Characterisation of Newly Polar Psychrotrophic Streptomycetes Isolates from Polar Soils with Cold Adapted Bioremediation Potential by Mihaela COTARLET, Gabriela Elena BAHRIM, Teodor Gheorghe NEGOITA, Peter STOUGAARD

“…Novel polar streptomycetes coded 4 Alga, P2C4 and MIUG 12P, isolated from soil and vegetation samples prelevated from East Antarctica, were genetically and biochemically characterized in order to set up the phylogeny and to identify the capability to grow at lower temperature and to generate amylase and protease cold-active. …”
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The past, present and future distribution of a deep-sea shrimp in the Southern Ocean by Zeenatul Basher, Mark J. Costello

“…By 2100, the shrimp are likely to expand their distribution in east Antarctica but have a continued pole-ward contraction in west Antarctica. …”
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Observation tests of the Antarctic penetrator on the Mizuho Plateau in JARE-43 summer operation by Takeshi Matsushima, Mikiya Yamashita, Tatsuji Yasuhara, Koh Horiguchi, Hiroki Miyamachi, Shigeru Toda, Masamitsu Takada, Atsushi Watanabe, Kazuo Shibuya

“…In the 43rd Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE-43, 2001-2002) seismic explosion experiments on the Mizuho Plateau, in East Antarctica, we equipped 22 penetrators for seismic observation. …”
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Variability and Formation Mechanism of Polynyas in Eastern Prydz Bay, Antarctica by Saisai Hou, Jiuxin Shi

“…Based on satellite remote sensing, several polynyas have been found in Prydz Bay, East Antarctica. Compared with the Mackenzie Bay Polynya, the only polynya in the west, the polynyas in eastern Prydz Bay have a larger area and higher ice production, but have never been studied individually. …”
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Wintertime Southern Hemisphere jet streams shaped by interaction of transient eddies with Antarctic orography by Patterson, M, Woollings, T, Bracegirdle, TJ, Lewis,NT

“…Removing Antarctic orography also results in a substantial warming over East Antarctica partly because transient eddies are able to penetrate farther poleward, enhancing poleward heat transport. …”

New seismic monitoring observation system and data accessibility at Syowa Station by Masaki Kanao, Katsutada Kaminuma, Kazuo Shibuya, Yoshifumi Nogi, Hiroaki Negishi, Yoko Tono, Toshihiro Higashi

“…The seismic observation system at Syowa Station, East Antarctica was fully replaced in the wintering season of the 38th Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE-38) in 1996-1998. …”
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Assessing the subglacial lake coverage of Antarctica by Sebastian Goeller, Daniel Steinhage, Malte Thoma, Klaus Grosfeld

“…To validate our predictions, we analyzed ice-penetrating radar profiles from radio-echo sounding flights acquired over 1994–2013 in Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica, and this led to the identification of 31 new subglacial lakes. …”
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Paleosols in the Transantarctic Mountains: indicators of environmental change by J. G. Bockheim

“…The Transantarctic Mountains (TAMs), a 3500 km long chain that subdivides East Antarctica from West Antarctica, are important for reconstructing the tectonic, glacial, and climatic history of Antarctica. …”
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Geophysical research from field observations by the Earth Science Division in the 38th Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (1996-1998) by Masaki Kanao, Toshihiro Higashi

“…Lithospheric structure and evolution of the Lutzow-Holm Bay region, East Antarctica were obtained from continuous observations by portable broadband seismographs and from gravity surveys on outcrops around the Soya Coast region. …”
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Report on lake/marine sediment coring from ice surface (JARE-58/59) by Yusuke Suganuma, Yukiko Tanabe, Kota Katsuki, Daisuke Shibata, Moto Kawamata

“…Lake and marine sediment coring were carried out in the Soya Coast in East Antarctica, during the 2017⊖2018 summer season as part of the 58/59th Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE). …”
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Basal melting over Subglacial Lake Ellsworth and its catchment: insights from englacial layering by Neil Ross, Martin Siegert

