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ANNUAL SCAR REPORT ON
NATIONAL ANTARCTIC SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES
1 JULY 2000 TO 30 JUNE 2002
AND PLANNED NEW PROGRAMMES

Member Country : Germany
Planned New Programmes/Projects by Working Group

Biology
Subject Investigation Locality Duration Principal Investigator Address
Copepoda-Calanoida Zoosystematics/molecular genetics

South. Ocean/
Weddell Sea

 10 weeks H.U.Dahms 7
Parasites in fish/mammals Analysis Antarctica ongoing H. Mehlhorn 21

Vent-makrofauna
(HYDROARC)

 Sampling of Vent-makrofauna Bransfield Strait - 12/2001 K. Wallman 11
Lichens, bryophytes Molecular biology, ecophysiology & biodiversity of cosmopolitan lichens

Livingston Isld.
S.Shetland Islds.

 2001-2002 B. Schroeter 13
Ciliates Antarctic benthic ciliates

Dallmann Lab.,
King George Island

 02-03/2002 N. Wilbert 24
Elephant Seals Satellite tracking Marion Island April 2002 onwards J. Plötz 1

Geodesy and Geographic Information
Subject Investigation Locality Duration Principal Investigator Address
Geodetic observatory at GARS O'Higgins Determination of Geodetic Reference systems in the S. Hemisphere Top of the Antarctic Peninsula 1 campaign of 6-10 weeks W. Schlüter 3b
GPS Modelling Determination of the best strategy to model the tropospheric refracton in GPS observations Top of the Antarctic Peninsula (Dallmann Lab.,Vernadsky St.) 2 months (GPS campaign)

B. Heck
M.Mayer

25
25
KGIS King George Island Data aquisition & processing for SCAR-WGGI project King George Island 2001/2002 H. Goßmann 12
Vertical crustal Deformation (JUTEX) GPS and gravity observations SANAE IV, Jutulstraumen regions 12/01-03/02 R. Dietrich 22
Geodesy Geodetic Field work Vostock Station 11/01- 02/02 R. Dietrich 22

Geology
Subject Investigation Locality Duration Principal Investigator Address
Sediment drifts
IMAGES, ODP		 Long sediment cores, sedimentology, physical properties Wedell Sea 2 years G. Kuhn 1

Hydrothermal fluids
(HYDROARC)

 Sampling and chemical analysis of hydrothermal fluids Bransfield Strait -12/2001 K. Walmann 11
Environmental History Paleolimnology. paleoclimatology, paleoglaciology Amery Oasis 08/2001 - 07/2004 M Melles 10
Basement geology Structural geology, petrology, geochronology Mühlig - Hoffmann Mountains 2001- 2002

A. Laüfer
J. Jacobs

 2

Glaciology
Subject Investigation Locality Duration Principal Investigator Address
GLIMS/GLAS:
Global Land Ice Measurement from Space/Glacier-Monitoring on the Antarctic Peninsula and adjacent regions via satellite data		 Mass Balance, glacier velocities bedrock topography

Base San Martin
(Marguerite Bay)

 01-03/2002 H. Goßmann 12
Aerosol sampling Air/firn transfer Dronning Maud Land 2002-2003

R. Weller
D. Wagenbach

1
26
Radio echo-sounding Physical properties accumulation Dronning Maud Land 1998-2002 U. Nixdorf 1
Deep ice cores (EPICA) Climate history Dronning Maud Land 2001-2003 H. Miller 1

Human Biology and Medicine
Subject Investigation Locality Duration Principal Investigator Address
None

Physics and Chemistry of the Atmosphere
Subject Investigation Locality Duration Principal Investigator Address
Columnar Aerosol in Antarctica Sun photometer Kohnen Station 01/01-02/02 A. Herber 1

Solid Earth Geophysics
Subject Investigation Locality Duration Principal Investigator Address
Aeromagnetic Investigations over the Ross Ice Shelf (AIRIS) Aeromagnetic survey Victoria Land 10-12/01 D. Damaske 5
Aeromagnetic Surveys for the ANDRILL Programme (ASAP) Aeromagnetic survey Victoria Land 01/2002 D. Damaske 5
Technology
Subject Investigation Locality Duration Principal Investigator Address
None