References

Quicklinks

Journal articles and books

Anderson A. 2005. Subpolar settlement in South Polynesia. Antiquity, 79(306):791-800. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00114930

Anderson A., O’Regan Sir T., Parata-Goodall P., Stevens M., Tau Te M. 2022. On the improbability of pre-European Polynesian voyages to Antarctica: a response to Priscilla Wehi and colleagues, Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 52:5, 599-605. https://doi.org/10.1080/03036758.2021.1973517

Campbell I. B., 2021. In The Beginning. ISBN 978-0-473-60605-3, The Copy Press, Nelson, New Zealand.

Campbell I. B. and Claridge G. G. C., 1975. Morphology and Age Relationships of Antarctic Soils, Roy. Soc. N. Z. Bull., 13: 83-88. (access here)

Cassaro A., Pacelli C., Aureli L., Catanzaro I., Leo P., Onofri S. 2021. Antarctica as a reservoir of planetary analogue environments. Extremophiles 25, 437-458. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00792-021-01245-w

Head J. W., Kreslavsky M. A., and Marchant D. R. 2011, Pitted rock surfaces on Mars: A mechanism of formation by transient melting of snow and ice, J. Geophys. Res., 116, E09007. https://doi.org/10.1029/2011JE003826

Hutchings J. & Smith J. 2020. Te Mahi Oneone Hua Parakore: A Māori Soil Sovereignty and Wellbeing Handbook. 190p. ISBN 9780473516192. Free Range Press. https://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/publications/soil-horizons/soil-horizons-articles/defining-soil-health-from-a-maori-world-view/

Phillips J., 'Subantarctic islands - The Enderby settlement', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, 2012, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/subantarctic-islands/page-5 (accessed 18 September 2023)

McGlone M., Wilmshurst J., Meurk C. 2007. Climate, fire, farming and the recent vegetation history of subantarctic Campbell Island. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 98(1):71–84. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755691007000060

Mellon M. T., Mckay C. P., Heldmann J. L., 2014. Polygonal Ground in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica and Its Relationship to Ice-Table Depth and the Recent Antarctic Climate History. Antarctic Science 26 (4), 413–426.

Muller C., Chilvers B., French R., Hiscock J., Battley P., 2020. Population estimate for yellow-eyed penguins (Megadyptes antipodes) in the subantarctic Auckland Islands, New Zealand. Notornis. 67. 299-319.

Raymond T., King C.K., Raymond B., Stark J.S., Snape I., 2017. Chapter 14 - Oil Pollution in Antarctica, Oil Spill Science and Technology (Second Edition), Pages 759-803, ISBN 9780128094136, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-809413-6.00014-X.

Roudier P., O’Neill T.A., Almond P., Poirot C., 2002. Soil priorities for Antarctica, Geoderma Regional 29 e00499, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geodrs.2022.e00499.

Salvatore M.R., Barrett J.E., Fackrell L.E., Sokol E.R., Levy J.S., Kuentz L.C., Gooseff M.N., Adams B.J., Power S.N., Knightly J.P. et al. 2023. The Distribution of Surface Soil Moisture over Space and Time in Eastern Taylor Valley, Antarctica. Remote Sens. 15, 3170. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15123170

Wehi P.M., van Uitregt V., Scott N.J. et al. 2021. Transforming Antarctic management and policy with an Indigenous Māori lens. Nat Ecol Evol 5, 1055–1059. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01466-4.

Wilmshurst J.M., McGlone M.S., Turney C.S.M. 2015. Long-term ecology resolves the timing, region of origin and process of establishment for a disputed alien tree. AoB Plants. 7:plv104. https://doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plv104.

Science publications relating to establishment and analysis of the climate station's data

Adlam, L. S., Balks, M. R., Seybold, C. A., & Campbell, D. I. (2010). Temporal and spatial variation in active layer depth in the McMurdo Sound Region, Antarctica. Antarctic Science, 22(1), 45-52.

Adlam, L. S., Balks, M. R., Guglielmin, M., Baio, F., & Campbell, D. I. (2009). Borehole establishment for ice-cemented Core Sampling and Permafrost Temperature Monitoring at Marble Point and Wright Valley, Antarctica.  University of Waikato Antarctic Research Unit Special Report No. 2.  ISBN 978-0-9583471-1-2. 79p.

Balks, M. R., & O'Neill, T. A. (2016). Soil and permafrost in the Ross Sea Region of Antarctica: Stable or dynamic?. Cuadernos de Investigacion Geografica, 42(2). doi:10.18172/cig.2923

Balks, M. R., Adlam, L. S., & Seybold, C. A. (2010). Active layer depth and moisture content in soils of the McMurdo Sound Region of Antarctica. In Third European Conference on Permafrost (pp. 231). Conference held at Svalbard, Norway: The University Centre in Svalbard.

