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Antarctic & Southern Ocean Data Portal: News

This page provides news announcements and data updates related to the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Data Portal. Please visit the MGDS News page for general MGDS news announcements and updates.

2010

February 2010

Datasets for XBT, CTD, weather images, JGOFS format and MGD77 underwary data collected on NBP0703 (J.Anderson) now available.

January 2010

Basic cruise metadata for NBP0908 (T.Chereskin) is now available as well as metadata for JGOFS and MGD77 formatted underway data sets.

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2009

December 2009

Basic cruise metadata for transit LMG0613 now available along with XBT, XCTD, Weather Images, JGOFS-formatted day files and Navigation datasets.

Shapefiles and MGDS:Nav format navigation now downloadable for every cruise in Search for Data.

November 2009

Recently ingested, but on proprietary hold is the underway cruise data for LMG0910 (W.Trivelpiece), LMG0909 (C.Sweeney),LMG0809 (A.Devries), LMG0808 (S.Ishman), LMG0807 (W.Detrich) and transit cruise NBP0905A.

October 2009

Multibeam data for transit cruise NBP0407, along with standard underway data for NBP0902 (K.Smith), NBP0806 (K.Smith), NBP0812 (T.Chereskin), NBP0808 (D.DeMaster,C.Smith), NBP0805 (I.Dalziel,L.Robinson) now searchable.

Multibeam data for NBP0501 (A.Gordon) is now publicly available.

September 2009

Full suite of underway data, including CTD, JGOFS-format files, XCTD, XBT, weather images and navigation are now viewable for LMG0902 (D.DeMaster), LMG0903 (R.Blanchette), LMG0905 (D.Nowacek), and transits LMG0906A and LMG0907.

August 2009

Basic cruise information is now available for LMG0902 (D.DeMaster), LMG0905 (D.Nowacek) and transit LMG0906A.

July 2009

New metadata forms for Marine Field Programs are now available in a comprehensive Excel workbook. Download here.

Received ship-based field data for recent cruises NBP0805 (I.Dalziel,L.Robinson), NBP0806 (K.Smith), NBP0902 (K.Smith), LMG0902 (D.DeMaster), LMG0903 (R.Blanchette,E.Domack) LMG0905 (D.Nowacek), transit LMG0906A as well as data from RPSC, not previously available, from cruises NBP0301, NBP0302, NBP0304, NBP0304A, NBP0304B, NBP0306, NBP0501, NBP0501B, and NBP0703. All are now in queue for ingestion.

June 2009

Multibeam data from these Southern Ocean cruises were added to the South Polar GMRT tileset: NBP0304D (Cande),NBP0709 (S.Ackley), and NBP0812 (T.Chereskin).

May 2009

Basic cruise information for LMG0903 (R.Blanchette,E.Domack) is now available. XBT data for NBP0802 (D.Caron,P.Bart), NBP0803 (P.Bart), NBP0804 (J.Stock) and NBP0901 (S.Jacobs) is also newly available.

April 2009

Underway geophysics MGD77 files were added for NBP0801 (D.Caron,B.Huber), NBP0802 (D.Caron,P.Bart), NBP0803 (P.Bart), NBP0804 (J.Stock), NBP0808 (D.DeMaster,C.Smith) and NBP0901 (S.Jacobs) with CTD data added for NBP0801 (D.Caron,B.Huber), NBP0802 (D.Caron,P.Bart), NBP0808 (D.DeMaster,C.Smith), NBP0901 (S.Jacobs), LMG0808 (S.Ishman) and LMG0901 (D.Martinson).

JGOFS format data for NBP0802 (D.Caron,P.Bart), NBP0803 (P.Bart), NBP0804 (J.Stock), NBP0808 (D.DeMaster,C.Smith), NBP0901 (S.Jacobs), LMG0807 (W.Detrich), LMG0808 (S.Ishman), LMG0809 (A.Devries), LMG0810 (A.Devries), LMG0811, LMG0812, and LMG0901 (D.Martinson) is also now cataloged.

Newly prepared MGDS:Nav navigation is available for NBP0801 (D.Caron,B.Huber), NBP0802 (D.Caron,P.Bart), NBP0803 (P.Bart), NBP0804 (J.Stock), NBP0808 (D.DeMaster,C.Smith), NBP0901 (S.Jacobs), LMG0801 (W.Fraser), LMG0802 (D.DeMaster,C.Smith), LMG0803, LMG0804 (S.Ishman), LMG0807 (W.Detrich) and LMG0808 (S.Ishman).