“…Isochronal radio-echo layers have been used to infer where melting occurs above Lake Vostok and Lake Concordia in East Antarctica but have not been used more widely. We examine englacial layers above and around Lake Ellsworth, West Antarctica, to establish where the ice sheet is ‘drawn down’ towards the bed and, thus, experiences melting. …”
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Report of the 2007/2008 Japanese-Swedish joint Antarctic traverse:I. Planning, preparations, and outline of scientific achievements by Shuji Fujita, Kotaro Fukui, Fumio Nakazawa, Hiroyuki Enomoto, Shin Sugiyama, Yoshiyuki Fujii, Koji Fujita, Teruo Furukawa, Keiichiro Hara, Yu Hoshina, Makoto Igarashi, Yoshinori Iizuka, Satoshi Imura, Hideaki Motoyama, Sylviane Surdyk, Ryu Uemura

“…In the seventh five-year plan of the Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition, a group of Japanese scientists (led by the National Institute of Polar Research) together with a group of Swedish scientists, conducted field surveys to better understand the glaciology of the ice sheet in Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica, during the 2007/2008 austral summer season. …”
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Evidence for the former existence of a thicker ice sheet on the Vestfjella nunataks in western Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica by P. Lintinen

“…Vestfjella (73-74°S, 13-16°W) is a 130 km long nunatak range in western Dronning Maud Land in East Antarctica, and its northern and southern ends are situated close to the present ice sheet grounding-line. …”
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SEASONAL COMPARISON OF VELOCITY OF THE EASTERN TRIBUTARY GLACIERS, AMERY ICE SHELF, ANTARCTICA, USING SAR OFFSET TRACKING by S. D. Jawak, S. Kumar, A. J. Luis, P. H. Pandit, S. F. Wankhede, T. S. Anirudh

“…The focus of this study is Amery ice shelf (AIS) which is the third largest ice shelf located in east Antarctica terminating into the Prydz Bay on the eastern Antarctica. …”
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Thermally induced icequakes detected on blue ice areas of the East Antarctic ice sheet by Denis Lombardi, Irina Gorodetskaya, Guilhem Barruol, Thierry Camelbeeck

“…Over a year of seismic observations, ~5000 short duration icequakes were detected by a permanent broadband station installed at the Princess Elisabeth base, located ~180 km inland in eastern Dronning Maud Land, East-Antarctica. Icequake detection via seismic waveform pattern recognition indicates the presence of two dominating clusters of events, totalizing ~1500 icequakes. …”
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Outbursts from an ice-marginal lake in Antarctica in 1969–1971 and 2017, revealed by aerial photographs and satellite data by Shuntaro Hata, Moto Kawamata, Koichiro Doi

“…Here we present direct evidence of repeated GLOFs from Lake Kaminotani-Ike, an ice-sheet-dammed lake in East Antarctica, via an analysis of historical aerial photographs and recent satellite data. …”
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Crustal thickness of Antarctica estimated using data from gravimetric satellites by M. Llubes, L. Seoane, S. Bruinsma, F. Rémy

“…Finally, we compute a model in which the crust–mantle density contrast is adjusted to fit the Moho depth from the CRUST1.0 model. In East Antarctica, the resulting density contrast clearly shows higher values than in West Antarctica.…”
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The potential of synthetic aperture radar interferometry for assessing meltwater lake dynamics on Antarctic ice shelves by W. Li, S. Lhermitte, P. López-Dekker

“…In four case study regions over Amery and Roi Baudouin ice shelves, East Antarctica, we examine spatial and temporal variations in SAR backscatter intensity and interferometric (InSAR) coherence and phase over several lakes derived from Sentinel-1A/B C-band SAR imagery. …”
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Anthropogenic disturbance and biodiversity of marine benthic communities in Antarctica: a regional comparison. by Jonathan S Stark, Stacy L Kim, John S Oliver

“…The impacts of two Antarctic stations in different regions, on marine sediment macrofaunal communities were compared: McMurdo, a very large station in the Ross Sea; and Casey, a more typical small station in East Antarctica. Community structure and diversity were compared along a gradient of anthropogenic disturbance from heavily contaminated to uncontaminated locations. …”
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Drygalski Ice Tongue stability influenced by rift formation and ice morphology by Christine Indrigo, Christine F. Dow, Jamin S. Greenbaum, Mathieu Morlighem

“…The Drygalski Ice Tongue in East Antarctica stretches 90 km into the Ross Sea and influences the local ocean circulation, and persistence of the Terra Nova Bay Polynya. …”
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