Balks, M., Adlam, L. S., Seybold, C. A., Aislabie, J., & Campbell, D. I. (2009). Temporal and spatial variation in active layer depth in the McMurdo Sound region, Antarctica. In Annual Antarctic Conference. Conference held at University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Carshalton, A.G., Balks, M.R., O'Neill, T.A., Bryan, K.R., Seybold, C.A. (2022). Climatic influences on active layer depth between 2000 and 2018 in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Ross Sea Region, Antarctica Geoderma Regional, 29, art. no. e00497,

Goddard, H. E., Balks, M. R., & Seybold, C. A. (2012). Soil temperatures over a latitudinal gradient in the Ross Sea region of Antarctica: preliminary results. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Permafrost (pp. 183-184). Conference held at Salekhard, Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District, Russia: The Fort Dialog-Iset.

Guglielmin, M., Balks, M. R., & Paetzold, R. (2003). Towards an Antarctic Active Layer and Permafrost Monitoring Network. In M. Phillips, S. M. Springman, & L. U. Arenson (Eds.), Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Permafrost Vol. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Permafrost   Vol 1 (pp. 337-341). Conference held at Zurich, Switzerland: A.A Balkema Publishers.

Guglielmin, M., Balks, M. R., & Seybold, C. (2016). Permafrost thermal snapshot: Marble Point and Wright Valley, Ross Sea Region, Antarctica. In F. Günther, & A. Morgenstern (Eds.), XI International Conference On Permafrost – Book of Abstracts (pp. 120-121). Conference held in Potsdam, Germany. Retrieved from http://www.icop2016.org/

Guglielmin, M., Balks, M. R., Adlam, L. S., & Baio, F. (2011). Permafrost thermal regime from two 30-m deep boreholes in Southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, online, 1-11. doi:10.1002/ppp.715

Obu, J., Westermann, S., Vieira, G., Abramov, A., Balks, M., Bartsch, A., Hrbáček, F., Kääb, A., Ramos, M. Pan-Antarctic map of near-surface permafrost temperatures at 1km2 scale (2020). Cryosphere, 14 (2), pp. 497-519.

Seybold, C. A., Balks, M. R., & Harms, D. S. (2010). Characterization of active layer water contents in the McMurdo Sound region, Antarctica. Antarctic Science, 22(6), 633-645. doi:10.1017/S0954102010000696

Vieira, G., Bockheim, J., Guglielmin, M., Balks, M., Abramov, A. A., Boelhouwers, J., . . . Wagner, D. (2010). Thermal state of permafrost and active-layer monitoring in the Antarctic: Advances during the international polar year 2007-2009. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, 21(2), 182-197. doi:10.1002/ppp.685 

Wall, A. M., Balks, M. R., Campbell, D. I., & Paetzold, R. (2004). Soil moisture measurement in the Ross Sea region of Antarctica using Hydra soil moisture probes. In Super Soil 2004: 3rd Australian and New Zealand Soils Conference (pp. 1-9). Australia: The Regional Institute Ltd.

University of Waikato theses that relate to the Soil Climate Station establishment and data analysis

Adlam, L. S. (2009). Soil climate and permafrost temperature monitoring in the McMurdo Sound region, Antarctica (Thesis, Master of Science (MSc)). The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10289/2764

Carshalton, A. (2020). Spatial and temporal changes in soil climate and active layer depth in the Ross Sea Region, Antarctica, 1999-2018 (Thesis, Master of Science (MSc)). The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10289/13519

Goddard, H. E. (2013). Investigation of air and soil climate across the latitudinal and altitudinal gradient of the Ross Sea region of Antarctica (Thesis, Master of Science (MSc)). University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10289/7908

Holmes, D. J. (2002). The fate and effects of JP-5 fuel in Antarctic soil: A controlled experiment at Scott Base, Antarctica (Thesis, Master of Science (MSc)). The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10289/12849

Wall, A. M. (2004). Use of Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR) to determine moisture and temperature regimes in Antarctic soils (Thesis, Master of Science (MSc)). The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10289/12858

External websites

Educational website about glaciers and icesheets.

Article about the southern ocean on awesomeocean.com, an educational website about all things aquatic.

Article about the Emperor Penguin, on the British Antarctic Surveys website.

Information relating to The Ross Sea region Marine Protected Area.

Article about orbital cycles, on NASA's climate website.

Article about the European Space Agency's (ESA) gravity mapping satellite, revealing hidden secrets below Antarctica's ice sheet.

Website for GPlates - a plate tectonics mapping application.

Website detailing research into Māori relationships to Antarctica and the Southern Ocean.

Mountain Ranges In Antarctica: Guide To Notable Mountains & Hikes.

Article about the LC-130, the four-engine turboprop transport airplane used in Antarctica. On the US governments National Science Foundation website.

Article on studying oil spills in Antarctica. On the NZ Science Learning Hub, Pokapū Akoranga Pūtaiao.

Wikipedia entry on USS Glacier (AGB-4).

Wikipedia entry on the ESA's Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE).

 

Data

ADA is a tool built and hosted by Manaaki Whenua which allows you to discover, query and visualise spatial and temporal data relating to how Antarctica is changing.

The disturbance footprint contains GIS shapefiles of all buildings and disturbance detected across Antarctica, manually digitised from Google Earth images. Brooks, S.T. 2019.