Multibeam data for NBP0901 (S.Jacobs) was also recently added.

March 2009

Basic cruise information and navigation added for LMG0809 (A.Devries), LMG0810 (A.Devries), LMG0811, LMG0812, and LMG0901 (D.Martinson).

February 2009

Compilation bathymetry grid in both GMT and xyz formats is now available for Rob Larter's recent Western Amundsen Sea work.

January 2009

Multibeam data is now available for NBP0801 (D.Caron,B.Huber), NBP0802 (D.Caron,P.Bart), NBP0803 (P.Bart), NBP0804 (J.Stock), and NBP0805 (I.Dalziel,L.Robinson).

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2008

December 2008

The Southern Ocean cruises NBP0401 (Wilson, Structure of Terror Rift, Western Ross Sea), NBP0505 (Anderson, Glacial sedimentation) and NBP0602 (Stock, McMurdo - Punta Arenas, Chile) were added to the South Polar GMRT tileset.

November 2008

File in kml format for accessing R/V N. B. Palmer ship tracks in Google Earth now available. On a PC click on track while holding "Ctrl" on keyboard in order to access cruise information. On a Mac click the "Apple" key. Click on cruise name to link to full cruise information.

Click here (http://www.marine-geo.org/services/cpkmz?search=NBP) to download kml file.

Improved quality multibeam for Palmer cruises NBP0401, NBP0405, and NBP0408 now available.

July 2008

Basic cruise metadata added to database for NBP0802, NBP0803, NPB0804, NBP0805, LMG0807, LMG0808 as well as the underway suite of data for LMG0802, LMG0803, LMG0804, NBP0709, NBP0710, NBP0711 and NPB0801.

June 2008

Global Multi-Resolution Topography compilation updated with swath bathymetry data from NBP0702 (Chief Scientist S.Jacobs, Amundsen Continental Shelf and the Antarctic Ice Sheet, McMurdo - Chile), NBP0403 (Cande, Lyttelton, N.Z.-Punta Arenas, Chile), and NBP0301B (Walker Smith, McMurdo-McMurdo).

May 2008

In a major addition to the database, basic cruise metadata, navigation and primary underway data sets collected during expeditions of the L. Gould from 2003 to 2007 are now available. Basic cruise documentation added for LMG0301 (H.Ducklow), LMG0302 (R.Beardsley), LMG0303 (G.Berger), LMG0304 (W.Detrich), LMG0304A (W.Detrich), LMG0308 (J.Yen), LMG0309 (D.Blake), LMG0401 (W.Fraser), LMG0402 (C.Measures), LMG0403 (J.Hildebrand), LMG0404 (E.Domack), LMG0411 (S.Emerson), LMG0412 (W.Trivelpiece), LMG0413A (R.Naveen), LMG0414 (K.Halanych), LMG0501 (W.Fraser), LMG0507 (C.Stump), LMG0514 (R.Naveen), LMG0514A (K.Smith), LMG0602 (L.Madin), LMG0605 (K.Halanych), LMG0611B (R.Naveen), LMG0707 (P.Olsgaard), LMG0717 (R.MacPhee), LMG0801 (W.Fraser), and LMG0802 (D.DeMaster) with data sets of JGOFS, CTD, XBT, XCTD, Weather Images and ADCP ingested where available. The transit/maintenance legs of LMG0305, LMG0305A (K.Steffen), LMG0306, LMG0307, LMG0405, LMG0406, LMG0408, LMG0512, LMG0603A, LMG0604, LMG0608, LMG0612, LMG0614, LMG0712, LMG0713, and LMG0715 were also created.

Multibeam data from NBP0304 (Chief Scientist Cande, NZ-Dutch Harbor, Alaska), NBP0408 (Chief Scientist S. Jacobs, ANSLOPE Leg_III), NBP0602 (J.Stock, McMurdo - Punta Arenas, Chile), NBP0301B (Walker Smith, McMurdo-McMurdo), NBP0403 (Cande, Lyttelton, NZ - Punta Arenas, Chile) and NBP9504 (seabeam test, off New Zealand) were recently added to the Global Multi-Resolution Topography compilation.

April 2008

Multibeam bathymetry data from NBP0304C now added to the Global Multi-Resolution Topography compilation and accessible through GeoMapApp.

March 2008

Multibeam data from the following cruises now accessible through GeoMapApp: NBP9601, NBP0207, NBP0209, NBP0405.

