The Location and Styles of Ice-Free “Oases” during Neoproterozoic Glaciations with Evolutionary Implications by Daniel Paul Le Heron

“…Specifically, whether continents such as greater India, Australia/East Antarctica, Kalahari, South and North China, and Siberia, were welded to a southern supercontinent or not, has implications for island speciation, faunal exchange, and the development of endemism.…”
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Sea salt deposited snow on sea ice and snow drift by Kazuo Osada, Fumihiko Nishio, Keiji Higuchi

“…Fallen snow, snow drift and deposited snow on sea ice were collected in 1986 near Syowa Station, East Antarctica. Electroconductivity measurments of meltwater of the collected samples were performed at Syowa Station. …”
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Cloud distribution in the Antarctic from satellite data by Takashi Yamanouchi

“…Aided from the correlation coefficient between the brightness temperature difference between channels 4 and 5,and the brightness temperature of channel 4,cloud distributions over East Antarctica throughout the year were derived, and distribution characteristics were discussed.…”
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A newly developed snow vehicle (SM100S) for Antarctica I. Necessity and process of the development by Sadao Takeuchi, Atsushi Kino, Masayuki Hosoya, Jiro Yoshida, Kenji Ishizawa

“…As for the inland traverses, the SM50S-type snow vehicle has been used, but the research area is now expanding to the much colder area, and the "Deep Ice Coring Project at Dome Fuji, East Antarctica" has recently been proposed. Therefore, a committee for the design of a new snow vehicle was organized in the special committee on logistics of National Institute of Polar Research. …”
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The suppression of Antarctic bottom water formation by melting ice shelves in Prydz Bay by G. D. Williams, L. Herraiz-Borreguero, F. Roquet, T. Tamura, K. I. Ohshima, Y. Fukamachi, A. D. Fraser, L. Gao, H. Chen, C. R. McMahon, R. Harcourt, M. Hindell

“…Here, the authors show new observations of AABW formation from seal CTD data in Prydz Bay, East Antarctica that highlights its susceptibility to increased freshwater input from the melting of ice shelves.…”
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Analysis of recent Antarctic plate kinematics based on GNSS data by Ihor Savchyn, Ivan Brusak, Korneliy Tretyak

“…The analysis of deformation processes shows that a gradual decrease in the horizontal strain rates, maximum shear strain and area strain is taking place from west to east, in the direction of West Antarctica – the Transantarctic Mountains – East Antarctica. The absolute rotation pole of the Antarctic plate in the ITRF2014/IGS14 reference frame has been determined, and the obtained values are in good agreement with recent plate models.…”
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Collection of Yamato Meteorites, Antarctica, in December 1973 by Kazuyuki SHIRAISHI, Renji NARUSE, Kou KUSUNOKI

“…In addition to 9 meteorites, designated as Yamato meteorites, discovered in December 1969 at the SE end of the Yamato Mountains, East Antarctica, 12 stoney meteorites were found in December 1973 in nearly the same area by the traverse glaciology party of the 14th Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition. …”
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Metagenomic Analysis of Antarctic Biocrusts Unveils a Rich Range of Cold-Shock Proteins by Ekaterina Pushkareva, Josef Elster, Burkhard Becker

“…Here, we applied metagenomic sequencing to study biocrusts from east Antarctica. Biocrusts were dominated by cyanobacteria, actinobacteria and proteobacteria. …”
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Extreme ecological response of a seabird community to unprecedented sea ice cover by Christophe Barbraud, Karine Delord, Henri Weimerskirch

“…Here we report a recent extreme event in sea ice conditions in East Antarctica and investigate its consequences on a seabird community. …”
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Actively evolving subglacial conduits and eskers initiate ice shelf channels at an Antarctic grounding line by Drews, R, Pattyn, F, Hewitt, I, Ng, F, Berger, S, Matsuoka, K, Helm, V, Bergeot, N, Favier, L, Neckel, N

“…Here we use ice-penetrating radar data from Roi Baudouin Ice Shelf, East Antarctica, to infer that the morphology of several ice-shelf channels is seeded upstream of the grounding line by large basal obstacles indenting the ice from below. …”

EXPERIMENTAL DEM EXTRACTION FROM ASTER STEREO PAIRS AND 3D REGISTRATION BASED ON ICESAT LASER ALTIMETRY DATA IN UPSTREAM AREA OF LAMBERT GLACIER, ANTARCTICA by G. Hai, G. Hai, H. Xie, H. Xie, J. Chen, J. Chen, L. Chen, L. Chen, R. Li, R. Li, X. Tong, X. Tong

