PCMEGA)
Mapping and
sampling of latequaternary and
modern glacial
Sediments
Lambert drainage 12/02 system, southern 01/03
Prince Charles
Mts.
Ice Coring
(EPICA)
Deep ice-coring;
Kohnen Station
ice core analysis
and modelling for
paleoclimate studies
2001 2003
H. Miller
1
Sea level change
(SEAL)
Ice sheets modelling Antarctica,
mass balance studies Donning Maud
Land
2002 2003
H. Huybrechts
U. Nixdorf
1
1
Duration
Principal
Address
Investigator
Duration
Principal
Address
Investigator
W.-D. Hermichen 1a
Human Biology and Medicine
Subject
Investigation
Locality
NONE
Physics and Chemistry of the Atmosphere
Subject
Investigation
Locality
Ozone depletion
Quantitative Under- Neumayer
standing of ozone
Station
losses by bipolar
investigation
2003
P. v.d. Gathen
Ozone profiling
Validation of
ILAS-II ozone
profiles
Neumayer
Station
2003
H. Gernandt
1
Columnar Aerosol
in Antarctica
Sun photometer
Neumayer
Station
07/02 06/03
A. Herber
1
Columnar Aerosol
in Antarctica
Sun photometer
Kohnen
Station
01/02 02/03
A. Herber
1
Aerosol &
Trace gas
Measurements
Chemical (ionic)
composition of the
aerosol, fresh and
surface snow
Kohnen
Station
02/02 +
02/03
R. Weller
1
1a
Solid-Earth Geophysics
Subject
Investigation
Locality
Duration
Principal
Address
Investigator
Aerogeophysical
Survey during
PCMEGA
Aeromagnetic,
gravity, radar
survey
Prince Charles
Mountains
11/02 02/03
D. Damaske
V. Damm
5
5
Interpretation of
satellite data
(VISA)
Aeromagnetic
aerogravity
Dronning Maud
Land
12/02 02/03
W. Jokat
1
Duration
Principal
Address
Investigator
Solar-Terrestrial and Astrophysical Research
Subject
Investigation
Locality
Neutrino
Astrophysics
Neutrino detection
with the Amanda
Neutrino telescope
Amundsen-Scott ongoing
Base
C. Spiering
Investigation
Locality
Principal
Address
Investigator
15
Technology
Subject
NONE
Duration
Member Country
Germany
Planned New Programmes/ Projects by Working Group
(All activities and projects planned to start from mid 2003)
Biology
Subject
Investigation
Locality
Duration
Weddell seals
foraging behaviour
Eastern Weddell 11/2003 Sea coast
01/2004
Principal
Address
Investigator
J. Plötz
1
10/03 01/04
D. Abele
1
Locality
Duration
Principal
Address
Investigator
Marine invertebrates Sources, incorpoDallmann
Ration & function
Laboratory
of mycosporin-like
amino acids from
algae in invertebrates
Physical Oceanography
Subject
Investigation
NONE
Geodesy and Geographic Information
Subject
Investigation
Locality
Duration
Principal
Address
Investigator
GPS/
Meteorology
Evaluation of the
best modelling
strategy for tropospheric refraction
in GPS
Antarctic
Peninsula
2 months
M. Mayer
Geodetic
Observatory
at GARS
O’Higgins
Determination of
Geodetic Reference
systems in the S.
hemisphere
Top of Antarctic Peninsula
2 campaigns W. Schlüter
of 6-10 weeks A. Reinhold
Investigation
Locality
Duration
9
3b
3b
Geology
Subject
Thermochronology Long-term land(fission track,
scape evolution
(U/Th)-He)
Cenozoic glacial
sediments
Southern Prince 2003 Charles Mts.,
2005
Mawson Escarpmt.
Sedimentology,
Prince Charles
clay mineralogy
Mountains
(Pagodroma Group)
ongoing
Principal
Address
Investigator
F. Lisker
W. Ehrmann
7
10
Subject
Investigation
Locality
Duration
Principal
Address
Investigator
Geological
investigations of
shield basement
along the central
Ross margin
Petrological,
geochemical
investigations
Miller Range
11/03 02/04
N.W. Roland
Subject
Investigation
Locality
Duration
Principal
Address
Investigator
Spatio-temporal
variation of
glacier mass
balance parameter
(VARIMAH)
Glacier mass
balance, mass
flux, velocities
and topography
King George
Island
07/2003 06/2004 +
07/2004 –
06/2006
M. Braun
13
Deep ice coring
Deep ice-core
DML,
drilling, ice-core
Kohnen Station
analysis and
modelling for
paleoclimate studies
2001 2004
H. Miller
1
Ice cores
Stable isotopes
DML,
Kohnen Station
2003 2004
H. Oerter
W. Stichler
Locality
Duration
Principal
Address
Investigator
5
Glaciology
1
20
Human Biology and Medicine
Subject
Investigation
NONE
Physics and Chemistry of the Atmosphere
Subject
Investigation
Locality
Duration
Principal
Address
Investigator
Atmospheric Part
of the hydrological cycle
Analysis and
modelling of
cyclones and
precipitation
Dronning Maud
Land
2003 2006
G. Birnbaum
U. Wacker
1
1
ILAS II Validation
Ozone sounding
Neumayer
Station
04/03 06/03
H. Gernandt
1
(JRA-ILAS-II-1006)
Solid-Earth Geophysics
Subject
Investigation
Locality
Duration
Principal
Address
Investigator
Aeromagnetic
investigations of
shield basement
along the central
Ross margin
Aeromagnetic
survey
Miller Range
11/03 02/04
D. Damaske
5
Interpretation of
satellite data
(VISA)
Aeromagnetic and
aerogravity survey,
ice mass balance
Dronning Maud
Land
2003 2004
R. Dietrich
W. Jokat
8
1
Investigation
Locality
Duration
Principal
Address
Investigator
Technology
Subject