February 2008

NBP0305A multibeam data (Chief Scientist Walker Smith, New Zealand - McMurdo) was added to the Global Multi-Resolution Topography compilation and accessible through GeoMapApp.

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2007

December 2007

The multibeam data from Antarctic cruises NBP0506, contributed by Miles McPhee, which included data in the vicinity of the Maud Rise and data from NBP0402 (Visbeck, McMurdo - New Zealand) has been added to the GMRT bathymetry tiles.

November 2007

At the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, additional multibeam swath data as well as bathymetric grids and images included for Eugene Domack's cruise NBP0107 (Dec 2001 - Jan 2002). Gravity/magnetics data, sound velocity profiles, JGOFS and ADCP data, and bathymetric grids and images, added for Ross Sea cruise NBP0402 (Feb-Apr 2004, Chief Scientist Martin Visbeck). For southwest Pacific cruises NBP0403 (Apr-May 2004, principal investigators Cande/Stock) now available are raw and processed multibeam swath files, bathymetric grids and images, CTD, sound velocity, JGOFS and ADCP data, gravity and magnetics files. For the more recent southwest Pacific cruise NBP0607A (Aug-Sep 2006, Chief Scientist Marcel Croon), raw and processed multibeam swath files, sound velocity, JGOFS and ADCP data, gravity and magnetics files added to database. Single-channel seismic reflection and sub-bottom data available for SHALDRIL cruise NBP0602A (Feb-Apr 2006, Chief Scientist John Anderson), along with raw and processed multibeam bathymetry swath files, grids and images, and ADCP and sound velocity data. Single-channel seismics data, ADCP and gravity/magnetics data added for West Antarctic cruise NBP9902 (Feb-Mar 1999, Chief Scientist John Anderson). Raw and processed multibeam data and ADCP added for sea trials leg NBP0607C (Oct 2006, Chief Scientist Joann Stock). Basic database entries created for transit/maintenance legs NBP0704, NBP0705, NBP0706, NBP0707, NBP0708 and Gould leg LMG0707.

October 2007

For NBP0506 (Jul-Sep 2005, Chief Scientist Miles McPhee), all digital data added to database, including raw and processed multibeam swath files, bathymetric grids and images, CTD, sound velocity and ADCP data, gravity and magnetics files. Along the western margin of the Antarctic Peninsula, updated multibeam data and bathymetric grids and images added for NBP0201 (Jan-Mar 2001, Chief Scientist John Anderson). Multibeam data and bathymetric grids and images can now be downloaded for NBP0703 (Mar-May 2007, chief scientists Anderson and Hallet). Basic cruise entry, ADCP and JGOFS data added for LMG0706 (May 2007, chief scientists Sidell/Costa). NBP0407 (Bartek) Lyttelton - McMurdo multibeam was added to the GMRT bathymetry tiles.

August 2007

This month, the multibeam data from a number of Antarctic cruises was added to the GMRT bathymetry tiles. In the McMurdo/ice edge/New Zealand region, NBP0306 (Luyendyk) and NBP0301A (Bart) are now in the tiles. NBP9908 (Chile to New Zealand, Cande) and NBP9806A, a transit from Honolulu to Western Samoa, are also visible in the GMRT South Polar tileset and accessible through GeoMapApp.

July 2007

New gridded bathymetric compilation for the Amundsen Sea contributed by Frank Nitsche and colleagues added to database.

Multibeam swath data files for NBP0406, contributed by Steve Cande, added new data to the GMRT bathymetric tiles in the southern Indian Ocean en route to New Zealand from Cape Town.

June 2007

The GMRT bathymetry tileset was updated by the addition of NBP0301 (McMurdo/ice edge) contributed by Lou Bartek.

May 2007

Data from the major airborne geophysical SOAR survey of Lake Vostok have been added to the database (SOAR-LVS). These data include gravity, radar, and laser altimetry data on ice surface topography (profile data) acquired and processed by the SOAR facility at UTIG, magnetic profile data acquired by SOAR and reduced by USGS, and final processed, cross-over corrected and leveled grids of gravity and magentics, ice thickness and bedrock elevation from M. Studinger LDEO (including detailed documentation on processing and publication list).

March 2007

All multibeam data for NBP0507 (Sep-Oct 2005, Chief Scientist Marcel Croon) now available.

February 2007

Multibeam and CTD data, and core log information added for NBP0505 (Jun-Jul 2005, Chief Scientist John Anderson).

