| Summary: | Progress Code: completed Statement: See the report for further details on individual projects. Editors Note: The following report was written as a repository of observations and data collected on the 1992 Heard Island wintering expedition. It was designed to be ready for dissemination by no later than four weeks after the return of the expedition to Australia. As such it contains segments which are essentially first drafts of scientific papers some written before all the data were available and most written without access to the latest scientific literature (the mails were particularly bad at Heard Island). As such, some of the conclusions and opinions may have changed in the light of later data not used in this report, or on sighting scientific papers unseen at the time of writing. Those sections marked with an asterik are first drafts and before quoting from this report the reader should, in the interests of accuracy, check with the author or the final published paper. I would like to thank John Cox and Simon Wright for their help in drawing figures and Pat Quilty and Mary Green who helped with the proof reading. 1992 Wintering Field Season at Heard Island. Taken from the report: Genesis of the Expedition The concept of the 1992 expedition arose from the need to gain access to animals at Heard Island for research at precise times of the year to deploy and retrieve time-depth recorders. An Antarctic Science Advisory Committee workshop on the Southern Ocean Ecosystem was held on 10-11 September 1989 to discuss future plans for ANARE areas of operation. The workshop was attended by myself (KG - Ken Green) and Harry Burton (HRB) for the Land-based Biology section. It became apparent that the two consecutive summers needed to deploy and retrieve the recorders (one leaving Heard Island in the autumn, the next arriving early in the spring) could not be accommodated in the planning process because of planned commitments in the eastern sector of the Australian Antarctic Territory. The suggestion was therefore made ...
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