“…DEM Extraction from ASTER stereo pairs and three-dimensional registration by reference to ICESat laser altimetry data are carried out in upstream area of Lambert Glacier, East Antarctica. Since the study area is located in inland of East Antarctica where few textures exist, registration between DEM and ICESat data is performed. …”
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Research sites get closer to field camps over time: Informing environmental management through a geospatial analysis of science in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica by Stephen M. Chignell, Madeline E. Myers, Adrian Howkins, Andrew G. Fountain

“…In this study, we integrate bibliometrics, geospatial analysis, and historical research to understand the relationship between field camp placement and scientific production in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of East Antarctica. Our analysis of the scientific corpus from 1907–2016 shows that, on average, research sites have become less dispersed and closer to field camps over time. …”
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Spatio-temporal variation of skeletal Mg-calcite in Antarctic marine calcifiers. by Blanca Figuerola, Damian B Gore, Glenn Johnstone, Jonathan S Stark

“…We examine spatio-temporal variability of skeletal Mg-calcite in shallow water Antarctic marine invertebrates using bryozoan and spirorbids as models in a recruitment experiment of settlement tiles in East Antarctica. Mineralogies were determined for 754 specimens belonging to six bryozoan species (four cheilostome and two cyclostome species) and two spirorbid species from around Casey Station. …”
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Post-depositional loss of nitrate and chloride in Antarctic snow by photolysis and sublimation: a field investigation by Kazushi Noro, Norimichi Takenaka

“…Changes in nitrate and chloride concentrations in the snowpack were investigated at H128 (69°23.584’S, 41°33.712’E), an Antarctic coastal site approximately 100 km from Syowa Station in East Antarctica from December 2015 to February 2016. Results indicate that chloride migrated to deeper sites within the snowpack under the influence of water vapour movement. …”
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Meteorological Observations at Syowa Station in 1975 by the 16th Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition by Shigenori SAKAI, Shinichi OKIMASA, Shigemi MESHIDA, Takahiro SAKAMOTO

“…The data of the surface observations and the aerological observation were immediately reported to World Meteorological Center in Melbourne via Mawson Station, East Antarctica according to the WMO Regulations. The surface meteorological observations and the piball observation were also carried out en route from Syowa Station to Mizuho Station (70°42'S, 44°20'E) and in ice-free areas on the east coast of Lutzow-Holm Bay. …”
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Jarosite formation in deep Antarctic ice provides a window into acidic, water-limited weathering on Mars by Giovanni Baccolo, Barbara Delmonte, P. B. Niles, Giannantonio Cibin, Elena Di Stefano, Dariush Hampai, Lindsay Keller, Valter Maggi, Augusto Marcelli, Joseph Michalski, Christopher Snead, Massimo Frezzotti

“…The authors report in-situ formation of jarosite witin the Talos Dome ice core (East Antarctica) and show that this ferric-potassium sulfate mineral is present in ice deeper than 1000 meters and progressively increases with depth. …”
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Synthetic aperture radar backscatter is influenced by bubbles at the ice/water interface of an Antarctic lake by Adam Gaudreau, Denis Lacelle, Dale T. Andersen

“…This study utilizes synthetic aperture radar to analyze the 2019-2023 backscatter time series of perennially ice-covered Lake Untersee in East Antarctica. We observed stark seasonal backscatter variations, averaging –9.6 dB from December to March and –3.7 dB from May to November. …”
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Activities of Japanese Party in McMurdo Sound Area by Keizo YANAI, Minoru FUNAKI

“…As a part of comparative study of geological structure in East Antarctica, geological survey of dike rocks was conducted in the Dry Valley area. …”
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Research sites get closer to field camps over time: Informing environmental management through a geospatial analysis of science in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. by Stephen M Chignell, Madeline E Myers, Adrian Howkins, Andrew G Fountain

“…In this study, we integrate bibliometrics, geospatial analysis, and historical research to understand the relationship between field camp placement and scientific production in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of East Antarctica. Our analysis of the scientific corpus from 1907-2016 shows that, on average, research sites have become less dispersed and closer to field camps over time. …”
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Cyanobacterial Diversity In Selected Tropical And Polar Environments by Abdul Rahman, Nur Fadzliana

“…This study explored the cyanobacterial communities in sediment and soil samples collected from selected areas from Antarctic (Browning Peninsula, Dee Island, Greenwich Island and Reeve Hill), Arctic (Kvartsitsletta and Polish Polar Station) and Tropical (Air Terjun River, Air Itam River, Dondang River, Jelutong River and Pinang River) regions, by identifying taxa via 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequence data. 16S rRNA gene amplicons generated from 11 samples were sequenced using illumina Miseq, with the targeted V3 and V4 regions yielding approximately 1 million reads per sample. East Antarctica (Browning Peninsula and Reeve Hill) recorded nine genera of cyanobacteria and west Antarctica (Dee Island and Greenwich Island) recorded seven genera. …”
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