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2006

December 2006

Complete field data from cruise NBP0603 (Eugene Domack) survey of Larson Ice Shelf added to database. Data include multibeam bathymetry field data, grids and images, gravity, single channel seismic and subbottom profile data, sound velocity profiles, ADCP, CTD data along with information about coring and grab and camera operations.

November 2006

Field data from cruise NBP0601A (Walker Smith) survey to the Ross Sea now available. Data include single beam bathymetry field data, gravity, flourescence, current measurement, sound velocity profiles, ADCP, and CTD data along with biological and fluid sampling information.

Field data from cruise NBP0601 (Giacomo DiTullio) study of phytoplankton community dynamics in the Ross Sea now available. Data include single beam bathymetry field data, gravity, ADCP, CTD, and fluid chemistry data.

Marine, airborne, and land gravity profile data in the earlier ADGRAV database developed at LDEO by Bob Arko and Robin Bell have been migrated to the integrated AMBS database and can be accessed through both Data Link and GeoMapApp (Custom Data Viewers -> Bathymetry, Gravity and Magnetics Profiles and select ADGRAV database), in addition to the original ADGRAV search interface.

October 2006

Complete field data from cruise NBP0602A (John Anderson) SHALDRIL project added to database. Data include multibeam bathymetry field data, gravity, magnetics, subbottom profile data, sound velocity profiles.

Field data from NBP0508 (Patrick Neale), study of phytoplankton and bacterioplankton in the Ross Sea now available. Data include single beam bathymetry field data, gravity, ADCP, CTD, and fluid chemistry data.

Complete field data from cruise NBP0507 (Marcel Croon) added to database. Data include multibeam bathymetry field data, gravity, magnetics, subbottom profile data, sidescan sonarm sound velocity profiles,CTD and JGOFS data files,CTD, links to SIO for ADCP data, and satellite meterological data.

Complete field data from cruise NBP0505 (John Anderson) added to database. Data include multibeam bathymetry ping files, grids and images, gravity, magnetics, and subbottom profile data, sound velocity profiles, JGOFS data files, with links to SIO for ADCP data.

September 2006

Multibeam bathymetry swath files, grids and maps and underway geophysics from NBP0602 (Stock and Cande) added to database. Underway data includes, gravity, magnetics, subbottom and ADCP data. Survey includes coverage of the Bellingshausen-Antarctica-Pacific Triple Junction.

Select near bottom photographs collected at core stations conducted these legacy Eltanin, Vema, and Conrad expeditions have been scanned from negatives and georeferenced and can be browsed in GeoMapApp (Available Data -> General Viewers -> Tables -> Seafloor Photos).

August 2006

Multibeam bathymetry (swath data, grids and maps) from the following cruises have been entered into the data base:

Legacy single channel seismic (SCS) reflection data project completed. A total of 415 legs of SCS profiles spanning the global ocean and including the Southern Ocean can now be viewed in GeoMapApp.

July 2006

Bathymetry grids and maps from Scott Gallager's REMUS survey, from the Polar Remote Interactive Marine Observatory (PRIMO) project, now available.

For cruises from the 2005-2006 field season and future expeditions, bathymetry grids and maps made during each cruise will also be added to database, in addition to swath ping data. Also beginning with the 2005-2006 field season, a broader suite of data types from Palmer expeditions will now be added to the database. These may include (depending on cruise) MGD77 files, JGOF files, XBTs, CTDs, sound velocity profiles, cruise satellite images and MOCNESS data.

March 2006

New search capability now available. In addition to the ability to search by geographic area, ISS, investigator and cruise ID, you can now search by the full list of data types or device types cataloged in the database. Use these search options to find out where the selected data type has been collected and to download any data files available in the database.

Many new data sets now available for exploring through the Databases menu in GeoMapApp. Select Import Data -> Load -> File -> Browse DataBases -> Global.

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2005

October 2005

The following Palmer cruises have had information and non-proprietary data added to Data Link:

