K-Axis voyage of the Aurora Australis, 2015-16 season - Kerguelen Axis Marine Science parent metadata record

• Other Authors: CONSTABLE, ANDREW (hasPrincipalInvestigator), CONSTABLE, ANDREW (processor), SWADLING, KERRIE (hasPrincipalInvestigator), Australian Antarctic Data Centre (publisher)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Antarctic Data Centre
• Subjects: biota; climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere; environment; oceans; OCEAN CURRENTS; EARTH SCIENCE; OCEAN CIRCULATION; PHYTOPLANKTON; BIOSPHERE; AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS; PLANKTON; ZOOPLANKTON; EUPHAUSIIDS (KRILL); BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION; ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES; ARTHROPODS; CRUSTACEANS; ACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; OCEAN ACOUSTICS; BACTERIA/ARCHAEA; COPEPODS; CARBON DIOXIDE; OCEAN CHEMISTRY; STABLE ISOTOPES; NUTRIENTS; FISH; ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > PELAGIC; TRACE ELEMENTS; CETACEANS; MAMMALS; SEALS/SEA LIONS/WALRUSES; CARNIVORES; BIRDS; Floats; ACOUSTIC SOUNDERS; CTD > Conductivity; Temperature; Depth; CPR > Continuous Plankton Recorder; PAM > PORTABLE FLUORESCENCE ANALYZERS; HPLC > High-Performance Liquid Chromatograph; MIDWATER TRAWLS; BOTTOM TRAWL; TRAWL; CAMERA; BONGO NETS; PLANKTON NETS; BINOCULAR > BINOCULAR; R/V AA > R/V Aurora Australis; MOORINGS; CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA; OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN > KERGUELEN ISLANDS; GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR; SOUTHERN OCEAN > BANZARE_BANK; KERGUELEN_PLATEAU; PRINCESS_ELIZABETH_TROUGH; Antarctic; Indian; Kerguelen; Kerguelen Islands; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre; Antarctic Krill; Antarctica; aurora australis; Ocean acidification; Copepods; walrus*
• Online Access: https://researchdata.ands.org.au/k-axis-voyage-parent-metadata/699188; https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/AAS_4344_K-AXIS_Voyage; http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-617536

The Kerguelen Axis voyage was planned to collect data to enhance the realism of end-to-end ecosystem models being developed in the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre, to investigate the effects of climate change and ocean acidification on Southern Ocean ecosystems in the Indian Sector (particularly in relation to factors affecting the northern distribution of Antarctic krill) and to contribute to assessment of the spatial relationship of mesopelagic mid-trophic level species, in particular zooplanktivores, to foraging strategies by marine mammals and birds on the Kerguelen Plateau. Nine projects were undertaken aboard the Aurora Australis. Each project had individual objectives and outputs, and there are metadata records for each data set collected. They were designed to be complementary in order that the whole data set and project analyses could be used to address the objectives of the Kerguelen Axis program. Observations will be contributed to the Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS) and will facilitate the design of future ecosystem observing in the region.