Aliens in Antarctica - General Visitor Survey and Visitor Clothing Survey data

• Other Authors: HUISKES, AD (hasPrincipalInvestigator), HUISKES, AD (processor), LEE, JENNIFER (hasPrincipalInvestigator), GREMMEN, NIEK (hasPrincipalInvestigator), IMURA, SATOSHI (hasPrincipalInvestigator), LEBOUVIER, MARC (hasPrincipalInvestigator), HUGHES, KEVIN (hasPrincipalInvestigator), BERGSTROM, DANA M. (hasPrincipalInvestigator), Australian Antarctic Data Centre (publisher)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Antarctic Data Centre
• Subjects: biota; environment; EXOTIC VEGETATION; EARTH SCIENCE; BIOSPHERE; VEGETATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS; HUMAN DIMENSIONS; CONSERVATION; HABITAT CONVERSION/FRAGMENTATION; EXOTIC SPECIES; ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS; SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS; Aliens; Tourists; Visitors; IPY > INTERNATIONAL POLAR YEAR; EBA > Evolution and Biodiversity in the Antarctic; ALIENS > Aliens in Antarctica; OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN; SOUTHERN OCEAN > MACQUARIE ISLAND; CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA; GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; Australian Antarctic Division; British Antarctic Survey; International Polar Year; IPY; Macquarie Island; National Institute of Polar Research
• Online Access: https://researchdata.ands.org.au/aliens-antarctica-general-clothing-survey/699286; https://doi.org/10.4225/15/58d4686c02949; https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/Aliens_in_Antarctica_survey_data; http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-617536

In principle all Antarctic visitors in the 2007/2008 southern summer season received a questionnaire called the General Visitor Survey (GVS) about previous use of their clothing and other equipment, and their travel pattern in the year before their Antarctic visit (pages 1 and 2 of the questionnaire Aliens_in_Antarctica_QUESTIONNAIRE_2.5.pdf). Passengers that were sampled for propagules also filled in the GVS questionnaire, but with a third page, with questions about the previous use of specific items of clothing and other gear. The data from this page is called the Visitor Clothing Survey (VCS). To collect the data from the questionnaire forms these were optically scanned by a specialized company, and the results were sent to the investigators in spreadsheets. Some forms arrived only after the scanning was completed. From these we entered the data by hand. On the packets with questionnaires and samples the name of the ship/airplane was written, as well as the date of collection of the data and/or samples. Questionnaires were available in various languages, so most people could fill in a questionnaire in their own language. A total of ca. 5024 GVS forms were received. In addition to these, some 845 VCS questionnaires were received (file = Aliens_in_Antarctica_VCS_questionnaire_data.xls). Of the VCS questionnaire the first 2 pages were identical to the GVS form, and the data from the first 2 pages of all VCS forms were added to the GVS data (none of the visitors filled in both forms), bringing the total up to 5869. Personnel The data were collected by a large number of volunteers on the various ships and airplanes travelling to the Antarctic in the 2007/2008 summer season. Responsible for the organisation of the data collecting were: Dr. A.H.L. Huiskes, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, P.O. Box 140, 4400 AC Yerseke, The Netherlands Dr. D.M. Bergstrom, Australian Antarctic Division, Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, 203 Channel Highway, Kingston 7050, Australia. Dr. K. Hughes, British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, High Cross, Madingley Road Cambridge CB3 0E T, UK Dr. M. Lebouvier, University of Rennes 1, Station Biologique, 35380 Paimpont, France Dr. J. Lee, Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Matieland 7602, South Africa Dr. S. Imura, National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, Japan Dr N.J.M. Gremmen, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, P.O. Box 140, 4400 AC Yerseke, The Netherlands, was responsible for the organisation of the data in digital form.