Abandoned Elephant Seal Colonies in Antarctica: Integration of Genetic, Isotopic, and Geologic Approaches toward Understanding Holocene Environmental Change

• Main Author: Koch, Paul
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: IEDA: US Antarctic Program Data Center 2010
• Subjects: Isotope; Penguin; Seals; Antarctic Earth Sciences; Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems; Biology; Southern Ocean; Biosphere; Ross Sea; US Antarctic Program Data Center (USAP-DC); Antarctic; The Antarctic; Austral; Victoria Land; Drake Passage; Antarc*; Antarctica; Elephant Seal; Elephant Seals; Macquarie Island; Sea ice; Southern Elephant Seal
• Online Access: http://get.iedadata.org/metadata/iso/600041

Abstract: During previous NSF-sponsored research, the PI's discovered that southern elephant seal colonies once existed along the Victoria Land coast (VLC) of Antarctica, a region where they are no longer observed. Molted seal skin and hair occur along 300 km of coastline, more than 1000 km fro...