NONE
Member Country
Germany
Contact Addresses, Telephone and Facsimile numbers, e-mail addresses
(1)
(1a)
Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- u. Meeresforschung, Columbusstraße, 27568 Bremerhaven
or: Postfach 12 01 61, 27515 Bremerhaven - Germany
phone: (49) 471/4831-0, fax: (49) 471/4831-1149
e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] ; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected];
[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected];
[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected];
[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected];
Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Forschungsstelle Potsdam Postfach 60 01 49, 14401 Potsdam - Germany
phone: (49) 331-288-2100, fax: (49) 331-288-2137,
e-mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
(2)
Geologisch-Paläontologisches Institut der Universität, Senckenberg-Anlage 32 - 34,
60325 Frankfurt/Main – Germany, phone: (49) 69/7982-2318, -3989 , fax: (49) 69/7982-8755,
-2958, e-mail: [email protected]
(3)
Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie, Richard-Strauss-Allee 11, 60598 Frankfurt/Main –
Germany, phone: (49) 69/6333-313, fax: (49) 69/6333-441, e-mail: [email protected]
(3a)
Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie - Außenstelle Leipzig -,Karl-Rothe-Str. 10 - 14
04105 Leipzig – Germany, phone: (49)341/5634-0, fax: (49)341/5634-415, e-mail:
[email protected]
(3b)
Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie ,- Fundamentalstation Wettzell -, Sackenrieder Weg
93444 Kötzting – Germany, phone: (49) 9941/603-0, fax: (49) 9941/603-222
(4)
Institut für Allgemeine und Angewandte Geologie der Universität, Luisenstr. 37/1,
80333 München – Germany, phone: (49) 89/2180-6512, fax: (49) 89/2180-6514, e-mail:
[email protected]ünchen.de
(5)
Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR), Postfach 51 01 53,
30631 Hannover – Germany, phone: (49) 511/643-2692, fax: (49) 511/643-2304, e-mail:
[email protected]
(6)
Bundesforschungsanstalt für Fischerei, Institut für Seefischerei, Palmaille 9, 22767 Hamburg –
Germany phone: (49) 40/38905-177/178, fax: (49) 40/38905-263, e-mail: [email protected]
(7)
Geology of Polar Regions, Faculty of Geosciences (FB5), University of Bremen, POB 33 04
40, 28334 Bremen; Phone: (49) 421/218-3939 [-3994], Fax: (49) 421/218-3993, e-mail:
[email protected]; [email protected]
(8)
TU Dresden, Institut für Planetare Geodäsie, 01062 Dresden; Phone: (49) 351/463-34652, Fax:
(49) 351/463-37063, e-mail: [email protected]
(9)
Geodätisches Institut, Universität Karlsruhe, Englerstr. 7, 76128 Karlsruhe, Phone:
(49)721/608-3674, Fax: - 6808, e-mail: [email protected], [email protected]
(10)
University of Leipzig, Institute for Geophysics and Geology, Talstrasse 35, 04103 Leipzig,
Phone: (49)341-9732900/901/902, fax: (49)341-9732809, e-mail: [email protected];
[email protected]
(11)
GEOMAR Forschungszentrum für Marine Geowissenschaften an der Universität Kiel,
Wischhofstr. 1 – 3 , 24148 Kiel – Germany, phone: (49) 431-600-, fax: (49) 421/600- ,
e-mail: [email protected]
(12)
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Institut für Geographie, Werderring 4, 79098 Freiburg;
phone: (49)761/203-3526, fax: (49)761/203-3596, e-mail: [email protected]
(13)
Center for Remote Sensing on Land Applications, University of Bonn, Walter-Flex-Str. 3,
53113 Bonn, Phone: (49) 228/73-4975, fax: -6857, e-mail: [email protected]
(14)
Institut für Meereskunde, FB Marine Ökologie, Universität Kiel, Düsternbrooker Weg 20,
24105 Kiel, Phone: (49)431/600-4571, fax: (49)431/600-1515, e-mail: [email protected]
(15)
Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron, Platanenallee 6, 15738 Zeuthen, e-mail: [email protected]
(16)
Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf, Institut für Zoomorphologie, Zellbiologie und
Parasitologie, Universitätsstr. 1, 40225 Düsseldorf – Germany, Phone: (49) 211/811-3052, fax:
(49) 211/811-4499, e-mail: [email protected]
(17)
Institut für Ökologie der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Dornburger Str. 159, 07743 Jena, email: [email protected]
(18)
Prof. Dr. Hans Oelke, Kastanienallee 13, 31224 Peine
(19)
University of Innsbruck, Sternwartestr, 15, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
(20)
GSF-Forschungszentrum für Umwelt und Gesundheit, Institut für Hydrologie, Ingolstädter
Landstraße, 85764 Neuherberg; phone: (49)89/3187-2566, fax: (49)89/3187-3361, e-mail:
[email protected]
(21)
Universität Bremen, Marine Zoologie, Postfach 33 04 40, 28334 Bremen, phone: (49) 421/2187145, fax: (49) 421/218-2285, e-mail: [email protected]
(22)
Institut für Geowissenschaften, Universität Jena, Burgweg 11, 07749 Jena,; phone: (49) 3641-948600; e-mail: [email protected]