  • NBP9204 Huntley, Punta Arenas - Punta Arenas (Antarctic Ecological Rates)
  • NBP9301 Lawver, Punta Arenas - Punta Arenas (Heat Flow Around West Antarctica)
  • NBP9303 Veit, Punta Arenas - Punta Arenas (Seabirds Feeding on Krill)
  • NBP9505 Jeffries, Lyttelton Punta Arenas (Sea ice development)
  • NBP9508 Garrison, Lyttelton - McMurdo (Food web and bloom in the Ross Sea)
  • NBP0107 Berger, Punta Arenas - Punta Arenas (Antarctic Pennisula sediments)
  • NBP0201 Anderson, Punta Arenas - Punta Arenas (Geology of the continental shelves of West Antarctica and the Antarctic Peninsula)
  • NBP0301 Bartek, McMurdo/Ice Edge - McMurdo/Ice Edge (Site surveys for drilling from the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf)
  • NBP0409 Kiene, Lyttelton - McMurdo (Biogeochemical cycling in Ross Sea)
  • NBP0502 Anderson, Punta Arenas - Punta Arenas (SHALDRIL)
  • NBP0305 Neale, Lyttelton - Lyttelton (Ross Sea mixing)
  • NBP0405 transit, Cape Town,South Africa - Cape Town
  • NBP0305A Walker Smith, Lyttleton - McMurdo/Ice Edge (IVARS )
  • NBP0402 Visbeck, McMurdo/Ice Edge 2004-04-09 Lyttelton, (AnSlope project)
  • NBP0408 Jacobs, Lyttelton - Lyttelton (AnSlope project)
  • NBP0301A Bart, McMurdo/Ice Edge- McMurdo/Ice Edge (Neogene expansions of the Antarctic Ice Sheets)
  • NBP0406 Cande, Stock, Cape Town,South Africa - Lyttelton ( Reconstructions of the Southwest Pacific)
  • NBP0501B transit, Lyttelton,New Zealand - Punta Arenas
  • NBP0304B transit, Barrow,Alaska - Honolulu
  • NBP0304C transit, Napier,New Zealand - Honolulu
  • NBP0304D transit, Napier,New Zealand - Lyttelton

September 2005

Bathymetry data was incorporated into the Global Multi-Resolutional Topography south polar and mercator projection bathymetry compilations from the following Southern Ocean cruises:

  • NBP0101 (Leventer, Indian Ocean coast of Antarctica)
  • NBP9805 (Holik, transit, Punta Arenas to Seattle)
  • NBP9705 (Gordon, Muench, Weddell-Scotia Confluence)
  • NBP9704B (Holik, transit, Talcahuano - Punta Arenas, Chile)
  • NBP9603A (Holik, transit, Hobart - Lyttelton)
  • NBP9501 (John Anderson, Ross Sea)

Project names, award numbers and links to project websites for many Palmer cruises have been added in an ongoing effort.

August 2005

Personnel information has been included in the database for 32 N.B.Palmer cruise legs from 2002 through 2005.

April 2005

Bathymetry data from NBP0201, contributed by John Anderson, released and incorporated into GMRT global bathymetry compilations.

March 2005

Bathymetry data from NBP9806A (transit), NBP0101 contributed by Amy Leventer, and NBP0202 contributed by Robert Beardsley now incorporated into the GMRT Mercator projection bathymetry.

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2004

October 2004

All Palmer multibeam bathymetry data from 2002 and early 2003 (up to NBP0304A) now incorporated into database with proprietary holds.

Single channel seismic reflection profiles from cruises of the R/V Conrad, Eltanin and Vema can now be downloaded from Data Link as well as browsed through GeoMapApp.

September 2004

Global heat flow data compilation including data from the Southern Ocean now accessible through the Import Data option in GeoMapApp. Database from Dallas Abbott.

May 2004

Old single channel seismic records from R/V Conrad, Eltanin and Vema expeditions continue to be incorporated to expand global coverage.

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2003

November 2003

All multibeam and geophysical data from the Palmer and Gould within our holdings are now accessible using keyword searches. Data which are no longer under proprietary hold can now be viewed through GeoMapApp and downloaded.

First announcement of the Antarctic Multibeam Bathymetry Synthesis posted.

June 2003 - October 2003

Database schema development continues and database is populated with basic cruise metadata for expeditions of the Palmer and Gould.

GeoMapApp is further developed. Begin incorporating single channel seismic data from the Southern Oceans collected during legacy expeditions of the R/V Eltanin, Vema and Conrad. Demo viewer developed for radar data from Lake Vostok contributed by Bell and Studinger.

May 2003

Beta web site for the Antarctic Multibeam Bathymetry Synthesis established.

GeoMapApp now available to browse a limited bathymetry data set in south Polar Projection. Limited capability to view other datasets including trackline geophysical data.

February- May 2003

Multibeam and geophysical data from Nathaniel B. Palmer from 1992 to current is acquired for database. PIs are contacted to obtain data and permissions are requested to incorporate data into synthesis.

January 2003

Project is initiated.

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